I need a change of scener
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Nesmith ftw.
― Pancakes Hackman, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:49 (fifteen years ago) link
So what's left? Head soundtrack, this one, and "Changes"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 14:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I prefer Headquarters to this.
As it is, I agree with Joe but with a reversed order.
― aldo, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 15:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Love this rec, which, if I'm not mistaken, was #1 the day I was born.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:17 (fifteen years ago) link
Damn, this one's hard.
― Eric H., Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess "Star Collector."
― Eric H., Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:20 (fifteen years ago) link
"Daily Nightly" is in a league of its own here.
― Geir Hongro, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 19:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― ILX System, Saturday, 12 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Their best album, but some of the lyrics are really dodgy.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I really love a bunch of these songs to bits. Kind of shocked that I don't know the non-singles.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 July 2008 01:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Sure you do! (I think "Words" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday" were the only literal singles.)
"Daily Nightly" for me.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 13 July 2008 03:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― ILX System, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:01 (fifteen years ago) link
I think of everything that was played on the show as a single.
― HI DERE, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:08 (fifteen years ago) link
I can understad why "Pleasant Valley Sunday" has it here. After all it's one of their best singles.
"Daily Nightly" has the uniqueness of being the first "rock" song ever with a Moog though, and it's a great psych-pastiche.
― Geir Hongro, Monday, 14 July 2008 22:49 (fifteen years ago) link
this record is really wonderful
― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
I rep hard for all of the quartet's original albums. And I unaccountably enjoy Pool It! even while acknowledging that (but also largely because) it's irredeemably awful.
― Dippin' Sauce on my Nice New Slacks (Old Lunch), Monday, 17 July 2017 12:50 (six years ago) link
Would have voted for "Pleasant Valley Sunday," which I'd easily take over "A Well Respected Man" or "Ballad of a Thin Man" or "Nowhere Man," but I also keep "The Door Into Summer" on my hard-drive.
― clemenza, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:00 (six years ago) link
Funny, I was just listening to this a couple of days ago. Was talking with a friend about the introductory guitar lead of "Pleasant Valley Sunday," which is just so sophisticated. Sort of a backwards "Paperback Writer."
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 17 July 2017 13:08 (six years ago) link
I thought I read once that the riff actually WAS based on "Paperback Writer," but wiki says it was "I Want To Tell You."
― smug dinner-jazz atrocity (Dan Peterson), Monday, 17 July 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link