Rank Anything You Feel Like Ranking

Here's "Painful"

1. Nowhere Near
2. From a Motel 6
3. Worrying Thing
4. Whole of the Law
5. I Was the Fool Beside You for Too Long
6. Big Day Coming (slow)
7. Double Dare
8. Big Day Coming (fast)
9. I Heard You Looking
10. Superstar Watcher
11. Double Dare

I almost did "Painful" instead of ICHTHBAO to start this thread. You have "Double Dare" twice and no "Sudden Organ," Barry.

1. Double Dare
2. Big Day Coming (slow)
3. From a Motel 6
4. Sudden Organ
5. I Heard You Looking
6. A Worrying Thing
7. I Was the Fool Beside You For Too Long
8. Nowhere Near
9. Superstar-Watcher
10. The Whole of the Law
11. Big Day Coming (fast)

Might as well keep going and do another one:

1. Our Way to Fall
2. Tears Are in Your Eyes
3. Crying of Lot G
4. Saturday
5. Everyday
6. Cherry Chapstick
7. Last Days of Disco
8. Night Falls on Hoboken
9. Madeline
10. Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
11. Tired Hippo

1. Our Way to Fall
2. Tears Are in Your Eyes
3. Crying of Lot G
4. Saturday
5. Everyday
6. Cherry Chapstick
7. You Can Have It All
8. Last Days of Disco
9. Night Falls on Hoboken
10. Madeline
11. From Black to Blue
12. Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
13. Tired Hippo

1. Selling England By The Pound
2. Foxtrot
3. A Trick Of The Tail
4. The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
5. Wind And Wuthering
6. Trespass
7. Nursery Cryme
8. And Then There Were Three
9. Duke
10.Genesis
11.From Genesis To Revelation
12.Calling All Stations
13.Abacab
14.Invisible Touch
15.We Can't Dance

1. Danzig II - Lucifuge
2. Danzing I
3. Danzing III - How the Gods Kill
4. Danzig 4
5. the rest
6. Black Aria

1. Trapdoor Fucking Exit
2. Operation of the Sonne
3. The Whitehouse
4. Harsh Seventies Reality
5. The Damned
6. Repent
7. Tusk
8. S/t 2CD

george
john
paul
ringo

POPUL VUH >>>> AMON DUUL I

1.black music
2.white music

1. 1981-1984
2. 1973-1974
3. 1969
4. 1970-1972
5. 1994-present

1. Garden of Bones
2. Triumph
3. A Smoky Narchile
4. Zombie Cloud
5. urdog awaken
6. Long Shadows
7. Ice on Water
8. dmz

but that's a really hard thing to rank; the album's all of a piece and all very very awesome. Farfisa/guitar/drum trio sometimes going into total Hawkwind groove/space; droning keyboard parts; sometimes big riffs, sometimes quiet chant-a-long folk mumble. GOOD.

1. Antioch Arrow
2. Lava
3. Heroin
4. Angel Hair
5. John Henry West
6. Young Ginns

As for "Autumn Sweater", I love most of it, but there's this left-channelled drum pattern that Georgia plays that's horribly off-beat sometimes and totally disorienting on headphones, and it kinda ruins the song.

1. Animal Farm
2. Big Sky
3. All of My Friends Were There
4. Picture Book
5. Wicked Annabella
6. Starstruck
7. The Village Green Preservation Society
8. Monica
9. People Take Pictures of Each Other
10. Do You Remember Walter?
11. Johnny Thunder
12. Phenomenal Cat
13. Sitting by the Riverside
14. Last of the Steam-Powered Trains
15. Village Green

No arguments about the first or last...

That took a weirdly long time to do.

1. On the Ellipse
2. Lapsed
3. Bufo Alvarius (with Amen 29:15)
4. Set and Setting
5. Dilate
6. Amanita

Plastikman Albums:

1. Closer
2. Musik
3. Consumed
4. Artifakts BC
5. Sheet One

songs on "Souvlaki"

1. Here She Comes
2. 40 Days
3. Alison
4. Machine Gun
5. Altogether
6. When the Sun Hits
7. Dagger
8. Souvlaki Space Station
9. Mellon Yellow
10. Sing

1. Damaged
2. My War
3. In My Head
4. Slip It In
5. The Process of Weeding Out
6. Loose Nut
7. Family Man

1. Spencer Dryden
2. Everyone else

BC 05
BC 07
BC 09
BC 06
BC 01
BC 02
BC 03
BC 08
BC 04

26. The Beta Band - The Beta Band

^This is very good indeed

29. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice

^I'm sorry, you're going to have to specify which Volume this pertains to...

Because my top 50 isn't as dancey as I'd like it to be it means Volume 1.

Tell you something that's blatantly missing from that list even under the circumstances - KISH KASH

From that list is Arthur Russell for me. Good pick for best U2 album.

Actually seeing as I'm not polling, here's the rest of the top 100 - it's better than I remembered

51. Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, a True Star
52. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
53. Pop Will Eat Itself - Cure for Sanity
54. Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash (there it is, idk why it wasn't higher)
55. Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
56. This Heat - Deceit
57. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Himself
58. Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Respect
59. Aphex Twin - Richard D James Album
60. Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way, Baby
61. Martin Newell - The Greatest Living Englishman
62. Take That - Progress
63. McFly - Wonderland
64. Genesis - Abacab
65. The Jam - Sound Affects
66. Saint Etienne - Tales from Turnpike House
67. Meat Beat Manifesto - Armed Audio Warfare
68. Scritti Politti - Songs to Remember
69. The Specials - More Specials
70. David Essex - Out on the Street
71. Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo
72. Four Tet - There Is Love in You
73. British Electric Foundation - Music for Stoaways
74. Sand - Golem
75. Friendsound - Joyride
76. James - Wah Wah
77. Can - Soon Over Babaluma
78. Miles Davis - On the Corner
79. Scott Walker - Bish Bosch
80. Silver Apples - Silver Apples
81. Barry Booth - Diversions!
82. Van Dyke Parks - Discover America
83. Frazier Chorus - Sue
84. Pulp - This Is Hardcor
85. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind...and Your Ass Will Follow
86. Brainticket - Celestial Ocean
87. Totó La Momposina - La Candela Viva
88. Paul Weller - 22 Dreams
89. Royal House - Can You Party
90. Super_Collider - Head On
91. Hi-Tension - Hi-Tension
92. Suicide - American Supreme
93. Position Normal - Stop Your Nonsense
94. Olatunji! - Drums of Passion
95. MX-80 Sound - Hard Attack
96. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
97. Orbital - Snivilisation
98. u-Ziq - In Pine Effect
99. Daphne & Celeste Save the World
100. Cursor Miner - Explosive Piece of Mind

1. Right
2. Left

(not politics, physical things)

WmC, I like your list a lot, would have put about 20% of those in mine if I made one.

Thanks! Now that I have this album stuff out of my head somewhat I'm thinking about making a list of songs that broke my brain but aren't on albums good enough to make that top 50 list. The kind of thing I'll make notes on for a month and then drop.

10. Marrying his mom so as to become his stepfather

9. Telling everyone he “drugged you” when he just gave you a hit of his joint that one time

8. Calling him “the male Amanda Palmer” behind his back

7. Posting fantasy revenge lists on ILM

6. Telling yourself (accurately) that any public call-out or anything like that would be an act of punching down

5. Spelling out his name as a musical cryptogram as a “devil theme” in your next chamber music work

4. Always referring to him last-name first, first-name last, like “Palmer Amanda”, it’s weirdly so satisfying

3. Recording yourself reading his social media posts in a Maggie Smith voice and share the recordings with your group chat

2. Teaching your dog to shit every time she hears you say his name

1. Living well

1. Outside
2. Station To Station
3. Hunky Dory
4. The Man Who Sold The World
5. Blackstar
6. Low
7. Lodger
8. Earthling
9. Ziggy Stardust
10. Scary Monsters
11. Let’s Dance
12. Pin-Ups
13. Aladdin Sane
14. The Next Day
15. Young Americans
16. Diamond Dogs
17. Heroes
18. Heathen
19. Space Oddity
20. Black Tie White Noise
21. Reality
22. Tin Machine
23. Buddha Of Suburbia
24. s/t (Deram)
25. Never Let Me Down
26. Tonight
27. (Hours)
28. Tin Machine 2

I was asked by a friend to "listen through Eurythmics' catalogue and rank them" and I told them I didn't need to, and sent a link to Alfred's own ranking (which is identical to my own, and says more valuable and interesting things than I would say). "Eurythmics is easy," I texted, "but Bowie would be harder." So I did Bowie instead.

That's a bold choice for number one.

shouldn’t it technically be 1. 1. Outside though

He named it deliberately to top every ranked list of Bowie albums iirc

It's a personal choice bc it's the first of Bowie's albums I ever "went deep" on (that is, listened to incessantly), but As Albums Go it's his most complete and there's only one or two tracks I would consider inessential (and none are really bad); also his most original genre-creation. The only bad thing about it is the plot but I think it kinda serves as a stinky binding agent or something

I wonder where Blackstar and The Next Day would place if the Bowie ballot poll were done today. 12 years ago, jeez.

xp I get the personal choice aspect. For me, that was The Man Who Sold the World, which seemed like a gateway into a different universe. I also appreciate your comment on the "plot" of Outside, which always kept me from loving what I otherwise appreciated as a return to form/evolution in his sound and vision.

Yeah, I love The Man and have always ranked "The Width Of A Circle" highly on any personal song list. What an amazing way to start an album, a "gateway into a different universe" indeed, "turn around, go back!"

otm about "width of a circle," what a banger

I've probably listened to The Man Who Sold the World and 'heroes' the most out of any Bowie albums.

So we asked a simple black bird, who was happy as can be
And he laughed insane and quipped Kahlil Gibran
And I cried for all the others till the day was nearly through
For I realized that God's a young man too

Yes dammit so, so, so good. The synapse between post-hippie Bowie and alien-rock Bowie is magical

International Dubs of the "Wisdom of the Gnomes" theme ranked

Source is this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_3FgrTNUTQ

Hungarian version - This fucking thing goes _hard_. Singer is just giving it everything, and the vibe is impeccable. If I went into a bar and someone was singing this, I'd go back to that bar. Has a one-line spoken introduction, which most other versions don't. I like it. Even though it's a great dub, they just used the English credits visuals with no alterations!

Spanish version - The OG. Honestly a close call between this and the Hungarian version. It slaps, and the "rap battle" section in the bridge slays.

Dutch - Oh my God, it's the Europop version. Seriously, they put a eurodisco beat under the original music and it bangs. Singer is one of the better singers as well, real schlager vibes. I think this must be a re-arrangement/re-recording? There's no instrumental break here, in any case.

Polish version - Really plays up the Peter Gabriel vibes of the tune. Really nice backing vocals during the verse, and they actually went and dubbed the spoken bridge music with a violin. There are also wordless female backing vocals added, which I love. The singer also is a little loose with his phrasing, in a way that makes it sound better even though I don't know what he's actually singing. Has the spoken bridge. Also has a spoken intro _and_ a spoken outro. Like the Hungarian version, it just uses the opening credits from another version, although at least this version is the original Spanish version.

Italian - OK, this is kind of a cheat. If you know anything about Italian cartoon theme songs, you'll know they did something really clever when it came to their dubs. Basically they replaced all the original theme tunes with Italian-written eurodisco. These Italian theme songs are pretty much all bangers and a lot of them made the charts, which of course was the reason for the redone versions in the first place. There are even Italian bands today that cover the old cartoon themes. The Jem theme in particular is a banger. They also completely re-edit the footage under the opening credits, which I guess makes sense. This version also loses points for its "teases" of songs from particular countries, I guess, meant to signify the characters traveling around the world? You've got "Oh Susanna" and an Asian song I can't place. Not only that, they only do it with those two songs - if you're gonna do it, why not commit to the bit? This also loses points for being, uh, a completely different song. They changed the title, too - Viaggiamo con BENJAMIN is the Italian title. I also am holding this up to the standards of other Italian cartoon theme songs, and honestly, it's good but not exceptional. It lacks that little extra kick.

English version - Basically like the Spanish version but not as good. The raspy-voiced singer really plays up the Tom Waits vibes. I know there was an ad that used a Tom Waits imitator and Waits sued and won. They probably didn't have the dosh to pay Waits for this song, but damn I'd love to hear him do this. It would've fit in great on Orphans.

Arabic - The encoding here has kind of a wonky lo-fi vibe, like you'd hear on a tape being played by a Middle Eastern taxicab driver. The vocals also use, I don't know how to describe this, but the kind of ornamentation you'll often hear in Arabic music. Like it's clearly the same song but there's a certain amount of cultural adaptation. I don't know how I feel about the spoken-word section being in two distinctly different voices. One of them is a "funny cartoon voice". It does help, though, to be able to tell the two litigants apart. I also like the weird fade-in from another song at the end, when they taped the theme song they recorded it over something else.

Afrikaans - My friend who got me on this kick (asking if the Spanish version had the rap battle section) sez: "the Afrikaans one has the same energy as when I would unwittingly stumble onto fan-dubbed Russian episodes of The Dreamstone. I can't exactly explain what I mean, it just does". I have nothing to add to this assessment, except that the bridge is instrumental here as well.

Hebrew: The encode here really emphasizes the timpani for whatever reason. The singer kinda has the same raspy voice as the original spanish version too. Honestly I'd rank this as being pretty close to the Afrikaans version. Bridge not dubbed here either.

Finnish: Like the Hungarian, uses the English credits... EXCEPT. What they did here was to put the Finnish titles and intro text scroll IN BETWEEN THE ENGLISH TITLES. So the show is introduced first as "Wisdom of the Gnomes" and then "TONTUT". The theme itself is kinda meh. No attempt at dubbing the bridge.

Spanish version (alt) - Why does this exist? The original is so much better. This is just watered-down and anemic, without the rap bridge. Even sadder, according to commenter @Crystalll1990: "I'm spanish and most of people I know only know the alternative spanish one "

French version - Instrumental! Fucking cheat!

Not Ranked: German version. Did this show not get a German dub? Why not? Why on earth would this show NOT be dubbed into German? This makes me quite sad. The original of David the Gnome, "David der Kabauter", got a German dub. Who decided the children of Germany and Austria didn't deserve a dub of Wisdom of the Gnomes?

Dutch - Oh my God, it's the Europop version. Seriously, they put a eurodisco beat under the original music and it bangs. Singer is one of the better singers as well, real schlager vibes. I think this must be a re-arrangement/re-recording? There's no instrumental break here, in any case.

shout-outs to De Subjectivisten btw, really enjoyed your review of _I Saw the TV Glow_ (well, the machine translation of it)

best defunct online music shops:

cheap-cds (crown emoji)
hiphopsite
sandboxautomatic
insound
half.com

disqualified: turntablelab BECAUSE THEY'RE STILL IN BUSINESS. INEXPLICABLE.

(Tie) Uptown Top
(Tie) Roger

Top 10 defunct London record shops:

1. Sound 323 (Highgate)
2. English Weather aka Terrapin Trucking (Crouch End)
3. Music & Video Exchange (Camden)
4. Rough Trade (Covent Garden)
5. Shades (Soho)
6. Rhythm (Camden)
7. Steve's Sounds (Leicester Square)
8. Virgin Megastore (Oxford St)
9. Cheapo Cheapo (Soho)
10. Ray's Jazz (Covent Garden)

cheap-cds was so so great

planting a seed for later. feel free to throw suggestions out in the interim:

BEST LIVE ALBUM INTROS

my top pick right now is leo kottke's "boy i blew that!" flubbed slide intro on my feet are smiling. hm to jimmy smith cussing out the audience on the bonus material for root down.

still compiling my picks for that/\

i was going to do ranking for this one, but just couldn't decide on an order. so this one's more list than ranking....

top songs to feature some legitimately good honkin on bobo–
lindisfarne - road to kingdom come
bill evans+toots thielmans - sno'peas
gsh - storm music
durutti column - messages
april march - martine
northern picture library - lucky
talk talk - spirit of eden
b-52's - ain't it a shame
chi-lites - oh girl
ny dolls - it's too late
captain beefheart - grow fins
peter ivers - miraculous weekend

now I’m imagining that there is literally only one single harmonica in the world, Steven Tyler’s Bobo, that he graciously allows others to borrow on a first-come-first-serve sign up sheet

*_BEST LIVE ALBUM INTROS_*

1. My sixties.
2. My forties.
3. My thirties.
4. My twenties.
5. My childhood.
6. My fifties.
7. My teens.

My favorite Hooky bass moments:

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2022/02/14/the-best-peter-hook-bass-moments/

*_BEST LIVE ALBUM INTROS_*

The intro to "Live and Direct" by Aswad always made me laugh:

"This is Live and Direct. This is Live and Direct. You know what live and direct means? It means live and direct"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfVB0s90K5k

1. My sixties.
2. My thirties
3. My childhood
4. My twenties
5. My forties
6. My fifties
7. My teens

as i'd rate my 50s as second to last (only better than my childhood) you guys are giving me hope for the 60s

Every time a friend turns 60, I message them saying "welcome to the sixties club, where all the cool kids hang out". Because it's true!

1. World War Z
2. World War I
3. World War III
4. World War II

Guys who played Hercules in Italian muscleman movies of the 1950s/'60s

1. Steve Reeves
2. Brad Harris
3. Alan Steel (aka Sergio Ciani)
4. Reg Park
5. Mark Forest
6. Kirk Morris
7. Mickey Hargitay
8. Rock Stevens (aka Peter Lupus)
9. Dan Vadis

Ten Best 1970s Anglo-Canadian Female Folk Duos

1. Kate and Anna McGarrigle
2. Maddy Prior and June Tabor

Least favorite Bezos/Sanchez wedding guests

Usher

Tom Brady

Sydney Sweeney

Kim Kardashian

Khloé Kardashian

Corey Gamble and Kris Jenner

Kendall Jenner

Kylie Jenner

Sam Altman

Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump

Karlie Kloss and Joshua Kushner

Ellie Goulding

Oprah Winfrey

Vittoria Ceretti and Leonardo DiCaprio

Queen Rania of Jordan

Orlando Bloom

Jewel

Brooks Nader

François-Henri Pinault

Diane Von Furstenberg

Bill Gates and Paula Hurd

Mick Jagger

Sorry that’s more an ILE post

non-animated Disney+ era Marvel shows:

Loki
WandaVision
Agatha All Along
Ironheart
Ms. Marvel
Moon Knight
Daredevil: Born Again
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
Hawkeye
Echo
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law
Secret Invasion

not counting the original, which is insuperable. also i'm not naming the song to be insufferable.

carole king - all fucking time. i was so happy to see that her demo for her other song for the soundtrack is out there now.
griddle - wtf who are these fuckers this kills
nobody - near the fucking peak when it comes to cover versions. magnificent. i mean trip-hop remakes, _such_ a vibe. you ever hear northern picture library's "love song for the dead che"? i love that version so much.
bongwater - banger. banger. banger. love ann's outro about sean connery, idk what the fuck it has to do with anything but it's as much a part of the song as anything in the original at this point.
steaming coils - wait brad laner was in this group? along with james fucking grigsby from motor totemist guild? and brad laner was also allegedly in nervous gender? oh wait laner just played syndrums on one song by the original lineup. well at least it's not the Wall of Voodoo lineup. i like wall of voodoo but they had no business being in nervous gender. um anyway. it sounds about like you'd sound a version by a band containing brad laner _and_ james grigsby to sound. which is to say, good!
micky dolenz with the metropole orkest - this dude has lost none of his voice, idk how the fuck he does it with the sheer levels of alcohol he's consumed. absolutely legendary bibulous dude.
the church (live 1985) - this was a long time before the official recording so i was interested. most of the copies circulating on slsk are like... blank, no sound. but i found an actual version. it's better than the official version! ropey performance, it's a live take... i think this is from a board, it's got that "dry" sound to it. i mean they were about to hit their peak, if this is november it was just a couple months before "heyday" came out... anyway i like that rough, raw sound, and this version has it. possibly the best "rock" version?
the grip weeds - kinda floyd-y vibe
django django - oh shit the piano is straight from the carole king demo, they know what they're doing here. they don't do the "requiescat in pace" intro tho. i've never actually heard django django before. kinda AnCo vibes. why are they doing another version right afterwards tho, knocks it down a few notches
eric wagner - is this just like the demo for trouble's version? or maybe a redone version? it doesn't sound like a demo. lol nice roger waters octave bass in the intro. anyway it's better than trouble's version. not a patch on the church's 1985 live version tho. the guitar solo feels kinda "nile song" at the start lol. i mean if you're doing stoner shit you need at least a little floyd in there. wait this is a duet, i do kinda love dueling guitars (ask me sometime about why Winterhawk's _There and Back Again_ is the second-best live album ever (behind Tiny Tim's _Rock_), idk why i liked trouble's version so much less...
kramer - well this is a radical rearrangement, points for differentiating it from the bongwater version, doesn't quite come off but it's very different from the bongwater version, that's bill frisell on guitar right?
the lightning seeds - god these people are so fucking british. they totally change the lyrics but it works because they make it so fucking britpop. (some british person will probably try to tell me it's not actually britpop, fine, i'm american and i don't understand why you lot like the stone roses) totally different outro too. it's boring, but britpop is supposed to be boring.
...and you will know us by the trail of dead - see this is what trouble's version SHOULD sound like. i don't like how they change the phrasing tho. like do you not know the fucking lyrics? i like the piano tho. it's buried in the mix but that makes it sound better imo. the singer belts out the climactic line like it's a fucking power ballad, tho. i kinda like that there's no single reprise here tbh.
the wondermints - this is one of the first versions i heard, so has sentimental value for me. i mean it's ok. i like that they sub the outro for the intro to carole king's other song for the soundtrack tho.
goblin cock - idk i like optiganally yours and it's like, uh... i mean it's better than grapes of wrath's. sentimental fondness maybe as me putting it this high.
the polyphonic spree - oh god flute. and hammond. and they fuck the lyrics. feh. nice tension in the pre-outro tho, elevates it. but then they add some extra lyrics, stop it.
the church - i've just never been a big fan of this one.
grapes of wrath - bog fucking standard. no single outro either.
trouble - wtf no, i'd rather hear voivod do it. that's not a diss, i like voivod. trouble though? not right for this song.
glass hammer - i was informed that these people got good at some point, well i can't judge by a cover version ig but this sux, how do they fuck up the outro like that
kc bowman feat andrea perry - generic. worse than "bog standard". sounds like they're doing a soundalike rerecording for use in a bank commercial. making the song sound this fucking boring costs it a lot of points. sorry if anybody involved in one of these recordings reads this by the way, i salute you for like. doing a thing.
international brunch mummies - Sucks. I don't know who these guys are. Sounds like bad '80s garage/power pop revival.
lollipop train - DO NOT FUCK WITH THE LYRICS, god. first one with female vox. not great female vox, mind. oh my god. are these people christians. fucking christians. straight to the bottom of the list for making it a praise and worship song. fuck you. this song is about suicide.

disqualified:

the JAMs - lol this is a completely different song with the same title
soar - completely different song again. not the same as the completely different song by the JAMs. i like it tho! that minor-key thing, quasi-dream pop.
uccelli - i have no idea what this is. it's from a record called "porpoise songs: a tribute to christian riese lassen". it's a minute long. i have no idea who christian riese lassen is... oh, he's a _painter_. a shitty painter - sorry, someone who makes "naive art". and apparently an asshole. anyway this is one minute of... something.

I always forget who my "official favorite singers" are. I think about it all the time too, like, "Wait, who are my favorite singers again?" Ohhh the mind of the music obsessive.

Henceforth I can just check this ILM post and I'll know.

Not ranked *within* the list, but these singers collectively rank above any others I can think of at the minute. Main criteria being, "Which singers make me go nuts the moment they open their mouth?" Or put another way (though I haven't been able to confirm this with everyone below, sadly), "Who totally makes me lose my shit when I hear them guesting on *somebody else's* song?"

Morio Agata
Syd Barrett
Richard Dawson
Bob Dylan
Susumu Hirasawa
Haruomi Hosono
Al Joshua
Colleen Kinsella
Caleb Mulkerin
Daron Malakian
Yoko Ono
Peter Stampfel
David Sylvian
Ragnar Zolberg

awesome list nu. i'm gonna play yoko's plastic ono band today in honor.

i may need to update mine. seriously considering adding archy marshall and al green. here's where i'm at presently. no order whatsoever:

marvin gaye
kate bush
minnie riperton
francis reader
sade
maxwell
rozonda thomas
joni mitchell
fela kuti
curtis mayfield

honorable mentions for sandy denny and john marytn

yes i keep a running google doc with notes about these sorts of things. thank you for reading my stupidly enthusiastic posts.

best records in my collection:
-my copy of curtis america today that was still sealed when i bought it for $15 in 2003, and which i consider myself the original owner of🙂
-five corners quintet "devil kicks" 10"
-michael jackson "remember the time" jukebox 45, similar scenario as curtis
-king krule "rock bottom" 12"
-carla morrison "una salida" picture sleeve 7"
-david axelrod song of innocence alternate cover
-signed appleseed cast low level owl on og vinyl
-the hokey pokey

"my week beats your year" - Lou Reed albums of the 1970s

Coney Island Baby
Transformer
The Bells
Rock & Roll Animal
Sally Can't Dance
Lou Reed
Street Hassle
Berlin
Metal Machine Music
Lou Reed Live
Rock & Roll Heart
Growing Up In Public
Take No Prisoners - Live

best rainy day albums (not ordered, very long):
david axelrod ― earth rot
archy marshall ― a new place 2 drown
yusef lateef ― detroit latitude 42° 30' longitude 83°
april march ― and los cincos
702 ― s/t
dick gaughan ― handful of earth
bill evans ― symbiosis [ED. NOTE: for esp powerful storms only)
bill evans+tony bennett ― both albums
any recording of césar franck "psyché"
the byrds ― notorious byrd brothers
marc moulin ― sam'suffy
andrew hill ― from california, with love
any steve tibbetts

best rainy night albums (also not ranked, even longer):
any recording of fishmans "long season"
joe henderson ― inner urge
burial ― street halo/kindred compilation
david axelrod ― strange ladies
lee morgan ― live at the lighthouse box set
any of the cannonball/nat adderley albums with rick holmes (soul zodiac, soul of the bible, love sex+zodiac)
grant green ― green street
talk talk ― laughing stock
alice coltrane ― radha krsna nama sankirtana
miles ― musings of miles
nona hendryx ― skindiver
ethiopiques 4
will ackerman ― childhood and memory
david sylvian ― dead bees on a cake+b-sides
rain tree crow
any steve tibbetts