Hey I'm King of The World, You Oughta Hear My Song, Come On & Measure Me, THESE ARE AT LEAST 10 MINUTES LONG - RESULTS ILM BALLOT POLL #58

As much as I love different various versions of NY's Down By The River I wish I could have voted for the Low / Dirty Three version which is incredibly beautiful but doesn't qualify because it's about, oh, twenty seconds too short. It's a different beast altogether - check it out.

oh I will! forgot I had that

I guess also because I'm listening to Rutti now, it is a shame that nothing from Talk Talk qualifies.

seconding the Low / Dirty Three version of Down By The River. It's magic when, 6 minutes in, Mimi's voice finally cuts into the background static and guitar with the DBTR's familiar melody line.

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68. Dexys Midnight Runners - This Is What She's Like - 4675 points | 5 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 12:23
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67. The Bucketheads - The Bomb! - 4700 points | 6 votes
Duration: 14:46
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66. Yes - Heart Of The Sunrise - 4750 points | 6 votes
Duration: 11:27
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65. Isaac Hayes - By The Time I Get To Phoenix - 4775 points | 9 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 18:42
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All-timer right here.

Dexys was my number one. One of my five favourite songs ever. I'll never understand how they pulled that song off. Saw them do it live in 2003, it was an incredible moment.

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62T. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit - 4825 points | 6 votes
Duration: 13:13
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I think I skipped past "Heart of the Sunrise" on the nominations list. Might've ended up on my ballot, though probably not very high.

Expensive Shit is my 2nd Fela to place

dexy's and bucketheads stuff is other people's business and i won't question their motives too much

heart of the sunrise is lovely and one of the really good yes songs

will get to the others soon

I'm not sure the Dexys version on Spotify has the charm of the album version I voted for. Don't know why. I love the one on the album.

relistening to hendrix 'machine gun' and feeling slightly sorry for not voting for it tbh

voted one hendrix very high, but this is just…just…it's too good. his guitar playing is too good. why did he have to die, he's the only early rock death i'm genuinely miserable about, he was going to do (more) staggering things

yep

Isaac Hayes was my number 1.

^listening to this is like taxiing for takeoff, get on with it

yoo doo right is wondrous, much better than i expected - bel-air was ok but this was something else - i'm not a great can fan but this held my approval more than most of their other stuff

get on with it

patience, grasshopper

Monster Movies might be your Can album, imago. Father Cannot Yell is really great too.

(Have you heard Mother Sky or not? That's prob the most dynamic of their not-epics)

dexy's and bucketheads stuff is other people's business and i won't question their motives too much

― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago)

Won't question our motives too much, what does that even mean?

this is what i'm like

will listen to mother sky when it comes up here! not heard it yet tho. you're right that dynamism and the merest hint of if not songwriting then deepening narrative and tension is what i sometimes find frustratingly absent in can given their manifestly great qualities

you want songwriting go listen to alice's restaurant or some shit

voted for Isaac. one of the first songs that'll come to mind when i think of the word "epic".

the one Fela song i voted for is yet to show up. maybe it won't.

Future Days is my favourite Can album by some margin, and Bel Air maybe my favourite song. instead of drawing you straight in like a lot of Can material, it paints the scenery for you first so you get a good look at it. after a while you just kinda wash into it.

maybe i've *sigh* kinda had it with Yes. somewhere deep within me i still think Heart of the Sunrise is spectacular though.

stop sighing! embrace the spectacular

:D

I didnt have room for Bel Air but I love it, mostly bcz in college I loved The Sea and Cake album The Fawn, which kinda leaned heavily on Future Days as a bedrock stylistic origin point, much the same way that Stereolab would do with Neu!

relistening to hendrix 'machine gun' and feeling slightly sorry for not voting for it tbh

voted one hendrix very high, but this is just…just…it's too good. his guitar playing is too good. why did he have to die, he's the only early rock death i'm genuinely miserable about, he was going to do (more) staggering things

― rock (Jack White, Coldplay) (imago), Friday, April 3, 2015 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yep

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Hendrix's biog is of someone whose life was being drained by the business he was in. Its just as likely that it would've been shit funk jamming, fusion recs and heroin addiction.

But yes I wake up depressed EVERY DAY by poor old Jimi's death. So young.

wonder where the other hendrixes will finish here

probably for the best that he died just in case he made some bad records

he would have joined king crimson or neu! and made the most legendary rock music of all time

his death was tragic regardless of whether he had already peaked or if he was destined for even greater things. if he was still alive and as uncool as Jimmy Page or Pete Townshend, he'd at least still be alive, which is something.

the thing that really nags at me about Hendrix these days is how beautiful his voice was. yeah i've long been stuck on how phenomenal a guitarist he was, but man, he just fires on so many goddamn levels.

at the same time

yes. i don't think anybody else has made it seem so easy.

leee had best start the countdown again soon or we'll end up having a tedious 'best rock musician ever' debate

ha ha totes! this poll is being e-pic-ally dragged out (which is fine by me).

it's not epic it's just long

I know it's been said many times that his consideration for ELP was unlikely to come to anything (HELP was joked about) and Emerson said that when they jammed, Jimi completely drowned him out but it's quite funny to think about it.

reading about him touring with soft machine has me wondering what on earth could have been achieved

well, he did do some recording with wyatt. the version of slow walkin' talk that showed up on that '1968' release not long ago for one.

well, well, well

ah nice, ty!

and if moon in june doesn't make an appearance then :-/

lol

if moon in june turns up inside the next *checks leee's current rate* week and a half i'll be disappointed tbh

the jimi hendrix bio movie was really illuminating to me because i didn't know what a sweet person he was. shame more people don't recognize that when you're that good at something the default position should be to NOT be an asshole. it's also a minor shame that i forgot to vote in this poll but i have been enjoying the rollout.