Best album of my top 50 (WARNING: froggie self-indulgence)

Kinks

Would've voted for Underworld if your choices had been Second Toughest and/or Beaucoup Fish instead of the debut I've never liked as much as everyone else and the terrible live album.

Second Toughest was very nearly up there, it's really quite flawless in its own right. I think I posted on this in a different thread, but IMO dubno is really a great intersection of electronica with New Wave and prog which explains why I've been so drawn to it. And the live album totally rules!

As for Minimum-Maximum all I can say is it blew me away on first listen and I still reach for it more than any of their studio LPs, I love the way everything sounds on it and was surprised to find out that a lot of people didn't really dig it.

this is amazingly indulgent & i hope u feel ashamed btw even if heaps of these would crack my own top 50

― ... Jenkinson ... ... ... ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Friday, September 6, 2013 9:36 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

you should make this because I am super curious

yeah hey if you want to suggest some good black or women artists that sound like this stuff please go ahead and do it.

I am concentrating at your list and I am guessing you'd be really, really, really into Ornette and Parliament

Village Green Preservation Society

i love this list frogbs, even if i don't quite grasp the concept.

meaning i don't know a lot of these but know they are amazing.

i like to celebrate lists rather than breaking them down. but my posts reflect that, hopefully already.

I'm wondering if u shd listen ti Meshell Ndegeocello, froggie

I'm guessing from yr posts in my most recent poll that Jonzun Crew prolley weren't too far from this...

My recommendation for frogs if u don't know it already: CYBOTRON - CLEAR

dubnobass is easily the best underworld

I am concentrating at your list and I am guessing you'd be really, really, really into Ornette and Parliament

I assume that that you're already familiar with fusion-era Miles and Herbie Hancock, frogbs?

Which album is Nilmar referring to? Please advise!

― softspool, Saturday, 7 September 2013 05:05 (6 hours ago)

that will have been a reference to

monoton -- monotonprodukt 07

the excised words were taken from frogbs' own rateyourmusic list and refer to the ymo album

Frogbs, do you like Kevin Blechdom?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO6bq0bD5Jo

Cool list. Tons of stuff I still haven't heard yet (YMO in particular comes to mind). Was there anything released in the past decade that came close to making your top 50? Just curious.

numan, yes, feelies i listen to most.

kinks & xtc, too, but i think they had better records

than the ones listed here

Frogbs, could you give some kind of account of the order in which you first got into these records, to the extent that you can remember? Reading the list I think I can infer how your musical tastes evolved, but I may be completely wrong.
(Does it seem rude to ask a second question before there has been answer to the first? Obviously I'm aware you may have lots of better things to do so if answering these questions does not interest you then please don't feel under any pressure to give a response.)

I am concentrating at your list and I am guessing you'd be really, really, really into Ornette and Parliament

I assume that that you're already familiar with fusion-era Miles and Herbie Hancock, frogbs?

I do like Parliament a lot - the others I know of and have a few albums by (except Coleman) but in general that's a genre I don't really get and all these dudes have zillions of albums

I'm guessing from yr posts in my most recent poll that Jonzun Crew prolley weren't too far from this...

It would probably make my top 100! I really love a lot of that early hip-hop/electrodisco stuff but IMO most of the albums aren't so good all the way through, IMO Lost in Space is probably my favorite among them. I'm listening to Clear by Cybotron now (thanks Nick!) and wow, it's exactly the record I wish they had followed it up with!

Was there anything released in the past decade that came close to making your top 50? Just curious.

Its kind of hard to put something too recent on a list like this. but here are the ones that were close or might have made the list on a different day:
Dan Deacon - America (2012)
Sketch Show - Loophole (2004)
Datarock - Red (2009)
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver (2007)
Janelle Monae - Archandroid (2011)
Andrew W.K. - Close Calls With Brick Walls (2007)
Rip Slyme - Epoch (2006)
Zammuto - s/t (2011)
Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything (2008)

A lot of all time faves of mine on here. Comes down to larks v wireless v sowiesoso v 75 v VCL v ege. Voted for Dolby cause it's just so rewarding and rich end to end. (If you had 75 + Sowiesoso = Deluxe on here that'd get my vote probably.)

You should hear ESG!

Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything (2008)

good one. wasn't trying to be all "you sexist, frogbs" but it was naturally my first reaction to say "where are the girlth" :)

I think a lot of prog guys have that blind spot, outside of Annie Haslam we don't have much

Art Bears? Zeena Parkins? maybe Slapp Happy? are u a Kate Bush fan? I know I'm missing some others... News From Babel, Catherine Ribeiro...

Thinking Plague!

Also U Totem! "One Nail Draws Another" is seriously one of my all-time favourite prog tracks.

Renaissance!

I love Annie Haslam and Renaissance so much!

I know I'm missing some others

Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin, maybe?

Curved Air, Jacula, Amon Duul, Henry Cow, Art Zoyd (Patricia Dallio has her own solo stuff too), Comus and probably many other folky prog bands had women in them. Lindsay Cooper was in quite a lot of bands.

Gong!

Oh, duh, Amon Duul.

Nina Hagen is not really prog, but nunsexmonkrock seems like it would be in keeping with the general tone of frogbs' list?

No Sea & Cake, frogbs?

COMUS. Yeah. I was gonna say Catherine Ribeiro and Art Bears but they're both I dunno kind of niche tastes, I buy those records cheap and listen to them alone

Wow, this is tough - you've got like 10-15 stone killers on this list.

Also I'll totally doing a me version of this poll

tago mago beats before and after science by a stretch.

No Sea & Cake, frogbs?

― Geoffrey Schweppes (jaymc),

The Biz was one that almost made it

as for some of the others mentioned - I do love Renaissance a lot too, Ashes or Burning nearly made it on here as well. Art Bears I've tried and don't really like at all. Gong is something I'll probably be listening to a lot in the future. Comus I like though it's a real acquired taste, stuff like that and Trout Mask are definitely up my alley but I find myself not really listening to them a lot. Amon Duul - I dig Yeti and Wolf City a lot. Slapp Happy I think are neat though again not something I'd play a lot. Sadly I don't know a single thing by Kate Bush outside of Hounds of Love, big blind spot for me

You should hear ESG!

― i believe we can c.h.u.d. all night (Jon Lewis),

checkin' them out on youtube, like real dubbed out electro with half the instruments removed. pretty cool

which 5 of these should I hear then froggy

obv YMO has been listened to with wide-eyed wonder already

damn, this is difficult. could vote for any of these in good conscience:

Yellow Magic Orchestra - BGM
Denki Groove - VOXXX
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
La Dusseldorf - s/t
Autechre - LP5
Cluster - Sowiesoso

but going with VCN since it was one of those mind-blowing first listens that made me think, "I need more music like THIS in my life RIGHT NOW"

oh yeah, you should listen to some alice coltrane

I know I'm missing some others

flora purim!

I didn't go over it with a fine tooth comb, but is the Boredoms album the only overlap between this and the Moka list? Seems like an odd place to intersect. I should go back and listen to it again.

A lot of really great records here but I'm torn between Talking Heads and Todd Rundgren.

which 5 of these should I hear then froggy

that's very tough if since I assume you've heard most of these before. I feel your tastes run a little heavier and doomier than mine but I'll suggest the following:

Technique of Relief
Paraiso
Golden Age of Wireless
Snivilisation
The Pleasure Principle

skylarking, though there's a bunch on here i like almost as much

i like that the feelies are on here

yeah the "13" album is floating my boat so far

I looked for Frogbs on the Fleetwood Mac - Tusk thread. He isn't there.
I looked Tusk on this thread. It isn't there.

Did you rave about that album elsewhere because I could have swore your enthusiasm convinced me to buy it?

hah, no, definitely not me! maybe it's time?

Yeah it's a great album.

THIS THREAD DOESNT SEEM SO STUPID NOW DOES IT!???

I mean I'd do mine but I don't want a Spirit Of Eden walkover, which is what it would be

Don't tempt me.

frogs, no thread ever posted on ilx has ever been stupid; save for the ones posted by me, but that's usually kinda the point whenever i start one.

ooh ooh, maybe i should poll my most hated albums ever!

Do

it

!

i'd have to put some serious thought into that. i'm sure coming up with a top 50 or whatever would be easy, just have to set aside the time to do it.

this was fun, should I do it again? :)

Soul Coughing, that's a band I don't see mentioned on here, like, ever.

Would have voted future days, or maybe ITKOTKC (nearly went on mine)

You already know my opinion on doing it again

there would be a lot more ILX fodder this time around I think

suggest ban if u voted for the kinks over boredoms, magma, cluster, ruins, etc.