― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:28 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2221st place votes: 0total votes: 9
CAN - FUTURE DAYS
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:32 (nineteen years ago) link
(err..did that attempt to copy Mike and introduce an element of suspense work? I suspect not.)
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:35 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2291st place votes: 1total votes: 9
THE B52s - THE B52s
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:39 (nineteen years ago) link
Future Days is wonderful "finally finding a path home after driving around lost for an hour or so" music. -- Alan N (ala...), February 25th, 2003
'Classic' Can is a chore, Future Days excepted.
-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), February 25th, 2003
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:40 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2311st place votes: 1total votes: 6
PARLIAMENT - FUNKENTELECHY VS. THE PLACEBO SYNDROME
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:43 (nineteen years ago) link
I thought that was going too well..
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:45 (nineteen years ago) link
the first 2 LPs are godlike. -- electric sound of jim (electricsoun...), July 9th, 2003
"Planet Claire" = first single mark s evah bought -- mark s (mar...), September 9th, 2001
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:47 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2321st place votes: 0total votes: 10
LEONARD COHEN - SONGS OF LOVE AND HATE
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:49 (nineteen years ago) link
-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), July 12th, 2002.
Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome by Parliament. No gaps, no holes, weird stuff right next to glorious pop moments, doo-wop science-fiction funk with no apologies.
-- Matt C. (cibul...), October 3rd, 2002.
If you're looking for the straight-up, most accessible of the Parliament records that sound like what most people consider the "Parliament sound"--i.e. the "disco-y, funky, rubbery bass kinda stuff you see sample on the G-Funk hip hop albums" that Jason D pointed out--then Funkentelechy is tough to beat. Two killer singles, hilarious dead-on concept w/ great characters and great extended jams. And ironically, in light of the early P-Funk records, it's one of the all-time greatest acid records. -- Naive Teen Idol (matthewjweine...), March 17th, 2003.
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:52 (nineteen years ago) link
Thanks for helping with this.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
'Songs of Love and Hate' is about as dark as it gets: in particular 'Dress Rehearsal Rag'.
-- Johnathan (johnatha...), July 11th, 2001
Songs of Love and Hate is one of the most perfect albums I've ever heard.
-- Affectian (niche_ia...), May 29th, 2003
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 11:59 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2351st place votes: 0total votes: 9
IGGY AND THE STOOGES - RAW POWER
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
-- Sean Carruthers (oneiro...), April 29th, 2001.
Raw power isnt even that hot an album except for a few tracks (Search and destroy, Gimme danger). Bowies production is awful too. I know its an obvious thing to say but its true.
-- Michael (carrotbourk...), April 28th, 2001.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:05 (nineteen years ago) link
The great thing about the bass-shy original Raw Power is that you can crank it up really loud on the scuzziest of hi(?)-fi systems ... there's no distorted bass to spoil things, just searing layers of tinny white noise geetar, with Iggy hollering over the top.
-- I.M.Belong (imbelon...), July 20th, 2001
Raw Power lasts for me because it was a live event, more inspirational, it changed the way I walked down the street. -- K-reg (drelocatio...), April 29th, 2001
A fry up, a pint of orange juice, "Raw Power" at max volume and down the pub for opening time. Just do it.
-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), April 28th, 2001
OK, now I work
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2361st place votes: 0total votes: 6
THE SLITS - CUT
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Slits! Cut is great.
-- scott m (srmcd...), August 14th, 2003.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2361st place votes: 1total votes: 6
NICK DRAKE - BRYTER LAYTER
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The word "gentle" springs to mind - but that's not quite right. This is pastoral, rather than gentle. Its a quiet two fingers up to the city, and a trudge up into the hills to stare at the clouds above... knowing that, at some point, you've got to go back and face the streets, and the hardness - but hey, for now, let's enjoy the view, and each other. Do you hope to find new ways of quenching your thirst?? I'm not talking about Volvic.
I'm not sure how this blurb is going, or where this blurb is going. Perhaps it should end there.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
P.S. Another tip for searching, esp. with album titles that don't have very distinctive words in them, is to use the Google search (set up on the ILX search page). Google doesn't index all threads, by any means, but it can be handy, esp. as it's much faster and gives you keyword in context.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=site%3Ailx.wh3rd.net%20%22raw%20power%22%20 for example
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
-- hobart paving (elvistear...), April 16th, 2005. (tracklink)This is so endearingly ramshackle! Peel would have approved!
-- mike t-diva (mikejl...), April 16th, 2005.
Endearingly ramshackle...
You're very kind. Some would be a little harsher. What on EARTH was I doing there?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Key question--how many people actually voted?
― Keith C (kcraw916), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2371st place votes: 0total votes: 8
THE BEACH BOYS - SURF'S UP
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I'm not sure if that is the original cover.
Surf's Up rules, and if it had any more epics than it contained, it'd probably be too perfect. I appreciate songs like Lookin' At Tomorrow and Student Demonstration Time because they make the Beach Boys seem human.
-- Schwingung (spacela...), November 25th, 2003.
"Sunflower" and "Surf's Up" are absolute classics, almost on par with "Pet Sounds" and better than anything else they did in the 60s.
-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), November 25th, 2003.
On the Sunflower/Surf's Up tip, I would say the former is the better album, while the latter has four or five absolutely AMAZING, PERFECT songs on it with several clunkers packed in. And, I dunno, This Whole World is a pretty amazing song, too. And yes, those are the albums that prove the melodic genius ran through the entirety of the Wilson family, if not the ear for eccentricity and vocal arrangement skills.
-- Chris O. (coconnor...), November 26th, 2003.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Let's try again:
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.banality.nl/images/surfsup.jpg
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2381st place votes: 0total votes: 11
NEU! - NEU!
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
fuck
fuckity fuck
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.zschauer.de/beachboys/bb_surfs_up.jpg
THIS is Surf's up.
It looks very sinister. Is it?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2411st place votes: 0total votes: 8
THE BEATLES - LET IT BE
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Searching the site for "Let It Be" is really very time-consuming, yknow...
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
http://ilx.p3r.net/searchresults.php?board=2&mode=threads&q=&titlepart=let+it+be&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
oops, wrong poll.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
solid through and through, though i've never understood the appeal of "get back," which is the template for every bad paul mccartney rock song to come. "i me mine" is sub-par george. "one after 909" is a throwaway that doesn't stand up to great throwaways like, say, "gary's got a boner." "long and winding road" is an ok piano ballad that's got nothing on "androgynous." "two of us," on the other hand, is every bit as good an album opener as "i will dare." "dig it" tops "seen your video" in the celebrating/defecating-pop-culture department. "let it be" is as exactly as good as rem's "everybody hurts," another song i admire but don't need to ever hear again.
-- fact checking cuz (factcheckingcu...), February 23rd, 2005.
Yes, that's a good one, because I agree with it. "Get Back" really is terrible, isn't it?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2411st place votes: 0total votes: 11
This beats "Let It Be" because its highest placing was 5th, whereas The Beatles highest was 8th.
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JL/POB's 'angry' tracks like "Well Well Well" haven't aged well. However, the way Lennon sings the last verse of "God" may be the best singing of his career.
-- Justyn Dillingham (aubade8...), September 28th, 2002.
John Lenon Plastic Ono Band is classic stuff. It's been a while since I've heard much of this music, however, so it's that much more difficult to say why I like it. Raw, stripped down, etc.
-- Rockist Scientist (Rockistscientis...), September 27th, 2002.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The bloke on the grass is John Lennon.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2461st place votes: 1total votes: 12
FUNKADELIC - MAGGOT BRAIN
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Maggot Brain: Easily the best first 2/3 of any rock OR funk album of the 1970s, but goes way overboard with "Wars of Armageddon". "Super Stupid" is better than 80% of any song written by Led Zeppelin, 90% better than any song written by Black Sabbath, and 250% better than any song written by Grand Funk Railroad.
-- Stupornaut (natepatri...), March 29th, 2005.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
As i said, start the thread off with every album nominated last time so we can all add to it and make it really comprehensive.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
naw, Johnny Fever, your OG idea is great, ignore this dude
― mooncup journey to vaja (The Reverend), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 22:57 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm ready for this!
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Any position on the canon/no-canon debate?
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:47 (fourteen years ago) link
ILX 70s album poll - results
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
FIRMLY FOR NO-CANON
― balearific, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:30 (fourteen years ago) link
dunno how many votes we get but i think all of mine will go to the cars debut JUST TO MAKE MOTHERFUCKING SURE
― all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Wednesday, 2 December 2009 04:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm going to use the same system Tuomas did, except nominations will have no limit.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 2 December 2009 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link
steve reich - drummingphilip glass - music in 12 parts
― it's like 10,000 goons when all you need is a trife (m bison), Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
oops!
So, what do we need to do?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
go here and get to nominatin'DAMN THE CANON! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Nominations Thread (Due by 11:59pm GMT, December 14th)
― WmC, Thursday, 3 December 2009 04:40 (fourteen years ago) link
What a great poll. Too bad I missed it!
― US EEL (u s steel), Friday, 4 December 2009 02:35 (fourteen years ago) link