― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― jmeister (jmeister), Friday, 22 April 2005 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lee F# (fsharp), Friday, 22 April 2005 19:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Deluxe (Damian), Saturday, 23 April 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Saturday, 23 April 2005 13:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Alternate Blue, indeed... I didn't spot that when I posted the cover. I just thought it was a nice big picture of it. The one on Amazon looked sort of...grey...which defeats the point, really. I wonder what Alternate Blue can be.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 23 April 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link
-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), April 22nd, 2005.
I'm afraid not, Alex.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 23 April 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
100. VA - Nuggets99. New York Dolls - s/t98. David Bowie - Heroes97. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside96. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town95. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys94. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown93. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach92. Sparks - Kimono My House91. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan90. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy89. Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven88. Can - Future Days87. The B52s - The B52s86. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome85. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate84. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power83. The Slits - Cut82. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter81. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up80. Neu! - Neu!79. The Beatles - Let It Be78. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band77. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain76. Big Star - Third75. John Cale - Paris 191974. Donna Summer - On the Radio73. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson72. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On71. Parliament - The Mothership Connection70. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)69. VA - Saturday Night Fever68. Wire - 15467. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy66. Led Zeppelin - IV65. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here64. Big Star - #1 Record63. Black Sabbath - Paranoid62. David Bowie - Station to Station61. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps60. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True59. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew58. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes57. The Congos - Heart of the Congos56. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors55. Ornette Coleman - Dancing in Your Head54. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight53. David Bowie - Hunky Dory52. The Fall - Dragnet51. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night50. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic49. Roxy Music - Roxy Music48. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure47. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book46. Suicide - First Album45. Miles Davis - On the Corner44. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly43. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians42. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food41. Neil Young - On the Beach40. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel39. Wire - Chairs Missing38. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life37. Can - Ege Bamyesi36. Brian Eno - Another Green World35. Serge Gainbourg - Histoire Du Melody Nelson34. Nick Drake - Pink Moon33. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model32. Neil Young - After the Goldrush31. Big Star - Radio City30. The Clash - The Clash29. The Velvet Underground - Loaded28. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers27. Wire - Pink Flag26. Can - Tago Mago25. David Bowie - Low24. Joni Mitchell - Blue23. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Saturday, 23 April 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 23 April 2005 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Anyway, I'm a bit surprised too there's no Fela Kuti on the list at all (was anyhthing besides "Zombie" even nominated?). I guess he could still make it, but I'm kinda doubtful...
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 24 April 2005 11:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Then again, our #1 album isn't "Low", which counts for a lot, but the rest of the Pitchfork top 20 is pretty good.
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 24 April 2005 13:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 24 April 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
Any list where Pink Moon beats out Mothership Connection by 37 places is better than nothing, except maybe prostate cancer.
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Monday, 25 April 2005 17:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― billstevejim, Monday, 25 April 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Monday, 25 April 2005 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 5641st place votes: 0total votes: 20
THE RAMONES - THE RAMONES
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
Our Alice took this album (along with McFly and Busted ones) to her last day at nursery.
I don't know if they played it at her leaving party...
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link
-- jel -- (freeduni...), January 23rd, 2003.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:25 (nineteen years ago) link
I could be projecting here, since the main reason I like the Ramones a lot has almost nothing to do with them being "punk legends" (yawn) and everything to do with their girlgroup style. The recent deaths do factor into this as well: once someone dies all sorts of not-entirely-thought-out feelings you had toward that person suddenly twist themselves inside out.
Also, I for one am very upset when I see the Slits maligned.
-- Justyn Dillingham (aubade8...), January 24th, 2003.
errr...let's have some posts about the band rather than about the album... well, they ARE interesting comments on the band, even if something more specific would be better. I'm sure there are lots of pertinent comments specific to this album out there, I'm just having trouble finding them. I think Justyn is RIGHT.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:30 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 28th, 2003.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link
-- mark grout (mark.grou...), April 25th, 2005.
I'm just trying to imagine "Blitzkreig Bop" back to back with "Five Colours In Her Hair". Actually, at the risk of being flayed alive, it doesn't seem so terrible.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 5641st place votes: 1total votes: 16
AL GREEN - CALL ME
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Pete Scholtes (pscholte...), April 6th, 2003.
I just got Call Me and I'm going bananas. For me the appeal of the 70s stuff I've heard is like 45% production, 35% Green's voice, 20% songs. The sound of those records, the drums, organ squelches, etc, fascinates me. I think of all the chillout/downtempo producers today & how in love they are with "atmosphere" & they never come close to that sound.
-- Mark (mar...), October 8th, 2003.ooo listen to those snares...
-- amateurist (amateuris...), October 8th, 2003.
Al Green. As a pure singer he's the best-- eddie hurt (eddshur...)
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:52 (nineteen years ago) link
I dug out a copy of Maggot Brain as a result of this poll. Can't believe I'd overlooked it. Its an immense album - I should have voted for it.
Next poll, maybe..
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Monday, 25 April 2005 21:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Because with the possible exception of "The Battle of Evermore," IV is utterly perfect. III has moments of brilliance but a lot of weak spots as well, HOTH is fairly close but the overall quality level is prob. a bit lower.
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 25 April 2005 22:08 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 5691st place votes: 1total votes: 16
KRAFTWERK - THE MAN MACHINE
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This where Kraftwerk's style, image and theme find their ultimate expression, The Man Machine is where the group's ideas are most fully realised. Middle-European melancholy set in "Spacelab", futurism with an old world touch. All six songs are perfect and beautiful, none of them sound dated 27 years on. The robots that still define Kraftwerk's image were introduced here, yet the men's eye for the ladies in "The Model" shows the machines as human after all. This is the international edition, in Germany the band released a German language version. Oh my, the gentle kick drum that starts off "Neon Lights" has just started while I type this. Oh, and there's that synth line. I love this music so much.
JoB de wit
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 08:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 6011st place votes: 0total votes: 17
THE STOOGES - FUN HOUSE
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link
IT KNOCKS THE FUCKING WALLS DOWN? -- Tim Ellison (timejeanne...), January 13th, 2005.
'Funhouse' is the only 'real' record. Everything else by [or with or whatever] Iggy Pop is very strange. Like, sort of cabaret music. Why? That is very strange to me. I don't complain about it being cabaret music, I can still listen 'past' the cabaret-ness of it, but I wonder why he was never again able to make a record that was not cabaret? On the other hand, the reason seems obvious. -- antonius (r...), September 6th, 2004.
I'd been playing Black Grape and the Happy Mondays just now, and suddenly throwing on Fun House is just so much more FULFILLING than those records (not knocking them, mind you). But fuck...."TV Eye" is playing right now, and it's just fucking UNSTOPPABLE! -- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 13th, 2005.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 09:21 (nineteen years ago) link
I love this album.
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 09:29 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 6011st place votes: 0total votes: 18
MICHAEL JACKSON - OFF THE WALL
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Off the Wall
Michael Jackson
Somewhere in between Michael Jackson’s difficult childhood and his possibly psychotic reactions to his difficult childhood, he managed to come out with Off the Wall. At the time, we thought it would always be thus.
You can no longer listen to this record without thinking about what came after. Thriller may have made him the King of Pop rather than a good-looking guy with a few hits, but the seeds of MJ’s musical destruction are there. The paranoia, the megalomania, the self-reference (fictional and non-) made for great songs on Thriller, but he’s walking on a wire. He wobbled on “We Are the World,” teetered with stuff like “The Way You Make Me Feel” a great song rendered stiff by the production) and eventually fell off, handing in calcified junk like “Invincible.”
Off the Wall breathes; it’s engaging while it’s impressive. You can dance to it without worrying that you don’t look as cool as Michael Jackson dancing to it. “We’re the party people living night and day/ Living crazy that’s the only way/ So tonight/ Gotta put that 9 to 5 up on the shelf/ And just enjoy yourself.” Slight? Maybe, but fun too. And, as on “She’s Out of My Life,” as on everything here, he sings like he knows what he’s talking about (even though he probably already doesn’t).
Weird Al Yankovic never parodied anything from Off the Wall (on record anyway). That’s because he tweaks excess. And there isn’t any here.
Rick Massimo
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:17 (nineteen years ago) link
You mean: fahren!
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 6041st place votes: 1total votes: 15
VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE HARDER THEY COME
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The Harder they Come
John Peel had a rating system for songs: 1 star meant he might play it on the radio, 2 stars meant he should, and 3 stars meant he must. Every few years he would announce that an album had achieved the distinction of every track on it getting 3 stars (I remember Misty in Roots 'Live at the Counter-Eurovision' and the first Bhundu Boys album being examples)
Anyway, 'The Harder They Come' falls into this category. Every track on it is not just good, but great, good enough that if you bought an album and it had just one of these tracks, you'd be satisfied with your purchase even if the rest of the album was rubbish.
Joe Kay
Various - The Harder They Come (Soundtrack)
To this day, the artist on the spine of "The Harder they Come" reads"Jimmy Cliff," although the album is indeed a compilation. Maybe itwas a recognition that Cliff's contributions are more numerous andarguably better than anything else on the record, but it probably hadmore to do with marketing, as Cliff starred in the lead role of thefilm. The other selections, by reggae stalwarts such as Toots & theMaytals and Desmond Dekker, are some of the island's greatest tracks,and serve as a counterpoint to Cliff's four masterpieces. Even thoughyou'll often hear that this is a "great introduction to reggae," I'vealways thought this collection is all the more powerful because BobMarley is absent from it. Not because he is in any way a lesserartist, but the inclusion of such a major personality would havedistorted the balance of the album. Either way, it's indispensablefor both casual reggae fans and fanatics alike.
Keith C
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 6161st place votes: 0total votes: 22
THE SEX PISTOLS - NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, HERE'S THE SEX PISTOLS
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Disco Nihilist (current31...), October 22nd, 2004.I mean trying to pick your least favorite NMTB song is like picking your least favorite orgasm."Submission" kinda sticks out as a place where maybe the LP drags a bit, to me. I guess that's why I thought of it first.I dunno, I never really got into "New York" either.The rest I can't think of a bad thing to say about.
-- AaronHz (aaronh...), August 5th, 2004.
I get the feeling that _Bollocks_ is the ultimate "you had to be there" album. -- Dan Perry (djperr...), January 17th, 2003.I can understand having mixed feelings upon hearing Suicide's debut album for the first time or even being underwhelmed by MARQUEE MOON (which, however, is truly a grower if you stick with it), but I can't imagine not being blown away by NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS. Obviously, this many years later it doesn't sound as shocking, but the songs and the character are still there in abundance. Or I think so, at least.
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 18th, 2003.
Bollocks is a far deeper LP than *any* Clash LP in part because its failings — some of which are absolutely deliberate — are more powerful. -- mark s (mar...), June 4th, 2002.
and "never mind the bollocks" is at least 10000 x better than "the cl..." er, never mind. -- Pashmina (pashmin...), April 7th, 2003
The first times I heard "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy In the UK" and enough of the rest for that matter were so momentous that I'll forgive the small repeat play value of Bollocks. -- sundar subramanian (sundar_subramanian200...), January 17th, 2003.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 11:15 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 6831st place votes: 3total votes: 18
THE MODERN LOVERS - THE MODERN LOVERS
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pradaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
ist album is a classic. plus it's hilarious. "I'm Straight" is one of the funniest songs ever, whilst still being a good rock song. "Roadrunner," "Astral Plane," "Pablo Picasso," "She Cracked," "Old World," "Modern World" are all fine tracks as well. Someone thought this was awhiny album, maybe a little but not on the really good tracks. Whoever said it was proto-indie wank or something is just failing to appreciate a pretty unique album. Recorded in 71, the VU influence is obvious but other than that it pretty outside of what was going on in rock at the time. That said, I don't think any of Richman's later stuff has been nearly as good -- g (graysonlan...), December 11th, 2001.
an obvious classic and "she cracked" alone still means a lot for me. -- Marco Damiani (magog0...), November 16th, 2004.
[sputtering]...he INVENTED punk rock on The Modern Lovers!
-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), April 12th, 2002.
i burned a copy of this for my girlfriend, and she told me they were a shitty Doors ripoff. She doesn't know it, but i still haven't forgiven her for that. -- Felcher (wangchungvsah...), September 17th, 2003
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 6921st place votes: 0total votes: 20
DAVID BOWIE - THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 27 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link