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

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57. Soft Machine - Moon In June - 4950 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 19:07
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AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

all but five of you are rubbish!

my #1

maybe the towering musical achievement of the 20th century

uh

i'll post more later

I've said this before but M+M Mix > Album Mix > Levan Mix. Still amazing though.

oh and LOLiest river

why repeat myself, really

only about as fucking classic as it gets. when that drone fades out at the end it's like some kind of musical coming-of-age has just swept over you.

― unfished business, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:10 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've only got the original CD pressing, but I really can't imagine listening to it without the dirt, the clutter. That's what sets it apart and humanises it from quite a lot of 70's progressive music. Hugh Hopper's scuzzy bass and Ratledge's jarring organ are just perfect for the album.

― unfished business, Tuesday, February 27, 2007 5:38 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This song is sensational. Absolutely flaming sensational. I barely had the words two years ago and I sure as hell don't now. This one's being played at my funeral.

― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Friday, January 15, 2010 2:31 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The rest of the album is (imo) very, very good (especially Out-Bloody-Rageous and to a slightly lesser extent Facelift...really wild moods they evoke here) but Moon In June is just...colossal. It's got everything. I've pretty much got the entire thing memorised, but so many great moments, so many wonderful touches. It's about being young, being lost...nothing else represents these things quite so well for me.

― Do the english boil pizza? (acoleuthic), Friday, January 15, 2010 2:54 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

add in my great old age that this is a fucking insane piece of classic english songwriting for 9 minutes, robert wyatt at his absolute pinnacle, and then it just sets off into space, every single musical dynamic shift is mindblowing and perfect, ends up finding its resting point in this perfect synthesis of psychedelic, pastoral, oddball, epic, experimental, folk and utter elation

listen to it, everyone

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56. Incredible String Band - A Very Cellular Song - 5000 points | 6 votes
Duration: 13:01
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Will resume after I finish reading LJ's preceding post.

How long is that gonna take?

in other news, this 'inner life' track is fucking awesome and very epic! :D maybe i like disco really

yay :)

A Very Cellular Song. Now we're talking, pretty awesome and erm very Easter-y.

I always wanted to like Robert Wyatt a lot more than I actually do :-(

he doesn't always hit his marks but this + a few of his solo recordings saw him channel the cosmos imo

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55. Richard Dawson - The Vile Stuff - 5025 points | 8 votes
Duration: 16:26
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How long is that gonna take?

Eight minutes apparently, so not enough to qualify for this poll.

I only really like Shipbuilding, plus he has awesome tastes and says great stuff whenever I've seen him on TV. About it right now.

xp = you skimmed it didn't you? ;-)

"Top Gear" June '69 version of Moon in June >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Third version

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54. Arthur Russell - In The Light Of The Miracle - 5100 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 13:21
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AAAAAAHHHHH (and AAAAHHHH from my gf)

not my favourite 10 minute track on the ALBUM and it still came 16th on my ballot

it's quite a good album

richard dawson is a freakish god of being lovely

all one big xpost obv, someone go nuts about arthur russell now

Hint for the next: Oh, my Jesus.

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53. Led Zeppelin - In My Time Of Dying - 5150 points | 8 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 11:08
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Desert blues. One of many reasons that Physical Graffiti is my favorite Zep album.

In fact, puts to mind one of my favorite Bardo songs, and one which I'd thought about nominating.

"moon in june" my #2, fwiw. very sad to see it place so low- hope all of my other top ten make it!

big fan of rushomancy's ;)

seriously though, some good RYM cardiacs reviews :D

my gf approves of In My Time Of Dying btw

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52. The Wipers - Youth Of America - 5200 points | 6 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 10:30
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51. Of Montreal - The Past Is A Grotesque Animal - 5250 points | 8 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 11:53
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After any music list I make, I find myself feeling sort of, reproached by the gaps in my knowledge of pop music from the last 50+ years. That sensation was particularly pointed after typing up my ballot for this poll. All of this just to say this: I don't think I've ever heard any Soft Machine song. Been on my radar forever but always slipped through my cracks.

Wipers us I think my seventh? to place. That album is one of my favorites and long stretches spent with The Fall have given me appreciation for the punk-as-fake-krautrock mini-genre...

xp of Montreal = another regrettable oversight :-(

haha *clears throat*

(this was my #48 btw, but more importantly it was someone's...)

AAAAAAAHHHH

What an exciting evening of music.

This was my #1. I concede that it's not the 'best' track here, but the tide of youth attached to it is unignorable. Such tremulous, emotional instability! Such a spiteful, vicious beast of a song. Saw them perform a seventeen minute version of it at the Oval Space in Bethnal Green about a year ago and was completely blown away.

And while I'm here, Alice Coltrane has been far and away my favourite discovery of the poll. I'm frankly affronted she's not been recommended to me before. Insanely beautiful!

what a great bunch of tracks

"In The Light Of The Miracle" was my #1 iirc. imago if you haven't heard this and want to go a bit further in your disco odyssey...

We're listening to all of them and have just gotten to it now :) this has been, needless to say, an insane run for us

this Wipers song is very great - what a ruckus

happy about inner life & incredible string band

Oh snap I thought Wipers would be top ten.

also worth noting that we're halfway through and nothing has gotten more than 8 votes out of 50+ ballots, curious to see what lies ahead

a few thoughts in random order:

think i forgot to vote for Moon in June. sorry :(

Clara is so godly. confused the hell out of me when i first heard it; now everything about it fits just right, and it's almost a spiritual experience every time.

don't think i've every listened to much Of Montreal, or at least paid much attention to them. now could be the time.

that Destroyer track is admittedly great, but when it came down to it, it doesn't give me the same thrill as so many other tracks that were on the noms list.

YOUTH OF AMERICA
YOUTH, YOUTH, YOUTH, YOUTH, YOUTH, YOUTH, YOUTH, YOUTH
(my #1. and such a galvanising ride)

also, those Zeppelin, Hendrix and Incredible String Band tracks are of course, superb.

"Top Gear" June '69 version of Moon in June >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Third version

i did have a small internal debate about which one to nominate, but despite the amazing performance & jocular slyness of the top gear version i had to go with third. that it's pretty much just a solo and abandoned wyatt going for it for much of the recording just makes it all the more astonishing.

& yay isb!

My opinion of Of Montreal generally ranges from "yeah, this is decent" to "no, thanks". "The Past Is A Grotesque Animal", though, is epic and harrowing and utterly mesmerizing every time I hear it.

"In My Time Of Dying" was my number one. Not my favorite Zep song, but they're one of my top three bands and it's a very, very good song indeed, so what the hey.

i didn't vote but happy to see that a lot of my nominations have placed already!

BTW, anyone listening to that Richard Dawson track is invited to hear the full 16-minute version on Spotify as well as the shorter Youtube, because the shorter version omits frankly one of the all-time intros

Like ISB, Walker, Jimi, Fela and Russell (all of which I knew).

I'll never like Zep as I'm almost conditioned by years of listening to the Magic band to never like my blues by white ppl as too straight like this.

Only new things I've been exposed are Wipers - I like how that shifted from its garage beginnings but I don't feel like returning to it. Of Montreal I wasn't feeling.

I'm not listening to Dire Straits as I refuse to be open-minded about music.

you've forgotten to talk about two of the songs! how very odd

Which two?