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
― sleeve, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:51 (five years ago) link
also it would take approx. 3 months of continuous listening to get through the LPD catalog
― sleeve, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
what sleeve said
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 01:07 (five years ago) link
the comodores please
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
commodores*
just the 9 studio albums w/ lionel would be super fun
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
Looking forward to everyone's unpacking of 'Lemon Incest' in January or thereabouts.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link
The Chopin scholars among us will come out of hiding at last.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 20:15 (five years ago) link
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)― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 10:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, October 30, 2018 10:15 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
For some reason I woke up this morning thinking about this
https://www.bingeclock.com/memes/simpsons___all_those_police_academy_movies.jpg
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 22:00 (five years ago) link
Kenny Rogers!
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
That’s... not a bad idea? Def a lot of strange stuff. Pretty big discography tho
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 23:47 (five years ago) link
Did this poll close while the site was down? I don't see a system post.
― jmm, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:43 (five years ago) link
must have!
― sleeve, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:44 (five years ago) link
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!
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 November 2018 22:34 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrle0x_DHBM
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 2 November 2018 22:38 (five years ago) link
so... is someone gonna run with an EWF thread?
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 November 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― Ich bin kein Berliner (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 5 November 2018 22:32 (five years ago) link
Wrong wrong wrong. But then I even like Boney M.
― Alma Kirby (Tom D.), Monday, 5 November 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 5 November 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
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?
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 5 November 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
yeah, that's how the other ones went
― Οὖτις, Monday, 5 November 2018 23:00 (five years ago) link
Keep Your Head To The Sky: The EARTH, WIND & FIRE Track-By-Track Listening Thread
― grawlix (unperson), Monday, 5 November 2018 23:13 (five years ago) link
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.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 13 December 2018 20:32 (five years ago) link
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)
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
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...
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
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.
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
yr on yr own with that one
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
i’d do the böc one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
I don't know their catalog at all outside of Godzilla and Don't Fear the Reaper
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:41 (four years ago) link
I'd happily participate in a boc one
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:43 (four years ago) link
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
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
I would contribute to a böc thread!
― Book Doula (sleeve), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
covering '72 - '88 looks like a decent run
xp
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 6 November 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
approx 100 songs give or take. seems like a fun thing to do every day for 100 days lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:32 (four years ago) link
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
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
Time To Play BOC-Sides
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:41 (four years ago) link
lmao
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 6 November 2019 23:42 (four years ago) link
If we do BOC, we probably should start with the Stalk-Forrest Group album.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 November 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
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
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:31 (four years ago) link
also chronology is overrated
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
but i was thinking of starting this on monday
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
(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)
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Sticking to chronology would mean a bunch of stuff before arriving at the debut, which as you say might not be the best way to start and keep people interested (in addition to St. Cecilia, there's also some audition demos recorded afterwards that were added as bonus tracks to the reissue of the S/T, all in all making for about two weeks of listening before getting to the real albums).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
Actually less than two weeks--Those CBS demos are almost all already covered on St. Cecilia.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
yeah i think i'll introduce the stalk-forrest group during "i'm on the lamb" and then expand further after the s/t's done
cool, can't wait to do this, i'm already writing up the first few tracks
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 19:50 (four years ago) link
psyched
― Book Doula (sleeve), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:19 (four years ago) link
wgaf about demos, stick to official releases
(full disclosure: I know nothing about the BOC catalog)
― Οὖτις, Friday, 8 November 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link
I own a couple of BOC records I've neglected so this would be kewl
― Simon H., Friday, 8 November 2019 20:41 (four years ago) link
they're the only songs credited to the soft white underbelly. regardless i will not be spending four days on them. maybe one
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:43 (four years ago) link
on a weekend
XP To Shakey: I confused matters by bringing up the CBS demos. The band--when they were the Stalk-Forrest Group--had recorded an album's worth of material (known as St. Cecilia) for Elektra Records in '69-'70. The label dropped them after a failed single, and the rest of the material stayed in the vault for 30 years until Rhino Handmade put it out.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 8 November 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link