lol
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
are we ready for some more songs?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
xp Steely Dan and Springsteen both write song-as-movie narratives, though in completely different styles
I'm ready, if there's gas in the car
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
yes, there's gas in the caaaaaaaaaAAAaaar
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Bee OK's got the news
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26. BarrytownFrom: Pretzel LogicReleased: February 20, 1974556 Points, 27 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
OK, this is so weird. I am def in some Bizzarro world of SD fandom
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Nice. I posted that all of my remaining seven would place, then realized that "Barrytown" was the one I wasn't sure of.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
(I wasn't the #1, though.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
you don't dig the more straight-ahead rock Dan, Iago?(didn't vote this myself but like it a lot)
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
you don't dig the more straight-ahead rock Dan, Iago?(didn't vote this myself but like it a lot)― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince),
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince),
It's looking that way isn't it? I like the big hits that are straight rock, deep cuts less so. Anyway, I'm going to pipe down
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
here's one in which I hear Dylan's vocal influence
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
I think Christgau might have had "Barrytown" in mind when he wrote this: "And even when Donald Fagen's voice dominates as it comes out of the speakers it tends to sink into the mix in the mind's ear--recollected in tranquility, the vocals seem like the golden mean of pop ensemble singing, stripped of histrionics and displays of technique, almost...sincere, modest."
(Followed by a qualifying "Yeah, sure," but still.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Forgot that this was one of my possible outliers. It was one of the last songs to make my cut.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
this is the one from PL I voted for. Pretty straightforward but still dense, e g my last listen was the first time I really noted the pedal steel.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
This one didn't click for me until I knew he was singing it to a Krishna. Perfect from then on.
― bentelec, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was a cult specific to Barrytown?
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Barrytown: A town in upstate New York, close to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard College (Becker & Fagen's alma mater). Its biggest claim to fame would be as the headquarters of The Unification Church, a.k.a. "The Moonies", a religious cult who gained notoriety in the 70s from reports of its mass weddings & alleged brainwashing of members. As a fundraising measure, followers would often stand at street corners, carrying small bouquets of flowers for sale (hence the lyric).
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
The lyrics are oblique, but when you get that context, everything snaps into focus.
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
in the beginning we recall that the word was hurled
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
a song i regret not voting for incidentally
it just barely made the cut for me, I'm glad I left it on
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
krishna, moonie, whoever he is believed to be siging to -- i had absolutely no idea, and that completely, like 100 percent, reverses how i have always heard the song. i think.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
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25. Black FridayFrom: Katy LiedReleased: March 1975575 Points, 28 Votes
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
Nice.
Could we get a quick summary post of the first 25?
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Top ten!
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
25)575 Black Friday 2826)556 Barrytown 1-2727)543 Only A Fool Would Say That 2228)540 Time Out Of Mind 2429)522 Night By Night 2430)513 Razor Boy 2231)492 Rose Darling 2432)478 Your Gold Teeth II (2-23)33)475 Haitian Divorce 2334)468 Your Gold Teeth 1-2335)433 Bodhisattva 1-2036)427 Glamour Profession 2137)418 Don’t Take Me Alive 1-2038)408 Home At Last 1-1939)402 Midnight Cruiser 1840)374 Any World (That I'm Welcome To) 1-15
41)308 Pearl Of The Quarter 1442)304 The Royal Scam 1643)302 Everyone’s Gone To The Movies 1744)268 Charlie Freak 1-1245)264 The Fez 1346)259 Green Earrings 1-1347)244 Here At the Western World 1348)227 Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More 1349)189 Sign In Stranger 1050)179 Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) 9
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
so already 9 tracks with #1 votes...will end up with, what? 25 different tracks? how many voters again?
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
Thanks!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
77 ballots.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
I gave up trying to order my 20 tracks and just sent an unranked ballot, don't know if lots of people did this and that's why there are fewer number ones than expected?
― soref, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
only 2 unranked ballots received.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Black Friday is their most classic rock FM radio sounding ime
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
only track from KL i voted for
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24. The Caves Of AltamiraFrom: The Royal Scam Released: May, 1976627 Points, 25 Votes
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
pplains killing it with the graphics
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
re: Black Friday, those rapid fire hammer-ons are crazy, and I tried to play them on guitar in high school with no success
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
voted for this one, caves of altamira is incredible.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
some dude has been otm about the horn arrangement making caves great
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link
love it! glad it made the top 25. had to rearrange my ballot at the last second because I realized I had initially left it off.
― how's life, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
Black Friday: A town in New South Wales, Australia. Muswellbrook is approximately 280 kilometres north-west of Sydney and has a population of 15,000. The pronunciation used in the song is in fact wrong — locals don't pronounce the W, so it sounds more like "Musclebrook".
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
Altamira: A set of prehistoric cave paintings, near the medieval village of Santillana del Mar in northern Spain. Discovered in 1869, the scenes of bison and deer have been described as "the Sistine Chapel of Palaeolithic art".
http://www.santillana-del-mar.com/english/altamira.htm
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:33 (ten years ago) link
How seventies to descend into the caves wearing one's pearl necklace and open blouse.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
Black Friday is such a great tune. I didn't vote in this but I wish I had. My number 1 hasn't shown up yet but I bet it's this thread's "sway"
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
Love "Caves Of Altamira"...Steely Dan at their greenest...great sax solo too
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
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23. Third World ManFrom: Gaucho Released: November 21, 1980628 Points, 26 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:52 (ten years ago) link
i might emerge from this poll with the royal scam as my new favorite LP
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
"Third World Man" my #2, only held from #1 for sentimental reasons
― Euler, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
my first TOO LOW, this was my number two but someone did vote this their best song.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
haha