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So I'm getting ready to buy some random Of Montreal tracks off of a MP3 service thingy and I'd like to make a custom "best of" from my purchases. I already have The Sunlandic Twins, but nothing before that. So what should I get?

― darin (darin), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

"Isn't It Nice," maybe. If just for the "One thing I've learned is that you never by Larry beer, or else he'll bug you every day" line.

― Suzy Creemcheese (SuzyCreemcheese), Friday, 3 June 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Picking songs from Satanic Panic in the Attic is maybe like picking songs off of Rubber Soul or something. Doesn't seem to reflect the scope of the album. I guess my favorite songs on it might be "My British Tour Diary" and "Rapture Rapes the Muses."

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 3 June 2005 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tim I Wish You Were Born a Girl"
"A Collection Of Poems About Water"
"Honeymoon In San Francisco"
"Let's Do Everything For The First Time Forever"
"Dustin Hoffman Wife Makes A Sarcastic Remark, Cuts The Head Off A Duck, Places It Where The Tub Was"
"My British Tour Diary"
"I Felt Like Smashing My Face Through A Plate Glass Window"
"Kissing In The Grass"
"Penelope"
"One Of A Very Few Of A Kind"

Here's a link to a Rhapsody playlist featuring these songs if anyone cares.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Friday, 3 June 2005 20:17 (twenty-one years ago)

kissing in the grass
a man's life flashing before his eyes
peacock parasols
disconnect the dots
scenes from my funeral
girl from nyv(named julia)
cutie pie
honeymoon in san francisco
it's just so
dustin hoffman becomes indignant and wets himself

― keith m (keithmcl), Friday, 3 June 2005 23:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

"Isn't It Nice?" on Aldhils Arboretum is a beautiful song.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

eleven years pass...

nonpareil of favor
the party's crashing us
faberge falls for shuggie
so begins our alabee
bunny ain't no kind of rider
we were born again the mutants with leafling
spike the senses
a sentence of sorts in kongsvinger
suffer for fashion
disconnect the dots

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 06:03 (nine years ago)

been a while since i last listened to these but:

gronlandic edit
no conclusion
an eluardian instance
the past is a grotesque animal
lysergic bliss
heimdalsgate like a promethean curse
bunny ain't no kind of rider
faberge falls for struggle
du og meg
dour percentage

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 09:57 (nine years ago)

Eros' Entropic Tundra
15 or 20 would have been much easier

The Past Is A Grotesque Animal
The Party's Crashing Us
Like A Tourist
So Begins Our Alabee
Requiem For O.M.M.2
Fugitive Air
She's A Rejecter
We Were Born The Mutants Again With Leafling
Feminine Effects
A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger

― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 11:59 (nine years ago)

^ obvious typo afoot

― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:00 (nine years ago)

their new album is surprisingly not bad

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:09 (nine years ago)

waaaaay too much hissing fauna in these. they have other albums you know

― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:16 (nine years ago)

the new album's not great imo but the previous one is amazing

― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 12:17 (nine years ago)

Spike the Senses
Erroneous Escape into Eric Eckles
Virgilian Lots
Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse
Eros' Entropic Tundra
Last Rites at the Jane Hotel
If I Faltered Slightly Twice
Dour Percentage
The Party's Crashing Us
Jennifer Louise

― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 13:23 (nine years ago)

they have other albums you know
― imago, Tuesday, November 1, 2016 12:16 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 16:23 (nine years ago)

hissing fauna towers over them all

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 17:37 (nine years ago)

i would have to go with Sunlandic Twins in the towering above all category.

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 17:43 (nine years ago)

to be honest I looked at my playlist of everything they've ever done and thought there would be many more songs from the later albums. I played Hissing Fauna to death in 2006/07 and rarely do now, but looking at the songs titles, I couldn't escape the fact it's their best album. I picked nothing from Skeletal Lamping, for example.

As I've probably said elsewhere, I'm mystified that isn't a more commonly held view that Innocence Reaches is their best album in years, but I don't believe there are any top ten songs it.

― PaulTMA, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 18:42 (nine years ago)

so begins our alabee
the party's crashing us now
requiem for o.m.m 2
belle glade missionaries
forecast fascist future
coquet coquette
suffer for fashion
my brittish tour dairy
we were born the mutants again with leafling
the past is a grotesque animal

― Mad Piratical (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 1 November 2016 21:54 (nine years ago)

it completely mystifies me how anyone could regard 'innocence reaches' their best album in ages

― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 22:28 (nine years ago)

really think history will be kind to 'aureate gloom'

― imago, Tuesday, 1 November 2016 22:28 (nine years ago)

love the "mutants" love itt

― k3vin k., Tuesday, 1 November 2016 22:29 (nine years ago)

great song. the last song on Hissing Fauna that I came around on, like five years after it came out. Such a great opening couplet:

She says I'm boring her camera
It takes more to delight the cadaver

Very nice ease out of the record, love the vocal arrangement at the end.

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 00:48 (nine years ago)

I would only save like 3-4 tracks from the albums between Hissing Fauna and the psych-rock comeback albums (the two before the most recent one)

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 01:31 (nine years ago)

Hissing Fauna is blates their best album and anyone who says otherwise is a challops. that said, I had a lot of time for Skeletal Lamping at the time. I've not enjoyed a note of what came out after that.

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:06 (nine years ago)

Hissing Fauna is blates their best album and anyone who says otherwise is a challops. that said, I had a lot of time for Skeletal Lamping at the time. I've barely enjoyed a note of what came out after that.

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:06 (nine years ago)

oops

― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:06 (nine years ago)

otm, Skeletal Lamping is the last one I liked. Great record, up there with Hissing Fauna.

― flappy bird, Wednesday, 2 November 2016 15:12 (nine years ago)

I still think False Priest is their best album. While I get that more people enjoy Hissing Fauna, I continue to be baffled that nobody else thinks as highly of False Priest as I do.

― silverfish, Friday, 4 November 2016 20:04 (nine years ago)

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