Shmoo lists over the years

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:01 pm

Are these archived anywhere? I'd like to go back and see how much of this is still on my listening radar.

shmoo · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:15 pm

Do you want your list or the overall list?

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:20 pm

shmoo Wrote:

Do you want your list or the overall list?

My personal lists from whenever you started is what I seek.

shmoo · **Posted:** Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:53 pm

Check your PM.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

how many shmoo polls have there been?

shmoo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 5:29 am

I started it in 2002.

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:45 pm

Was this a great music year, or what?:

2002:
1. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
2. ...and you will know us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
3. Pedro the Lion - Control
4. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
5. McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
6. Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
7. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
8. Deathray Davies - Day of the Ray
9. John Vanderslice - The Life and Death of An American Fourtracker
10. Notwist - Neon Golden
11. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
12. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
13. Anniversary - Your Majesty
14. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
15. Denali - Denali
16. Pearl Jam - Riot Act
17. J Mascis + The Fog - Free So Free
18. Death Cab for Cutie - You Can Play These Songs With Chords + 10
19. The Vines - Highly Evolved
20. Frank Black - Black Letter Days

Uhhh, what's that Vines thing doing in there?

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

that first vines album had some jams.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:49 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Was this a great music year, or what?:

2002:
1. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
4. Spoon - Kill the Moonlight
5. McLusky - McLusky Do Dallas
6. Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
8. Deathray Davies - Day of the Ray
20. Frank Black - Black Letter Days

Some of my favorites of this decade.

shmoo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 8:23 pm

Pretty impressive but you forgot Neko Case's Blacklisted.

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Was this a great music year, or what?:

2002:
6. Walkmen - Everyone Who Pretended to Like Me Is Gone
17. J Mascis + The Fog - Free So Free
20. Frank Black - Black Letter Days

Those plus Sonic Youth - Murray Street and Joe Pisapia - Daydreams still get a lot of spins from me. I also in theory still like a bunch more of these but haven't given them a spin in a while.

I'd definitely agree that it was a strong year.

shmoo · **Posted:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:20 pm

Wait, this is saved's list from that year, not the overall results, right?

pinehurst · **Joined:** Fri Dec 10, 2004 1:45 am **Posts:** 1526

How the hell did Yankee Hotel Foxtrot not make top 20?

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 10:15 am

Z Wrote:

that first vines album had some jams.

I agree, I played the shit out of that album at the time.

Kingfish · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:21 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Z Wrote:

that first vines album had some jams.

I agree, I played the shit out of that album at the time.

At the time I thought it sucked balls.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 1:49 pm

Stop Breathin' Wrote:

Was this a great music year, or what?:

2002:
1. Interpol - Turn On the Bright Lights
2. ...and you will know us by the Trail of Dead - Source Tags and Codes
3. Pedro the Lion - Control
7. Desaparecidos - Read Music/Speak Spanish
9. John Vanderslice - The Life and Death of An American Fourtracker
11. Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
12. Chevelle - Wonder What's Next
13. Anniversary - Your Majesty
14. Xiu Xiu - Knife Play
15. Denali - Denali
16. Pearl Jam - Riot Act
17. J Mascis + The Fog - Free So Free
18. Death Cab for Cutie - You Can Play These Songs With Chords + 10
19. The Vines - Highly Evolved

Blech.

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

oh radcliffe

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:29 pm

I agree that it was a great year, but the only albums on that list that I think are great are The Walkmen, The Notwist, and maybe Spoon.

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:33 pm

jewels santana Wrote:

oh radcliffe

It's just that everyone here always refers to '02 as a "great year", but there's no evidence it was any better than any other year of the '00s. Unless you're the type of person who fell for the Vines and Interpol.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 2:46 pm

Radcliffe Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

oh radcliffe

It's just that everyone here always refers to '02 as a "great year", but there's no evidence it was any better than any other year of the '00s.

This I agree with. '03 and '04 are the only years this decade that (for me at least) had more than an average number of very good/great albums and the amount of difference is pretty marginal.

radcliffe Wrote:

Unless you're the type of person who fell for the Vines

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Radcliffe Wrote:

jewels santana Wrote:

oh radcliffe

It's just that everyone here always refers to '02 as a "great year", but there's no evidence it was any better than any other year of the '00s. Unless you're the type of person who fell for the Vines and Interpol.

I've got to disagree with you. I don't think its the best year of the 00's but its probably second best.

Its true that every year has some good music if you look hard enough but I think 02 has many more albums that held up for me years later.

Daydreams might be my favorite album of the 00's
Black Letter days is the best thing Frank Black has ever done.
The first Walkmen album is by far their best and still one of my favorite 00's album
I like Free So Free more than any D. Jr. album
Murray St. is the best Sonic Youth album since Dreamday Nation
KTM is the best Spoon album (know you disagree)

shmoo · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:16 pm

pinehurst Wrote:

How the hell did Yankee Hotel Foxtrot not make top 20?

shmoo Wrote:

Wait, this is saved's list from that year, not the overall results, right?

tentoze · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:33 pm

I remember about 3 songs into the first listen to that Walkmen album, I mysteriously found myself in the kitchen frantically rummaging through the knife drawer. Put that thing in a mailer and sent it to someone, not sure who, straight away.

shmoo · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 5:40 pm

Here's the actual top 20 from 2002:

1. WILCO - YANKEE HOTEL FOXTROT (204)
2. INTERPOL - TURN ON THE BRIGHT LIGHTS (178)
3. ...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD - SOURCE TAGS AND CODES (148)
4. SPOON - KILL THE MOONLIGHT (129)
5. FLAMING LIPS - YOSHIMI BATTLES THE PINK ROBOTS (125)
6. SIGUR ROS - ( ) (83)
7. NEKO CASE - BLACKLISTED (78)
8. DOVES - LAST BROADCAST (70)
9. SONIC YOUTH - MURRAY STREET (67)
10. QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE - SONGS FOR THE DEAF (64)
11. WALKMEN - EVERYONE WHO PRETENDED TO LIKE ME IS GONE (63)
12. PEDRO THE LION - CONTROL (60)
13. SLEATER-KINNEY - ONE BEAT (59)
14. BECK - SEA CHANGE (58)
15. COLDPLAY - A RUSH OF BLOOD TO THE HEAD (55)
16. RADIO 4 - GOTHAM! (46)
17. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS - RINGS AROUND THE WORLD (42)
18. NOTWIST - NEON GOLDEN (41)
19. JOHN VANDERSLICE - LIFE AND DEATH OF AN AMERICAN FOURTRACKER (40)
20. MCLUSKY - MCLUSKY DO DALLAS (37)

Stop Breathin' · **Posted:** Sat Feb 14, 2009 6:26 pm

Yeah, thanks for clarifying for them, shmoo. Obviously now, the first list is my personal list from that year. Looking back, '03 was pretty great as well. I don't know if there are 10 albums total over the last two years that would've cracked my '02 top 20.

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