― 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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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
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― 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
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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.
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link
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MILES DAVIS - A TRIBUTE TO JACK JOHNSON
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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MARVIN GAYE - LET'S GET IT ON
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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PARLIAMENT - THE MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION
― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:40 (nineteen years ago) link
First jazz album I can remember enjoying was Miles' Tribute To Jack Johnson - steady beat, plenty of rockin', lots of surprises. I still don't get Kind Of Blue to this day.
-- Patrick (calimer...), July 16th, 2001
Search: pretty much all the 70s electric stuff sans At Fillmore (no to be confused with Black Beauty: Live at Fillmore West). start with In a Silent Way ('69, but still; most beautiful), Jack Johnson (hardest-rocking), Dark Magus (most ferociously intense).
-- M Matos (michaelangelomato...), December 14th, 2002
Absolutely the best thing Miles Davis in the '70s, even greater than "Agartha" or the best of "Get Up With It."
-- eddie hurt (eddshur...), March 29th, 2004 6:45 PM.
and if you like the standard issue Jack Johnson, the complete sessions box is fascinating. Chockful of random beauty and killer guitar skronk. Really, it's not just another overstuffed ripoff.
-- lovebug starski (writeco...), March 28th, 2004 2:49 PM.
(In reply to "If you were boxer, what would your entrance music be):'Right Off' from Miles Davis' Tribute to Jack Johnson. Obv.
-- Jordan (jordancohe...) December 2nd, 2003
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― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link
funny you should ask.
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BRIAN ENO - TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN (BY STRATEGY)
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― hobart paving (hobart paving), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 17 April 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
I remmber my sister brought this album home (along with Clones of Dr.Funkenstein) sometime in the summer of 1976 or so, whetting my ten year old appetite for it by saying they were "like the black version of Kiss". Well, they sure did look as equally otherworldly as my beloved, grease-painted superheroes....and were on the same visionary record label....but oof were they ever different! For a start, there seemed to be about forty of them, and the sheer production and instrumentation of Mothership Connection was dizzying (Kiss wouldn't manage as varied and vast a sound until Destroyer). But damn....having heard nothing of any semblance of "funk" in any capacity (James Brown didn't get a lot of airplay in our mid-to-late 70's household), this was just a whole different brand of beast.
For a start, Clinton's narrative skills on the first two tracks are completley hilarious and bizarre, hooking me right in. Secondly, the grooves just seem to flow so effortlessly, morphing from full-on punch and then off into jazzy subtlety, buffered by at least three different voices at a time (Lollipop Man, "the Long Haired Sucka" being my favorite). The precise moment during "Mothership Connection (Star Child)," when the band switches back into the "Swing low sweet chariot..." refrain and the giant saucer gently lifts off again (I'm talking bout specificaly 5:13 into the song), it is truly a transcendent bit of music. Damn I love that.
"Unfunky UFO" seems to abduct the riff from Stevie Wonder's "Superstitious" and takes it on a strange sci-fi episode involving an alien invasion prompted by a funk famine. Odd? You betcha, but it's wildy inventive and engaging stuff.
I remember especially enjoying "Handcuffs" as a kid, mistaking the chorus for being "Do I have to put my handcuffs on your mama?", which made precious little sense but prompted big laughs. The song, in retrospect, is actually a tad misogynist, but hey....this was the 70's after all.
"Give Up the Funk..." is of course a massive classic, and there's nothing I can say about it that will further its status as utterly brilliant. Even the arguable filler tracks ("Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples") are still completely awe inspiring.
If you don't own this record, you're exiling yourself in a world devoid of fun.
Who agrees? Who dares disagree?
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), August 14th, 2003
Far and away their tightest, least indulgent funk alb, heavily plundered by Dr. Dre. One of the all-time great alb covers too!
-- Andrew L (andre...), July 15th, 2001
Something of a landmark, being one of the first r&b record that's back to back funk, with not a ballad in sight.
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), February 4th, 2004
'Mothership Connection' - you won't believe how many bits you'll recognize, it's been sampled to infinity.
-- tarden (scrape10...), July 15th, 2001
There are some strange and tortured souls out there who prefer "Funkentelechy" but then as George himself said, "Mothership" is the one with "all the hits".
-- Dadaismus (kcoyne3...), August 14th, 2003
Around the age of 12 or 13 my best friend found his brother's Parliament CD and we listened to it on repeat for weeks, out on the porch, dancing. First time I ever really danced. That shit changed my life.
-- Sonny A. (newaddres...), August 16th, 2003 2:17 AM.
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-- Juan (p1nk8c1...), November 7th, 2002
Taking Tiger Mountain: His second album. Quite strange surreal story. Somehow gripping. With singing.
-- alex in mainhattan (alex6...), July 17th, 2001
Eno is an underrated lyricist...the words on "Tiger Mountain" always struck me as very nice indeed.
-- Jess Hill (jesshil...), February 28th, 2003
"Tiger Mountain" contains some of the best words I know.
-- eddie hurt (eddshur...), July 21st, 2004
I was in a bar where this guy I know works and he was playing songs from his iPod over the stereo. At one point I asked him, Is this the Thinking Fellers? And he said, no it's Brian Eno. Then later another song came on, and I asked him if it was the Swell Maps. Again it was Eno. It turns out both songs were on TTM(BS). That's when I knew I needed to hear the rest of the album.
-- o. nate (syne_wav...), July 21st, 2004
One thing I don't think I've said about Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy is that I got a copy around the time that I had just about lost my belief in Christian doctrine, so it took on kind of a heavy symbolic weight of the scarey, uncertain, world of religious disbelief. (Obviously I hadn't only listened to Christian music up until then. That's not the point.) I want to exmphasize, this is a symbolic purpose I was giving it: I don't think it has much to do with the album itself (although it is kind of interesting in light of some things I've read by him essential outlining an anti-fundamentalism--of whatever source--stance). Just the cover itself took on a certain weight, and I wasn't totally happy about it. It didn't look like an especially happy world (and I've never been unambivalently attracted to hipster jadedness, if I've ever been attracted by it at all), but it seemed somewhat inevitable that I would be joining it. Graphically, it was: the cover of Taking Tiger Mountain vs. the dull blue cover of Cornelius Van Til's Defense of the Faith (given to me by my brother-in-law). I think I was more visually oriented then. Anyway, book covers or album covers could easily become suffused with an emotional coloring.
-- Rockist Scientist (heterophoni...), July 21st, 2004
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― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 April 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link
(rolls in grave)
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Sunday, 17 April 2005 23:50 (nineteen years ago) link
I wouldn't call it an album. No need for it in the list as long as there is "Bad Girls" anyway
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 18 April 2005 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link
Davis' corpse was always going to be perturbed by the preferences of tiny samples of online listmaking geeks. But what can you do?
Nice work Hobart Paving. Even though many of my choices have already appeared!
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Monday, 18 April 2005 00:20 (nineteen years ago) link
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