what is the greatest album ever made?

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i have just decided that it has to be "there's a riot goin' on" by sly and the family stone.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 31 October 2003 08:16 (twenty-two years ago)

you might wonder why i don't post this on ILM but there's like 55,000 threads like this there and they're all boring.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 31 October 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

def leppard - hysteria.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 31 October 2003 09:29 (twenty-two years ago)

that drag racing sound effects record

― duane, Friday, 31 October 2003 09:42 (twenty-two years ago)

No idea, probably none of these. That isn't even my favourite Sly Stone record, actually, I'm pretty sure I like "Stand!" better.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 31 October 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Not for me to judge

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Friday, 31 October 2003 23:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Impossible to pick one, but just for the sake of solidarity I'll agree with Justyn.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 31 October 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend matt and i were talking about sly this morning, wondering whatever happened to him. there's a thread over on ilm wondering if he's even still ALIVE. it's very depressing, he was so great.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 1 November 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Back to Back", Kimber and Stormer

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 1 November 2003 03:04 (twenty-two years ago)

oh i've heard that one, its killer.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 1 November 2003 03:16 (twenty-two years ago)

And so nearly went unreleased when Stormer left, leaving ONE HARMONY unfinished! Obv Kimber couldn't do it for her, that was a close one, but friendship and goodwill won the day

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Saturday, 1 November 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes "Room on Fire", I listened to it bits of it once at Real Groovy

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, 2 November 2003 06:49 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i like that one a lot too

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 2 November 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of the time it's just whatever I'm listening to now, really. I'm sure I could do a list of 20 or so records and it wouldn't really surprise anyone, I like pretty obvious stuff

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Sunday, 2 November 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm like that too. right now the greatest album ever made is bryan adams greatest hits. the big nanana outro on cuts like a knife simply reeks of wooooooooooo its all over let me revel in the joy for a few more minutes!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Sunday, 2 November 2003 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Whenever I list my alltime Top Ten, about 4 or 5 change regularly depending on mood and memory. But #1 has remained the same for several years now. "After the Goldrush" - Neil Young. It's personal, I guess.

― ed dill (eddill), Sunday, 2 November 2003 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The greatest album ever made is the Oxygen Sluts' upcoming release Hyperventilate. Y'all better take cover when that one drops, there'll be rioting in the streets!

― Minty (Minty), Monday, 3 November 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Bryan Adams isn't THAT obvious

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

the greatest album ever made is my next one. followed by the telepaths upcoming triple cd opus (maybe)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:01 (twenty-two years ago)

if only i was that prolific.

Bryan Adams isn't THAT obvious

no andrew i meant that whatever i'm lsitening to is the greatest album ever made

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Replacements Let It Be...TOTALLY my fall-back answer always.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit, a serious answer! Hi Anthony

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

my def leppard answer IS serious.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i rate the concept of a frequently changing greatest album ever

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 3 November 2003 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Nuno Canavarro "Plux Quba"

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 04:57 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah my answer was serious as well, tho "let it be" might actually be my #2, it IS the great american album after all. (#3: kenickie's "at the club")

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:10 (twenty-two years ago)

So was mine!!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:27 (twenty-two years ago)

not!

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Monday, 3 November 2003 06:28 (twenty-two years ago)

all of these have been the greatest album ever at 1 time or another in my life :
stooges - fun house
axemen - three virgins
modern lovers - modern lovers
frank lowe - black beings
art ensemble of chicago - reese & the smooth ones
black sabbath - vol 4
jad fair - monarchs
ramones - leave home
beatles - rubber soul
dictators - go girl crazy
real kids - real kids
miles davis - get up with it
lou reed - metal machine music
nwa - straight out of compton
jimi hendrix - are you experienced
spirit - 12 dreams of dr sardonicus
neil young - on the beach
eno - here come the warm jets
chuck berry - golden decade vol 2
bob dylan - highway 61 revisited

― duane, Monday, 3 November 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

groundhogs - split
charles mingus - oh yeah
swell maps - trip to marineville
new york dolls - same
john coltrane - om
mothers of invention - freak out
pere ubu - datapanik
chrome - alien soundtracks
can - ege bamyasi
flamin groovies - shake some action
mighty caesars - english punk rock explosion
mark perry - snappy turns
various - miniatures
redd kross - neurotica
feelies - crazy rhythms
duke ellington - lots of different records

― duane, Monday, 3 November 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

thats such a MOJO list

― duane, Monday, 3 November 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i bet nick hornby has all those records

― duane, Monday, 3 November 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

hawkwind - space ritual
the clash - the clash
sun ra - heliocentric worlds of, vols 1 & 2
pink floyd - relics
red krayola - god bless
dead moon - stranded in the mystery zone
eric dolphy - out to lunch
capt beefheart - trout mask rep
schooly d - saturday night
ll cool j - bad
faust - iv
the fall - grotesque
alternative tv - image has cracked
wire - pink flag
delroy washington - rasta
seeds - future
dr john - gris gris
bob marley - african herbsman
jimmy castor bunch - it's just begun
ornette coleman - dancing in your head
cheap trick - in color/b&w
radio birdman - radios appear

some of these are still my favourites, some of them are kind of dumm

― duane, Monday, 3 November 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I just did a long list, but it was kind of depressing.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck I'm such a POSER, yeah like I really like Miles Davis THAT MUCH.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I didn't know the NY Dolls did an album called 'A Trip to Marineville'!

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 3 November 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i probably couldn't think of more than 5 albums i love enough to call the greatest albums ever made. lets see, hmm

spice girls - spice
bryan adams - reckless
def leppard - hysteria
t rex - the slider
sleater-kinney - the hot rock

no surprises there.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

this is my top 5 from earlier in the year:

the fall - live at the witch trials
sleater-kinney - hot rock
human league - dare!
t rex - the slider
the renderers - that dogs head in the gutter gives off vibrations

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Monday, 3 November 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't seem to manage less than 30 or so

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

if by album you mean "bunch of mp3s on an internet cafe computer", then it's totally melt-banana's cell-scape. y'see they play their music really fast, like wow! I hope when I get a synth I can play it half as fast!

― etc, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

half as fast as they can, I mean.
when I was 13 it was mellon collie and the infinite sadness on double cassette, it seemed pretty infinite at the time (took me over a year to finally listen to all of it!) & it's got y'know all sorts of stuff. the entire band sings on the last track, it's really sweet! jimmy chamberlain sings very gingerly, like he's trying to to break the microphone with his huge drummer paws.

― etc, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Trying not? You can tell the arpeggiator how fast to play and the moronic audience won't know any better, the cretins! I think they're stupid, those idiots! Very dumb! You can, though, just press a button and it'll play chords up/down whichever off whatever notes you press. Pretty sweet deal, really.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm more of a singles person than an album person really, but here's a top 10:

sly - riot
kenickie - at the club
le tigre - le tigre
p.i.l. - second edition
the fall - dragnet
bob dylan - blonde on blonde
manic street preachers - the holy bible
presenting the fabulous ronettes featuring veronica
pink floyd - piper at the gates of dawn
the stone roses - the stone roses

i have a similar problem to andrew: everytime i try to assemble a top 10 or something, i find myself looking at every choice and thinking "is it THAT good or do i just WANT to like it that much?" (a couple of my top 10 choices i haven't even listened to in over a year, but they affected me so much i felt obligated to include em...)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

top 10 cybercafe tracks + the last track I heard in my bedroom before I left (rotorua cash converters has pere ubu cdsingles, wtf?!?)

MOP - "Cold As Ice"
Bubba Sparxxx - "Deliverance"
Hot Boyz ft Big Tymers - "I Need A Hot Girl"
Shoes This High - "The Nose One"
Look Blue Go Purple - "Circumspect Penelope"
Rah Digga - "Break Fool"
L'Trimm - "Drop That Bottom"
Wire - "The Drill"
Ol' Dirty Bastard ft Kelis - "Got Your Money"
Pere Ubu - "Fedora Satellite"

hey justin wrt/the holy bible - how often can you listen to it? what do you think of tom's piece on "faster"? etc?

hey andrew isn't arpeggiator a fugazi track? & you should know notes & chords mean nothing to me, I'm pretty puck/punk/whatever.

― etc, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm more of a singles person than an album person really

OTM. i have at least a hundred singles that i think are the greatest singles of all time. probably more like 500. albums always have at least a couple of songs that are subpar.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

What if a single has a dull bridge? Yeah S. it's that too, named after the synth function presumably.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always thought of myself as having eclectic tastes that bordered on the fearless....like, don't tell me I can't love Captain Beefheart and still appreciate the melancholy in Karen Carpenter's voice....

But, Ms. Lurex, I must say I'm overwhelmed at one who could list the duo of The Fall and Sleater-Kinney as all time favorites along with the Spice girls and Bryan Adams.

Finally, I don't have to try and remember why I DID buy that Christopher Cross album many years ago (I've never gone Sailin', so it can't be that).....so, as someone once said (possible Chuck Berry), "you never can tell"....

ps. I did like the lists.....overall. Some months ago, I got into a T.Rex thing and began playing everything of his I could get my hands on....perhaps it was the movie Billy Elliot that rekindled my interest in him (Bolin), them (T. Rex)...

― ed dill (eddill), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew, its only 3-4 minutes long, so it doesn't matter. you sound like jess harvell on this thread.

ed, why?

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

<just because

― ed dill (eddill), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:41 (twenty-two years ago)

just because

― ed dill (eddill), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 02:42 (twenty-two years ago)

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Are the "other guys" the cool ones in the Manics too?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I usually think of Waters Floyd as the stuff where he's in complete control of the band, whereas Meddle was very much a group effort.

The other guys in the Manics are pretty ordinary, really, to the extent of going out of their way to be ordinary, compared with the crazy other half of Cheap Trick that used to hide on their back covers.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

i have neu!2. it's ok but overrated

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I like it better than the ones they did a proper job on, both of which frustrate me. I actually bought my copy of Neu 75 in Melbourne when the CD re-issues came out - the girl at Greville Records was nice enough to tell me that another shop had them because they had yet to arrive at her shop.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah I'm just a bit Syd-centric. Yeah, I love "Meddle" cos it ISN'T Waters Floyd, actually.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

well ed, the spice girls have three albums. the first i encountered as a 16 year old in high school. wannabe totally kicked my ass. here were five women who were loud, abrasive and dorky, kinda like me, but they didn't give a shit. and they weren't all "perfect" looking, bland britney types. i didn't have many friends as a teenager, but grunge sorta passed me by, i was a latecomer to teenangst i guess. so the spice girls had the vivaciousness. and they did high kicks and their songs were catchy affirmations of girlhood (mine sorely needed an affirmation, i didn't like myself very much) and female friendship - i had the same best friend from forms 5-7 and she (philippa) is still a close friend of mine, so i could really relate. i remained a fan through my early years of university, much to the disgust of my peers, and even went so far as to purchase giant sneakers with platform soles a la sporty. early second year brought "stop", i dug the whole 60s catchy pop song fake-motown thing. and spice world, the movie, which you gotta admit is fucking funny. they WERE funny. geri once called oasis "the spice girls in drag". i was hanging out with a bunch of drag queens a lot then, it gradually dawned on me that thats exactly what the spice girls were. i mean, really! sporty! ginger! baby! posh! scarey! their images aren't much more than send-ups of stereotypes of femininity, beautiful, superficial, flamboyant. thats probably why i've always been drawn to them. and then geri left, and i cried. they did another album after that, "forever", produced by darkchild, theres some great songs on it but nothing beats spice, no duds on that baby and very inspirational to me, obv. um yeah. i'm a pretty rabid fan.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew - I dig Syd as well, and if I could ever make up my mind enough to make a Top 30 list, The Madcap Laughs would be a prime candidate.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i heckled the fraudulents to play some spice girls tonight.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah solo Syd's better than Floyd Syd, really, I should add "Madcap Laughs" to my stupid "list"

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

If I were talking in terms of a Top 20 or 30, then I would have to include Here Come The Warm Jets, Computer World, Loveless, Pink Flag, Tales From Topographic Oceans (seriously - I'm not just throwing a Yes album in to stop my picks from looking like a Mojo list, even if it looks that way) and then there are things that mean a whole lot to me because of a certain phase in time, but that I wouldn't necessarily listen to so often now because I'm older (Low, which I would have placed in my Top 10 four or five years ago, and In Utero, which 1995 me thought was the greatest album ever made).

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 6 November 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Unknown Pleasures would be in there as well, and MAYBE even The Return Of The Durutti Column.

― Damian (Damian), Thursday, 6 November 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ms. Lurex......loved your answer!

And, one of the interesting sidenotes of it is the profound way that image and music often coexist. I tend to think of myself as one who separates the two but I KNOW that's not always true. For example, I know that my initial favoring of the Stones vs. the Beatles had to do with image. The Stones were clearly more rebellious and favored by rebellious (at the time) me.

As a modern day example (in the reverse, I guess), I was poo pooing Eminem (I'm NOT a big gangsta rap fan) before I even listened to him. Wife abuser. Mother killer. Then I finally listened and realized that some of his stuff WAS quite good.

Anyway, not to belabor the point, but at the ripe age of 57 I finally realized that live performance DOES connect one to the music in a way that listening on record doesn't. Part of that connection may be the immediacy of live performance but part is a physical connection with the artist(s). In my years of disdaining live performances because of expense, logistics, lateness, boring performances, etc., I forgot the plusses.

― ed dill (eddill), Thursday, 6 November 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope not to sound weird, but I hope you post a LOT more. I don't hear a lot from a 57 yearold perspective, and I'd really like to.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 6 November 2003 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

di that post is like the most beautiful thing i've ever read! i want to print it out and give it to everyone who makes fun of me for liking the spice girls.

do you still have those sneakers?

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Thursday, 6 November 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, i'm glad i could share my views with you ed! :-D

I hope not to sound weird, but I hope you post a LOT more. I don't hear a lot from a 57 yearold perspective, and I'd really like to.

andrew OTM.

do you still have those sneakers?

unfortunately the soles split :-( DAMN YOU IMPRACTICAL SHOESSS!!!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Thursday, 6 November 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I tried making a list, sort of, but it was SO unvaried I gave up. I know my two favourite albums - Iggy Pop 'The Idiot' and John Cale 'Music For A New Society', but I don't know - I don't think these albums are nesc. the GREATEST EVER, that seems to imply the album is the best when taken out of the context of the way/time you heard it, and I don't think I can do that w/ either of those albums. Justyn - did you mean to ask what our favourite albums were or what the GREATEST album ever was, because the second appears to require more justification than just personal preference.

― Livvie Tapper (Livvie), Thursday, 6 November 2003 23:24 (twenty-two years ago)

My so-predictable-as-to-be-almost-irrelevant top fifteen
In no particular order:

The Rolling Stones - Beggar's Banquet
The Clean - Boodle Boodle Boodle
The Renderers - A Dream of the Sea
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Burt Bacharach - Plays His Hits
The Kinks - Face to Face
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
The 3Ds - Strange News from the Angels
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Sonic Youth - EVOL
V/A - Making Losers Happy
Neil Young - Harvest
The Velvet Undeground and Nico

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, they're all so old! How ancient am I? I better add one thing from this decade at least.

The Velvet Underground and Nico - deluxe edition (2002)

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

& sorry Livvie, but I just don't see how my approval could fail to make something Great.

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

livvie i answered this thread question on the idea that it wasn't supposed to be taken literally. i can't speak for justyn, but i read "greates album ever made" as "favourite album ever made". there isn't really anything else BUT subjectivity.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 7 November 2003 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

-----The Velvet Underground and Nico - deluxe edition (2002)

Oh something NEW, what a hipster! I forgot the Stones, I suck. "Sticky Fingers", I think.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I'm down with the kids.

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:23 (twenty-two years ago)

ha anton i'm glad you mentioned burt bacharach

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Sometimes I agree w/ the idea that subjectivity is the only way to define what is good, but then I don't know if I have enough confidence in my opinions to claim whatever I like the best IS the best (this kind of confidence is a GOOD thing, btw). Di, I wasn't trying to attack the question or anything (maybe you didn't take it that way, it's the internet, it's practically impossible to tell), I just find the idea of subjectivity vs one thing being objectively BETTER than the other kind of interesting, is all.

― Livvie Tapper (Livvie), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah me too.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 7 November 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i meant favorite, there's really no other reasonable way to define "greatest" (if we want to use a pseudo-scientific term like "objective" to determine the value of music, we might as well start examining other factors besides just the actual music inside, like the running time and the pictures on the album sleeve and whether the record has any scratches on it and the price and the bar code number!)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 November 2003 02:10 (twenty-two years ago)

mind you i think that's a really great idea and book reviewers should definitely start judging books based solely on the typeface and the cover.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 November 2003 02:11 (twenty-two years ago)

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Not weird at all. Maybe after 100 of my posts, it WILL be weird.
My brief 57 year history:
Born and reared in Cleveland, Ohio, pseudo-home of rock n roll (because of the city's connection to Alan Freed until 53-54 when he moved to NYC)
Became a fan of rock music from the beginning....1953-4 with early Bill Haley/Elvis/Sun Records and doo wop.
Saw most of the black early rockers at two concerts with my mom circa 55-6.
Became a bit fed up with rock around 59-60 and began listening more to my dad's jazz records.
Joined Army in 64. Went to exotic locales like Korea, Vietnam, and New Jersey (began going to the Village in NYC and saw Zappa/MOI about 20 times) before leaving in 67 with a Korean wife. Reinlisted in 68 when things didn't go too well with my wife's adjustment to the US.
Back in the Army 68-71 to see Thailand (!), Oklahoma (got to see a Woodstock like concert near Dallas) and Alaska.
Collected music from the beginning but got serious/weird about it after my last discharge. Counting records, tapes, cd's, I'm way past 60,000 now. Who listens? I'm too busy collecting. (I retired from Federal Service two years ago after 29 years in civil service to go with my 7 years in the Army. Not bad for an anti-Vietnam War, anti-Iraqui police action liberal....
I guess the end to this boring intro is that I truly like music, mostly rock/r&b, jazz and alt-country. I've often used my yin-yang of rock as "Louie Louie" and "A Day in the Life".....but "Whole Lotta Shakin" and "Do You Realize?" would probably work as well.
Maybe my Spice Girls were the Go Go's....I mean, while they seemed to get a lot of "punk cred", their music was very poppy, bouncy stuff and Belinda was not the stereotypical "hot chick" until later....
― ed dill (eddill), Friday, 7 November 2003 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:18 (twenty-two years ago)

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

where are your posts? ed, i heart the gogos too!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Friday, 7 November 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

mine is an italics tag closer

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 7 November 2003 05:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just jumping on the empty post bandwagon.

― Minty (Minty), Friday, 7 November 2003 07:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I forgot Blondie 'Eat to the Beat' and Television 'Marquee Moon', I sure do suck tonight

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 7 November 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Orbital - In Sides
Beck - Mellowgold
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Friday, 7 November 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

welcome ed, hey: i'm only 21 but i like loads of the stuff you mentioned too, espec. the sun stuff (best early elvis single = "good rockin' tonight," i think) (tho they're all good of course)

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 7 November 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe the best album ever was "music to eat" by the hampton grease band all along. we don't really know.

― duane, Saturday, 8 November 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, the Hampton Grease Band. I found that one back in the 70's in a cut out bin in a rather cheesy department store (long before Cleveland had any really good used record stores). Anyway, I bought it on a whim after reading the inner liner notes and was blown away by this cross between Zappa and Beefheart....

Much later, I rekindled my interest a bit when Bruce Hampton began releasing his other projects like the Aquarium Unit, etc. I still prefer the Grease Band.....when I went on vacation some years ago to Nova Scotia, the Grease Band's 10 minute opus to "Halifax" began playing in my brain.

A friend gave me the cd of it a few birthday's ago to go along with my vinyl copy...

You probably know this already but ole Col. Bruce Hampton (RET) made an appearance in the movie "Sling Blade"....he does one of his patented vocals as part of Dwight Yoakum's band of friends playing in the backyard.

A friend from my old office was over one night and his wife began comparing my rather odd musical tastes to her brother. She then began to quote her favorite oddity from her bro consisting of lyrics from a paint can. While she was stumbling on the words she remembered, I quietly went to the record cabinet, got out Hampton Grease Band and played "Paint".....her reply was, "well, I now know that 2 people bought that damn album!"

― ed dill (eddill), Saturday, 8 November 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i believe it was supposed to be the worst selling album in the hist of columbia records or something? that is SO COOL that you are a fan of theirs, i love that album tho i only discovered it i dunno 20 or something years later.

― duane, Saturday, 8 November 2003 06:53 (twenty-two years ago)

hey, is this where the cool people hang out?

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Saturday, 8 November 2003 07:12 (twenty-two years ago)

god yeah!

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 8 November 2003 07:22 (twenty-two years ago)

its also where we have our domestics.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 8 November 2003 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

heheh! rock 'n roll!

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 8 November 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

duane, do you hate me?

― Broheems (diamond), Saturday, 8 November 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

duane cannot come to the computer right now, but he says no. he loves you with all his bottom.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 8 November 2003 08:03 (twenty-two years ago)

jon bon jovi - blaze of glory

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 8 November 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Zappa-Hot Rats

Dylan's Blood on the Tracks is a close second

― Dave Vinson (Gaughin), Monday, 10 November 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think I included a Dylan album, it could be "Blood on the Tracks" pretty easily. Didn't include a Bowie either which is pretty odd, let's say "Heroes".

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 10 November 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

hot rats is the one with "peaches en regalia," right? that's pretty much the only zappa i can stomach. probably because he doesn't sing on it. so i may actually buy it one day.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 10 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)

its this one

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd900/d973/d97354q4q02.jpg

― Michael B, Monday, 17 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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