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Voting is open for a week, vote for your top ten, points are broken down 20-17-15-13-11-10-9-8-7-6. Top five go to elimination round.
I'm starting to seriously run out of albums I can vote for. I think I've only heard like 9.
So, I'm going to use the rule that you can choose to give fewer points than you normally would.
Normal points:
1. This Heat - Deceit (Top 50 all time)
2. Joni MItchell - For The Roses (Top 100 all time)
3. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
Less points:
White Stripes - Icky Thump - 7 points
Richard Hawley - Coles Corner - 6 points
some of the current decade's best albums in this batch
1. Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
2. Richard Hawley - Cole's Corner
3. Tom Waits - Alice
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt
6. Bob Dylan/The Band - Before the Flood
7. The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
8. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
9. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
10. The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
11. Black Sabbath - Sabbath, Bloody Sabbath
12. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85
13. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
14. Fingers Inc. - Another Side
15. Etta James - At Last!
16. Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
17. Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke's Night Beat
18. Caetano Veloso - s/t
19. Suede - Coming Up
20. The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
I was getting skeptical that i would have listened to enough, but another great block! 11 out of 100 I've heard, 3 or 4 in my top 100 of all time.
1. Dismemberment Plan - Emergency and I
2. Liars - Drums Not Dead
3. Fugazi - 13 Songs
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
6. This Heat - Deceit
7. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
8. White Stripes - Icky Thump
9. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
10. R.E.M. - Monster
1. Tom Waits – Closing Time
2. Bright Eyes – Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground
3. Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
4. Belle and Sebastian – Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears
6. Sigur Ros – ( )
7. Tom Waits – Alice
For this group, a 10 albums I dislike immensely would be easier to make...
Yeah, this 100 is really thin for me.
1. Daft Punk - Discovery
2. Etta James - At Last!
3. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
4. Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!)
5. The Impressions - People Get Ready
6. R.E.M. - Monster
7. The Roots - Things Fall Apart
8. Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess
9. Rolling Stones - 12x5
10. The Byrds - Turn Turn Turn
1. Tom Waits: Closing Time, 1973
2. Maxïmo Park: A Certain Trigger, 2005
3. The Beach Boys: Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!), 1965
4. Talking Heads: Speaking in Tongues, 1983
5. The Byrds: Turn! Turn! Turn!, 1965
6. Richard Hawley: Cole’s Corner, 2005
7. The Jayhawks: Tomorrow the Green Grass, 1995
8. Yo La Tengo: Painful, 1993
9. U2: Rattle and Hum, 1988
10. Yo La Tengo: Electr-O-Pura, 1995
01. U2 - Rattle and Hum
02. Clapton, Eric - Unplugged
03. Marley, Bob and The Wailers - Uprising
04. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
05. Waits, Tom - Closing Time
06. Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
07. Kravitz, Lenny - Mama Said
08. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
09. Springsteen, Bruce - The Rising
10. Beach Boys - Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)
1. Liars - Drum's Not Dead (one of the best albums of the decade)
2. Sigur Rós - ()
3. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
4. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
5. Suede - Coming Up
6. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
7. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
8. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
9. Daft Punk - Discovery
10. The Magic Numbers - The Magic Numbers
Seven albums here that I think I'd consider for my top 250.
1. Bright Eyes- Lifted...
2. Jayhawks- Tomorrow the Green Grass
3. Paul and Linda McCartney- Ram
4. Parliament- Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
5. Scritti Politti- Cupid and Psyche 85
6. Boards of Canada- Geogaddi
7. Sigur Ros- ()
8. White Stripes- Icky Thump
9. Built To Spill- Keep it Like a Secret
10. Fugazi- 13 Songs
Bright Eyes - Lifted...
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Daft Punk - Discovery
The Wrens - The Meadowlands
Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
The Roots - Things Fall Apart
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Korn - Korn
Some great ones in this group...
1. This Heat - Deceit (Top 50)
2. Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Escalator Over the Hill (Top 50)
3. The Roots - Things Fall Apart (Top 100)
4. Caetano Veloso - Caetano Veloso (Top 100)
5. Tom Waits - Alice (Top 200)
6. James Brown - The Payback (Top 200)
7. Daft Punk - Discovery (Top 300)
8. Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram (Top 300)
9. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (IV)/Security (Top 300)
10. Laura Nyro - New York Tendaberry (Top 300)
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11. Belle and Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress (my favorite of theirs)
12. The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
13. Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
14. Aretha Franklin - Young, Gifted and Black
15. Sam Cooke - Sam Cooke's Night Beat
16. Larry Young - Unity
17. Charles Mingus - Mingus at Antibes
18. The Impressions - People Get Ready
1. U2 - Rattle and Hum
2. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
3. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
4. The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
5. This Heat - Deceit
6. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
7. This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
8. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
9. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (IV)/Security
10. Sigur Rós - ()
1. Bright Eyes, LIFTED OR THE STORY IS IN THE SOIL, KEEP YOUR EAR TO THE GROUND
2. The Byrds, TURN! TURN! TURN!
3. The White Stripes, ICKY THUMP
4. Bob Dylan and The Band, BEFORE THE FLOOD
5. The Wrens, THE MEADOWLANDS
6. Talking Heads, SPEAKING IN TONGUES
7. CROWDED HOUSE
8. Belle and Sebastian, DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS
9. The Rolling Stones, 12 X 5
10. Radio Birdman, RADIOS APPEAR
01 Khaled - Khaled - 1992
02 David Bowie - Diamond Dogs - 1974
03 A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology - 1995
04 Yo La Tengo - Painful - 1993
05 Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (IV)/Security - 1982
06 Suede - Coming Up - 1996
07 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues - 1983
08 The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic - 1990
09 Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura - 1995
10 The Wrens - The Meadowlands - 2003
1. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
2. Daft Punk - Discovery
3. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
4. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
5. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising
6. The Byrds - Turn! Turn! Turn!
7. Sam Cooke - Night Beat
8. Jay Z - Reasonable Doubt
9. The Rolling Stones - 12x5
10. Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
I hope Bowie wins this one. I've always held DD in high regards. Also Daft Punk is the best.
What a fantastic group!
1. Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This…)
2. This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears
3. Beirut – Gulag Orkestar
4. Sam Cooke – Night Beat
5. Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues
6. The Sundays – Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
7. Steely Dan – The Royal Scam
8. Khaled – Khaled
9. Tom Waits – Closing Time
10. Lenny Kravitz – Mama Said
Honorable mentions: Jens Lekman – Night Falls over Kortedala, Sigur Ros – ( ), Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising, James Brown – The Payback, The Blue Nile – A Walk across the Rooftops, The Jayhawks – Tomorrow the Green Grass
1) Crowded House CROWDED HOUSE
2) The Beach Boys SUMMER DAYS (AND SUMMER NIGHTS!)
3) The Byrds TURN! TURN! TURN!
4) Steely Dan THE ROYAL SCAM
5) INXS KICK
6) Bright Eyes LIFTED OR THE STORY IS IN THE SOIL, KEEP YOUR EAR TO THE GROUND
7) Frank Sinatra COME DANCE WITH ME
8) Frank Sinatra NICE 'N' EASY
9) Etta James AT LAST
10) Belle and Sebastian DEAR CATASTROPHE WAITRESS
11) Barbra Streisand BARBRA STREISAND ALBUM
12) Paul and Linda McCartney RAM
13) Sam Cooke NIGHT BEAT
14) The White Stripes ICKY THUMP
15) Aretha Franklin YOUNG, GIFTED, AND BLACK
Honorable mention (in no order)
Bruce Springsteen THE RISING
Paul and Linda McCartney RAM
Sorry for falling off the radar!
1. Eurythmics- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (#7 all-time!)
2. Talking Heads- Speaking in Tongues
3. David Bowie- Diamond Dogs
4. INXS- Kick
5. Lenny Kravitz- Mama Said
6. This Heat- Deceit
7. Parliament- Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
1. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
2. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret
3. Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
4. Daft Punk - Discovery
5. Sigur R�s - ()
6. Black Dog Productions - Bytes
7. The Wrens - Meadowlands
8. Korn - Korn
9. Mark Lanegan Band - Bubblegum
10. Bright Eyes - Lifted or the Story Is in the Soil,
Only Kyuss is on my top 100 (I would say around #50) but there is plenty albums I enjoy on this row. And I have heard about 30 of them, which is much more than in the previous rows.
1. THIS MORTAL COIL “It’ll End in Tears”
2. SUEDE “Coming Up”
3. THE BLUE NILE “A Walk Across the Rooftops”
4. THE JAYHAWKS “Tomorrow the Green Grass”
5. THE BEACH BOYS “Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)”
6. KHALED “Khaled”
7. RICHARD HAWLEY “Coles Corner”
8. EURYTHMICS “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”
9. PAUL WELLER “Wild Wood”
10. TOM WAITS “Closing Time”
1 REM - Monster
2 The White Stripes - Icky Thump
3 The Rolling Stones - 12x5
4 World Party - Goodbye Jumbo
5 AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
1. Discovery - Daft Punk - I love this album. Had it at number 26 for the '08 poll... may be higher now. Thomas Bangalter describes his own album well: "This album has a lot to do with our childhood and the memories of the state we were in at that stage of our lives. It's about our personal relationship to that time. It's less of a tribute to the music from 1975 to 1985 as an era, and more about focusing on the time when we were zero to ten years old. When you're a child you don't judge or analyze music. You just like it because you like it. You're not concerned with whether it's cool or not. Sometimes you might relate to just one thing in a song, such as the guitar sound. This album takes a playful, fun, and colorful look at music. It's about the idea of looking at something with an open mind and not asking too many questions. It's about the true, simple, and honest relationship you have with music when you're open to your own feelings."
2. Keep It Like A Secret - Built to Spill - One of the strongest straight ahead rock albums.
3. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Coltrane applying himself to some of the great melodic lines of the jazz canon.
4. The Magic Numbers - Pretty strong. Reaches a wonderful crescendo on "Love Me Like You"
5. Clones of Dr. Funkenstein - Parliament - Everything, as it should be, is on the One.
6. Electr-O-Pura - Yo La Tengo
7. Monster - R.E.M.
8. The Payback - James Brown
9. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
10. People Get Ready - The Impressions
With one day left to vote, here's a look at how the scores are breaking down.
2000-2004 album: 138
1980-1984 album: 115
2005-2009 album: 94
2000-2004 album: 93
1965-1969 album: 74
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2005-2009 album: 72
1980-1984 album: 71
1980-1984 album: 66
1970-1974 album: 64
1965-1969 album: 62
1995-1999 album: 55
There's a very tight race for 5th place. A single tenth place vote could change it. But, the top four are pretty much in.
What I'm finding about this block is that there are a lot of albums a few people put as #1 or #2 and nobody else ranks at all. With a few notable exceptions it seems to a be a 'love it or hate it' block.
1. Built to Spill - Keep it Like a Secret
2. Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley (im no metalhead but its awesome)
3. Mark Lanegan - Bubblegum (features PJ Harvey & QOTSA)
4. Fugazi - 13 Songs
5. White Stripes - Icky Thump
6. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising
7. Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Clinic (my least favorite 80's bhs release, why dont the others get more acclaim?)
8. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks
9. REM - Monster
10. ACDC - Let there Be Rock
Assuming nobody is trying to stick their vote in the last ten minutes...
1. Daft Punk - Discovery (138/20/2)
2. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues (115/10/0)
3. White Stripes - Icky Thump (105/10/0)
4. Bright Eyes - Lifted (93/6/3)
5. The Byrds - Turn, Turn, Turn (74/6/0)
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Beirut - Gulag Orkestrar (72/5/0)
This Heat - Deceit (71/5/2)
This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears (66/5/1)
Tom Waits - Closing Time (64/5/2)
Beach Boys - Summer Days (62/5/2)
Also receiving multiple #1s:
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (48/3/2)
U2 - Rattle And Hum (47/3/2)
There were a lot of albums this block that received a few really high ratings and nothing else. In this block they were beaten by the albums that got several lower ratings, but those are the ones I'm more likely to add to my own list.
Except for Discovery, which seemed to be a major consensus.