you won't be laughing when you die and can't get into heaven because you don't know the words to Exit
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
If you're going to include one Gaga album, who in the heck would choose Born this Way over The Fame Monster?
Lorde's Melodrama strikes me as another weird choice, though looking it up I see it got more general acclaim than I thought.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:09 (three years ago) link
i would choose born this way over fame monster
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
(i did not rank a gaga album)
Murmur, Automatic for the People and Document would have seemed like sure bets, none I'd argue with.The first two are there, but not particularly high (and the third fell off the list).
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
Oh, this video of Tetras is p cool. What do you guys think of Xenakis's sax quartet XAS? It feels like an outlier in his catalogue but I always liked it in its own way.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
xpost maybe I'd better give Born This Way another listen.
― Lily Dale, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:13 (three years ago) link
There is no world in which Born This Way belongs in the top 500 of anything. I don't even dislike it, but just...no.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:18 (three years ago) link
they've got the right Outkast album on there. still say wrong Kendrick (I'm still a 'good kid m.a.a.d city' dude but like them all.
Biggie's Life After Death shoulda made it too. it is that good.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:19 (three years ago) link
xpost Born This Way is a very good album and I enjoy it but it's got filler and its highs don't reach the highs of some of these other albums.
Lily otm that Fame Monster is better
Voted London Calling. I tried to get into What's Going On earlier this year and couldn't quite do it. For something in that vein I much prefer Curtis Mayfield's Curtis.
― JRN, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
Oh shit I actually meant to post a performance of 'Peaux' from Pléïades (hence the 'literal banging' part):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91uYVXQ3DU0
But Tetras rules too.
The other day I was tempted to start a thread about how baffled I am by sax quartets, almost without exception (Helena Tulve's Öö being one of them). But I haven't heard XAS so maybe it'll win me over?
xps
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:21 (three years ago) link
The other day I was tempted to start a thread about how baffled I am by sax quartets, almost without exception (Helena Tulve's Öö being one of them).
Have you tried listening to the World Saxophone Quartet? Because they were fantastic.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:24 (three years ago) link
Rova are good too.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
I would enjoy a Rolling Stone Top 500 that was created by reviewing the play history of all the contributors' electronic devices and streaming services and assigning each album a point score based on the frequency that tracks from it appear (and maybe bonus points each time an album was played in its entirety). Then rank the albums by total points scored.
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, September 22, 2020 8:54 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Feeling strongly that this is how we should compile the definitive ILM hot 100. Hope y'all are prepared for a canon-busting ballot consisting of SAWII, a couple Basia albums, and the Monkees' Pool It!. And no, I'm not joking.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:26 (three years ago) link
Expose, Dying Fetus, Peter Cetera, and Richard Marx dominated my ballot
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
Tbh, I often feel like lists that do rank Sgt Pepper as the greatest album ever made should take that position to its logical conclusion and liberally sprinkle dense psychedelic and progressive pop throughout the list. Piper at the Gates of Dawn in the top 5, Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack and Freak Out in the top 50 at least, give some props to Procol Harum; some Elephant 6 when you want to keep things more up to date. Maybe picking Abbey Road as the best is more honest for a list that does whatever RS lists are supposed to do.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:27 (three years ago) link
I'll check them out, thanks, unperson and Sund4r. As a general rule, I much prefer the sax in a jazz/free improv setting, and either solo or accompanied by (an)other instrument(s) for the sake of timbral variety.
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
^Tropicalia would def be represented on that list btw. xp
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:28 (three years ago) link
wait hold on, i'm just noticing something
HOW IN THE FUCK DID KANYE BEAT WU-TANG
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:29 (three years ago) link
I even like that album but jfc
ODB never ran for president.
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I was sort of coasting on Amy Winehouse being the most egregious inclusion in the top 50 but it's clearly Kanye.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
then where's Eric B and Rakim!!????!!
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
Wu Tang more psychedelic despite Kanye sampling KC and Mike Oldfield/Jon Anderson.xps
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:30 (three years ago) link
idk, that Amy album is truly one of my favs though.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:31 (three years ago) link
Ok Computer should be above Kid A, buuuut....not by a lot, necessarily
and sometimes my mood changes on that
I like Kid A more than OK Computer and at the same time recognize it ranking higher is corniness of the highest order.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
as if *being* big baby jesus isn't better than merely running for president
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
yeah, Sharon Batts and PowerSource wrote their letter to Jesus, not the President
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:34 (three years ago) link
I vote for "I Can't Wait" as the next nat'l anthem, easily.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:35 (three years ago) link
yo yo MIami
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:36 (three years ago) link
Was just reading the list in chronological order... noticed a few cool selections I wouldn’t have necessarily expected, like The Raincoats and Fever to Tell.
― Scam Likely (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:37 (three years ago) link
is Marley's Legend big anywhere besides America? just echoing the lol at a greatest hits album being on here
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:38 (three years ago) link
Wait, why is that corny? It's their best imo. xp re Kid A
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
Kid A was my first midnight release purchase ever
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:39 (three years ago) link
OK Computer is unironically the best album of all time and nothing anyone says or does will ever change that.
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link
Turning Chopin's Em Prelude into an anthem for Romeo and Juliet is kind of great but also supremely corny.
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:41 (three years ago) link
Ha, as if I knew that when I picked it up at the age of 12.
― sock solipsist (pomenitul), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
OMG, this whole time I've been reading "Legend" and thinking "Exodus" and wondering what people were getting upset about.
― Get the point? Good, let's dance with nunchaku. (Eric H.), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
They both deserve a spot on a Pepper-centred list anyway.xp
― The nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:43 (three years ago) link
Willa Cather should be better represented imo
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
before COVID went to a karaoke night where someone sang "Paranoid Android". was very confused. I understand "Karma Police", as that's very catchy and short, but ffs, as much as I love P.A. (and I do), it was awkward and lame.
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:44 (three years ago) link
It's not even that Kanye is such an egregious inclusion but that MYBDTF in particular is (as I said at the time) TL;DR: the Album and thusly too bloated and unedited to qualify for such a high placement imo.
― Wessonality Crisis (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:50 (three years ago) link
To me, "Rumours" moving ahead of "London Calling" is perhaps the shift that really crystallizes the generational passing of the torch, from Gen X to Millennials, in terms of music audience taste.
― o. nate, Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:52 (three years ago) link
My ballot!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:53 (three years ago) link
"so appalledSpaulding...ball"
"I put the pussy in the sarcophagus"
"yeezy upholstered my pussy"
vs
"Raw I'ma give it to ya, with no triviaRaw like cocaine straight from BoliviaMy hip-hop will rock and shock the nationLike the Emancipation ProclamationWeak MC's approach with slang that's deadYou might as well run into the wall and bang your headI'm pushin' force, my force your doubtin'I'm makin' devils cower to the Caucus Mountains"
― LaRusso Auto (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 02:54 (three years ago) link
xxposts