of fakings and false starts: destroyer albums poll

i think streethawk then city of daughters then your blues but im willing to be convinced otherwise

between streethawk & thief for me, I think thief is really underpraised. I think trouble in dreams was a big return to form too but streethawk and thief are still the ones to beat for me

awesome title, "comments on the world at will" -> "no cease fires" is such a killer 1-2

Mine goes: Rubies/Streethawk/Kaputt/Your Blues/This Night/Thief/City of Daughters/Trouble in Dreams/don't know the early lo-fi ones enough to judge

im kinda bummed cuz i think i sold my copy of 'we'll build them a bridge...' when i sold most of my cds a couple of years ago.

I avoided this guy for a long time cause of the new pornographers stench but in checking out his older stuff I'm not finding most of it kinda boring whereas kaputt is like the greatest thing really. I'm not voting cause I haven't heard some of these tho.

er 'I'm finding most of it kinda boring'

it all just sounds like hunky dory

Your Blues doesn't sound like hunky dory

also, i voted for Your Blues

anyway I don't want to troll the thread but the gap between how much I like kaputt and how cold the rest of us stuff leaves me is amazing and I think I might not be the only one?

rest of *the* stuff

all shit (1996-2011)

this is hard

probably 'your blues', but i'm only like a quarter as familiar with pre-streethawk stuff as i am with stuff after

i am also tempted to vote for 'trouble in dreams' because no one else will and it is better than the albums before or after it

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voted this night. it just beats out streethawk and rubies imo. i love the loose, rambling epic feel of it. and it has the best songs.

anyway I don't want to troll the thread but the gap between how much I like kaputt and how cold the rest of us stuff leaves me is amazing and I think I might not be the only one?

― iatee, Saturday, February 11, 2012

rubies

anyway I don't want to troll the thread but the gap between how much I like kaputt and how cold the rest of us stuff leaves me is amazing and I think I might not be the only one?

― iatee, Saturday, February 11, 2012

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, February 14, 2012 7:18 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too.

It's not trolling, but it is like voting "Saturday Night Fever" on a Bee Gees poll

"City of daughters" for me. "Streethawk" and "This Night" are the two I don't *loooooove* but merely *liiiiiiike*

Love em all from Thief on (not a fan of the lo-fi stuff, though a few of those albums have some mighty good tunes), voting Rubies.

I voted for 'Trouble In Dreams,' it is a glorious record that is often dismissed by fools. It also includes the incomparably great, fun, and hilarious 'Plaza Trinidad.'

it is a glorious record that is often dismissed by fools

haha this is awesome

I think trouble in dreams was a big return to form too but

lol I love TiD too but this shit kray.

This is gonna be an interesting poll, looking forward to these results. Until Kaputt, I thought the prevailing wisdom was that Streethawk was the masterpiece (though I don't agree, "Sublimation Hour" notwithstanding). Some of you Trouble In Dreams and Your Blues people are going to make this interesting!

streethawk.boring answer, but true.

I only know the last 4, and know Kaputt by far the best, which is going to cloud my judgement here...

This is tough, leaning towards Streethawk narrowly over Rubies and Kaputt.

Wife's in the US at the moment, so I've asked her to pick up Streethawk, which is about £18 on import in the UK.

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this night (2002) 5
streethawk: a seduction (2001) 4

huh

ya that's weird
(and I say that as a former This Night partisan who has now warmed to Streethawk)

i can get with these results although kaputt is anachronistic enough to seem a sort of different animal that everything else in the "oeuvre"

:(

I have enduring respect and faith in the results of ILM polls, but no. No.

Thief getting no votes seems wrong

This poll is some newjack shit.

i only know Kaputt and Destroyer's Rubies, so these results seem right to me. i really need to explore more music from this guy as i think he is pretty brilliant.

kaputt was clearly the best album of 2011, a nose ahead of the three releases by the weeknd, but also probably better than anything released over the past several years (a nose ahead of, again, the three releases by the weeknd.)