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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

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000024E09.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― 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

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00004SZWD.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― 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

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B0002K0ZK8.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― 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

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B00022M51I.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

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

this thread started off awesome and gets awesomer as it progresses - although i am kind of pouting about More Songs About Buildings And Food not being adequtely revered.

― Lee F# (fsharp), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Another Green World beats Taking Tiger Mountain? WTF? I'm curious to see how the top of this poll will finish since so many of my favorite albums are lurking around in the bottom 50.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Sorry, I got distracted there by the fact that YOKO ONO is playing atp and I didn't know and haven't bought a ticket and have about 2 days to try and get one.

Now, all I have to do is convince three people they LOVE Yoko in the next 48 hours. I did nominate Approximately Infinite Universe in this poll. Did it chart? You guess.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Classic.
"The Big Ship" from Another Green World puts me in a trance. Don't drive to it.
-- Jazzbo (jmcga...), January 22nd, 2004.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

agw should have been in the top ten. it is creating a new musical landscape. right in between eno's first two sparkling intellectual pop records and his ambient stuff (ok there was another one in between there, before and after science. which actually showed that eno was changing style by having two totally different sides). taking the best of those two styles. ambient with hooks if you want. calm and very atmospheric but totally mesmerising at the same time. probably the one eno record i'd go for if i had to pick only one.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link

what is weird about agw is that it sounds like an instrumental record though about half(?) of the songs are sung.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:40 (nineteen years ago) link

i like the selfconscious simplicity of AGW, although it never cloys like some of eno's satie homages

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

(or satie for that matter)

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link

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

me too. I can't claim enough familiarity with the nominated albums to really have voted for any of them. When the singles poll is released I presume that I will know most of the tracks and thus feel more connected and interested.

― gspm (gspm), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:32 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 423
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 11

SERGE GAINSBOURG - HISTOIRE DU MELODY NELSON

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000051YEG.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:57 (nineteen years ago) link

often imitated, never duplicated

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 18:59 (nineteen years ago) link

that wonderful lush romantic album is proof that the 70s weren't as shite as i remember them. of course i discovered it much later. abba should not be allowed to finish in front of the great serge.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:16 (nineteen years ago) link

meh.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Nuts. There goes my #1.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 20:26 (nineteen years ago) link

if isaac hayes were a white perverted frenchman, this is the album he would've made. great stuff, particularly the semi-title track. also search "bonnie and clyde," one of the finest singles of the 60s. there's a monkey on the track! or at least i like to think so.
-- fred solinger (fred9157...), May 14th, 2001.
Histoire de Melody Nelson is the only album of his I have and I can't imagine him having bettered it. it's also great for sample-spotting. De La Soul's "it ain't over til the fat lady..." from De La Soul is Dead nicks the crazy frenchfunkrock from track 2, and countless scoundrels have remixed and sampled the 1st and last tracks, none of whom have managed to improve it one jot.
We mustn't underestimate the importance of Serge Gainsbourg. His death raised his profile outside France considerably. Without him, Lounge would have been faceless and anonymous, just Muzak. He provided Neo-Lounge with an Auteurist model to aspire to. 'Melody Nelson' is a Lounge album, but also the script for an imaginary film. None of the neo-Lounge artists have yet matched its ambition.
-- Momus (nic...), July 13th, 2001
I bought it when I was staying at a mate's and he was very sceptical. I put it on and could hardly believe how good it was - everything I'd expected. Of course then I left it at someone's flat after a party and have never seen it again.

-- Tom (ebro...), October 12th, 2002

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:16 (nineteen years ago) link

"meh" ?

― jmeister (jmeister), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:18 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh bugger - the

"Histoire de Melody Nelson is the only album of his ... none of whom have managed to improve it one jot" paragraph was:

-- heronette (heronett...), August 30th, 2001

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, I was just starting to type "I really have a hard time believing Momus only owns ONE Serge Gainsbourg album."

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:32 (nineteen years ago) link

Yes, I thought it might arouse suspicion.

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 21:49 (nineteen years ago) link

haha i went 'whaa?' at that too

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link

i was surprised by momus' de la ref

― Sym Sym (sym), Thursday, 21 April 2005 00:36 (nineteen years ago) link

whump.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 21 April 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

hey hobart, what's going on? did you fall asleep to that melody nelson album? how can we wake you up?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 21 April 2005 19:42 (nineteen years ago) link

As you kill yourself, what album do you put on?

Maybe hobart's answer was melody nelson?

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 22 April 2005 00:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Hello. Sorry, life got in the way...

I think I'd like that album. Although I'll skip the suicide.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:02 (nineteen years ago) link

points: 424
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 15

NICK DRAKE - PINK MOON

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000025XKM.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:06 (nineteen years ago) link

What cover is that!?

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:21 (nineteen years ago) link

I wonder why they've changed it.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf800/f890/f89079p0pkv.jpg

― Alba (Alba), Friday, 22 April 2005 10:23 (nineteen years ago) link

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