Like there may be and probably are objectively better Prince albums but Parade has slowly risen to the position of my personal fave.
― Artisanal Personality Disorder (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
thank u for this brad
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 May 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
my first thought was that I can't comprehend how that could be a person's favorite Prince album
of his classic records it's the most fragmentary, but a cool side effect of this is that it makes all of the songs seem like interconnected chambers of the same obtusely funky house. plus every song whips ass
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
lol totally missed that Otis Blue is on there
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2019 14:55 (four years ago) link
Best new thread
What I love about all these albums is that they’re all of them the best albums and none of them perfect (except A Kind Of Blue)
I can’t decide to vote for my fave (Sprinkles) or the album that makes me think of Brad (Fall Out Boy)
Either way I’m putting the handful of albums on this list I don’t know at the top of my queue
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
head says hissing of summer lawns, heart says adore, body says laptop cafe, soul says love deluxe, weather says veedon fleece, weather soon will probably say transilvanian hunger
― lowercase (eric), Friday, 10 May 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
Pretty sure I was listening heavily to Otis Blue and Veedon Fleece at the same time, during the worst summer of my life. They have some kind of connection in my head.
― jmm, Friday, 10 May 2019 15:45 (four years ago) link
Had to go with Hats as you didn't pick any of the five albums I'd put ahead of it.
So many great choices here. I especially love how you've picked many of my favourite albums by such incredible artists (I'm Still In Love With You, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Love Deluxe, The Velvet Underground S/T). Dirty Mind is the only Prince album I'd put ahead of Parade. It's really close though.
I think I might be ready to switch over to team Jordan: The Comeback now. It's always been Steve McQueen, but recently Jordan has been feeling like the one.
― kitchen person, Friday, 10 May 2019 16:04 (four years ago) link
was between tusk and discovery. went tusk. found out about through here years ago and fell in love. great list btw
― gman59, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
I feel like this list proves that Brad is the ur- and/or über-ILMer.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
sly
― J. Sam, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link
Can't decide between:
Kind of blueVeedon FleeceDiscovery
― . (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
adore
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
just thought about van's falsetto on 'who was that masked man' and i think i'm gonna roll with veedon fleece
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
Ridiculously easy, this one. Avalon.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
Kind of Blue or Discovery
― brimstead, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
Lovely list! Too early to decide what to vote for, but I love that Rapture and Padlock are among the options.Especially the Gwen Guthrie: “Peanut Butter”, “Hopscotch”, “Seventh Heaven”, “Padlock” itself - whether the original Sly & Robbie productions or the Larry Levin remixes**, that’s some of my favorite music ever. Lush as fuck.Also, can’t wait to check out that DeBarge album again.**I was only familiar with the versions on GG’s 1983 Portrait album until relatively recently, but “Seventh Heaven” especially is superior in the LL remix.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
uhmmm... Larry LevAn, obviously
― breastcrawl, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, May 10, 2019 2:53 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This is a really great summation of why Parade is so good (I go back and forth between it and Dirty Mind as my favourite Prince LP).
Voting for Tusk, with Gaucho and Hissing of Summer Lawns in 2nd and 3rd place.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:42 (four years ago) link
I think I'm actually gonna vote for Snivilisation here. I remember hearing this album in my car for the first time and just being floored by "I Wish I Had Duck Feet". The last two tracks are stunners, I still think "Attached" is in a genre all its own. There are a lot of 90s artifacts still lurking but I think it's held up very well. Combined with dubnobasswithmyheadman it must've felt like electronic music had unlimited potential in '94.
― frogbs, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link
J. Sam otm
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 May 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link
I could have sworn I posted my love for the alternate/demo versions of songs from No Other a little while ago (must not have actually clicked submit)... the arrangements are stripped down a bit and I generally prefer that!
Anyway I think ultimately I'd go for Laughing Stock overall.
― Evan, Friday, 10 May 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Also throwing my vote to Orbital
― help yourself to another slice of apple ... crumble (Willl), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:06 (four years ago) link
I feel like this list proves that Brad is the ur- and/or über-ILMer.― pomenitul
― pomenitul
I always assumed that there's a lot going on at ILM which I don't pay attention to (in the rolling face-tat thread, etc). but as far as the threads that i click on, I can totally co-sign on pomenitul's statement.this list is like the ILM dead sea scrolls.
― enochroot, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link
Not really imo, moaning about the hive mind is pure ILM but to quuote one glaring example Kind of Blue is not the hive mind Miles album
― call me cismale (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
There's a few things on this list that I think are utter garbage, and in the cases of the artists that I do like a lot/rate highly - with a couple of exceptions - the wrong album is featured, IMO.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:44 (four years ago) link
Interesting list, could've gone for 5 or 6, went with Prefab Sprout, never get tired of that album, such wonderful drama and romanticism to it all.
Any reason there's so few from the 21st century? Granted, those of us past a certain age will lean towards 20th century choices...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
hi, Brad
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:47 (four years ago) link
alexander o'neal: hearsay (1987)
omigod
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, May 10, 2019 1:46 PM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i don't really know! this is just kinda how it shook out. one record i could've included is portishead's third
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
It's a very '80s heavy list. I suppose if I was arsed about compiling such a list, mine would be '80s heavy too, but it sure as hell wouldn't look like this.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
I looked deep into my heart and voted Speak No Evil
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:54 (four years ago) link
ok, so which ones of these do i know well
dolphy, prince, bush, miles, vu, sprinkles, sly, bowie, mitchell, walker... i've only heard the levan padlock mixes... green, talk talk, can.
anybody who knows my posting history: which three should i listen to from the ones i haven't listed?
by the way of these, my gut today is either joni mitchell or al green
― Burt Bacharach's Bees (rushomancy), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:58 (four years ago) link
Al Green, first and always.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:03 (four years ago) link
You're right of course, but this is as close as we'll get to a single individual embodying the hivemind. For now.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
if i were not born they would have to invent me
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:11 (four years ago) link
You are one avatar of many.
― pomenitul, Friday, 10 May 2019 21:12 (four years ago) link
Rapture!
Brad, get out of my phone.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
this is impossible as so many of these albums are also my favourite ones. between the blue nile, fleetwood mac, sade, janet jackson, prefab sprout, talk talk, can, smashing pumpkins and dj sprinkles i can't really choose right now.i was kinda expecting to find hole's celebrity skin. my vote would so much easier.
― Nourry, Friday, 10 May 2019 22:00 (four years ago) link
What you should probably do is make a playlist of the best tracks from these and post it here. Then I could switch off the internet and be happy for ever more.
Fwiw, I think it's probably Bill Evans.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 11 May 2019 08:58 (four years ago) link
how was this list compiled - was it just on the spot?
a lot of things i haven't heard, so that is good, and i will try to hear some
― imago, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:26 (four years ago) link
write-in for blood inside obv
I picked Jordan: The Comeback.
I thoroughly enjoy this list, am looking forward to checking out the records I haven't heard, and more ILM-ers should do this, please and thank you :)
― triggercut, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
I checked out the DJ Sprinkles album last night on a whim. Exactly what I needed.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 11 May 2019 09:54 (four years ago) link
i’ve been keeping a running list on rym for almost a decade bc i got tired of forgetting what my favorite albums were
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 11 May 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
i am completely digging the other people place rn. randomly voted in a special way - one of the numerous amazing records on the list
― The immortal Hydra Viridisimma (outdoor_miner), Saturday, 11 May 2019 12:42 (four years ago) link
Great list, several overlaps with mine if I did one. However, 'The Blue Mask'? Weirdly I listened to this last week for the first time and find it difficult to see how this would be placed above 'Transformer' or 'Berlin' or even 'New York'.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 11 May 2019 12:58 (four years ago) link
It's a better album. New Sensations even more.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 May 2019 13:01 (four years ago) link
Berlin is one of his poorer records too, getting by on its "darkness"
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 11 May 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
Each to his own.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 May 2019 13:04 (four years ago) link
I think I discovered Parade through another Brad thread. Ton of albums I’m curious to hear on this list.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
What's the highest 2010s album?
― jmm, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
texas is the reason's do you know who you are is just below no other on this list. i figured i should stop at 50 lol
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, May 15, 2019 2:06 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh whoops, also diary and clarity would be above that too. the order of the list gets REAL messy after 50, it's kind of a monster. highest 2010s album is the 1975's i like it when you sleep followed by laurel halo's quarantine
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 15 May 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
These are all just about as close as you can get to musical perfection:
scritti politti: cupid & psyche 85 (1985)roxy music: avalon (1982)the velvet underground: the velvet underground (1969)david bowie: low (1977)joni mitchell: the hissing of summer lawns (1975)anita baker: rapture (1986)talk talk: laughing stock (1991)the comsat angels: sleep no more (1981)
WOW. Which one am I going to go for? Oh fuck it, considering how little love it got in the 1982 poll, I have little choice but to vote for Avalon, even if so it can get at least ONE vote. (Where are all the Roxy fans?)
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Thursday, 16 May 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
the velvet underground
― Dan S, Saturday, 18 May 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
I voted Tusk cuz I have to fess up to being a sentimentalist.
― Hyper-Capitalists Against the Entertainment Business (I M Losted), Saturday, 18 May 2019 03:34 (four years ago) link
I tried listening to tusk because of this thread and I guess I don’t get that band?? I love “everywhere”
― k3vin k., Saturday, 18 May 2019 05:05 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Jesus wtf is this choice. Brutal. Love that Snivilization is here. It really is a pinnacle record for me too.
Went with Hounds of Love, though.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 05:54 (four years ago) link
Parade!
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 13:10 (four years ago) link
Voted Joni, but forgot Al Green was there too. Feel free to use that missed vote as a tie-breaker if need be.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
Seriously rooting for any one of the eight albums I mentioned in my previous post... and hoping I really didn't cast the only vote for Avalon.
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Lots of good ones but for me it can only be exile
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 20:55 (four years ago) link
here are some records not in this poll that i'm realizing should've been:
aphex twin selected ambient works 85-92sonny sharrock ask the agesthe human league dareradiohead in rainbowsr.e.m. murmur (removed bc it would've won, though who knows why the same rule didn't apply to hounds of love lol)leonard cohen i'm your man
here is the full list, it's a huge mess after the top 50 still https://rateyourmusic.com/list/BradNelson/records/
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
Damn, your extended list is so great! Some more of my own favourites and I immediately want to hear all the albums I don't know.
― kitchen person, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
:)
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:01 (four years ago) link
I'm shocked
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:11 (four years ago) link
Oops, thought I voted but "Rapture" has 0.
― geoffreyess, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:14 (four years ago) link
w00t, one of the eight I was rooting for got second place! Also happy about the votes Laughing Stock, Low, and Cupid and Psyche 85 got, and that I wasn't the only person who ended up voting for Avalon (but am really glad I threw a little love that way). OTOH, I'm shocked Sleep No More received zero votes.
― Dee the (Summer-Hating) Lurker (deethelurker), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 01:57 (four years ago) link
Damn great turnout. Voted Sade in the end.
― big city slam (Spottie), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 03:33 (four years ago) link
You can tell Paul's Boutique, Disintegration and Doolittle were missing from the list.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:22 (four years ago) link
al green: i'm still in love with you (1972)0 votesmarvin gaye: here, my dear (1978)0 votesanita baker: rapture (1986)0 votesThis makes me sad.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:48 (four years ago) link
hats 13 - laughing stock 5i am baffled to say the least.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
You and me both.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 13:31 (four years ago) link
Impressed by the spread, excellent list Brad. I’m pretty sure I voted Sprinkles, as I would in any ballot
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:11 (four years ago) link
Speaking of which, I happily discovered Sprinkles through this poll so thanks, Brad!
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:17 (four years ago) link
folie a quatre
― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
This makes me sad.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:53 (four years ago) link
rapture shutout is the biggest surprise there
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 14:56 (four years ago) link
the thing about hats and the blue nile in general. it is nice late night background music - though the strings suck big time as usual - but there is zero spirituality in that music compared to laughing stock. additionally the vu self titled which covers similar ground as hats in terms of relaxed atmosphere is so much more intimate and immediate. hats is a string syrup covered with a voice coating that does not speak to me. so what is the point?
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
only vaguely even aware of Blue Nile but listening now and kinda dig it. lol @ it doesn't speak to me so what's the point
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 26 June 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link