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Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

I would put Yankee Hotel Foxtrot up against any Police album.

Nicolas, how do you come down on the Wilco vs. Police debate?

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Moonbeam,

The 16-year old version of me would be very angry about your list! Replace Aretha with Motown (not a big stretch) and you would have a huge chunk of my early 1980s playlist on your boat leaving the island.

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Wilco vs Police...

What a strange association !
A singles group vs an album group
I would say these records haven't got the same function
I discovered Police when I was 8 years old, Wilco more than 20 years later ...
I would say Wilco of course, although I don't know them so well (I guess the first complete album I got from them was in 2006)
but they really don't live in the same floor (not even in the same building or the same district) in the vast city of my mind...

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Slight change...

1. U2
2. The Police
3. Lou Reed
4. The White Stripes
5. Wilco

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Same as before

1. The Byrds
2. Hank Williams
3. Al Green
4. Van Morrison
5. Bob Marley and the Wailers

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Hello dere, sonofsamiam.

I don't have a record of you voting for the Police before, so I need an explanation of that.

Also, you voted for the White Stripes, but, sadly, Jack & Meg are already gone...

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

He's kicking dirt in our WS-adoring faces!

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

5 points: Chuck Berry - Repeat. Still here, still remaining here for awhile I imagine.

4 points: Ray Charles - Repeat

3 points: Blondie - Repeat

2 point: Parliament/Funkadelic - Bumped up to two points with Jacko out of the running.

1 point: Leonard Cohen - A week ago, I relistened to all my stuff that I have of his, which kept him off my ballot last week. It just wasn't enough to keep him off for too long. Also, this could theoretically be The Police, but I think everyone else has done a satisfactory job making sure they won't be back for more.

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Huzzah - The Smiths are gone at last, and I see The Byrds queueing up near the exit too.
This means I am replacing one act this time, and hopefully another next time....

1. Bob Dylan.
2. Van Morrison.
3. Bruce Springsteen.
4. Pixies. (moved up from 5th position after The Smiths' exit)

New:
5. U2. It's getting difficult now, everyone else on e the island I either like, or partially like, or I haven't heard - but I'm not going to vote against anyone I haven't heard, so Wilco is safe from me. U2 are one of those bands who have done a few great songs, quite a few good/ok songs, and lots of godawful overblown pompous rubbish that's up itself. The latter outweighs the good stuff, and so they go on my list.

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

You seriously prefer all the artists still in the tournament to Bob Dylan? Honestly?

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

I've always disliked Bob Dylan, from his annoying whiny voice to his "Importance".

I know nobody else will be voting for him anytime soon, but why should I change my list just to go along with what other people are voting out?

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

By all means you should vote for the artists you like least, I was just wondering if you actually thought he was worse than everyone else on the list.

To really generalize, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen all have a distintive voices, are singer-songwriters, etc. but you prefer them over Bob Dylan? Not attacking you or anything, just wondering.

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

But they aren't as "important."

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen offer three of the "best" (or most interesting) vocals in rock history.

With Dylan, I don't find it strange that someone wants to vote him out, as I would have done the same if we did this 10 years ago (before H61R sinked in).

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

As I would have, Henrik, and for the same reasons Harpo cites: "annoying whiny voice" and "Importance." After I came around on Bob, those two things faded into irrelevance.

Bob's "Importance" was almost entirely bestowed on him in the late 60s and 70s by overeager critics and fans who, once Dylan "went" electric, were desperate to have him validate their love of rock (and, by extension, the tastes of their generation). In other words, it's not SELF-importance (at least no more than you'd find in the average professional performer). I can no longer blame Bob for the overzealousness of his early fans.

As for the annoying whiny voice...nah, I'm tired of that tired argument. In a nutshell: it's not a flaw, it's a feature.

Re: AM Survivor: Week 10

Cave, Waits & Cohen are all far better than Dylan.