As long as we can nail down what percentage of Pop is acceptable an 80s dance poll could be really cool.
― Josiah Alan, Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
DL otm above, i think a little pruning in the noms list is a good way to go about it.
― Tome Cruise (Matt P), Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:20 (eleven years ago) link
Is there still a plan to have an italo poll, or are we moving towards a general 80s one?
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 4 November 2012 16:51 (eleven years ago) link
I'd love a general 80s dance one if it was a 100-song rollout and the big name choices were limited to make room for diversity. I like the idea of having Madonna, A Guy Called Gerald, Cybotron, Francois Kevorkian, Streetsounds, Italo, Shannon, New Order, YMO, Phuture, Frankie Knuckles, Cameo, etc all in the same poll.
― Deafening silence (DL), Sunday, 4 November 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Just checking out these results while Stuart Maconie plays cuts from Artificial Intelligence on the radio. Sad not to see any Drexciya on the results. I should have voted I guess!
― Neil S, Sunday, 4 November 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
Here's my IDM-guilt ballot
1. Autechre - LP52. Orbital - In Sides3. Autechre -EP74. Plaid - Rest Proof Clockwork5. Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall6. Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy EP7. Prodigy, The - Music for the Jilted Generation8. Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children9. Plone - For Beginner Piano10. Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do11. Prodigy, The - Experience12. Autechre - Chiastic Slide13. Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album14. Aim - Coldwater Music15. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Vol. II16. Autechre - Amber17. Black Dog - Spanners18. Daft Punk - Homework19. MDK - Open Transport20. Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy21. µ-ziq - Royal Astronomy22. Polygon Window - Surfing on Sine Waves23. Autechre - Tri Repeatae24. Air - Moon Safari25. Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 – 92
Quite surprised at the order of some of my selections tbh, but the top 10 is about right for me.
― make like a steak and beef (dog latin), Monday, 5 November 2012 10:35 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for Tuomas for making this happen!
My ballot, built (with a couple of exceptions) out of nostalgia.
1.Plastikman - Consumed2.Susumu Yokota - Sakura3.Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman4.Leftfield - Leftism5.Orbital - In Sides6.Sasha & Digweed - Northern Exposure7.Burger/Ink - Las Vegas8.Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 – 929.Deep Dish - Yoshiesque10.KLF, The - The White Room11.Prodigy, The - Experience12.Nu Yorican Soul - Nu Yorican Soul13.Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children14.Chemical Brothers, The - Exit Planet Dust15.Gas - Königsforst16.KLF, The - Chill Out17.Global Communication - 76:1418.Drexciya - The Quest19.Autechre - Incabula20.Daft Punk - Homework
― calumerio, Monday, 5 November 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
Badass forum around here. Wowzer!
Here's what I would have voted for:
1. Mouse on Mars - Autoditacker2. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
nearly every Aphex Twin releasea bunch of Autechresome Squarepusher (can't believe it when people diss SP... I guess you have to be a musician???... Go Plastic all the way, losers!)
Meat Beat Manifesto album or 2Future Sound of London Lifeforms dominatesProdigy Experience, Jilted, and PHAT TOO3 albums by the OrbDrexciya, Transllusion, ElecktroidsBoards of CanadaMonolakeUnderground ResistancePrefuse 73DJ ShadowOrbitalPlaidBlack Secret Technology, 28 Gun Bad BoyBurger InkInnerzone Orchestra (no Carl Craig or Paperclip)Model 500maybe PlastikmanUnderworld
Goldie = blehBurial = good but not on my listProbably wouldn't even include Basic Channel
― dojo, Monday, 5 November 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link
some Squarepusher (can't believe it when people diss SP... I guess you have to be a musician???... Go Plastic all the way, losers!)
I like SP but the whole "you have to be a musician" excuse doesn't hold water here, I think
― frogbs, Monday, 5 November 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
a few years back i went to chicago for a few weeks.i happened to chance upon a cheap copy of the us edition of 'in sides' which has an extra cd of remixes etc.when i came home i then just added it to the archive and never gave it a listen.i had no idea the album was so loved.i always assumed that their earlier albums were the faves ! of course following the love in this poll i have dug said cd out of the archive and given its first airing today .. so, ta for the nudge ..
― mark e, Monday, 5 November 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
FROGBS: "I like SP but the whole "you have to be a musician" excuse doesn't hold water here, I think"
Probably not. I guess I just don't see how people could dig Confield or Drukqs and not like Go Plastic. It just seems weak minded.
― dojo, Monday, 5 November 2012 17:40 (eleven years ago) link
mark, In Sides is one of the best albums ever recorded
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
I could have sworn amongst out other drunken blather that I said this to you when we went out drinking
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
haha ! you very probably did, as i had just bought it that day ..
― mark e, Monday, 5 November 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
that bonus disk the the 18 hour version of The Box is pretty epic!
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I just don't see how people could dig Confield or Drukqs and not like Go Plastic. It just seems weak minded.
― dojo, Monday, November 5, 2012 12:40 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
O_o
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 5 November 2012 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
checked. my extra disc has 2 versions of satan, the saint, the sinner, and a live version of halcyon.
― mark e, Monday, 5 November 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
ooh you got the second edition
the first edition has:
1. "Times Fly (Slow)" 7:582. "Sad But New" 7:293. "Times Fly (Fast)" 7:534. "The Tranquilizer" 6:275. "The Box (full version)" (Hartnoll, Hartnoll, Grant Fulton, Peter Mauder) 28:11
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
humph.didn't know there were variations ! would have preferred the full version of the box .. used to have that on cassette and its amazing ..
― mark e, Monday, 5 November 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah IIRC the first edition combined The Box EP with Times Fly EP (with The Box EP glommed together into one long Frankestein track)
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
i wish they'd have combined both bonus discs but yeah you want the one with "Times Fly". I geeked out when I finally found a copy.
― frogbs, Monday, 5 November 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
My second edition has a Live at Glastonbury version of "Impact (The Earth Is Burning)" which is one of the greatest pieces of recorded music ever.
Also "The Sinner" is pretty wicked.
― Tim F, Monday, 5 November 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
Either two-disc edition is better than the most common one-CD UK edition with The Saint etc just tacked on the end right after the main In Sides tracks. In Sides is such an amazing album and then bam, The Saint starts up and totally destroys the vibe. I had the original release on tape and wanted to upgrade it to CD for years but didn't want to pay money for that edition.
(I'm not quite going to say The Saint is bad but it's definitely not on In Sides' level. OK, what is? But it's p. much my least favourite thing Orbital did during the whole of the 90s.)
I think the tracks on Dan's "first edition" were all on singles UK-side: the first 4 tracks from the Times Fly single and the 28-minute Box is probably all 4 tracks of the Box CD single put together. I've seen the Box CDS cheapish over here recently and used to see the Times Fly double-7" fairly often, so it may be easier here to get hold of the singles than specific American editions of the album.
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 5 November 2012 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
In Sides is such an amazing album and then bam, The Saint starts up and totally destroys the vibe.
this is actually why i never bought the cd edition as it was obvious that this would be the case ..
― mark e, Monday, 5 November 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
"The Saint" really is the worst.
But srsly if you haven't heard that version of Impact you need it in your life.
― Tim F, Monday, 5 November 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
"The Sinner" is great tho
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Monday, 5 November 2012 22:38 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, it's like an extended apology letter.
― Tim F, Monday, 5 November 2012 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
This version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhVU8RKRaTY
― in the Land of the Yik Yak (Sanpaku), Monday, 5 November 2012 23:20 (eleven years ago) link
Actually, no, that's 1994. The one Tim is talking about starts at 40:00 here, I think.
― in the Land of the Yik Yak (Sanpaku), Monday, 5 November 2012 23:30 (eleven years ago) link
CD says "Live at V96 Chelmsford" if that helps.
― Tim F, Monday, 5 November 2012 23:31 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe not Glastonbury, I just assumed that without checking.
― Tim F, Monday, 5 November 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
Jesus, that Glastonbury vid is so damned good.
― millmeister, Monday, 5 November 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
But I was… there.
I didn't really enjoy the whole set that much, but that track was definitely a highlight.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 November 2012 23:45 (eleven years ago) link
Glastonbury 94 version of Impact (The Earth Is Burning) was on
http://www.brainkiller.it/prodigy/upload02/rare12.jpg
― sug night (sic), Monday, 5 November 2012 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
and iirc Tom E posted it to an old YSI thraed
― sug night (sic), Monday, 5 November 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Bringing back the memories that cover, used to listen to that tape in the car. Photoshop swirl effect, soon to be reappropriated no doubt.
― Chewshabadoo, Monday, 5 November 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
― Chewshabadoo
According to the comments someone was shot during Bjork's performance the night before. Weird vibes all round?
― millmeister, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
Nah, not really. It was pre-mobile-phone for anyone other than a small minority (In fact the last time I went in 2001 it was still almost impossible to get a text message through to anyone else) so you only heard the odd rumour, and even then there were at least 100,000 people there, maybe more because it was so easy to sneak in. And in a town or city that big, someone dying is a tragedy for sure, but it's not something you think affects you. Add in to that everyone in general at Glastonbury then was friendly and having a great time, vibes are great.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
For me, there were much better dance music experiences wandering around finding the people who had set up their own soundsystems, or even the market stalls in general playing tapes or much more interesting music with random people just deciding they were liking what they were hearing and dancing areas starting up organically.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, I used to love that festival. Can't ever imagine going back, there's no way with all the tickets being sold a year in advance that it can be anywhere near as good a spontaneous experience.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Nice one - jealous of anyone who made it in the early to mid-90's.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
I was a bit spoilt to be honest, my first festival experience ever was Glastonbury '92 as a 16 year old. I didn't find a festival experience which matched it iuntil going to my first Freerotation a few years back which is really just a very large house party with a few hundred people. I can't ever imagine being somewhere with tens of thousands of people just loving life. Rose-tinted, perhaps, but I'd like to know if there's something as good on such a large scale happening now. Glastonbury even by about '97 was already full of knob'eads shouting "bollocks".
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
I've done Labyrinth in Japan a few times. Very well curated, intimate, great location in the mountains and although the music has changed over the years it still retains some of its 'trance party' roots. Not comparable to any of the big festivals. Luckily.
― millmeister, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 01:16 (eleven years ago) link
Jealous of that, been wanting to go for 5 years, but not happened yet.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 01:33 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLaBPq-Krlk
This is the mix that live version was based on. The build in the second half is just amazing, destroys the album track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irGobeC0Qkg
And here's the glorious live version that was included on a bonus disc with some editions of In Sides. Everything from 5:20 onward is the best thing ever.
― Plasmon, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
IIRC the V96 version of Impact was on the 3 CD-single release of a live version of Satan:http://www.discogs.com/Orbital-Satan-Live/release/874
I still have all 3 CDs kicking around somehwhere, in combination they form a fantastic live album.
― Neil S, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Damn that could be at least ten minutes longer.
Anyone know where (if anywhere) the "cry for survival" thing is lifted from?
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
Righto, we're ready for the Tracks Results, yeah?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 11:13 (eleven years ago) link
IIRC the V96 version of Impact was on the 3 CD-single release of a live version of Satan:
Yeah, I had this - first Orbital CD I ever bought, felt slightly let down by the astudio version of 'Impact' when I got around to buying the brown album.
― Gavin, Leeds, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
^^^ my experience too
― Tim F, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 16:16 (eleven years ago) link