Craig D. from Toronto's 50 fave albums that first popped into his head onto this text doc

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First time/long time, love me a list, how could I resist

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Big Star - #1 Record/Radio City (2-on-1 CD)	7
XTC - English Settlement	6
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground (3rd)	5
Broadcast - Tender Buttons	5
Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring	4
The Band - The Band	4
Bob Dylan- New Morning	4
Afghan Whigs - Congregation	3
Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch	3
Blonde Redhead - Melody Of Certain Damaged Lemons	3
D'Angelo - Voodoo	3
Fugazi - In On The Kill Taker	2
Nearly God - Nearly God	2
The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic	2
Ween - Pure Guava	2
Steely Dan - Katy Lied	1
The Apartments - The Evening Visits...And Stays For Years	1
Pixies - Trompe Le Monde	1
Stina Nordenstam - People Are Strange	1
His Name Is Alive - Mouth By Mouth	1
Arthur Russell - World Of Echo	1
Eric's Trip - Forever Again	1
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk	1
Goldie - Timeless	1
Helium - The Dirt Of Luck	1
Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color	0
Tom Waits - Bone Machine	0
U.S. Maple - Sang Phat Editor	0
Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!!!	0
Dirty Projectors - Swing Lo Magellan	0
Superchunk - Foolish	0
Lush - Spooky	0
Stereolab - Mars Audiac Quintet	0
Fastbacks - Zucker	0
Prince - Dirty Mind	0
Polvo - Exploded Drawing	0
Grizzly Bear - Shields	0
Melvins - Ozma	0
John Martyn - Grace And Danger	0
Death - The Sound Of Perseverance	0

― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:09 (two years ago)

Goldie’s Timeless is a deep cut!

― Clientless (Scooter's Version) (morrisp), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:11 (two years ago)

Nearly God

Happy to see Blonde Redhead and Ween.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:12 (two years ago)

English Settlement would be my XTC pick too, rather than Skylarking. I played ES to death.

― Large, Complex, Detailed but Irrefutable POST (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 14:26 (two years ago)

Wow, maybe my least favorite Grizzly Bear and Dirty Projectors albums. ;)

(Painted Ruins is super underrated btw, and would definitely go on the 'albums I listen to most with my wife on weekend mornings' poll that I won't burden ILM with)

― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:19 (two years ago)

whigs

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:20 (two years ago)

Big Star! Love your list Craig :)

― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 23 August 2023 15:50 (two years ago)

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen, for fun

― H.P, Wednesday, 23 August 2023 23:54 (two years ago)

The Apartments sounds like a New Wave band. I assume they are?

Nice list. I love the ones I've heard. I'm going for Goldie

― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Thursday, 24 August 2023 00:03 (two years ago)

Big Star 2fer just over the Velvets S/T, if it has just been one of the BS albums I woulda voted Velvets, but that Ryko CD is a thing of absolute beauty and as scott seward has noted previously on this board it has fantastic sound as well

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 24 August 2023 00:06 (two years ago)

there was a revive abt New Morning recently, I really need to listen to that again soon

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Thursday, 24 August 2023 00:06 (two years ago)

Glad to see the Sundays, but I couldn't not vote for Eric Dolphy. Fun list.

― Moniker? I barely know 'er! (SlimAndSlam), Thursday, 24 August 2023 01:36 (two years ago)

Number of albums heard: 13

Favourite: picking Big Star 2-on-1 feels like cheating, so Katy Lied over Talk Talk

Least-favourite: don't like the first Ornette album

Nicest surprise: His Name is Alive

Unheard, but most want to hear: Sundays or Arthur Russell

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 26 August 2023 03:15 (two years ago)

Assuming the Band don't count, what album by a Toronto act would you rank the highest? For me: Metro Music by Martha and the Muffins.

― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 26 August 2023 03:16 (two years ago)

xxxpost New Morning revive got it playing in my head yet again, voted for it.

― dow, Saturday, 26 August 2023 03:22 (two years ago)

English Settlement, assuming the original 2LP version and not the re-edited single album.

― atonar, Saturday, 26 August 2023 12:54 (two years ago)

20 or so faves of mine!

― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 26 August 2023 13:04 (two years ago)

Assuming the Band don't count, what album by a Toronto act would you rank the highest? For me: Metro Music by Martha and the Muffins.

A better Q would be which among the dozens of albums Craig D has made/worked on does he rank the highest... I've listened to Glissandro 70 and Heretictactician in the past month alone

― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 26 August 2023 16:21 (two years ago)

And I'm gonna listen to Shimmer Shimmer Ya and Riff Ref today

― Snoopy is a cat, who lives in a cage (flamboyant goon tie included), Saturday, 26 August 2023 16:28 (two years ago)

Cheers, Owen!

― If I luge, if I luge, if I luge you on the track (Craig D.), Saturday, 26 August 2023 22:33 (two years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 31 August 2023 00:01 (two years ago)

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

― System, Friday, 1 September 2023 00:01 (two years ago)

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