The of Montreal albums poll

inspired by this Of Montreal thread, that was bumped last week...

either hissing fauna or skeletal lamping, each of which i love like few other albums ever

also thread connection: skeletal lamping is of montreal's wowee zowee

Satanic Panic imo

2007 Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?

this album is amazing

skeletal lamping is of montreal's wowee zowee

Really? I don't see that at all. Wowee Zowee is, for me, the moment when Pavement exploded out in a bunch of different directions and nailed a whole lot of them. Such an expansive record to line in and explore. I think Hissing Fauna is the more apt comparison. Skeletal Lamping is just too damn schizo to really want to live in for long. But thats just me.

Anyway, I vote Satanic Panic, because it was when this band really won me over.

Skeletal Lamping is just too damn schizo to really want to live in for long.

ha this is part of why i feel the comparison is apt! like wowee zowee, skeletal lamping got a lot of really dumb reviews but nonetheless has been embraced by the hardcore fans. i also think each record gives an appropriate sampling of what the bands' strengths are and the innate aesthetics they'll ultimately be remembered for

I guess I can kinda see that, although I think Hissing does the job of accentuating the strengths a little bit more. Wowee Zowee just seems to welcome me with open arms every time I play it, and I get almost the opposite reaction from Skeletal - but then I may feel quite differently in 10 years time when I've had as much time to live in it.

Sunlandic Twins for me.

Though out of the first five the only one I've heard is The Gay Parade. It didn't really make me want to check out the other earlier ones, though I guess it's okay.

Hissing Fauna - Spirited Away
Skeletal Lamping - Howl's Moving Castle

i would take the Icons, Abstract Thee ep over any of the full lengths but only because Of Montreal kinda wear me out. Hissing Fauna has really good songs at the end of the album which makes it easier for me to keep from skipping ahead. "She's A Rejector" is probably my fav track on that album in fact.

Hissing Fauna - Spirited Away
Skeletal Lamping - Howl's Moving Castle

aldhils = totoro

Oh god, really a tossup between Hissing Fauna and Skeletal Lamping, but I do believe that they keep getting better and better so I'm going to go for the most recent. Yes.

gronlandic edit is my fave off hissing

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hissing fauna wins easy.

If we were voting on cover art i'd go with Sunlandic

Hissing Fauna still has my favourite cover art, though.

Trying to refold Skeletal Lamping is like some mad stoner game you can never win.

voted sunlandic twins but now that i think about it, i prob like hissing fauna a bit more. it depends on my mood though, HF is wonderful when I'm feeling a bit shit.

skeletal lamping songs were great live but I still find it hard to listen to all the way through - can't really take the schizo.

Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? is probably my favorite album from this decade. at one time i played that album almost every day for six months. it was also my first exposure to this band, next went out and got The Sunlandic Twins which is also amazing. then Skeletal Lamping came out and no matter how hard i tried i could not get into it. it was coming to its last leg but something told me to keep listening. then one day i played it from beginning to end and i finally got what Kevin was trying to do. it's his crystal meth/ADD album which can't focus on one idea that somehow works.

Voted kill everybody on thread

Sorry for being a drunken douche guys.

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i voted 'gay parade'. it's always been my fave. i like both versions of the band, the pre-pitchfork love and the post-pitchfork love. has any band turned the "consensus" on them as radically as they have? they still aren't a taste for everyone,i know, but they now regularly feature in best of lists whereas when they first arrived it was not polite to be seen in public with a copy of 'coquelicot' under your arm. originally, third rate rubbish like the summer hymns or beulah were praised above them and yet now kevin barnes is allegedly some sort of genius. strange.

"allegedly" !

Satanic Panic

last three are all great. sunlandic twins is my favorite

Hissing Fauna. I seriously have had this in my car for the past two years and have listened to it regularly: Partly because it's so fantastic, and partly because most releases from the past two years have been shit.

Sunlandic Twins will not recieve 1st place even though it should, but I'm really interested to see where it falls.

Having only listened straight through to the last three, I voted for SL. HF pushed it quite close; but for relative unfamiliarity it might have sneaked it.

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Yup.

It deserves it. The first great Of Montreal album.

It kinda gets better every time I hear it, although I maintain that aside from the k-classic opening track, it only REALLY gets good at TPIAGA (and then remains fkn awesome right through to the end)

........much like SL and Triphallus, To Punctuate! Great opener, poppy faffing, then a stone-cold classic second half. Seriously.

That said, when I helm a band, we're gonna do a covers tour and open some sets with our own monumental rendition of "Touched Something's Hollow", which given some development could be revelatory, and even in its current stripped-down state is pretty affecting

"more vacuum"

lengthen every phrase by 2-4 bars, slow it right right down, introduce several harmony parts, a slowcore bassline, some whirring synths, introduce a LONG section between the two verses in which guitars fade into view and the rhythms go all stop-start, then eventually plunge back into the verse with everything sparkling, fizzing, popping and throbbing

will be euphoric