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

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Trying to stick to original albums and not reworkings/compilations. Included Desire, excluded acoustic self-covers and experimental shenanigans OH NO.

Poll Results

OptionVotes
Lone Rhino (1982) 3
Desire Caught By the Tail (1986) 2
Op Zop Too Wah (1997) 2
Twang Bar King (1983) 1
Mr. Music Head (1989) 0
Young Lions (1990) 0
Inner Revolution (1992) 0
Here (1994) 0
Side One/Two/Three (2005-6)0


Autumn Almanac, Monday, 21 January 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

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

Autumn Almanac, Monday, 21 January 2008 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

;_;

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 07:21 (eighteen years ago)

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.)

tipsy mothra, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 07:30 (eighteen years ago)

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

Trayce, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 07:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah? Brilliant.

Op Zop is the correct answer btw.

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 22 January 2008 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

ILX System, Monday, 4 February 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

I hate this thread.

Autumn Almanac, Monday, 4 February 2008 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

I liked his albums w/The Bears

m coleman, Monday, 4 February 2008 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

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

Alex in NYC, Monday, 4 February 2008 00:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yep.

Autumn Almanac, Monday, 4 February 2008 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Dimension 5ive, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:38 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Autumn Almanac, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

forced to wear this t-shirt
sports awareness t-shirt
you've got the paraphenalic regalia...
OF AN ATHLETIC SUPPORTER

Dimension 5ive, Monday, 4 February 2008 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

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

ILX System, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

insufficient respect

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:26 (eighteen years ago)

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

akm, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

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?

Davey D, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Dimension 5ive, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

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.

Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 04:01 (eighteen years ago)


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