Favourite SST Release of... 1984

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

just name the labels here then he can compile a poll once we sorta agree on labels/years

SST
Homestead
Touch & Go
Def Jam
Sire

who else?

Sub Pop ?

Epic! (if one of the albums you put out in any given year is thriller, you're probably dominating that year no matter what else you or anyone else puts out)

Blast First
Dischord

http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/distributed/sire.html

Here's a discography of Sire Records albums. '81, '83, '84 are all great.

I'm sure the Minutemen will win by a wide margin. For me, it's dead even between Meat Puppets II and "Eight Miles High." I want to vote, so I'll go with "Eight Miles High" as the one that had the greater effect on me at the time. I might be wrong, but I think it came out slightly in advance of Zen Arcade; I remember thinking that this was a far as you could possibly take something. And, as I've written elsewhere on this board, that's exactly how it played out for me; I thought a lot of Zen Arcade consisted of them doing stuff that they'd already moved past. And then they got great again with the next two albums, but only because they changed.

embarrassing, but i only know a handful of these records ... anyone want to make me a mix? SST 84!?

Voted for Saint Vitus in the end.

hmm there's not that one year of def jam i was really counting on....they didn't put out as many albums as i thought!

Wow that Sire catalog, yeah. I wonder how long I could sustain myself on only the Sire and SST catalogs 1980-1985.

Beggar's Banquet would probably need to be added to the list, no? Maybe Creation? Factory, obv.

xpost Tyler I am shocked!!!

i know the husker and minutemen stuff, but my war is the only Black Flag record from this list I have ... and for some reason I don't have any Meat Puppets!

that's fucked up dude, you'd love up II & especially on the sun