Best Track on "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got"

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Poll Results

OptionVotes
Emperor's New Clothes, The 10
Nothing Compares 2 U 9
I Am Stretched Out on Your Grave 6
Black Boys on Mopeds 6
The Last Day of Our Acquaintance 5
Jump in the River 2
Feels So Different 1
Three Babies 1
You Cause as Much Sorrow 0
I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got 0


Eazy, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:58 (seventeen years ago)

black boys on mopeds

akm, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

I haven't got this.

Mark G, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

It's not as good as the debut but it's still damn good.

^likes black girls (HI DERE), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:12 (seventeen years ago)

My good friend and I, totally stoned, listened to "The Emperor's New Clothes," at his request. MAN, does that outro rock.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:28 (seventeen years ago)

black boys on mopeds

― akm, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:12 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

great song & extra points for the takedown of astral weeks' romantic mythologizing

rocks can be cool (rent), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:33 (seventeen years ago)

That MASSIVE, distorted guitar riff running through "Jump In the River."

This album is marvelous.

Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:35 (seventeen years ago)

The Last Day of Our Acquaintance

LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 15:53 (seventeen years ago)

3 Babies

Joe, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:26 (seventeen years ago)

i only heard this album via my freshman year roommate, and all i remember is 'i am stretched on your grave' over the funky drummer break and the prince cover.

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:30 (seventeen years ago)

Hmm. Big elephant in this room. Yup.

Calling All Creeps! (contenderizer), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:40 (seventeen years ago)

BBOM or 3B - they're almost the same song, actually.

redmond, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:58 (seventeen years ago)

Come to think of it - LDOOA is also very similar.

redmond, Tuesday, 20 January 2009 19:59 (seventeen years ago)

"I am Stretched on Your Grave" - best usage of the "funky drummer" beat ever (take that Public Enemy!). I know its Irish trad, but man, when those strings hit in the song's final third, what a payoff. Chills down my back every time.

honorably mentions for ENC, LDOOA & BBOM, tho the whole thing is solid, really. You know you're in the presence of greatness when the lead single and trademark hit, while still highly enjoyable, doesn't even figure into your top five. Personally, I prefer Prince's version (by a slight margin). In terms of song quality, I would rate IDNWWIHG as about equal to The Lion & the Cobra, but I like the production on the former a lot more (too much of that awful 80s canned drum sound/bad synth shit going on on TL&TC - would like a remaster plz).

Pillboxxx/The Lol Belol (Pillbox), Tuesday, 20 January 2009 20:44 (seventeen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

"I Am Stretched on Your Grave". Tempestuous Irish swooning mixed with old-school hip-hop swagger. Nothing else on the album is this visionary for its time.

Stefanthenautilus, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

"Emperor's New Clothes" rocks too, though.

Stefanthenautilus, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:32 (seventeen years ago)

"Emperor's New Clothes"

Geir Hongro, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 01:13 (seventeen years ago)

"Black Boys on Mopeds" carries a special place in my heart, but lol I'm honestly not sure if I want to vote in this poll following this:

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/070824/sinead_l.jpg

She might rip ME if I make the wrong choice!

energy, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 22:18 (seventeen years ago)

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

System, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:01 (seventeen years ago)

Oh, man, my girlfriend makes fun of me so hard for loving this album. It's totally a weird teenage mixtape one for me, and while I reflexively went with BBOM, I coulda gone with Grave, Nothing or Emperor without feeling any guilt.

THESE ARE MY FEELINGS! FEEL MY FEELINGS! (I eat cannibals), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:40 (seventeen years ago)

I think I voted for "Feels So Different". I meant to. What a way to announce your intentions from the outset! I love the way the strings boil over near the end. This is one of those albums that it's a little tough for me to listen to with others around, just so fucking intense.

Euler, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:16 (seventeen years ago)

I completely associate this record with Red, Hot + Blue, from around the same time.

Eazy, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 04:19 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

"You Cause As Much Sorrow" is a chilling Sunday night anthem.

Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 May 2010 01:02 (fifteen years ago)

Alfred you've now named my three favorite tracks on this record in order itt.

Too bad I missed it the first time but my vote wouldn't have changed a thing.

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Monday, 17 May 2010 01:14 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

Fuck. "Jump in the River."

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:08 (eleven years ago)

I mean

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w6r7Z7PuiY

guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:14 (eleven years ago)

"Jump" was released a year (or maybe two) earlier as the b-side to one of her 12"s...I can't remember which one, though.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:19 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

"I Am Stretched on Your Grave". Tempestuous Irish swooning mixed with old-school hip-hop swagger. Nothing else on the album is this visionary for its time.

― Stefanthenautilus, Monday, January 26, 2009

TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 January 2020 15:54 (six years ago)

three years pass...

would vote for "Three Babies" today. the older I get, the more i love this album.

j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Saturday, 6 May 2023 18:45 (three years ago)

John, didn’t O’Connor live in Evanston for a while (of all places)? I always wondered if NU students would run into her.

Great, great album, there was a brief period where it seemed like it wasn’t getting much attention even though it was this massive hit when it came out, but I absolutely loved it - it was like the rock album equivalent of Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” not only because of O’Connor’s look bringing Falconetti’s to mind (after she is shaved on camera) but because of the stripped down, emotionally direct and raw-to-the-bone aesthetic. Powerful.

birdistheword, Saturday, 6 May 2023 21:29 (three years ago)

She lived in Wilmette (of all places) for a time in 2016.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 6 May 2023 22:35 (three years ago)


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