'The End of the Affair' was ny number one - was worried if it was going to make it.
― aphoristical, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 02:49 (four years ago) link
I actually though, as I posted that, "aphoristical, at least, probably isn't asleep." LOL
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
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#41ELEGANCEfrom Swoon (1984)Points: 102Votes: 6 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
I'll leave it at that for a while. I'll resume when it's Wednesday in more places.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
Enjoying the results so far. Elegance is another Swoon highlight. Paris Smith ended up in my top 10 and seems to creep up my favourite Jordan songs every time I play it. Prisoner Of The Past is a nice tune, I just could never get on with the brass though. It made the song sound instantly dated when it came out.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 03:23 (four years ago) link
The story so far-ah-ah-ah Points Votes #1 Votes41 Elegance Swoon (1984) 102 6 042 The End Of The Affair B-Side (1997) 102 5 143 Wicked Things PS (1989) 99 6 044 Paris Smith JTC {1990) 88 6 045 A Prisoner of the Past AH (1997) 85 6 046 I Never Play Basketball Now Swoon (1984) 84 5 047 When the Angels SMc (1985) 79 7 048 Knock on Wood FLPTM (1988) 79 5 049 Earth: The Story So Far LCtWwM (2009) 77 5 050 Til the Cows Come Home PS (1989) 76 5 051 Donna Summer B-side (1984) 75 6 052 Billy C/R (2013) 74 4 053 Cornfield Ablaze TG&OS (2001) 71 5 054 God Watch Over You LCtWwM (2009) 68 5 055 Diana PS (1989) 65 4 056 Weightless AH (1997) 64 4 057= Machine Gun Ibiza JTC {1990) 62 4 057= One of the Broken JTC {1990) 62 4 059 Couldn't Bear to Be Special Swoon (1984) 61 6 060 Tiffanys PS (1989) 59 3 0
41 Elegance Swoon (1984) 102 6 042 The End Of The Affair B-Side (1997) 102 5 143 Wicked Things PS (1989) 99 6 044 Paris Smith JTC {1990) 88 6 045 A Prisoner of the Past AH (1997) 85 6 046 I Never Play Basketball Now Swoon (1984) 84 5 047 When the Angels SMc (1985) 79 7 048 Knock on Wood FLPTM (1988) 79 5 049 Earth: The Story So Far LCtWwM (2009) 77 5 050 Til the Cows Come Home PS (1989) 76 5 051 Donna Summer B-side (1984) 75 6 052 Billy C/R (2013) 74 4 053 Cornfield Ablaze TG&OS (2001) 71 5 054 God Watch Over You LCtWwM (2009) 68 5 055 Diana PS (1989) 65 4 056 Weightless AH (1997) 64 4 057= Machine Gun Ibiza JTC {1990) 62 4 057= One of the Broken JTC {1990) 62 4 059 Couldn't Bear to Be Special Swoon (1984) 61 6 060 Tiffanys PS (1989) 59 3 0
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 07:29 (four years ago) link
Okay, I'll endeavour to drop 10 more over the next 6 hours or so. Mostly much later on, but here's one for now:
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#40GREEN ISAACfrom Swoon (1984)Points: 107Votes: 8 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:02 (four years ago) link
I guess this should really be labelled "Green Isaac I". "GI II" did receive 2 points which are not included here. Rest assured that combining their points would not have changed this ranking. LOL.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 08:17 (four years ago) link
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#39JORDAN: THE COMEBACKfrom Jordan: The Comeback (1990)Points: 110Votes: 6 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
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#38HEY MANHATTAN!from From Langley Park to Memphis (1988)Points: 110Votes: 7 (0)Youtube: original promo video
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
"jordan: the comeback" is such an odd track with the spoken word elvis impression in the verses and the endless repetition of the chorus, but what a great chorus! i still don't really understand what the track is supposed to be about though - there's elvis obviously, secretly alive and planning a comeback? and jordan is the river jordan of biblical importance right? but i'm not sure what it's supposed to symbolis and looking that up doesn't really provide any clear answers that relate to the track, so how all that fits together i have no clue. a lot of the lyrics on this album are like that for me - there's american iconography and religious references but thrown together in a way that's intriguing but i have no idea how to make sense of.
"hey manhattan" just missed my ballot but listening now i think i should have voted for it after all
― ufo, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:31 (four years ago) link
I think about 83.9% of the reason I voted for "Hey Manhattan" = disco strings.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:38 (four years ago) link
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#37RIDEfrom Let's Change the World with Music (2009)Points: 113Votes: 6 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:48 (four years ago) link
When I had my ridiculously belated LCTWWM epiphany a month or two ago "Ride" was the track that first reeled me in. The rest of the record revealed its charms more slowly, but seemed to overshadow "Ride" somewhat, such that I'm pretty sure I didn't contribute at all to this placement. Nice work, you six people!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:06 (four years ago) link
Nice, Ride was my #4
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:10 (four years ago) link
ride!!!
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
XP: One might think I'd know what I voted for innit. My ballot only existed in the results spreadsheet and I've got out of the habit of opening it since extracting the final numbers!
Anyway, I need to pick up the pace...
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:15 (four years ago) link
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#36HORSIN' AROUNDfrom Steve McQueen (1985)Points: 114Votes: 8 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
As an achievement in production and orchestration, Hey Manhattan is incredible.
― Alain the Botton (jed_), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
funny that the spoken word-happy JTC and Hey Manhattan placed right next to each other
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:43 (four years ago) link
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#35DOO-WOP IN HARLEMfrom Jordan: The Comeback (1990)Points: 127Votes: 7 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
I'm inclined to agree with jed_.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:48 (four years ago) link
a gorgeous little sigh of a song, totally devastating. didn’t vote for it because I never listen it it on its own
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
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#34ENCHANTEDfrom From Langley Park to Memphis (1988)Points: 128Votes: 10 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:05 (four years ago) link
Horsin Around! That one was my favorite track on Two Wheels Good the first few times I listened to it (which was only just 2 years ago). I eventually settled more on Bonny/Faron, but still, great track.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:27 (four years ago) link
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#33HALLELUJAHfrom Steve McQueen (1985)Points: 130Votes: 8 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
the swooniest song on steve, so twisty-turny
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:35 (four years ago) link
Wow i'd always sort-of overlooked One Of The Broken but yeah that's a beaut. I think Jordan is classic for that 'some tracks get lost in the shuffle' thing you sometimes get; mainly because it's so long of course.
― piscesx, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:43 (four years ago) link
Even the shorter SM/TWG is kind of like that. For instance, I'm already regretting not casting a vote for "Blueberry Pies", which I have always thought would be a great song for Sade to cover. Hope it gets its props!
― henry s, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:50 (four years ago) link
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#32JESSE JAMES BOLEROfrom Jordan: The Comeback (1990)Points: 144Votes: 8 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:52 (four years ago) link
"doo wop in harlem" too low. play that song at my funeral
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
the programming on "knock on wood" is just out of this world. that's a yellow magic orchestra-quality song there
i'm surprised eight people voted for "horsin' around"! i do like that song tbh
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:54 (four years ago) link
"enchanted" was a late addition to my ballot. the scritti-est prefab song, so funky
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
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#31CARNIVAL 2000from Jordan: The Comeback (1990)Points: 147Votes: 9 (0)Youtube: original promo video
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:13 (four years ago) link
aaah too low
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:14 (four years ago) link
two too lows in a row
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
carnival 2000 is so good, all these individual elements mashed together. it shouldn't work at all (who would ever think to layer real horns on top of the synth horns?? the samba breakdown??), and it definitely felt strange to me the first time i heard it, but i learned to love it.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
we ask for any wrong we’ve donethe years ahead forgive uswe ask for any good we’ve donethat all of it outlive us
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:18 (four years ago) link
jesse james is one of the 9-10 songs on jordan that can make me cry and it has one of paddy's best chord progressions.
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:19 (four years ago) link
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#30THE WORLD AWAKEfrom Protest Songs (1989)Points: 153Votes: 7 (0)Youtube audio
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
I should've had this one on my ballot.
― righteousmaelstrom, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:44 (four years ago) link
A December 2nd, 1985 release for Protest Songs, that flyer claimed.
Anyway, I must suspend proceedings. It's kinda way too late here now. Do talk amongst yourselves!
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 14:50 (four years ago) link
there's elvis obviously, secretly alive and planning a comeback? and jordan is the river jordan of biblical importance right? but i'm not sure what it's supposed to symbolis and looking that up doesn't really provide any clear answers that relate to the track, so how all that fits together i have no clue.
I think it's comeback as redemption and rebirth/rebaptism (ie Jordan as the place of John the Baptist's work, esp the baptism of Jesus). But yes it's totally a messy album full of parallels and analogues and personal typology, with the death of American icons scrambled up with Satan & side 4's redemption songs. God I love it.
Didn't vote for much from it though - the second half does just kind of flow, and much as I love everything that's place, I never really listen to them separately.
― woof, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:06 (four years ago) link
So many classics already today.. and Horsin' Around. Steve McQueen is still one of my favourite albums of all time, but I could definitely live without that one.
The transition from Jesse James Symphony to Bolero is one of my favourite moments on the album. All the Jordan songs that have placed are absolute gold.
I can't see much more from Protest Songs placing at this point. Maybe just Life Of Surprises? I thought The World Awake would be higher. They have some amazing album openers.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:16 (four years ago) link
"the world awake" kinda feels like the last blush of swoon-era prefab. it's those weird backing vocals. wop-a-doooo
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Oh yeah, you're totally right. I never thought of it like that because of the more polished/sparkly production.
― kitchen person, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
i didn't listen to swoon until i was intimately familiar with the albums that followed, but it's been great hearing echoes of that songwriting approach in his later works (or 'earlier works' in some cases, since many of the steve songs were written so much earlier than they were recorded)
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:02 (four years ago) link
Horsin Around = BLISS. My #13. "I guess I let that little vow get lost / forgetting the cost", Wendy drifting in and out of Paddy's vocals, the midstream slowdown to the parsed out "I … deserve … to be … kicked … so … lightly. You … deserve … more … than … I … sold … you for", the very last belted out "Horsin around! HUH!"...
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:19 (four years ago) link
horsin' around doesn't grab me, but i do love the opening line 'it's me again, your worthless friend'
― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 18 March 2020 16:29 (four years ago) link