Now for the hilarious statistical quirk...
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Huzzah! ATL is probably my favourite SY album of any decade. I think.
Same here but I still have a lot of love for the famous 80s trilogy. ATL is an especially rich and peculiar album with a fairly singular sense of awe subdued to despondency, despite there being greater divergence in Lee/Kim/Thurston's songwriting than on any other album of theirs. Hat tip anyway!
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
See nakhchivan, aren't you glad I picked your first ballot now?
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
50= Magic Hour - No Excess Is Absurd (1994)50 points1 vote0 first-place votesContributor: contenderizer
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No Excess Is Absurd is righteous. I caught that Magic Hour/Ghost tour Dan refers to in Cleveland, and Rogers was absolutely on fire, stomping around the stage like T.Rex (the dinosaur, not Bolan & Co.) and making me think he was Hendrix reincarnated.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Friday, 7 May 2004 02:14 (5 years ago)
The only TV record I have is Magic Hour's No Excess Is Absurd, which is quite good.
― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 21 January 2006 04:37 (4 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:23 (fourteen years ago) link
still cant believe washing machine is the lowest placing SY btw?
― plax (ico), Thursday, April 29, 2010 1:14 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
that's assuming Goo AND Dirty AND Jet Set all place in the top 50, which i dunno.
― Thug Motivation 102: The Weinspiration (some dude), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Sort of (xxp), but you still should have done as you were asked. You should have done the wrong thing, because it is was right.
That's the first artist on the poll I haven't heard of......
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:25 (fourteen years ago) link
is
I like Magic Hour, surprised to see that make it.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Prefer Major Stars though
LOSIN' UR LANGUAGE xxp
Thom Jurek gives this Magic Hour album a GREAT AMG write-up, and he's one of my very favourite AMG reviewers to boot: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:wvfixqlhldae
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago) link
just out of curiosity m@tt, have you heard all 3 bungle albums? (not being some challenging dick here, just thinking that if the one yer familiar with is the first one, its way way more standard than the second and third).
also i totally agree w/the idea that zappa (particularly those albums) was operating pretty far out of the box for the time period, i just dont see him being all that directly related to bungle.
xposts
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, April 29, 2010 4:12 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah jj you are more or less right, the first one was kinda just "around" in the soup of alt rock back then, so that's the one i heard a lot...
i did see mr. bungle live once and based on the time period i bet they were touring and doing most of the stuff on "california". i enjoyed them live.
but absolutely i am No Expert w/r/t to bungle (or all of the post FNM diaspora patton projects for the most part)
basically contenderizer said what i was trying to say better here:
it's hard for me to imagine mr. bungle existing absent zappa's (perhaps indirect) influence, and it's hard for me to consider them outside his shadow.
like i'm not saying they aren't awesome or they are like zappa ripoffs at all, i just see them existing in a post-zappa world i guess...
also just guessing but they are older than me, but i'm sure you know if you were a kid that played guitar and read a lot of guitar mags in the 80s (which i imagine they did) you sorta got a lot of zappa stuff thrown at you from the sorta "musician" world back then....
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:28 (fourteen years ago) link
like for instance, when i tried to learn Peaches En Regelia off of bass tab in Guitar FTPM without ever actually having heard the song haha
― Shakey Ja Mocha (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:29 (fourteen years ago) link
If you had do save one track by Mike Patton for eternity what would it be?
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
"Stubb (A Dub)"
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
fuuuuuck
Dan might be OTM, actually
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
weird how there was no sonic youth on the orig. poll
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha m@tt that must have been fun xxxxpost
not stubb a dub for me, but i have to think about it a while.
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
merry go bye bye
― m the g, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:32 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck maybe "merry go bye bye"?
xpost HA!
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
yer taste is impeccable sir
50 at 50 hurrah.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
'Merry Go Bye Bye' was my second thought
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:34 (fourteen years ago) link
'Desert Search For Techno Allah' my third, and 'Goodbye Sober Day' my fourth
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Totally missed this poll, cool to see so much I haven't heard.
― Pete Scholtes, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
'Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz' fifth, 'My Ass Is On Fire' sixth, 'Vanity Fair' seventh OK I'LL STOP NOW
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Merry Go Bye Bye" is my favorite Bungle song, but if I had to save a single song with M Patton vocals on it, I'd go for "The Real Thing".
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
its also hard for me to pass up the fantomas directors cut album tbh, but i dont even know where to start picking there so nevermind
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
lol some smart-ass is gonna be all 'Delirium Cordia'
and I am that smart-ass
although that wouldn't be my answer
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Bah, Simplify is not loading up for me so I can't play "Merry Go Bye Bye" and see if it would change my mind, since I don't remember it offhand.
― Marriage, that's where I'm a Viking! (HI DERE), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Is Delirium Cordia anywhere near as good as "Butterfly in a Glass Maze"?
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
magic hour = the product of my putting just five or six records on my ballot. i expected a MUCH larger turnout (due to being away forever and having no real idea how many people regularly participate in such polls anyway), so i figured giving 50 points to an obscure album i dearly love might help it out a little. didn't figure that it would guarantee it a high placement in the final tally.
anyway, i love no excess is absurd, the first rogers/biggar record i ever got into. still think i prefer it to anything that came before or after - love the folky delicacy of the vocals and songwriting, the contrasting ecstasies of guitar. it does for me what i hear my bloody valentine does for other people.
plus it isn't the only forgotten guitar rock album i gave a TON of points to. so, uh, fair warning...
― contenderizer, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Yes! Back to Magic Hour!
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yet another band I've never heard of. starting to feel kinda ignorant ovah heah
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
shame on you, shakey
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:44 (fourteen years ago) link
dont really know any bands fron the 90s really
― plax (ico), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
this band doesn't even have a wiki entry lol
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
'The dog is going to die very soon' sez Mike Patton, worryinglyPlaintive organ introSome wurlitzer/Madness/comedy sax(?) breakdown WTF is that?Weimar-thrash apoplexyThanks his momThreatening someone with deathSays goodbye but proceeds with fulsome Tom Araya ish catharsisPlaintive organ outro'That was properly sombre'
Not that fond rly, a little too forcedly 'wacky'....I'll try the other song
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
"folky delicacy of the vocals and songwriting" and "contrasting ecstasies of guitar" sounds like a fair description of Built to Spill. Is the record in that kind of territory?
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Because I am always looking for more high-caliber examples of that kind of stuff.
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
oh Magic Hour is a Damon & Naomi thing! weird that I have not heard of it, given the huge Luna/G500/Ghost fan that I am... odd. will get.
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
indeed
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Looks like we're about to have a six-way tie for 50th place, with each album at 50 points apiece...
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
shakey search out Major Stars as well (though the last couple of albums they got in a singer and sound quite different to the other albums before it)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
am starting to worry if a couple lower-ranked selections of mine will chart, was expecting at least one of them to place pretty well...
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:49 (fourteen years ago) link
50= Pizzicato Five - Happy End Of The World50 points1 vote1 first-place voteContributor: Haikunym/Dimension 5ive/T-Bone Streep/M4tt C1bula
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The only qualm I have about classifying P5 as "great" --- not mindblowingly spectacular / important, but pretty great --- is the fact that their significance is pretty limited to a certain time period and a certain aesthetic, as evidenced by the fact that most of their stuff *already* sounds sort of dated. Perhaps you just had to be there and buying records in that particular vein as they came along. . . Regardless, I'd argue that their material was pretty wonderful at the time --- in about the same way that "So Tough" was wonderful at the time --- and they really do deserve some credit for popularizing, if not inventing, two worthwhile developments in mid- 90s indie: (a) the idea that electronically-based music could be bouncy and happy as opposed to dark and sultry, and (b) the big influx of non-rock rhythms and influences. (Was bossanova overrepresented in this influx? Surely. But the musical vocabulary of a demographic previously limited to the Velvet Underground, the Sex Pistols, and the Beatles really blossomed around this point.) Thus . . . classic. Classic like a piece of technology that seems revolutionary when introduced but quickly becomes quaint and dinky. The Commodore 64 of the 90s.
― [nabisco], Monday, 25 June 2001 00:00 (8 years ago)
I think the exquisite sequencing is probably the reason that I think that Pizzicato Five's Happy End of the World is the best pop album ever made.
― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Thursday, 10 February 2005 16:06 (5 years ago)
Frank:
What is the album/song/genre that you are most surprised about loving unconditionally?
Matt "mine would be Pizzicato Five's Happy End of the World" Cibula
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 30 June 2005 16:56 (4 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
which reminds me, I've not ordered the new Major Stars yet. Must place an aQ order soon.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh hell yeah, I loved that record.
― huh! tikuuta. (kingkongvsgodzilla), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
good nabisco post y'all
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Wow, totally forgot to put that P5 on my ballot. So glad it placed. Love it to death.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:52 (fourteen years ago) link
oh whoa i would not have remembered to vote for that but i am now thinking about it fondly
― Varg Vikinem (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 April 2010 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link