Gene Clark - No Other Poll

i love Some Misunderstanding, but i'll go with LADN.

"Some Misunderstanding".

strength of strings obliterates all

no other gets bonus points for being the most unlikely funk tune of all time

strings! (=strength of)

Love all the tracks. Can't choose. Shan't.

Lady of the North

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i think i prefer the "roadrunner" record to "no other"

http://s3.amazonaws.com/findagrave/photos/2001/222/clarkgene2.jpg

nice

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such a crushing record. zeno, do you mean "roadmaster?" i've got to track that down, it looks great.

"from a silver phial"

Roadmaster has some of my favorite songs on it. In a Misty Morning is so simple and subtle and by the end so utterly devastating.

roadmaster it is.my mistake.
another little weird wonder record:it's a bit more byrds-like songs, a bit less country, and the production is still rich and beautiful as in "no other".

Not really a proper album tho, it's a collection of singles + outtakes + tracks from abandoned projects. It's great in places, but not that great. Prob. better than "White Light" tho.

From A Silver Phial

Tom Dadaismus, u crazy.

Why? I like "Roadmaster"!

i frickin love roadmaster. i love the way he goes all mr lover-lover on the title track. "carrying a pretty big load" indeed.

Not really a proper album tho, it's a collection of singles + outtakes + tracks from abandoned projects.

So is "Japanese Whispers", which is still one of the best Cure albums ever released.

This is really hard -- I'm a huge fan of "Life's Greatest Fool" and its gospel piano and vocals, "Strength of Strings" with its CSNY-in-space harmonies, "The True One" for being a thumpingly good country rock tune, or "Lady of the North" for it's prog structure, wah wah violin and "Floating/High above the clouds/We lay in grassy meadows/The earth looked like a pillow" couplet.

Tough one.

Hopefully results will be more interesting than the Something Else poll.

why, what happened there?

There was an obvious frontrunner that won by a landslide.

Hard to choose between "Life's Greatest Fool", "Silver Raven", and "From a Silver Phial". I'm going with "Phial".

At the end of the month, Collector's Choice is issuing a 2Cd collection of Clark and Carla Olson in concert. Gene at Mountain Stage, 1988, Gene and Carla in Gene's living room, 1989 and then the two of them at McCabe's. Haven't heard it yet, but I liked parts of "So Rebellious a Lover," so I'm hoping...

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Hmm...it looks like disc 2 of that Collector's Choice set is the same concert that was released in the early '90s as <a href=http://www.amazon.com/Silhouetted-Light-Gene-Clark/dp/B0000076AJ>;Silhouetted in Light</a>. I remember downloading it a while back; Gene's solo renditions of "She Don't Care About Time" (similar to the <i>Roadmaster</i> version) and Carla's "Your Fire Burning" are very moving, but I don't generally care for Carla's voice or compositions.

It's a shame <i>Two Sides To Every Story</i> is so hard to come by. In many ways it's a less tortured, more accessible sister album to <i>No Other</i>, and I'm surprised it keeps such a low profile in Gene's discography.

Judging by the track selection, disc two does seem to be Silhouetted Light with one more track "Here Without You" at the very end.

Wow, this really was a photo finish.

A sign of thick, even quality all the way through.....

It's a shame <i>Two Sides To Every Story</i> is so hard to come by. In many ways it's a less tortured, more accessible sister album to <i>No Other</i>, and I'm surprised it keeps such a low profile in Gene's discography.

Funny you mention that. Collector's Choice was supposed to reissue it earlier this year, but it was pulled at the 11th hour. I think it was because of an unresolved rights issue.

Two Sides To Every Story is the prototypical "The longer it's out of print, the more over-praised it becomes" record. Don't get me wrong: it's pretty good -- it periodically wants to go in a sweeping, late-70s MOR direction ("Sister Moon," "Past Addresses," "Hear the Win"). But it's a little too scattershot to be some forgotten masterpiece.

Too bad he didn't get Terry Melcher to pitch in on that one.

"some misunderstanding" was robbed in this poll

Yes

such a jam

also silver raven with 0..

but strength of strings is the shit tho

For me, it would be a five-way tie between "Silver Raven", "Strength of Strings", "From A Silver Phial", "Some Misunderstanding", and "Lady of the North".

In other words, it's impossible to pick the greatest song from the one album which can truly be described as Cosmic American Music.