Favourite SST Release of... 1984

real things
condition-ing

I know Double Nickels inside-out yet only like 5 of the song titles

So dig this big crux.

which apparently resulted in a night in the cells for Greg and Chuck - unless that's an apocryphal story.

several nights, and it sounds like a pretty grisly experience

the do, the how, the why, the where, the when, the what
can these words refine that truth?

we are cuss words

fuck i have no idea. argghgh

i must look like a dork

man...probably gonna vote minutemen

but surviving you always is so dope

almost tempted to vote for 8 miles high

jjj don't you mean you can't decide can't decide can't decide ANYTHIIIIINNNGG

my war is the origin-point for all grunge, right? and that and st. vitus are the origin points for all doom metal?

Vitus or those guys that were something to do with Kelly Osbourne's dad, I guess

didn't the first possessed record come out in like 83?

OK I went for 8 Miles High in the end, brevity wins out over the sprawling double albums. Not much talk about Meat Puppets II? Could be a dark horse.

awww man u guys quoting double nickels makes me reconsider the vote i already cast for II

i started listening to the grateful dead in 1984!

did the meat puppets have anything to do with that?

Vitus or those guys that were something to do with Kelly Osbourne's dad, I guess

smartass

but seriously My War (and later, SV's first album) is the point where Sabbath becomes a cool indie reference-point in addition to being heavy metal's primal father, right?

Yeah, and the Buttholes.

xpost I got all into American Beauty in '85 and that DEFINITELY was because of the Pups.

i voted zen arcade for its sprawl and its mystery and its hooks and its very strange-sounding and very beautiful wall of guitar squall. the fact that new day rising came out six months later somehow makes it even better.

double nickels and II -- double ones? -- are runners up by, like, one or two thousandths of a point.

Double Nickels, I think I said why I love it so much on the '80s poll thread, can't quite remember what but the gist was that it's such a joyful, start-of-summer record for me.

Someone tell me about Family Man, cos I don't know a single track off that.

Love all these Double Nickels quotes. I'm fucking overwhelmed!

Someone tell me about Family Man, cos I don't know a single track off that.

Half Henry Rollins spoken word, half instrumental jams iirc. Not my thing at all.

Family Man was in the mix Zeitgeist-wise, but I liked Rollins's spoken-word a lot better immediately after Black Flag, more humor, seemed a lot happier.

Meat Puppets II and Double Nickels on the Dime are both so important to me that I couldn't chose. Voted for Suck Vitus.

I know Double Nickels inside-out yet only like 5 of the song titles

There's maybe a dozen I can't attach titles to, and that's why I didn't attempt to

Give an album's full track listing from memory

when that thread first appeared.

Black Flag - Live 84 ON CASSETTE

went for What Makes a Man Start Fires in the first poll, so I won't deny Meat Puppets twice

although i could also vote for II on account of it being totally perfect

I wish you could have 2 votes in these polls as minutemen appear to be running away with it.

My War probably my favorite on the list these days, but Double Nickels is a sentimental favorite and the quotes on the thread are gettin' to me. Gets my vote.

"I won't stick any of you unless and until I can stick all of you" from family man is the jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yjpt4VNRqRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH_ukAUl0ZM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6nX0mGv7-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnfMBi4aRs

Bob's guitar on Turn On The News is fucking godlike. Brilliant song with brilliant guitar.

Eight Miles High

The pinnacle.

My first Husker purchase and possibly the best.

Fucking huge

Saint Vitus v Minutemen v Zen Arcade for me...

I voted Saint Vitus in the end just so they got a vote as they deserve it, but ZA is the best album here.

but you know what? I like them all.

what a year for a label.

1985 would also belong to SST. But what about 1986? I have a gut feeling that's when Homestead takes over?

Someone should figure out a labels best year in the 80s, then poll each labels best year against each other and see who wins.

i'm assuming def jam had some ridiculous ass year too but i'd have to look

you just volunteered!

hurrah!

Lol I think there's a specific year in the mid-80s where Sire would have been my champion label.

you volunteering to help him?

Nooooooooo

These are good poll results. One of the very few times Ive picked the winning horse.

http://www.factmag.com/2016/02/29/kira-roessler-black-flag-oscar-sound-editing-2016/

saw that posted on the ile Oscars thread

This is the best ever!