The ILM 1980s Anti-Rolling Stone Canon (FREE PUSSY RIOT) Rock Poll Results - ALBUMS! Top 20! ends today

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I love Doolittle, it was the first Pixies album I heard

I totally bought Doolittle because of a girl

thank you, German camp crush

Doolittle isn't my fave but it's dear to me because it was also the first I heard.

first thing I ever heard by the Pixies was "I've Been Tired"

later on, I realized I'd also heard "Gigantic" and "Where Is My Mind?" but they hadn't immediately registered

I sometimes think my favourite Pixies album is Trompe Le Monde.

all the coolest crushworthy guys at college liked the Pixies. it was like a rule

when I unwrapped Doolittle and played it for the first time (btw this was in the same batch of CDs that included the Feelies album I ended up hating), this was me during "Debaser":

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/6a00d8341cce2453ef014e5fb949eb970c-800wi.jpg

next one up is a surprisingly low position.

wait a min dan you dropped a tab then listened to Doolittle?

Then this was me during "Tame":

http://slowburn.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/2008/05/16/shocked.jpg

by the time "I Bleed" started up I was convinced I was listening to genius

Debaser still gives me a tiny wave of excitement, like I'm always *kinda* hearing it for the first time

32 My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything 1263 Points, 22 Votes
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrub4dqbcO1qac7ryo1_500.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/2iNVUmIuWuri8dYNG37yie

that's not that much of a surprise, it's not Loveless

doolittle soured me on the pixies 4 life

down with doolittle!

Never thought this was a great album.

xpost to Isn't Anything

Loveless towers over any other MBV imo. Production was likely everything with that band.

31 Birthday Party - Junkyard 1336 Points, 24 Votes, One #1
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/BirthdayPartyJunkyard.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/1oiC3mdgLddL5kHZsf4DK7

surprised junkyard made it so high.

I avoided The Birthday Party for a really long time because I didn't like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds; actually hearing them via Hits was very eye-opening

as a result I think "The Friend Catcher" is my favorite song of theirs but this album has some stompers on it

such an awesome cover

okay that's weird

Prayers on Fire is the better album imo

but fucking wooooooooo at The Birthday Party cracking the top 50

either way I'm a happy girl

(I can't remember which Bad Seeds song it was I heard that turned me off to them but it wasn't "The Weeping Song", which made me reconsider my antipathy)

oh DJP

*shakes head sadly*

junkyard feels like their most cohesive. first time I heard "she's hit" I was in love - wtf is this? music totally outside of genre, a high wire act of style and grit.

wow noon comes early in englandland.

btw the mudhoney album title is actually a ref to TWO guitar pedals, the other being the univox superfuzz. which i have been lucky enough to play and own for a short while, and i am pretty sure its all over that record.

DJP have you heard from her to eternity? stylistically it's not that far from the birthday party stuff.

That first side of Junkyard is just perfectly sequenced too, it's great

30 Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven 1362 Points, 24 Votes
http://betterpropaganda.com/images/artwork/Hairway_To_Steven-Butthole_Surfers_480.jpg
http://open.spotify.com/album/3Izyai1krlLpf4BjUvxMx4

junkyard has the better cover.

i hated the bad seeds/nick cave for years (completely independently from DJP), got turned around by red right hand and his ULTRA CREEPY work w/current 93 on all the pretty little horses. still havent listened to the birthday club ever though.

also all this talk about the feelies letdown is reminding me of guadacanal diary - flip flop, which might have been in that same box and was also ass.

ah it was "The Train Song" on the Mute International compilation that I heard and made me go "okay avoid Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds"

xp: hahahaha Flip Flop! What a terrible terrible album (it was another Columbia House purchase, yes)

EIII otm, From Her To Eternity, and even Firstborn is Dead to some extent are very much transitional Birthday Party albums.
Kicking Against the Pricks delineates between the Bad Seeds and the Birthday party, and then Your Funeral is more like the official Bad Seeds being the Bad Seeds.

at least in my mind. Those first two bad seeds albums are still very snarly and jangly and kinda noisy, even though they're more reigned in

check out their last two eps which imo is the birthday party's best work. xp

all this BP talk Imma have to have a listening (birthday) party this morning

John, check out "The Friend Catcher" by The Birthday Party; I am certain you will adore it

http://youtu.be/Byz2F78fUqg <--- so fucking great

Bad Seeds + Birthday Party + Nick Cave, definitely one of my most long-running rabid obsessions

Debaser still gives me a tiny wave of excitement, like I'm always *kinda* hearing it for the first time

Ha! This is so true.

Friend Catcher is awesome

Stirmonster you didn't even comment on the buttholes album!

yeah the mutiny/bad seed EPs are good places to start: http://open.spotify.com/album/7LT9c5MHBgDWB595HgQkvr

hits is pretty good as a career overview but it's in chronological order so you don't get to hear their signature sound until you're a couple tracks in: http://open.spotify.com/album/14q81HMQE5drKlOCmrgURf

wtf why does spotify's version of junkyard start w/ "blast off"

it's a good song but that is unholy ruination of perfect sequencing

I know Hairway isn't quite up there with earlier Buttholes but I always loved X-ray Of A Girl Passing Gas more than anything else of theirs.

spotify's junkyard is the reissue - blastoff was the bonus track

def ruins the flow, I agree

Stirmonster you didn't even comment on the buttholes album!

i like hairway to steven ok but i didn't vote for it and i never listened to anything they did after it with very much interest.

put the bloody bonus tracks at the end ffs