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Wow! I know this is primarily about the videos but Twin Shadow aside, what a bunch of boring (Sigur Ros, Sun Kil Moon) or outright shitty (the other two) tunes. I think Riff Raff, whether he's being ironic or not, is possibly the worst rapper I've heard in a long time.
+1 | 6/23/12 3:10 AM
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If you're referring to Intimacy I have to say I couldn't disagree more. To me, their first two records (a few tracks aside) were just standard indie fare whereas Intimacy was an incredible album, one of my favourites of that year and certainly the only one I still listen to.
+1 | 6/20/12 1:10 PM
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Surely Myth is better than Lazuli? Anyway, if I have to stick to the list above I'm taking Death Grips.
+1 | 6/16/12 7:07 AM
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I've been bumping that Survival Tactics track for a while now. I preferred Capital STEEZ's verse to Joey's on that but this blasts STEEZ's mixtape out of the water. The third verse on Hardknock is just.......wow!
+1 | 6/16/12 6:55 AM
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But even if the point is that he doesn't think one type of music or art or whatever should be categorised as better than any other, then I would answer a) Mind your own business, I'll categorise things however I want, and b) People naturally like some things more than others so how do expect them not to express that. He comes off like a fucking idiot in this little rant.
0 | 6/13/12 9:52 AM
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What about slugs (or is the shell an intrinsic part of the phobia?). Genuinely interested.
0 | 6/12/12 9:56 AM
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Apology accepted, I'm sorry I took it in a way it wasn't intended. Well I'll plead guilty as charged for not being as interested if it happened to Coldplay which is obviously biased on my part and you've got me red handed on that. I would say though that for a band as rich as Coldplay it becomes less of an issue for me, although morally you're right, it's identical. I probably wouldn't have thought twice about this case, like you say 'that's life' (although I wish it wasn't sometimes) but it's the fact that they asked first I can't get over. There must have been a point where the execs involved considered what Beach House would think/do and thought "Fuck em!". That sticks in my craw. I'll also admit to a healthy (in my opinion) dislike of this sort of thing anyway. I caught mad hatred in another thread for criticising the already well-off likes of Damon Albarn and James Murphy for advertising Converse. So if you disagree with my opinion on that then you can probably consider my judgement clouded anyway.
0 | 6/12/12 9:53 AM
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I nearly couldn't bother replying to this after reading your oh so patronising tone, but your post is besides the point anyway. It's not just the similarity of the tunes (in this case or yours) that's the question. It's the fact they asked Beach House to use their song and when they refused, just commissioned some people to make as similar a one as they could. It's the sheer cynicism of it, and a pretty open and shut case if they didn't have a tonne of highly paid lawyers behind them.
0 | 6/11/12 10:02 AM
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What about being anally raped by Ron Jeremy while watching Meet The Spartans?
+2 | 6/10/12 2:03 PM
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She was up all night thinking of the new album title, that's all.
+7 | 6/10/12 2:00 PM
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There's a world of difference between using someone as an influence and begging someone to let you use their song, then just making a similar one when they refuse.
+1 | 6/10/12 4:44 AM
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I've just noticed that Dave mouths the word 'you' instead of 'they' at 2:39. Hidden artistic message or complete balls-up?
0 | 6/10/12 4:34 AM
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Awesome tune! I especially love the pain Dave puts himself through on our behalfs just to hit that note on the word 'garbage'.
+1 | 6/8/12 5:48 PM
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How can you take Chris Martin seriously? Every time he tries to look all contemplative and smouldering it's just hilarious. The man's got the charisma of a wet flannel. Awful song too, but it's Coldplay so you knew that already.
+5 | 6/4/12 9:04 AM
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Never thought I'd say this on the same week a new M83 video is released but El wins this time hands down.
0 | 6/2/12 5:38 AM
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Big Bang seem to have totally forgotten their Korean roots at this point.
+3 | 6/2/12 5:32 AM
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I'll third that. The drums on that song make me piss my pants.
0 | 5/31/12 3:35 PM
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If 'The Rat' isn't at No.1 then it's a stupid list. Simple.
-2 | 5/31/12 3:31 PM
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If only you'd waited a week you could have added Alt-J to this list.
+1 | 5/30/12 10:06 AM
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I loved Company Flow. I always saw El's style as a continuation of the stuff The Bomb Squad were doing in that you wondered how they ever made such crushingly powerful music out of such abrasive sounds. What with this, Death Grips and some other stuff like that awesome Survival Tactics track by Joey Badass and Capital Steez, I'm feeling more positive about the future of hip-hop than I have for a long time.
+1 | 5/28/12 10:19 AM
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No love for Polica?
+1 | 5/24/12 11:08 AM
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Well opinions are like arseholes, etc, but I've had Bloom pretty much on repeat all week (alongside the Polica album) and I'm fairly sure that if I'd done that with a Flying Lotus album I would have crashed my van due to boredom-induced sleep by now.
-1 | 5/22/12 9:43 AM
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Surely, "because it's a commercial" is enough reason?
+4 | 5/21/12 9:29 AM
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I just presumed this was the latest godawful Birdy cover.
0 | 5/20/12 8:40 AM
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Hmmm, I can't recall them ever professing to be so.
+2 | 5/20/12 8:39 AM
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You people do realise that there isn't a single downvote-worthy comment on this thread?
-8 | 5/20/12 8:38 AM
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Death Grips always make me wanna shout "DEATH GRIPS!" at the top of my voice.
+2 | 5/20/12 8:35 AM
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The Rat is my favourite song of all time. Something I never felt comfortable saying as it seemed such a strong statement but I never lose that feeling of "Yes! Here we go!" when it comes on. In spite of that I wouldn't for a second say that they've failed to live to up to it since then. Just because they haven't made anything else that resonates with me quite as much I'm still hugely excited for anything new they do.
+6 | 5/20/12 8:34 AM
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On the set of new movie The Blair Witch Projectors with our two protagonists and 'Scary hick you'll be suspicious of due to anti-redneck prejudice but like totally ends up saving the day with his bear traps".
-9 | 5/18/12 9:48 AM
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I think I preferred the unofficial one with the awful wedding footage but still, absolutely awesome tune!
0 | 5/17/12 5:35 PM
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Yeah, I'm sure I'd have little problem making a Top 100 Hip-Hop songs from the nineties and Gangster's Paradise would be nowhere near it.
+2 | 5/17/12 2:06 PM
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Dave - "So basically it means 'Please Killer Whale'. Man - "Man, that's about the dumbest shit I ever heard"
-8 | 5/17/12 1:55 PM
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Why don't you idiots just upvote the ones you like and leave the rest? Sick of having to reveal every damn comment.
-8 | 5/17/12 7:20 AM
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Man - "Singing? You damn lucky I missed ya. It's hunting season boy, and you two sounding like a whole bunch of crazy wildlife up in here"
-17 | 5/16/12 4:06 PM
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Started laughing at No.100 and had barely stopped by the end.
+1 | 5/16/12 4:00 PM
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"Have you seen our llama?"
-10 | 5/16/12 3:55 PM
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When exactly does a black woman become a 'blaxploitation-heroine chick'? When she picks up a gun?
-1 | 5/12/12 9:41 AM
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Yeah, that, the British licence plates, all the British pub signs and the sign for 'Glasgow University'. And I thought/hoped the Americans and geography thing was just a depressing stereotype.
+2 | 5/12/12 9:35 AM
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What with this and National Health, my expectations of Maximo Park's slow decline and eventual disappearance has been shown to be frankly, pretty idiotic.
0 | 5/9/12 9:28 AM
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Surely even my naysaying friends who only like The Walkmen's 'faster' tracks can't deny the beauty in this.
+1 | 5/9/12 9:24 AM
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