the 2006 dirty poll: the results

[dubman]

Originally Posted by myshkin

I dunno why I'm wasting my time but it must be wonderful to be able to dismiss the content of what is said based on an infantile mental projection of who you think the person is that is making the point. But there really isn't any need for you to stretch your little mental muscles to understand that as, oh fuck, it's Myshkin, isn't it? Swatting flies is a very tedious occupation, don't you think? Could end up making one think one is something special based on very paltry achievements. Hopefully you don't take that the wrong way, as I'm not suggesting that responding to you is the intellectual equivalent of swatting flies, or that, to pick a random phrase out of thin air, you're "thick as shit" or anything like that. No, I've enormous respect for your wit and imagination and unrivalled ability to place small words in some kind of order in the heroic attempt to make sentences that convey some kind of meaning, however insipid that meaning may be.
Looking forward to your placing of small words in some kind of order.

well, let's hope you can place big words efficiently.
you just spent a whole paragraph calling me a twit

you (oroborous) twit.

[Strangelet]

wow this was fun!!

I'm already excited for next year when we we send in our top tens and then other people lament the community's poor/mundane taste in music, other people defend the right for other people have opinions, a few personality conflicts emerge, fans of x can't believe it ended up at position number y when z is all the way up at w! and finally the whole thing is swept under the rug because the list "blows" and nobody can stomach talking to anyone else anymore about their favorite albums.

sigh. it used to be so easy to sift through headset to get good recommendations. and I used to get so excited this time of year when people threw down their favorites and I got to go on a shopping spree to make me stupid happy for months

thank you matt for doing the list.

[kid cue]

Originally Posted by thee carp dreamer

oh my god, why does anyone care what i say? i'm not even here half the time. all this ivory tower talk, etc etc, i don't actually care if you love the u/w ost. go and listen to whatever floats your boat.

i was just kidding ;_;

[kid cue]

i don't think this list is that bad, anyway (order aside) ... Underworld is always near the top, and i was half-expecting to see the Chemical Brothers on there or something (i know they didn't release an album this year, but you get the drift...)

anyway, i'm definitely going to use it as a reference, so thanks matt!

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by Strangelet

sigh. it used to be so easy to sift through headset to get good recommendations.

Here lies the problem I think. We barely get any discussion on new releases in Headset anymore. Come on the old guard, tell me about good new stuff!

[patrick]

here is the list that i sent: it's a bit all over the place, but i had a hard time narrowing it down a lot... now that i think back i should have maybe put hot chip and the knife in, but i never listened to those as much as some of these:

burial - burial
bonobo - days to come
k-os - atlantis
trentemoller - last resort
gnarls barkly - st. elsewhere (i know i know, i do liek it though)
the album leaf - into the blue again
working for a nuclear free city
cut chemist - audience listening.
infadels - we are not the infadels (wore it out, but was also obsessed
for a while)
matisyahu - youth (i wasn't SURE on this one)


i am interested in seeing yours kid cue if you made one! nevermind, i just remembered the 2006 top tens thread that is found here: here which has your list... and other peoples specific list...

i hear ya on the jay dee albumn, although i think that his two albumns should have been one, even though they are so much different... somehow make it work, have of the stuff on donutes is breathtakingly good, and half is kinda weak for me... same with 'the shining'

[patrick]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Here lies the problem I think. We barely get any discussion on new releases in Headset anymore. Come on the old guard, tell me about good new stuff!

i try sometimes, as do others, but then conversation just moves to something frustrating and annoying like eurovision

[kid cue]

Originally Posted by patrick

i am interested in seeing yours kid cue if you made one!

people's individual lists are here:
http://www.dirty.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5065

i've tried starting threads on new bands, records, etc ... but the discussion almost never takes off. there used to be a lot of enthusiasm about hearing new music on this board, which i think peaked back when audiogalaxy was still around and we had our own group where we passed around music that had been talked about on the forum.

as matt himself has said, these days the ratio of people here solely for UW (and Darren Emerson, and maybe Trentemoller har har) to people who are constantly looking for new music seems to be a LOT higher. anyone who says "well duh it's an UW forum" obviously doesn't know/remember how it used to be.

i think there just needs to be a critical mass. a bunch of people left.

[GforGroove]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Here lies the problem I think. We barely get any discussion on new releases in Headset anymore. Come on the old guard, tell me about good new stuff!

Yes but how can you expect the old guard get isnpired to discuss new releases if you "walk in" in headset and you find threads about people feeling happy about the police reunion and diserting about the greatness of Billy Joel and Elthon John. About the whole UW issue, i don't know because i don't even listen to uw anymore, but i guess i got an OD in here. hehe..

My opinion is that there is not much room anymore for good discussions. The people that were really into talking about music left or limit their replies to the basic, i assume because the bar just drop really down around here or something....

But yeah.. it was a lot lot better.

[BeautifulBurnout]

Originally Posted by GforGroove

Yes but how can you expect the old guard get isnpired to discuss new releases if you "walk in" in headset and you find threads about people feeling happy about the police reunion and diserting about the greatness of Billy Joel and Elthon John. About the whole UW issue, i don't know because i don't even listen to uw anymore, but i guess i got an OD in here. hehe..

My opinion is that there is not much room anymore for good discussions. The people that were really into talking about music left or limit their replies to the basic, i assume because the bar just drop really down around here or something....

But yeah.. it was a lot lot better.

I miss Slippy Epic's stuff. He was still around when I first joined, and really got me into Boards of Canada at the time. And discussions of new music are fantastic and should be encouraged. I don't download stuff from p2ps though, only mix sets from the web. So unless I am really inspired to go out and buy something, sometimes the discussion is all very interesting but I don't have much to say because I haven't heard it and can't really comment.

Where I do get bored is with the "LOLZ u r teh suxx0rz cuz u like Underworld still" thing that seems to go on from time to time. This is the official forum of the band - most people (aside from those in a very small circle of friends of the owner) found this place as a result of their love of Underworld. Most people are open to all kinds of new music, some are more restrained in their tastes.

But yeah. Anyway. More threads about new music please. Preferably with links to a site or a clip that we can listen to/watch and evaluate without having to download it illegally, which I cannot do no matter how much I really want to.