What is the best Low album/release? (Encore version)

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Basically I'm doing the poll because Low is (the band I'm most likely to cite as) my #1 favorite band and I'm curious about the ILM consensus on their best album/release is going to be, though I have my suspicions. I've obviously included all the full-length albums, plus the EPs, live albums and various releases that I think are significant enough to be considered a favorite. No singles, no remix albums/EPs and no 3-disc b-sides/rarities box sets, though. So please vote for whichever you think is best, or whichever is your personal favorite. It's up to you.

This is a redo of the recent poll I did with the fucked up results. I'm running this til Sunday so get yer votes in quickly, everyone, and we'll see if we can get some results without 5 of 8 studio albums mysteriously having disappeared. Thanksxz!

Oh and I'm including the box set this time, for kicks.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Drums and Guns (Sub Pop, 2007)9
Trust (Kranky, 2002) 7
Things We Lost in the Fire (Kranky, 2001) 7
Secret Name (Kranky, 1999) 5
The Curtain Hits the Cast (Vernon Yard, 1996) 5
The Great Destroyer (Sub Pop, 2005) 3
Transmission [EP] (Vernon Yard, 1996) 1
Songs for a Dead Pilot [EP] (Kranky, 1997) 1
Christmas [EP] (Kranky, 1999) 1
Finally... [EP] (Vernon Yard, 1996) 0
A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities [BOX SET] (Chairkickers, 2004) 0
I Could Live in Hope (Vernon Yard, 1994) 0
Long Division (Vernon Yard, 1995) 0
Paris '99: "Anthony, Are You Around?" [LIVE] (P-Vine, 2001) 0
One More Reason to Forget [LIVE] (Bluesanct, 2000) 0
Low [EP] (Summershine, 1994) 0


stephen, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Glad to get a do-over; I've been regretting my pick ever since I made it. I voted, then posted in that thread and realized as I wrote that in fact my favorite Low album is Songs for a Dead Pilot.

pgwp, Tuesday, 1 January 2008 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

"Things..." still does it for me. As does "In The Fishtank 7".

SeekAltRoute, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

it's between 'things we lost in the fire' and 'secret name' for me. i'll go with the latter bcz i think it'll probably get fewer votes.

strgn, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Drums and Guns has an unsettling tension I've never heard on their records before.

kiss out the jams, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Drums and Guns is one of their best for that very reason

stephen, Wednesday, 2 January 2008 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

went for "trust" in the end. this is good, actually, because i forgot to vote in the last one ;)

grimly fiendish, Thursday, 3 January 2008 10:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I really love all of them, they're all timeless gems, no exceptions, but I went with D&G in the end.

StanM, Thursday, 3 January 2008 10:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I had no idea how to vote in this poll -- my own poll! -- for a few days, but I just finally picked Drums and Guns because it's my absolute favorite album of 2007, and I can't say any of the others were my #1 albums of their respective years. Likely my favorite band, though, and I've no idea how to choose my true favorite. All eight albums are great, all the EPs are pretty consistently good, the box set is very nice, I mean, I just don't know where to start...

stephen, Friday, 4 January 2008 05:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I was a bit disappointed to see that Drums and Guns didn't get any love on the year-end lists. D&G was easily the 2007 release I listened to the most.

Wonder who will be the first to use Breaker or Murderer during a shockingly violent film scene.

that's not my post, Friday, 4 January 2008 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Breaker is one of my favourite things ever by them.

I know, right?, Friday, 4 January 2008 10:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Saturday, 5 January 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

vote vote vote vote vote!

stephen, Saturday, 5 January 2008 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

low is not low without steve albini

breadmaster, Saturday, 5 January 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago) link

except... trust, drums and guns >>> secret name.

Simon H., Saturday, 5 January 2008 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

bbbbut Secret Name has "Starfire," "Two Step", and "Weight of Water." I still voted for TWLITF, but that has to be the best 1-2-3 punch in their discog.

Pillbox, Saturday, 5 January 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link

*bump*

StanM, Saturday, 5 January 2008 16:09 (seventeen years ago) link

bumpity bump

stephen, Saturday, 5 January 2008 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ILX System, Sunday, 6 January 2008 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link

surprised, but not unpleasantly so; think our sample of voters this time was too small, though :(

grimly fiendish, Sunday, 6 January 2008 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm really surprised to see no voters for either of the first two albums, which are also great :(

stephen, Sunday, 6 January 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago) link

They all voted on the other poll

Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 6 January 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago) link

So, are they Cowboy Junkies wannabes, like my Low-hating friend (inexplicably, to me) says?

StanM, Sunday, 6 January 2008 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I was too shocked to reply.

StanM, Sunday, 6 January 2008 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link


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