Hey I'm King of The World, You Oughta Hear My Song, Come On & Measure Me, THESE ARE AT LEAST 10 MINUTES LONG - RESULTS ILM BALLOT POLL #58

i.e. creating Spotify playlist.

https://open.spotify.com/user/redhalcyon/playlist/4GqYxW3XTBV97VuGfiY5kh

thanks!

hot frankie teardrop take: oh so tense and horrifying! you'll never believe how horrifying an echo-effected scream can be!

http://i.imgur.com/0kTYAk8.jpg

77T. Can - Bel Air - 4375 points | 7 votes
Duration: 19:53
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I opted to vote for the War song that I'm sure absolutely no one else voted for.

Here's a second hardcore promotion of Faust for the uninitiated. I still have never heard any of the post-'70s stuff, but I absolutely love everything up through that point.

Ravvivando is excellent fwiw

http://i.imgur.com/iXa8I7k.jpg

77T. Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - 4375 points | 7 votes
Duration: 16:09
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Note on track length for Santa Esmeralda: the 16:09 version includes the "Santa Esmeralda Suite" I believe, though both of the links are for a 10-minute version without the suite.

Voted for War and Can. Especially pleased to see The World is a Ghetto make it.

http://i.imgur.com/SjC9NKf.jpg

76. Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun - 4400 points | 7 votes
Duration: 12:41
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http://i.imgur.com/Gkqqajl.jpg

74T. Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations - 4425 points | 6 votes
Duration: 10:25
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I just want to say I completely disagree w/ imago in his assessment of Lil Louis.

(and Lou Reed)

Dadawah rules, was not expecting that!

http://i.imgur.com/9zE5N9K.jpg

74T. Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head - 4425 points | 8 votes
Duration: 10:27
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http://i.imgur.com/LwDOdQo.jpg

73. Can - Yoo Doo Right - 4500 points | 6 votes
Duration: 20:28
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Ah, there is my fifth.

Hooray for The Girl With The Sun In Her Head. Ended up voting for all three songs nominated from that album.

Probably time for this amazing quote again..

I threw my vote behind In Sides as well - and it would have been even if the album was nothing but "The Girl With the Sun in Her Head" followed by 30 minutes of the band taunting me by name.

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, November 6, 2009

hey i love that dadawah song/record. also war!

didn't vote for that orbital track but really glad it placed

http://i.imgur.com/8q8PoZo.jpg

71T. Global Communication - 14 31 - 4525 points | 6 votes
Duration: 14:31
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Very tempted to change the listed duration there ^^^

Pretty sure In Sides is one of only two albums that got multiple votes from me. So, so good.

And Santa Esmeralda marks the first song (of several, I'm sure) that I probably would have voted for if I hadn't completely failed to notice it on the nomination list.

GC is my second to place. Would be nice if one of their other nominated tracks also places but probably unlikely as I would have had 14:31 to place highest.

Dadawah is my fourth. Voted for different Can & Hendrix songs, but am esp stoked to see Bel Air make it. Same with Girl w/ Sun which is the only Orbital song I know but is v good.

Also I used to have that War album; that song rules and I should've re-listened before submitting my ballot

Yoo Doo Right wuz done wrong! Way too low.

Santa Esmeralda is great, but I already had too many disco epics in my ballot, it was one of the last things I had to cut. I've never noticed any "Santa Esmeralda Suite" in the 16 minute version, it's sounds like one epic tune to me, I guess they just integrated it really well into the Nina Simone song.

http://i.imgur.com/yf6ieuT.jpg

71T. Alice Coltrane - Isis And Osiris - 4525 points | 7 votes
Duration: 11:32
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Good good.

Huh, actually thought '14:31' would be #1.

another one of my votes, yay

I always preferred Reload's A Collection of Short Stories generally to anything off of 76 14.

14:31 was on my longlist at #66 - a truly sonorous & thoughtfully-composed piece of techno. I'm way behind on this now and I can confirm that Herbert Hancock can write an extraterrestrial jam, maybe even a sex jam - sexier than Lil Louis at any rate, and definitely not of this earth. Krautrock obv mega-classic, quite like War as well. we have to watch a film now so maybe more of your favourite hot takes later

Orbital and Hendrix have stuff I voted for yet to come but those are very, very great as well, and I look forward to Comus especially

Comus sounded intense and extremely germane to my interest in British pastoralia and especially British supernatural-pastoral - it keeps its secrets well-hidden but lets out enough of the magic to ensure you'll keep looking. Very, very intriguing. I can see myself loving this a lot after a few repeats

It's a beauty I don't know why I didn't think to nominate it. Roger doesn't sing lead vocals on it so it isn't totally representative of most of their sound. In fact I should have nominated "Maalgard Suite", a live epic that resurfaced after decades, which is totally brilliant.

That'll be it for today. Spotify playlist is up-to-date, plus has "Albatross" added, which I couldn't find initially.

Like every poll, I voted for what I already knew and didn't do any extra listening. But I did learn about the long album version of "The World Is a Ghetto" for the first time--only knew the single edit from Greatest Hits. It was one of two songs ("Jenny Ondioline" the other) where I like the shorter version better but voted for it anyway.

Malgaard Suite is amazing and Lindsay Cooper was a much better fit for the band than that shit flautist on First Utterance, but since the only recording of it is a crap audience tape it's probably always going to be a curio. Honestly its release had me gobsmacked- almost every band will tell you about the "lost classic" they had, and they're nearly all shit, but the Malgaard Suite is markedly better than anything on First Utterance. The unrecorded second part of it has taken on a mythic status to me not unlike the second, and altogether stranger, part of "Kubla Khan". I actually didn't vote for Comus at all because I figured other people would take up the slack, and given that "The Herald" is the inferior of the epics on _First Utterance_ I'm not disappointed.

Glad to see one of my noms make it. Most of them were obscurantist that I wasn't sure any of them would make it. Mind you I didn't have "72 Nations" on my list until 46, but hell, there's some stuff I nominated that I didn't vote for at all...

given that "The Herald" is the inferior of the epics on _First Utterance_

wrong

Also I think that the Comus track "All The Colors Of Darkness" stayed unreleased for so long is scary. It's a stunning piece. I wonder how many unreleased gems there are like that?

! had no idea of the existence of that track (never gotten around to checking out the maalgard suite, for that matter)

and yes to isis and osiris placing

7 (!) of my votes have shown up so far.

my, that Alice Coltrane track is something else, right? pretty sure there are healing powers contained within that song.

Must've been an amazing gig.

74T. Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations - 4425 points | 6 votes

Damn... didn't realise this was what it was... I love this tune but didn't vote for it :-( I would have if I'd realised.

Louis, I have a feeling that you will be told you are wrong a few times itt and I don't feel like adding to that but have to say your policy on long versions of songs that have both long and short versions is nonsensical

(Also you are both wrong and right about the NYC art punk stuff so far)

http://i.imgur.com/DNacYnz.jpg

70. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River (Live At The Fillmore East) - 4575 points | 5 votes
Duration: 12:23
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curious to see where Cowgirl ends up

Louis, I have a feeling that you will be told you are wrong a few times itt

― Finn McCoolit (wins), Thursday, April 2, 2015 5:09 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"oh look, a neil young song! let me hear the first 20 seconds and i'll tell you what it sounds like 8 minutes in!"

:P

wonder which one of street hassle and frankie teardrop wins is a fan of