I agree.
― Evan, Friday, 11 June 2010 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
So close to a 10.0 with this vintage Save Ferris piece!:
Save FerrisIt Means Everything(Epic)Rating: 9.5
If you're lucky, really lucky in life, you might be able to occasionally catch sight of a band that has reached their perfect groove. It's when they're tight and unified, playing music for the sheer fun and love of it, far before the cynicism sets in. They give off a special energy that is meant for the smaller venues. They record CD's that become "keepers", the mainstay of your collection, though they may go "out of style" someday.
Save Ferris' It Means Everything knocked my socks off. I was in bed, the changer had just changed over from Meat Beat Manifesto and off in the distance this CD pulled me awake with its clean bouncin' groove. Its tight, unpretentious, energetic ska led by the rich and soothing voice of Monique Powell opened my eyes to a beautiful day. Yes, a band in their perfect groove. I reached bedside to my DC City Paper and began to frantically search for them live. That's when their cover of "Come On Eileen" came on. I think I came. Great music that won't be soon forgotten by anyone who's heard them.
-James P. Wisdom
― Becky Facelift, Friday, 11 June 2010 17:01 (thirteen years ago) link
james p wisdom gave mansun's first album 9.3 which was pleasing if charitable
― Mark Ronson: "Led Zeppelin were responsible for hip-hop" (acoleuthic), Friday, 11 June 2010 17:05 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't get that at all, anagram, especially considering that "Like a Rolling Stone" had already gone Top 10 in 1965, one year before this concert, not to mention that the Rolling Stones had released several albums by that point. (And I'm not sure I see it as obvious that the Beatles had less to do with the emergence of rock than Dylan.)
You're right about Dylan in '65, of course. I guess the Newport Folk Festival is the pivotal moment I'm really groping for, when he plugged in live for the first time. But there's no official live album of that, and the Free Trade Hall show just sounds so earth-shattering to my ears that I tend to think of it as the key document of his going electric. As for the Beatles and the Stones, I think I'd argue they were both pop, as opposed to rock, groups until '66, with Revolver and Aftermath respectively being their first out-and-out rock records.
― anagram, Friday, 11 June 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
some of the newport stuff was on no direction home
― m@tt h (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 June 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
The white album is a 10. Fuck off.
― billstevejim, Friday, 11 June 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
it is very hard to choose as these are in fact the eleven greatest albums ever.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 11 June 2010 18:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm thinking about my top 10 records and the only one I would ever give a 10 to is Fun House (if any record deserves a 10.0...)
of course Pitchfork gave it a 9.4...
― next post sez gtfo (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 June 2010 19:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Nabisco's 10.0 to Disintegration was OTM!
― the one corey (Pillbox), Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Poor Walt Mink. Would have voted for that to give it a little love if it weren't for 12 Rods being there.
― Evan, Friday, 18 June 2010 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Would have given Walt Mink's Miss Happiness a ten but I think its showing here is fair.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 18 June 2010 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(El Producto's showing, of course)
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 18 June 2010 00:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Evan, you put 12 Rods - I Wish You Were A Girl on your spring mix. I love how the song sounds but I can't figure the lyrics out. When he says "cause I feel green, if you know what I mean" I don't know what he means. Is bisexuality the theme of that song?
― scooter (CaptainLorax), Friday, 18 June 2010 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I always thought he meant inexperienced or immature.
― breaking that little dog's heart chakra (Abbott), Friday, 18 June 2010 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
total votes for radiohead discs: 46total votes for any other of 8 discs: 91 (so roughly 11 votes per non-radiohead disc).
o_0
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 18 June 2010 00:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh CaptainLorax thanks for listening to it! Yes, the lyrics are about learning that you are gay because you wish this person was a girl so your feelings would be normal etc. The green feeling equals queasiness I assume.
― Evan, Friday, 18 June 2010 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link