ILX 70s album poll - results

Alternate Blue, indeed... I didn't spot that when I posted the cover. I just thought it was a nice big picture of it. The one on Amazon looked sort of...grey...which defeats the point, really. I wonder what Alternate Blue can be.

-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), April 22nd, 2005.

I'm afraid not, Alex.

100. VA - Nuggets
99. New York Dolls - s/t
98. David Bowie - Heroes
97. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
96. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town
95. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
94. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
93. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach
92. Sparks - Kimono My House
91. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
90. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
89. Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven
88. Can - Future Days
87. The B52s - The B52s
86. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
85. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
84. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
83. The Slits - Cut
82. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
81. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up
80. Neu! - Neu!
79. The Beatles - Let It Be
78. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
77. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
76. Big Star - Third
75. John Cale - Paris 1919
74. Donna Summer - On the Radio
73. Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
72. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
71. Parliament - The Mothership Connection
70. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
69. VA - Saturday Night Fever
68. Wire - 154
67. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
66. Led Zeppelin - IV
65. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
64. Big Star - #1 Record
63. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
62. David Bowie - Station to Station
61. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
60. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
59. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
58. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes
57. The Congos - Heart of the Congos
56. Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
55. Ornette Coleman - Dancing in Your Head
54. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want To See the Bright Lights Tonight
53. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
52. The Fall - Dragnet
51. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
50. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
49. Roxy Music - Roxy Music
48. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
47. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
46. Suicide - First Album
45. Miles Davis - On the Corner
44. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
43. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
42. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
41. Neil Young - On the Beach
40. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
39. Wire - Chairs Missing
38. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
37. Can - Ege Bamyesi
36. Brian Eno - Another Green World
35. Serge Gainbourg - Histoire Du Melody Nelson
34. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
33. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
32. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
31. Big Star - Radio City
30. The Clash - The Clash
29. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
28. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
27. Wire - Pink Flag
26. Can - Tago Mago
25. David Bowie - Low
24. Joni Mitchell - Blue
23. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets

Anyway, I'm a bit surprised too there's no Fela Kuti on the list at all (was anyhthing besides "Zombie" even nominated?). I guess he could still make it, but I'm kinda doubtful...

Then again, our #1 album isn't "Low", which counts for a lot, but the rest of the Pitchfork top 20 is pretty good.

Any list where Pink Moon beats out Mothership Connection by 37 places is better than nothing, except maybe prostate cancer.

points: 564
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 20

THE RAMONES - THE RAMONES

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Our Alice took this album (along with McFly and Busted ones) to her last day at nursery.

I don't know if they played it at her leaving party...

-- jel -- (freeduni...), January 23rd, 2003.

-- Justyn Dillingham (aubade8...), January 24th, 2003.

errr...let's have some posts about the band rather than about the album... well, they ARE interesting comments on the band, even if something more specific would be better. I'm sure there are lots of pertinent comments specific to this album out there, I'm just having trouble finding them.
I think Justyn is RIGHT.

-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), January 28th, 2003.

-- mark grout (mark.grou...), April 25th, 2005.

I'm just trying to imagine "Blitzkreig Bop" back to back with "Five Colours In Her Hair". Actually, at the risk of being flayed alive, it doesn't seem so terrible.

points: 564
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 16

AL GREEN - CALL ME

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Al Green. As a pure singer he's the best-- eddie hurt (eddshur...)

I dug out a copy of Maggot Brain as a result of this poll. Can't believe I'd overlooked it. Its an immense album - I should have voted for it.

Next poll, maybe..

Because with the possible exception of "The Battle of Evermore," IV is utterly perfect. III has moments of brilliance but a lot of weak spots as well, HOTH is fairly close but the overall quality level is prob. a bit lower.

points: 569
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 16

KRAFTWERK - THE MAN MACHINE

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This where Kraftwerk's style, image and theme find their ultimate
expression, The Man Machine is where the group's ideas are most fully
realised. Middle-European melancholy set in "Spacelab", futurism with
an old world touch. All six songs are perfect and beautiful, none of
them sound dated 27 years on. The robots that still define
Kraftwerk's image were introduced here, yet the men's eye for the
ladies in "The Model" shows the machines as human after all. This is
the international edition, in Germany the band released a German
language version. Oh my, the gentle kick drum that starts off "Neon
Lights" has just started while I type this. Oh, and there's that
synth line. I love this music so much.

JoB de wit

points: 601
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 17

THE STOOGES - FUN HOUSE

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I love this album.

points: 601
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 18

MICHAEL JACKSON - OFF THE WALL

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Off the Wall

Michael Jackson

Somewhere in between Michael Jackson’s difficult childhood and his possibly psychotic reactions to his difficult childhood, he managed to come out with Off the Wall. At the time, we thought it would always be thus.

You can no longer listen to this record without thinking about what came after. Thriller may have made him the King of Pop rather than a good-looking guy with a few hits, but the seeds of MJ’s musical destruction are there. The paranoia, the megalomania, the self-reference (fictional and non-) made for great songs on Thriller, but he’s walking on a wire. He wobbled on “We Are the World,” teetered with stuff like “The Way You Make Me Feel” a great song rendered stiff by the production) and eventually fell off, handing in calcified junk like “Invincible.”

Off the Wall breathes; it’s engaging while it’s impressive. You can dance to it without worrying that you don’t look as cool as Michael Jackson dancing to it. “We’re the party people living night and day/ Living crazy that’s the only way/ So tonight/ Gotta put that 9 to 5 up on the shelf/ And just enjoy yourself.” Slight? Maybe, but fun too. And, as on “She’s Out of My Life,” as on everything here, he sings like he knows what he’s talking about (even though he probably already doesn’t).

Weird Al Yankovic never parodied anything from Off the Wall (on record anyway). That’s because he tweaks excess. And there isn’t any here.

Rick Massimo

You mean: fahren!

points: 604
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 15

VARIOUS ARTISTS - THE HARDER THEY COME

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The Harder they Come

John Peel had a rating system for songs: 1 star meant he might play it
on
the radio, 2 stars meant he should, and 3 stars meant he must. Every
few
years he would announce that an album had achieved the distinction of
every
track on it getting 3 stars (I remember Misty in Roots 'Live at the
Counter-Eurovision' and the first Bhundu Boys album being examples)

Anyway, 'The Harder They Come' falls into this category. Every track on
it
is not just good, but great, good enough that if you bought an album
and it
had just one of these tracks, you'd be satisfied with your purchase
even if
the rest of the album was rubbish.

Joe Kay

Various - The Harder They Come (Soundtrack)

To this day, the artist on the spine of "The Harder they Come" reads
"Jimmy Cliff," although the album is indeed a compilation. Maybe it
was a recognition that Cliff's contributions are more numerous and
arguably better than anything else on the record, but it probably had
more to do with marketing, as Cliff starred in the lead role of the
film. The other selections, by reggae stalwarts such as Toots & the
Maytals and Desmond Dekker, are some of the island's greatest tracks,
and serve as a counterpoint to Cliff's four masterpieces. Even though
you'll often hear that this is a "great introduction to reggae," I've
always thought this collection is all the more powerful because Bob
Marley is absent from it. Not because he is in any way a lesser
artist, but the inclusion of such a major personality would have
distorted the balance of the album. Either way, it's indispensable
for both casual reggae fans and fanatics alike.

Keith C

points: 616
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 22

THE SEX PISTOLS - NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, HERE'S THE SEX PISTOLS

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points: 683
1st place votes: 3
total votes: 18

THE MODERN LOVERS - THE MODERN LOVERS

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i burned a copy of this for my girlfriend, and she told me they were a shitty Doors ripoff. She doesn't know it, but i still haven't forgiven her for that.
-- Felcher (wangchungvsah...), September 17th, 2003

points: 692
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 20

DAVID BOWIE - THE RISE AND FALL OF ZIGGY STARDUST

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The TV announcer begins, telling us all of our imminent demise and the rest is a "what the fuck, its all over, let's take what we can get" ride. The last ever rock n roll band appearing, entrancing the kids, and getting torn to shreds. The aliens whispering over the airwaves, and those willing to listen going out, staring at the sky and hoping for some sort of salvation.

It ends with a stagger home, a lit cigarette, screeching brakes as the singer assures you you aren't alone, he'll comfort you, he'll make it all okay. Perhaps you just need to go home, come down, it'll all be okay. The world will be allright, and you imagined everything.

Not completely consistent, but which of his albums is? It doesn't need to be. The result is a technicolour dystopian dream - frightening and utterly seductive.

points: 698
1st places: 1
total votes: 19

GANG OF FOUR - ENTERTAINMENT

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