Name an album that is great from start to finish..

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I'm talking bout an album that is noting bu t absolute winners through and through. Examples that come to mind: "Apocalypse Dudes" by Turbonegro and "Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon. What others should I look into?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:08 (twenty-two years ago)

like 5000 albums

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you for being so arrog.. I mean know-it-al.. I mean specific. OK, is there anyone out there with an actual response that is worth my time?

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:14 (twenty-two years ago)

You know, I get all excited when I see someone has given me an answer to my question and then it just turns out to be some dickhead with a vague, useless response, and I end up kicking my cat or punching my wife because I'm so bummed that someone would use my query as an excuse to put some smartass meaningless phrase online. AUCHGHXHGUHsgows. Yes, gows.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

oh come on helltime; don't be so poofy. I know you're really a hardass.

Anyway, yeah, I'd say:

AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Johnny Dyani Quartet - Song for Biko
EPMD - Strictly Business
Led Zeppelin - Zoso
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Mississippi John Hurt - whatever that Sony cd is that has all the early stuff
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptus
Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Michael Mayer - Immer

... so yeah I mean, shit, fuck, I love music, tons of albums...

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:25 (twenty-two years ago)

AUCHGHXHGUHsgows

Aoxomoxoa as covered by Robt. Christgau?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Man, the fake rage I have to go through to get an honest reponse, right? Thanks there Mr. Diamond, I just felt some prodding was needed, you know.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Weird, I was gonna mention Vincebus Eruptum; I'm listening to it right now.

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)

ebtg - amplified heart

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Stone Roses : S/T

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Tim Buckley - Happy Sad
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Pere Ubu - Terminal Tower
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Royal Trux - Sweet Sixteen
Wayne Shorter - Super Nova
Madonna - The Immaculate Collection
Pharoah Sanders - Tauhid
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle
Prince - Sign of the Times
Slint - Spiderland
Derrick May - Innovator
V/A - 53rd and 3rd: Fun While it Lasted
Scratch Acid - The Greatest Gift
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Negative Approach - Tied Down
Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World
Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds Vol. I
Fleetwood Mac - Mirage
V/A - Metalanguage Festival - The Science Set
Sam Cooke - The Man & His Music
Thinking Fellers Union 282 - Lovelyville
MX-80 Sound - Crowd Control (or whatever the name of that reissue is on Atavistic which had the last two albums)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Godz - Contact High
Earl Hooker - Simply the Best
V/A - Nuggets
Depeche Mode - Speak & Spell
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

.. a start ...

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Music for 18 Musicians & All Killer No Filler

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:46 (twenty-two years ago)

haha! look at me! I'm an "dilatantenissm", not an "Fanatissism".

Anyway, helltime, I know you rock. We had a great conversation about Alton from Good Eats a few months ago, so I know you're in my corner.

Anyway, yeah I really do love all those records but YMM fuckin V.

Just keep on keepin' on, my brother.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, we are on the same team, but you have to admit, Nuggets has a clunker or two on it, though I'm too wasted now to dig it up and listen to it and find them. You're on it though.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 31 May 2003 05:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Sabbath _ Paranoid

― Dusky-dust, Saturday, 31 May 2003 06:07 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, there are so many ... here's a few just off the top of my head:

gary numan, the pleasure principle
frank zappa, hot rats
brian eno, another green world
talking heads, remain in light
the kinks, village green preservation society
david bowie, low, station to station
my bloody valentine, loveless
ween, the mollusk

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 31 May 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I guess I could add any Ween albums in there too, come to think of it. Then again, in my opinion, Ween is God, or at least Boognish. Good call on the Mollusk though. I dig "Craters of the Sac" even more..

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The Millennium - Begin
The Tyde - Twice or Once
Bob Dylan - Bringing it All Back Home
Primal Scream - Vanishing Point
The new Baptist General

But I see what you mean, I rarely listen to an album from start to finish - glad to see that i'm not the only one.

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Kiss - Dressed to Kill
Devo - Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are Devo!
Killing Joke - Night Time
Queen - A Night at the Opera
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Motörhead - No Sleep `Til Hammersmith
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
the Misfits - Static Age
The Ramones - It's Alive

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Helltime - you need Racebannon in your life. They are on Secretly Canadian. That album will scar you!

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 07:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Diamond, you're way too forgiving.
"Great to finish" doesn't mean no bad songs - it means
not a bad MOMENT, not a bad NOTE.
_Exile On Main Street_? It has it's filler.
_Piper At The Gates Of Dawn_? Yeah right, if good ol'
Rog hadn't fugged things up.
I agree that _Highway To Hell_ in untouchable.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Saturday, 31 May 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

PIL - Metal Box
The Fall - Slates
Galaxie 500 - on fire
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Wire - 154 (And the Graham Lewis tracks are Awsome despite what i said in the Wire thread)
The Smiths - s/t
SPK - Leichenschrei
Joy Division - Substance
The Flaming Lips - Transmissions from the satellite heart

― Jrvision (visionjr), Saturday, 31 May 2003 10:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Joy Division - Substance

Do compilations count?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 May 2003 10:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Compilations are cheating, I think. It's the best moments jammed in one l.p.

I've got one that i'm listening to right now -

Neal Casal - Fade Away Diamond Time

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, i now i was cheating, just couldn't resist. these are what first sprang to my mind after being awake for 10 minutes, i'll probably add some later on.

― Jrvision (visionjr), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:05 (twenty-two years ago)

wouldn't call F'Mac's Mirage "great", really
Rumours - great; Mirage - patchy, quite dull in places (ok, "Empire State", "Hold Me", "Eyes of the World" ... but the rest? maketh me yawn to the point of dislocatin' me jaws)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Francoise Hardy - Message Personal - french prog-rock with Serge at the helms - title track impossibly beautiful.

Chad and Jeremy - Of Cabbages and Kings - baroque soft-pop gone a bit mental trying to keep up with the beatles.

Any Tim Hardin album pre-71.

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

the short sharp sonuvabeeyotch, Melodie Melson, not mentioned yet?

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Was going to do that shortly, like the album. Perfected. Seems much longer than 28 minutes.

I pick Rumours over Mirage anyday. Any mirage likeage is due to revisionism to a pure and simple time of '77.

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

three 100% perfect releases from the last 3-4 years:

montgolfier brothers - the world is flat
giant sand - chore of enchantment
radiohead - amnesiac and hail to the thief

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

those were 4, sorry.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The question being - why is there not a perfect Percy Sledge album? I always skip to The Dark End of the Street and When A Man Loves a Woman. Otherwise...too many fillers. Point out a perfect soul album without fillers and I will be very happy to buy that asap.

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Jerry Lee Lewis: "All Killer, No Filler," natch

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Point out a perfect soul album without fillers and I will be very happy to buy that asap.

(a Sam Cooke comp was listed up there, but -)

Martin Skidmore to thread!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Mirage is good but fails the thread question because I always skip over the execrable "Oh Diane", possibly my least favourite FM song.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Saturday, 31 May 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

soul album with no filler?

Al Green-- Call Me

― Will (will), Saturday, 31 May 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

2 All Time Great Classic Albums

Marvin Gay: What's Going On
Marvin Gaye: Let's Get It On

― Will (will), Saturday, 31 May 2003 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Both Enon albums, as far as I'm concerned.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ben Folds Five - s/t

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

But this raises what is for me one of the essential rockist question. Does "great album" mean "every song on it is great," or is it more complicated than that? For me, an every-song-is-great album gets kind of exhausting, while weak points can actually contribute to an album's overall effect. Lou Reed's Transformer is a good example of a record whose oddball players ("Make Up" for example) are super-key to the album's overall, umm, makeup. What I'm saying is if you had a baseball team that was all prime-era Randy Johnson, well, you'd be screwed both offensively and in the field. Position players help make the best teams; the best teams aren't made up of all superstars (see the all-star game for proof).

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

J0hn stole my post. AND uses a baseball analogy to good effect, too. (Note: a team of Mark Priors would probably be A-OK in the offense dept.)

Seems to me the greatness of most great albums (at least the canonical ones mentioned here) has more to do w/ pacing (peaks & valleys & such) than w/ continually hitting on all cylinders every single second. Even if the valleys are meant to be part of the greatness, they can serve as little respites where the listener can sit back & say, "Wow, this album IS great!" It's no different than when a pitcher steps off the mound in the middle of the 7th, and you look up @ the scoreboard to see 0s across the board & one hit for the other team and you realize how well the pitcher's doing. Being able to appreciate the moment while the moment is happening is a joy that's hard to match.

― David R. (popshots75`), Saturday, 31 May 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Siamese Dream. Loveless. Probably several others I've never heard before.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 31 May 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

there are so many!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 May 2003 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - The Good Son
Julian Cope - Peggy Suicide
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Wonder Stuff - The Eight Legged Groove Machine
Mr.Bungle - Mr.Bungle
Tricky - Maxinquaye
King Crimson - Discipline
Gang of Four - Entertainment
XTC - Drums & Wires

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 31 May 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The Birthday Party - Prayers On Fire
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
Drive Like Jehu - Drive Like Jehu
Melvins - Bullhead
Lightning Bolt - Wonderful Rainbow
Pearls Before Swine - Balaklava

― Ian Johnson, Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There's lots but the one I realized is one of these most recently was Madonna's You Can Dance.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Are those Enon albums worth searching out, then, J0hn?

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, what are they like?

― Cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 31 May 2003 19:48 (twenty-two years ago)

enon are boring!

― doom-e (Jam), Saturday, 31 May 2003 20:32 (twenty-two years ago)

bark psychosis 'hex'

will the "new" bark psychosis record ever be released?

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 May 2003 20:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Skipping 17 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Electro Shock Blues is where the token 'wackiness' failed as a marketing concept - his mother died of cancer and his sister killed himself - the lyrics are all based around those deaths. The follow-up to Electro Shock Blues is of the same variety - but more of the grieving... Honestly, the lyrics to electro-shock blues are amazing, like personal diary entries.

"So I know you're going pretty soon"
Radiation sore throat got your tongue
Magic markers tattoo you
And show it where to aim
And strangers break their promises
You won't feel any
You won't feel any pain

Writig a song about his mother dying in a hospital? Pretty intense...

Or...

Feeling scared today
Write down "I am ok"
A hundred times the doctors say
I am ok
I am ok
I am not ok

I am a sad fan boy of that album - but Electro Shock Blues and Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and Tom Waits Rain Dogs are the only albums where I actually had to replace the cd through constant play.

― doom-e (Jam), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

God bless Mr. Darnielle for a) defending Enon to the bitter end and b) raising the question of whether or not a front-to-back "great" album can have individual dull songs. Even my favorite albums of all time have their lacking moments; if I could eliminate the jokey interludes from Lilys' Eccsame The Photon Band (which I do, thanks to the miracle of CD player programming), or drop "There Goes My Gun" from the Pixies' Doolittle, or somehow magically improve "The Jitters" and "8 1/2 Minutes" from The Dismemberment Plan's Emergency & I (I wouldn't want to remove or replace them, just make them better), then maybe they'd be "perfect". Or "more perfect".

Anyway, Enon is great. Contained within Believo! and High Society are the makings of one (more) perfect album.

― Nick Mirov (nick), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah actually I heard that "I am ok/I am not OK" song on the radio once and it moved the hell out of me, I must investigate further. Enon's not very moving, I must admit - what I love about them is their sense of play.

meanwhile net-scouring reveals that there are several Enon releases what I ain't got (including what appears to be a pre-Believo! album, I MUST HAVE THEM NOW

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 1 June 2003 00:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
The Clash - The Clash
Big Black - Atomizer
Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
Tool - Undertow
Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya Ya's Out

― Davlo (Davlo), Sunday, 1 June 2003 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

A few more...
Tool - Lateralus
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
The Fall - Hex Education Hour
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Wire - Chairs Missing
Talk Talk - Laughing Stok
The Stooges - Funhouse
This Heat - s/t (if you don't consider the Test Card intro and outro).
Velvety Underground - Velvety Underground & Nico
Black Sabbath - s/t

― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Okay, I can't believe I went through this entire thread and nobody mentioned "The Secret Tapes Of Doctor Eich" by the Paperclip People. Jesus, what a bunch of rockists! Blah blah

Helltime, remind me to bring that by next time I see you.

Oh PS I think I found a voxist.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Journey - Escape
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
The Philistines Jr - Analog vs Digital
Ramones - End of the Century
Megadeth - Peace Sells...But Who's Buying
Alice Cooper - Goes To Hell
Avril Lavigne - Let Go
Juniper Moon - El Resto Di Mi Vida
Helloween - Keeper of the Seven Keys (part2)
The Beach Boys - Sunflower

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(I am sure to make the most similar thread now. I forgot "new jersey" by Bonn jovi)

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 1 June 2003 07:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I am stunned that J0hn neglected to mention Lifter Puller's Fiestas + Fiascos. so I will. also,
Prince, Sign 'O' the Times
Triple R, Friends
The Indestructible Beat of Soweto
Al Green Call Me and The Belle Album
The Avalanches, Since I Left You

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 1 June 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I am impressed by the fact that few have seen it worth their time to take issue with others' choices on this thread; I choose to tkae this as a sign that you all understand that Helltime can do an 800lb leg press as if he were a crumpling a paper ball

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 1 June 2003 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

if there was a neil young album without one second of filler it would be "after the goldrush". his quintessential record.

i think the idea that a great album can include some filler is mainly theoretical. it is just that one has got used to those weaker tracks on some classic albums. it would be ridiculous to reproach an album with only phantastic songs that it contains no filler.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Sunday, 1 June 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Al Green - Call Me and The Belle Album

I Second That Emotion

― Dadaismus (Dada), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Television - Marquee Moon springs to mind./

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Sunday, 1 June 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the short-listalicious:

Mr. Bungle - California
Fishbone - Reality of My Surroundings
[insert Bjork full-length here]
Common - The Electric Circus
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - The Inflated Tear
They Might Be Giants - Flood
The Roots - Phrenology
Kool Keith - Sex Style
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
Talvin Singh - OK
[insert any-but-very-last Tribe Called Quest full-length here]
Bob Marley - Kaya
Tom Waits - Bone Machine
JSBX - Orange
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
Faith No More - Angel Dust
Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Ween - Pure Guava
and I'm gonna say Mr. Bungle California once more cuz it really is that good

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(haha i wrote "Velvety Underground", typo not intended)

― Jrvision (visionjr), Sunday, 1 June 2003 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

ET CETERA- ET CETERA [GOOGLE WOLFGANG DAUNER]
MY BLOODY VALENTINE- LOVELESS
FUNKADELIC- FUNKADELIC
VELVET UNDERGROUND- VU & NICO
CAN- FUTURE DAYS
STOOGES- FUN HOUSE
MILES DAVIS- ON THE CORNER
SLY & THE FAMILY STONE- THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON
PUBLIC ENEMY- IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS
GANG STARR- DAILY OPERATION
GANG OF FOUR- ENTERTAINMENT!
LOVE- FOREVER CHANGES
LOVE CRY WANT- LOVE CRY WANT
WIRE- 154
NEU!- NEU!
BOREDOMS- VISION CREATION NEWSUN
TERRY RILEY- IN C
KRAFTWERK- KRAFTWERK [THE ONE W/ THE RED&WHITE CONES]
DAVID BYRNE/BRIAN ENO- MY LIFE IN THE BUSH OF GHOSTS

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Sunday, 1 June 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Basement Jaxx - "Remedy"

And of course, the obvious ILM answer which amazingly no-one has said yet;
The Buzzcocks - "Singles Going Steady"

― Nick H, Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Nas--'Illmatic'
Mighty Diamonds--'Right Time'
Mingus--'Blues and Roots'

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:31 (twenty-two years ago)

man, some of you are tripping big time.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The Meters--'The Meters'

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

About half of Fela Kuti's albums

― oops (Oops), Sunday, 1 June 2003 23:54 (twenty-two years ago)

How come nobody's mentioned Slayer - Reign in Blood yet?

Also: John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 2 June 2003 07:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Fela seconded (but it helps to have only two tracks on an album...)
The Cure - Disintegration
PJ Harvey - Stories from the Sea..
VU - VU
God Machine - One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
...

― Fabrice (Fabfunk), Monday, 2 June 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Third vote for Fela, seconf for In a Silent Way. Also...

Herbie Hancock - Sextant
Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius
Sonny Rollins - What's New?
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Jamaaladeen Tacuma - Renaissance Man
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space
Yello - Stella
Nightmares on Wax - A Word of Science
Ultramarine - Every Man and Woman is a Star
William Orbit - Strange Cargo III
Air Liquide - Nephology
Omni Trio - Haunted Science
4 Hero - Two Pages
Innerzone Orchestra - Programmed
Dead Prez - Let's Get Free
Recloose - Cardiology

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 2 June 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Prefab Sprout "Andromeda Heights"
Danny Wilson "BeBop Moptop"
Propaganda "A Secret Wish"
Inga Humpe "Planet Oz"

― Gary Shipes, Monday, 2 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll take lots and lots of issue with 2 Pages, sirs

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm too sleep-deprived to think of many at the moment, but I think both albums I listened to today should qualify: Sonic Youth's Dirty (actually quite an achievement considering it's practically a double album), and Leonard Cohen's I'm Your Man.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 2 June 2003 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 2 June 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Scientist meets the Space Invaders
Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires

― oops (Oops), Monday, 2 June 2003 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Excitable Boy by Warren Zevon is certainly a fine album, but I fail to see how one can overlook the absolutly grating "Nightime at the Switching Yard"

― Applepie Baseball, Monday, 2 June 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

twelve years pass...

Heptones - On Top
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
Delroy Wilson - Good All Over
Sunny Ade - Juju Music
Dale Burridge - Loaf
Larry Marshall - Presenting Larry Marshall
Burnt Batch - The Produce Aisle
Carette Ogilvy - Truth Serum

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 08:18 (ten years ago)

green day - insomniac

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 17:49 (ten years ago)

david murray - low class conspiracy

wayne shorter - moto grosso feio

lipps inc. - mouth to mouth

donald byrd - blackjack

john holt - A-1 showcase

bob neuwirth - s/t

anthony braxton - duets 1976

sean bonniwell - the bonniwell music machine

annie ross - sings a song with mulligan!

laurie spiegel - the expanding universe

david cope - navajo dedications

mecki mark men - s/t

peter fish - the silver apple

last gonzo band - signs of life

the everly brothers - a date with the everly brothers

grace jones - nightclubbing

james brown - hot pants

the delfonics - s/t

nicodemus & toyan - dj clash

john coltrane - sun ship

homer & jethro - somethin' stupid

dewey redman - the ear of the behearer

chi-chi favelas - and the black and white band - rock solid

tom lucas - red letter day

judy roderick - woman blue

sightings - michigan haters

red krayola - coconut hotel

death - scream bloody gore

agalloch - ashes against the grain

negura bunget - om

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:46 (ten years ago)

the delfonics - s/t

otm

― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:47 (ten years ago)

anthony braxton - duets 1976

I could never get into "Maple Leaf Rag" on this. I love the rest of it, though.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 18:50 (ten years ago)

it is a very approachable and enjoyable braxton record for me. i can sometimes have some trouble approaching him.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:04 (ten years ago)

there should be a goth soul thread for stuff like that delfonics record.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:05 (ten years ago)

Teenager of the Year

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:05 (ten years ago)

antics - interpol

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:06 (ten years ago)

turn on the bright lights has 1 dud - "hands away"

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:06 (ten years ago)

The Cure - Disintegration
PJ Harvey - Stories from the Sea..
VU - VU
God Machine - One Last Laugh in a Place of Dying
Mazzy Star - She Hangs Brightly
Massive Attack - Mezzanine

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:08 (ten years ago)

xiu xiu - a promise

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:09 (ten years ago)

it is a very approachable and enjoyable braxton record for me. i can sometimes have some trouble approaching him.

― scott seward, Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:04 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

To approach him, you must walk through the triangle, as this diagram illustrates:

http://www.metaljazz.com/braxton%20title-thumb.jpg

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:11 (ten years ago)

i know, see, that's what i mean. i don't want to get stuck by his protractor when i'm approaching him.

― scott seward, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:14 (ten years ago)

alien observer - grouper

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:21 (ten years ago)

computer world

― 1996 ball boy (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 22 September 2015 19:24 (ten years ago)

AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
Johnny Dyani Quartet - Song for Biko
EPMD - Strictly Business
Led Zeppelin - Zoso
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
Carl Cotdeath and Gary Colchis - Sexual Plurasy
Mississippi John Hurt - whatever that Sony cd is that has all the early stuff
Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptus
Pink Floyd - Piper At the Gates of Dawn
Michael Mayer - Immer

― nakhchivan, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 21:16 (ten years ago)

i just played that dyani record today. i like all those. Immer still rules so hard. i think you made up that carl cotdeath thing though. never heard of it.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 00:18 (ten years ago)

All Bob Dylan albums have some sections - or whole songs - that are strictly beloved by Dylan cultists. Just because his cult apparently includes every rock critic in the Western World doesn't mean that these parts aren't a buncha crap. crap rhymes, crap identical harmonica solos --- you have to believe in his continuous genius to dig it, fall off the wagon and it's pretty hard to get back on. This is why I like the Basement Tapes the most - even though it is not without its crappy moments - because it has the least amount of auto-generated-Dylan-worship audible right there in the music.

― Vic Perry, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:10 (ten years ago)

Teenager of the Year

― braunld (Lowell N. Behold'n), Tuesday, September 22, 2015 3:05 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Weird coincidence but I happened to pull this out randomly this morning for the first time in maybe a decade, and you are 100% right. And I'm not really even a Pixies fan.

― Wimmels, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 01:51 (ten years ago)

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