The Lindstrøm Poll

I've heard half of these but the remix of Sweet Cow by Chicken Lips is my favourite Lindstrom thing. Anything else I've heard doesn't quite measure up.

i have to think about this

I've gotta go with Reinterpretations. The first LP close behind.

which first LP?!

i feel space, another station, and contemporary fix push feedelity affair ahead for me.

which first LP?!

― you live in a space battle homo cave (sic)

The self-titled lp

where you go i go because it the music version of a michael mann film shot in video

Annoying problem with Feedelity Affair is that the I Feel Space is edited down. It shouldn't bother me, but it does.

L&P S/T all the way for me.

Yep The self titled one is still my favorite.

WYGIGT apart, i'd ideally just. like to pick 3-4 tracks from each. i guess feedelity affair takes it, though it feels like cheating a bit b/c it was a compilation of singles...so i might vote for real life is no cool.

this poll is too soon - the solo Prins Thomas album has yet to come out and it's a major contender!

wot no Major Swellings?

I've only got 'Where you go I go too' which I picked up after someone told me they thought it sounded a bit Neu! and Krautrock-ish. Can't say I really felt that myself, maybe a wee bit Cluster like but the record never really clicked with me. Need to go back and give it another blast.

Feedelity is £7 in the Fopp near Covent Garden, so I just bought it.

To hell with it I decided to be a neophyte and vote for Real Life... (not heard the s/t though)

so hard to choose because you get such different things out of every one of these albums!!

I've not heard #2 and #3 on the list, but know all the others very well. Has to be WYGIGT, which easily made my Top 10 of the last decade.

My heart says WYGIGT but my feet say Real Life Is No Cool, which is probably my #1 of 2010 so far and I've been spinning endlessly and loving the fuck out of. I voted for the latter (WYGIGT will probably win anyway).

wot no Major Swellings?
^this

In it's absence, Feedelity Affair gets the nod

(Odd that the PT solo LP is being promoted as his "debut" too.)

*its, ugh

i thought major swellings was PT only? no lindstrøm?

oops, OK carry on

http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/7768-lindstrm-christabelle/

Well someone reads Pfork in his spare time:

One of the songs I've been listening to a lot is "Lovesick Teenagers" by Bear in Heaven.

"Deadbeat Summer" by Neon Indian is really good.

Chris Bell: "I Am the Cosmos".

Bitte Orca was probably the best album of last year.

probably no way he would have heard of big star if it werent for pitchfork

After I got the iPhone, I tried a few apps, and I have to admit that Ice Age is really entertaining. I don't know how to describe it-- you have to think logically and find nuts everywhere-- I don't know what to compare it with, because I haven't played any other games, but you should check it out. It's really cheap and a lot of fun for the money.

the image of lindstrom playing Ice Age on his iPhone searching logically for nuts is pretty LOL

probably no way he would have heard of big star if it werent for pitchfork

Well, the Chris Bell album did receive a really prominent Pfork review mid-to-late last year, along with Neon Indian, Bear in Heaven and Dirty Projectors.

Just saying!

only heard real life is no cool & 'I feel space' so voting's easy

i'm going w/II... i dig everything here but II is everflowing ice cold sparkling water

voted Lindstrøm & Chris Bell - The Cosmos Are No Cool

Jesus does every ILM thread have to turn into a discussion about fucking Pitchfork these days?

Voted WYGIGT, incidentally. All the others have their amazing moments, that one is pretty much nothing but amazing moments.

voted Reinterpretations. Played L&PT, II and Reinterpretations on a road trip last summer and preferred the remix album. Real Life is easily my least favorite full length by either Lindstrom or Prins Thomas. It's basically another 'Feedelity Affair' but this time it's a 'Christabelle Affair' with a couple throwaway tracks tossed in with single edits. Very poor if you had been following Lindstrom's singles the last 3 years.

this is a hard choice! if we're going on number of spins, i think real life is no cool would win. i still love ii, but after a while those weird recording fidelity issues started to bother me (plus this new pt solo record kinda perfects what they were going for there imo). reintepretations was also really great, and so was wygigt, so i guess it's time to dig those out again and reassess

was going to break this down based on what drug is best for each of these albums but the fact is, weed is basically the best intoxicant across all of them

Not for Where You Go I Go Too.

yes

There's something about WYGIGT that kind of fucks with my high -- it's too clinical and relentless, not relaxed enough.

endless shimmering walls of astral dust passing by as i move thru a wormhole on my ice tram

god thru a party and used the orion nebula as a fog machine

"Where You Go I Go Too" was just fantastic, and even though I love the effort with Christabelle as well, there's still no competition here.

His efforts with Prins Thomas are IMO weaker, a bit too 70s disco sounding and not with the same wonderful highly electronic sound.

reinterpretations>II>&christabelle>rest

maybe II first tho

i'm biased against weed but it is so not the best drug for lindstrøm anyway

Lusty Mo, that's why it's so good.

The single I've played the most has been Mighty Girl, which makes Reinterpretations a big maybe for me. Can't wait to hear a solo Prins Thomas. I haven't listened to Major Swellings in a few years, but it never impressed me much. I would like more solo music from P. Thomas, other than remixes and Major swellings; to flesh out their differences more.

I haven't heard Reinterpretations but really, for me, this is a two horse race between Feedelity and Real Life Is No Cool.

I do enjoy the albums with Prins Thomas but they seem less focused to me. I'm not against a noodle but I'm looking for reasons to exclude albums. WYGIGT is fantastic but it's sometimes too much of a muchness, like it has to be consumed in one complete sit-down meal. Feedelity has an unfair advantage as a singles compilation. Real Life has an unfair advantage as it's a finger-snapping girlpop affair, which fits most nicely into mine own personal taste.

However, it's not quite so quintessentially Lindstrom, it seems at times obvious that he's outside his comfort zone - in a good way sometimes, with interesting results. But if I have to vote, I'm going to have him in his natural environment. So I'm going with Feedelity.

fuck yeah mighty girl!

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important decisions need to be made

For me, it's something like Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas > Lindstrøm - It's a Feedelity Affair = Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too > Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life is No Cool > Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II

I haven't heard Reinterpretations, but I like Nummer Fire a lot. And Little Drummer Boy is aces, too.

The first L&PT is just so warm and lovely, and much better played than II.

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Loving the three-way tie, btw. These results seem fair.

RLINC hella robbed imo

Pleased to see Lindstrøm alone owning the poll.

Okay, glad that the latest lp didn't get too high on the list

Whatever way you look at it, LINDSTROM WINS AGAIN A HA HA HA!!!

RLINC hella robbed imo

it's mad good but coming 3rd seems a reasonable result

disagree

poll is no cool

wygigt is the one i like least

same here. love the L&PT stuff most of all. (though I haven't heard everything else.)

haha, this is like the exact reverse of how i would rate these records

wygigt is great but really owes its soul to 'transfer station blue'

see you in the subway, lindstrom

http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~magdon/hobbies/squash/Blue_Devil_Program_Logo.jpg

shrieve lookin badass in that pic