my arbitrary list of favorite records since the dawn of the LP era.

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First things that come to mind. Limit of one record per artist. No compilations of music originally released on 78.
Why?
Because I am bored waiting for my wife to come home.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love' 9
Pavement 'Slanted & Enchanted' 8
The Grateful Dead 'American Beauty' 7
Neil Young 'Tonight's The Night' 7
Al Green 'Call Me' 6
Thirteenth Floor Elevators 'Easter Everywhere' 5
Pharaoh Sandes 'Karma' 5
Ellington/Mingus/Roach 'Money Jungle' 4
Sonny Sharrock 'Black Woman' 4
Fleetwood Mac 'Tusk' 4
The Rolling Stones 'Beggar's Banquet' 4
The Band s/t 4
Sam Cooke 'Night Beat' 3
The Dead C 'Harsh Seventies Reality' 3
The Flying Burrito Brothers 'The Gilded Palace of Sin' 3
Townes Van Zandt 'Live At The Old Quarter' 2
Gene Clark 'No Other' 2
Robert Ashley 'Private Parts' 2
Jandek 'You Walk Alone' 2
Hawkwind 'In Search of Space' 2
Fairport Convention 'Unhalfbricking' 1
Gavin Bryars 'The Sinking of The Titanic' 1
Terry Riley 'The Harp of New Albion' 1
Frank Wright 'Your Prayer' 1
Guy Clark 'Old No. 1' 1
Metal Mountains 'Golden Trees' 1
Charalambides 'Market Square' 1
Stan Hubbs 'Crystal' 1
Richard & Linda Thompson 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight' 1
Donovan 'The Hurdy Gurdy Man' 1
Homegas s/t 1
Michael Hurley 'Armchair Boogie' 1
Guided by Voices 'Alien Lanes' 1
Jerry Jeff Walker 'Five Years Gone' 0
Idea Fire Company 'Music From The Impossible Salon' 0
Bet Jansch 'It Don't Bother Me' 0
Suni McGrath 'Cornflower Suite' 0
Willis Alan Ramsey s/t 0
Michael Nesmith 'And The Hits Just Keep On Comin' 0
Claude Delcloo 'Africanasia' 0
The Incredible String Band 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter' 0
John Fahey 'Requia' 0
The Shadow Ring 'Lighthouse' 0
Johnny Darrell 'California Stop-Over' 0
International Harvester 'Sov-Gott Rose Marie' 0
Virgin Insanity 'Illusions of the Maintenance Man' 0
Happy & Artie Traum 'Double Back' 0
Bardo Pond 'Dilate' 0
The Jefferson Airplane 'Surrealistic Pillow' 0
Ash Ra Tempel 'Join Inn' 0


one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:11 (eleven years ago) link

tusk obv but i'm voting for hubbs

'real danger' of Abbott ovenmitt (electricsound), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link

my man.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link

i'm voting for homegas!

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:15 (eleven years ago) link

Sam Cooke

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:17 (eleven years ago) link

Gah, would want to vote for Jandek but I don't know that album. Probably gonna go Easter Everywhere, to be honest.

emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link

dude that is best jandek record!!
stoned out electric drone blues for miles!

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:20 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7oSe8QJlnE

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link

'Private Parts'is my favourite record of all time so i didn't have to read past that.

jed_, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:22 (eleven years ago) link

i only know a few more of them anyway.

jed_, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link

private parts is so fucking goddamn great it makes my head spin.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link

between:

Sonny Sharrock
Al Green
Kate Bush

voted Sharrock.

nagl lack (seandalai), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link

That Jandek track is pretty damn sweet indeed. Just looking at the tracklist and I recognise the title 'When the Telephone Melts', but none of the others.

emil.y, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link

black woman

call all destroyer, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:26 (eleven years ago) link

Many great ones, but Tonight's the Night, with bonus applause for "A Very Cellular Song."

clemenza, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link

here is a partial list of things that were excluded from the poll because of option limits--

popol vuh 'bruder des schattens...'
rallizes denudes live 77
black sabbath 'paranoid'
don cherry 'mu'
the byrds 'younger than yesterday'
lee hazelwood 'requiem for an almost lady'
brigitte fontaine & areski 'l'incendie'
shirley & dolly collins 'love, death & the lady'
hendrix 'are you experienced'
amon duul 'paradieswaarts duul'

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:30 (eleven years ago) link

i'm really bored guys :(

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link

maybe i'll make a ist of my favorite soul singles or hillbilly 78s next.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link

it's fucking with me to have "dead c" and "tusk" so close

hurdy gurdy man cause why not?

bentelec, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:35 (eleven years ago) link

My gut instinct is telling me to go with Surrealistic Pillow here. Hmm...

justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:38 (eleven years ago) link

Hawkwind just over Dead C.

crüt, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:40 (eleven years ago) link

crut do u jam on that international harvester album? i think it would make you happy.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:42 (eleven years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5VvQOXf4_o

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link

havent heard enough of these to vote but thanks for the playlist!

ciderpress, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link

What a great list of records... I had to go with Gilded Palace of Sin.

Clarke B., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:05 (eleven years ago) link

can't believe i forgot the godz, pearls before swine, and chris darrow

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:30 (eleven years ago) link

Lots I've not heard but some absolute classics here, including my two favourite LPs of all time. My top 10:

Fleetwood Mac 'Tusk'
Guided by Voices 'Alien Lanes'
Kate Bush 'Hounds of Love'
The Incredible String Band 'The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter'
The Rolling Stones 'Beggar's Banquet'
Richard & Linda Thompson 'I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight'
The Band s/t
Neil Young 'Tonight's The Night'
Pharaoh Sandes 'Karma'
Gene Clark 'No Other'

Gavin, Leeds, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:30 (eleven years ago) link

Read the list, reached for my copy of Night Beat.

Popture, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:40 (eleven years ago) link

Hounds of Love, Easter Everywhere and maybe Tusk are all-time top ten for me. Love a whole bunch of other stuff on here too. Some names I don't even remember even seeing before though - Suni McGrath, Virgin Insanity, Claude Delcloo, Willis Alan Ramsey?

Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:40 (eleven years ago) link

Would normally give this to HOL but I'm feeling in a Roky sort of mood today so...

Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:41 (eleven years ago) link

John Fahey 'Requia'

this was the first Fahey album I heard, when it was reissued in the 80s. interesting that it's yr favorite. but fuck voting, I'm using this as a playlist/guide

(REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:56 (eleven years ago) link

Harsh 70s Reality because it's New Zealand Music Month and "Driver U.F.O.", but yeah, what a great list of records. Been jamming on a lot of The Sinking of the Titanic lately.

(Also, noize dudes are married? I feel old.)

etc, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 10:13 (eleven years ago) link

Hawkwind just over Sam Cooke, Fairport, Kate Bush, Gene Clark, loads of others dammit

Vermicious Knid A (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link

gotta go with metal mountains at this point in time.

Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 11:24 (eleven years ago) link

gotta go with Karma here

sleeve, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 13:30 (eleven years ago) link

awww, sang freud, that's sweet.

i waffle between transfiguration of blind joe death & requia, tbh

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link

can't believe i forgot the godz, pearls before swine, and chris darrow

Plus the record suggested by your display name.

timellison, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 16:21 (eleven years ago) link

yeah, that one too!

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 17:57 (eleven years ago) link

I'm using this as a playlist/guide

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:56 (8 hours ago) Permalink

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link

at this pt in my life its prob gene clark but idk

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link

private parts v tusk v hounds of love v band s/t v v v v v goddamn

yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:05 (eleven years ago) link

Suni McGrath - instrumental guitarist, put out some records on Adelphi, for fans of Robbie Baso
Virgin Insanity - private press basement folk-rock, youtube the tune "don't get down"
Claude Delcloo - jazz drummer; the Africanasia LP features members of the Art Ensemble of Chicago and Arthur Jones etc. It's groovy and trancey.
Willis Alan Ramsey - songwriter from texas. put out one LP on leon russell's Shelter label. Waylon covered his "Satin Sheets" and changed "praise the lord & pass the mescaline" to "praise the lord & pass the tambourine" (ugh.)

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:09 (eleven years ago) link

fuck voting, I'm using this as a playlist/guide

Me too. SO happy to see Metal Mountains up there.
Are there any digitally recorded albums on this list?

poxen, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:21 (eleven years ago) link

money jungle with no regrets. one of my very favorite albums.

second place is a dense thicket: tusk, american beauty, requia, golden trees, armchair boogie, beggar's banquet, karma, etc etc etc

metal mountains lol nepotism

diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:27 (eleven years ago) link

;)

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link

it's a good record!

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link

I know!

market square vs tonight's the night for me but that seems like a very odd lady or the tiger to make

diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link

Awesome list, voted Karma

game of crones (La Lechera), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:29 (eleven years ago) link

market square & tonight's the night = you like record covers with black backgrounds & grayscale imagery?

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:32 (eleven years ago) link

hounds of love! but your prayer is gonna be undersung alas

Euler, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:35 (eleven years ago) link

and black & grey sounds inside

xp

diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link

looking forward to listening to the ones i haven't heard of on this list!

(like...Homegas, Virgin Insanity, others)

Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link

hmmm bright lights v tusk v hangman's in the world series of love

Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link

have to vote for 'tusk' or 'tonight's the night' or 'money jungle' or 'bright lights'

impeccable list!

omar little, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link

slanted and enchanted

69, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link

but i was just listening to YOUR PRAYER on youtube on my phone in bed last night as annie was trying to go to sleep. i need that one!

69, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link

this guy, right here^^^^

Mr. Que, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:29 (eleven years ago) link

I'm using this as a playlist/guide

― (REAL NAME) (m coleman), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 09:56 (8 hours ago) Permalink

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 7:03 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

kraudive, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link

i will play any of these records for anyone who wants to come over and hang out anytime. i'll even pick up a six pack if i know yer coming.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link

guess i wd have to go w/ most listened, ie Thompsons over Pavement

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link

that surprises me morbs.
sorry i did not put painful by the yo la tengos on this list for you to vote for.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link

might take u up on that Memorial Day weekend?

that's OK, Electr-O-Pura is my favorite.

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link

memorial day weekend! come hang out!

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link

electropura is a great record too.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:57 (eleven years ago) link

I'm voting for the Dead just cuz.
Was kind of expecting to not know as many of these. I figure everyone on ILM knows more than me.
Need that damn Homegas.

Trip Maker, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link

trips, you know tons about records! and we love a lot of the same ones, i know.

one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link

Your Prayer

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:12 (eleven years ago) link

hoo boy i gotta dig out that jandek record. er, CD.

voting beggars banquet just because i'm v pleased that that's the stones record you picked.

arby's, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link

Don't think I can go with anything other than Private Parts.. need to listen to a few more of these I don't know.

mmmm, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:24 (eleven years ago) link

many of my fave albums here, tusk/sinking of titanic/slanted & enchanted/black woman etc... but my dignity would be besmirched if i didn't vote for armchair boogie.

sonderangerbot, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link

voting beggars banquet just because i'm v pleased that that's the stones record you picked.

― arby's, Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:16 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

ditto

some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:43 (eleven years ago) link

also i dont know why no one is talking about FIVE YEARS GONE here

69, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link

'in search of space'

Lamp, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:10 (eleven years ago) link

rallizes denudes live 77

― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 3:30 AM (18 hours ago)

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link

i wanna do a list like this now too!!

69, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link

well go on then son

navihchkan (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link

ok ok ill see what i can cook up

69, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link

Beggars Banquet
Tusk
Alen Lanes

Look at how funky he is! (jer.fairall), Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link

hubbs is the only person in history to die of smoking too much doobie

'real danger' of Abbott ovenmitt (electricsound), Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link

Who is Allen Laines?

Evan, Thursday, 17 May 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link

Love seeing Guy Clark, Jerry Jeff Walker, Willis Allan Ramsey and Townes on this list. Some prime Texas music.

that's not my post, Thursday, 17 May 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link

Northeast Texas Women is such a killer tune.

that's not my post, Thursday, 17 May 2012 05:14 (eleven years ago) link

texas wimmin is texas gold
(don't tell me wifey.)

one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link

fyi i have never been to texas. except to pass thru el paso on the way to juarez

one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link

what was a nice boy like you doing in a place like juarez?

game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link

visiting my grandparents in new mexio & taking a day trip as a child.

one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link

circa 1996 or so.

one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link

fact: the cow skull purchased at a bazaar in juarez now hangs in the record store.

one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link

man i bet a list like this limited to texas alone would be awesome. so much of my favorite music came outta TX.

arby's, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:06 (eleven years ago) link

wow, that must have made an major impression, eh? i don't remember seeing a skull, but there is a lot of stuff to look at in there :)

game of crones (La Lechera), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link

easter everywhere

am0n, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:33 (eleven years ago) link

unhalfbricking

Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link

this list is weirdly representative of 2000-2010 for me

Impetuous hybrid (Matt P), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:55 (eleven years ago) link

it might not even be the one that i'd listen to the most now

but i can't deny tonight's the night

that hit me SO HARD in college, like i went into another world

Bandersnatch Cumberbund (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link

voting black woman even though it's not my favorite sharrock record (what does that even matter, it still towers unremittingly)

would've voted for rallizes denudes live 77

Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 19 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link

Toss up between Tusk and Money Jungle for me. Went with the latter.

Lil' Kim Philby (Call the Cops), Saturday, 19 May 2012 07:59 (eleven years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link

That's a pretty great list!

EveningStar (Sund4r), Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link

these results seem quite unilx!

i'm going to download everything i haven't heard. my vote would've been... tusk? but maybe only because i'm obsessed with it right now, h8/<3 u lindsey. maybe karma.

Merdeyeux, Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link

... forgot to vote. sorry, IFCO!

nerve_pylon, Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:51 (eleven years ago) link

one month passes...

can't believe i forgot the godz, pearls before swine, and chris darrow

― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, May 16, 2012 4:30 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 13 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link

that s/t chris darrow record is just... amazing imo. everyone should listen to it.

one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 13 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link

super-satisfied that American Beauty and After the Gold Rush are tied for third; I always lump those two together in my mind

warring hardens (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 13 July 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link

one year passes...

Michael Nesmith 'And The Hits Just Keep On Comin' 0

this album is killing me lately! so so good

just sayin, Sunday, 19 January 2014 10:15 (ten years ago) link


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