POLL: Alexander "Skip" Spence - Oar

'War in Peace' for me, seems like it lasts a lot longer than 4 minutes though

I just pulled this back out after a long while, so I'm gonna have to give it a couple of fully engaged listens before I vote. "Diana" has always been a favorite, though.

Grey/afro sounds like it was recorded inside a washing machine

"Weighted down"

"broken heart". could be anything though. i still remember how none of them really seemed like songs when i first heard it, but they're like standards now

"Diana" sticks with me the most of these, I'll go with it.

war in peace

one of the best records ever so it's an arbitrary choice, but right now at this very moment i vote for "cripple creek."

"Broken Heart" is nice and from the outtakes "Keep It Under Your Hat."

too hard to choose

same goes for a poll on the 1st moby grape

Listening to this again only made it harder. I was prepared to vote "Diana," but now it's about a five-way tie.

i still remember how none of them really seemed like songs when i first heard it, but they're like standards now

^^^this.

War In Peace still scares the shit out of me

and the All Come to Meet Her calms me down

One of these polls where I have to vote for the first song on the album. When I hear "Little Hands" I settle in for the ride.

I think polling the tribute album might be interesting. I'd vote for the same song in that.

little hands vs war in peace vs grey/afro

grey/afro: will never win. i love this record but grey/afro kind of begins the descent into underwatery bonus snippets for me, just because it's kind of hard to distinguish between songs, loses the rhythm of the lp slightly.

i like the story about them chasing up skip when the tribute record came out, asking for some lyrics for the booklet, and him saying, so the album i recorded thirty years ago in a week in nashville in my pyjamas ... you want me to remember the lyrics for it?

Wikipedia says he was listening to the tribute album on his deathbed...not sure how much of that I believe.

i think that's about right chronologically; he was in hospital while they were finishing it, so they were going back and forth trying to get lyrics, keep him updated etc. apparently he was really touched. this maybe doesn't have the connotations of him lying on his deathbed choosing to listen to it. but ahh maybe it does + that's pretty nice too.

I think polling the tribute album might be interesting. I'd vote for the same song in that.

Hendrixy guitar is great on the Diesel Park West one

little hands vs war in peace vs grey/afro

Exactly.

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Going right now to listen to all the songs that got no votes, just to smugly say to myself, "ILX don't know shit."