of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? poll

"We Were Born..." is the correct answer.

Favorite lyric: "No mere limp verse could incite identity destruction."

my ALBUM OF THE DECADE.

i voted for search function

Best song on Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?

damn, i didn't think this was done but only searched for of Montreal...

Such a great record.

our particles are in motion

cool, it's been two years time for a re-do.

anyways, when i first bought this record i listened to it everyday for six to nine months. i just kept discovering new things to like about this album. this was my first of Montreal and i just felt like i have never heard anything quite like it before.

I remember reading something -- perhaps a P4k Guest List -- where Barnes was discussing how much he LOVED the sound of the Rickenbacker bass that he used all over the album. Couldn't agree with him more. That liquid-sounding low end! Yes!

kamerad otm, it's the final track for me

tho this is probably my "album of the decade" too and I love everything here

i think i voted for "the past is a grotesque" animal last time so this time i'm gonna vote for "suffer for fashion"

this album deserves all fanboy praise

lol I voted very much in character...although my 2nd-choice wd have been 'faberge falls for shuggie' and maybe I shd have given that a bit of love

'suffer for fashion' is superb

I wanna start posting lyrics but I'm afraid of the j@ggerian food puns to ensue

go ahead, that could be fun as i have no idea some of the things that Kevin is saying.

does anyone know when controller sphere's supposed to come out?

labyrinth pomp is the best song bowie never forgot

The first time I heard this I was underwhelmed by the first one or two songs, but by the end of the record I was hooked. It's definitely my favorite thing they've ever done. Voted for "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal", but almost every song is great.

i love love love this record but everything afterwards has been so awful in comparison

there's only been one album since?

yea and iirc you voted for it in the ilm poll?

"She's a rejecter"

"She's A Rejecter" is one of my favorites, too. Great lyrics.

i'm adding ttp://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=75012#unread

oops:

of Montreal: Icons, Abstract Thee poll

I went with Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger but really could have picked four or five others...

"labyrinth pomp is the best song bowie never forgot"

fyi this band have never sounded like anything to do with bowie ~

i re-listened to this today and loved every moment again, haven't put it on in a long time. the second half with songs like "Bunny Ain't No Kind of Rider," "Labyrinthian Pomp" and "She's a Rejecter" really stood out this time around.

voting for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBfgQvM7wtE

i ~like~ that song but it's easily my least favorite song on the album

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Gronlandic Edit by far. That was my jam in 2007.

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

we were born mutants > the past = a sentence of sorts = suffer for fashion = heimdalsgate >>> cato as a pun/sink the seine > she's a rejecter > bunny = labyrnthian pomp > faberge > gronlandic edit

so who's gonna poll Skeletal Lamping

...or is that album too much like one continuous song (in which case I'm voting for The Second Half)

it's too soon, but i'll do it

that's a bit of a cop-out tbh

triphallus, to punctuate! >>> plastis wafers > id engager > mingusings = nonpareil of favor > and i've seen a bloody shadow = an eluardian instance > beware our nubile miscreants > touched something's hollow > death is not a parallel move > women's studies victims >> for our elegant caste = st. exquisite's confessions >> gallery piece >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> wicked wisdom

???

"but i'll do it"

no i mean my line about it being a continuous song was a cop-out, hence a full track comparison

"I'm so touched by your goodness
You make me feel so criminal
How do you keep it together?
I'm all, all unraveled
But you know, no matter where we are
We're always touching by underground wires"

heard this song, out of the blue tonight, and wanted to bring it up...

the year this came out I was big into doing college radio and there was no one using the slots between like 1am and 7am, so I asked if I could do a top 100 of the year countdown, which they let me do, and "The Past is a Grotesque Animal" was my #1, which I cranked nice and loud on the monitors while absolutely delirious at the very end. good times.

I adore OM but The Past...is kind of a transcendent entity, it goes well beyond the music of the time let alone OM themselves, it kind of comes out of nowhere and there's nothing like it

i dunno. i never really saw the big deal with it. it's okay but it's just a guy whining about his relationship over a repetitive motorik beat and some neat 'ooh-ooh-ooh' backing vocals. I prefer tracks like Gronlandic Edit really

I Feel Love is just some woman warbling the same phrases repeatedly over a sequencer, nbd

just really basic stuff. you feel love. big whoop

lol

yeah but it was done quite a bit before that though

don't get me wrong, i like it as a big monolithic statement in the middle of an otherwise frantic, tartrazine-fuelled record, but it's not the highlight for me

For me, it doesn't quite earn its length but it's still a good song. Not my favorite on the album either, but it's hard to compare it to a bunch of much shorter songs

it isn't my favourite OM song, but it certainly stands apart from the rest

imago otm. it is a phenomenon unto itself

discussing
story of the eye

otm

there's always something to be said for an artist finding a level of catharsis they probably didn't even think themselves capable of

this album came out when I was in the middle of one of my very worst depressive episodes and the thing that always struck me about this particular song is that the catharsis never actually comes. It just builds and builds and builds but by the end, whatever crisis he’s going through is still there, better defined but without any real release or liberation. I found it comforting at the time - the way I felt it mirrored the endless loop I was trapped in.

just really basic stuff. you feel love. big whoop

Lollll