I'd never heard I'm the Ocean before the voting thread but damn it's great - one of his best verbose, repetitive songs. "People my age/They don't do the things I do."
I have a lot of fond memories of listening to my vinyl copy of On the Beach over and over while reading Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon
Sentences like this make me feel a sudden need to send my family away for a long weekend.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
I just thought Crosby regarded the Manson impersonation as bad karma
Anyways Barstool Blues and Danger Bird showing up causes me to despair for my favorite song off Zuma's chances of showing up
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
I guess we're not indicating #1 votes? Not a complaint, just an observation.
Anyway, yeah, "Danger Bird" was my number one. Such a perfect fucking tune.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
<i>OK like I'm the Ocean is a good song and all but goddamn I cannot believe it just placed higher than a bunch of Zuma and On the Beach big-timers
oh no there's only going to be 30+ songs from the 70s higher boo hoo
― da croupier, Tuesday, July 10, 2012 11:37 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink</i>
for me, if i would have bothered to rank my list, like barstool blues and for the turnstiles and etc would all have been top 10
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Mmmmmmmmm....ocean of ham.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
imagine Lou Reed giving "Danger Bird" the "Foot of Pride" treatment.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'll indicate #1s at the end--as I said upthread, the majority of ballots were unranked.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil35.jpg
neil was probably the first of his friends to write songs about how painfully old he is and the first of his friends to be crowing about how he'll be young and crazy forever
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
The ultimate boomer?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
Ha ha. Quite.
― Get wolves (DL), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
"oh my god how i miss amusement parks and candy corn"
ten years later
"eat a peach, fat-asses! i'm a-go hang out with devo!"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, I missed that one, sorry. Like I said, not complaining, you are doing an A+++ job thus far.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks. There were also people who numbered their lists but didn't allocate points--I'm not really sure if their #1 is in fact #1.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:52 (twelve years ago) link
Thrasher is another top 10. So so awesome
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil34.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's gonna be weird when neil drops Time Fades Away II - same songs, different performances!
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
OK like I'm the Ocean is a good song and all but goddamn I cannot believe it just placed higher than a bunch of Zuma and On the Beach big-timers
some dude? did you only vote for one song?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, July 10, 2012 12:27 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark
i had 35 songs on my ballot and "I'm The Ocean" was at #25 with the minimum number of points fyi
Jack Irons is awesome on Pearl Jam albums but i don't feel like he's really at his best on Mirror Ball
― some dude, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:56 (twelve years ago) link
"Thrasher" is textbook example of good lyric writing.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Time Fades Away is sensational, my no.3
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
"Time Fades Away" is the second of my top 10 to place. Great song, great performance.
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
Possibly my all-time favorite vocal of his.
― Chuck? Chuck? It's me, your cousin, Marvin D (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 16:59 (twelve years ago) link
You know, I bet if you took the best songs from Broken Arrow and the best from Mirror Ball with a little bit of Dead Man you could make a pretty great 95-96 patchwork
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Take a look at a bit of this video if you get a chance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0df4vyeFhEo
It's footage shot in my hometown (Georgetown, Ontario) during the mid-'70s. Somebody put a series of them up a couple of years ago--that's where the image comes from. They're just so perfect in capturing how Time Fades Away and "Ambulance Blues" affected me at the time. Difficult to explain.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:00 (twelve years ago) link
Alfred otm re Thrasher's lyrics
voted for Time Fades Away as well
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil33.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
"Winterlong" really came out of nowhere on the second half of ballots to arrive. (The Pixies' cover got a vote too.)
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
I like Winterlong but have never understood effusive praise for it, like when Frank Black says it's the best song the Pixies ever did
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
I'm basically with you--exciting when it showed up on Decade, but it's lost something over the years for me.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Winterlong" is very good but I never thought it would finish this high.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
Eric Weisbard said it sounded like peak Big Star but I don't hear it.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:11 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, I missed a lot. Meetings suck. Very surprised at some of these results, but cool nonetheless. Think "I'm The Ocean" is some kinda age thing. I had not time for that record when it came out, I had other fish to fry, and it still doesn't really compute with me, but if I had been younger and more in thrall of the moment I might have seen it differently, who knows. I have never made it to the end of the song.
Also consider "Winterlong" cool but not a heavyweight, can't see it this high either.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
that "come back now, come back now" is pretty alex chilton
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link
I'm far from a Big Star expert, but I don't really hear them in "Winterlong."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I do love the "come back now, come back now whoaoa" part for sure.
― grandavis, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
"Barstool Blues" or "Lookin' For a Girl" are closer.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
i can kinda hear the big star comparison in "Winterlong"s solo. beautiful tune (esp. on the fillmore disc w/ whitten). always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
"Love," Alfred, "Love."
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'd never think of comparing "winterlong" and big star myself, but it's a yearning, mega-melodic 70s song with some lurch and crunchy guitar, not an offensive stretch
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
http://phildellio.tripod.com/neil32.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
my #1
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
No one indicated "Trans version," so all votes went to Buffalo Springfield.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oh, hello
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
I was oblivious to the fairly obvious "Satisfaction" rip until I read Shakey.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago) link
original's the best, imo. neil's said he wanted to mix the stones with dylan and he never did it better than here. if the fifth best song on a 70s album shows up in front of this, i'm gonna be a butt, sorry in advance.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
Did I goof, buzza? Hope not.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
always seemed like a girl group should've covered winterlong, you know, with the be my baby bit there towards the end.
oh wow. LIke Emmylou-Dolly-Linda?
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:20 (twelve years ago) link
No, just quoting the opening of the song
― buzza, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
woah that ontario footage + amublance blues on spotify is taking me to a weird place
fwiw i like "i'm the ocean" and had it on my ballot
mr. soul is great....the Archives Mono version is rough sounding but SO MUCH better
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:21 (twelve years ago) link
xp no, like the ronettes. though emmylou-dolly-linda would be nice too.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link