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

can't say i've noticed the guitar either, will listen out for it next time i play. re: the lyrics, in both versions he's referencing the circumstances in which the recording is taking place, so there is some continuity there (being alone in nyc/recording at the bbc). don't really see how the lyrical adaptation lessens the worth of the studio version. i like them both for what it's worth. reading up on it, the violin on the original was provided by a guy out of a uk improv unit that i've never heard of. wyatt used to sit in with them on occasion apparently.

progge

no lime tangier - got a name for the violin player?

re: the lyrics, in both versions he's referencing the circumstances in which the recording is taking place, so there is some continuity there (being alone in nyc/recording at the bbc). don't really see how the lyrical adaptation lessens the worth of the studio version.

Makes sense - just wrestling with this one now and speculating away..

There's not exactly a lot of guitar, but it's there from ca.1:30 to 2:00, though it's possible that it's speeded up bass guitar, although there's no actual bass guitar in the rest of the solo Wyatt bits. Similar 'guitar' appears on some tracks on "Rock Bottom"

(xp) Rab Spall (no relation?)

Aw yeah, you're right - I have that bit to mind now

It is so fleeting, just adds a bit of pastoral/folky/whimsical colour to the idyllic early stages of the music (before anguish can be properly confronted)

Think I assumed that that was a bass guitar tbh, it's all fingerpicked notes

Something tells me I'd better activate my prayer capsule

rab it is, of the amazing band... looks like the only evidence of their existence is one archival release

As I said it could be, speeded up, it's not something a guitarist would have played, in much the same way that a lot of his keyboard playing is not what a 'proper' keyboard player (like Mike Ratledge, for instance) would play.(xp)

it's a bunch of guys in their early 20s who, in jazz terms, are amateurs.

Not Elton Dean; he was a member of Keith Tippett's group prior to joining Soft Machine.

He doesn't play on that track though!

ha, good point...and probably why I slightly prefer the Third tracks he's on.

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45T. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 - 5550 points | 9 votes
Duration: 46:05
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45:33
Duration: 46:05

You had one job, Murphy

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44. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew - 5675 points | 6 votes
Duration: 26:59
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xp I think you meant Muphry.

45T. LCD Soundsystem - 45:33 - 5550 points | 9 votes
Duration: 46:05
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― A-Hanisi Coates (Leee), Monday, April 6, 2015 5:27 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fucking flag posts, nine of them, volunteer please, put yourselves forward

Cool your jets, LJ, here comes the warm ambient.

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43. Brian Eno - 1/1 - 5725 points | 8 votes | 2 #1 votes
Duration: 17:22
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i can live with brian eno! in fact i rather like him, even in ambient, non warm jet form

listening to the miles davis. it's pretty crazy eh

I believe 1/1 was my #1, or damn close

endlessly beautiful and listenable, co-written by Robert Wyatt!

one of the most calming pieces of music I know

Agree

Haitian Fight Song also a favorite. Good work so far voters.

another note on 1/1, that duration is the CD version, original LP version is 14 minutes and change

I voted for LCD Soundsystem. Sometimes I think it's the best thing he ever did.

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42. Herbie Hancock - Chameleon - 5750 points | 7 votes
Duration: 15:41
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i can live with brian eno! in fact i rather like him, even in ambient, non warm jet form

... and on piano in the track in question, Robert Wyatt!

... oops, someone else just pointed that out.

Probably the first 10+ minute song I ever loved.

gf wanted to watch something, i wanted to keep listening to the poll, so we juxtaposed that orb song with a laurel and hardy

laurel and hardy >>> the orb

great poll, eight tracks of my ballot already placed, and without my vote they wouldn't have done so well. bitches brew would have only been #66. youth of america only would have been #92 instead of #52.

i am a big fan of brian eno but i never understood the appeal of music for airports. through hollow lands from before and after science did nail the aspect of aimlessness and neutrality of music so much better. how i love that piece.

"Day of Radiance" is probably my Eno of choice.

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41. Tortoise - Djed - 6000 points | 9 votes
Duration: 20:57
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YES, phantastic piece!

Now your dislike of Joanna Newsom makes sense.

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40. Cortney Tidwell - Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan Pearson Objects In Space Vocal Mix) - 6050 points | 7 votes
Duration: 11:54
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Yay Djed

what is the relation between djed and joana newsom? i don't like her as not only does her voice annoy me a lot but the music simply bores me to death, it is all so mechanic. whereas djed builds up nicely and has got some kind of mystery about it. i heard it first in a bookshop in massachusetts almost 20 years ago and i had to find out what it was immediately.

Voted for this. Didn't expect to see it so high. Very nice surprise.

Didn't vote for Tortoise but really like that song. This has been a great run since LCD Soundsystem.

the album version of 'Don't Let the Stars...' is way more satisfying than Ewan's remix, if only for the way it ends, with the static/feedback gradually drowning out her vocals in a perfect simulation of death/dissolution/loss of radio contact/burning up in the atmosphere. the remix just sort of lumbers along for the last 4 minutes, and the perfunctory rocket sound effect at the end is a perfect example of anticlimax. but the original is only 7 minutes long, so I guess it isn't a true epick.

this is so great! jeez i didn't expect it - but i really am a sucker for wide-eyed outer-space bliss-out maximalism

I'm listening to the Joanna Newsom track now. I'd forgotten how beautiful, remarkable and I dunno, transcendental this was. I should have voted for it.

what is the relation between djed and joana newsom? i don't like her as not only does her voice annoy me a lot but the music simply bores me to death, it is all so mechanic. whereas djed builds up nicely and has got some kind of mystery about it. i heard it first in a bookshop in massachusetts almost 20 years ago and i had to find out what it was immediately.

No relation other than you like one and not the other. I wouldn't take me seriously.

I remember some remix of "Djed" being much more interesting than the album version though.

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39. The Temptations - Papa Was A Rollin Stone - 6175 points | 9 votes
Duration: 11:45
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38. Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again - 6225 points | 7 votes | 1 #1 vote
Duration: 13:04
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37. Jimi Hendrix - 1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be) - 6400 points | 9 votes
Duration: 13:40
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Good run there. Didn't vote in this because I feared ye prog.

yay! my #11. one of the greatest guitar performances in rock, AND one of the greatest bass performances in rock. both by the same guy :D

At the same time?

He had big hands.