Get in! (was robbed, should've been top ten, etc)
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:42 (fourteen years ago) link
That's the album with 'hey now, hey now, don't dream it's over' right? Oy vey.
Well I like ABBA and Queen so different strokes I guess.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:43 (fourteen years ago) link
guys the good news about this is now we can be fairly sure that geir didnt send in a ballot
xpost nope thats the self-titled one
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:44 (fourteen years ago) link
the CHART-SMASHING hit off of woodface would have "chocolate cake" iirc
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, Don't Dream It's Over is from 1986.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
JJ you never her in the end :(
maybe your ballot and Geir's ballot would have done some antimatter shiz anyway
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
believe it or not, Geir doesn't vote in these kind of polls.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:45 (fourteen years ago) link
weather with you was the mind boringly dull hit from woodface was it not?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
No, that was much earlier - Woodface had 'weather with you', 'four seasons in one day', various others. Fantastic songwriting and it sounds beautiful.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
xp Some of Geir's posts on that Paul's vs Abbey Road thread were kind of phenomenal.
― Davek (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
end hits! what a fantastic record. totally forgot to vote for any fugazi. silly. though I would have gone for killtaker if any...
MaresNest, me and dominique if he voted should secure us something at least.
I may have helped too.
― m the g, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
Or mind-boringly dull, whatever.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
He's too busy making his own lists on RYM to vote in our polls. Anyway, why would he want to risk clogging up lists with albums he deems imperfect?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahahaha yeah i got busy searching through the couch cushions for ring money and never got to it.
xpost wait what ismael? chocolate cake is def on this album.
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Me & Geir, we're like *that*
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
You're right, I was replying to davek and got lost in xps
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
i am a lone voice in the wilderness that still thinks that "temple of low men" was their finest hour
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Temple has some great songs, but the s/t and Woodface are overflowing with them.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm guessing Peng is the only one from my ballot that makes it. Probably.
― emil.y, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
People's individual ballots will certainly be interesting to see.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― Q: What's brown and Sticky? A: The insect that lives in your stomach (jjjusten), Monday, April 26, 2010 7:49 PM (48 seconds ago) Bookmark
I would agree with this. Sister Madly might be my favourite song of theirs.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 26 April 2010 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
97 Sonic Youth - Washing Machine32 points4 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Jesse
http://images.uulyrics.com/cover/s/sonic-youth/album-washing-machine.jpg
GREAT record. Made me a total believer again after the nightmare of Dirty / EJST&NS.
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:33 (4 years ago)
"The Diamond Sea" alone makes it worth it. Totally epic. One of SY's greatest songs.
Also, I've always loved the amazing "meta" uber-reflexive cover featuring pimply Lollapalooza teens wearing SY "washing machine" t-shirts.
― Jacobo Rock (jacobo rock), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:56 (4 years ago)
you're all OTM. one of my favorite SY records. someone gimme a vinyl compy so i can be a jerkoff. did it ever come out on LP? i love these songs: becuz, the diamond sea, saucer-like, skip tracer, washing machine (which has some intentionally brutal vocals but descends into gorgeous guitar jamz), little trouble girl...
fuckin classic.
― Special Agent Dale Koopa (orion), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 14:42 (4 years ago)
Classic. Only clunker is indeed "Panty Lies" which I hate more than almost any other SY song. The solo in the middle of "Washing Machine" is up in the stratosphere, and "Unwind" is one of the most beautiful songs I know.
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 20:23 (4 years ago)
This is one of my favorite SY records. Probably my most favorite.
― Marty Innerlogic, Wednesday, 9 July 2008 18:18 (1 year ago)
KILL YOURSELF NYC DOUCHEBAG
― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 7 December 2005 06:24 (4 years ago)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 19:58 (fourteen years ago) link
From 1995, btw.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
ah yes
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Three words we will never see in this thread:
Greatest contributor: ilxor
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
That said, I voted for Stereolab, XTC *and* De La Soul among my ~195 albums, and if that helped put them into the top 102 over the fuck knows how many albums received 30 points, then I've done my job already.
The great thing about SY is that, even though all their albums are tangentially similar, everyone is passionate about their own favorite. Me? I could care less about Washing Machine, but I know several people who swear by it.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
It's all about "Skip Tracer" and "The Diamond Sea," surely I'm not the only one who swears by these tunes (even though the full album's a bit of a mess).
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
ilxor I can confirm that those three contributions were vital, and that you/pfunkboy together heaved Washing Machine into the top 100
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xp JF otm, I think Sonic Nurse is the best they've ever been.
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Woodface is near perfect.
Back in the 90s I had Peng w/ Switched On on one 90 min. cassette. What a perfect combo. Even now I keep those albums in one playlist and listen to them together.
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
And I think Sonic Nurse is second only to NYC Ghosts as their low point of the 00s. Funny how that works! xp
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Gerrin there!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i had washing machine @ #10 on my ballot fyi. its really p blissed out imo + "diamond sea" is like weather
― where display names die, unrecognized (Lamp), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
"diamond sea" is like weather
:D this is kinda awesome and true
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:21 (fourteen years ago) link
96 Björk - Debut (1993)32 points5 votes0 first-place votesGreatest contributor: Alex B
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_qIDBF62jwRo/SdSy48PwEKI/AAAAAAAAB24/tU4RoMqbB_k/s400/bjork-debut.jpg
i love the songwriting on debut! and i love the production, how clean it is, crisp yet detailed.
i think homogenic feels more like a landscape (didn't she record it in the mountains?) and debut is more about songwriting
― surmounter (rra123), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:14 (3 years ago) Bookmark
Debut is so spare that it almost sounds like home recordings, which, in retrospect, is a large part of its charm. I love them both for different reasons but, at present, Debut ranks a bit higher because I still remember how GREAT "Big Time Sensuality" and "Violently Happy" sounded in clubs.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:26 (3 years ago) Bookmark
Victor Scott wrote this on thread Do you ever overload on a band or artist at a particular point in your life until one day you wake up and you just can't listen to them any more? on board I Love Music on 05-Aug-2005
My girlfriend did this with Bjork the result of which is much screaming and nashing of teeth when I attempt to listen to Hyperballad or something. This resulted from a common early nineties over-indulgence by young women in too much Debut.
:D
I love Debut...contains some of her absolute best songs.
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Amazed this is so low. Didn't vote for it myself and can't really justify why not - can only assume others are the same.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah this should have been on my ballot.
― sofatruck, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Voted for Debut, it's the best Björk album I've heard. So many classic songs, and the beats still sound as cool and elegant as they did 16 years ago, which certainly isn't the case with most mainstream dance albums of the era.
― Tuomas, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Debut still stands up really well but I think she got better with each of the albums she put out in the 90's.
I'm surprised Post made the original list and Debut didn't. I always thought Debut was seen as a classic first album and Post was a bit of a disappointment.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I've always preferred Post to Debut, but Post was my introduction to Bjork.
― sofatruck, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I guess it was the other round for me, for a long time I would have said Debut was my favourite but there's maybe three of her albums I go back to a lot more now.
― Kitchen Person, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I was never that fond of debut, the odd couple of tracks aside. for me, post was where she started becoming interesting...
― m the g, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Debut and Post are quite uneven listens for me...two or three classics offset by pockets of duds. Although Post has this colourful eclecticism like a good Basement Jaxx album which gives it a definitive charm as an overall listen. Homogenic is top to bottom perfection, wonderful highlights yet most importantly, more than the sum of its individual components/tracks. Although I was disappointed to see the hating on Alarm Call on a recent thread..
― David (davek_00), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
95 Mark Eitzel - Songs Of Love (1991)33 points1 vote0 first-place votesContributor: purrington
http://image.musicimport.biz/sdimages/disk3/201622.jpg
he's one of the greatest solo live performers ever
― ara, Friday, 12 December 2003 18:54 (6 years ago) Bookmark
Lacking sufficient data, I'll leave Hollis out of this. Kozelek vs. Eitzel, no contest: Eitzel. Anecdotally speaking, both are positively nuts, but at least Eitzel is not the sort of nuts that leads him to start totally sucking at the peak of his career (I'm talkin' bout _Songs for a Blue Guitar_ here). Eitzel's songs are usually better-filled-out and structurally sound, at least harmonically speaking-- he doesn't have to play things at 26bpm to make them sound interesting. His voice is definitely a lot stronger. And when he wallows in self-pity, it's just a bit harder to spot because he's so much more articulate than Kozelek.
I'm a huge fan of both, mind (or at least I was a fan of Kozelek to a point... and I keep hearing about Sun Kil Moon, too, which gives me hope). It should also be pointed out that, despite being a talented songwriter, Eitzel has not yet mastered the art of tuning a guitar during a performance.
― r, Friday, 12 December 2003 17:19 (6 years ago) Bookmark
also, cool thing happened at mergefest last summer - eitzel was on the bill with she & him. naturally the turnout for she & him was past-capacity & there were lots of people in the crowd, some of them friends of mine, who had no idea who eitzel was and who weren't really planning on paying a lot of attention - they were there for the marquee act. eitzel proceeded to completely blow them all away. people went from "who is this guy?" to "this is the best show of the festival!" & were talking about it forever. and some of us back-in-the-day types were like, fuck yeah, score one for our side mark
― Lee Dorrian Gray (J0hn D.), Sunday, 24 January 2010 15:32 (3 months ago) Bookmark
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
hi lj how long will it take you to reveal the entire list?
― nakhchivan, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:38 (fourteen years ago) link
A single vote? Well done that man.
― Ismael Klata, Monday, 26 April 2010 20:39 (fourteen years ago) link
About a week or so! Maybe less if I get into a groove. This week is a bit manic work-wise but tbh the more I have to do the harder I work, so this'll definitely form a substantial part of my ergonomic drive.
Anyway, this latest album. Just when you thought you were reading any old poll...
(I can confirm things are gonna get interesting, also would quite like to hear Eitzel now)
― sausage s4rgent (acoleuthic), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
so far there's been 4 albums that i have/enjoy but didn't vote for (Buhloone, End Hits, Washing Machine and Debut). the De La just barely got cut from the end of my ballot where i gave a bunch of albums 1 point each, and i voted for different albums by Fugazi, SY and Bjork.
― surmudgeon (some dude), Monday, 26 April 2010 20:41 (fourteen years ago) link
haha rev laying down the LAW
― you better check that sausage before you put it in the rofl (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 12 May 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
id forgotten about this
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glad you revived this because holy balls DIRTY BOY what what who how
― Lie Bot (fireland), Saturday, 2 May 2015 06:44 (nine years ago) link
*clasps together hands atop desk*
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