POLL: Which band has the best discography?

lmao really difficult poll

Horrible poll. Torture is illegal for a reason.

Meant to vote for RTX and accidentally voted for Roxy Music, lol

Still voting Minutemen (in my head). 3-Way Tie not a disqualifier for me.

I nominated Fela and viewing his discography album by album I think it's him. BUT I feel like some weight should be given to artists/bands that have really solid career but also have a broader range of styles/moods/textures than someone like Fela. Call it rockist if you must. Gotta think on this one some more.

who are these people

voted Fugazi but it was tough

YMG disqualified for the Testcard EP

So it's like Fela, Cocteau Twins, Sade on 1 side & Miles, Duke, Zep on the other in my bracket

Zep also a good choice

Creedence disqualified for Mardi Gras

Trux and Zep are two of my favorite bands of all time. Neither of them belong here. Which is also true for a number of these acts that I like v much but aren't among my all-time favorites.

Almost certainly Cocteau Twins for me.

Young Marble Giants feels like a bit of a cheat, tbf. V v good but a bit of a cheat.

the beatles

lol @ Beatles omission

Miles is out due to his 80s stuff. Sade is out due to not loving a good chunk of her stuff. Zep out because some tracks annoy me. Cocteau out cause cause of limited range, and I guess then that would apply to Fela too. But I enjoy listening to Fela more than I do Duke. If Duke had Tony Allen in his band it'd be a wrap.

i think i am voting for sade

though maybe i should guarantee deftones get at least one vote

Giving it to Duke due to wider range of emotions his music engenders. And afaic he wasn't a misogynistic prick.

Trux and Zep are two of my favorite bands of all time. Neither of them belong here. Which is also true for a number of these acts that I like v much but aren't among my all-time favorites.

Indeed. It's all about the ratio, and most of these names lack it.

What I couldn't live with out today: Ae, Fugazi, D'Angelo

not voting

Zep out because some tracks annoy me.

Does this sentiment count? I can say this about every songwriter, poet, novelist, director who ever breathed.

Ooh shit and SotL. Probably them. Not voting.

going with Broadcast in the absence of the Beatles

sade 100%

Huh you can Alfred? There's a bunch of artists etc who don't flat out annoy me ever. Just sticking to this group polled here, I can't think of any Fela or Sade I'm annoyed by. Ho hum is my worst reaction to any song of theirs.

wait I just noticed Wham! was listed

Voted for Nick Drake, 3 perfectish LPs, nothing else whatsoever.

Broadcast is a good choice too, but I may be into their more wilfully obscure stuff more than some people, ymmv, etc.

xpost Yeah, that's pretty lol. Love ol' George and Make It Big is great but c'mon.

WHAM! BAM!
I AM! A MAN!

steely dan has the comeback era, roxy has the relatively lackluster manifesto and flesh + blood, funkadelic is fantastic but the highs aren't quite high enough for this exercise. d'angelo only has 3 albums.

might have to go with coltrane, short time period but massive volume and an almost 100% hit rate.

Wham! is more like a band with one good song

everything she wants?

Careless Whispers

Haha oh wait

Ok, no good songs!

great wham! songs: "everything she wants," "freedom," "careless whisper," "i'm your man," "the edge of heaven," "club tropicana," "heartbeat," "wake me up," "a different corner," "last christmas"

but yeah no idea why wham! is here

oh for fuck's sake

if you're gonna do it do it right

Huh you can Alfred? There's a bunch of artists etc who don't flat out annoy me ever. Just sticking to this group polled here, I can't think of any Fela or Sade I'm annoyed by. Ho hum is my worst reaction to any song of theirs.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger),

Yeah, see, this is a weird statement with which I've no empathy. I can't think of a single artist who hasn't annoyed me or hasn't released mediocre work, and that's a good thing. One of the nominees here said best: "Looking for love in a looking-glass world/Is pretty hard for you."

George Michael's singing range is right in sync with mine so I love to tear up a karaoke stage with a rousing rendition of 'Oh For Fuck's Sake'.

If we're going to stick to a strict set of criteria, I've never heard anything egregiously bad by:

D'Angelo
Death
Gorguts
John Coltrane
Nina Nastasia
Portishead
Stars of the Lid

may vote Wham! to annoy Shakey tbh

hasn't annoyed me: yes
hasn't released mediocre work: no

deftones have released at least one song that annoys me so i'm sympathetic with alfred here

Cocteau Twins did a Fruitopia commercial, does that count

but yeah no idea why wham! is here

― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:44 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I went through the thread and found the things people were most passionate about.

It's funny when people try to nail down the platonic ideal of perfection

the beatles

― ooga booga-ing for the bourgeoisie (voodoo chili), Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:10 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol @ Beatles omission

― Οὖτις, Thursday, February 13, 2020 2:11 PM (fifty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yep.

Not that it matters since plenty of other bands listed suffer from the same problem but The Beatles were nothing if not inconsistent.

Even their best albums have at least a couple of songs that genuinely suck.

Inconsistent at being imperfect, I think u mean.

great wham! songs: "everything she wants," "freedom," "careless whisper," "i'm your man," "the edge of heaven," "club tropicana," "heartbeat," "wake me up," "a different corner," "last christmas"

some amazing album tracks and b-sides too, especially 'Nothing Looks The Same In The Light' and 'Blue'

And why would we discount With The Beatles or Beatles for Sale, both which I hope never to revisit.

I can't think of a single artist who hasn't annoyed me or hasn't released mediocre work, and that's a good thing. One of the nominees here said best: "Looking for love in a looking-glass world/Is pretty hard for you."

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, February 13, 2020 1:45 PM (forty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

As if on cue, my iPod delivers up a song by Charlotte Hatherley (likely my favorite musical artist of the 21st Century) that frankly kinda annoys the living eff out of me. It really is a thing, I'm afraid.

ppl hating on the Beatles will never not be amusing

Not hating per se. The Beatles are pretty good, no more and no less.

I haven’t followed this thread but dang, Beatles For Sale is the best Beatles album

kraftwerk.

judging purely on the fact that i have heard all of the official releases, and love it all.

Erykah Badu
Portishead
Sade

It's one of these but I'm writing in a vote for "Prince and the Revolution"

People only hate on the Beatles because we all know it's all just gentle ribbing, and the indisputable best band of all time can take it.

yeah that's how I look at it

I also find it charming in a "crowd of people repeating the non-conformist oath" way

the indisputable best band

'Gentle ribbing', you say.

The Beatles are a great band with lots of excellent songs but about 30-40% of their material could be easily excised from their discography and nothing of value would be lost.

I haven’t followed this thread but dang, Beatles For Sale is the best Beatles album

I've gone on record a number of times in declaring that the Beatles, with Sgt. Pepper, released maybe like the 50th best album of 1967, so, y'know.

Indisputable.

if we're gonna go down this road (again) we may as well un-ban Turrican and get some real fireworks goin

Anyhow, I am gently glad that they are ribbingly absent from this list. While we're at it, I also have a request for the mods: could you please remove the following options? They have no business being here.

Big Star
Big Thief
Broadcast
Cocteau Twins
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Deftones
Ghost (Japan)
Hüsker Dü
Low
Oneohtrix Point Never
Pet Shop Boys
Saint Etienne
Smiths, The
Steely Dan
Stereolab
Wham!
Young Marble Giants

Thank you.

I also find it charming in a "crowd of people repeating the non-conformist oath" way

^IMO, a key part of policing the Beatles mythology is insisting that any questioning of their greatness is simply a show of performative iconoclasm, and not a genuine musical opinion.

just to spite pom's post, and also because it's correct, I voted for Deftones

Y'know, someone should start a thread about the Beatles so we can really hash this thing out. Kinda weird it hasn't happened before now!

Lol indisputability

I haven’t followed this thread but dang, Beatles For Sale is the best Beatles album

― juntos pedemos (Euler), Thursday, February 13, 2020 3:35 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

otm

I used to pretend that Revolver was one of my all-time favourite albums when I was younger for the critical and general human cred it tends to bestow but the fact of the matter is that only half of it is any kind of good. That's what, 17 minutes in all?

^IMO, a key part of policing the Beatles mythology is insisting that any questioning of their greatness is simply a show of performative iconoclasm, and not a genuine musical opinion.

heh well for my part I totally respect people hating on certain songs (there's definitely songs I don't like), silly blanket statements about how "overrated" they are or whatever are a different matter

For the record, Simon, I like the Deftones. They're just not the most reliable of bands ime.

Well they're overrated insofar as they have no single great album. Taken as a whole, however, they are certainly a canonical force to be reckoned with.

you have strange opinions, but ok

all their albums are canonically great, in my headcanon

Best Beatles LP

https://barrysdiscs.com/Images/Beatles%20related/6134.jpg

Take Revolver, for example. 'Yellow Submarine', 'Good Day Sunshine', 'Doctor Robert' and 'Got to Get You Into My Life' all suck.

'Getting Better', 'Fixing a Hole', Lovely Rita' and 'Good Morning Good Morning' make me cringe whenever I listen to Sgt. Pepper.

middle-eight breakdown in Doctor Robert is fucking incredible

glad this is turning into a Beatles thread tho lol

was gonna say, Dr Robert is badass!

Was going to argue with several of those choices, but what's the fucking point?

Ok I'll grant you 'Doctor Robert', it's definitely the one I dislike the least out of that lot.

Good Morning, Good Morning has so many awesome details - the dropped beats, bizarre horn arrangement, animals eating each other, stinging guitar solo. Classic.

(I agree this is pointless)

I recently started loving "Another Girl" based on Paul's fabulous lead guitar part. They were good!

I think they just might have something!

I'll tell you what I love about Beatles For Sale - the timpani on Every Little Thing. That's some good timpani there.

I've been listening to the Beatles a bunch lately for the first time in years and was thinking abt the block I often run into. The melodies are so indelible on a seven or eight year old's brain, you grow up with that + the fact that the vocals are so high in the mix, hearing the band on the other side of that is sometimes a challenge. What a fucking great rock band. I mean duh, but.

got to get you into my life is so good lol

Baby's in Black is the best song about losing a lover to Jesus ever written

Pure cringe for me – sounds utterly forced and dumb.

Anyway, my dad listened to quite a bit of classic pop/rock while I was growing up but never The Beatles, so that may well have rubbed off on me.

xp

Then again, they had such a catholic reach stylistically speaking that it's not hard to grasp why a segment of their listeners might love some of their songs and be put off by others. I'm surprised this is such a challop tbh.

do you like the EWF version?

xp

A bit more, yeah. Still not a fave tho.

I'd rather listen to The Monkees tbh

i would delete the entire beatles catalog if it meant there would never again be an ilx conversation about which beatles songs are bad

lol fwiw this is the first time I've partaken in such a conversation and I can't recall any other in the not-too-distant past.

you know what's a good Beatles song? most of them

xp

some people love them, some people hate them, but we can all agree on one thing...everybody loves The Beatles

This is your semi-annual reminder that "Porpoise Song" pwns

i really like the beatles but don't like any beatles album all the way through. i would have to lose half the songs on the white album and abbey road to get rid of all the songs i dislike or am indifferent to for instance

is this uncommon?

the beatles aren't even a fucking choice in this poll!

How do you feel about The Beatles's discography, Brad?

TS: "Randy Scouse Git" vs the entire Beatles discography

"Auntie Grizelda" would be a tougher choice imo

TS: "Star Collector" vs "Wonderwall"

This is really a poll of: Is Joy Division a great band? ... because they are the most consistent, largely because their discography is pretty limited. Like, I think one of the only well-known bands I'd vote for over Joy Division in this category would be X-Ray Spex, who released even less material.

I feel kind of bad singling out D'Angelo and Portishead for the same reasons. Three albums isn't much to work with compared to most of the others.

Don't feel bad about that. Only feel bad if you are redundantly discussing the Beatles and how supposedly everyone thinks they are great.

What are your thoughts on The Beatles' discography, sarahell? Do you think it great?

they have some songs that are good. I have not listened to all of them. I would say the Beatles are on par with Wham and Sade.

Wham nowhere near as good as Wham!!

the Beatles are definitely better than Joy Division. Most bands are better than Joy Division tbh

lol, I didn't think people would seriously take the bait and ruin this thread with Beatles discussion, guess I forgot where I was.

PS, Dan is correct, the Monkees are where it's truly at.

xp kinda waiting for all the Beatles to be dead tbh

Steely Dan would have been a great shout without the reunion stuff.

The Beatles peaked between 1965-1968 IMO - the stuff at the start and end is less essential.

I feel like in a way the stuff at the start is actually the most essential.

lol, I didn't think people would seriously take the bait and ruin this thread with Beatles discussion,

I was surprised at the glaring omission, especially since they were nominated at the top of the other thread. But yeah.

It's my fault, because I seconded the Beatles in the OG thread and then was shot down pretty quickly by Οὖτις & rushomancy...

If someone (not me) wants to rerun the poll with a Beatles option, I'm fine w/ that

imo the results will be more interesting without the freakin' beatles

New board description [/wah wah waaah]

Whiney, you are a hero for omitting the Beatles!

I will vote for Sun Ra for the same reasons I would vote for The Fall - a brilliant long labyrinth of a career with many trick mirrors and blind alleys and discovery after blindingly brilliant discovery. I love that Young Marble Giants record too but comparing some of these bands 1-2-3 albums long life span with someone with an exceedingly extensive catalog like Sun Ra seems a little silly.

Hey all I said in the of thread was that the Beatles have some bad songs!

Which they do

Xps

i really like the beatles but don't like any beatles album all the way through. i would have to lose half the songs on the white album and abbey road to get rid of all the songs i dislike or am indifferent to for instance

is this uncommon?

― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 13 February 2020 21:47 (yesterday) link

This not only isn't uncommon but is utterly universal. However, there will forever be fervent disagreement as to which half of the songs on the White Album and Abbey Road and every other Fabs album should be binned.... which is why i still find beatles discussions interesting after all these years. Cause once you correctly prune the annoying stuff from their discography, the rest of it is so fcuking great....

CCR or Led Zeppelin from the list, but I'd give the Velvet Underground a pass on Squeeze and vote for them instead.

Came down to D'Angelo and Fugazi for me, but I've never liked 'The Argument' so D'Angelo it is.

Bands with small discographies have a lower degree of difficulty - in that group I'd go with Portishead. For the extensive discography, higher degree of difficulty, my vote goes to Low

Anyway, where's the Velvet Underground? Consistently strong albums from start to finish, enough good outtakes/oddities to make another strong album or two, no obvious clunkers. Unless you count Squeeze...

^exactly wut I said on the other thread... putting Squeeze aside, and some of the tracks on Another View, pretty much every song they recorded is classic.

idg how Wham is on this list.

I know we don't require spotlist discographies, but the deep cuts on Make It Big are boring and forgettable.

"Credit Card Baby", lolol.

but, the 12" "Everything She Wants" mix is the greatest thing of all time so

it's Death for me. YEAH YEAH PVMIC HAHA GET FUCKED

Nirvana maybe close second because even when I got the boxed set with all kinds of b-sides and early versions I loved all that shit too and all of the studio albums and Incesticide, the live albums, like....I drank all things Nirvana and still do

In the end, I voted for Smiths, The. Even though their singer was that guy.

I would never count them as one of my fav bands but they don't have anything I don't like. Which isn't something I can say about my real favourite bands.

Out of these options it has to be Sade. They've never released an album or single that would be less than good, I can't imagine it applies to anyone else. Certainly not Miles Davis or Fela Kuti, whose output clearly got worse in the 1980s. Maybe Portishead qualifies too, but IMO including an act with just 3 albums is kinda cheating.

Hey all I said in the of thread was that the Beatles have some bad songs!

Which they do

Then you turned on me for saying the exact same thing itt!

Am I being trolled?

I propose that there be no further mentions of the Beatles itt under this line

_____________________________________________

the beatles

you're a troll otherwise, am i being trolled is this trolling?

x

really no idea what my American choice would be, possibly Badu based on actual listening frequency - top 5 is all Brits and out of those I am leaning Broadcast as the others all had much more commercial success

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Sheesh, this poll would be a cinch if only those four loveable mop-tops from Liverpuddle were an option, but now I don't know who to pick. Help!

Echo & The Bunnymen?

The Stone Roses iirc

Never mind, I'm fairly sure it was A Flock of Seagulls.

IMO including an act with just 3 albums is kinda cheating.

It's not cheating, that's the definition of a band who have the best discography, one that's been very sparing with what they release.

But also

The discography of British trip hop group Portishead consists of three studio albums, one live album, one compilation, ten singles and one video album.

Better yet, only one song

https://media1.tenor.com/images/f9adb55e873200397cc8a21e95585d4f/tenor.gif

Portishaters should give the third album a shot. I always liked them fine but that one surprised the hell out of me, particularly given that it dropped a decade after I thought they were pretty much over.

Well, it was voted ILM's best album of the noughties…

i should’ve suggested sunny day real estate

^^ a very good suggestion, at that

Came down to D'Angelo and Fugazi for me, but I've never liked 'The Argument'

madness

!

madness

I don't really know them beyond a couple of songs

xpost lol, Lads, neither Madness nor !(!!) are in the running for this poll.

The Madness discography is a case study in diminishing returns.

Neither are !!! tbf xp

oh duh :/

but yeah no idea why wham! is here

― american bradass (BradNelson)

When I spotted Wham! on the list, I briefly considered voting for them, non-ironically, until I remembered the first album. 66.6% isn't a great average.
("Make It Big" however, is as wall-to-wall solid as Thriller)

One Step Beyond... (1979) (UK No. 2)
Absolutely (1980) (UK No. 2)
7 (1981) (UK No. 5)
The Rise & Fall (1982) (UK No. 10)
Keep Moving (1984) (UK No. 6)
Mad Not Mad (1985) (UK No. 16)
The Madness (1988) (UK No. 66)
Wonderful (1999) (UK No. 17)
The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (2005) (UK No. 11)
The Liberty of Norton Folgate (2009) (UK No. 5)
Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012) (UK No. 10)
Can't Touch Us Now (2016) (UK No. 5)

I haven't heard any of these after 'Keep Moving' and I'm in no hurry to return to that.

voted Sonic Youth, they have a shitload of albums and they're all at least pretty good, to echo what's been said upthread, that's more impressive to me than like Big Star having three great albums or whatever. Zeppelin would probably be my #2. Coltrane is probably the "right" answer but I haven't heard a bunch of his albums.

pvmic

I actually think the !!! discography is really solid

I don't skip anything on Sgt Pepper, Rubber Soul, or the white album (everyone else is probably right but idc), and only "Hello Goodbye" on MMT, but I actually totally agree about the inconsistency of Revolver: "Love You To", "Yellow Submarine", "Good Day Sunshine", and "Dr Robert" are the ones I like least, esp the first two. The rest of it is incredible, though.

Zep and SY are probably my all-time favourite rock bands. With the former, though, I don't care that much for In Through the Out Door, barely even remember anything on Coda, and TSRTS has some dross on it. I can find something to like in p much every SY release so they might get my vote, since maintaining consistency across a fairly vast discography counts for something vs releasing a few perfect albums. With Miles, Coltrane, and Duke, I haven't heard anything really bad but I just don't feel like I know their entire discographies well enough. Nirvana is a really good answer; a dud or two on the Unplugged album but, generally, v solid. Joy Division's live recordings can be pretty bad, enough to disqualify them imo. "Miserable Lie" alone is enough to disqualify the Smiths. Gorguts/Husker Du/SotL all worth consideration.

gonna make sure d'angelo gets a vote. not that he prob wouldn't anyway, but still.

thread is a good reminder of some artists I scarcely know at all whose discographies I really need to dig into: Sade, Royal Trux, Fugazi

have you ever heard of the Beatles

Is that a deliberate misspelling.

It was the '60s, no one was going to sell albums by a band called the Buttholes.

the best place to start with the Buttholes is with their song "She's a Woman" by Scritti Politti, also that's the best place to stop

Then you turned on me for saying the exact same thing itt!

Am I being trolled?

I never troll! I just disagree, vehemently, about the volume of bad songs (30%-40% of the catalog?! That's insane) and the specific songs/albums you cited.

personally I'd put the Beatles hit/success rate at closer to like 90%

I was exaggerating for effect. My actual breakdown would look something like: 25% the pits, 35% eh, good enough, 40% fuck yeah, this is awesome.

The Beatles, more like The Perfects imo

Easy vote for Low - a band whose aesthetic concept should have run into a ditch after three albums, but instead have been endlessly fascinating and wonderful for 25 years and still going—and their most recent album is arguably the best thing they’ve ever done!

Easy vote for Low - a band whose aesthetic concept should have run into a ditch after three albums, but instead have been endlessly fascinating and wonderful for 25 years and still going—and their most recent album is arguably the best thing they’ve ever done!

Voted Sade.

btw this year i’m going to see both deftones and underworld live for the first time :D

I saw Deftones about a decade ago, with Dir En Grey opening. They were really good. (Dir En Grey were amazing.)

this tour poppy and gojira are opening. i expect to die

I have too long an attention span for Poppy, but the prospect of a new Gojira album is extremely exciting. It's been too long.

is there any point scrolling past duke ellington, I don’t think so

is there any point even opening this thread?

depends, do you want to know about the Beatles?

tongue-in-cheek beatles arguments are still a billion miles better than a bunch of dudes masturbating about autechre, so this thread’s been excellent afaic

voted fela kuti btw

We should do a TS, e.g. Abbey Road vs Confield.

another really hard poll

depends, do you want to know about the Beatles?

pretty sure most people who are stanning for the Beatles are wearing depends or will be soon enough

depends with Wings

490

Better yet, only one song

― babby bitter (Noodle Vague), Friday, February 14, 2020 11:59 PM (yesterday)

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

Which band has the best discography?

(Madness albums)
One Step Beyond... (1979) (UK No. 2)
Absolutely (1980) (UK No. 2)
7 (1981) (UK No. 5)
The Rise & Fall (1982) (UK No. 10)
Keep Moving (1984) (UK No. 6)
Mad Not Mad (1985) (UK No. 16)
The Madness (1988) (UK No. 66)
Wonderful (1999) (UK No. 17)
The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1 (2005) (UK No. 11)
The Liberty of Norton Folgate (2009) (UK No. 5)
Oui Oui Si Si Ja Ja Da Da (2012) (UK No. 10)
Can't Touch Us Now (2016) (UK No. 5)

I haven't heard any of these after 'Keep Moving' and I'm in no hurry to return to that.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:09 AM (five hours ago)

The Madness was a self-titled album by a handful of the members after the band split and can be disregarded.
The singles on the 1999 album were decent.
Dangermen was intended to be pseudonymous - they were playing club shows under the name, doing the sort of covers they played when they were starting out - but it got labelled as Madness for sales' sake.
Liberty Of Norton Folgate is the only album they ever wrote as a cohesive album, is very very good, and launched with a Julien Temple film made for it.
No idea about the recent two.

I actually think the !!! discography is really solid

― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Saturday, February 15, 2020 1:46 AM (five hours ago)

yep yep yep

My "one song" was an affectionate Portishead joke, nb I don't think only having one song is a bad thing

felt it would've been too harsh and potentially triggering to have made the joke about "y'all procrastinating yr regularly scheduled prostate cancer screening exams or ..."

It's still Erykah.

My "one song" was an affectionate Portishead joke

oh lol

Kraftwerk. OK Electric Café was a bit of a dud but apart from that they barely put a foot wrong

Talk Talk

A couple of quick thoughts - I was slightly surprised not to see Slint on the list of options. I may have missed some chat about entry criteria based on number of releases, but still...

And, while delving into some chat about Autechre's NTS sessions, and particularly re the chat about whether their track 'all end' was actually the end of them releasing music (spoiler - it wasn't), I did think that if they did end there that their legacy would be, for me anyway, not far off perfect. However, given the number of live shows that they have released, and the number which I haven't listened to (spoiler - nearly all of them) , it's difficult to stand by that. I still voted for them though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Honestly it's either Talk Talk or Autechre

YELLOW

MAGIC

ORCHESTRA

they bridge a gap between styles and generations in the same way roxy music does

I don’t think I voted. Leaning towards Miles even though I’ve only heard like 1/4 of his catalog. And also leaning towards Funkadelic though I haven’t heard Toys and the two post-Electric Spanking records.

in the absence of YMO, i will choose kraftwerk.

what is the kraftwerk release(s) that do not apply? electric cafe? ok, but even on that there's gonna be a fight

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Nothing against Kraftwerk, I love those guys but can you imagine someone with true jazz chops on Electric Cafe.

Seriously though, I do love them but ~40% of their albums are of questionable flawlessness.

an you imagine someone with true jazz chops on Electric Cafe.

i'm not sure what this means!

Pretty good tie for second. (I voted Sade.)

/an you imagine someone with true jazz chops on Electric Cafe./

i'm not sure what this means!

(Answer to what would be an imagined Kraftwerk with jazz chips I mean)

the answer to most of the important questions in life is YMO

Nina Nastasia--never heard of her. I knew I was out of touch, but--seven votes--didn't realize how much.

(Answer to what would be an imagined Kraftwerk with jazz chips I mean)

Nina Nastasia--never heard of her. I knew I was out of touch, but--seven votes--didn't realize how much.

Nina nastasia is one of the great, overlooked artists of the 2000’s. She was very prolific for awhile but dropped out of sight almost a decade ago (her last album was released in June 2010). She’s still out there playing shows and supposedly had something in the works awhile ago but haven’t heard much since. Really wonderful.

Just a reminder that my Roxy Music vote was intended to be a vote for RTX \m/