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Whats a good starting place for The Decemberists?

Album Rating: 4.5

Picaresque probably.

Album Rating: 5.0

Picaresque is a good staring point, it's their most quintessential.

Or you could just start with their debut Castaways and Cutouts which as people say is sort of similar to this.

The King is Dead is my favorite but it's pretty different from most of their other work and generally less popular.

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"Decemberists > NMH btw"

NEVER OMG

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Well to be fair NMH only have the two albums (and I've only heard this).

But for me The King is Dead is about as good as this and The Decemberists have several more excellent to near classic albums so there's really no contest.

Album Rating: 4.5

Well, this album IS NMH - some people get excited about 'Avery Island' but I don't like it too much.



They're another band like Slint - the legend is that one album. There's a certain mystique.



Decemberists are a band with a back catalogue so it's a difficult comparison.

Album Rating: 5.0

Comparing two bands with incredibly different sizes in discography is kinda pointless tbh

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even if i only liked this album, id still take NMH over The Decemberists. but i love Avery Island and the two EPs so its no contest for me either. Decemberists have some quality material though, especially The Crane Wife and The Hazards of Love.

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especially castaways***



i actually find the decemberists boring most albums i dunno

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i found their first 3 albums to be pretty boring.

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The only album by them I don't love is Her Majesty and even that is really good.

I'm a Decemberists fanboy though, top 10 band for me easily.

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"I dont base my 5's on whether i come back to it often."



This so hard, I don't see why that should be a criteria to why it should be 5'ed. Especially with albums where are exhausting to listen to with how large they are.

Album Rating: 4.5

It might be an old fucker thing - it becomes more apparent when albums have been in your life twenty plus years

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah, I have 5s that I hardly listen to, but when I do they hit the spot.

Album Rating: 4.5

I guess it's more like you've had an infatuation and then you fall out of love with them a tiny bit (but only to a 4.5 degree, and you still respect them)

Album Rating: 5.0

Well I can see why you don't want to jam them anymore because you have so much but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be a 5 anymore. If you don't want to listen to it much because over the years you listened to it too much and it's so familiar to you it won't caused anything special that's fine but it doesn't mean the album has aged poorly and you should drop it. By the logic you only 5 stuff in constant rotation almost no album ever will maintain a 5 for you in your lifetime.

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Fundamentally it depends on whether you rate things more "objectively" or by enjoyment.

Album Rating: 4.0

Been falling into the trap of rating things objectively recently, need to focus more on the enjoyment.

Album Rating: 5.0

The Decemberists are good, but annoy me with repeated listens

Album Rating: 5.0

wow wrong opinion