captain trASH - fearless hero of kick and spin

stranger in the alps - phoebe bridgers first two pages of frankenstein - the national more hell - los campesinos! alligator - the national maverick thinker - william the conqueror wolves - my latest novel i like it when you sleep... - the 1975 high violet - the national

yesterday's albums x

romance is boring - los campesinos! alligator - the national the five ghosts - stars days of ash ep - u2

yesterday's albums x

it's so crazy!

posted this from my laptop because i'm a #professional

1🖤0898 heartache

how could it not be. the perfect song. perfect build, perfect lyrics, perfect riff, perfect vocal deliver, perfect ending. i don't think anybody has made a song as phenomenal as this before

2💛the sea is a good place to think of the future

so funny to me that lc! can put a song as silly as (plan a) on the same album as a song as dark as this and it still works. sounds like a panic attack, i don't think any other song has the same sense of fear in gareth's voice

3💙to tundra

you've made it through the middle of hello sadness and been confronted with this. the last minute will fuck you up

4❤️you! me! dancing!

no it's not overrated. the spoken word section is exactly what it feels like to be happy-drunk. if i heard this in the club i would lose my shit in ways nobody has ever lost their shit before

6🩷a slow, slow death

what a chorus. almost a love song, almost a political rallying cry, almost the best thing they've ever done

5🖤feast of tongues

maybe my favourite lc! song to sing along to. stunning

8💙baby i got the death rattle

not much to say about this one. just absolutely perfect in every way

7💛in medias rest

the best of their consistently great album openers. what a journey

10🩷5 flucloxacillin

the perfect pop song. gareth has the lyrical flow of an incredible hip-hop artist here

9🖤adult acne stigmata

THIS is the most sincere gareth has ever sounded. that final line has done more damage to my mental health than all my traumas combined

12💙hello sadness

the best song from the album's first third, before the slightly barren middle. if you're gonna call a song 'hello sadness' it absolutely has to be this melodramatic

11🩷hung empty

the woodchip verse alone brings this to the top 20. almost the perfect pop song

14💛straight in at 101

the final minute is one of the best minutes of any song ever

13🖤the coin-op guillotine

what a way to open a record

15💚the time before the last time

the most heartbreakingly gorgeous song about masturbating in the shower to your nearly-ex-girlfriend's housemate's voice? the no blues production works here

17💚for flotsam

after extensive googling, i can tell you that all of those are real words. great opener

16❤️death to los campesinos!

perhaps their silliest chorus. wow, lc! have some great openers

20💚selling rope (swan dive to estuary)

is this the least tongue-in-cheek gareth has ever sounded? well not quite (see no.9) but i'm worried nonetheless

19🩷got stendhal's

i like this one

18🖤kms

let kim sing! let kim sing! let kim sing!

22🩷for whom the belly tolls

that vibe switch midway through is great. as is the title

21❤️we are all accelerated readers

omg it's sad. brilliant comparatively gentle one on hon,y...

26🖤to hell in a handjob

incredible bridge. can't believe they made los campesinos! woke

25💜heart swells/pacific daylight time

no song has ever sounded this lovesick before. the best of wabwad

24🖤holy smoke (2005)

this one simply rips. next!

23❤️knee deep at atp

poor guy

29🩷the fall of home

are these the plainest lyrics they've ever written? either way, it works a treat here. unsubtly sad

28💜ways to make it through the wall

how do you follow up your silly debut album? get even sillier of course

27💚cemetery gaits

yeah, fuck you morrissey

32💚avocado, baby

is this the most fun lc! song? well not quite, but it's up there

31💜you'll need those fingers for crossing

i keep saying this, but what a chorus

30💚let it spill

one hell of a closing lyric

36💛this is a flag. there is no wind

the change of mood at "our friends have put..." is phenomenal

35🩷here's to the fourth time!

34🩷i broke up in amarante

yeah that is what a hangover feels like, huh

33❤️sweet dreams, sweet cheeks

one hell of an opening lyric

39🖤clown blood/orpheus' bobbing head

if los campesinos! made biffy clyro's cop syrup

38🖤i. spit; or, a bite mark in the shape of the sunflower state

this one makes me cry and it's only like 5 seconds long

37💛romance is boring

yeah it's good. so what

43🩷renato dall'ara (2008)

i'm realising here just how long this ranking is gonna take

42❤️broken heartbeats sound like breakbeats

just completely batshit. love it

41💙by your hand

this song would be relatable if i could afford to rent a tuxedo

40💚what death leaves behind

45❤️my year in lists

i don't think any song has ever used backing vocals as subversively as this song does with both the counting section and the "day (before) i met you" section

44🖤long throes

very good, but slightly overshadowed by what follows. gareth at his most bitter

47💛a heat rash in the shape of the show me state; or, letters from me to charlotte

incredible romance is boring era storytelling. the chorus slaps and "left her feeling safe, left him with an erection" is so sad-funny

46🩷a litany / heart swells

my god he sounds emotional

49💜miserabilia

"shout at the world because the world doesn't love you" could be a los camp! mission statement

48💚as lucerne / the low

suffers from no blues' production style but still great

54💚a portrait of the trequartista as a young man

love the moody vibe here

53🖤the order of the seasons

good, but other all hell tracks do similar better

52💛there are listed buildings

51❤️don't tell me to do the maths

50💙songs about your girlfriend

57❤️drop it doe eyes

56💙life is a long time

as far as lc! extended metaphors go, this one is about as good as it gets

55💜the end of the asterisk

"your disgusting parents" is close behind "huff a sharpie" in terms of gareth's delivery

62❤️this is how you spell "hahaha, we destroyed the hopes and dreams of a generation of faux romantics"

61💜all your kayfabe friends

60❤️2007, the year punk broke (my heart)

59💛who fell asleep in

lyrically phenomenal

58🖤a psychic wound

killer chorus

65🖤moonstruck

the lowest rated from all hell. very good song

64🩷sad suppers

the lowest rated from sick scenes. very very good song

63💛coda: a burn scar in the shape of the sooner state