The Bonnie 'Prince' Billy/Palace et al/Will Oldham ALBUM POLL

You should do the ep/singles poll too then, just to stop the "oh i wanted to vote for that"

There is No One What Will Take Care of You or Arise Therefore would be my choices. I've struggled with post Ease Down the Road stuff, although I liked BPB Sings Greatest Palace Music.

But yeah, Mountain EP and the Hope mini LP were great as well.

In the next life, AG.

It's between There Is No One, Viva, Master & Everyone and Lie Down In The Light for me. The last two are brilliant and somewhat underrated (?) gems. M&E is as perfect as an album can be.

Palace: Lost Blues And Other Songs

Forgot to mention Joya, shame on me xp

Poor noodle vagues brain will explode, how can he choose?

Voted Lie Down in the Light, easily my favourite at the moment. M&E is perfect, tru.

Lost Blues and Guarapero are singles/rarities comps.

(as is BPB "Sings")

Oh I'm not sure about the latter - that's a proper album really isn't it?

'proper', hark at me.

Viva Last Blues vs. I See a Darkness imho

You have to consider Greatest Palace Music as its own thing I think.

Aww, no Days in the Wake? Or does that one not count...

this is really hard. might go:

viva last blues
superwolf (way underrated)
i see a darkness
master & everyone
palace bros

Aww, no Days in the Wake? Or does that one not count...

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it was originally self-titled when released and is in the poll as such

Get on Jolly is one of my faves but i've never heard this live thing that't listed.

Days in the Wake is the s/t album no?

xp

Mizzell, Discogs lists 'Get on Jolly' as an EP, and therefore I didn't include it. Thisis Get The Fuck On Jolly.

yeah my CD says days in the wake and i was confused for years, hah

Lost Blues And Other Songs has an astounding version of Stable Will

The album I still listen to the most is Sings Greatest Palace Music, after The Letting Go I stopped picking up his music. For me it's between Lost Blues and Sings. Probably going with Lost Blues since it has Gulf Shores.

Viva Last Blues

mostly for "more brother rides" and "new partner"

weird that 3 of my favorite Palace songs are the 3 that were included on the "Mountain" CD single; "Gulf Shores," "(End Of) Traveling," and "West Palm Beach"

Aww, no Days in the Wake? Or does that one not count...

― Non-Stop Erotic Calculus (bmus), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 12:42 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

it was originally self-titled when released and is in the poll as such

― mizzell, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 4:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Oh whoops, I didn't realize that. Thanks.

Yeah The Mountain ep ace! It's my favorite narrative of his.

weird that 3 of my favorite Palace songs are the 3 that were included on the "Mountain" CD single; "Gulf Shores," "(End Of) Traveling," and "West Palm Beach"

― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these songs are GREAT

...and that entire EP is included on Lost Blues (And Other Songs) fwiw.

weird that 3 of my favorite Palace songs are the 3 that were included on the "Mountain" CD single; "Gulf Shores," "(End Of) Traveling," and "West Palm Beach"

― nicky lo-fi, Tuesday, April 12, 2011 2:00 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

these songs are GREAT

^^

runaway poll winner if included...

...and that entire EP is included on Lost Blues (And Other Songs) fwiw.

― it's time for the fish in the perculator (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 11:07 AM (3 hours ago)

maybe he hates the other songs

which would obviously be daft

how are these 2 that I've not heard?
BPB: Superwolf (Matt Sweeney And Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
BPB: The Brave and the Bold (Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy)

I See a Darkness

I'm all Ease Down The Road.

how are these 2 that I've not heard?
BPB: Superwolf (Matt Sweeney And Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
BPB: The Brave and the Bold (Tortoise & Bonnie "Prince" Billy)

Superwolf's pretty great. The Brave and the Bold's pretty bad.

I don't know how to vote here. I See a Darkness and Ease Down the Road were pretty huge for me back when I was really into him, but I've worn them to death and can't really get much pleasure from them anymore. These days I'd probably go for Viva Last Blues, Lost Blues and Other Songs, or Sings Greatest Palace Music.

I See a Darkness.

The Brave and the Bold's pretty bad.

that's too bad, i'll skip it then and check out Superwolf.

I like the Brave and the Bold but then I generally like Tortoise, even the later albums that other people hate.

Probably gonna vote Lost Blues on this btw.

i think Brave and the Bold is pretty great especially Thunder Road, It's Expected I'm gone, and Daniel

Viva Last Blues

Viva Last Blues vs. I See a Darkness imho

― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier)

Actually this, but going with Viva Last Blues. I See a Darkness is second best if only because it's more homogenic than the former... only uses one sort of palette... still does wonders with the few elements he uses.

Lost Blues, for the West Palm Beach/ Gulf Shores 1-2. On another day it could have been Viva Last Blues or the S/T one.

ok so everyones split on the tortoise/bpb then

Ended up voting There is No One What Will Take Care of Me, cos it's still my favourite - I love the scraping and wailing - but could easily have been Arise Therefore or Viva Last Blues. Would definitely have considered Hope had it been on the list.

i told G that whatever he did someone would say he missed out something!

Oh I quite understand why, Hope's kind of betwixt and between EP and LP. But I do like it!

i think he's going to do an ep poll after this

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the two versions of Arise Therefore are identical, right? Strange to include both?

Thought I voted Ease Down The Road.

Ease Down the Road getting zero votes is super O_o. It's sort of a companion piece to I See a Darkness, I guess it got lost in its shadow. Unfortunate, it's definitely among his best work.

i think Brave and the Bold is pretty great especially Thunder Road, It's Expected I'm gone, and Daniel

OK, Thunder Road and Daniel are actually pretty good on this, I'll give it that.

And I thought I voted Master & Everyone.. oh well.