Hey I'm King of The World, You Oughta Hear My Song, Come On & Measure Me, THESE ARE AT LEAST 10 MINUTES LONG - RESULTS ILM BALLOT POLL #58

my marquee moon highlights:

1) getting the 12" single and playing it at Bri's house
2) getting the cd version and discovering it now has a full ending
3) getting the remaster and now there's an alternate version with a different solo

Would not pick one of these over the others...

I once heard "Marquee Moon" on an AM station while driving through western Ohio (this was maybe 5-6 years ago). Being unexpectedly hit with this song on the radio is one thing; hearing it on AM heightened the mystery of the song considerably.

If I'd known two other people would actually vote for that Polvo song, I'd've put it higher on my ballot. That song is a monster.

tbh my favourite Fairport epic is "Sloth" but just too short to qualify for this poll.

I think if you're listening to MM for the first time circa 2015, a lot of what's it's doing has been finally digested in the last decade of pop, post-Strokes, post-Franz Ferdinand, post-Phoenix - the way the tone of the different guitars trade off, the little filigree licks, the lack of blues in a non-thrashy way. Marquee Moon didn't really have guiding effect on overall presentation of dual-guitar bands between 78 and 98. While it's always been well adored, those that adored it were adding more noise or digital delay or compressed dynamics. It paved the way for U2 and Sonic Youth and MBV, but those bands took bits of the approach. Around 2000 is when I really started hearing Television borrowings wholesale, just like Gang of Four.

This poll got me to listen closely to Hendrix again, but Stevie Ray Vaughn really killed Voodoo Chile dead for me. I just cant hear Hendrix with an open mind. Something similar has happened to Television. Would likely have been on my list 10 years ago! But I didn't even feel like listening.

wonder how many of these were fairly 'tactical' e.g. 'The Crown' isn't really my favourite long song ever (top 50 sure) but nbd I knew it wouldn't get much love so...

well for me Mei by Echolyn had to be #1 because it's one of my favorite albums ever and I think it's in the spirit of the ballot to value things that are long and epic (compared to say, Autechre's "Rsdio", which I also voted for, but it's one that would've worked at say, 7 minutes)

my one big mistake on this was not nominating "USA" by Dan Deacon. cuz I think that would've been a top 3 pick for me.

This poll got me to listen closely to Hendrix again, but Stevie Ray Vaughn really killed Voodoo Chile dead for me

Had no idea this existed you know...thanks for that *buries head in sand forever*

wonder how many of these were fairly 'tactical' e.g. 'The Crown' isn't really my favourite long song ever (top 50 sure) but nbd I knew it wouldn't get much love so...

The Crown was one of the last tunes I had to cut from my shortlist to trim it down to 50, now I feel bad for leaving it out, because it is awesome.

But my vote for Biotrip wasn't tactical, I just wanted my #1 to be over 20 minutes so it's truly epic, and that's the best 20+ minute tune I know.

I would have voted for The Crown if I'd noticed it on the list!

Great track - never heard it in its entirety.

I wonder what it was like happening upon that gig, probably having no idea who this guy was or that there was even somebody playing - let alone that he was about to drop the best epic of alltime.

listening to this now & i really, really want to flag post you

Jeff loads of good stuff on that ballot but what is Close to the Edge doing at no1? ;-)

yeah I listened to the Berio on that highest unplaced playlist & it were wonderful, need to chase down more

Actually giving it another go now. I like these as a pair:

18T. Yes - Close To The Edge - 8600 points | 9 votes | 2 #1 votes
18T. Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea - 8600 points | 11 votes

Actually Close to the Edge is much better than I remember, especially the organ break in the middle. The birds twittering at the end is clearly an acknowledgement of the up and coming green politics of the 1970s. "so progressiva" indeed!

this Dissidenten track is very great, whoever voted for it!

I'm loving Don Ellis Orchestra's "Turkish Bath". Why didn't I know about this record before?

^yeah this is great too, Spottie got me listening to Don Lewis a while back and I was similarly rapt back then

It was me who nommed the Dissidenten track, and I'm glad that someone else likes it. It's a Berlin-goes-to-Morocco fusion thing from 1984, which sounds ahead of its time to me.

It sounded like New Order for about 3 seconds, then took flight, emitting more power than a substation - really wonderful, ty

Shout-out to the Ute Lemper song as well

This was my ballot btw:

Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle
Isaac Hayes - Walk On By
Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun
Inner Life - Ain't No Mountain High Enough
Sun Ra - Space Is The Place
The Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
Stereolab & Nurse With Wound - Simple Headphone Mind
Albert Ayler - Truth Is Marching In
Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations
William Onyeabor - Good Name
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Moya
Donna Summer - I Feel Love (Patrick Cowley Megamix)
Sonic Youth - The Diamond Sea
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Marcos Cabral & Shux - A Lifetime Groove
Sonic Youth - Hits of Sunshine (for Allen Ginsberg)
War - The World is a Ghetto
Herbie Hancock - Hornets
Acid Mothers Temple - La Novia
Pharoah Sanders - The Creator Has A Master Plan
Lou Harrison - Pacifika Rondo
Nina Simone - Sinnerman
The Juan Maclean - Happy House
Can - Halleluwah
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Miles Davis - Shhh/Peaceful
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Seasons: One Mind Winter/Summer/Ninth Ghost
Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Taj Mahal
Cerrone - Supernature
Studio - Out There
Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Neu! - Hallogallo
Delia Gonzalez & Gavin Russom - Relevee (Carl Craig Remix)
Dirty Three - I Offered It Up to the Stars and Night Sky
Erykah Badu - Out My Mind, Just In time
McFadden & Whitehead - Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now (12" version)
Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff
Universal Robot Band - Barely Breaking Even
Patty Waters - Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair
The Knife - Colouring of Pigeons
Primal Scream - Come Together
Roland P Young - Crystal Motions
Fela Kuti - Water Get No Enemy
Popol Vuh - Hosianna-Mantra
Franco Battiato - Sequenze e Frequenze
Boredoms - Super Shine
Rhys Chatham - An Angel Moves Too Fast To See
Kendrick Lamar - Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst

Thanks so much for the poll Leee! It has been a dizzying experience.

I'm a little late with this, but I'm keen to see my highest unplaced make its way onto that amazing new playlist (which I might be enjoying even more than the regular rollout). N.B. Nostalgia and tears heavily influence my voting behaviours. Unplaced bolded.

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
Julian Cope - The Tower
Renaissance - Trip To The Fair
Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
The Mars Volta - L'Via L'Viaquez
The Fiery Furnaces - Quay Cur
Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Shelley's Skylark
Bright Eyes - Let's Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and Be Loved)
A Silver Mt Zion - what we loved was not enough
Einsturzende Neubauten - Headcleaner
Dmitri Shostakovich - The Execution Of Stepan Razin
Spacemen 3 - Suicide
Kate Bush - An Endless Sky of Honey
North Sea Radio Orchestra - Chimes
Wilco - One Sunday Morning
Comets On Fire - Blue Tomb
The Doors - The End
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Krzysztof Penderecki - Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima
Yes - Heart of the Sunrise
Bob Dylan - Desolation Row
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash
Pink Floyd - Sheep
Cibo Matto - Theme
Moonface - Daughter of a Dove
Coil - Red Queen
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan
Incredible String Band - A Very Cellular Song
Jute Gyte - The Grey King
King Crimson - Fracture
Robbie Basho - Blue Corn Serenade
Mercury Rev - Meth of a Rockette's Kick
Boredoms - Super Shine
The Knife - Colouring of Pigeons
Television - Marquee Moon
Danny Ben-Israel - The Hippies of Today are the Assholes of Tomorrow
Godspeed You Black Emperor - Dead Flag Blues
Connan Mockasin - Forever Dolphin Love
Philip Glass - The Grid
Viet Cong - Death
Helloween - Halloween
Can - Soup
Deep Purple - child in time

My highest unplaced track (the live "Little Johnny Jewel") isn't on spotify, but "Meet me at the Jailhouse" is.

i discovered the phantastic cortney tidwell track via the poll, her voice reminds me a lot of carolyn crawley (shelleyan orphan, this mortal coil), so pure and direct. "don't let stars keep us tangled up" is one of those comfort giving songs, almost like many neil young songs but in a completely different, more shining way.

the dissidenten were an offspring of embryo one of the early jazzy krautrock bands founded 1969 in munich (two years after amon düül). embryo had already been travellng a lot, they were probably the first world music band, the dissidenten which were called embryo's dissidenten in the beginning tried to appeal to a wider public and merged arab and indian music with dance pop. they were great but in the end they didn't have the success they should have had.

39. The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin Stone - 6175 points | 9 votes

Way too low. My fault: Forgot to vote it.

I've been listening to this this mix-CD I made for the car:

1. "Slipping (Into Something)," Feelies (6:00)
2. "When," Grachan Moncur III (12:08)
3. "Spiegel Im Spiegel," Arvo Pärt (10:38)
4. "Fur Immer (Forever)," Neu! (11:17)
5. "Quiet Nervousness," Manuel Göttsching (13:00)
6. "How Some Jellyfish Are Born, Yo La Tengo (8:22)
7. "Field of Stars," Oliver Schroer (8:15)
8. "Find a Way," Feelies (7:05)

Assembled in the spirit of this poll, basically, although no strict 10-minute rule. I've never cared about streaming; I rarely listen to music when I'm sitting at the computer. Music in a car, though, life would be considerably less interesting without it--especially long songs, especially driving out in the country.

Gawd, this thread is a goddamn treasure trove! My next few days (weeks) will be all about zoning out to long tracks.
(And listening to short tracks for Karl's poll, obvs.)

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Very surprised that Blue Train is above All Blues, which I figured was a shoe-in for the top jazz track. Very surprised Deep Purple on there at all, didn't think they'd maintained a following comparable to Floyd or the Doors.