The greatest: the CAT POWER albums poll

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I still haven't even heard the first two records, but You Are Free is my pick.

What Would the Community Think

Moon Pix

also good job picking a photo that reminds of everything i hate about CP since that record

You hate her pubic hair most of all, don't you?

eh? I only chose it cos ilx was the first (and only) place I ever saw that photo. ilx+CP = that pic to me.

it's a merkin! she's so fake!

What did her merking ever do to you?

it was involved in the recording of "The Greatest" for one.

I've only heard maybe a half-dozen Cat Power songs total. "Cross-Bones Style" is pretty good. The covers I've heard have not impressed however.

xp: haha, yowch.

you are free!!!

it's a merkin! she's so fake!

Next you'll be telling us she's not even that much of a Dylan fan.

Voted "You Are Free". Her peak, an improvement on "Moonpix", IMO. "The Greatest" is alright in parts, but mostly dull. "Jukebox" is simply terrible.

moon pix, it's where she reaches the peak of mesmerization.

moon pix. good pic.

Moon Pix

Moon Pix, The Covers Record and You Are Free are all 100% motherfucking perfect. The Covers Record wins though, just because I think it's the one I've listened to most often.

Moon Pix, The Covers Record and You Are Free are all 100% motherfucking perfect. The Covers Record You Are Free wins though, just because I think it's the one I've listened to most often.

My vote.

Moon Pix is one of my favourite records.

moon pix, its got that dazed metallic sound that none of the others do.

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Just voted You Are Free. Slightly surprised myself as I had a nagging internal voice urging me to vote for Moonpix. Too bad The Greatest only had two stone-cold classic songs, or it could have touched some heights, that one.

moon pix, absolutely. imo her strongest material by far and i dig that she had aussie backing musicians (the bass player died of a heroin OD not a year later btw).

i like community a lot and you are free has some strong points. myra lee is pretty patchy and i don't think much of the covers record(s) at all.

http://i31.tinypic.com/skudm8.gif

I think "Cross Bones Style" and "The Greatest" are her best songs, but overall You Are Free is her most consistent and best album.

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no arguments here

so many arguments here but i already had them more or less

has no one gone OH MY GOD at z s's gif?

i just thought that was always there

ahahahaha that is awesome

no votes for "Myra Lee." that's a sweet little album. great cover of "still in love," plus a few more awesome songs. I missed this one, but I would have voted:

1. What Would the Community Think
2. Myra Lee
3. You Are Free
4. (tie) Moon Pix & The Greatest

Just to say I love this performance of nude as the news. steve shelley from SY on drums which is great but a waste of his talent for such a simple song, wish he had improvised more on this one.

http://youtu.be/qqTIxgpF3RE

At any rate he fits since the song has a strong kim gordon/sy sound.

yeah Steve is so in the pocket on What Would and Myra Lee. it breaks my heart that those records are basically forgotten/ignored by Cat Power's contemporary fanbase.

i've totally lost track of what she's doing after hating jukebox so much. a shame.

oh wait, I liked Sun. but yeah, moon pix and previous seems almost like it was a different person. Thse were pretty much the last times I saw her; three times. one time she was amazing, one time she was alright, and one time she was fucked up and it was werid and bad.

Listening to Moon Pix this afternoon after years of not thinking about it. She has a lovely voice, a shame she never lived up to the potential of those years. She had the voice, the mind and the looks to be so much better. If she wanted to ditch the grunginess and sell albums for coffeehouses she could've at least aped Feist.

that is a weird summation of her career. she's done quite well for herself.

*apes Feist*

Hahaha ok sorry I was just focusing on the Jukebox album which is as milquetoast as they come. Free and Greatest were actually pretty good albums. Jukebox lost me and Sun didn't really won me back.

what would the community think is the most perfect alone by a river at dusk music, haven't listened in too long

I am listening to EMA's past life martyred saints and it seems like the kind of album Chan could have made. Sounds very similar to Moon Pix or Community...