The instrumental is "Follow Your Bliss" and it is awesome
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
ah, Follow Your Bliss -- yeah I love that.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 03:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
At the time it was hard to separate the great record from the "this is our wink wink lol Joshua Tree watch us get paid" aspect of the B-fuckin'-52s breaking big. But this is a great record.
Roam. So joyful. So much goddamn gusto. Suddenly seems like the template for about half of the New Pornographers' first couple of records, or at least "Mass Romantic" and "From Blown Speakers"...
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 06:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
good analogy!
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 11:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
This is a great and extremely underrated album, maybe the best ever in the "looking back happily on our well-spent youth from the vantage of our 30s" genre. The loss of Ricky Wilson is really felt here but it's sort of worked through in a kind of joy for the times they would have shared with him at the Love Shack or dancing in the garden in torn sheets in the rain (in the RAAAAIN!). Maybe that sensibility is only explicit in a couple of places but I feel like it suffuses this record with an extra layer of warmth. Hard to pick a favorite - - "Bushfire" is the only thing that I could cut from the record with no second thought...but then it's "Roam" vs "Deadbeat Club" vs "Love Shack" vs the title track vs "Junebug."
"Deadbeat Club."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 12:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I won't disagree, but Bouncing Off the Satellites projects this vibe too: "Ain't It a Shame," "Summer of Love."
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
This was the first CD I ever owned.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Roam" will never, ever, ever get old. That song is timeless to me, the way Kate and Cindy absolutely DEVOUR the melody from the very first notes of their respective verses. And not even just on this song, really -- the whole band and the hired hands bring their absolute A-game on every track. Nothing feels lazy or phoned in. It was like, "Yeah, yeah, we're this idiosyncratic pop novelty, now a casualty of the end of New Wave. But check it, we can SING and we can PLAY, motherfuckers. Better than anybody."
― Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft (Pancakes Hackman), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
A thousand house and R&B acts should have sampled that guitar riff by now.
Nile Rodgers doesn't get enough credit for producing his share of the album – maybe his best post-diana.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
wtf "Bushfire" is fucking excellent
the song on here that I never really "got" was "Deadbeat Club" but not so much because I disliked it, more because I liked everything else so much more
I think I voted "Junebug" but really the best song on here is "Channel Z"
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:38 (3 years ago) Permalink
i never would've thought to compare this album to Joshua Tree, although in my mind it's kind of twinned with stuff like Pump and Full Moon Fever, big '89 late-career blockbusters that are actually awesome albums.
― ronnie james dyao (some dude), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah – the Billboard top ten album chart remained static for most of '89 in that pre-Soundscan way, but most of the albums were terrific: those you mentioned, plus FYC's The Raw and The Cooked, Don't Be Cruel, Like a Prayer, the Wilburys record, etc.
It might be fun to poll random week from '89.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Deadbeat Club" is the only one I dislike - the rest of this is outstanding. Thought I might have warmed to that track at some point in 20+ years, but I hate it as much now as I did then.
Voted "Roam," because that's the song I want to hear right now.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.youtube.com/v/_mzWFt5e1mk&fs=1&hl=en
too bad, you are getting "Channel Z"
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 13:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Roam" is great because how do you follow a strong single like "Love Shack" ? With "Roam", that's how!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
channel z is like the worst thing on here, this is all about roam, topaz, deadbeat club & follow yr bliss.
― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Channel Z is good fun and it's always nice to just let Fred do his thing for a while ("BOMMMB!!!") but I was never able to muster a really personal relationship with it.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 14:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
One vote for 'Bushfire'! This is one of the great 'against all odds'-type of albums, really great.
― zeus, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 16:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
I really love this album. Deadbeat Club and Roam are brilliant but Topaz is my favorite song they've ever done. It's such a beautiful song and that stop at the 3 minute mark just gets me every time.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
I still have the promo poster (same photo that's on the Topaz link upthread.) It was tacked on my bathroom door for YEARS, and it always made me happy to see it and think, a dozen years after the birth of punk/new wave, the band survived Ricky's death -- survived and PROSPERED!
Love this album to pieces; one of the first CDs I ever bought to replace my original vinyl.
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
Channel Z, but not by much.
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 18:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Space junk! laser bombs! ozone holes!Better put up my umbrella!Giant stacks, blowin smokePoliticrits, pushin dope!
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
Channel Z.
I always think I hate this album until i look at the track list and realize that i just need to not remember that love shack is on there and then i really like it.
― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
am I mistaken as remembering Channel Z being the first single?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
I think you're right, though I wanna say the title track was featured in the Wayans movie Earth Girls are Easy...from the previous summer?
― failboat fucking captain (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 19:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Channel Z" WAS the first single; it hit #1 on the college charts that summer.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol @ ILM ignoring "Love Shack"
― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I mean I love this band but seriously that is their biggest, signature hit for a reason
why not? Top 40 radio never has!
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Biggest hit, yes. But "Rock Lobster" still has "signature" dibs.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
i think it's a case of it being over-familiar rather than anything contrarian
― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
fuck Love Shack it is evil
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
worse than Piano Man, almost worse than We Didn't Start the Fire
i get to ignore love shack because i did my time in the trenches doing sound for highly paid shitty variety cover bands, so ive earned the right
― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Roam" >>>> >>> "Channel Z" >>> "Deadbeat Club" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Love Shack"
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Love Shack is pretty fun, guys.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't listen to cover bands or the radio so overexposure is not really an issue for me
― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
Love Shack is pretty fun, guys
xpost: if by fun you mean obnoxious, i concur.sorry
― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
does anyone remember doogie howser going into depression and listening to channel z on repeat?
― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah i prefer all those B-52s songs that aren't obnoxious
― what's pooping ahn (some dude), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
vinnie had to snap him out of it
― harshbuzz to my chilt-on (zvookster), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Love Shack"'s great and all but obv is way overplayed. "Roam" for the riff alone
― gabourey voltaire (Stevie D), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
xpost i mean, it's doofy and obnoxious, but as far as doofy and obnoxious songs go, it's pretty good.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
ILM contrarianism at its bets keep it up guys
― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
best
Yesssssss. First time I heard it. He just stared at the record spinning on the turntable.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
doogie had a record player? weird.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:40 (3 years ago) Permalink
Doogie was ten years ahead of the vinyl fetishists. Cool dude.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:44 (3 years ago) Permalink
Love Shack is pretty great, though I liked Roam more even back in 1990....
― failboat fucking captain (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
it was the 80s. lots of people still had turntables.
― Whats with all the littering? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 24 March 2010 21:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
well I already KNEW you guys ate kittens, that's what led me to form the hypothesis in the first place
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Thursday, 25 March 2010 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh and btw:
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Thursday, 25 March 2010 15:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
That video reminds me of the huge adolescent crush I had on Kate P (& also Cindy, but to a slightly lesser extent).
― everybody on ilx u have dandruff (Pillbox), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
I still have crushes on both of them right now.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh Cindy looks totally doable in the Deadbeat Club video...
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
Supercalifragiwhata outfit you got on!
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
Good Stuff is totally Cosmic Thing Pt. II, down to the producers and mix. Songwriting isn't as good, but still worth owning -- and you can pick up a used copy easily.
Good Stuff is for sure worth owning if you're a B's fan (1 cent on amazon,) but I don't think it hits any of the highs of Cosmic Thing, and some of the lows (The World's Green Laughter, Bad Influence) are pretty low.
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink
Maybe I'm alone, but "Good Stuff" is at least as good as "Deadbeat Club."
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yeah, I'm not feeling that, but I do have an extended mix of Good Stuff with added horns that's really good.
I think the first four songs on the album, plus Mo-Dean, are pretty good, but second half really trails off.
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh, but is Mo-dean the one that ends repeating "Astral Projector" ad infinitum? That's kind of annoying.
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 25 March 2010 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
I sort of agree with this but I am not really a fan of "Deadbeat Club".
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Good Stuff" is much, much better than "Deadbeat Club." Nobody's dangin' on the Deadbeats.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 25 March 2010 17:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
Maybe, but I like the massed vocals that join in along the way.
Funplex is better than Good Stuff.
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 26 March 2010 03:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
Agreed.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 26 March 2010 03:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay, I relistened to Good Stufflast night, and some of the stuff I thought I didn't like much was better than I remembered. I STILL don't own Funplex and need to get.
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Friday, 26 March 2010 14:56 (3 years ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 28 March 2010 00:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
so am i like the only person who thinks "Dry County" is a standout?
― some dude, Sunday, 28 March 2010 01:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
should probly relisten to this, but hate hate the sound of it so much (in comparison to my great love for anything whammy or earlier- or even the first schneider album)
― fat mantis (Hunt3r), Sunday, 28 March 2010 02:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
Dry County is pretty great, though I wouldn't exactly call it a standout...I love the way those little exhortations all the way through the song remind me of Prince, and the punchline is great...a really cool, bluesy (in tone not sound) song...
when I was nine I thought this song wz about living in the desert...
― don't let it rest on the President's desk (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 28 March 2010 13:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:01 (3 years ago) Permalink
After listening to the album once more today, "Follow Your Bliss" really stood out.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Unfuckingbelievable rating Roam over Love Shack.
― kingkongvsgodzilla, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
missed this poll, would have voted with the majority (Love Shack a close second). forgot how lovely Topaz is
When I was 11 I borrowed this tape from my local library and it made a big impression. I wrote out all the lyrics from the inlay in my school exercise book (including copying the zany lettering and doodles).
― p-dog, Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
yay!
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 March 2010 23:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
I saw the original LS 7" single in a charity shop. The sleeve was a folder thing which you could assemble into your very own love shack!
― Mark G, Monday, 29 March 2010 14:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Dry County" maybe the real overlooked gem here. But what a great record.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
When the blues whomp you up on the side of the headThrow em to the floor and kick em out the doorWHENNNNNN the BLUES kick you in the HEAD
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 January 2011 19:31 (2 years ago) Permalink
yeah Dry County is awesome.
― Are you anticipating an end to the Age of Stupid? (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:08 (2 years ago) Permalink
still in love with Topaz though...
(still in love with this thread too)
― some hills are never seen (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 14 January 2011 20:24 (2 years ago) Permalink
haha i seriously opened this thread thinking "maybe someone else will finally show some love for Dry County"
― some dude, Saturday, 15 January 2011 01:29 (2 years ago) Permalink
"Topaz" is so beautiful. I love this record.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2012 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Add me to the list of people for whom 'Roam' is their favourite track on this album. It's not a track that I listen to often, but it's nothing but sheer joy when I do.
― Turrican, Friday, 17 February 2012 23:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I would love to do "Roam" at karaoke.
― dream words & nightmare paragraphs from a red factory in a dead town (Abbbottt), Friday, 17 February 2012 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Of all the albums I've had since childhood, this is easily my favorite.
― da croupier, Saturday, 18 February 2012 06:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
was about to revive this thread and say basically what I said a year ago so let me just go ahead and retract my earlier shot against "Bushfire" - it's a little overlong but the harmonies are gorgeous, as they are basically across the whole record. Never fails to make me feel good.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 January 2013 23:10 (4 months ago) Permalink
I have a hard time imagining many people who could hate this album
― Master of Treacle, Sunday, 6 January 2013 02:31 (4 months ago) Permalink
Would have undoubtedly voted for 'Roam', and am absolutely delighted that it topped this poll. Every time I listen to this track I think to myself "man, this really could NOT get any better".
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Sunday, 6 January 2013 03:02 (4 months ago) Permalink
SMOKE IN YOUR EYES
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:16 (4 months ago) Permalink
otm
― gullible lochinski (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:29 (4 months ago) Permalink
that stuttering rhythm guitar lick on "Topaz" -- god, I love this record.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 6 January 2013 04:52 (4 months ago) Permalink
Topaz has been one of my go-to tracks ever since I started this poll: I never seem to tire of it
― gullible lochinski (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 January 2013 05:01 (4 months ago) Permalink
basically every song on this album is fantastic, except for "Deadbeat Club" which is merely good
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Sunday, 6 January 2013 05:06 (4 months ago) Permalink