Best Ever Albums

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Listmeister — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:01:18 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/25/2014 16:01

Kimono Third or Fourth Place

Rock Bottom 17-8

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

NickVolos — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:14:59 GMT

Author: NickVolos

Posted: 09/25/2014 13:14

Rock Bottom by a mile. No comparison really...

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Muslim-Bigfoot — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:37:40 GMT

Author: Muslim-Bigfoot

Posted: 09/23/2014 17:37

Rock Bottom for me. The other album is just a bunch of freaks toying around with recordings of highly-reverbed electric steel drum, feeding them and heavily distorted bass into tape loops.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Norman Bates — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:11:39 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/23/2014 16:11

Listmeister wrote:

Kimono, song for song, is just way more fun than Rock Bottom.

Fun is so overrated.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Listmeister — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 12:09:24 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/23/2014 16:09

Kimono, song for song, is just way more fun than Rock Bottom.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

meccalecca — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:03:02 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 09/22/2014 23:03

Love both. Just love Kimono My House more. Good to see that all 4 records in the semi finals are masterpieces.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 17:31:32 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/22/2014 21:31

Skinny wrote:

Rock Bottom, easily. I've said throughout that I do like Kimono My House, which is a fun and knowingly self-indulgent set of winkwinknudgenudge pop songs which probably deserves its place in the semi-finals second round, but it just doesn't resonate with me to anywhere near the same extent that Rock Bottom does.

All of this. But, I'm a big Court & Spark fan.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Norman Bates — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:26:59 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 09/22/2014 19:26

Rock Bottom

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:15:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/22/2014 19:15

Kiki wrote:

Kimono My House should win this. Other album is this old dude on an acoustic guitar. It's close to the meaning of boring :shock:

He taps his foot too, so that adds a whole new dimensionality.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Skinny — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:52:52 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/22/2014 18:52

Kiki wrote:

Cmon we can do better than that.

We can also do better than criticising albums for things that simply aren't true. Quite honestly, it makes it look as though you've never heard the record in question. If you don't like Rock Bottom I have no problem with that, but the primary instrument on these songs is a keyboard. If you'd listened to the album, you'd know that there is no acoustic guitar here. Which leads me to the conclusion that you haven't heard the album, which is fine. You don't need to pretend darling. 😉

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:49:48 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/22/2014 18:49

Kiki wrote:

Cmon we can do better than that. Such questions come across as.... can't really think of the word. It's like something someone less prolific in music listening would say as a knee jerk reaction to someone disliking a favorite album. You're seen as a champion of sorts here so take it easy :wink:

The record still contains almost zero guitar though.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:46:52 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/22/2014 18:46

Skinny wrote:

Have you even listened to Rock Bottom? The record contains almost zero guitar.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Skinny — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:24:12 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/22/2014 18:24

Kiki wrote:

Other album is this old dude on an acoustic guitar.

Have you even listened to Rock Bottom? The record contains almost zero guitar.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 14:20:35 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/22/2014 18:20

Kimono My House should win this. Other album is this old dude on an acoustic guitar. It's close to the meaning of boring 😲

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Skinny — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:55:10 GMT

Author: Skinny

Posted: 09/22/2014 16:55

Rock Bottom, easily. I've said throughout that I do like Kimono My House, which is a fun and knowingly self-indulgent set of winkwinknudgenudge pop songs which probably deserves its place in the semi-finals, but it just doesn't resonate with me to anywhere near the same extent that Rock Bottom does.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:54:02 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 09/22/2014 16:54

Not gonna back my nom here, sorry. Rock Bottom is too good.

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

denmarkman — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:53:16 GMT

Author: denmarkman

Posted: 09/22/2014 16:53

Rock Bottom

Re: [Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

WindowAbove — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:45:46 GMT

Author: WindowAbove

Posted: 09/22/2014 16:45

Kimono My House

[Closed] B1974: Semifinals: Kimono My House v. Rock Bottom

Listmeister — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 12:40:42 GMT

Author: Listmeister

Posted: 09/22/2014 16:40

We're coming down to the end now. Two matches, the winners will meet up in the finals. The losers will meet up in a 3rd place battle. A week from now, we will know what the best album of 1974 is.

No introduction needed. You know these albums by now...

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Kimono My House by Sparks

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Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt