-- helenfordsdale (helenfordsdal...), December 23rd, 2001.
err... a bit on the succinct side, that comment, but it serves the purpose, doesn't it?
x-post I could check if you voted for it if you want - remind me what name you'd have sent the e-mail under.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2691st place votes: 1total votes: 10
WIRE - CHAIRS MISSING
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:17 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2691st place votes:1total votes: 8
LED ZEPPELIN - HOUSES OF THE HOLY
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and I have a REAL BLURB SPECIALLY WRITTEN FOR THE OCCASION FOR THIS ONE. HURRAY!!
HERE IT IS:
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Electric guitar as orchestra.
---Sundar
Short, and to the point.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2701st place votes: 0total votes: 13
LED ZEPPELIN - IV
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Led Zeppelin - IV
A couple favourite moments:- when Robert Plant's voice mutates into a bowed string at the end of "FourSticks"- that sort of crackling chord after "When the Levee Breaks"; the way the mosttraditional blues song is also the most studio-treated- the piles of overdubbed guitars pulling off suspensions of D before the"Stairway to Heaven" solo; the sighing slide guitar overdub in that solo
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
I suppose it depends whether you think its more important that a few people really, really loved an album or that more people thought it was quite good, but not their favourite. I decided on the former in the end, but can see why you'd suggest the alternative.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link
FUCK! No they haven't.
err... look away for a minute...
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:35 (nineteen years ago) link
WIRE - 154
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ahem... erm...note the subtle difference.
This is how that SHOULD have looked.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:45 (nineteen years ago) link
By the wonderful Keith C. I am hoping that by using shameless flattery I can deflect attention from the fact that its 12 (or 10, really, as we've just done 68) entries too late.
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Compare the minimalism of the production and arrangements on "PlasticOno Band" to the Beatles' final album, "Abbey Road": in Lennon'smind, not only were the Beatles over, their entire oeuvre was renderedmoot. "Ono" is a literal and figurative shedding of the albatrossLennon felt that the Fab Four had become. Sometimes, evidently, youjust need to start from scratch. Backed by little more than KlausVoormann's bass and Ringo's drumming, Lennon howls and screams(literally) about his estranged parents, the impossibility of fame andthe worthlessness of life. That the world's foremost pop music figurereleased an album so gut-wrenchingly personal and uncompromising atthe height of his popularity is still shocking. That this LP almostovershadows the entire Beatles catalog is more frightening still.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link
As a wise man once said: "this is not a thread that can be read casually".
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link
65
points: 2711st place votes: 0total votes: 7
PINK FLOYD - WISH YOU WERE HERE
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link
HMMMM??!?!?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link
Better late than nevah!
― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
I predict less than 10% of my votes will be here.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:02 (nineteen years ago) link
#66, but still.
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:05 (nineteen years ago) link
(Above: Paris 1919 was produced by Chris Thomas, who produced Procol Harum, hence, kinda...)
― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2811st place votes: 0total votes: 11
BIG STAR #1 RECORD
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(not sure if the above image is the correct one, or if it will work)
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:07 (nineteen years ago) link
genius + internet = hobart
:)
― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2891st place votes: 0total votes: 10
BLACK SABBATH - PARANOID
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
It fucking rules. Buy it.
― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
It's not made clear when Black Sabbath gained freedom over the choice of album art for their records, but it's noted in the liner notes that they certainly didn't have it circa Paranoid. Two revelations from reading the liner notes, the latter of which is funny, were that a) they had to rename their album, originally slated War Pigs, to Paranoid, basically to stem possible protest and banning because of the Vietnam War situation and b) they were very underwhelmed and baffled by the final result of the Paranoid album art. Iommi was quoted as saying "I don't know who the guy with the sword was on the cover -- it wasn't me! What sense did that make? A chap with a sword and a shield on the cover of an album called Paranoid? People kept asking us about that for years afterwards." -- donut bitch (do...), April 24th, 2004.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2891st place votes: 1total votes: 7
DAVID BOWIE - STATION TO STATION
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...), March 31st, 2005.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Try the 'thread title' search or Google tricks with rubbish names like Big Star.
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2961st place votes: 0total votes: 9
NEIL YOUNG - RUST NEVER SLEEPS
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
That first record sounds more like a revved up Kinks crossed with the glam glory of T.Rex, and there's nothing wrong with that. If it sounds boring and cliched, now, it's only because they invented some of those cliches.-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...) October 18th, 2001
The first time I heard "Thirteen" I nearly cried.-- Helen Fordsdale (helenfordsdal...) October 19th, 2001
I thought #1 Record was my least favorite but recently reappraisals have made me feel that album is a bit tighter rhythm-wise and has more perennials I dig.-- Anthony Miccio (anthonymicci...), January 9th, 2004
― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ian John50n (orion), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2971st place votes: 0total votes: 12
ELVIS COSTELLO - MY AIM IS TRUE
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Dave M. (pton_mwaa...), May 23rd, 2001.
I'll take Trust or The Juliet Letters over My Aim Is True any day.
-- Clyde (clyd...), August 27th, 2002.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:14 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2991st place votes: 1total votes 12
MILES DAVIS - BITCHES BREW
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
I think bitches brew is a pinnacle of all music
-- Josh (kortbei...), August 29th, 2002.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Tuesday, 19 April 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link