ILX 70s album poll - results

points: 235
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 9

IGGY AND THE STOOGES - RAW POWER

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-- Michael (carrotbourk...), April 28th, 2001.

-- Dr. C (Daveatcrossdee...), April 28th, 2001

OK, now I work

points: 236
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 6

THE SLITS - CUT

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Slits! Cut is great.

-- scott m (srmcd...), August 14th, 2003.

points: 236
1st place votes: 1
total 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.

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

-- 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?

Key question--how many people actually voted?

points: 237
1st place votes: 0
total 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.

Let's try again:

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points: 238
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 11

NEU! - NEU!

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fuck

fuck

fuckity fuck

http://www.zschauer.de/beachboys/bb_surfs_up.jpg

THIS is Surf's up.

It looks very sinister. Is it?

points: 241
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 8

THE BEATLES - LET IT BE

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Searching the site for "Let It Be" is really very time-consuming, yknow...

http://ilx.p3r.net/searchresults.php?board=2&mode=threads&q=&titlepart=let+it+be&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all

oops, wrong poll.

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?

points: 241
1st place votes: 0
total 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.

The bloke on the grass is John Lennon.

points: 246
1st place votes: 1
total 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.

aren't there, like, two blokes? it's kinda hazy from afar, y'kno.
;)

76

points: 251
1st place votes: 0
total votes: 9

BIG STAR - THIRD

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It's a little painful to have to revisit my brilliant comments, etc.

The three BS albums are like a drunk's progress. First album - happy buzz, sociable and 'up'. Second album - nasty, sloppy, mean-minded, initially amusing but unpleasant to be with. Third album - all the grief, dysfunction and ultimate serenity of the hangover. I like a lot of their stuff, I love a bit of their stuff - ultimately Chilton has to take some of the indirect blame for lo-fi's cult of the fuck- up.
-- Tom (ebro...), October 19th, 2001 1:00 AM.

Of course the third Big Star record is an Alex Chlton solo album and it's one of the greatest LPs ever made, in my opinion, greater even than "Radio City."

-- Jess Hill (jesshil...), May 9th, 2003

"Kanga-Roo" is a magically fucked up song. It's just devestating, made all the more so by what a total wreck it is structurally and rhythmically.

-- The Good Dr. Bill (fadeout9...), November 9th, 2004

One of the top 10 most depressing albums of all time.

-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), July 11th, 2001

Not judging by that quote about Maggotbrain up above! (Which I don't agree with at all.)

I'm sorry to hear about your Grand Funk Railroad fandom

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

points: 256
1st place votes: 1
total votes: 7

JOHN CALE - PARIS 1919

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