tremolo's top 50

11 of my favorites! Nice to see Elliott Smith pop up on one of these for the first time (?).

nice! may i ask which ones are your faves?

and yeah, think it's the first time. i'm as surprised as you are!

I'd probably pick "Either/Or" as my fave Smith, but that and s/t are both faves. Of the rest here, I think I counted ... Mingus, Bowie, GBV, LCD, Morphine, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Talking Heads, Beach Boys, Kinks? Something like that. Any of those could end up on some hypothetical list of mine.

either/or is probably my third favourite elliott album - i don't enjoy it as a full album as much as his first two, but the high points are REALLY high (speed trials, ballad of big nothing... my god) and i like it much, much more than anything after it.

cool to meet someone with similar taste - well met :)

Too many good ones to decide right now. Definitely going to have to flip some coins

Good Morning Spider

gza

hey tremolo, welcome to ILM.

out of your list it's Lodger for me.
one of those albums that even after many many listens still sends shivers all over ..
i originally had it on gatefold vinyl, but it had a nasty scratch during the opening track.
so, took it back, and found that the replacement had the same scratch in exactly the same place.
so gave up and put up with it.
i recorded the album to cassette and then used that as my default playback option via walkmans etc ..
now when i listen to it via my revised cd editions i miss the scratch sound.

still, it was my entry album to the Bowie catalogue and so for that alone, it's one of the best albums ever.

Dr John

no phoebe bridgers ?

Tempted by a few (closest runners-up probably L'Rain and Peasant) but it HAS to be Plantasia.

Would’ve voted Phoebe Bridgers if it was an option

I didn’t see Plantasia before voting dr john but em is right. That’s the best one in here.

LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening
attention: imago

you also have Benji here. Phoebe's cover of "You Missed my Heart" is wonderful (I know this isn't on Benji, but it could be).

pretty sure food is my favorite doom album as well. he sounds best over his own beats

Peepee Bridgis is your legacy. Your monkeys paw

Is THE LODGER David Bowie's best record?

yes

exactly.

SO annoyed i forgot Bright Phoebus by Lal + Mike Waterson. that's gotta be in my top ten even though i've only heard it on youtube. if anyone has a digital copy i would be eternally grateful if they could furnish me with it

this realisation has absolutely nothing to do with phoebe bridgers btw

imo, tremolo has a poster of PB on the kitchen door. They fire bottle rockets at it from the couch while listening to extremely similar music.

this implies a relatively open floorplan

hey tremolo, welcome to ILM.

out of your list it's Lodger for me.
one of those albums that even after many many listens still sends shivers all over ..
i originally had it on gatefold vinyl, but it had a nasty scratch during the opening track.
so, took it back, and found that the replacement had the same scratch in exactly the same place.
so gave up and put up with it.
i recorded the album to cassette and then used that as my default playback option via walkmans etc ..
now when i listen to it via my revised cd editions i miss the scratch sound.

still, it was my entry album to the Bowie catalogue and so for that alone, it's one of the best albums ever.

― mark e, Wednesday, August 23, 2023 8:36 PM (one hour ago)

thank you mark!

it really is a special album. i feel like it gets so little love compared to the other 70s albums. there's not really a bad song on it - maybe Red Sails and Yassassin, but they're not even bad, i just usually skip them for some reason. pretty far out that you got the same scratch twice!!

imo, tremolo has a poster of PB on the kitchen door. They fire bottle rockets at it from the couch while listening to extremely similar music.

― actual veggie mexican pizza received (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, August 23, 2023 9:38 PM (five minutes ago)

i've actually sworn off listening to music at all given that, y'know, that's what PB makes. i just look at album covers and imagine what the songs might sound like. i do not know what a bottle rocket is except that it's a consumable weapon in EarthBound

pretty sure food is my favorite doom album as well. he sounds best over his own beats

so true, doom was a consummate beatmaker :')

"average MCs is like a tv blooper/MF Doom he's like DB Cooper" is my favourite rap line of all time and it's not even close

listening to a brand new Blank Banshee album right now!

I had never listened to Duster. I am enjoying it - thank you! However, I read their wiki, which led me to the wiki for slowcore. I don't even want to tell you who shows up there.

lmfao

it's obviously Talking Heads - Fear of Music, the best album by one of the best bands ever

I now want to post my opinion on everyone else's best album threads

please do!

go for it

I wanted to vote for something that wasn't on my own list so went with Plantasia

this list contains my two favourite albums of 2017! peasant was my #1 then but i'll go l'rain now. will also pause to observe what a sick and true choice 'hex' is, and it's almost autumn which is the season for it, nothing else conveys what it does so well. also that's a brave and commendable ween choice

it was hard for me to choose between peasant and nothing important - i went for peasant just because it's a little more diverse and less of a monolith, therefore better for casual listening, but it's not really "better" than nothing important. i love richard, but i'm not really into his last 3 albums (with the BIG exception of "the hermit" on the ruby chain, which is basically an album within an album). 2020 left me especially cold

glad to see a fellow hex enjoyer! it's funny, i've always listened to it in autumn but somehow have never made the connection to the season. to me it's so vividly desertlike that i can't really think of it as sounding autumnal (cold, wet etc). maybe that's because of the blood meridian connection, idk

white pepper's the best ween album! quebec is close and the mollusk is a little further behind. it's just so perfectly produced, it's full of addictive sounds and takes me back to a much happier time. "exactly where i'm at" is my favourite ween song. just wish they'd left bananas and blow off the album.

not sure if this disqualifies me from being a trve ween head

I voted stratosphere and bee thousand on other threads so had no issue going right for cure for pain

Tremolo curious if you might like a bunch of stuff on my list given your indie leanings. I can guide you. Let me teach you

The Lodger wins.

i'll gladly check it out, hot kirby. just gotta actually do my job for a sec so i don't get fired

god i hate being employed

2020 grew on me fwiw! Seeing him do some of my less favourite songs live solo and do them well was a big moment. Who knew Freshers Ball was a good song etc

White Pepper def where Ween made a giant leap forward imo (although I'd have Quebec as even better). Not a trve head either mind

I stopped counting the overlap after it got too high. I think I well established that THE LODGER (as it’s known here) is my fave Bowie. Another case where the first album I hear by somebody becomes my fave - imprinting on it like a baby duck.

OTOH, I voted for nostalgia. My family owned a mold release wax chemical business in 1/8 of a industrial building in Laguna Canyon (we sold to the early OC/LA fiberglass manufacturers that made surfboards, boats, custom cars, etc.) In the early 70s my dad and my brother would be working late at night with the big roll-up door open and Marty Robbins cranked so loud that you could hear it bounce off the hills

Yeah that sounds like an effective way to imprint music on a young mind

tremolo's top 50

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oh lmao I was trying to post that in the links masterthread

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this is just what i do every day all the time^

I've inexplicably had "Rapp Snitch Knishes" cycling through my head all week, surely a sign that the cosmos wants me to vote DOOM.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Number of albums heard: 18

Favourite: Something Else by the Kinks over Lodger

Least-favourite: Violent Femmes

Nicest surprise: Gris-Gris or New Skin for the Old Ceremony

Unheard, but most want to hear: Johnny Cash

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

Great vote variety here. More interesting to see what didn’t get voted for. Sorry Alice/workingsman dead, you deserved one

forgot to comment on the results - really cool to see what people went for. i didn't vote, but i would've gone for good morning spider.

one thing that's been a very pleasant surprise has been seeing all the love for GBV! it's not that i think they're exactly obscure, but i wouldn't have expected to see their albums on so many of your lists. my faves of theirs are probably "tractor rape chain", "wished i was a giant" and "my valuable hunting knife"