what dedicated listening thread should we do next (the poll)

Nickelback, Rush, and Queen are not American tbf. (Queen not all straight either.)

Guardian had a list of "Cher's 30 greatest songs" last week, I listened to the top 10, I liked I think three? And even those not much.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/oct/18/chers-30-greatest-songs-ranked

xp Rush & Queen are classic rock though. Let's not talk about Nickleback.

Not all white either.

Also, yeah, the missus and I spent a day listening to a bunch of Nickelback albums and live performances. We might have gained some insights but no, not many gems there. 2xp

Anyway, if Cher is the alternative, I'd sooner dig through every 38 Special and Grand Funk album. Am up for Celine Dion, though.

I'd make a "no more white boy AOR" exception for Skynyrd, fwiw.

Given the voting options, it's toss up between Sly and The Bee Gees.

They're both too good though.

So many fantastic options in the original thread (Legendary Pink Dots! Maze! Boredoms! Yellow Magic Orchestra!!!) and somehow you managed to ignore them all for this poll...

Voted Joni.

they gotta be pretty huge in terms of raw units sold in order to qualify, I mean I like those bands more as well but they don't really fit the thread theme

also it would take approx. 3 months of continuous listening to get through the LPD catalog

what sleeve said

the comodores please

commodores*

just the 9 studio albums w/ lionel would be super fun

Looking forward to everyone's unpacking of 'Lemon Incest' in January or thereabouts.

The Chopin scholars among us will come out of hiding at last.

well the whole point of the Eagles + Billy Joel + Elton John threads was that outside of the hits most of those guys' catalogs were unfamiliar territory for most of the listeners (including me, and god what hideous territory it was)

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For some reason I woke up this morning thinking about this

https://www.bingeclock.com/memes/simpsons___all_those_police_academy_movies.jpg

Kenny Rogers!

That’s... not a bad idea? Def a lot of strange stuff. Pretty big discography tho

Did this poll close while the site was down? I don't see a system post.

must have!

huh weird.

well EWF it is I guess. idgaf about EWF so someone else can run that.

Nice showing by the Bee Gees tho, I would be down to do that after!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrle0x_DHBM

so... is someone gonna run with an EWF thread?

The first four are more or less exactly in the wrong order regarding my taste. EWaF have never done anything for me though (or probably because) I grew up in their heyday. Together with Abba and Boney M. for me they incarnated what was wrong about popular music in the late seventies.

Wrong wrong wrong. But then I even like Boney M.

There were several EWF boosters in the previous thread, one should surely step forward (I will happily listen along, and will also volunteer to do a Serge Gainsbourg one in a year or two for the other five voters)

Every time I see EWF I read it as EMF.

I was the person who originally nominated EW&F, so I guess I could run the thread if nobody else wants to. One track per day?

yeah, that's how the other ones went

Keep Your Head To The Sky: The EARTH, WIND & FIRE Track-By-Track Listening Thread

so that thread sorta petered out, who's up for some Bee Gees!

I can't decide where to start (Aussie-only releases? first international releases?) or end (1989?) I do feel that it should be restricted strictly to tracks released under the group name.

so this happened: DON'T FORGET TO REMEMBER: The Official ILM Track-By-Track BEE GEES 1968-1981 Listening Thread

if someone wants to have a go at one of these other options, have at it (or we could re-poll some new options idk)

I was generally a little bummed that the Bee Gees thread basically turned into my personal BEEGEESSONGS blog but I do really enjoy these deep-dive, one-track-a-day surveys of widely varied catalogs. I'm not particularly excited about the next tier of winners in the original poll, as most of them don't split the difference quality-wise that made the Elton John, Billy Joel and (to a much lesser extent imo, since it was just an endless tranwreck of awfulness) the Eagles threads the gold standard for this type of thing.

I don't want to run a thread, and I only took up the Bee Gees because it's a catalog I know and love inside out, but I would be bummed if we couldn't come up with another one to do...

when I cut off the TMBG poll at their first 21 years, I suggested a listening thread for the subsequent 15 once it was done / They were on hiatus from recording and releasing a new song every week. at one track per day, that'd take up two years, but I'd crunch down jingles & sub-1-minute songs to work through it faster.

yr on yr own with that one

i’d do the böc one

I don't know their catalog at all outside of Godzilla and Don't Fear the Reaper

I'd happily participate in a boc one

i just did a pretty thorough discography run but stopped short of heaven forbid and curse of the hidden mirror, so there’d even be new stuff for me. hm

idk when should i start a thread? i worry i’ll get bogged down in other work and forget to do it for days/weeks on end but i also can really see myself enjoying the process

I would contribute to a böc thread!

covering '72 - '88 looks like a decent run

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approx 100 songs give or take. seems like a fun thing to do every day for 100 days lol

having trouble picking a lyric/title

DEATH COMES SWEEPING THROUGH THE HALLWAY LIKE A LADY'S DRESS: the official ilm track-by-track blue öyster cult deep listening thread, 1972-1988

Time To Play BOC-Sides

lmao

If we do BOC, we probably should start with the Stalk-Forrest Group album.

my idea was to start with the first böc album and then get to the stalk-forrest group/soft white underbelly to fill in a few days of context before tyranny and mutation unless i hear dramatic objections. not everyone's gonna be immediately enamored with deadhead böc, and it's also stretching it a little to refer to st. cecilia as an album

also chronology is overrated

but i was thinking of starting this on monday

(to my point above, i'm also trying to avoid the redundancy of covering "i'm on the lamb"/"red and the black" three separate times)