Can't really believe that "Beauty Lies in the Eye" placed this high. So many better Kim songs. I get that it is a beloved record (and lol yeah 44 isn't THAT high) but still, many Kim songs already placed that are better than this.
― grandavis, Wednesday, May 15, 2013 12:07 PM (3 hours ago)
love "beauty lies": the weird watery guitar sound, the measured vocal & slowly building tension, "hey baby, hey sweetheart, hey fox, come here". you keep waiting for the "shadow of a doubt" style explosion that never comes. it's slight, but very cool.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
four more today:
59. Eliminator Jr.50. Youth Against Fascism47. Pipeline / Kill Time44. Beauty Lies in the Eye
i feel a little guilty abt "youth against fascism", but every time it comes on i crank it up & smile. the heart wants what it wants.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
what's to feel guilty about?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
lots of us voted for it -- it's a terrific performance
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 22:51 (eleven years ago) link
it's the hongro i date
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
Definitely down with "Beauty Lies...". Contenderizer captures the appeal well. Might even be the most durable Sister track for me, as odd as that seems as I type it. Looks like "Pipeline" was my only other track from this batch.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
man people who act like Steve lost his touch after Dirty are missing out, Washing Machine is one of their best albums drum-wise, so many cool subtle performances
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
Favourites?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
definitely mainly the 3 that placed today, also shaker section of "Unwind" and the cymbal crazy ending of "No Queen Blues"
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
definitely need to do my playlist of songs where Steve plays maracas/shakers. so far i got:
Dirty Boots, Bull In The Heather, Hyperstation, Karen Koltrane, Unwind, Anagrama, Female Mechanic Now On Duty, Sunday (SubUrbia version), i think some Made In USA tracks. what am i missing?
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
Wtf are ppl going onabout Kool Thing veing fun? That song is ferocious! Best single of their altrock phase. Major regrettable omission on my ballot. That part where Kim goes "What'd he say?!" at the end of one of the verses always gets mWas a bit of a dry run for me then Halloween ushered in a string of my choices: Beauty, Karen, Washing Machine
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
Youth Against Fascism completely rules and I love it, but I cut it in favor of things I love even more. Conventional wisdom at the time among fellow music fans was that the new album sucked (something I have heard friends say about every single SY album since Sister), but I remember playing YAF once for a friend, who loved it and was like "dammit, Matt and Tony told me this record sucked!"
― Flat Of NAGLs (sleeve), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
"Karen Koltrane" is fine but definitely a song that would've been on my ballot 10-15 years ago that wasn't considered for a moment now
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
Only "Brother James" from my ballot today. Really surprised how much from the mid-90s is showing up.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
well i mean, if they stopped in 1993, there wouldn't be 100 songs to count down
― society is a lol, it makes me j/k to my friends (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:13 (eleven years ago) link
wait, brother jams came up today? naw, you mean
49. Kill Yr. Idols (155 points, 12 votes)
which i forgot earlier, cuz yeah, i voted for that one too. up to nine!
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 May 2013 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/040.jpg40. InhumanConfusion Is Sex, 1983(181 points, 10 votes, 2 #1)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
MY BODY IS A PASTIME MY MIND IS A SIMPLE JOY I LEARN MY LESSON THE HARDEST WAY
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 May 2013 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm genuinely surprised that so much pre-EVOL stuff is popping up this high.
― Austin, Thursday, 16 May 2013 05:43 (eleven years ago) link
TOO LOW
― cock chirea, Thursday, 16 May 2013 05:49 (eleven years ago) link
'Pastime'? I always heard 'My body is a pipeline'
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 06:04 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/039.jpg39. Bull in the HeatherExperimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, 1994(182 points, 12 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
"We never said we were professional"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1JJmI1QhsM
― you're going home in a crispy ambulance (cajunsunday), Thursday, 16 May 2013 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
Inhuman only really struck me during the ballot process. It made my list because it is AWESOME and because it sounds like Throbbing Gristle.
― kraudive, Thursday, 16 May 2013 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/038.jpg38. Shaking HellConfusion Is Sex, 1983(183 points, 11 votes, 1 #1)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 07:21 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks to whoever put this as their #1. Scary, scary track.
― etc, Thursday, 16 May 2013 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/037.jpg37. Stereo SanctitySister, 1987(184 points, 10 votes, 1 #1)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 08:34 (eleven years ago) link
heh i was just thinking last night "could 'Bull In The Heather' be in the top 20? do i dare to dream?" oh well
― diddy downton-abbey (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
Nice. Just goes to show: the early shit garners respect, even now.
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:26 (eleven years ago) link
Hehe. "Shaking Hell" was my #1. "Scary" also figured in my explanation of this choice in an off-thread conversation.
Yay for "Inhuman" as well. Confusion is Sex in general just sounds ever better with the passage of time IMHO. Inexplicably, I barely rated it back in my first flurry of fandom.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:46 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/036.jpg36. HyperstationDaydream Nation, 1988(191 points, 12 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f163/courtneykaehler/maracas.jpg
― diddy downton-abbey (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
The pictures are killing me
― Beatrix Kiddo (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:25 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/035.jpg35. Brother JamesKill Yr. Idols, 1983(202 points, 13 votes)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:42 (eleven years ago) link
jeez, i guess this is where confusion comes in. have to admit that i sometimes underrate that album. it's marred, imo, by a few lesser tracks, but otherwise up there with their best work. song for song, though, i think i prefer kill yr idols. had "brother james" in at #6, "kill yr idols" not far behind.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
I usually forget which tracks are CIS and which are KYI tbh, cos I have them on 1 CD. Brother James and Shaking Hell are my favourite songs from that CD anyway.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 16 May 2013 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
I put my CD in a binder without the liner notes when I moved here but iirc it says "pastime" in the liner notes of the DGC reissue. Just checked a few lyrics sites that all say "pastime".
What Throbbing Gristle sounds like this?
I owe a beer to NNN for putting "Shaking Hell" at #1. I know I'm on the right board when all this no wave/industrial-era material shows up this high.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:04 (eleven years ago) link
Oh, I didn't mean to say you were wrong, just that I misheard it all these years.
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:10 (eleven years ago) link
Although 'pipeline' makes more sense biologically :)
Kill Yr Idols is such a potent EP, makes me feel like if they'd written a few more songs in that era before beginning the BMR stuff it'd probably be their strongest early album.
― some dude, Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:22 (eleven years ago) link
Yay for "Inhuman" as well.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Thursday, May 16, 2013 3:46 AM (1 hour ago)
"scary" is a good word for early SY. back then, they often seemed intent on putting down the creep: confusion, bad moon and evol. they mostly dropped this angle on sister, though "beauty lies", "pipeline/kt" and "pch" might have found room on a more unnerving, horrorshow version of that album. by the time they got to goo, they'd traded disturbing for funny, noise and drone for hard rock. suspect that's why so many got off the bus at or by that point.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:23 (eleven years ago) link
I had to almost force a goth rock-loving friend of mine to listen to CIS back in undergrad. He said he never thought Sonic Youth could be that good.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
the "haw haw haw" bit at the beginning of "inhuman" sounds so much like (later) butthole surfers that it always throws me for a moment. actual lyrics ftr:
my body is a pashlinemy body is a super sore!
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
lol, blew that one. uh, "mind" goes in there somewhere too.
― controversial vegan pregnancy (contenderizer), Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:29 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.melson.nl/ILM/sypoll/034.jpg34. Disconnection NoticeMurray Street, 2002(204 points, 10 votes, 1 #1)
― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
wow a #1
― some dude, Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:33 (eleven years ago) link
the "haw haw haw" bit at the beginning of "inhuman" sounds so much like (later) butthole surfers that it always throws me for a moment.
Wow, I'd never made that link before but that's OTM.
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 16 May 2013 12:59 (eleven years ago) link
maybe it was a ZZ Top homage like "Eliminator Jr." haha
― trick paddy pollars (some dude), Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:00 (eleven years ago) link
This poll continues to impress me.
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
Disco Notice is one of mine, one of Thurston's best melodies imo. And the way it starts out, with that warm screech that almost sounds like a string section but ends up sounding even more like something off of Paik's Satin Black. Just a great way to kind of catch you off guard
― smartphones - the government's secret weapon against ILX (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 16 May 2013 13:07 (eleven years ago) link