(We've been here before with the 1000 UK Number Ones poll, when hobart's votes went missing...)
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 28 April 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link
-- mike t-diva (mikejl...), April 28th, 2005.
Nooooooo!!!! I'm off the hook, as Mark DID NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS!!(phew....I did think I'd just missed your vote..)
But yes, I'll do the Grout 100 after this one. And the 101-200 of both.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:04 (nineteen years ago) link
I always assumed it was a fictional narrative, which what I always thought all the songs on Blood on the Tracks bar 'Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts' were, not knowing anything much biographical about Dylan. But basically: boy gets girl, boy and girl split up, they meet again, he decides he can't stay, and then remembering some time later boy decides to go look for girl again. (all of Dylan's lyrics, by the way, are online at bobdylan.com, although I don't recommend looking at them without listening to the songs first, obviously. and: tangled up in blue.)
-- thom w. (thom...), March 30th, 2002.
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Dylan said somewhere that TUIB was his attempt to write a song that was like a painting - that wasn't tied to the flow of time..so the emotions and scenes in the song are all fractured and non-consecutive. Its one of the things I love about that song, and most of Blood on the Tracks. Idiot Wind is the same, you're never sure whether it's a historical or present-day song. -- Mat O (winterland7...), March 31st, 2002.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:10 (nineteen years ago) link
I just said that the album doesn't flow. Looking at it again, that's almost certainly deliberate. The quiet moments follow the shouting, as the times spent sitting alone, regretting what you said, regretting what you didn't say and thinking "what the fuck do I do now?" follow the arguments in life. Maybe the difficulty in defining this album comes from the fact that there's no over-arching emotion to it, and the bitterness is tempered with never-give-up. I certainly need to listen again to be sure that I'm not talking crap.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:16 (nineteen years ago) link
2
points: 9361st place votes: 1total votes: 23
THE CLASH - LONDON CALLING
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Clash - London Calling
Nothing in the first two Clash albums could have prepared listenersfor the sprawling, omnivorous sound that makes up "London Calling." Although there had been flirtations with reggae and R&B mannerisms inthe previous two records, the Clash go "all in" on this one and revealtheir entire record collections to everyone. You want rockabilly, NewOrleans funk, disco? It's all in here. But what is important topoint out is that the genre-hopping on "London Calling" never soundsforced or self-indulgent, like it would on "Sandinista." Rather, theClash's way of paying tribute to their influences was the mosttime-honored way—that is, drinking deeply from the variegated cup ofpopular music and coming up with something uniquely their own.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lee F# (fsharp), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:22 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 9701st place votes: 1total votes: 27
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - THERE'S A RIOT GOIN ON
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I mean, take away the circumstances and context, and there are only what, four great songs? Three?
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
What was #101?
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Where was Station to Station, hobart?
Congrats on conduting a very entertaining poll
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― John Cole, Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
x-post Alba Station to Station was number 62.Mark, I think Marquee Moon would have made number 2 with your votes included - but I'll go away and add them up properly.
101-200 coming up..
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
Oops! Totally missed that.
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 April 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
YEAR BY YEAR(Overall rank in parentheses)
1970 - The Stooges, Fun House (19)1971 - Sly & The Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On (1)1972 - Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St. (11)1973 - Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (12)1974 - Brian Eno, Here Come The Warm Jets (23)1975 - Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (3)*1976 - Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers (15)**1977 - Television, Marquee Moon (4)1978 - Blondie, Parallel Lines (7)1979 - The Clash, London Calling (2)***
*Had Columbia rushed the release of Blood on the Tracks a couple weeks (it is sometimes dated 1974), the best record of '75 would have been Eno's Another Green World, which ranked #36 overall, cementing the notion that for whatever reason — post-Watergate exhaustion? Quaaludes? — 1975 was kind of a drag. (BTW where the hell is Physical Graffiti?!)
** If you believe that Modern Lovers is really a 1973 record, then the best album of '76 was The Ramones' debut (#22).
***The bumper crop. 1979 had 6 among the top 18. (Are you listening, I.M.?) In addition to the overrated London Calling: UNKNOWN PLEASURES, Singles Going Steady, Metal Box, Entertainment! and Off The Wall.... (+ Dragnet, among many others, insulted at #52...)
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
-- hobart paving (elvistear...), April 28th, 2005.
I'm not sure this could be topped as a blurb.
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Roadkill Bingo (Roadkill Bingo), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:37 (nineteen years ago) link
(and why does that make the poll sound like cat food?)
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
This might have been my #1. I don't remember. I guess #110 isn't that bad..
― billstevejim, Thursday, 28 April 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
So, what I would really say here is how striking it is that even though there's been nearly seventy sets of votes, one vote can make all the difference.
You know what to do come election day, right?
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Too bad about John McLaughlin's Devotion. I really think a lot of you could love it if you haven't heard it. It seriously has more of a stoner Zep/Sab feel than his other stuff.
― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― David Gunnip (David Gunnip), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I know there aren't any real absolute truths in music fandom, but can I at least submit the possibility that any of these albums should be in the top ten instead of Metal fucking boring dirge-ass go-nowhere joyless piece of shit Box?
(But why am I bitching when my two favorite albums of the decade finished 1-2? Because I gotta be me, I guess.)
xp: Where is Radio goddamned Birdman?
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Thursday, 28 April 2005 13:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I voted it #1. My conscience is clear...
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS, Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link
But, take your point about X ray Spex.
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
Come on, Metal Box is great!
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
not meant to be taken totally seriously (though Metal Box is great).
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:14 (nineteen years ago) link
Hmm, that's funny, because I thought it had dated excellently.
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:23 (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 De 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 Jets22. Ramones - Ramones21. Al Green - Call Me20. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine19. The Stooges - Fun House18. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall17. VA - The Harder They Come16. The Sex Pistols - Nevermind the Bollocks15. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers14. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust13. Gang of Four - Entertainment12. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions11. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street10. Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On9. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady8. PiL - Metal Box7. Blondie - Parallel Lines6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures5. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express4. Television - Marquee Moon3. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks2. The Clash - London Calling1. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Thursday, 28 April 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link