Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking

also xpost astor otm

every NIck Drake song is too short and just right at the same time

new morning
blood on the tracks
oh mercy!
another side
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. . .everything else.

Have you heard Another Self Portrait? It has some alternate takes of New Morning tracks, Self Portrait out-takes, and lots of great stuff from that period.

yep! that set is actually part of what persuaded me it's his best material.

1. Pastafarians
2. Buddhism
3. Bahá’í
4. Judaism
5. Hinduism
6. Islam
7. Christianity
8. Scientology

Since I started this thread, I'll use it for my top 50. I'm not enough of an ILM regular to make it another poll.

Aphex Twin — Selected Ambient Works Vol. 2
Bad Brains — Bad Brains
Beach Boys — Pet Sounds
Blind Idiot God — Undertow
Brian Eno — Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Buffalo Springfield — Buffalo Springfield (1973)
Can — Future Days
The Clash — Sandinista!
Compulsive Gamblers — Gambling Days Are Over
David Bowie — Low
Death Grips — Exmilitary
Elvis Costello and the Attractions — Get Happy!!
Ensemble Ambrosius — The Zappa Album
The Fall — This Nation’s Saving Grace
Firesign Theater — Don’t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers
Fleetwood Mac — Tusk
Frank Zappa — You Can’t Do That On Stage Anymore volume 2
Fripp & Eno — No Pussyfooting
George Lewis — Homage to Charles Parker
Half Japanese — The Band That Would Be King
Idjah Hadidjah & Jugala Ensemble — Sundanese Jaipong and Other Popular Music
Jamie Saft — Breadcrumb Sins
Jim O’Rourke — Insignificance
John Fahey — Womblife
Led Zeppelin — Presence
Lee Ranaldo — Ambient Loop for Vancouver
Material — Memory Serves
Mica Levi — Under the Skin OST
Miles Davis — In a Silent Way
Minutemen — Double Nickels on the Dime
Morton Feldman — Piano and String Quartet
Mr. Bungle — Disco Volante
Naked City — Absinthe
Neil Young — On the Beach
Pauline Oliveros — Crone Music
Pretenders — Pretenders 2
Rolling Stones — Exile on Main St.
Ronald Shannon Jackson — Texas
The Rutles — The Rutles
The Smiths — Singles
Soft Machine — Volume 2
Sonny Sharrock — Guitar
Stereolab — Sound-Dust
Talking Heads — Fear of Music
Tricky — Pre-Millenium Tension
Ween — The Mollusk
Yo La Tengo — Painful
v/a — Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach
v/a — Macro Dub Infection
v/a — Trojan Dub Box Set

You should have made this a poll, tbh… it’s a good list

Pretenders — Pretenders 2

:O

I think of you as an ILM regular, and who else is going to rep for Ensemble Ambrosius?

1. Death
2. Dishonor

i think of you as an ilm regular too and that ensemble ambrosius album is great, wonderful version of "Inca Roads"

Pretenders — Pretenders 2

:O

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve),

I think Hynde is fronting a lot on the debut, "I Go To Sleep" is the better Kinks cover, both albums have some filler, and 2 has "Message of Love" and "Talk of the Town." Clear winner.

First "shit, I can't believe I forgot that one" — replace Get Happy with John Oswald/Grateful Dead — Grayfolded

WmC yeah make a poll

this thread should be for ranking the polls

lol

OK -- I found another change, call this thread the workshopping. I'll make a poll so I can't fuck with it anymore.

1. ESB
2. SW
3. ROTJ
4. AOTC
5. TROS
6. TLJ
7. TFA
8. TPM
9. ROTS

(yes, Internet... I went there)

I won't poll them because I'm not regular enough but this is what my last attempt to top 50 looked like

1. Suede - Dog Man Star
2. OMD - Dazzle Ships
3. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
4. XTC - Apple Venus Volume 1
5. Primal Scream - XTRMNTR
6. Manics - The Holy Bible
7. The Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
8. Eddy Grant - Walking on Sunshine
9. Disco Inferno - The 5 EPs
10. Arthur Russell - Calling Out of Context
11. The The - Soul Mining
12. R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
13. Blur - 13
14. The Beatles - The White Album
15. Roy Wood - Mustard
16. John Martyn - One World
17. The Prodigy - Experience
18. David Bowie - Low
19. The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
20. Nicolette - Now Is Early
21. Julian Cope - Jehovahkill
22. The KLF - Chill Out
23. The Cure - Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
24. The Divine Comedy - Casanova
25. A.R. Kane - 69
26. The Beta Band - The Beta Band
27. Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
28. King Crimson - Absent Lovers
29. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
30. U2 - Zooropa
31. Cardiacs - Sing to God
32. Show of Hands - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
33. Peatbog Faeries - Welcome to Dun Vegas
34. Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
35. Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble
36. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
37. Madonna - Ray of Light
38. Wire - 154
39. Fuzzbox - Bostin' Steve Austin
40. Paul McCartney - McCartney II
41. The Magnetic Fields - Holiday
42. The Paperboys - Molinos
43. Brass Construction - Brass Construction
44. Japan - Oil on Canvas
45. The Creatures - Feast
46. Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw & the Cooked
47. Lunasa - The Merry Sisters of Fate
48. Brian Protheroe - Pinball
49. Prefab Sprout - Swoon
50. The Knife - Shaking the Habitual

I think I felt my top 100 in general was too boringly white/male/british (also not dance-y enough) and that an equivalent songs list would be more diverse.

Voting Cope for "Gimme Back My Flag"

26. The Beta Band - The Beta Band

^This is very good indeed

29. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice

^I'm sorry, you're going to have to specify which Volume this pertains to...

Because my top 50 isn't as dancey as I'd like it to be it means Volume 1.

Tell you something that's blatantly missing from that list even under the circumstances - KISH KASH

From that list is Arthur Russell for me. Good pick for best U2 album.

Actually seeing as I'm not polling, here's the rest of the top 100 - it's better than I remembered

51. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star
52. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
53. Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure for Sanity
54. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (there it is, idk why it wasn't higher)
55. Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
56. This Heat - Deceit
57. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
58. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Respect
59. Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
60. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
61. Martin Newell - The Greatest Living Englishman
62. Take That - Progress
63. McFly - Wonderland
64. Genesis - Abacab
65. The Jam - Sound Affects
66. Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House
67. Meat Beat Manifesto - Armed Audio Warfare
68. Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
69. The Specials - More Specials
70. David Essex - Out on the Street
71. Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo
72. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
73. British Electric Foundation - Music for Stoaways
74. Sand - Golem
75. Friendsound - Joyride
76. James - Wah Wah
77. Can - Soon Over Babaluma
78. Miles Davis - On the Corner
79. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
80. Silver Apples - Silver Apples
81. Barry Booth - Diversions!
82. Van Dyke Parks - Discover America
83. Frazier Chorus - Sue
84. Pulp - This Is Hardcor
85. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind...and Your Ass Will Follow
86. Brainticket - Celestial Ocean
87. Totó La Momposina - La Candela Viva
88. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
89. Royal House - Can You Party
90. Super_Collider - Head On
91. Hi-Tension - Hi-Tension
92. Suicide - American Supreme
93. Position Normal - Stop Your Nonsense
94. Olatunji! - Drums of Passion
95. MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
96. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
97. Orbital - Snivilisation
98. u-Ziq - In Pine Effect
99. Daphne & Celeste Save the World
100. Cursor Miner - Explosive Piece of Mind

1. Right
2. Left

(not politics, physical things)

WmC, I like your list a lot, would have put about 20% of those in mine if I made one.

Thanks! Now that I have this album stuff out of my head somewhat I'm thinking about making a list of songs that broke my brain but aren't on albums good enough to make that top 50 list. The kind of thing I'll make notes on for a month and then drop.

10. Marrying his mom so as to become his stepfather

9. Telling everyone he “drugged you” when he just gave you a hit of his joint that one time

8. Calling him “the male Amanda Palmer” behind his back

7. Posting fantasy revenge lists on ILM

6. Telling yourself (accurately) that any public call-out or anything like that would be an act of punching down

5. Spelling out his name as a musical cryptogram as a “devil theme” in your next chamber music work

4. Always referring to him last-name first, first-name last, like “Palmer Amanda”, it’s weirdly so satisfying

3. Recording yourself reading his social media posts in a Maggie Smith voice and share the recordings with your group chat

2. Teaching your dog to shit every time she hears you say his name

1. Living well

1. Outside
2. Station To Station
3. Hunky Dory
4. The Man Who Sold The World
5. Blackstar
6. Low
7. Lodger
8. Earthling
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Scary Monsters
11. Let’s Dance
12. Pin-Ups
13. Aladdin Sane
14. The Next Day
15. Young Americans
16. Diamond Dogs
17. Heroes
18. Heathen
19. Space Oddity
20. Black Tie White Noise
21. Reality
22. Tin Machine
23. Buddha Of Suburbia
24. s/t (Deram)
25. Never Let Me Down
26. Tonight
27. (Hours)
28. Tin Machine 2

I was asked by a friend to "listen through Eurythmics' catalogue and rank them" and I told them I didn't need to, and sent a link to Alfred's own ranking (which is identical to my own, and says more valuable and interesting things than I would say). "Eurythmics is easy," I texted, "but Bowie would be harder." So I did Bowie instead.

That's a bold choice for number one.

shouldn’t it technically be 1. 1. Outside though

He named it deliberately to top every ranked list of Bowie albums iirc

It's a personal choice bc it's the first of Bowie's albums I ever "went deep" on (that is, listened to incessantly), but As Albums Go it's his most complete and there's only one or two tracks I would consider inessential (and none are really bad); also his most original genre-creation. The only bad thing about it is the plot but I think it kinda serves as a stinky binding agent or something

I wonder where Blackstar and The Next Day would place if the Bowie ballot poll were done today. 12 years ago, jeez.

xp I get the personal choice aspect. For me, that was The Man Who Sold the World, which seemed like a gateway into a different universe. I also appreciate your comment on the "plot" of Outside, which always kept me from loving what I otherwise appreciated as a return to form/evolution in his sound and vision.

Yeah, I love The Man and have always ranked "The Width Of A Circle" highly on any personal song list. What an amazing way to start an album, a "gateway into a different universe" indeed, "turn around, go back!"

otm about "width of a circle," what a banger

I've probably listened to The Man Who Sold the World and 'heroes' the most out of any Bowie albums.

So we asked a simple black bird, who was happy as can be
And he laughed insane and quipped Kahlil Gibran
And I cried for all the others till the day was nearly through
For I realized that God's a young man too

Yes dammit so, so, so good. The synapse between post-hippie Bowie and alien-rock Bowie is magical