Favourite SST Release of... 1984

that's fucked up dude, you'd love up II & especially on the sun

i meant you'd love II & especially upon the sun

up on the sun

i guess i gotta get it. always meant to get around to the meat puppets but never did.

i'd be super-shocked if you didn't like up on the sun

We can hip you to highlights of their later records later but yeah just start with II and Up.

voted live 84

i think every album might get at least one vote.

up on the sun is soooooo great.

i just bought it!

am i the only person who doesn't like meat puppets II? just totally doesn't work for me, hate the vocals.

it's not my favorite meat puppets record by any stretch, and now that i think about it i'd rank them: in a car > s/t > up on the sun > II

and i don't know if i've ever heard any of them past that. i guess i should check out huevos sometime?

xpost Naw, I just cannot get past those weak vox. Never understood the love at all.

great album, but i love all their 80s stuff bar the 1st one that i just couldnt get into.

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was listening to II a bunch this weekend....that's a real dusty trip. love it.

Huevos wasn't "weird" enough for some old-school fans but it's pretty awesome zztop style driving boogie rock.

oh and yeah i can totally understand the singing being a block to enjoying II but it's all about the wailing axes

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Too High to Die is a good intro if you can't get past the vocals on the SST records. Leary did some good knob twiddling on them, and Kirkwood could sing better and its a very strong set of songs.

"Family Man" is my favorite Black Sabbath album!

I mean, the one by Black Flag is pretty good, too, though.

maybe every album will get at least one vote then

went with my heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nI8uE_yguPE

Me, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKVTWhgXce0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSZuL7XwNWA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-TccVzt0gU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHdbqHvsUz4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd4cRXmWt3o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IWHxvswLk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52scMVXF2mc

Greatest cover version ever?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBKyBlJ_JN8

Those two doubles are truly twin titans, but I'm gonna give it to II, just because it's the one I most feel like hearing right now. But yeah, everything up there is pretty good-to-great.

I like that label-of-the-year idea - I've always had an affinity for Sire in 1977, Warner/Reprise in '69, and Elektra in '67.

i dont think anyones gonna do the best label of 84 sadly

There's some year of Bizarre/Straight that includes both Starsailor and Lick My Decals Off, Baby iirc-- that's a contendah!

Rough Trade was crazy in 1980 - Pere Ubu, Swell Maps, Young Marble Giants, Raincoats, Pop Group, Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall, James Blood Ulmer, TV Personalities, Essential Logic, Robert Wyatt, Slits, Delta 5, Scritti Politti, the Prefects...

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wow

All the more impressive that husker du got the vote split and still won.

I had hoped that ZA and DNOTD might tie actually. Cuz both are great albums.

wtf!

Nice surprise! But tinged with sadness that I was the only one who voted for Saccharine Trust.

However you were right pfunkboy - every album got at least one vote!

didn't realize there were so many damn Husker fans lurking about.

Let me reiterate: wow. Between this and the other SST poll, it would seem that Husker Du has a lot more goodwill out there than I thought. Hooray for that.

Husker Du are liked round here, but they're outnumbered by Minutemen fans and DNOTD fans are a lot more vocal. But tbh i think a lot love both, but HD fans cant agree on what is their best album while Minutemen fans generally do. Hence DNOTD usually doing well in the polls.

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Favourite SST Release of... 1985

as i said in the last poll, i pretty much expect Husker to dominate any poll they're in after this: your favorite run of SST releases by one band

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Wow, I'm kind of surprised! Sup fellow dirtheads.