Vinyl Me Please Essentials

hatfieldpdx said:
I will say, 'Ode to Joy' has grown on me a great deal since those first few listens. That said, I too may need to respectfully disagree at the moment. The top 4 slots are not up for debate, and the #5 spot is usually secured by a rotation of 'Star Wars' and 'Sky Blue Sky'. Nonetheless, I could see 'Ode to Joy' working its way in there...it's a grower for sure.

1) A Ghost is Born
2) Being There
3) Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4) Summerteeth
5) Star Wars
6) Sky Blue Sky
7) Ode to Joy
8) Schmilco
9) The Whole Love
10) A.M.
11) Wilco (the album)
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Mine would go...
1) YHF
2) Summerteeth
3) A Ghost Is Born
4) Being There
5) Sky Blue Sky
6-11) everything else

but I think you could make an argument for 1-4 in any order.
 
I knew I'd done this before ...

BjorgenFjorgen said:
Oo, I'll do my take on Wilco. At least one controversial take in here.

1. Summerteeth
2. The Whole Love
3. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
4. Being There
5. A Ghost is Born
6. A.M.
7. Sky Blue Sky
8. Schmilco
9. Star Wars
10. Wilco (The Album)
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This is from the "Rank the Albums" thread, pre-Ode to Joy. I'd probably rearrange the entire second half of this list today.
 
Jmcg85 said:
I feel like Radiohead is a band I should like and someday probably will end up liking but anytime I've tried I just didnt "get it". The ridiculous fanboys are extremely off putting too they seem to be so engaged in Thom Yorke that if he farted into a Capri Sun and exploded it with his ass cheeks they would say it's of incredible artistic value 🙄
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I’m kinda one of them, literally The King of Limbs is the only Radiohead/Yorke things I’ve heard that I’m not keen on and I actually like half the tracks off it even...

Radiohead fan boys can be patronising shits but there is an equally annoying strain of anti-intellectualism in parts of the UK music scene/press that shits on them just because they’re a bit different to all the other britpop stuff that came out around the same time as them.
 
Jmcg85 said:
I feel like Radiohead is a band I should like and someday probably will end up liking but anytime I've tried I just didnt "get it". The ridiculous fanboys are extremely off putting too they seem to be so engaged in Thom Yorke that if he farted into a Capri Sun and exploded it with his ass cheeks they would say it's of incredible artistic value 🙄
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I think that's why I stayed away. There were always the odd songs that I liked. Burn the witch comes to mind however couldn't get into them.
 
Joe Mac said:
I’m kinda one of them, literally The King of Limbs is the only Radiohead/Yorke things I’ve heard that I’m not keen on and I actually like half the tracks off it even...

Radiohead fan boys can be patronising shits but there is an equally annoying strain of anti-intellectualism in parts of the UK music scene/press that shits on them just because they’re a bit different to all the other britpop stuff that came out around the same time as them.
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Oh shit, you reminded me of Coldplay™ 🤢

After Viva la Vida they are unlistenable.
 
I still feel pretty nervous about playing the dirty projectors album I got because I'm nervous I might have gotten someone else's order, on my order page it says it's unfulfilled and doesn't have a tracking number so I wonder if it really was someone else's and somehow some idiot slapped 2 labels on it
 
duke86fan said:
I still feel pretty nervous about playing the dirty projectors album I got because I'm nervous I might have gotten someone else's order, on my order page it says it's unfulfilled and doesn't have a tracking number so I wonder if it really was someone else's and somehow some idiot slapped 2 labels on it
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It doesn't matter I'm sure they have enough of those to go around. 👍
 
Ethos99 said:
Wait guys, wait... Where are we on The Decemberist, and the Avett brothers?
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Indymisanthrope said:
The Avett Brothers, like RHCP, are a band that score well on multiple criteria but comes up short for me in the totals. And have only existed for about 60% of the timeframe under discussion. Give it another 10 years and see what happens? Maybe put My Morning Jacket in this bucket as well?
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I love Mignonette through Emotionalism, but Rick Rubin, or the change that led to them want to work with him killed that band for me. I and Love and You is pretty good in spite of that, but it is downhill from there. They lost what I loved about them with that shift.
 
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duke86fan said:
I still feel pretty nervous about playing the dirty projectors album I got because I'm nervous I might have gotten someone else's order, on my order page it says it's unfulfilled and doesn't have a tracking number so I wonder if it really was someone else's and somehow some idiot slapped 2 labels on it
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For what it’s worth, all my December ROTMs are still marked “unfulfilled,” and I received all three.
 
dhodo said:
I love Mignonette through Emotionalism, but Rick Rubin, or the change that led to them want to work with him killed that band for me. I and Love and You is pretty good in spite of that, but it is downhill from there. They lost what I loved about them with that shift.
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They absolutely did change but still one of my favorite bands. I think if you get past the production on some of the newer songs and listen to the lyrics the same Avett Brothers are still there.
 
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