Tonight We Poll aka A Short Poll about Love(ly albums)

OK, so Divine Comedy, and not Arthur Lee's band.

Move along now...

oh goddamn it's on the wrong board too!

Casanova is beautiful prog-pop.

It's "Casanova" really, although "Regeneration" was also nice in a very different (Nigel Godrich-esque) way.

Casanova is I think where the success went a bit to his head, and he got a little bit too arch. Liberation is simply delightful summery baroque-pop, and Promenade still has a similar exuberance even though it's obviously more classical and literary. A Short Album... is a kind of perfection, but for me it has to be Fin de Siecle, I just find it more affecting than any of the others. Ok National Express and Here Comes the Flood are somewhat embarrassing mis-steps but Sweden is roffles, Eric the Gardener is a bizarro eight-minute masterpiece, and Sunrise just breaks my fucking heart every time.

move poll to ilm please again please thankyou
what kind of a fool makes this mistake?

-- ledge, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 12:27 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Coff coff ahem. See, it's not just me then you lot!

Most to least favorite (actually never heard Fanfare, just going on its poor reputation). Casanova strikes me as smug and contrived; I've never understood its popularity. Regeneration sounds at times like In Rainbows (due I'm sure to the obvious Nigel Godrich connection).

Promenade (1994)
Fin de Siècle (1998)
A Short Album About Love (1997)
Liberation (1993)
Absent Friends (2004)
Regeneration (2001)
Casanova (1996)
Victory for the Comic Muse (2007)
Fanfare for the Comic Muse (1990)

I'm pretty sure I got myself a copy of FFTCM last year sometime, years after my obsession had past, unfortunately. Promenade and Liberation are absolutely perfect if you are a geeky, six foot tall gifted white girl with a bad hair cut in a school full of rich art students and the super-smart. I think Don't Look Down saved me from dropping out.

That said, I really wasn't able to get into anything released after Fin de Siècle, which is too bad. I did buy the Secret History deluxe book/double disc with his covers of The Model, Life on Mars?, and Life's What You Make it. I think the "rareties" disc that contained these and other demos/scrapped songs was much stronger than Fin de Siècle.

(And by a copy, I mean an mp3 copy, because obviously the record is unattainable by all but God and/or Noel Gallagher, if he were interested.)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

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

Well that's conclusive. Was the poll title too cryptic or is there really not that much divcom love here? I guess the latter perhaps isn't too surprising.