Best Ever Albums

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Listmeister — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 22:42:26 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/29/2013 02:42

swedenman wrote:

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU HAVE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS

Listmeister wrote:

A recent Best of Genre thread had Music Has the Right to Children marked as Best Electronic Album several times, more than any other album. This is well deserved.

Vote to Boards of Canada.

I listened to both albums, I just didn't have anything positive or interesting to say about The Cold Vein. I rated it 15 out of 100.

I don't appreciate the implication, Mod.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 13:47:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/28/2013 17:47

What the fuck happened here. The last time it was 7 to 10!

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Sat, 28 Sep 2013 08:30:14 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/28/2013 12:30

Sorry but I think oxen are actually warm-blooded. Silly.

12-10

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 20:51:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/28/2013 00:51

Not a fan of either, but Boards of Canada held my attention longer.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right to Children vs. The Col

SuedeSwede — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 11:46:17 GMT

Author: SuedeSwede

Posted: 09/27/2013 15:46

swedenman wrote:

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU HAVE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS

Listmeister wrote:

A recent Best of Genre thread had Music Has the Right to Children marked as Best Electronic Album several times, more than any other album. This is well deserved.

Vote to Boards of Canada.

Anyway, Music Has The Right was a much preferred album

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Listmeister — Fri, 27 Sep 2013 09:29:45 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/27/2013 13:29

A recent Best of Genre thread had Music Has the Right to Children marked as Best Electronic Album several times, more than any other album. This is well deserved.

Vote to Boards of Canada.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 14:04:15 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 18:04

I'd listening to The Cold Vein yesterday, and I think I must have not given it much attention - because a lot of it washed right over me, yet it seemed like quite an intricate record.

Music Has The Right, however, really got under skin on the first listen - really forced me to listen deeper into it.

To be honest, I didn't think much of either, but Boards of Canada have a much stronger focus in their music, I think.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:47:50 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 16:47

I am continually torn on Boards of Canada. They have a pretty and unique sound, however something about the overall atmosphere can seem thin or weedy to me, and when I can't get into the atmosphere, the music ends up feeling plodding and slightly irritating. How much I enjoy them really depends on my mood.

I always enjoy The Cold Vein when I listen to it, so thats how I voted.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:24:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 15:24

For all the immense love that I have for EL-P and everything he touches (with the Cold Vein being the pinnacle), there's no way I could vote for anyone other than BoC. In almost any other match-up Ox would've gotten my vote

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:19:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 15:19

I think both of these albums have a pretty cool, singular sound, but I'm voting The Cold Vein. Apocalyptic boom-bap. I like (not love) Boards of Canada, but prefer Geogaddi to Music Has The Right To Children, and might even prefer Tomorrow's Harvest, which is far too low on my 2013 chart. But The Cold Vein is incredible. Vast Aire and Vordul Mega are the precursors to billy woods, not the most technically able in terms of flow but capable of spitting deep, cold rhymes that deserve to be listened to closely. They're both also fantastic at coming up with a instantly memorable one-liner. And El-P's production is just awe-inspiring - take that foreboding, distorted, crumbling church organ sound on 'Straight Off the D.I.C.' for example, which always brings to mind images of a crew gathered together on a doomed space shuttle, hurtling towards the sun, crammed into the ship's tiny chapel, praying as one regardless of faith; the "weightless and fireproof" pitched up angelic hymn snippets that give 'Scream Phoenix' the aura of reincarnation or, perhaps more accurately, reawakening that the song's title would suggest; the squelchy robo-funk of 'Vein', a twisted re-imaging of a lost Prince & The (Replicant) Revolution demo. The Cold Vein is one of hip-hop's strangest and most enduring releases, and it gets my vote.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

meccalecca — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:01:36 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/26/2013 15:01

tekin wrote:

The genre it gets labelled with is nu-metal, which makes sense to me because my new metallic ring is more interesting than this.

If this is nü metal i must be missing all of the metal aspects of it. El P is one of the best producers in the game. Never understood why Def Jux has been so divisive.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:52:18 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 14:52

meccalecca wrote:

hahaha. really?

The genre it gets labelled with is nu-metal, which makes sense to me because my new metallic ring is more interesting than this.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

meccalecca — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:46:59 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/26/2013 14:46

tekin wrote:

The Cold Vein is only for people who are way into nu-metal so don't try that hard.

hahaha. really?

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:44:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 14:44

The Cold Vein is only for people who are way into nu-metal so don't try that hard.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

meccalecca — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 10:44:14 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/26/2013 14:44

sad that either of these will be knocked out in round 1 since they're lesser appreciated greats. The Cold Vein is one of my all time favorite hip hop debuts, so it's getting my pick

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:03:00 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/26/2013 12:03

Never listened to either (THAT doesn't happen much). Gimme a few hours before I vote.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Facetious — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:28:02 GMT

Author: Facetious

Posted: 09/26/2013 11:28

The Cold Vein. Used to love the BoC album and it's good but well Cold Vein is more than just good.

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Mercury — Thu, 26 Sep 2013 00:21:20 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 09/26/2013 04:21

Neither on my chart, both are excellent. The cold Vein is a recent discovery and I just love it. BoC is also basically equally great but I just don't love it right now so much. So I'm voting "Cannibal Ox".

Re: BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

MrFrogger — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:14:20 GMT

Author: MrFrogger

Posted: 09/25/2013 23:14

Fuck, I love both of these, and they're both on my chart. Even though I don't consider it their debut, due to the vast amount of music they made before it, I gotta go with BoC on this one, being one of my favorite albums of all time and all.

I really hope Cold Vein puts up a good fight, I really love that album, its a recent discovery for me(Thanks dbz). EL-P's production is at the top of its game, yet the rapping still manages to hold it's own against it.

BDAT Rd. 1 - Music Has the Right... vs. The Cold... (CLOSED)

Anonymous — Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:11:25 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/25/2013 23:11

BDAT

Round 1

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Music Has the Right to Children - Boards of Canada (1998)
Sponsor: SingingPeasant96

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The Cold Vein - Cannibal Ox (2001)
Sponsor: tekin

PLEASE DO NOT VOTE UNLESS YOU HAVE HEARD BOTH ALBUMS