I ought to say something about Anodyne which I gave 100 points lol (didn't think hard about the album). I feel pretty far away from that album right now as it's pretty grounded in the USA, esp. Texas & the midwest, for me, and I am not right now. But it meant the world to me when I was twenty & pretty much defined my listening until the end of the century. The song that means the most to me today is "Fifteen Keys", a weird punky country blues that I once dreamed about playing at a Good Friday service: that kinda song. "Been there, no luck at all, nothing left to lose / I been there": the last bit is the churchy part. The dobro playing is killer: it moans, it's really the heart of the song. And fuck it: sometimes you just want to leave: "exhaust fumes, Thin Lizzy instead". I don't know, the song is still pretty mysterious to me, and I've probably listened to it several hundred times.
― Euler, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It's going to be the Reality Bites soundtrack, isn't it?
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
be here now winning would be even better
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:19 (fourteen years ago) link
fuck, that should read "didn't think hard about the poll"
Euler i voted for the Uncle Tupelo album too, but im not from texas, nor am I from the USA, but that album is great (also voted No Depression)
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't want to suddenly see all the 'big' missed albums and know what's missing in advance :(
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
9 and 8 are both double-albums of vaguely 'indie' rock from the mid-late 90's with 4 votes and 2 first-place votes. difference is that 8 is the greatest album of all time ever
XD
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
8 Cardiacs - Sing To God (1996)137 points4 votes2 first-place votes (other: acoleuthic)Greatest contributor: davek
http://geordierussell.instone.net/Jukebox/Img/C/Cardiacs%20-%20Sing%20To%20God.jpg
Long, sprawling alt-prog masterpiece that takes years to chew through.
― everything (everything), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:29 (3 years ago)
One of the best bands I've ever heard, of course.
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 13 March 2010 13:50 (1 month ago)
cardiacs = complete classic.
― m the g (mister the guanoman), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:58 (3 years ago)
Repulsively dud. Idiotic prog-wacky for the lower sixth.
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)
Your music collection sucks without _Sings to God_ .
― dagasque, Saturday, 4 May 2002 01:00 (8 years ago)
"Dirty Boy" is such an amazing song. That youtube, with all the lights, those people must have been seeing stars afterwards
― Dominique (dleone), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:46 (3 years ago)
I met Tim Smith at the first Authority gig! I could only blab about how STG and Guns were two of my favouritest albums. Didn't have the courage to ask about new recordings. This news, however, is excellent! I may have to catch them before it's too late.
I'm honestly astounded by the lack of Cardiacs awareness on ILX. People, this. Is. As. Good. As. It. Gets.
― Just got offed, Thursday, 2 August 2007 21:57 (2 years ago)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I realised while looking for quotes that I haven't really talked ABOUT this album much on ILX. I might start now.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Repulsively dud. Idiotic prog-wacky for the lower sixth.― Dr. C, Wednesday, 9 May 2001 01:00 (8 years ago)
OTM (sorry).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
I gotta say louis, everything about that album sounds/looks terrible to me
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
What a result!
If I had this for longer than a week when I sent my votes in this could have been a lot closer to number 1.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:28 (fourteen years ago) link
This is where shit gets real and about 95% of otherwise enlightened music-lovers shove their fingers in their ears and run screaming. I can only surmise that the album is just too fucking much. It's not so much an exuberant puppy as an army of sugar-fixated baby kangaroos all trying to jump into your arms at the same time during the most colossal rainstorm imaginable, although for some reason the sun is shining brightly and your brain is being rewired by the greatest genius to compose in the rock format that ever lived. Cardiacs' melodies, production, chord-sequences...they're not better. They're level-up.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:30 (fourteen years ago) link
#7?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks for making me never, ever want to hear Cardiacs
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I mean, if you're someone who likes to chill out with their music, avoid. If you're someone who just wants more, and more, and more, and to have every imaginable square micrometer of their cochlea scoured by some new sound, ferocious idea or dazzling conceit; if you're someone who wants music to hurtle faster and faster into a blur of sound, sense and wonder; if you crave intensity, then get fucking hold.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan, I think you'd like some of their stuff! Mike Patton is an ENORMOUS fan, and can often be found in a Cardiacs T-shirt
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
I just listened to "Dirty Bird" to see if it was the song I remembered - it was. I remembered it sounding like a hybrid of Midnight Oil and Queen, and I still think that. Two things I may like but never, ever, want together.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Let the people decide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdeJD0L3GvM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP6nEQyP6uA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFliGc1D_EU
This is my favourite song ever. Take it or violently throw it out of the window:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-dd4fMUhAY
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
(second of those isn't STG, whoops...but listen to it anyway. after the others.)
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfWoWHHRNA
um is it all like this? this is garbage
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
so firing up "Dirty Boy" at the moment and it isn't so much cochlea-scouring intensity as it is boring, anonymous guitar rock with a horribly annoying singer
maybe it gets better after the first minute
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
actually I guess I would describe this as "Placebo covering Oasis"
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Whole album's on Youtube.
NO SHAKEY IT IS NOT LIKE THAT - that is when they were VERY young and hadn't really developed anything except their wackiness. They grew up fast.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Even *I* don't like the really early stuff much
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:41 PM (4 seconds ago)
Which album do you think they became great on?
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
actually I guess I would describe this as "Placebo covering Oasis"― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE),
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE),
haha
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:42 (fourteen years ago) link
They became great on A Little Man... but Tarred And Feathered not only predates it by quite a few years, it also manages to be genuinely infuriating. Especially as it's often the first (and last) people ever hear of this band. Curse you, Youtube.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
agree w/Dan about the vocals. yikes
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlfWoWHHRNA&feature=player_embedded
is without doubt the worst thing I've ever heard in my life
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link
jesus fuck, 8:57? no fucking thanks
ironically, "Tarred and Feathered" is like way way way more entertaining to me
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
#TubeWolf220 How does one comment on this new Youtube version thing? Oh, here's the box. Good. Golly, I genuinely think it must take a metric fuck-tonne of talent to sound like you're playing BACKWARDS! Rather astonishing stuff, this. The song 'Tim Smith' on the Wildhearts' album 'Chutzpah!' is a fitting tribute to this defiantly uncategorizable loon, I think. 'When the future needs a legacy, where will the unit-shifters be?' Best wishes, Tim. 5 days ago
lj is that you?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:45 (fourteen years ago) link
these guys kind of a deserve an award for being like the most unsettling looking ppl on the planet
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I do struggle with Cardiacs on record, but they're one of the most staggering live acts I've ever seen. Utter genius.
― mike t-diva, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan, you've reckoned without the middle onwards being some sort of quasi-religious experience ;_;
All I'm asking is that a few of you listen to those three Youtubes. Either insult me or throw roses at my feet but at least give them a listen. At least try and understand where my brain is coming from.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, May 7, 2010 8:43 PM (1 minute ago)
I always loved that song, I recently got Songs For Ships & Irons and actually think it works as an album and is one of their best. It has a bit of everything. Sing to God is their masterpiece I am on your side with this one.
Also it really is worth sticking with Dirty Boy the last two minutes are just incredible.
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
like if I saw any of these ppl walking towards me on the street, I would be half-convinced they would lunge at me and start trying to eat my face while extolling the merits of flood insurance between bites
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:48 (fourteen years ago) link
xp: I bailed around the 4 minute mark? my ears were aching by that point
ill give the youtubes a shot when i am not at work.
― Samhain 69 (jjjusten), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Dan, seriously, go back and listen to it all. Skip the first three minutes if you have to. Haha, you quit JUST as it gets good!
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
By 'good' I mean 'jaw hits floor'
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
This might be a good one to start with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYMkS11D_nA
― Kitchen Person, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
next please
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
"Is This The Life?" is pretty good tho
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:51 (fourteen years ago) link
okay it was pretty good until I clicked back to the annoying video
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:52 (fourteen years ago) link
I would've probably liked Sing to God if I was about 14 the first time I heard it. It's too late for me now, though.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 7 May 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
oh actually it was 5:37 where I bailed
I would like this a lot more with a different singer
― it means "EMOTIONAL"! (HI DERE), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:53 (fourteen years ago) link
really can't get past the vocal style
lol xp
― the sound of a norwegian guy being wrong (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Next one is very appropriate. Just sayin'. It's also one of the goddamn greatest things I've ever heard, so I'm only too happy to launch into it. I have a hunch more people will be with me on this one.
― Mansun was where I fucked up (acoleuthic), Friday, 7 May 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link