And where the hell…
…is E.S. Posthumous? The bestselling album in CDbaby history?
And where the hell…
…is E.S. Posthumous? The bestselling album in CDbaby history?
I love Crystal Castles. I just love them.
GIVE UP has a great three-song opener and a couple of other stand-out tracks, "We Will Become Silhouettes" and that Human League-esque boy-girl duet, whatever that was, but it had some less—than-exciting tracks on there as well, and its ending was too abrupt. Plus, what was up with "This Place is a Prison"? Too…
Steveo: I totally agree with all you said.
Four Tet is pure goodness. I love him for keeping something of the aesthetic of Caribou/Manitoba's first album and not turning it into psyhedelic pop-rock. ROUNDS 4-eva.
I don't really consider Portishead to be an electronica act anymore. They have electronic elements, but they play and record as a band, and the whole thing is loaded with pop sensibilities.
Yes…
Oh god, I just remembered!
CRYSTAL CASTLES.
I disagree with some of your picks here—particularly Justice and Kid 606, which are not consistently great enough to be included here, IMO—but I totally agree that this is one of the AV Club's most incomplete, most poorly thought-out, most thoroughly dissatisfying lists ever.
Not all artists can be defined by their live shows. The Beach Boys, for instance. The Beatles, even. Sebastien Tellier's 2008 album was brilliant, as were his other not-so-electronica ones. He's the musical modern-day heir to Serge Gainsbourg, IMO.
Why? Lemon Jelly's no Jive Bunny. Their albums are a bit long, that's my only complaint—but that's often my complaint about electronica albums.
I'm glad to see a couple of mentions of Caribou…
…IN THE COMMENTS, at least.
Well, at one point the Wikipedia entry for Bil Keane had a section just about his death, containing only the line, "Readers of the Family Circus are still awaiting Bil Keane's death."
Wow, where do you live?! That never happens in Albuquerque.
GB has a 15% rating over at Rotten Tomatoes right now, but I have to say, I still want to see it. I love Jared Hess's style of awkward, extreme-wide-shot humor—I just can't help it. It appeals to the retarded 15-year-old in me that I've never entirely been able to suppress. It's stupidly intelligent in a way unseen…
X-Pac—
It always ticks me off when…
…people write lame "exhaustive" biographies of subjects I'm interested in, because not only are those books disappointments in themselves, but they kill any chance of actually good books being written on the subjects for perhaps years. I've seen this happen most notably with Talking…
What's with all the REM-hating? REM has made some seriously timeless music. Not all of it, of course, but that's to be expected of any band that's been around for literally decades, making music all the while.
One guy's picks:
Television: Arrested Development. The Office is good as well.
What is this NACHO LIBRE people keep mentioning? I want to talk about NACHO GRANDE.