Indulge Me POLL: 1001 Albums Johnny Fever Thinks You Must Hear Before You Die (#'s 51-100)

fuuuuUUUUck. Impossible to choose between Jimmy Smith, Steely Dan, Otis & Carla, Seeger, Scott Walker, and the Pretenders.

Devo, ahead of Lush and Wu-Tang Clan. Lots of artists I love (Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Happy Mondays, Bob Seger, Otis Redding, Steely Dan, The Maytals) but not the albums I love them for.

Janet, Jayhawks, Steely, Devo, Pretenders would all get a #1 vote from me. Guess I'll vote for Janet.

Pretzel Logic. (Do you have vinyl for Santo & Johnny?)

I had it during my first phase of buying records in the early 90s (found it at a Salvation Army), but all of those records died a horrible death in a basement flood.

lotta albums i love here but i'm big on those Jarvis Cocker solo albums so feel compelled to rep for that

devo vs wutang

0067 - Roger Williams, Golden Hits (1967)

This is another one (like The Ink Spots one in the first poll) that my parents had and I listened to plenty as a child. "Born Free" still gives me a chill now and then. However, the real keeper here is "Flight of the Bumblebee", which my mom would put on and my brother and I would run around the den bumping into things while it played. We probably made her do that 200 or more times.

<3 Hildegard, but I just don't think I can vote for her here, not when Are We Not Men and Trans-Europe Express are on this list...

But then again, you're quite likely to hear those two albums even if I don't recommend them to you, whereas you really *should* hear Hildegard Knef, but it's not that likely unless someone specifically points it out to you. Hm.

Voted Wu-Tang Clan.

emil.y, I <3 your Hildegard Knef <3. I bought that record just because of its cover in the late 90s (early 00s?) and fell in love with it. I even bought her autobio on eBay because I wanted to learn more. Weirdly, though, I never bought another one of her albums.

Pretenders

either

Devo
7 Secs
S Dan
Built to Spill
or
Wu Tang

there's nothing wrong with love

it's probably my favorite adolescent nostalgia record

Oh my, so much to chose from here. There are far better albums on this list, but that Sergio Mendes record holds such a special place in my childhood summers (and I doubt anyone else will vote for it), so that gets my vote. Sorry, Scott Walker, Wu Tang, et al.

fwiw, here are the first hundred in mosaic form: http://hallmonitor.org/archive

(I guess I'm going to try to do exactly 100 a month so tumblr archives will split them up all nice like this.)

Quite a few great records up there, but the Devo record pretty much changed my life.

Devo barely ahead of Pretenders.

MX-80 Sound.

Must be heard HUNDREDS of times!

JF: a spotify playlist of your choice cuts of each one of these (if available) would be great to get acquainted with the ones we don't know.

Can't vote in these polls, btw. It's like choosing which one of your sons you'll have to drown in a lake to please the gods.

I'll be working up a playlist for the first hundred over the weekend (or as many of the first hundred that I can find on Spotify).

This is harder than the first 50. Wu-Tang Clan, Devo, Digable Planets, Syreeta and Pretenders are all contenders but think I might have to go with Kraftwerk.

i will be the only vote for Gala.

Spotify playlist: http://open.spotify.com/user/mondosalvo/playlist/0BqTjSTbllfzhgxa3A8z21

(87 out of 100, and some of them aren't all-region)

Have heard a few more of these than the last bunch. Voted Pretenders s/t as it is very underrated these days.

Voted Pretenders s/t as it is very underrated these days.

Especially on ilm, it appears.

It's too bad -- Pretenders/Extended Play/P2 was an enormous early run.

James Honeyman-Scott was a monster guitarist that was underappreciated in both life and death. One of my earliest inspirations from the time I first picked up the instrument.

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