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albummaster
Janitor
Gender: Male
Site Admin
- #1
- Posted: 11/17/2011 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#369): Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes
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Today's album of the day
Helplessness Blues by Fleet Foxes (View album)
Year: 2011.
Overall rank: 218.
Average rating: 75/100 (from 143 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Montezuma
2. Bedouin Dress
3. Sim Sala Bim
4. Battery Kinzie
5. The Plains/Bitter Dancer
6. Helplessness Blues
7. The Cascades
8. Lorelai
9. Someone You d Admire
10. The Shrine/An Argument
11. Blue Spotted Tail
12. Grown Ocean
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety.
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Applerill
Autistic Princess <3
Gender: Female
Age: 32
Location: Chicago 
- #2
- Posted: 11/17/2011 20:35
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Man, someone needs to sue these guys for false advertising. They say that the album's gonna be bluesy, but I see no trace of Jimmy Page riffs or Muddy Waters vocals anywhere on the entire album. It really isn't different than any other dumb indie folk band, and that's a real shame.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 52
Location: Paris, France 
- #3
- Posted: 11/17/2011 20:54
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Beautiful vocal harmonies on this, still, I was disappointed, as it contains nothing near the brilliance of "White Winter Hymnal". Needs a few more listens though.
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cartoken
The Seer
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Location: Paris
- #4
- Posted: 11/17/2011 21:34
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i liked a lot Fleet Foxes, but i was quite disappointed by this one, except the inspired second part if The Shrine/An Arguement. It's a mystery to me why it's N°1 of the year in BEA. i may listen to it again 
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19loveless91
mag. druž. inf
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- Posted: 11/17/2011 21:43
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I think it's a good album, as good as their debut, but the best songs aren't really on the level of White Winter Hymnal, Blue Ridge Mountains, ...
Grown Ocean was my favourite here.
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- #6
- Posted: 11/17/2011 21:59
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Kinda agree with loveless, equally as good as debut but none of the songs stand out individually as well on this one (even Grown Ocean).
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- #7
- Posted: 11/17/2011 23:12
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Wait, didn't these guys have "the album of the day" for just two days ago? I like variety.
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- #8
- Posted: 11/18/2011 00:14
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A very lopsided album in my opinion, its weaker than their debut, but the best tracks- Helplessness Blues, The Shrine/an Argument, Grown Ocean (one of my favourite songs possibly ever) -are all amazing. The problem for me is a find that the great songs are brought down by pointless one's like Battery Kinzie, Lorelai, the Cascades or Blue Spotted Tail.
Its like they are pulling to two directions: one bland and faceless, the other very interesting and exploratory.
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- #9
- Posted: 11/18/2011 01:05
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The album is just as crap as the band that made it. (very)
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SquishypuffDave
Gender: Male
Age: 34
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- Posted: 11/18/2011 01:31
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These guys really stepped up their game instrumentally for this one. I had no idea they could play this well from just hearing the first album. Props to Sim Sala Bim, since it hasn't been mentioned. Again, wonderful lyrics. More personal this time around.
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