Best Ever Albums

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Listmeister — Thu, 4 Sep 2014 15:47:06 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/04/2014 19:47

Good thing it's easy to make departure puns for an album called "The End"

Peace & Love 14-6

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

NickVolos — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:54:07 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 09/03/2014 18:54

RepoMan wrote:

Looking forward to hearing those albums that Skinny thinks r even better than Peace & Love. 😲 Hard to comprehend.

Peace & Love is actually running on its own league called Nyahbinghi...

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Norman Bates — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:53:45 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/03/2014 18:53

Wow. This Peace & Love record must be a masterpiece for everybody to disregard The End so utterly.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Jimmy Dread — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:29:19 GMT

Author: Jimmy Dread

Posted: 09/03/2014 18:29

satiemaniac wrote:

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Showcase by Junior Delahaye

Gotta love Wackies! The following albums are both well worth a listen too...

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Bubble Up by Wayne Jarrett

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Lovers Rock by Love Joys

As for this tourney, although I've gone with Peace And Love I've never really got it. Ras Michael's Nyahbinghi is stellar by comparison, and also released in '74 IIRC. Reggae is and was always about the dance, and whilst spiritually uplifting (regardless of belief) I find this LP pretty dull compared to a slew of other JA gems. Still, if it gets more people delving into the genre (and my chart - gotta love a plug) then I'm all for it.

Skinny man is spot on about Heart of the Congos, by the way...

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Anonymous — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:13:17 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/03/2014 18:13

Skinny wrote:

Oh wow, you're in for a treat. Heart of the Congos might be the best reggae album ever made.

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Showcase by Junior Delahaye

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

meccalecca — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 14:06:05 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/03/2014 18:06

Skinny wrote:

Heart of the Congos might be the best reggae album ever made.

Definitely the best I've heard.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Skinny — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 13:33:15 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/03/2014 17:33

RepoMan wrote:

Looking forward to hearing those albums that Skinny thinks r even better than Peace & Love. 😲 Hard to comprehend.

Oh wow, you're in for a treat. Heart of the Congos might be the best reggae album ever made.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Anonymous — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 13:08:12 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/03/2014 17:08

Voted The End in the ...

Mostly because it shouldn't be getting killed in this matchup. They're both masterpieces which I will be returning to often hopefully. Looking forward to hearing those albums that Skinny thinks r even better than Peace & Love. 😲 Hard to comprehend.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

WindowAbove — Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:20:44 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 09/03/2014 15:20

Peace and Love

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Hayden — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 13:19:49 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 09/02/2014 17:19

So glad with how many people have discovered and enjoyed Peace & Love because of this tournament.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Listmeister — Tue, 2 Sep 2014 12:40:14 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/02/2014 16:40

Skinny wrote:

I actually think this a really interesting matchup, the more I consider it. Both albums are completely immersive, but whereas one is bleak and filled with darkness, the other is full of hope and spirituality.

This. On my second listen, knowing what to expect from Peace & Love, I began to realize that I recognized the emotions contained in the music. I grew up in a church that was fairly worship-oriented. How you worship, and why you worship, is almost as important as Who, says my upbringing. I even recognized some of the Bible verses he was quoting.

I don't know how Christian Rastifarianism is. (and I don't want to start a debate about it. It's none of my business,really). What I know is that this album reminded me that worship is an essential part of being human, and that reminder was a Good Thing.

Vote to Dadawah.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

brun027 — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 21:22:18 GMT

Author: brun027

Posted: 09/02/2014 01:22

Literally my favourite discoveries of the tourney. Both are deserving winners of the whole thing imo.
I'll go with the dark.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

NickVolos — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:55:04 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 09/01/2014 23:55

Another classic "the dark" vs. "the light" battlegrounds and being a disciple of the light, this vote easily goes to Love...

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Anonymous — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 19:35:04 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/01/2014 23:35

Da-da-da-da-dadawahhhhhhhh

Skinny wrote:

... the matchup just feels right. It's like dark vs. light.

Yeah, I had fun playing these back-to-back this afternoon.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Skinny — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 18:27:47 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/01/2014 22:27

I actually think this a really interesting matchup, the more I consider it. Both albums are completely immersive, but whereas one is bleak and filled with darkness, the other is full of hope and spirituality.

I actually think Heart of the Congos does this particular brand of dense, hypnotic, deeply religious roots reggae considerably better than Peace & Love, but to dismiss Dadawah on that basis is akin to dismissing all playwrights on the basis that they aren't as good as Shakespeare. That comparison notwithstanding, his is a relatively unique brand of reggae, one entirely unconcerned with how it will sound on soundsystems. It isn't made for dancing to, it's made for meditating to. I'd argue that it actually shares more in common with the Qawwali music of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan than it does with other Rastafari roots artists of the age such as Culture or Burning Spear - 'Seventy-Two Nations' definitely has more of the 'Allah Hoo' about it than it does the 'Two Sevens Clash'.

And then we have Nico's dark opus, the uncompromising The End. 'Valley of the Kings' sounds like something that might be playing in some all-is-not-what-it-seems, Lynchian church, the sort of place where terrible things go on beneath the floorboards, while her, Cale and Eno render The Doors' 'The End' in all new shades of disturbing, before Phil Manzanera's guitar-solo comes along, for the first time on the entire record, and allows you to breathe again, as though you've been held against your will, forced to wait for a ritual sacrifice. And then, when it finally happens, the overwhelming feeling is that of relief. Yes, you may just have been witness to the most disturbing thing you'll ever see, but it was the anxiety that was killing you, at least now it's over. And maybe you can even admit to yourself that it was sort of thrilling. "It hurts to set you free, but you'll never follow me". The whole vibe adds a totally new and exciting level to Morrison's lyrics.

When it comes down to it, both these records are brilliant, so similar and yet so completely different. As I said, it's a really interesting matchup. It all boils down to personal taste really, and I'm gonna take the meditative reggae over the gothic art-rock pretty much every time, but it's really cool to see these records pitted against one another, if a pity that one must go out here. But yeah, the matchup just feels right. It's like dark vs. light.

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Anonymous — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 18:25:03 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/01/2014 22:25

Peace and Love all the way

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

meccalecca — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 17:29:33 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/01/2014 21:29

Peace & Love has been one of the better discoveries of the tournament, but The End is a long time favorite. too steep a hill to climb

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Anonymous — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:02:53 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/01/2014 15:02

oh brother. this one's a bitch. Wish BOTH of these could have advanced over either You or Lamb

Re: [Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Skinny — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 10:50:49 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/01/2014 14:50

Both are great, but gotta go with Dadawah.

[Closed] Best of 1974 2AL: The End vs. Peace & Love

Listmeister — Mon, 1 Sep 2014 10:35:14 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/01/2014 14:35

Happy Labor Day, those of you who live in countries that celebrate Labor Day. The rest of you, get back to work.

RepoMan wrote:

Nico's The End is epic, Art Rock of grand proportions. Stark, glacial and harrowing. The closer gives me the creeps despite the fact its 2014 which I can only imagine was Nico's intent . Nationalism can be a scary force. And Nico's working with a dream team of art rockers as Mecca mentioned. Not until Nick Cave's Bad Seeds would we get such an dream team of art rockers together again to paint such black art.

meccalecca wrote:

The End never gets the love of her previous works for some strange reason. It's still weird Nico singing haunted fairytales in a dark disturbing setting. On this record, the harmonium remains the musical focal point, but female backing vocals, Eno's subtle carnival synths and Cale's unlimited contributions provide The End with an atmosphere unlike any of her other albums.

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The End by Nico

Listmeister wrote:

First major upset of this tournament.

NickVolos wrote:

Peace & Love is as grand as its title! A spiritual experience indeed... =D>

RepoMan wrote:

Peace & Love is a religious experience. Literally.

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Peace & Love by Dadawah