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- #1
- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#953): xx by The xx
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Today's album of the day
xx by The xx (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2009.
Country: 
Overall rank: 191
Average rating: 79/100 (from 377 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Intro
2. VCR
3. Crystalised
4. Islands
5. Heart Skipped A Beat
6. Fantasy
7. Shelter
8. Basic Space
9. Infinity
10. Night Time
11. Stars
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, or artist, 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. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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- #2
- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:04
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I just threw up in my mouth.
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19loveless91
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- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:08
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Me & Necharsian make love to this album
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Necharsian
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- #4
- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:10
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| 19loveless91 wrote: | | Me & Necharsian make love to this album |
It's just too bad I always finish within the first couple seconds
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- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:12
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| Necharsian wrote: | | It's just too bad I can't last more than a couple seconds |
You said 45 before. Or does listening to this album make it worse? I could see how that might happen.
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- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:18
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Possibly the most influential album of the last few years, especially in the indie scene, and probably in the R'n'B scene too. Think about how many hushed, faux-sexy, R'n'B and post-dubstep inspired indie pop albums we've had in the last couple of years alone (Rhye, inc., Darkstar, Sean Nicholas Savage, Autre Ne Veut, Daughter, Toro y Moi, How To Dress Well, The Weeknd, James Blake, etc.). I'm not saying these artists wouldn't be making that music if it weren't for The xx, or that many of them even sound particularly like The xx, but I certainly think record labels would be less willing to take a punt on and promote artists of that nature were it not for The xx's success. And I think their debut is brilliant. It was a breath of fresh air, obviously influenced by Aaliyah and Timbaland, but also by the likes of Massive Attack and, in particular, Portishead, and clearly very aware of the post-dubstep scene that was happening around them at the time, well produced and with huge choruses to boot. Also, 'Basic Space' is one of my favourite songs of the last five years. A real gem of an album.
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- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:34
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| Necharsian wrote: | | It's just too bad I always finish within the first couple seconds |
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Necharsian
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- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:36
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| swedenman wrote: | | You said 45 before. Or does listening to this album make it worse? I could see how that might happen. |
Are you keeping tabs on my sexual habits?
And yes listening to the xx makes me orgasm. It's quiet and dark and catchy. It's essential "boring" music. It feels strange when I listen to this in the day, it seems like it was made to hear in the dark. I'm constantly changing which album of theirs is the best (right now I think coexist) but they're basically equally as great. It's no secret I love these guys and their probs my fav band of the last 5 yrs.
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drakonium
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- Posted: 06/27/2013 20:47
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I kinda like this album. Their second one is one of the albums which had the less impact on me ever, though. I guess I could say it had an impact, then, but yeah, you know. Boring. But I like this one.
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CellarDoor
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- #10
- Posted: 06/27/2013 21:05
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| 19loveless91 wrote: | | Me & Necharsian make love to this album |
And I watch.
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