YES
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:44 (nine years ago) link
Is this countdown being spotified?
― Eric H., Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
whoa, poll running at a real time of day!! ty leeeeeee
Thank my work, which has determined that I need Photoshop for my job!
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
Doing so now.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
i.e. creating Spotify playlist.
https://open.spotify.com/user/redhalcyon/playlist/4GqYxW3XTBV97VuGfiY5kh
thanks!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link
hot frankie teardrop take: oh so tense and horrifying! you'll never believe how horrifying an echo-effected scream can be!
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/0kTYAk8.jpg
77T. Can - Bel Air - 4375 points | 7 votesDuration: 19:53YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
I opted to vote for the War song that I'm sure absolutely no one else voted for.
Here's a second hardcore promotion of Faust for the uninitiated. I still have never heard any of the post-'70s stuff, but I absolutely love everything up through that point.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
Ravvivando is excellent fwiw
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:06 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/iXa8I7k.jpg
77T. Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - 4375 points | 7 votesDuration: 16:09YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Note on track length for Santa Esmeralda: the 16:09 version includes the "Santa Esmeralda Suite" I believe, though both of the links are for a 10-minute version without the suite.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
Voted for War and Can. Especially pleased to see The World is a Ghetto make it.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/SjC9NKf.jpg
76. Jimi Hendrix - Machine Gun - 4400 points | 7 votesDuration: 12:41YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/Gkqqajl.jpg
74T. Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations - 4425 points | 6 votesDuration: 10:25Youtube
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
I just want to say I completely disagree w/ imago in his assessment of Lil Louis.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
(and Lou Reed)
Dadawah rules, was not expecting that!
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/9zE5N9K.jpg
74T. Orbital - The Girl With The Sun In Her Head - 4425 points | 8 votesDuration: 10:27YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:33 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LwDOdQo.jpg
73. Can - Yoo Doo Right - 4500 points | 6 votesDuration: 20:28YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Ah, there is my fifth.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Hooray for The Girl With The Sun In Her Head. Ended up voting for all three songs nominated from that album.
Probably time for this amazing quote again..
I threw my vote behind In Sides as well - and it would have been even if the album was nothing but "The Girl With the Sun in Her Head" followed by 30 minutes of the band taunting me by name.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, November 6, 2009
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
hey i love that dadawah song/record. also war!
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
didn't vote for that orbital track but really glad it placed
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/8q8PoZo.jpg
71T. Global Communication - 14 31 - 4525 points | 6 votesDuration: 14:31YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Very tempted to change the listed duration there ^^^
Pretty sure In Sides is one of only two albums that got multiple votes from me. So, so good.
And Santa Esmeralda marks the first song (of several, I'm sure) that I probably would have voted for if I hadn't completely failed to notice it on the nomination list.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
GC is my second to place. Would be nice if one of their other nominated tracks also places but probably unlikely as I would have had 14:31 to place highest.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Dadawah is my fourth. Voted for different Can & Hendrix songs, but am esp stoked to see Bel Air make it. Same with Girl w/ Sun which is the only Orbital song I know but is v good.
― always one or two posters dog-determined to be RONG in a thread (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Also I used to have that War album; that song rules and I should've re-listened before submitting my ballot
― always one or two posters dog-determined to be RONG in a thread (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Yoo Doo Right wuz done wrong! Way too low.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Santa Esmeralda is great, but I already had too many disco epics in my ballot, it was one of the last things I had to cut. I've never noticed any "Santa Esmeralda Suite" in the 16 minute version, it's sounds like one epic tune to me, I guess they just integrated it really well into the Nina Simone song.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/yf6ieuT.jpg
71T. Alice Coltrane - Isis And Osiris - 4525 points | 7 votesDuration: 11:32YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Good good.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Huh, actually thought '14:31' would be #1.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
another one of my votes, yay
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
I always preferred Reload's A Collection of Short Stories generally to anything off of 76 14.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
14:31 was on my longlist at #66 - a truly sonorous & thoughtfully-composed piece of techno. I'm way behind on this now and I can confirm that Herbert Hancock can write an extraterrestrial jam, maybe even a sex jam - sexier than Lil Louis at any rate, and definitely not of this earth. Krautrock obv mega-classic, quite like War as well. we have to watch a film now so maybe more of your favourite hot takes later
Orbital and Hendrix have stuff I voted for yet to come but those are very, very great as well, and I look forward to Comus especially
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Comus sounded intense and extremely germane to my interest in British pastoralia and especially British supernatural-pastoral - it keeps its secrets well-hidden but lets out enough of the magic to ensure you'll keep looking. Very, very intriguing. I can see myself loving this a lot after a few repeats
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
It's a beauty I don't know why I didn't think to nominate it. Roger doesn't sing lead vocals on it so it isn't totally representative of most of their sound. In fact I should have nominated "Maalgard Suite", a live epic that resurfaced after decades, which is totally brilliant.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
That'll be it for today. Spotify playlist is up-to-date, plus has "Albatross" added, which I couldn't find initially.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
Like every poll, I voted for what I already knew and didn't do any extra listening. But I did learn about the long album version of "The World Is a Ghetto" for the first time--only knew the single edit from Greatest Hits. It was one of two songs ("Jenny Ondioline" the other) where I like the shorter version better but voted for it anyway.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Malgaard Suite is amazing and Lindsay Cooper was a much better fit for the band than that shit flautist on First Utterance, but since the only recording of it is a crap audience tape it's probably always going to be a curio. Honestly its release had me gobsmacked- almost every band will tell you about the "lost classic" they had, and they're nearly all shit, but the Malgaard Suite is markedly better than anything on First Utterance. The unrecorded second part of it has taken on a mythic status to me not unlike the second, and altogether stranger, part of "Kubla Khan". I actually didn't vote for Comus at all because I figured other people would take up the slack, and given that "The Herald" is the inferior of the epics on _First Utterance_ I'm not disappointed.
Glad to see one of my noms make it. Most of them were obscurantist that I wasn't sure any of them would make it. Mind you I didn't have "72 Nations" on my list until 46, but hell, there's some stuff I nominated that I didn't vote for at all...
― rushomancy, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
given that "The Herald" is the inferior of the epics on _First Utterance_
wrong
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Also I think that the Comus track "All The Colors Of Darkness" stayed unreleased for so long is scary. It's a stunning piece. I wonder how many unreleased gems there are like that?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
! had no idea of the existence of that track (never gotten around to checking out the maalgard suite, for that matter)
and yes to isis and osiris placing
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
7 (!) of my votes have shown up so far.
my, that Alice Coltrane track is something else, right? pretty sure there are healing powers contained within that song.
― charlie h, Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:42 (nine years ago) link
Must've been an amazing gig.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 April 2015 09:33 (nine years ago) link
74T. Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations - 4425 points | 6 votes
Damn... didn't realise this was what it was... I love this tune but didn't vote for it :-( I would have if I'd realised.
― but then again, who really cares? I don’t. (dog latin), Thursday, 2 April 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
Louis, I have a feeling that you will be told you are wrong a few times itt and I don't feel like adding to that but have to say your policy on long versions of songs that have both long and short versions is nonsensical
(Also you are both wrong and right about the NYC art punk stuff so far)
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link