ILX 70s album poll

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that's the first of the albums of this thread that at the same time i do not have and that i would like to listen to (and own) right now.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:42 (nineteen years ago) link

good winter-time album; walking through the city, surrounded by dirty piles of melting snow - nice soundtrack
-- 6335 (633...), June 20th, 2004.

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It's great to listen to at night while trying to fall asleep. Very unsettling.
-- latebloomer (posercore24...), June 21st, 2004.

i love the space in this album. it's simultaneously huge and claustrophobic, droning and jittering. it'll make you laugh. it'll make you cry. it'll make you come out of the theatre wanting to conquer the world. it's definitely my pick for top romantic comedy of the year.
-- Felonious Drunk (wangchungvsah...), June 21st, 2004.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:43 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 352
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 12

MILES DAVIS - ON THE CORNER

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:45 (nineteen years ago) link

to me, it pointed at the future of how not jazz, but popular music itself would be made. all loops and punched in bits of 'sound' over melody, emphasising rhythm and groove. peep timbaland et al. and the way production dictates everything else. on headphones, the sound of everything being punched in here is overwhelming. i don't think pro-tools has birthed anything as complex.
-- Beta (andybet...), June 9th, 2004.
I didn't get this album until after I had gotten into Can and a lot of electronic dance music - it really seems to be along those lines rather than 'jazz', or even the other Miles fusion records. In a way, it's coming out of Silent Way a lot more than Bitches Brew or Jack Johnson, in the way it was constructed, and the way it gradually unfolds. Right now, I think it's one of the best albums he ever made.
-- dleone (d_leon...), June 9th, 2004.
It's fantastic, by far my favourite of his. It set the benchmark for music for the next 30 years (and beyond), most of the possiblities contained in these grooves haven't even been explored yet.
-- Billy Dods (butterbubble...), June 9th, 2004.
I was expecting something that would need repeat listening before it sounded like music, and instead got a dense but immediately enjoyable slab of energetic funk that doesn't seem any more difficult than, say, James Brown's more abstract live stuff. I'm still baffled by its reputation as Miles's least accessible album.

-- frankiemachine (franki...), June 10th, 2004.
the thing noone has mentioned is how environmental the record is. it's very 'electronic forest,' particularly the last track. i get lost in it.
-- milesrules (mile...), June 16th, 2004.
On the Corner was my first Miles Davis album. My initial reaction was to take it back to the shop, but I like it now. Sort of.
-- PJ Miller (pjmiller6...), June 10th, 2004.

Miles' "On the Corner"

Just one question - what does it mean to be "very electronic forest"?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 10:53 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 358
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 12

CURTIS MAYFIELD - SUPERFLY

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:02 (nineteen years ago) link

that's the only soul/funk album i love wholeheartedly.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Curtis Mayfield, Superfly: "Little Child Runnin' Wild", "Pusherman", "Freddie's Dead". Opening a soundtrack with three of the ten best R&B songs ever (in any definition of the genre) in a row is one hell of a feat.
-- Nate Patrin (natepatrin550...), April 12th, 2003.
better than Maggot Brain if not Riot--nothing on earth is better than Riot--and does just about the same things as both)
-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), February 27th, 2003.
Go for the Superfly soundtrack, an awesome piece of blaxploitation-funk
-- Patrick (calimer...), May 11th, 2001.
I once walked into a local bar exactly on the opening note of Curtis Mayfield's "Superfly"!!! I felt like they were finally making the movie of my life. I know - I'm a DORK but it was very cool.

-- wallace carothers (wallacecarothersrepentenc...), February 17th, 2004

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:23 (nineteen years ago) link

**that's the first of the albums of this thread that at the same time i do not have and that i would like to listen to (and own) right now.**

It's pretty rubbish, but at the same time interesting. Don't rush out and get it.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:25 (nineteen years ago) link

If/When a Buzzcocks album comes up I fervently hope that it's 'A Different Kind Of Tension'. But it won't be.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:26 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 363
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 12

STEVE REICH - MUSIC FOR 18 MUSICIANS

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

I think that's the cover of a later edition.

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

I like a lot of early Reich and don't imagine I'll ever stop responding to stuff like Music for 18 Musicians
-- Lee G (lgardne...), November 7th, 2002.
5 yrs ago) I borrowed 18 musicians from the library and my first thought was 'There's so much music out there'. Well, it made an impression as I was on a diet of guitar and more guitar and... more guitar based music. But I've heard really brilliant and mind-blowing composition since and SR's been left behind.
-- Julio Desouza (juli...), January 1st, 2002.
as for steve reich,i saw music for eighteen musicians performed live recently and it was great
two things sprung to mind-first of all,how much it sounded like susumu yokota
secondly,you could tell that he had "influenced" (it's seven in the morning and i'm not arsed trying to find a way of phrasing that in such a way as to avoid people complaining about the use of that term,just pretend i did)techno,or more specifically surgeon...
-- robin (robin_lace...), April 24th, 2003.

The ECM version (yes it has to be this one, the pacing and tension are jawdropping) of Music for 18 Musicians is sublime, eternal, terrifyingly beautiful sound.
-- Clarke B. (clarkeb...), April 13th, 2004.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:34 (nineteen years ago) link

It's pretty rubbish, but at the same time interesting.
i know that. but it's the kind of rubbishness i am attracted to. a cool, trashy(!) rubbishness. i really love alan vega's voice. it sounds like god's voice if god were an atheist.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

(Not just edition but later recording.)

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The ECM cover:

http://www.kitanet.ne.jp/~oikawa/jkt/music_for_18_musicians.jpg

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 11:36 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 381
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 12

TALKING HEADS - MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:53 (nineteen years ago) link

more songs about girlfriends and dudes

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 12:55 (nineteen years ago) link

TALKING HEADS - MORE SONGS ABOUT BUILDINGS AND FOOD

This was my #1 album pick. It stills sounds fresh today, and I can imagine a four piece band playing it. Even though the Talking Heads pulled off their larger bands (Fear of Music, Remain in Light) live, the flow and hooks of their second album could be imagined as played in a small, veryvery exciting, club.

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I love this album. Talking Heads had a really unique outlook which didn't really start to get dark till Fear of Music, so it's positive with a signs of paranoia surfacing here and there. It just feels right to me. Musically, it feels as open/progressive to me as Joy Division or Magazine or any of the most innovative post-punk groups. The sense of rhythm is intense and joyful and proficient despite a kid-picking-up-a-guitar-for-the-first-time enthusiastic air. -- Sonny A. (newaddres...), June 3rd, 2004.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link

More Songs About Buildings And Food > Remain In Light > Speaking In Tongues > Fear Of Music > Naked > '77 > Little Creatures > True Stories
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), August 10th, 2004.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link

yay for steve reich. if i'd voted, it'd be even higher.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:41 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 384
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 14

NEIL YOUNG - ON THE BEACH

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't think it's very comparable to any of his other records. Yeah, it always gets lumped in with others as part of his "Dark Period", but a song like "Revolution Blues" is probably one of the most st8 ahead rock tracks he ever did and the title track is a prototype for Slint's Spiderland (or, keeping with NY's own work, "Like A Hurricane" and "Cortez the Killer", only more subtle). There's three different batches of songs, done with three different producers/line-ups, so it doesn't really have a same-y feeling throughout that would let you compare it to the other albums.

Ah, what the Hell, I'll just say it's a more rockin' Tonight's The Night, for argument's sake.
-- Vic Funk (doctor_funk_ph...), May 14th, 2003.
Homegrown and Bite the Bullet are two of my favorite songs on the record! Nothing like a bunch of stoned, mean hippies playing thud-rock. I don't get the bad rep for ASB either, I definitely prefer it Zuma and Comes a Time... the country songs are nice and sweet, the rockers are smokin', and it's got one of his bonafide signature tunes, what more could you ask for?
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), May 14th, 2003.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:44 (nineteen years ago) link

This may be just me, but I'm keen for the Singles poll results...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:45 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 391
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 12

GRAM PARSONS - GRIEVOUS ANGEL

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:47 (nineteen years ago) link

I am currently trying to find any comments on this that are both more than a few words long and reasonably appreciative. Perhaps someone would like to provide on here and ~~save me the bother~~ win the appreciation of all those reading.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Lots of comments look more like this:

Grievous Angel? More like grievous listener! (for having to listen to this terrible album!)
-- christhamrin (hamr004...), April 10th, 2004.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

*won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich
and
wel~come me back to town*

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I think it's now safe to say that I have very little in common with the rest of ILM when it comes to the 70s.

Still, look forward to seeing the top.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

If you're experiencing a sense of deja-vu, its just your imagination.
Running away with you.

points: 400
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 14

WIRE - CHAIRS MISSING

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link

154 is 68, you know...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Pink Flag = "Oh, wow!" (uttered after first 3 songs)
Chairs Missing = "HOLY SHIT!" (realized about the time "Mercy" finishes)

-- David Raposa (dave...), January 8th, 2002.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:07 (nineteen years ago) link

should be even higher than that, but it's still much better than #68.

Surprised that it hasn't started topping Pink Flag in polls like this yet--I thought more and more people were coming around to the notion of it being the superior album.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link

154 is 68, you know...

I think this is an increasingly widely perceived cosmic truth.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 400
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 11

STEVIE WONDER - SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Impressive. Looks like Big Star and Wire will both have all three of their 1970s albums in the poll. Not surprising, but still cool to see.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:13 (nineteen years ago) link

re: Songs In The Key Of Life

This album was second in the early stages of the poll, and I hoped it would place slightly higher than this. This is far and away my favourite Stevie Wonder album. Sprawling, and perhaps a little unfocussed like the Summer's day it should accompany.
There are moments on this album which feel nothing short of blissful. The bigger songs - the distilled joy of Sir Duke and the perhaps-too-widely-played-but-still-glorious Isn't She Lovely - tend to catch the attention on first play, but with subsequent listens you're gladly pulled under as the waves of "Knocks Me Off My Feet" wash on over. If I ever had to drown in an album, well, no, that would be a silly idea...and Stevie wouldn't like that. Its not an album for disappearing under, its one for [insert a better metaphor here if you can think of one - I'm not entirely happy with this one] flying up into the cosmos behind, or within. Even songs dealing with loss - Ordinary Pain and Joy Inside My Tears manage to undermine a slightly mawkish tendency with a brutal honesty:

"I've always thought that tomorrow was for those/ Who are too much afraid/ To go past yesterday and start living in today".

That feeling recurrs throughout the proceedings. Get your ass out of the gutter, try and bring your mind with it, and enjoy it while you're here. Life, that is. But if you want to enjoy your ass, who am I to stop you?

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:29 (nineteen years ago) link

Songs In The Key of Life? At least it's the longest
-- Kenan Hebert (edito...), November 11th, 2003.
The ballads, like on any other Stevie Wonder album, are the best tracks on "Songs In The Key Of Life". Those beautiful melodic ballads are the main reason why I love Stevie Wonder. R&B crap such as "Superstition" you may just throw in the dustbin.
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), November 11th, 2003.

I like a pretty good chunk of his stuff (early '70s mostly), but I really can't wrap my head around Songs in the Key of Life. I'm too used to him in WHOMP WHOMP mode ("Do Yourself A Favor"; "Superstition"; "Livin' For the City") when he brings out those robo-Motown inflections to go for that Quincy Jones-incidental-theme steez save "Sir Duke", "Contusion" and "All Day Sucker".
-- Stupornaut (natepatri...), February 22nd, 2005.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I should have voted on this thing just so I could give a first place vote to Chairs Missing. Probably my favorite album of all time.

― allowed (spaces are allowed), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

This may be just me, but I'm keen for the Singles poll results...

It's not just you, because I think most people voted for more singles than albums.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 411
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 10

CAN - EGE BAMYASI

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:43 (nineteen years ago) link

(again, Stevie beat Wire on highest placing - 2nd as opposed to 4th)

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link

Yeah, I'm more excited about singles for sure. I mean, this list really isn't that different from the Pitchfork one, although I expect I'll become more interested as we move closer to the top.

The singles list will give me lots of download fodder, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

confession... circus bells hardfloor remix on right now, no foolin. my roommate wistfully recollecting acid basslines of her youth... i too remember EGE BAM YASI in the queen margaret union at glasgae uni and he really did put on quite a show, he WORKED it till his bald heat wuz sweatin all over the damn keyboards, twisting a knob perhaps 1 mm and sending all of us over. does he have a story now?
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), May 2nd, 2001.

Future Days and Ege Bamyasi is both GREBT!
-- Nick Southall (n.j.southal...), February 25th, 2003.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

This may be just me, but I'm keen for the Singles poll results...
It's not just you, because I think most people voted for more singles than albums.

-- MindInRewind (mbvarkestra197...), April 20th, 2005.

Actually, fwiw, I preferred the singles poll too. And yes, there were more votes cast in that poll, although the same number of people (but not the same people) voted in each.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm more curious to see singles poll, too. Album poll is going to be rather predictable, we could all probably guess a reasonably accurate top ten.

On a personal note, I just want to thank this thread for getting me through the day...my wife is due today, so I need something to take my mind off the waiting.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

..baby wise, you mean? Or is that a mad case of forward planning?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Due with her list of 70s albums :-)

No, really she's due to give birth.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:03 (nineteen years ago) link

blimey... err... good luck, and stuff.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:06 (nineteen years ago) link

and maybe some more distraction, then..

points: 417
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 13

BRIAN ENO - ANOTHER GREEN WORLD

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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:08 (nineteen years ago) link

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