H.P’s 47 chosen albums

Fucking hell, Steve McQueen is a glaring omission from my list.

oooh this list is interesting. One Bedroom??? I didn't know anyone else liked that album, much less put it on a top 47 list

Not seeing it in any list, I was questioning whether this was really ILM for a moment

Blueberry Boat 😀

Not seeing Steve McQueen on a list so far, I was questioning whether this was really ILM

Most of these choices come from “I remember listening to this album frequently at a point in my life and thinking it was the best thing since sliced bread” and one bedroom slots into that category with ease. I burnt that one out in my Toyota Corolla CD player, didn’t change the disc for probably a month

^^^ugh whoops, I thought the first “Steve McQueen” post didn’t post, my bad

I’m going to be boring and go with CAN because how can I not?

Cool list tho

I thought I was going to cop some flack for this being a boring predominately 90’s-2020’s indie list… which says bad things about all you complimenters

the pick i'm most baffled by is the new abnormal, i know rym loves that but i do not like it much at all, and i'm someone who loves comedown machine and tyranny

I don’t go on run at all, I just think it’s a perfect pop rock record, it’s Casablanca’s best vocal effort (straight from the first song his vocals reach another level), the hooks are homier, the highs are higher than anything previous, and the lyrical content is exactly what I’m looking for. I was ready to not like the album, but it consistently knocks me out and deservedly earns a spot here

top 4 we’re astral weeks, big pink, mcqueen, and on the beach, think i went with on the beach

Interesting! Not a lot of my favorites on here (9?) but more intriguing, lots of albums from bands I like, just not the albums I would have picked. I like it!

Hard. But Neil's On the Beach

This will be boring if on the beach wins (which it probably will)

Since nobody will probably vote for it - its Cass McCombs "Catacombs"

Torn among Steve McQueen, Spirit of Eden and Astral Weeks.

Michael B <3

Future Days for me, although I don't listen to it often. I think almost every list had a Can album? But often different albums?

Future days is pretty ubiquitous across the polls (rightfully so). I picked future days with my brain, outwinning my heart which said “monster movie”. But no one really picks monster movie for the album, they pick it for its last song so it just didn’t work for this kind of poll

I think Monster Movie is great but maybe still a bit too garagey for the main Can pick. Future Days got the dreamy guitar and futuristic synths gliding along together. A bit more avant but still accessible. Does anyone listen to the second side of Tago Mago?

Oooooh this is the first list that actually has some "albums I despise" in it ("The Doldrums", that particular Grubbs solo album tho I love Grubbs generally, Joan Of Arc, "Blueberry Boat"), very interesting!

I love The Sea And Cake tho and especially that first Prekop solo album

"Soon Over Babaluma" is Can's best album.

I have enjoyed Aumgn exactly once in my life, but that one time was an absolute treat. Even when I’m not particularly enjoying side 2 of Tago magi, it’s still interesting enough to keep on. Future days can glide by on its first 2 minutes before the beat comes in alone, absolutely otherworldly sounds. It truly cannot be underrated it’s such a tight package of originality and sonic bliss.

How can you despise that grubbs solo album? Its like the least offensive album on here!

The doldrums, Joan or arc, blueberry boat, yeah fair enough they are abrasive, real “love it or hate it” material

A couple of these should’ve been on my list!

Cool to see Little Wings turn up!

Voted for Deerhunter

I’m not sure if I picked the right little wings album, but I couldn’t write in “little wings - discography” so it’ll have to do.

I liked your list Raymond, what would you have put on yours?
And fgti, I found your list the most similar to mine in taste, I thought you might be on the other side of the love/hate relationship on those albums you mentioned

Nice to see Th' Faith Healers on here, I like that one.

How can you despise that grubbs solo album? It's like the least offensive album on here!

It dates from a time when I was buying CDs, and was also the biggest Camofleur fan in the world, and I saw a copy of that album at the CD shop and snapped it up and it wasn't cheap, and it sounded like a profound waste of my time and money and I was very annoyed!

In a different mood I might have included these picks of yours:

Ariel Pink (yes, yes, I know)
Deerhunter
The Fiery Furnaces
My Bloody Valentine
Tortoise
Yo La Tengo

It would have been a different YLT record, but nonetheless

Oh, you almost had me at 94diskont but Oval just kept making even better albums. I think it has to be The Pod for me. Not the best on the list but a hardcore sentimental fave that I need to see get some lovin' here

My fandom of camafleur is actually what brought me to this website, googling about it in 2013 (I’m young). Story checks out. The grubbs solo album was this perfect cross section of my love for 90’s Chicago post-rocky-whatever-grubbs-McEntire-O’rourke-Pajo scene, and my love of piano ambient. Loved seeing those two worlds combine. The album carried me through university, everyone assignment was done under its spell.

I haven’t listened to the doldrums for quite a while because of “yes yes I know”, but it’s undeniably a phenomenal album and I’m happy to divorce the man from the work. Early 2000’s Ariel seems like a much different character from his post-round and round era.

94 diskont was really just a track vote for “do while”. That’s the sonic world my brain wants to live in forever

“Happy” probably the wrong word

Number of albums heard: 16

Favourite: Astral Weeks, but On the Beach is close

Least-favourite:Pinkerton, it's middling power-pop

Nicest surprise: Blueberry Boat

Unheard, but most want to hear:

no one really picks monster movie for the album, they pick it for its last song

I think side 1 of that record is at least as good as "Yoo Doo Right".

Does anyone listen to the second side of Tago Mago?

I guess you mean sides 3 and 4? I often listen to the whole thing.

"Soon Over Babaluma" is Can's best album.

Can't stand the song Irmin sings.

Unheard, but most want to hear: Small Change, but it's vanished from my streaming

Small change is on tidal.

Not disagreeing with your assessment of pinkerton, but it’s a great album IN SPITE of it flirting with middling power-pop. I don’t think it is middling at all, though it does have a few moments

Since nobody will probably vote for it - its Cass McCombs "Catacombs"

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Tuesday, August 22, 2023 5:06 PM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Oops, I voted for it too!

I still get a lot out of Oval, most of the records. (Pre-hiatus at least.) So I'll take the opportunity to pick that and sidestep any hand-wringing over whether it's still okay to pick The Doldrums, from which turn-of-the-century me also got a huge amount of mileage.

My only experience of Synesthesia was listening to oval’s systemisch while in a hypnogogic state. I could see the geometry of the music. Shapes came in and our of existence along the waves of the tracks. Popp really tuned into some mystic frequencies with those two albums, beautiful sounds and movements

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Highest ranked non-canon albums being ”is a woman” and “green” is not what I expected