¡Olé! It's the Matador Records Poll! Part Siete: 301-350

OLE-313 Belle and Sebastian -- Lazy Line Painter Jane (box set)

I still think this is the best work(s) B&S ever put their name on.

kinda feels like it's not a "proper" choice here, but screw that, I'm voting for LCW
shame on me for not knowing more stuff from this list

I dig some of The Lonesome Crowded West, but it suffers from the same problem for me as every other Modest Mouse album in that it's way too fucking LONG. Just because a CD gives you 70-odd minutes doesn't mean you have to fill every inch of it and make all of your records double albums.

Just because a CD gives you 70-odd minutes doesn't mean you have to fill every inch of it and make all of your records double albums.

I've always considered Lonesome Crowded West the exception that proves this rule

tbh I never feel these 74 minutes, the album doesn't tire me despite its length, it's weird because I usually don't like this long albums either

That's the opposite feeling I get, I simply can't deal with it straight through! But I guess breaking it into separate 15-20 minutes chunks makes sense, as that's what I'd be doing if I was listening to the vinyl.

What's the deal w/Unwound Challenge on Matador? Did they split it w/KRS or something?

I think "Conduct" was the only Fuck album I listened to that much. It had a cute die-cut cover. Very solid-but-unspectacular indie. Leaning towards Solex on this one as well.

the people deserve an unwound reunion tour imo

we refuse to get jobs until this is mandated by congress imo

this is modest mouse vs pole for me and i went modest mouse

What's the deal w/Unwound Challenge on Matador? Did they split it w/KRS or something?

It was licenced to Matador Europe, as were fellow KRSers Sleater-Kinney.

OK I fecked that up, used the url tag when I meant italics.

this one is so easy, it goes to Arab Strap's "Philophobia."

the people deserve an unwound reunion tour imo

― del griffith, Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:41 (32 minutes ago)

cosigned

P5.

Pole by miles

It's Matador: the indie hip hop years

Is there any hip hop here aside from those Arsonists' releases?

I remember loving Philophobia but I haven't heard it in a million years. I went with Belle & Sebastian (again). Of the albums listed here, it's the one I still listen to the most.

Point Point Point Point Point

"It was the biggest ever cock you'd ever seen, but you've no idea where that cock has been.
You said you were careful - you never were with me.
I heard you did it four times and jonnies come in packs of three."

one of the only reasons why i voted for Arab Strap, they were brilliant on that album.

only

OLE-330 Modest Mouse -- The Lonesome Crowded West
OLE-334 burger/ink -- [las vegas]
OLE-339 Pole -- LP1/CD1

Ouch, these were all pretty important records to me. Probably gotta go Las Vegas, since I still dig that one out every so often, but a tough choice.

At least half of those Cornelius releases are pretty great too and I still feel bad for not voting for him last time, thought Fantasma would get way more votes than it did.

Is there any hip hop here aside from those Arsonists' releases?

It's where it starts, anyway. Remember the catalogue doesn't exactly correspond to the timeframe - these 50 releases alone span a gap from 1998 to 2002! It kind of feels unfair to me, for instance, to vote for Point since it came out at least two years after everything else on the list.

I still think (the LLPJ 3-EP box set) is the best work(s) B&S ever put their name on.

Wd totally agree and I loved it at the time but no way I'm going to vote for them after the unexpected margin by which they won the last one.

I guess up to OLE-200 or so is the Matador stuff I came to late on the recommendations of the Pavement mailing list, and now we're well into the era when I was discovering stuff off my own bat as it came out. Because of this I was disappointed w/Matador in this era because they were - gasp! - signing Scottish bands and electronic acts I already knew about and I got to feel like they'd fallen behind the curve, but looking at the list now there are a lot of real favourites here too, maybe because they no longer felt like hand-me-downs but 100% my own discoveries.

Las Vegas, obviously

Just voted Las Vegas too. Modest Mouse are big and hairy enough to look after themselves; Pole 2 > Pole 1, for me; and if I was going to vote Cornelius it should've been last time, not now.

Plus Burger and Ink have had the courtesy not to let me down too dramatically with their work since then in any way that makes me feel I can't even listen to the 90s stuff, hem hem B&S (and to a much lesser extent Pole and MM)

Las Vegas just gets more and more important to me over time, lodged high in my Desert Island discs pile. I'm getting the reissue as soon as the chance presents itself.

OLE-345 Khan -- 1-900-GET-KHAN

^this album is dope, I wish more ppl cared about it

Waved Out! forgot that came out on Matador... and it's one of the better Robert Pollard albums in my book. Subspace Biographies!

Ah crap didn't even notice Las Vegas! Fantastic record.

i think this is the first of the matador polls where i've never bought one of the release. boy with the arab strap was, i think, the first "leak" of an album i heard (it was a dubbed cassette of the promo)and it was dissapointing except for 2 or 3 songs.

OLE-324 Pavement -- Live (CANCELLED)
This is the same as one of the recently released live records, right?
i'll vote for that.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

BWTAS >>> IYFS

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

well, even though I love LCW very much, I expected something 'more Matador' to win

At this stage of the label it's about as Matador as anything else, but I see what you mean. I'll also say I'm saddened that Unwound only got a single vote.

Part Ocho is up now. It's the first one where I wish I could vote for a handful (that probably gives you a good indication of my age).

I had no idea Modest Mouse were on Matador. I thought they were on Up or something?

In the US their albums were on Up before they signed to Epic. Weirdly, their first Epic one was licenced to Matador Europe just as LCW was. I don't know whether that was a case of wanting to maintain their indie cache, or that Sony just couldn't be arsed to marked them overseas.

Market, not marked. It's 2 in the morning, I can't read anymore.