The best five Fall and/or MES albums of this decade?

NB For reasons of space - and cause the general consensus was they were a bit shoddy - I haven't listed several live albums, so don't write in. Thank you.

Austurbaejarbio (a cracking live album by the post Riley/pre Brix line-up, who could resist?)

Country on the Click (this decade's prime real new Fall LP)
on edit: only noticed afterwards there were two different voting options, actually I slightly prefer the official version

The Complete Peel Sessions 1978-2004 (no explanation needed)

Reformation Post TLC (this decade's second best studio album, honestly)

Box Set 1976–2007 (esp. for the live disc although I already had most of the recordings spread over bootlegs and for the superior sounding Beggars era tracks)


honorable mention to the collected rarities on the second "A World Bewitched" disc and to the "Last Night At The Palais" DVD

This is bloody hard - we need about ten votes here. :(

Peel sessions box,
Austurbaejarbio,
Pure As Oranj,
Unutterable,
Backdrop,
are all a bit special to me. :)

I reserve the right to add IWS, RNFLP and the Palais DVD in favour of any of the above (except the Peel box) at any time. -_-

Same as RM except I picked Real New FaLL LP instead of Backdrop

Which twat's voted for Smith & Blaney? :rolleyes: :lol:

The new one could be out before the end of the year, thus rendering this poll a heinous and indeed pointless waste of everybody's time!

Good God, man! What on Earth were you thinking!?

:angry:

It's not out til at least January, you big buffoon.

It's likely, yes, but you don't know that for sure.

I say it again: whoever started this poll, is a lunatic.

Ask a silly question... :whistle:

Err, I've just been on the phone to Mark...

I refuse to partake!

Oooh, a boycott! Now I feel like Eminem. :)

Fifteen months to go, till 31 Dec 2010 actually, as there's no year 0 so we who value chronological accuracy count decades.centuries/millennia from the start of the year ending with "1" rather than "0" to the end of the "0" rather than "9" year.

It'll be RNFLP for me since The Unutterable was of course the best LP of the 90s.

I was going to add a pps pointing out how even I loathe that sort of pedantry, and refuse to recognise such tomfoolery. :devil2:

Correcting a glaring error is not pedantry. -_-

Anyway, since there's five I'll consider it to be a choice merely from the ten years to date and have The Unutterable, RNFLP, Peel box, Listening In (which usefully gathers everything useful from the first half of the previous ten years except Free Range) and something else I can't remember.

But no-one in their right mind considers a decade starts in the year that ends in a 1.
It's like people who say the plural of "forum" is "fora" - it's a ridiculous affectation that makes the user look pompous, poncey, clueless, out of touch and just plain daft.
No offence.

No 'Live At The Knitting Factory', I see. <_<

See first post. Was it actually quite good, then?

No, but then neither was Live At The Phoenix.


{Sorry, EC, I was being flippant. I'm off now. :) }

This is an AWESOME poll!!!

I vote thus:

I Am As Pure As Oranj.
The Unutterable.
The Real New Fall LP.
The Complete Peel Sessions.
Smith and Blaney.

Fantastic that you included both COTC and TRNFLP. I've been listening to both a lot quite recently. :beer:

Ooh, it let me vote for Von Sudenfed and IWS aswell as the other 5! :)

Disqualified!
Have to say I thought FHR would be doing better than this. :(

FHR is amazing. I wish I'd voted for it now. I would have liked to have voted for RPTLC, too; but mostly FHR. That would've been my 8th vote.

The Unutterable
Are You Are Missing Winner
Reformation Post TLC
Tromatic Reflexxions - Von Südenfed
Imperial Wax Solvent

There. I've said it.

Is this a unique case of someone liking both FHR and RTLC?

Probably not.

Conscience made me vote The Unutterable, a real stormer under any circumstances.

The Peel box is obviously one of the greatest things since trousers, but I didn't realise you could vote for more than one - distracted by the whole goat vs. car issue.

I only managed four. The Unutterable is my favourite, and Interim next.

Snarky

It's simply a fact that the present calendar decade covers the years 2001-2010. To argue otherwise is boorish and chronologically illiterate.

Where mid-year points or year averages are used, it is approporiate to speak of 2000-10.

But to write of the present decade ending in three months is plain foolish.

I agree. It's so obviously the best post-Brownies Fall record it boggles my mind that people can't see this!

Which would be fascinating, sir, if I had mentioned a "calendar decade" at any point.
I did not.
The Noughties began in January 2000, just as certainly as the 1920s began in January 1920.
I hope this will be the end of this matter. Good morrow.

Unutterable currently in the lead, even over the Peel box - AS IT SHOULD BE!

My five:

The Unutterable
RNFLP
Complete Peel Sessions
RPTLC
IWS

It most certainly will not. You wrote of the noughties, which is a slightly low-brow term for the decade of the 2000s, ie 1 Jan 2001-31 Dec 2010. If you meant the ten-year period 1 Jan 2000-31 Dec 2009 it was incumbent upon you to specify such, which you did not, thereby rendering your entire poll nonsensical.

Next you'll be telling me the 2000s is a century, or a millennium. For that is where such sloppy contempt for consistent and rational chronological usage leads, and I see it as my duty to protect the Forum from such destructive lunacy.

And why stop there, kind sir?
Surely in Otherdaveland a decade may start whensoever you decide, without so much as a care for either rhyme or reason.
Perhaps we are still in the 1860s - who can say?
And perhaps today is not actually the first day of October, which according to you will in fact start a week on Monday. :wacko:

I think we should add the votes for COTC and TRNFLP together, because the split vote is diminishing its standing!!! :o

It was your tossing idea to list them both. :devil2: