the pure essence of an album

1. Who's That Girl
2. Handle Me
3.
4. Be Mine!
5. Crash And Burn Girl
6. Konichiwa Bitches
7. Bum Like You
8.
9. Should Have Known
10. Anytime You Like

until it's an album you've never heard of...

(I mean, actually, there are! Nobody ever decided the last two on the Police one, and also everybody agreed to ignore David Sylvian - so there may even be three!)

I think finding the essence of Robyn is a noble and worthwhile cause but frankly it's going to take a while especially as most of the people who like her are sleeping in Europe right now.

T.S. Eliot, Allen Tate, Yvor Winters, and M.H. Abrams to thread.

1. Who's That Girl
2. Handle Me
3.
4. Be Mine!
5. Crash And Burn Girl
6. Konichiwa Bitches
7. Bum Like You
8.
9.
10. Anytime You Like

1.
2. Handle Me
3.
4. Be Mine!
5. Crash And Burn Girl
6. Konichiwa Bitches
7. Bum Like You
8.
9.
10. Anytime You Like

"...while the vinyl is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table."

Tom, I agree Robyn is a worthy cause, and when those people wake up I'll return to find we're on something entirely different. That's the beauty of it too.

1.
2. Handle Me
3.
4. Be Mine!
5. Crash And Burn Girl
6.
7. Bum Like You
8.
9.
10. Anytime You Like

(OMG, these remaining songs are all so good; christ this is a great record.)

1.
2. Handle Me
3.
4. Be Mine!
5. Crash And Burn Girl
6.
7. Bum Like You
8.
9.
10.

One of those records where the big single doesn't capture the odd essence - and besides, "Be Mine!" doesn't do it for me like it seems to for some of you.

1.
2. Handle Me
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5. Crash And Burn Girl
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10.

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2. Handle Me
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Since I swiped mindinrewind's new album privlidges previously, someone else can take a shot.

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)
2. Breaking Glass (1:42)
3. What In The World (2:20)
4. Sound and Vision (3:00)
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6. Be My Wife (2:55)
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
8. Warszawa (6:17)
9. Art Decade (3:43)
10. Weeping Wall (3:25)
11. Subterraneans (5:37)

1. The Fix
2. Safe
3. In Cold Blood
4. Guess Who's Back
5. On My Block
6. Keep Me Down.
7. What Can I Do?
8. In Between Us
9. Someday
10. Sellout
11. Heaven
12. I Ain't the One
13. Fixed

ahh xpost!

I adore all the pop side and wouldn't lose any of it, whereas elements of the second side (which I also love) feel more or less interchangeable, so I picked "Weeping Wall" almost at random.

It's an interesting pick this because the two side 1 instrumentals might be considered both disposable and also the gap-bridgers, hence essential. If I had to pick an 'essence' "New Career" might be it.

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)
2. Breaking Glass (1:42)
3. What In The World (2:20)
4. Sound and Vision (3:00)
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6.
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
8. Warszawa (6:17)
9. Art Decade (3:43)
10.
11. Subterraneans (5:37)

I am gonna refrain from being a big meany: I've always disliked side 2 of Low and think it's a huge disappointment; I don't think the two sides belong together at all. So, I am abstaining from side 2. Side 1, on the other hand, is a masterpiece, and considerably more sentimental than a still-coked-up-near-sunrise collection oughta be. Except "Breaking Glass," which is cute but gimmicky, and while the album is largely about various moods in contrast, this one's not the center. Peace out, "Breaking Glass."

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)

3. What In The World (2:20)
4. Sound and Vision (3:00)
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6.
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
8. Warszawa (6:17)
9. Art Decade (3:43)
10.
11. Subterraneans (5:37)

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)

3. What In The World (2:20)
4. Sound and Vision (3:00)
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6.
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
8. Warszawa (6:17)
9.
10.
11. Subterraneans (5:37)

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)

3. What In The World (2:20)
4. Sound and Vision (3:00)
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6.
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
8.
9.
10.
11. Subterraneans (5:37)

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)

3. What In The World (2:20)
4. Sound and Vision (3:00)
5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6.
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
8.
9.
10.
11.

Then I was going to exclude "Be My Wife", but got beaten to it again. DAMN!

Then it was going to be "Subterraneans", but I could't demolish Side 2.

So now it's going to be "Sound And Vision", because it's the one tgrack which has an independent life above and beyond Low. ie. when I hear it, I don't think Low.

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)
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3. What In The World (2:20)
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5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
6.
7. A New Career In A New Town (2:50)
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9.
10.
11.

xpost my animus toward side 2 is decades old, this is like a great unburdening for me to see it go down in flames!

"Heroes" would probably be an interesting choice for this thread, too. Once you killed the title track anyway, which is clearly NOT the essence of that album.

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)
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3. What In The World (2:20)
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5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
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11.

1. Speed Of Life (2:45)
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5. Always Crashing In The Same Car (3:26)
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11.

You are missing out!

"Heroes" would probably be an interesting choice for this thread, too. Once you killed the title track anyway, which is clearly NOT the essence of that album.

I'd hope that "Heroes" would make it 'til very near the end of the thread in a hypothetical "Heroes" reduction, though. Prior to its broader uses, it occupied a pretty special place in the Bowie canon: such an obvious masterpiece, such a gorgeous lyric, such an incredible synthline. Though I think the album's essence is "Blackout."

http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:q48c_xWZu6EJ:www.amadirectlink.com/news/2005/images/Speed.jpg vs http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=tbn:480yNHbrk78J:people.freenet.de/f1network/picture11.jpg

1. Alone Again Or
2. House Is Not A Motel, A
3. Andmoreagain
4. Daily Planet, The
5. Old Man
6. Red Telephone, The
7. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale
8. Live And Let Live
9. Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This, The
10. Bummer In The Summer
11. You Set The Scene

Yeah, that or 'Joe The Lion'.