TURN THIS MUTHA OUT! It's the Alternate 1970s Albums Poll on ILX — Results Thread

Here's mine - unordered (sorry)

Syd Barrett - Barrett
Beach Boys - Holland
Tim Buckley -Greeting from LA
Can -Soon over Babaluma
Chic- C'est Chic
Gene Clark -No Other
Kevin Coyne -Marjorie Razorblade
David Crosby -If I could Only Remember My name
Cross and Ross -Bored Civilians
Culture -2 Sevens Clash
Dr. Alimantado -Best Dressed Chicken
Earth Wind and Fire - I Am
Faust Tapes
Flying Burrito Brothers
Al Green -Explores Your Mind
Groundhogs -Split
Musik Von Harmonia
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Richard Hell- Blank Generation
Little Feat -Sailin' Shoes
Meters -Rejuvenation
Van Morrison -St. Dominics Preview
New Riders of the Purple Sage
Randy Newman -Good Ol'Boys
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band -Will the Circle be Unbroken
Shuggie Otis -Inspiration Information
Ann Peebles -I can't Stand the Rain
Pere Ubu -The Modern Dance
Pink Fairies -Kings of Oblivion
Elis Regina and Tom Jobim - Elis and Tom
Emmitt Rhodes
Minnie Riperton -Come into My garden
Saints -I'm Stranded
Judee Sill -Heartfood
Slapp Happy -Casablanca Moon
Steely Dan -Katy Lied
Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers- LAMF
Richard and Linda Thompson -Pour Down Like Silver
T Rex- Eleectric Warrior
Neil Young -Time Fades Away

Dorothy Ashby is on Adventures in Paradise???

OK now I am officially itching to hear this, I love Dorothy Ashby.

1 Funkadelic Standing on the Verge of Getting it On
2 Funkadelic Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow
3 Groundhogs, The Split
4 Groundhogs, The Thank Christ for the Bomb
5 Parliament Osmium
6 Mandrill Mandrill Is...
7 King Crimson Red
8 Funkadelic Funkadelic
9 Funkadelic Cosmic Slop
10 Funkadelic Let's Take it to the Stage
11 Ohio Players Skin Tight
12 Ohio Players Honey
13 Ohio Players Pain
14 Ohio Players Pleasure
15 Ohio Players Fire
16 Mayfield, Curtis Curtis
17 Parliament The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
18 MC5 High Time
19 Hancock, Herbie Man-Child
20 Hancock, Herbie Sextant
21 Hancock, Herbie Headhunters
22 Hancock, Herbie Crossings
23 Hancock, Herbie Mwandishi
24 Tangerine Dream Force Majeure
25 Tangerine Dream Stratosfear
26 Van Der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts
27 Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel
28 Adverts, The Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts
29 Neu! Neu! 75
30 Isley Brothers, The Go for Your Guns
31 Isley Brothers, The The Heat is On
32 Mutiny Mutiny on the Mamaship
33 Funkadelic Uncle Jam Wants You
34 Rundgren, Todd A Wizard, A True Star
35 Graham Central Station Ain't No Doubt About It
36 Buckley, Tim Greetings from L.A.
37 Collins, Bootsy Bootsy?… Player of the Year
38 Davis, Miles Agharta
39 Dead Boys, The Young, Loud and Snotty
40 Dr. Feelgood Down By the Jetty

My votes, ones which placed in bold. Biggest surprise, no Iggy or Roxy, thought that they'd be locks for the top 30. Disappointed but not surprised; no Nina Simone, Saints or Keith Jarrett and that 'Out of the Blue' beat 'A New World Record'. Anyway some interesting stuff for me to investigate. Nice work Johnny.

1 Stewart, Rod Every Picture Tells a Story
2 Reed, Lou Transformer
3 Morrison, Van Moondance
4 Nilsson, Harry A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night
5 Electric Light Orchestra A New World Record
6 Sister Sledge We Are Family
7 Jarrett, Keith The Koln Concert
8 Saints, The I'm Stranded
9 Roxy Music Stranded
10 Bowie, David Lodger
11 Eno, Brian Ambient 1: Music for Airports
12 Marley, Bob & The Wailers Live
13 Chic C'est Chic
14 Chic Risque
15 Mayfield, Curtis Curtis
16 T.Rex Electric Warrior
17 Eno, Brian Before and after Science
18 Simone, Nina Here Comes the Sun
19 Pop, Iggy Lust for Life
20 Meat Loaf Bat Out of Hell
21 Nilsson, Harry Nilsson Sings Newman
22 Staton, Candi Young Hearts Run Free
23 Pop, Iggy The Idiot
24 Electric Light Orchestra Out of the Blue
25 Faithfull, Marianne Broken English
26 Kraftwerk Autobahn
27 Martyn, John Solid Air
28 Bowie, David Young Americans
29 Bryars, Gavin The Sinking of the Titanic
30 Bunyan, Vashti Just Another Diamond Day
31 Roxy Music Country Life
32 Simone, Nina Emergency Ward
33 Young, Neil Harvest
34 Fripp, Robert & Brian Eno Evening Star
35 Sparks Propaganda
36 Undertones, The The Undertones
37 Blue Öyster Cult Agents of Fortune
38 Talking Heads Fear of Music
39 Supertramp Breakfast in America
40 Wonder, Stevie Fulfillingness' First Finale

As I said before, my ordering went a bit slapdash as I tried to whittle it down to 40, but here are my votes:

1. La Dusseldorf - La Dusseldorf
2. Faust - Faust IV
3. Haack, Bruce - Electric Lucifer
4. Art Bears - Hopes and Fears
5. Slapp Happy - Casablanca Moon
6. Neu! - Neu! 2
7. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
8. Comus - First Utterance
9. Residents, The - Meet the Residents
10. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Yellow Magic Orchestr
11. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
12. Can - Soundtracks
13. Cluster - Zuckerzeit
14. Harmonia - Deluxe
15. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
16. Art Bears - Winter Songs
17. Hazlewood, Lee - Cowboy in Sweden
18. Magma - Udu Wudu
19. Jandek - Ready for the House
20. This Heat - This Heat
21. Faust - The Faust Tapes
22. Devo - Duty Now For the Future
23. Art Ensemble of Chicago, The - Les Stances a Sophie
23. Perhacs, Linda - Parallelograms
24. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
25. Specials, The - The Specials
26. Lucier, Alvin - I Am Sitting in a Room
27. Harmonia - Musik von Harmonia
28. Flower Travellin' Band - Satori
29. Sun Ra - Space is the Place
30. Faust - So Far
31. La Dusseldorf - Viva
32. Neu! - Neu! 75
33. Nico - Desertshore
34. Wayne, Jeff - War of the Worlds
35. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
36. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Clear Spot
37. Bunyan, Vashti - Just Another Diamond Day
38. Goblin - Suspiria
39. X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
40. Walker Brothers, The - Nite Flights

Re: Abbott's ballot, REALLY want to get into Henry Cow btw

Pfunkboy, where's Godbluff on your ballot? Naughty boy.

(unordered)

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Adverts, The - Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts
Black Flag - Nervous Breakdown EP
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Boys, The - The Boys
Cabaret Voltaire - Mix-Up
Can - Soundtracks
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Cars, The - The Cars
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
Cramps, The - Gravest Hits
Crass - The Feeding of the 5000
Damned, The - Machine Gun Etiquette
Dead Boys, The - Young, Loud and Snotty
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Dictators, The - Go Girl Crazy
Faust - Faust IV
Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
Funkadelic - Free Your Mind… And Your Ass Will Follow
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Hell, Richard & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
Motörhead - Overkill
Parliament - Chocolate City
Peebles, Ann - Can't Stand the Rain
Pink Fairies - Neverneverland
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
Raincoats, The - The Raincoats
Ramones - Rocket to Russia
Reed, Lou - Street Hassle
Roxy Music - Siren
Saints, The - I'm Stranded
Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
T.Rex - The Slider
Teenage Jesus & The Jerks - Teenage Jesus & The Jerks EP
Temptations, The - Psychedelic Shack
Thunders, Johnny - So Alone
Undertones, The - The Undertones
X Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents

11 of mine made it.

1.The Belle Album - Al Green
2.Rocket to Russia - The Ramones
3.Muswell Hillbillies - The Kinks
4.Sunflower - The Beach Boys
5. Quadrophrenia - The Who
6. I'm Still in Love with You - Al Green
7. Horses- Patti Smith
8. Shake Some Action - Flamin Groovies
9. Ramones Leave Home - Ramones
10. Al Green Explores Your Mind - Al Green
11. Highway to Hell - AC/DC
12. Who's Next- The Who
13. Road to Ruin - Ramones
14.Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
15. Transformer - Lou Reed
16. Look-a-Py-Py - The Meters
17.Katy Lied - Steely Dan
18. Al Green Gets Next to You
19.Live at Max's Kansas City - Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers
20. Young, Gifted & Black - Aretha Franklin
21.Propaganda - Sparks
22. Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
23. Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow - Funkadelic
24.No More No Less - Blue Ash
25. Talking Heads 77
26. High Voltage - AC/DC
27. Schoolboys in Disgrace - The Kinks
28. Spirit in the Dark - Aretha Franklin
29. Here, My Dear - Marvin Gaye
30. Give'em Enough Rope - The Clash
31. Berlin - Lou Reed
32. Ram - Paul McCartney
33. Curtis - Curtis Mayfield
34. New Morning - Bob Dylan
35. Sex Machine - James Brown
36. Outlandos D'Amour - The Police
37. s/t - Fleetwood Mac
38. Honey - Ohio Players
39. s/t - Black Sabbath
40. Natty Dread - Bob Marley

i am a little bit surprised about the buzzcocks not making it. i am happy for x ray spex though.

Full results here: http://home.earthlink.net/~pauletc/results.htm

101-200 here:

80 7 ZZ Top Tres Hombres
80 1 5 Genesis Selling England By the Pound
80 4 Jorge Ben África Brasil
79 12 Paul McCartney Ram
78 1 8 Cluster Sowiesoso
78 5 Caetano Veloso Transa
76 13 Iggy Pop Lust for Life
76 10 Todd Rundgren Something/Anything?
74 7 Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material
74 6 Little Feat Sailing Shoes
74 6 The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies
74 6 The Who Quadrophenia
73 7 Iggy Pop The Idiot
73 1 5 Derek & The Dominos Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
73 4 The Roches The Roches
72 7 Herbie Hancock Headhunters
72 3 Black Devil Disco Club
71 8 George Harrison All Things Must Pass
70 8 Van Der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts
70 1 6 La Dusseldorf La Dusseldorf
70 5 Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool
69 9 Roxy Music Country Life
69 6 Pink Floyd Meddle
68 6 The Durutti Column The Return of The Durutti Column
67 8 Roxy Music Stranded
66 9 David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name
66 8 Culture Two Sevens Clash
66 7 Randy Newman Good Old Boys
65 5 Judee Sill Heart Food
65 1 3 Parliament Motor Booty Affair
64 10 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
64 9 The Undertones The Undertones
64 7 Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information
64 5 Dolly Parton The Best of Dolly Parton (1975)
64 1 3 Gary Numan The Pleasure Principle
64 1 3 Sparks Indiscreet
63 9 Al Green I'm Still in Love With You
63 7 Toots & The Maytals Funky Kingston
63 5 Ramones Leave Home
63 1 4 Cluster Cluster (1971)
63 4 Magma Udu Wudu
63 4 War The World is a Ghetto
62 9 The Clash Give 'em Enough Rope
62 6 Fela Kuti Shuffering and Shmiling
62 3 Blue Öyster Cult Secret Treaties
61 7 Michael Hurley, The Unholy Modal Rounders, Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones Have Moicy!
60 8 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Clear Spot
60 7 The Damned Damned Damned Damned
60 6 Carole King Tapestry
60 6 Kate & Anna McGarrigle Kate & Anna McGarrigle
60 1 5 Warren Zevon Excitable Boy
60 5 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Damn the Torpedoes
59 9 Vashti Bunyan Just Another Diamond Day
59 8 Bob Dylan & The Band Before the Flood
59 8 Lee Hazlewood Cowboy in Sweden
59 7 Boston Boston
59 4 Buckingham Nicks Buckingham Nicks
59 4 The Groundhogs Split
58 10 Steve Reich Drumming / Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ / Six Pianos
58 7 Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson
58 6 Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters Super Ape
57 9 Bob Marley & The Wailers Catch a Fire
57 8 The Damned Machine Gun Etiquette
57 6 Chic Risqué
57 6 The Beach Boys Sunflower
57 5 Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting in a Room
57 5 Jandek Ready for the House
57 5 Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny
56 9 Gene Clark No Other
55 9 Faust So Far
55 3 Alain Gorageur La Planete Sauvage (Motion Picture Score)
55 3 Elis Regina & Antonio Carlos Jobim Elis e Tom
54 6 Sly & The Family Stone Fresh
54 4 The Flatlanders More a Legend Than a Band
53 8 Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsys
53 1 4 Bill Fay Time of the Last Persecution
53 4 John Cale & Terry Riley Church of Anthrax
52 8 Neil Young Time Fades Away
52 6 Bob Dylan New Morning
52 6 The Residents Duck Stab / Buster & Glen
52 1 3 Minnie Riperton Adventures in Paradise
52 1 2 David Holland Quartet Conference of the Birds
52 1 2 The Move Shazam
51 7 Soft Machine Third
51 7 Yes The Yes Album
51 4 Gene Clark White Light
50 8 John Fahey America
50 3 ABBA The Album
50 3 Joe Jackson I'm the Man
50 2 Exuma Exuma
49 8 Joe Jackson Look Sharp!
49 7 Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)
49 7 Robert Fripp & Brian Eno No Pussyfooting
48 7 Sparks Propaganda
48 7 The Adverts Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts
48 6 Marianne Faithfull Broken English
48 5 Bruce Haack Electric Lucifer
48 3 Fela Kuti No Agreement
47 7 Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville
200 46 8 The Art Ensemble of Chicago

Herny Cow are so great! I love that Stapleton listed them as "Henty Cow" on the NWW list, that SOB.

Re: Abbott's ballot, REALLY want to get into Henry Cow btw

Art Bears are better.

lj i missed a few things out by accident, didnt notice Godbluff on the noms Or it woulda been on it.
I couldnt vote for 40 best albums as it was impossible so i just tried to get albums in i thought might stand a chance but wont get as many votes as other more well known would. But the sheer amount of voters made it impossible for my votes to have an influence sadly.

f they wrote books they'd be multiple Booker Prize winners

if you think the Booker Prize is middlebrow your brow is too high is all I can say.

lol

Did I say I wanted higher than middlebrow?

70 8 Van Der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts
70 1 6 La Dusseldorf La Dusseldorf

LOOOOOOOOOOOL inyufface emil.y

Grrr.

emil.y will stop talking to me as I forgot to vote La Dusseldorf too. No wonder she doesnt reply on lastfm or emails! shes psychic!

emil.y what is yr last.fm username? I think we are part soulmates.

Black devil Disco Club are the one thing mentioned I've never even heard of. Tell me?

I haven't been very prophetic in this thread, but I DID post this

the LA DUSSELDORF vs VDGG fite in the 101-120 regions will be entertaining imo. bring it on, emil.y

― Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic), Saturday, 9 January 2010 20:19 (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

XD

Abbott, it's missekawasaki, but I only scrobble when I borrow the mister's computer now, as mine has been mute for the last year. And I don't borrow his computer very often.

a bit off topic but is there a voting thread for the 2009 poll yet? i feel like i'm missing it somehow

I voted for the Dorf (THE DORF) twice...I wish I would have put the S/T up higher so it would've placed.

Not yet. I suspect musically has been waiting for this one to end.

I've actually got a helluva lot to be tracking down now. Art Bears? Wuh? emil.y and Abbott both have loaaads of krauty/arty goodness on their lists and I'll be chasing it up, no worries!

Art Bears are part Cow.

Who else voted for Conference Of The Birds? I'm curious.

Also, such a shame to see The Poppy Family (featuring Susan Jacks) - Which Way You Goin' Billy? so low on the full results page. It was popping in and out of my top 40, and eventually missed the bill, but there are a couple of killer tracks on this.

Who else voted for Conference Of The Birds? I'm curious.

outdoorminer voted it #6.

1. Fay, Bill Time of the Last Persecution
2. Black Sabbath Master of Reality
3. Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
4. Mitchell, Joni Court and Spark
5. Eno, Brian Before and After Science
6. Young, Neil Time Fades Away
7. Waits, Tom Small Change
8. Rundgren, Todd Something/Anything?
9. Grateful Dead American Beauty
10. Dictators, The Go Girl Crazy
11. Cooper, Alice Billion Dollar Babies
12. Devo Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
13. Parton, Dolly Coat of Many Colors
14. Wyatt, Robert Rock Bottom
15. Van Zandt, Townes The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
16. Nelson, Willie Phases and Stages
17. Martyn, John Solid Air
18. Funkadelic One Nation Under a Groove
19. Pop Group, The Y
20. Van Halen Van Halen
21. Rich, Charlie Behind Closed Doors
22. Ramones Rocket to Russia
23. Kraftwerk Autobahn
24. Fleetwood Mac Tusk
25. Mayfield, Curtis Curtis
26. Campbell, Glen Reunion: The Songs of Jimmy Webb
27. Crosby, David If I Could Only Remember My Name
28. Talking Heads Fear of Music
29. Throbbing Gristle 20 Jazz Funk Greats
30. Crass The Feeding of the 5000
31. Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Will the Circle Be Unroken
32. XTC Drums and Wires
33. Cramps, The Gravest Hits
34. Sun Ra Space is the Place
35. Harmonia Musik von Harmonia
36. Comus First Utterance
37. Kuti, Fela Zombie
38. Hammill, Peter Over
39. Residents, The The Residents Present the Third Reich n' Roll
40. Motörhead Overkill

very sad not to see Bill in there or Dolly, Small Change, Go Girl Crazy, Billian Dollar Babies!

Black devil Disco Club are the one thing mentioned I've never even heard of. Tell me?

― sonofstan, Saturday, January 9, 2010 9:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

It's a rare french disco record that came out in 1978. Aphex Twin's label put out some of the songs in 2004 which made people think the background story was a hoax, this is partly because no-one had really heard of it in the first place and partly because it sounds ahead of it's time. It's an incredible album, I only downloaded it last year (an original copy goes for around 300 pounds) and I've been obsessed with it ever since. It sounds like if Giorgio Moroder had made a really dark goth record.

Yeah, the Black Devil record is completely awes. He's since come back and released some new stuff that sounds like he didn't miss a step at all in 30 years.

I always get if mixed up w/"Black Mass" by Lucifer (Mort Garson). They're both good.

Yep, it's awesome.

The weird thing, and the reason that people still think it might be a hoax is that black devil disco club recently started recording and releasing music again, I think under the name Black Devil (?). And also, now something ELSE is coming out that's apparently a super rare recording from 1975 or something, and everyone's saying there's no way in hell it's that old.

oops, xpost

The "new" old thing that's being rereleased is called The Strange New World of Bernard Fevre. The Boomkat blurb does nothing to clear up the confusion over its origins:

Prime disco fiction from the folk behind Black Devil Disco Club on 'The Strange New World Of Bernard Fevre'. As the story goes, this album was recorded in 1975, before the release of the first BDDC album, when we could only imagine this would sound light years ahead of its time. The label and artist are in no hurry to fully confirm whether this was actually recorded then, or if they're maintaining the elaborate hoax-not-hoax of the first set, but listening to it we'd hazard a guess at this being a mixture of periods, performing some clever chrono-bafflement to have some fun with your own space-time continuum. While the previous BDDC album was dedicated to afro-electric disco grooves, this album opens up to new planes of lucid sci-fi soundscapes populated by and constructed from vintage synthsizers and sequenced with a classic analogue romanticism. It's clear to hear traces of Aphex, Air, BoC or Drecxciya embedded into these compositions, meaning it requires some dedicated one-on-one mind time for all the space cadets out there in need of a new trip. Lush.

http://www.lorecordings.com/popup2.php?album=175

Since I heard the album last year I wake up everyday thinking I wish they would put it out properly again. The recent stuff has been great especially 28 after which does sound like it could have come out just after the debut.

The Strange New World is really good but quite different from the 3 Black Devil albums.

Phew! I'm tired now you guys. That was a lot of work (that I didn't mind at all doing).

Great thread. I never got around to voting, but I've found a great deal to satiate my desires. I'll be feasting my ears all night.

I would have voted for Born To Run.

i thought i voted for Conference of the Birds! anyway 16 of mine placed so i must be happy. my ballot:

1. Wyatt, Robert - Rock Bottom
2. Neu! - Neu!75
3. Sill, Judee - Heart Food
4. This Heat - This Heat
5. Faust - So Far
6. Davis, Miles - Get Up With it
7. Coltrane, Alice - Universal Consciousness
8. Sill, Judee - Judee Sill
9. Sun Ra - Space is the Place
10. Cale, John - Vintage Violence
11. Hancock, Herbie - Sextant
12. Bell, Chris- I am the cosmos
13. Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals off, Baby
14. Neu! - Neu!2
15. Can - Soon Over Babaluma
16. Steely Dan- Aja
17. Genesis - Selling England by the pound
18. Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Face to Face
19. Beach Boys - Sunflower
20. Ash ra tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
21. XTC - Drums and Wires
22. Art Bears - Winter Songs
23. Waits, Tom - Closing Time
24. Steve Reich - Drumming
25. Kevin Ayers - whatevershebringswesing
26. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidanananda
27. Anne Briggs - Time has Come
28. John Cale - Fear
29. Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie
30. King Crimson - Larks Tongues in Aspic
31. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The inner mounting flame
32. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
33. Captain beefheart - Shiny Beast
34. Cluster Zuckerzeit
35. Guru Guru - UFO
36. Tyner, Mccoy - Enlightenment
37. Who, the - Whos Next
38. Popol Vuh - In den Gärten Pharaos
39. Evan Parker - Topography of the Lungs
40. Van der Graaf generator - Godbluff

thanks johnny, good work. it was fun to read. gave me lots of things to check out. i've already dl'd the hawkwind and dr. buzzard albums. hawkwind's cool, haven't listened to buzzard yet.

01 jorge ben - africa brasil
02 elis regina and antonio carlos jobim - elis e tom
03 love unlimited orchestra - rhapsody in white
04 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's factory
05 parliament - motor booty affair
06 jorge ben and gilberto gil - gil e jorge
07 fela kuti - shuffering and shmiling
08 chic - c'est chic
09 philip glass - music with changing parts
10 Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
11 o'jays - back stabbers
12 steve reich - drumming
13 willie hutch - the mack
14 barry white - let the music play
15 george mccrae - rock your baby
16 fela kuti - expensive shit
17 isaac hayes - black moses
18 kc and the sunshine band - part 3
19 barry white - the man
20 Wonder, Stevie Music of My Mind
21 isley brothers - 3+3
22 philip glass - music in 12 parts
23 Faust - Faust IV
24 james brown - the payback
25 queen - a night at the opera
26 Funkadelic - Free Your Mind...And Your Ass Will Follow
27 fela kuti - confusion
28 Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
29 Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
30 Springsteen, Bruce Born to Run
31 o'jays - ship ahoy
32 Jorge ben - A Tábua de Esmeralda
33 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
34 Green, Al Let's Get Together
35 fela kuti - live! with ginger baker

dang, africa brasil was so clooooooooose :/

I'm doing my 00s Books Poll rundown next week (two days left to vote you guys!) - Johnny you're an inspiration

I feel like crap for missing Matt#2's vote for YMO, thus throwing off the bottom half of the poll's placements completely, but other than that I think it went well. Ha!

it's ok, the top half was way better anyway ;-)

Perfect Angel is a classic too, it's very Stevie Wonder in places.

Probably because he produced it and wrote a couple of the songs. ;)

Speaking of Stevie, I'm very surprised and saddened to see that Music of My Mind did not make the list.

This poll got me into Paul Simon's first solo albums, btw. Even though none of them placed, I went out and grabbed them (having only heard Negotiations & Love Songs before now). There's a lot of great, REALLY great deep cuts on those first three.

Music of My Mind is my favorite right behind Talking Book, but I had to spend some of my up-ballot votes on other things and couldn't push that one into the 100.

So it was very close, then?

Oh man, I just realized, if I was thinking during the noms I would have nominated and then (fruitlessly) voted for Bo Hansson's "Lord of the Rings" album.