ILX 70s album poll - results

points: 810
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 25

JOY DIVISION - UNKNOWN PLEASURES

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Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures.

I first heard "Unknown Pleasures" in 1992. It's still
the darkest record I own. The one that demands being
listened to with all the lights off. Even better, in
a cold basement. Curled up in a ball. Listening to
the soothing crackle of the needle on vinyl. Good
times. Lonely, troubling, but good nontheless. On
this album, "Interzone" is what passes for euphoria.
"She's Lost Control" is what passes for
dancefloor-filling mania. "New Dawn Fades" is pain.

"Unknown Pleasures" is therapy.

Barry Bruner

C/D: Eight-track alternate sequencing?

(as you'd expect, a few other albums on this list are discussed there too)

BLONDIE -- PARALLEL LINES

1 Hanging On The Telephone
Heart Of Glass
I'm Gonna Love You Too

2 Picture This
Fade Away And Radiate
Pretty Baby

3 I Know But I Don't Know
11:59
Will Anything Happen?

4 One Way Or Another
Sunday Girl
Just Go Away

This is also great! The proper track listing drags a bit in the middle during the "Fade Away and Radiate" ... "Will Anything Happen" section. But the eight-track version puts the Big Hits at the beginning and the end ("Heart Of Glass" works MUCH better at the start than tossed randomly into the middle of side two) and mixes things up a little better in the middle.

-- MindInRewind, October 7th, 2004 5:38 PM.

-- dave q (scrape10...), December 9th, 2001.

I was pretty histrionic back in the day:

i'll just say that maybe _unknown pleasures_ is a classic because it's a masterpiece, just maybe? maybe because stephen morris and peter hook formed rock's greatest rhythm section ever, able to define a song with startlingly fresh repeated lines that bled out of the most basic elements breathtaking possibilities? because crushing parallel-universe-metal riffs could be stripped, crystallized, and frozen to drip like icicles above? maybe because riffs could become drones and vice versa? maybe because of the sparsest, least pop tracks ("candidate," "i remember nothing") where a bare beat and atmospheric samples could house ian curtis's sighs and cries? because that band could bludgeon ("day of the lords"), rage ("shadowplay"), and caress ("insight")? just maybe ian curtis sang like no one else could, using a uniquely non-singerly voice to move from a purr to a sneer to a bellow?

-- sundar subramanian (ssubram...), May 17th, 2001.

In this month's Spin, Andrew Beaujon says of Unknown Pleasures: "If you've only heard 'Love Will Tear Us Apart', peep these Mancs on their sole proper album (?) for what they really were: an incompetent metal band that somehow touched the stars."

So what happened? Did a lot of people rate Parallel Lines moderately high or did a few people put it as their #1?

points: 775
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 25

points: 838
1st place votes: 2
total votes: 23

KRAFTWERK - TRANS-EUROPE EXPRESS

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"Trans-Europe Express", "Man Machine" and "Computer World" are all 5 star and the rest ain't too shabby either.

-- Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), November 2nd, 2004.

Hmm... I'm struggling a bit to find blurbs. Perhaps its a mistake to attempt this before coffee.

points: 873
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 25

TELEVISON - MARQUEE MOON

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They were both (singles/albums) mailed on March 3rd.

Can my singles be included/checked though? I can resend...

That might be the problem.. I set up ilx70s for the poll because I'm on the Avenue list at elvistears, and I never remember to read it and anything sent there disappears under a tonne of St Etienne rantings.

But I'll put the singles in, yes... its ilx70s@yahoo.co.uk

points: 884
1st place votes: 3
total votes: 21

BOB DYLAN - BLOOD ON THE TRACKS

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(We've been here before with the 1000 UK Number Ones poll, when hobart's votes went missing...)

-- mike t-diva (mikejl...), April 28th, 2005.

Nooooooo!!!! I'm off the hook, as Mark DID NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS!!
(phew....I did think I'd just missed your vote..)

But yes, I'll do the Grout 100 after this one. And the 101-200 of both.

I always assumed it was a fictional narrative, which what I always thought all the songs on Blood on the Tracks bar 'Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts' were, not knowing anything much biographical about Dylan. But basically: boy gets girl, boy and girl split up, they meet again, he decides he can't stay, and then remembering some time later boy decides to go look for girl again.
(all of Dylan's lyrics, by the way, are online at bobdylan.com, although I don't recommend looking at them without listening to the songs first, obviously. and: tangled up in blue.)

-- thom w. (thom...), March 30th, 2002.

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Dylan said somewhere that TUIB was his attempt to write a song that was like a painting - that wasn't tied to the flow of time..so the emotions and scenes in the song are all fractured and non-consecutive. Its one of the things I love about that song, and most of Blood on the Tracks. Idiot Wind is the same, you're never sure whether it's a historical or present-day song.
-- Mat O (winterland7...), March 31st, 2002.

I just said that the album doesn't flow. Looking at it again, that's almost certainly deliberate. The quiet moments follow the shouting, as the times spent sitting alone, regretting what you said, regretting what you didn't say and thinking "what the fuck do I do now?" follow the arguments in life. Maybe the difficulty in defining this album comes from the fact that there's no over-arching emotion to it, and the bitterness is tempered with never-give-up. I certainly need to listen again to be sure that I'm not talking crap.

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points: 936
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 23

THE CLASH - LONDON CALLING

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Clash - London Calling

Nothing in the first two Clash albums could have prepared listeners
for the sprawling, omnivorous sound that makes up "London Calling."
Although there had been flirtations with reggae and R&B mannerisms in
the previous two records, the Clash go "all in" on this one and reveal
their entire record collections to everyone. You want rockabilly, New
Orleans funk, disco? It's all in here. But what is important to
point out is that the genre-hopping on "London Calling" never sounds
forced or self-indulgent, like it would on "Sandinista." Rather, the
Clash's way of paying tribute to their influences was the most
time-honored way—that is, drinking deeply from the variegated cup of
popular music and coming up with something uniquely their own.

points: 970
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 27

SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - THERE'S A RIOT GOIN ON

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