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

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Previously: Part Seis. It's Matador: the indie hip hop years - before Def Jux made it cool! The bulk of the rest look like licences (either from UK labels, or from US indies to Europe). And there's at least one odd-one-out, timeline wise.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
OLE-330 Modest Mouse -- The Lonesome Crowded West 11
OLE-313 Belle and Sebastian -- Lazy Line Painter Jane (box set) 8
OLE-334 burger/ink -- [las vegas] 7
OLE-311 Belle and Sebastian -- The Boy With The Arab Strap 7
OLE-332 Cornelius -- Point 4
OLE-316 Robert Pollard -- Waved Out 4
OLE-315 Arab Strap -- Philophobia 3
OLE-324 Pavement -- Live (CANCELLED) 2
OLE-328 David Kilgour -- David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights 2
OLE-339 Pole -- LP1/CD1 2
OLE-304 Lyres -- Lyres Lyres 1
OLE-326 Sleater-Kinney -- Little Babies 1
OLE-335 Unwound -- Challenge For A Civilized Society 1
OLE-333 Pizzicato Five -- Playboy & Playgirl 1
OLE-302 Lyres -- On Fyre 1
OLE-331 Guitar Wolf -- Jet Generation 1
OLE-345 Khan -- 1-900-GET-KHAN 1
OLE-348 Arsonists/Non Phixion (Skeme Team) -- 14 Years of Rap (PROMO VHS) 1
OLE-305 Bassholes -- Long Way Blues 1996-1998 1
OLE-347 Pavement -- Stereo jukebox single (PROMO) 1
OLE-346 Liz Phair -- Polyester Bride jukebox single (PROMO) 0
OLE-350 Cornelius -- CM: Cornelius reMixes 0
OLE-349 Cornelius -- FM: Fantasma reMixes 0
OLE-336 Solex -- Pick Up 0
OLE-342 Lynnfield Pioneers -- Free Popcorn 0
OLE-337 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Acme (PROMO VHS) 0
OLE-338 Khan -- Passport 0
OLE-344 Arsonists -- Pyromaniax 0
OLE-343 Arsonists -- As The World Burns 0
OLE-341 Unwound -- Further Listening 0
OLE-340 Cornelius -- Star Fruits Surf Rider 2 0
OLE-320 Cornelius -- Star Fruits Surf Rider 0
OLE-329 Chris Knox -- Yes!! 0
OLE-306 Various Artists -- Welcome To Sarajevo soundtrack 0
OLE-308 Cornelius -- Free Fall 0
OLE-309 Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo -- Strange But True 0
OLE-310 Various Artists -- In Your Grill (PROMO) 0
OLE-312 Lyres -- A Promise Is A Promise 0
OLE-301 Cat Power -- Cross Bones Style (CANCELLED) 0
OLE-314 Fuck -- Conduct 0
OLE-317 Cornelius -- Chapter 8 (PROMO) 0
OLE-318 Solex -- Solex All Licketysplit (PROMO) 0
OLE-319 Cornelius -- Chapter 8 0
OLE-321 Sleater-Kinney -- One More Hour 0
OLE-322 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Acme 0
OLE-323 Guided By Voices -- Fair Touching (CANCELLED) 0
OLE-325 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Acme (PROMO) 0
OLE-307 Solex -- Solex All Licketysplit 0
OLE-327 The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion -- Talk About The Blues 0
OLE-303 Lyres -- AHS 1005 0


wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:02 (fifteen years ago)

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.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:04 (fifteen years ago)

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

V79, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:36 (fifteen years ago)

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:48 (fifteen years ago)

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

Becky Facelift, Saturday, 24 July 2010 23:57 (fifteen years ago)

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

V79, Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:06 (fifteen years ago)

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:12 (fifteen years ago)

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.

dlp9001, Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:16 (fifteen years ago)

the people deserve an unwound reunion tour imo

del griffith, Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:41 (fifteen years ago)

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

del griffith, Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:42 (fifteen years ago)

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

ciderpress, Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:45 (fifteen years ago)

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 25 July 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

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

Bee OK, Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:10 (fifteen years ago)

the people deserve an unwound reunion tour imo

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

cosigned

Bastards of Young Dro, Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:16 (fifteen years ago)

P5.

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:26 (fifteen years ago)

Pole by miles

The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Sunday, 25 July 2010 01:48 (fifteen years ago)

It's Matador: the indie hip hop years

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

President Keyes, Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:20 (fifteen years ago)

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.

scott pgwp (pgwp), Sunday, 25 July 2010 02:49 (fifteen years ago)

Point Point Point Point Point

skip, Sunday, 25 July 2010 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

"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.

Bee OK, Sunday, 25 July 2010 03:03 (fifteen years ago)

only

Bee OK, Sunday, 25 July 2010 03:06 (fifteen years ago)

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.

piskie sour (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:22 (fifteen years ago)

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:27 (fifteen years ago)

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.

piskie sour (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:29 (fifteen years ago)

Las Vegas, obviously

flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:30 (fifteen years ago)

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)

piskie sour (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:33 (fifteen years ago)

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.

flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 25 July 2010 10:36 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

I will sug you and ban you on the permalink (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 25 July 2010 12:24 (fifteen years ago)

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

lynshroom, Monday, 26 July 2010 10:44 (fifteen years ago)

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

The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Monday, 26 July 2010 11:19 (fifteen years ago)

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.

mizzell, Monday, 26 July 2010 14:33 (fifteen years ago)

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

mizzell, Monday, 26 July 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Friday, 30 July 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

BWTAS >>> IYFS

still they got me like beezus (Pillbox), Saturday, 31 July 2010 00:38 (fifteen years ago)

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

System, Saturday, 31 July 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

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

V79, Saturday, 31 July 2010 23:13 (fifteen years ago)

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Saturday, 31 July 2010 23:53 (fifteen years ago)

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).

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 1 August 2010 00:09 (fifteen years ago)

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

_▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 1 August 2010 00:43 (fifteen years ago)

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.

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 1 August 2010 01:03 (fifteen years ago)

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

wronger than 100 geir posts (MacDara), Sunday, 1 August 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)


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