Blue
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 February 2013 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
^yah I missed that on my easy bet inventory tbh
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 9 February 2013 08:35 (eleven years ago) link
aaargh! faust just for the cover
― nonightsweats, Saturday, 9 February 2013 10:36 (eleven years ago) link
blue vs. tago mago, very difficult to choose but i guess it s blue.
― it's the distortion, stupid! (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 9 February 2013 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
Tago mago is p repetitive
― everyday i'm shovelin (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
great list. one of these is possibly my second-favourite album of all-time, though. this being ILX, Blue's delicate and easy charms will probably take it, and I'd have to say, I wouldn't begrudge it anything - it's my own second-favourite here (with the proviso that I need to educate myself in the German movement beyond, say, Faust IV and Neu)
when it comes down to it, though, TS: "Oh you're a mean old daddy but I like you" vs "ALL THINGS ARE A PART, ALL THINGS AAAAAAAARE APAAAAAAAAART"
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:28 (eleven years ago) link
vs 'to be a rock and not to roll', in fairness
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:33 (eleven years ago) link
also scaruffi's great but my god, what does it take for him to award 10/10?! 9's near-impossible enough...
that zep? never really got it. allman brothers much better at the titanic bluesjam thing, from this list
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
Tempted to vote "Fearless" just to break the German stranglehold on this poll but will probably fall inot line and vote "Tago Mago". "Fearless" is great though.
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
ah, he's never awarded a 10, trout mask replica 9.5 the highest
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
I refuse to believe you wouldn't dig The Battle of Evermore, imago
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
Or Four Sticks; in fact, side two might be right up your street
― Ismael Klata, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
the zep i've liked the most has been the later stuff, they seemed to branch out a bit
― imago, Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:52 (eleven years ago) link
Some branching out had already occurred by IV
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 February 2013 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
"Blue" is one of my favourite records of all-times forever but "Stormcock" is my POO 1971
― dry rub come save beef (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:37 (eleven years ago) link
This has to be the first time I've seen someone implicitly suggest that Led Zeppelin had not branched out 'a bit' by the time of the fourth album! (Side 1: a stop-start screamy rocker with wild metric shifts, a straightforward 12-bar blues-rock tribute to 50s rock and roll, an English folk ballad about The Lord of the Rings featuring John Paul Jones on mandolin and Sandy Denny on guest vocals, an 8-minute prog suite with inscrutable lyrics that opens with quasi-classical acoustic guitar and layered bass recorders.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 9 February 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
Too many equally good here; I'm retiring from voting in polls, since always has to be just one choice. Crosby's correct title is If I Could Only Remember *My* Name--obviously a much more extreme, dramatic dilemma! Cos who among us has not blanked on name of some approaching smiler. Didn't know Bruce Palmer ever did his own album! Anybody heard it?
― dow, Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:36 (eleven years ago) link
My bad on totally biffing Crosby's album titlr obv, what I get for finally working up the nerve to start this poll at 330 am.
― everyday i'm shovelin (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 February 2013 15:51 (eleven years ago) link
this is blue vs. tago mago for me too
― how's life, Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
No Maggot Brain no credibility
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I know. This list really has no credibility besides just a cool bunch of albums
If I had taken it up to 25, Satori wouldve made it :P
― everyday i'm shovelin (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
Can't not vote "Tago Mago", David Crosby probably my #2 pick. Couple of albums I don't know well by artists I love (Fahey/Amon Duul/Kraftwerk).
― brogue element (seandalai), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't heard a lot of these but it would be pretty hard for anything to beat Zep IV.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Saturday, 9 February 2013 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
Blue! My second vote would go to Alpha Centauri and then Mirror Man.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
Voted for Roy Harper.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 9 February 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Led Zeppelin IV
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
Then go vote here! 1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 9 February 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
kickass list but it's Fragile for me
― sleeve, Saturday, 9 February 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
oh man I own four of these (and have owned two more--Can and Zep--in the past) and the Yes one is easily my least favorite of them
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 9 February 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
Okay okay! I did vote after all, for Mirror Man! Got the art, got the boogie.
― dow, Saturday, 9 February 2013 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
gotta be Tago Mago but Pawn Hearts is very close, as is Faust
― frogbs, Saturday, 9 February 2013 23:40 (eleven years ago) link
Mirror Man is great! Kandy Korn is in the running for my favorite Beefheart song
― Drugs A. Money, Saturday, 9 February 2013 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
Listening to the Bruce Palmer album right now. First song is called Alpha Omega Apocalypse and kind of sounds like a weird cross between Traffic and Amon Duul II. It's VERY hippie...
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
pawn hearts
― akm, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 07:51 (eleven years ago) link
actually fragile.
Tago mago is p repetitivehell yeah it is
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I would have voted for Maggot Brain if it was on the list. Without being totally sure of the chronology, I have a feeling that something Brazilian has been overlooked as well. Or were they all in hiding in 71?
― Frederik B, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
great list save for the hampton grease band -- that record is all style no substance goofiness imo.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Just thinking about Live at Fillmore East vs. Mirror Man has me conflicted.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
go for the fillmore! obviously one of the best live albums in history!
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
haha, just for that I'm voting Hampton, Ian!
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:36 (eleven years ago) link
STORMCOCK
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
cool list! who is scaruffi? it'd be between mirror man, fillmore east, tago mago and america for me.
― tylerw, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
Tago Mago
― opecimmac, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
My #1 (not listed here) would be Judee Sill's s/t debut. #2 might be "Sticky Fingers" (also not here), or something else I'm forgetting. Of the ones shown here, I'd probably vote for "IV".
― o. nate, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
oh well, if we're going to go off-list, please consider Sir Douglas Quinter's The Return of Doug Saldana, times Miles Davis's Jack Johnson and Live-Evil. So many other albums I thought were 1971 are actually '70 and '72.
― dow, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 23:15 (eleven years ago) link
if it were here, I'd go for Live-Evil instantly.
― dow, Tuesday, 12 February 2013 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
you can vote for that here 1970-1979 WTF - The Hard 'n' Heavy 'n' Loud + Krautrock, Arty, Noisy, Weird, Funky, Punky Shit - Albums Poll! - VOTING THREAD! Closes Mar 8th 11.59 PM UK Time - All ILXORS/LURKERS WELCOME !
― pfunkboy (Algerian Goalkeeper), Tuesday, 12 February 2013 23:36 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
1971 is one of the all-time great years but most of my favourites aren't here so Crosby it is.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 10:21 (eleven years ago) link
voted Stormcock cos it's the best 1971 alb w/ jimmy page on it
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I would have voted for Maggot Brain if it was on the list.
Uh and "There's a Riot Going On"? Though it's not rock music so doesn't count obviously.
― Le petit chat est mort (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 February 2013 11:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Riot is probably my favorite album not on here
― Drugs A. Money, Wednesday, 13 February 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 14 February 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'd think he'd be into Flower Travellin' Band's Satori, but he probably hasn't updated that list in years. Master Of MFin' Reality, must not be his bag.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 14 February 2013 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
Both are further down; Satori is 25
― you know that your shoes are broken (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
Master is 48
Maybe I will repost the entire list the next time I'm not on my phone
― you know that your shoes are broken (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
The Bruce Palmer album is filled with lotsa late-nite bongo jams. You can practically smell the incense. And it's got Rick James!
― InternationalWaters, Sunday, 17 February 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah Master of Reality would be my #1 (xposts).
― Gavin, Leeds, Sunday, 17 February 2013 16:16 (eleven years ago) link
Missed this poll somehow -- Tago Mago would have gotten another vote.
― WilliamC, Sunday, 17 February 2013 16:36 (eleven years ago) link
I can't get that excited about Roy Harper's output in sum but he bottled the lightning on that one
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 17 February 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
hmmm Sunfighter mightve been a bit slept on
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Is2OeUZ6Sg
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:45 (eleven years ago) link
wd totally love it if KM played a song that sounded like ^that btw
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 07:46 (eleven years ago) link
I'm a pretty big Beefheart fan, but "Mirror Man" is like kryptonite to my ears.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
Waht? Album or song?
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 20 February 2013 17:24 (eleven years ago) link
The album. It just sounds like half-assed jamming to me. Give me the well-rehearsed, cleanly-recorded Magic Band of "Trout Mask" over this any day.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 20 February 2013 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
tried this?The Mirror Man Sessions
In 1999, Buddha Records (which had renamed itself to correct the earlier misspelling, 'Buddah') reissued the album under the title The Mirror Man Sessions, which was released with a newly expanded track list and a 12-page booklet explaining the history of the recordings. The additional tracks included on this release are also taken from the abandoned Brown Wrapper sessions, and thus yield a track listing which is somewhat closer to the original concept. Other tracks from these sessions are included as bonus material on Buddha's 1999 issue of Safe as Milk.No. Title Length 1. "Tarotplane" 19:082. "25th Century Quaker" 9:503. "Mirror Man" 15:464. "Kandy Korn" 8:065. "Trust Us" (Take 6) 7:146. "Safe as Milk" (Take 12) 5:007. "Beatle Bones n' Smokin' Stones" 3:118. "Moody Liz" (Take 8) 4:329. "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" 3:32
― dow, Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
^that and Shiny Beast were my gateways into Beefheart. I still think of those sessions as basically the 2nd Beefheart album (ie the missing link between Safe as Milk and TMR)
"Kandy Korn" is probably in my top 3 songs from Van Vliet
― harvester of lols (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 21 February 2013 00:54 (eleven years ago) link