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Mercury
Turn your back on the pay-you-back last call

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Location: St. Louis

This looks fun. Sorry I didn't get involved. But if we do something like this again I will look forward to contributing slightly. I doubt I will be doing more than assimilating knowledge and album recs from you fine people.
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My Fave Metal - you won't believe #5!!!

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Mercury wrote:

This looks fun. Sorry I didn't get involved. But if we do something like this again I will look forward to contributing slightly. I doubt I will be doing more than assimilating knowledge and album recs from you fine people.

Some of the recs have been outstanding (e.g. The Soft Pack, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Fun Years, The Weepies to name just a few). Lots of great, off-the-beaten-path electronica, indie rock & post-punk especially.

Mercury
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Tilly wrote:

Some of the recs have been outstanding (e.g. The Soft Pack, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Fun Years, The Weepies to name just a few). Lots of great, off-the-beaten-path electronica, indie rock & post-punk especially.

Yeeah. Looks dope. I will pick a couple morsels and listen.

I would have gone the predictable route and nominated The Tallest Man On Earth for the 50th consecutive time. But honestly I am not even sure what the rules were on nominations. At the very least this thread has reminded me I need to get back into The National. I have a feeling my return to the warmly apathetic vibes of their music is what I need now.
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BeA Sunflower

Location: Forest Park

Mercury wrote:

Yeeah. Looks dope. I will pick a couple morsels and listen.

I would have gone the predictable route and nominated The Tallest Man On Earth for the 50th consecutive time. But honestly I am not even sure what the rules were on nominations. At the very least this thread has reminded me I need to get back into The National. I have a feeling my return to the warmly apathetic vibes of their music is what I need now.

That's why we love you though! Very Happy

baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

I've finally listened to all 65 at least once and here is my first draft, which will probably change a bit but not much as I re-listen to stuff leading up to the deadline.

Getting Points And In My Top 100

1. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West
2. Cosmogramma - Flying Lotus
3. Have One On Me - Joanna Newsom
4. Teen Dream - Beach House
5. The Age Of Adz - Sufjan Stevens
6. New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh - Erykah Badu
7. K.R.I.T. Wuz Here - Big K.R.I.T.
8. I'm New Here - Gil Scott-Heron
9. Heartland - Owen Pallett
10. The ArchAndroid - Janelle Monáe
11. Allo Darlin' - Allo Darlin'
12. Gemini - Wild Nothing
13. High Violet - The National
14. Cerulean - Baths
15. Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 - Chuck Person
16. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
17. Untitled - Dälek
18. Lucky Shiner - Gold Panda
19. Returnal - Oneohtrix Point Never
20. Majesty Shredding - Superchunk
21. Oversteps - Autechre
22. Queen Of Denmark - John Grant
23. This Is Happening - LCD Soundsystem
24. Before Today - Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
25. Epic - Sharon Van Etten
26. Love Is A Stream - Jefre Cantu-Ledesma
27. Broken Bells - Broken Bells
28. Liumin - Deepchord Presents Echospace
29. Public Strain - Women
30. Ullakkopalo - Kemialliset Ystävät
31. The Soft Moon - The Soft Moon
32. Jahtarian Dubbers Vol. 2 - Various Artists
33. Halcyon Digest - Deerhunter
34. Satan Worshipping Doom - Bongripper
35. I Will Be - Dum Dum Girls
36. Tsumanne - Shinsei Kamattechan
37. I Love You, Please Love Me Too - Joseph Hammer
38. God Was Like, No - The Fun Years
39. I Speak Because I Can - Laura Marling
40. Incarcerated - Lil Boosie
41. Be My Thrill - The Weepies
42. Our Cubehouse Still Rocks - Boston Spaceships

Getting Points But Not In My Top 100

43. Steal Your Face - Mi Ami
44. Treats - Sleigh Bells
45. The Outsiders Are Back - Kings Go Forth
46. Theory Of Everything - Children Collide
47. Da Track Genious - DJ Nate
48. Aphrodite - Kylie Minogue
49. Melted - Ty Segall
50. Dunya - Bibi Tanga & The Selenites

Not Getting Points

51. Wireless - T++
52. The Guitar Song - Jamey Johnson
53. The Wörld Is Yours - Mötorhead
54. The Soft Pack - The Soft Pack
55. Renaissance Gangster - Starlito
56. The Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
57. The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
58. Sea Of Cowards - The Dead Weather
59. Patagonian Rats - Tera Melos
60. Grinderman 2 - Grinderman

Getting -1

61. Rush To Relax - Eddy Current Suppression Ring
62. Swazi Soul - Bholoja
63. Retold - Nest
64. Hadestown - Anaïs Mitchell
65. Unsilent Death - Nails
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OMG! How could u not like Nest's Retold? Awesome ambient album imo. Nails and Eddy Current Supression Ring are also awesome, but I can see how they might not be your thing.

baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

Tilly wrote:

OMG! How could u not like Nest's Retold? Awesome ambient album imo. Nails and Eddy Current Supression Ring are also awesome, but I can see how they might not be your thing.

I consider myself to be a casual fan of ambient, and over 50 albums in, this is the first album in the genre that I would describe as dull. The first few tracks were pretty cool, but then the interesting textures mostly went away and it devolved into uninteresting piano arrangements that dragged on... and on... and on...
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Got ya. Interesting how Allo' Darlin surpassed Wild Nothing in your rankings!

baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash

Age: 29
Location: Massachusetts

Tilly wrote:

Got ya. Interesting how Allo' Darlin surpassed Wild Nothing in your rankings!

Yeah Gemini took a bit of a tumble in my rankings when I gave it a close re-listen and came to the conclusion that it holds up better as a hazy backdrop than it does song-for-song. Still love it though!
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.

Location: Kansas

I'll even admit that album can get pretty boring, but at least Tilly liked it!