points: 2361st place votes: 0total votes: 6
THE SLITS - CUT
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Slits! Cut is great.
-- scott m (srmcd...), August 14th, 2003.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:30 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2361st place votes: 1total 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.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
-- hobart paving (elvistear...), April 16th, 2005. (tracklink)This is so endearingly ramshackle! Peel would have approved!
-- 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?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link
Key question--how many people actually voted?
― Keith C (kcraw916), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:41 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2371st place votes: 0total 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.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Let's try again:
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:48 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.banality.nl/images/surfsup.jpg
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:50 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2381st place votes: 0total votes: 11
NEU! - NEU!
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:58 (nineteen years ago) link
fuck
fuckity fuck
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 12:59 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.zschauer.de/beachboys/bb_surfs_up.jpg
THIS is Surf's up.
It looks very sinister. Is it?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2411st place votes: 0total votes: 8
THE BEATLES - LET IT BE
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Searching the site for "Let It Be" is really very time-consuming, yknow...
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:08 (nineteen years ago) link
http://ilx.p3r.net/searchresults.php?board=2&mode=threads&q=&titlepart=let+it+be&name=&email=&username=&dateafter=&datebefore=&catid=all
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:10 (nineteen years ago) link
oops, wrong poll.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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?
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:21 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2411st place votes: 0total 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.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The bloke on the grass is John Lennon.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2461st place votes: 1total 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.
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:34 (nineteen years ago) link
aren't there, like, two blokes? it's kinda hazy from afar, y'kno.;)
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:36 (nineteen years ago) link
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points: 2511st place votes: 0total votes: 9
BIG STAR - THIRD
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Saturday, 16 April 2005 13:38 (nineteen years ago) link
It's a little painful to have to revisit my brilliant comments, etc.
― RS, Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:00 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Not judging by that quote about Maggotbrain up above! (Which I don't agree with at all.)
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― zebedee (zebedee), Saturday, 16 April 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear about your Grand Funk Railroad fandom
― Stupornaut (natepatrin), Saturday, 16 April 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:25 (nineteen years ago) link
100. VA - Nuggets99. New York Dolls - s/t98. David Bowie - Heroes97. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside96. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On the Edge of Town95. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys94. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown93. Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach92. Sparks - Kimono My House91. Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan90. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy89. Sparks - No. 1 in Heaven88. Can - Future Days87. The B52s - The B52s86. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome85. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate84. Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power83. The Slits - Cut82. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter81. The Beach Boys - Surf's Up80. Neu! - Neu!79. The Beatles - Let It Be78. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band77. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain76. Big Star - Third
― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 16 April 2005 17:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 16 April 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― stephen morris (stephen morris), Saturday, 16 April 2005 21:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Lemonade Salesman (Eleventy-Twelve), Saturday, 16 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 17 April 2005 10:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2561st place votes: 1total votes: 7
JOHN CALE - PARIS 1919
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:14 (nineteen years ago) link
points: 2571st place votes: 1total votes: 6
DONNA SUMMER - ON THE RADIO
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link
Now there's a record which creates a world.
-- Tom (ebro...), May 29th, 2001
Paris 1919, Music for a New Society - two of the greatest albums ever released by anyone, anywhere
-- Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), January 12th, 2004
Somehow I think it's nice to get this one in before going to Church of Anthrax / New Society, which if you heard them completely out-of-the-blue would sound like the flailing piss of a coked-up bag of bellybooze. Which they are. The secret is to learn to love the bag, and that takes a while.
-- Lynskey (pau...), January 12th, 2004 2:19 PM.
It's one of the few albs that make me think that "chamber pop" might be anything other than Chicago Live Vol. 1-2000.
-- Jess (dubplatestyl...), August 7th, 2001.
― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link