(Baseball Afro...Angela Davis and Pam Grier and a few other people had even more famous Afros. I had a decent white-guy Afro myself.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:36 (nine years ago) link
#26. 208 points. 11 votes. 1 1st place.Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken #1) (Electr-O-Pura)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt26_zpsmvgfzxa6.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:37 (nine years ago) link
I voted for "Return to Hot Chicken," but not this one. I can't think of the connection off-hand...both instrumentals, right?
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:40 (nine years ago) link
Never understood the hot chicken thing either, if someone with the knowledge could tell us!
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:41 (nine years ago) link
http://www.roadfood.com/Photos/9370.jpg
They (used to) record in Nashville a lot. Nashville-style hot chicken is a regional thing, and Prince's is a legendary joint. Wait times of several hours reported...it's like getting brisket at Franklin's.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:46 (nine years ago) link
#25. 209 points. 11 votes.Detouring America With Horns (May I Sing With Me)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt25_zpsokg85vhp.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:48 (nine years ago) link
#24. 211 points. 11 votes. Saturday (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt24_zpscnepctoq.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 00:59 (nine years ago) link
Black Flowers is lovely, was in my top 10 or maybe just outside? Easily my favourite sung by James
― ufo, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
#23. 212 points. 11 votes. We're An American Band (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt23_zps7adxqpuv.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
"out of tune, out of tune..." <dissonant piano stab out of nowhere>
I probably should have given "Saturday" even more points.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
American Band was my #2. Such an epic track.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:17 (nine years ago) link
#22. 243 points. 10 votes.You Can Have It All (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)http://s854.photobucket.com/user/Maax_Seguela/media/ylt22_zpsd5fitxyy.jpg.html
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:23 (nine years ago) link
http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt22_zpsd5fitxyy.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
#21. 258 points. 10 votes. 3 1st place votes.Night Falls In Hoboken (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt21_zpslvfg4qmo.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:36 (nine years ago) link
there goes my #1
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
rip jim palmer
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
it has put me to sleep more than any other song ever, probably by an order of magnitude, and i mean that in the most complimentary of ways
Yeah, Night Falls (and the next one) being outside of the top 20 was a huge surprise to me. Probably the two biggest of the poll.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
#20. 265 points. 1 1st place voteEveryday (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt20_zpshwmctw4b.jpg
I mean, Everyday is in top 20. But I thought it would be higher. I scream a traditional TOO LOW at both.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:48 (nine years ago) link
So many songs from Inside-Out made it--seemed like almost every one except for the song I voted for.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:49 (nine years ago) link
these quiet songs are nice and i like them, but i guess what has made the band special to me is when they make the loud songs just as intimate
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:52 (nine years ago) link
#19. 276 points. 15 votes. 1 1st place vote.Moby Octopad (I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt19_zpsgyunuhcs.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:55 (nine years ago) link
I totally get how someone made this their #1.
― campreverb, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
earl weaver is universally intimate, however
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2015 01:57 (nine years ago) link
Just catching up with this. I had Flying Lesson (Hot Chicken) In my top 5. It looks as if Judy about everything from Electro-Pura will place. Very cool. Also nice to see Detouring America With Horns so high.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
The last two hit my ideal for YLT, totally enveloping and intimate but also with a lot of momentum and not lulling me to sleep (though the latter is totally fine, see "Night Falls on Hoboken")
― JoeStork, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:05 (nine years ago) link
#18. 276 points. 16 votes.Decora (Electr-O-Pura)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt18_zpsn7fpb2dw.jpg
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:06 (nine years ago) link
had no idea until a second ago that "Armenia City In the Sky" is the source of the high-pitched sample in "Moby Octopad"
― JoeStork, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:08 (nine years ago) link
i feel like i should have noticed that but of course never did
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
"Moby Octopad" was my #1. A friend taped I Can Hear the Heart for me, I played it in the car on a lengthy drive to a cottage, and I kept playing "Moby Octopad" over and over. It was so strange and so melodic, and it didn't seem at all like what they were doing on New Wave Hot Dogs, the last I'd heard of them at the time. (I probably wasn't remembering very well--I imagine there's some continuity there.) I think I picked out the Who sample right away.
― clemenza, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:14 (nine years ago) link
Everyday was my first place vote. Glad to see it sneak into the top 20. Love the arrangement - it really sets the mood beautifully for that album.
― lingereffect (Kent Burt), Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
Yeah Moby Octopad works very well on repeat, I remember playing the song over and over driving through BC with my parents, it reminded me of a rainy night in the city for some reasons.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:16 (nine years ago) link
Want to be Paul Le Mat in 1980.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:17 (nine years ago) link
turns the volume up for mooksies*
#17. 278 points. 12 votes.Sudden Organ (Painful)http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt17_zpsiwevda7q.jpg
I was way too stoned on my fifth listen to "Moby Octopad" in the summer of 2000 to attempt a sixth. On my ballot though.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:23 (nine years ago) link
#16. 285 points. 15 votes. 1 1st place vote.I Heard You Looking (Painful)(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/Maax_Seguela/ylt16_zpsf5uwv3p6.jpg
See you tomorrow with the top 15!!
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:27 (nine years ago) link
Had no idea about the Who sample! It always brought Seefeel to my mind. Amusingly non-OTM.
― Maximum big surprise! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
this is thee quintessential YLT song imo
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:40 (nine years ago) link
TOO LOW
(cobra, tho)
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:41 (nine years ago) link
my #1, narrowly
surely the live #1
― rip van wanko, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:45 (nine years ago) link
several years ago my ex-wife got us tickets, for my birthday, to a small-room conversation/performance with ylt. then, mortifyingly, she mentioned that fact during the q&a session and asked them to either play happy birthday or i heard you looking for me. they chose the latter, thank god
― mookieproof, Thursday, 4 June 2015 02:47 (nine years ago) link
the rollouts happening when i'm not home kind of a bummer, frankly
but i don't remember what half these songs are
people don't believe me when i tell them you forget when you don't PLAY RECORDS for YEARS
however, "Moby Octopad" is the only song thus far (i think) that mentions an actual baseball player:
http://www.tradingcarddb.com/Images/Cards/Baseball/10313/10313-10Fr.jpg
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2015 03:10 (nine years ago) link
I don't think I realized this, either -- I thought the sound was similar, but didn't think it was a sample.
Also, I always found it odd that the most Who-like live band I've ever seen never covered a Who song.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
they def have on the WFMU fundraisers.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:14 (nine years ago) link
"Night Falls" was my #1. my fav vocals on a YLT song. I like to take the title literally and hear it like a summer day ending, collapsing into crickets. the best YLT show I saw, they opened with it, went on like 45 minutes, had a gong player. there was really nowhere else to go after that.
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 4 June 2015 04:37 (nine years ago) link
Hm, didn't know that. I scanned a list of all known YLT covers and didn't see any Who.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 June 2015 13:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah you can hear "mary anne with the shaky hands" on murdering the classics -- obviously an off-the-cuff version, but nice all the same (they don't exactly murder it)
― tylerw, Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
Ah, cool! Will check out.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 4 June 2015 14:14 (nine years ago) link