The 1969-79 Series of Polls - The Run-off of the Top twos!

a death match between like 10 of my favorite albums and another 10 albums i merely love unconditionally

Eno voting is silent but only when one chooses to not pay attention to it

which one will his fans silently vote for?

and will New Order win all the 80s polls that are forthcoming by Michael B?

Funhouse

Honour thy vote for something other than Eno as a hidden intention to vote for Eno.

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1980!!

please vote in that

Thoughtlessness is the only way out of this conundrum. In a Silent Way it is.

I'd be delighted if that won

I voted Tago Mago.

me too.

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ended up voting for Marquee Moon

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good results, although wish After the Gold Rush hadn't been left out!

almost 100 votes. poor after the gold rush

still surprised by the popularity of bloated double LPs by bands whose earlier single LP work is imo far superior

Does that apply to Exile, Tago Mago, London Calling or all 3?

tusk also

i love "mother sky" as much as anyone but "soundtracks" is not better than "tago mago"

also, let's give ilm some credit for recognizing that "in a silent way" is the superior earlier single lp work

"Mother Sky" is really good. Tago Mago, Ege Bamyasi, Future Days are all great albums

^ i agree

xp rush i didn’t say immediately preceding ! but yeah jokes aside “tago mago” is an exception to my comment, it’s a really special record. the other three double LPs in the poll i like (but don’t love) to varying degrees and i do find them hard to listen to front to back

exile is awesome

I agree Exile is awesome but I don’t think it’s crazy to maintain the Stones made marginally better and definitely more concise albums before it. That’s hard to maintain for Can and Tago Mago, mainly because it’s their first truly great album. I think it’s unusual for a band’s breakthrough album to be a double (in the sense of style not sales). London Calling is also great but I could see preferring the debut, though that’s always going to be a minority view. The conventional wisdom for many years was that Tusk was a sprawling mess and relative disappointment after Rumours, so that’s obviously not a crazy view even if it’s now fallen out of fashion . Nowadays I guess most people don’t think of albums as a commitment to a straight through listening experience but rather as a set of songs they can play individually as the mood strikes them which probably helps the reputation of sprawling albums.

Sticky Fingers just beats out Exile for me and I definitely prefer the first Clash album to London Calling.

"Monster Movie" is a great album btw.

(xp)

It’s not bad, but I think only a die hard Malcolm Mooney fan would prefer it to Tago Mago.

Tom always prefers albums that aren't the popular choice.

I didn't say I preferred it I said it was great. I like everything on it which isn't true of every Can album by any means.