ILX 70s album poll - results

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

http://www.artof.org.uk/Bob/Albums/images/BloodOnTheTracks.jpg

(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.

2

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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I mean, take away the circumstances and context, and there are only what, four great songs? Three?

What was #101?

Where was Station to Station, hobart?

Congrats on conduting a very entertaining poll

x-post Alba Station to Station was number 62.
Mark, I think Marquee Moon would have made number 2 with your votes included - but I'll go away and add them up properly.

101-200 coming up..

Oops! Totally missed that.

YEAR BY YEAR
(Overall rank in parentheses)

1970 - The Stooges, Fun House (19)
1971 - Sly & The Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On (1)
1972 - Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St. (11)
1973 - Stevie Wonder, Innervisions (12)
1974 - Brian Eno, Here Come The Warm Jets (23)
1975 - Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks (3)*
1976 - Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers (15)**
1977 - Television, Marquee Moon (4)
1978 - Blondie, Parallel Lines (7)
1979 - The Clash, London Calling (2)***

*Had Columbia rushed the release of Blood on the Tracks a couple weeks (it is sometimes dated 1974), the best record of '75 would have been Eno's Another Green World, which ranked #36 overall, cementing the notion that for whatever reason — post-Watergate exhaustion? Quaaludes? — 1975 was kind of a drag. (BTW where the hell is Physical Graffiti?!)

** If you believe that Modern Lovers is really a 1973 record, then the best album of '76 was The Ramones' debut (#22).

***The bumper crop. 1979 had 6 among the top 18. (Are you listening, I.M.?) In addition to the overrated London Calling: UNKNOWN PLEASURES, Singles Going Steady, Metal Box, Entertainment! and Off The Wall.... (+ Dragnet, among many others, insulted at #52...)

-- hobart paving (elvistear...), April 28th, 2005.

I'm not sure this could be topped as a blurb.

(and why does that make the poll sound like cat food?)

This might have been my #1. I don't remember. I guess #110 isn't that bad..

So, what I would really say here is how striking it is that even though there's been nearly seventy sets of votes, one vote can make all the difference.

You know what to do come election day, right?

Too bad about John McLaughlin's Devotion. I really think a lot of you could love it if you haven't heard it. It seriously has more of a stoner Zep/Sab feel than his other stuff.