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View Poll Results: Is JFPL the best album of the decade?
Yes it is! 37 49.33%
No it is not! 38 50.67%
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Old 05-11-2009, 12:52
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Of the past 20 years, I'd say
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Old 05-11-2009, 14:32
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I think my favorite 2000s album was Death From Above 1979's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine. It's the one I've listened to the most from this decade.
Oh. Yes. Amazing album.
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Old 05-11-2009, 15:09
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I think my favorite 2000s album was Death From Above 1979's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine.
One of my favourites too.

I voted it was my favourite of the decade just because I've been in love with JFPL since it's come out, although I'm not entirely sure that it really is. There's just so many really brilliant albums that have come out of the first leg of the decade.
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Old 05-11-2009, 15:52
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I'm really surprised that although there are many votes for JPFL being the best of the decade there are a very few posts saying that. I wish I made voting public Also I am very surprised to read about very bad albums here - such as Kid A by Radiohead which is maybe the most overrated album ever - and without any good song on it. Strange.
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Old 05-11-2009, 16:08
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I think it's the best of 2009, but best of the decade is pushing it. I don't think I could accurately make that decision yet though!
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Old 05-11-2009, 21:39
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Old 06-11-2009, 19:38
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i've gone with yes, because off the top of my head the other two main contenders, Ian Brown's Music Of The Spheres and The White Stripes Elephant have one or two tracks that i would skip past. Journal gets played from start to end right now, so that edges it - in a few years i dare say the skip button will come into play, though.

the biggest grower on me of the decade, oddly, has been U2's How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. i thought it to be utter, utter shit on first play, but most of it, in particular City Of Blinding Lights, has grown on me.

if Q or some similar magazine that is mostly designed to stimulate the furious masturbation of Phil Collins fanatics decides to run a poll for the "album of the decade", we should all bombard them with votes for Journal, like, whether you believe it to be or not.
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such as Kid A by Radiohead which is maybe the most overrated album ever - and without any good song on it. Strange.
nice one Donkey - i thought i was alone in the view that i would rather eat shit than listen to Radiohead
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Old 06-11-2009, 20:02
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nice one Donkey - i thought i was alone in the view that i would rather eat shit than listen to Radiohead
ta....but.... You know I like Radiohead, but not Kid A, I love Hail To The Thief and OK Computer, can listen to Bends and some b-sides but that's almost all...
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The Bends I can listen to easily. Of the later stuff I'm not so much into that.
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The Bends I can listen to easily. Of the later stuff I'm not so much into that.
But Thom Yorke sings very bad in many songs. He's improved very much since early 90s, the peak is on HTTT for me (punch-up at the wedding)...
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Old 06-11-2009, 20:25
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I like Thoms' voice on The Bends and most of their records to be honest. It's just that albums like OK Computer and In Rainbows are a bit 'busy' as it were in places.
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ta....but.... You know I like Radiohead, but not Kid A, I love Hail To The Thief and OK Computer, can listen to Bends and some b-sides but that's almost all...
being slightly not alone is better than being alone, mate. i will take what i can get!

the sad thing is i would probably actually like most of Radiohead's stuff from the mid-to-late 90s onwards. it's just that every time i hear Thom i get very painful flashbacks of a depressing time in my life, involving one lady in particular who would just play Creep over and over again. put me off them for life.
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