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73. Can - Yoo Doo Right - 4500 points | 6 votesDuration: 20:28YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
Ah, there is my fifth.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
Hooray for The Girl With The Sun In Her Head. Ended up voting for all three songs nominated from that album.
Probably time for this amazing quote again..
I threw my vote behind In Sides as well - and it would have been even if the album was nothing but "The Girl With the Sun in Her Head" followed by 30 minutes of the band taunting me by name.
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, November 6, 2009
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
hey i love that dadawah song/record. also war!
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
didn't vote for that orbital track but really glad it placed
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
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71T. Global Communication - 14 31 - 4525 points | 6 votesDuration: 14:31YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Very tempted to change the listed duration there ^^^
Pretty sure In Sides is one of only two albums that got multiple votes from me. So, so good.
And Santa Esmeralda marks the first song (of several, I'm sure) that I probably would have voted for if I hadn't completely failed to notice it on the nomination list.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
GC is my second to place. Would be nice if one of their other nominated tracks also places but probably unlikely as I would have had 14:31 to place highest.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
Dadawah is my fourth. Voted for different Can & Hendrix songs, but am esp stoked to see Bel Air make it. Same with Girl w/ Sun which is the only Orbital song I know but is v good.
― always one or two posters dog-determined to be RONG in a thread (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Also I used to have that War album; that song rules and I should've re-listened before submitting my ballot
― always one or two posters dog-determined to be RONG in a thread (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
Yoo Doo Right wuz done wrong! Way too low.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:13 (nine years ago) link
Santa Esmeralda is great, but I already had too many disco epics in my ballot, it was one of the last things I had to cut. I've never noticed any "Santa Esmeralda Suite" in the 16 minute version, it's sounds like one epic tune to me, I guess they just integrated it really well into the Nina Simone song.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:21 (nine years ago) link
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71T. Alice Coltrane - Isis And Osiris - 4525 points | 7 votesDuration: 11:32YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 19:59 (nine years ago) link
Good good.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:01 (nine years ago) link
Huh, actually thought '14:31' would be #1.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
another one of my votes, yay
― sleeve, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
I always preferred Reload's A Collection of Short Stories generally to anything off of 76 14.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
14:31 was on my longlist at #66 - a truly sonorous & thoughtfully-composed piece of techno. I'm way behind on this now and I can confirm that Herbert Hancock can write an extraterrestrial jam, maybe even a sex jam - sexier than Lil Louis at any rate, and definitely not of this earth. Krautrock obv mega-classic, quite like War as well. we have to watch a film now so maybe more of your favourite hot takes later
Orbital and Hendrix have stuff I voted for yet to come but those are very, very great as well, and I look forward to Comus especially
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
Comus sounded intense and extremely germane to my interest in British pastoralia and especially British supernatural-pastoral - it keeps its secrets well-hidden but lets out enough of the magic to ensure you'll keep looking. Very, very intriguing. I can see myself loving this a lot after a few repeats
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
It's a beauty I don't know why I didn't think to nominate it. Roger doesn't sing lead vocals on it so it isn't totally representative of most of their sound. In fact I should have nominated "Maalgard Suite", a live epic that resurfaced after decades, which is totally brilliant.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 21:50 (nine years ago) link
That'll be it for today. Spotify playlist is up-to-date, plus has "Albatross" added, which I couldn't find initially.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:03 (nine years ago) link
Like every poll, I voted for what I already knew and didn't do any extra listening. But I did learn about the long album version of "The World Is a Ghetto" for the first time--only knew the single edit from Greatest Hits. It was one of two songs ("Jenny Ondioline" the other) where I like the shorter version better but voted for it anyway.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 1 April 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Malgaard Suite is amazing and Lindsay Cooper was a much better fit for the band than that shit flautist on First Utterance, but since the only recording of it is a crap audience tape it's probably always going to be a curio. Honestly its release had me gobsmacked- almost every band will tell you about the "lost classic" they had, and they're nearly all shit, but the Malgaard Suite is markedly better than anything on First Utterance. The unrecorded second part of it has taken on a mythic status to me not unlike the second, and altogether stranger, part of "Kubla Khan". I actually didn't vote for Comus at all because I figured other people would take up the slack, and given that "The Herald" is the inferior of the epics on _First Utterance_ I'm not disappointed.
Glad to see one of my noms make it. Most of them were obscurantist that I wasn't sure any of them would make it. Mind you I didn't have "72 Nations" on my list until 46, but hell, there's some stuff I nominated that I didn't vote for at all...
― rushomancy, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
given that "The Herald" is the inferior of the epics on _First Utterance_
wrong
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 April 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
Also I think that the Comus track "All The Colors Of Darkness" stayed unreleased for so long is scary. It's a stunning piece. I wonder how many unreleased gems there are like that?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 April 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
! had no idea of the existence of that track (never gotten around to checking out the maalgard suite, for that matter)
and yes to isis and osiris placing
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 2 April 2015 03:09 (nine years ago) link
7 (!) of my votes have shown up so far.
my, that Alice Coltrane track is something else, right? pretty sure there are healing powers contained within that song.
― charlie h, Thursday, 2 April 2015 04:42 (nine years ago) link
Must've been an amazing gig.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 April 2015 09:33 (nine years ago) link
74T. Dadawah - Seventy-Two Nations - 4425 points | 6 votes
Damn... didn't realise this was what it was... I love this tune but didn't vote for it :-( I would have if I'd realised.
― but then again, who really cares? I don’t. (dog latin), Thursday, 2 April 2015 09:47 (nine years ago) link
Louis, I have a feeling that you will be told you are wrong a few times itt and I don't feel like adding to that but have to say your policy on long versions of songs that have both long and short versions is nonsensical
(Also you are both wrong and right about the NYC art punk stuff so far)
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
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70. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Down By The River (Live At The Fillmore East) - 4575 points | 5 votesDuration: 12:23YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:15 (nine years ago) link
curious to see where Cowgirl ends up
― sleeve, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:17 (nine years ago) link
Louis, I have a feeling that you will be told you are wrong a few times itt
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Thursday, April 2, 2015 5:09 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"oh look, a neil young song! let me hear the first 20 seconds and i'll tell you what it sounds like 8 minutes in!"
:P
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
wonder which one of street hassle and frankie teardrop wins is a fan of
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
You're both wrong and right about both songs sorry if that wasn't clear
Good list so far, I'm ok with not having voted. As long as sinnerman is #1
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
Top 10 is all AMT, Bardo Pond, and Autechre, sorry wins.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:35 (nine years ago) link
lol both "street hassle" and "frankie teardrop" have springsteen connections
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
I had to strain an awful lot of Bardo Pond and Autechre out to get my ballot down to 50. If only I had known.
― Gimme Gimme Pop Secret (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
Trying to catch up listening-wise this afternoon, Mingus so far is the only thing that doesn't have me writhing with impatience (apart from my own picks) which is weird since I'm not big on jazz usually
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I actually quite dig this, hooray for slightly broadening horizons
― ultros ultros-ghali, Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
think there's been a lot of jamming and not much songwriting in the last few, for better or worse
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:56 (nine years ago) link
In all seriousness I never pegged you for a songwriting maven
― Finn McCoolit (wins), Thursday, 2 April 2015 17:59 (nine years ago) link
lol
i rly enjoy quite a lot of the last few tbh
― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Thursday, 2 April 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
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69. Underworld - Dark And Long (Dark Train) - 4650 points | 7 votesDuration: 10:54YoutubeSpotify
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Love Dark Train
― groovypanda, Thursday, 2 April 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Now I'm wondering if there'll be, like, 3 or 4 Underworld tracks in this countdown.
― Eric H., Thursday, 2 April 2015 18:32 (nine years ago) link
hope so
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
I tried not to vote for too many tracks by the same artist but I failed when it came to Underworld
― groovypanda, Thursday, 2 April 2015 19:31 (nine years ago) link
Pace going to be slow today, I'll make up for it tomorrow.
― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Thursday, 2 April 2015 21:01 (nine years ago) link