points: 5211st place votes: 2total votes: 17
JONI MITCHELL - BLUE
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― 57 7th (calstars), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link
those contrarian pink flag blurbs=INEXCUSABLE!
Pink Flag Tago Mago and Low should've been 1, 2 and 3!
― latebloomer: venting el pissyranto (latebloomer), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
ILM TOP 100 of the 70s >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Pitchfork Top 100 of the 70s
It all depends on how T.E.E., M.M, U.P. and M.B./S.E. perform, though. (I abbreviated to avoid spoiling for some)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
This isn't a perfect album. It sags in parts, and flows in others..occasionally it becomes mawkish, and unashamedly sentimental and Joni's voice wobbles around like an octopus on a unicycle. Despite, or perhaps because of this, its still the most played, and most loved, album in my collection.
This is how Joni is, this is how life is, happy and sad at the same time; raw, sometimes difficult, perhaps just slightly unhinged - in the nicest possible way. From the moment she starts singing about wanting to shampoo her lover, and the frying pan being too wide, you know you're listening to something deeply personal, and individual. Yet despite this, there's a passion, a deep sincerity and, above all, an utter, harsh, honesty here that tempers the sentiment, and makes it bearable, and recognisable, and makes it feel like somewhere you've been, and are, and will go again.
For me, the stand-out track is "A Case Of You". The opening lines -
"Just before our love got lost, you said 'I am as constant as a Northern Star' and I said 'constantly in the darkness, where's that?If you want me I'll be in the bar".
- encapsulate what I love about Joni. There's the simultaneous romanticism and cynicism that she reflects upon at length in the disturbingly direct "The Last Time I Saw Richard". On the one hand, she's scared of being hurt again, on the other, she's desperate to stay open to it all, and the harsh words and the distance are only there to cover what she's afraid of showing. Sure enough, she goes and sits in the bar, the TV screen light playing on her face, and draws his picture on a beermat.
Other albums dress her directness up with flourishes and more lavish instrumentation. Blue is bare by comparison - just her and an accoustic guitar (plus a piano in "River"). Nothing is prettified, and the impact is stronger, and the connection more complete. Sure they're stories, but to my mind nobody ever told stories in quite such a compelling manner. And they're the best ones she ever told.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link
-- latebloomer: venting el pissyranto (posercore24...), April 22nd, 2005.
I posted what I could find, given that searching ILM is pretty slow at the best of times, and it is slowing putting the poll results up consideratly. If you don't like them, please find some more to your liking and post those here.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 5461st place votes: 1total votes: 19
BRIAN ENO - HERE COME THE WARM JETS
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Jared
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Isn't this the most horrid cover in the history of recorded music?
2. Wouldn't the still life without the framed photograph and without the "Eno" writing in rainbow colours be just about ok?
3. Doesn't Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle alias Brian Eno look like a certain Christa Päffgen from Cologne aka Nico on the photo?
place your comment! nonightsweats, Thursday, 5. August 2004, 00:18 1. no, it's easily the best cover ever made.2. no, it would make it worse.3. yes, he does indeed.
when i first saw the cover i thought it was a band called End and didn't realize until later that it was the new Eno album i was desperately looking for.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 22 April 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:16 (nineteen years ago) link
to get an idea of one possible meaning of the title look closer at that small 8 of spades in the middle part below eno's framed portait with the policeman and the crouching woman. couldn't find a bigger image of that though i am sure it must be out there somewhere.
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 22 April 2005 16:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Friday, 22 April 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― 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