Dischord Records discography 2003-2010 poll

Black Eyes - Cough takes it for me. Amazing.

my top 5, more or less:

2005 147 Lungfish Feral Hymns
2004 139 Beauty Pill The Unsustainable Lifestyle
2006 160 The Evens Get Evens
2005 149 Medications Your Favorite People All in One Place
2008 159 Faraquet Anthology 1997-98

liked a few others, only really disliked the first Joe Lally solo album (didn't hear the 2nd) and the Andalusians EP. saw French Toast, Q And Not U and All Scars live but never bothered to check out their records.

The S/T Black Eyes disc. I love the first two Q and Not U albums, but I've never heard Power. I like The Evens okay, but they aren't like "best" worthy.

french toast in a cave gets points for the name. want the follow up to involve foxes and boxes.

I have no idea who any of these bands are.

a pretty large percentage of them feature members of Fugazi or Smart Went Crazy

Not sure I've heard enough of these to vote, but I really, really like the s/t Evens album, so that.

Though I should go back and listen to Beauty Pill and Faraquet to see if I still like them, and French Toast to see if I've started liking them as much as I was told I would (or uh at all, really).

Yeah it has to be the first Evens record.

139 Beauty Pill The Unsustainable Lifestyle
152 Soccer Team 'Volunteered' Civility and Professionalism
157 Antelope Reflector

^ these are my three favorites. Despite who The Evens are, I could never fully get into either record.

I prefer the first Beauty Pill ep to their other output.

Lungfish is a no-brainer for me here

Antelope's "Reflector" is my total sleeper of this batch, but Q and Not U's "Power" might get my vote.

The Lungfish albums from this era are not their best, but are still way better than almost all albums by any band ever.

The Make Up thing is a VHS/DVD and is amusing.

I'm a total Dischord nerd and I've never heard of 2007 / 160½ / Fast Piece of Furniture / Adventures in Contentment, but I suspect it might be a Jeff Nelson band.

Black Eyes were SO good live.

The Soccer Team album is really tuneful and unique.

Dischord hasn't put out my last few favorite DC things (The Points, the Title Tracks full length, the recent Daniel Higgs album), but I hope they keep going with their remastering/re-pressing efforts.

Hey, does Guy Picciotto write music anymore? I know he toured with Vic Chesnutt, but does he ever play out or anything?

title tracks 7" for sure

The Title Tracks full length is awesome too. In all seriousness, why doesn't that get more attention? The songwriting is really amazing!

extremely sweet sounding 8-track recording too

Hey, does Guy Picciotto write music anymore? I know he toured with Vic Chesnutt, but does he ever play out or anything?

― Becky Facelift, Monday, June

It does not seem like it. Unless this live soundtrack counts:

A live collaboration with (Jem)Cohen and DJ/Rupture, Andy Moor (the Ex) and Guy Picciotto (Fugazi), Mexico City By Chance, premiered in Mexico City in 2009 and was presented at the Santiago Film Festival in Chile that August.

http://www.shinylittlerecords.com/filmbio.html

Not sure if he wrote anything for it

2003 137 Lungfish Love is Love

^one of my friends constantly puts this one post-club or whatever when shitfaced so I have listened to it quite a bit this year - it's probably the best thing here

From a Paste interview with Q and Not U/Title Track's John Davis:

Paste: It seems like Dischord Records is less visible now, too. The label doesn’t sign a lot of new bands or release many new albums.
Davis: The label has really wound down in a lot of ways. Dischord still exists, and it still has a lot of purpose, but they’re more concerned with making sure they stay afloat and that business continues so they can keep their catalogue in print. They’re not doing too much in the way of new bands, and I know that Ian is not really excited in much of what’s going on ... meanwhile, bands from D.C. aren’t touring, so they aren’t making a name for themselves. Very few people can name more than a handful of bands from D.C. now, so D.C. has really fallen off the map nationally.

There have been articles about John Davis' points in both the Washington City Paper and the DC version of the Onion. I think I or someone might have linked to them in the Capitol Swamp thread.

That's a bummer. I haven't lived in D.C. in many years, but I've always tried to keep up with the music scene there from afar for nostalgia's sake (and for the fact that so many of my all time favorite bands came of the scene). But over the last few years I've struggled to find bands from D.C. that I've really liked. I figured that I was just old and that maybe it became uncool to be on Dischord and so I didn't know the new labels, or something, but it seems like there just aren't too many new exciting bands there these days. Is that unfair?

(Oh - I checked out some of the stuff on that Fan Death label after reading that article about the shit-talking label bosses, but I didn't dig much of it).

I have liked all the Felt Letters (Ian Svenonius and Brendan Canty) songs I've heard - http://www.myspace.com/feltletters - but the Spiv seems to be sticking with the K Records kind of thing these days.

(Oh - I checked out some of the stuff on that Fan Death label after reading that article about the shit-talking label bosses, but I didn't dig much of it).

what article is this? I like the stuff Fan Death is peddling atm

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2010/01/27/fan-death-records-to-d-c-bands-stop-sucking/

Capital Swamp: The DC Resource Thread

Oh I have no idea who any of the bands are they're bodying :/

(Lotus Fucker are cool tho)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

the black eyes debut is only like half good, but that half is good enough to get my vote

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

OK so 2 people voted for "other in case I missed anything" but nobody pointed out in the thread anything I missed.

They don't show up here obviously but I was JUST listening to a cope of Polymer by Bluetip (2000), they are an under appreciated band on this label or in general.

copy... how did I type cope?

2006 152 Soccer Team 'Volunteered' Civility and Professionalism 0

Hm, I could've sworn I voted for this. I must have voted for Beauty Pill instead.

beauty pill dude is a regular poster on g34rslutz, seems like a nice and intelligent dude (and a v talented engineer)

yeah, chad's a cool dude, one of the only musicians i know of with a really readable twitter