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

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?

*shrug*

lol it's ok though - you've got dire straits right

haha I've got it ALL right mister.

just fucking w/you - I've said all I need to say wrt Dawson and Destroyer was bland, skipping forward didn't make it any better.

not a great fan of the destroyer either, although the last 2 minutes are the best bit

That Destroyer song irritates the shit outta me, but seeing it so far down is heartening news

just listened to the Of Montreal track. kinda wanted to turn it off before it got to the end. not quite sure that groove is righteous enough to convincingly sell the whole 12 minutes. not bad though -- i would have gone apeshit over this if i heard it when it came out. i mean, probably.

Destroyer destroying the ILX EOY albums poll was one of those great moments in realising the majority of the board and I were on fundamentally different cruises, but I got over it ok

Having caught up, a few things:

- Voted for Clara, one hell of a piece of music. Meat-punchingly good.

- Shamefully never heard Soft Machine before, though theoretically they always should have been right up my street. Moon in June is nice, not earth-shattering but I'll probably have to listen to it a few more times.

- Never heard Wipers before either, pretty good. Another one to add to the ever-growing list of things I need to investigate more.

- I'd sworn off saying anything negative on this thread, like anyone cares anyway, but some of these songs make it haaaaarrrdd

this latest run has been mostly brilliant though! you can forgive a led zep or a destroyer surely

I don't see how Of Montreal are any better than Destroyer though, maybe it's the fact I don't listen to that kind of indie synthpop stuff but to me it's the same sort of hate-crime against my ears and brain.

Richard Dawson was OK but served to remind me that I much prefer music where I can't hear/don't understand the lyrics (or it's some sort of pseudo-mystical bollocks etc) about 95% of the time

It just boils down to the fact that different people like different things, I guess.

I've had a few drinks at lunchtime so I'm not sure how much sense I'm making I should probably stfu for a while

that Zeppelin song is incredible though, and the album it features on one of the greatest ever.

i like the ambition & enterprise of that Destroyer song, even if it ain't strictly my thing. i'll always take something that exasperates because it reaches for too much over something meek & unimaginative.

aw I know different people like different things, wasn't trying to essentialise your tastes - just that I expected more #teamcardiacs solidarity ;) anyway, hate away, ilx needs more hate sometimes

i really do like the Dawson. it only bewildered me for a short time until i realised that dismissing it on the grounds of being "unmusical" was missing the point. besides, i like me a whole lot of free improv, noise etc.; it's not like i wasn't already well groomed for appreciating this.

this thread is formidable and i thank everyone involved in it. sorry to be a pain, but does anyone know the title of that other thread, the 'not an epics' result thread? can't seem to find it.

How long do the images take to make? I've belatedly twigged there's a bit more to it than i first thought, e.g see the way the running time is picked out in multicolours on the Inner Life image, which is very cool.

i am very surprised about how few prog-rock has made it onto the list yet. 40 years ago epic was more or less equal to prog. from the classic period, the seventies up till now it was just "moon in june" and "heart of the sunrise". pink floyd, genesis, king crimson etc. will surely feature in the top 50, i suppose. "youth of america" is such a great fierce song to listen to driving in bad autumn weather on the motorway, it has got so much punch. btw the whole album is perfect, probably my fave record of the eighties.

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49T. Genesis - Supper's Ready - 5300 points | 6 votes
Duration: 23:06
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I should've nomm'd + voted for some stuff off the first Kansas LP, I think

just in time for easter

Isn't this Geir's favourite song ever?