Elephant chicken chicken rhinoceros: IT'S YOUR BELEW SOLO ALBUMS POLL

Oh and bundled the sides together because, well, yeah. It's a work.

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i don't know all of these, but of the ones i know lone rhino is my favorite. "big electric cat" is probably my favorite belew song, but there's a bunch of good ones on that album. (the video for "b.e.c." was creepy to start with but its opening bit with the world trade center is even creepier now.)

Apropos of nothin' Adam, you and R need to chat more, he's also into this kind of stuff big time.

Yeah? Brilliant.

Op Zop is the correct answer btw.

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I liked his albums w/The Bears

Which one was "Big Electric Cat" on? Lone Rhino?

Yep.

Lone Rhino is awesome and hella fun, I turned my whole high school on to "Big Electric Cat" and "The Momur." But Twang Bar King is deeper, I think, and has the most emotional guitar playing he ever did. Plus, "I'm Down"! "Paint the Road"! The song where they interview random people in Cincinnati about "the ideal woman" and that one guy goes "PRETTY WITH HAIRY LEGS!", that still cracks me up. And Larrie Londin on drums, he played with Elvis and on a ton of Motown records! This album helped to soundtrack the awesomest year of my life, so it narrowly wins.

It's great stuff. Even Adidas in Heat, which largely is a throw-away piece of filler, has excellent musicianship.

I'm enamoured with a lot of the new Side 1/2/3 stuff. He's still got it.

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OF AN ATHLETIC SUPPORTER

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insufficient respect

desire caught by the tail is a really gorgeous album of sounds

I love King Crimson, including Belew-era King Crimson, but something about his solo albums turns me off. I have a bunch of them and like them, and am in awe of their craftsmanship, but there's always this winking coyness about them that fails to seal the deal. Maybe this is my ultimate problem with Rundgren, to a degree?

Coyness? I don't know what you mean by that, but it's certainly self-indulgent, although in a good way. His entire solo career is like a big sandbox to him, I think.

Anyway, Op Zop highlights just how effective this can be. The whole thing is a Lost Classic. One of my top five albums of all time.

I loved Op Zop the first time I heard it and then liked it less upon each subsequent listen. I fear the fault was in myself.

Wow! It had completely the opposite effect on me. First time it just sounded like a mess of noise.

Parts of this album carry the most incredibly fragrant memories of very specific times and locations, particularly Beautiful and Sky Blue Red Bird Green House. This is testament to his skill as an excellent songwriter, rather than just a performer who clumsily bangs notes together.