Musicology question: what is the clarinet doing in Breakfast In America to get that klezmer feel? Is there a particular mode being deployed, for example?
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
But maybe not, given that there's a whole ILM thread devoted to listening the Eagles' entire catalogue song-by-song.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Tuesday, July 15, 2014 4:17 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
By the end, I'm pretty sure the participants were ready to slaughter actual eagles much less get excited enough about Hotel California to vote for it in a poll. But maybe that was just me.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Stairway was always going to be on my ballot. I love it in a vacuum, and I love in the context of CR. It just missed my top 10.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
Back in the 80s I heard a radio station do a 500 Best Metal Songs of All-Time Countdown and they had "Stairway" at #500
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:41 (nine years ago) link
good bets for my still-unfinished ballot:stairwayhotel califuneral/love lives bleeding
medium bets:bohemian rhapsodyjungleland
not good bets:freebirdwayward son
(and there will be lots of skynrd on my ballot, including probably my #1)
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:43 (nine years ago) link
what is the clarinet doing in Breakfast In America to get that klezmer feel?
I don't know if it sticks to it all the way through, but there's a raised fourth so I'd say it's basically alluding to the Hungarian minor scale.
― timellison, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:49 (nine years ago) link
OFFICIAL DEADLINE LENIENCY STATEMENT: polls technically close at midnight tonight, but I will accept any ballots I receive before I finish counting and hand off the results to gr80 to make images for, which will definitely give you all day Wednesday at the very least.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Thanks Tim. I love how that stuff works, how one note can make you draw allusions by mechanisms you never knew existed.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 17:54 (nine years ago) link
how fucking great is ELO?
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
if I get a ballot put together Do Ya is gonna be waaaaayyyyy up there.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
I think anyone who doesn't think they have time to vote should at least try to slap together a top 20
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
totally. especially because any song being in someone's top 20 could totally be the deciding factor in that song making the poll or not, things are very close.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:38 (nine years ago) link
I much prefer the Move's version of Do Ya.
― how's life, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Or you could submit a top 2 poll of Blue Sky and Mr. Blue Sky.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
Been going through ELO's catalog as a result of this poll and man "A New World Record" is such a solid album.
― Darin, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
The crazy fusion of Bee Gees and Boston on tracks like "So Fine" is a thing of beauty.
― Darin, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
A New World Record is their best IMO.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Might have to listen to it now.
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
really weirding me out rn how much Aldo Nova's "Fantasy" sounds like Jefferson Starship's "Jane"
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:01 (nine years ago) link
I think every rock band had at least one song in the eighties with that power chords vs. "dink dink dink dink" keyboard construction.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
It's Two for Tuesday on 97.9 The Loop.
― first is the worst (askance johnson), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:06 (nine years ago) link
echoing the "just do a top 20" get out the vote push, u can do it ppl
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:18 (nine years ago) link
otm
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
ok i've done the "do i actually like this song y/n", "is this really CR y/n" and "have I ACTUALLY ever heard this on the radio y/n" culls and I'm down to 179. But now I'm banging my head against the wall. I'm gonna have to institute a per-artist limit I think. Why do I feel like I can't strike out any of these fucking Journey songs?!?!
― before you die you see the rink (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:27 (nine years ago) link
wait we weren't allowed to vote for greatest hits albums right?
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
yeah, they were both doing something that was relatively common at the time (see also toto's "hold the line," for example) but it's still amazing how close those two in particular got.
meanwhile, "jane" is easily on my ballot and "fantasy" is not and if you put a gun to my head and asked me to explain i'd probably have to ask you to shoot.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:34 (nine years ago) link
Yep, no greatest hits albums
― Sandy, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
There are plenty of studio albums that function as greatest hits as far as CR Radio is concerned (Who's Next, The Cars, Rumours).
― voodoo chili, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:01 (nine years ago) link
jane is the best
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
I forgot to vote for Who's Next, probably should have.
― guwop (crüt), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:10 (nine years ago) link
Goats Head Soup is the greatest album ever made
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:12 (nine years ago) link
after Making Movies anyway
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
sent mine!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
Wheel in the sky keeps on tuh-nin! Don't know where I'll be tomorroo-ooooo-ooooow.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
up to 47 ballots now, definitely will be crossing the 50 line! let's make it 60!
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:44 (nine years ago) link
GO FOR ONE HUNDRED ILM YOU CAN DO IT
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
KEEP ON POLL-IN
OOOOOOO
OOOOOO
OOOO
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
CAN'T FIGHT THIS POOOOLLLLLLLIN ANYMOOOORE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
hmm maybe POLLLLLLLLLLIN is better than POOOLLLIN
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2c/Monkees-Pool-It!.jpg
criminally overlooked in the noms
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 20:54 (nine years ago) link
I won't stan for anything on that record, but "That Was Then, This Is Now" from a year or two before was really nice.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 21:00 (nine years ago) link
crap, I voted a Greatest Hits album thinking it was fully in the spirit of the poll.
― campreverb, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
Me too. Also a live album not by Frampton. Tbh I could pick at least five equally valid top fives, with no overlap.
― Ismael Klata, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I just sent in a ballot. Heavy on Aerosmith and Zeppelin maybe.
here's what didn't make it. 101. Pink Floyd - Time / Breath (Reprise)102. Eddie Money - Two Tickets To Paradise103. Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Comin'104. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster105. Rainbow - Since You've Been Gone106. Paul McCartney & Wings - Jet
― Zachary Taylor, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
Live albums disallowed too?
― campreverb, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:50 (nine years ago) link
cuts that have hurt my heart so far today:
--tom petty "don't do me like that" ("you were in the public eye/givin' someone else a try" is an all-time fave line)--thin lizzy "the boys are back in town" (penalized for reminding me too much of the hold steady)--all of billy joel--pat benatar "heart breaker"
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
if live albums *aren't* allowed (i voted for one, but i don't really care) an exception should be made for frampton because c'mon
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 July 2014 23:23 (nine years ago) link
Ballot sent. There are a few artists for whom I just can't separate my fav. songs of theirs into rankings. So, in the spirit of CR radio, my ballot contains some Rock Blocks.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:25 (nine years ago) link
Nice
― how's life, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:27 (nine years ago) link
i left out a bunch of great songs mainly because they just don't vibe strongly with my radio memories, for some reason. certain stones and zep songs, for example. and stuff i associate more with oldies. i did vote for one new discovery: cheap tricks's "i want you to want me" from budokhan. my god, pure euphoria!
― brimstead, Wednesday, 16 July 2014 00:34 (nine years ago) link