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badseed
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Location: FL
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- #11
- Posted: 10/30/2018 02:22
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I think my nomination is just fine as is but a single album could have been the genres best:
All Eyez On Me by 2Pac |
I agree that it's a fine album by itself. But cut it in half and it's one of the best rap albums ever.
1. Ambitionz Az a Ridah
2. All About You
3. How Do U Want It
4. 2 of Amerikas Most Wanted
5. Life Goes On
6. Only God Can Judge Me
7. I Ain't Mad At Cha
8. Can't See Me
9. Holla At Me
10. Thug Passion
11. Picture Me Rollin'
12. Ratha Be Ya Nigga
13. All Eyez On Me
I guess I'll address the elephant in the room here with my nomination, because I know it's not the most popular album in the community but everyone knpws it well enough it should be an easy fix to make it at least compete with their better work.
The Wall by Pink Floyd
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babyBlueSedan
Used to be sort of blind, now can sort of see
Gender: Male
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- #12
- Posted: 10/30/2018 02:24
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| sethmadsen wrote: | | (also a note, anyone a Thrice enough fan to play on that?) |
I'll take a stab at the Alchemy Index:
1. Backdraft
2. Burn the Fleet
3. Digital Sea
4. Open Water
5. Lost Continent
6. Night Diving
7. Broken Lungs
8. The Sky is Falling
9. A Song for Milly Michaelson
10. Daedalus
11. Moving Mountains
12. Child of Dust
I wanted to choose the same number of songs from every EP but the truth is I very much prefer Water and Air. I'm not sure how well this would flow but I think it gives a good taste of each style. Anything that I left out that you would have added?
I wouldn't touch London Calling, and I would only be able to get Mellon Collie down to a 90 minute album. I could cut down the White Album to a single though:
1. Back in the USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
4. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
5. Happiness is a Warm Gun
6. Blackbird
7. Piggies
8. Rocky Raccoon
9. Don't Pass Me By
10. Why Don't We Do It In the Road?
11. I Will
12. Yer Blues
13. Sexy Sadie
14. Helter Skelter
15. Savoy Truffle
16. Cry Baby Cry
I expect my tracks 8-10 will be controversial.
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rkm
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- #13
- Posted: 10/30/2018 02:59
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| sethmadsen wrote: | | rkm - is it cool we are doing this out of order, so long as we answer peeps in the previous posts (feeling like a few haven't been answered). |
CHANGE OF GAME RULES
I think I’d like to slow this down, so we really get into the headspace of a particular album, and the different facets that people appreciate about that album. I think that’s the thing I find interesting, that two people can love an album for completely different reasons, and this is even more likely when it comes to double albums. Secondly, when there’s a double album you don’t like, it’s cool to find a single album inside of it you do like (which was the case with Mellon Collie for me).
NEW RULES
1. Each album needs 5 responses before we can move on. Try to add something about your thinking. Something more than “these are the tracks that I like”.
2. The new album you suggest, adds to the pool of suggestions to be drawn upon by the group, but may not necessarily be drawn upon next.
3. Once there has been 5 responses, anyone can post a new playlist from the pool of suggestions, which will set the course until we reach 5 responses.
4. Caveat: You may interrupt the flow by adding a playlist for an album that has previously had 5 responses.
Current albums suggested:
Mellon Collie and the Infinte Sadness (4 responses)
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me (1 response)
White Album (2 responses)
Sandinista
Sign O The Times (1 response)
All Eyes On Me (1 response)
In Your Honor (1 response)
London Calling
Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (1 response)
The Alchemy Index (1 response)
The Wall
NEW RULES START NOW.
The next person to post will set the course for the next 5 responses (Others, feel free to repost your old response if it’s an album that’s already been talked about)
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RoundTheBend
I miss the comfort in being sad
Location: Ground Control
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- #14
- Posted: 10/30/2018 04:04
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Thanks for bolding the first rule - I think I got it based off that. Also can we add The Alchemy Index to your list since babyBlueSedan posted about it just before the new rules?
I suppose I'll give a White Album stab as well, but first to answer babyBlueSedan's question:
The Alchemy Index by Thrice
I think Air and Earth are totally everyone's favorite... Fire and Water has totally grown on me though (I almost hated it at first... especially Fire, but now love it all). Earth apparently is my favorite cause I couldn't figure out what to cut for an even 3...
1. Firebreather (Fire)
2. Backdraft (Fire)
3. Burn the Fleet (Fire)
4. Digital Sea (Water)
5. Open Water (Water)
6. Night Diving (Water)
7. Broken Lungs (Air)
8. The Sky is Falling (Air)
9. A Song For Milly Michaelson (Air)
10. Moving Mountains (Earth)
11. The Earth Isn't Humming (Earth)
12. Lion and the Wolf (Earth)
13. Come All You Weary (Earth)
Ok so headspace of where I'm at with this album - first... I really actually wouldn't take this album as any less amount of songs normally. At first listen or 7, absolutely because it took a while to really digest this one. The artist didn't just want to write a bunch of material, rather wanted to discover tonalities and subject matters in the greek elements, Fire, Water, Wind, and Earth. For Fire they have a very aggressive sound, full of beautiful baritone guitars and for me (as not a fan of screamo or whatever) it was a bit hard to get over the screaming. Screaming in of itself isn't what I have a hard time with, I suppose it's the style of screaming chosen. It makes sense a bit, but a smokey scream would make more sense (I think Grohl's scream is a little more smooth)... but anyway that's not the point.
Water was heavily influenced by a "digital sea", which is a lyric of the eponymous track. Earth went full acoustic to get the earthy tones out - there's even dirt dropped on a grave at the end. Air basically just sounds airy in my opinion - I suppose they should have learned some woodwind instruments or something... hehe. Anyway I wouldn't really cut much from this album on purpose cause it now all has a place in my head, unlike most double albums (this I suppose is a double EP). For me it really is worth getting to know all the tracks and the textures the band tried to capture for each element. That's the whole point of the album.
The Beatles (The White Album) by The Beatles
I really wish I could say more than I chose these tracks because they are the best. I also wish I could say I found a masterful tracklisting that makes more sense. I can't though. But what I can do is do a track by track analysis on why I like these the most. I can also talk to the point that the White Album probably is great because it just goes in so many directions, yet it all is uniquely Beatles in mindset, imo. Like I wouldn't really be like, oh this is a John or Paul or Ringo or George song, even though thats what they said about the album - just separate songwriters throwing stuff at it. This wouldn't be the result of 1972 Ex-Beatles comp album. They all went to India and they all participate in these songs in a synergistic experience. I suppose in the end I wouldn't really remove any lower rated tracks from the album either because they bring a unique experience and bring the album to something unique. I think the strength really is in the numbers - if it was a one of odd track and the rest being within the same vein, it'd be just a weird track, but the culmination of all the patchwork is what makes this album brilliant.
White Album:
1. Back In The USSR
I love that they are playfully mocking The Beach Boys, and with a subject matter that's a bit tongue and cheek with the cold war going strong at this time. Plus George's single like 32nd note guitar rip is bliss.
2. Dear Prudence
I like how this is a play with a possible girl's name and prudence itself. Plus that bass line is killer/timing/airiness of the song is fantastic/tight.
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
I really don't have to defend this... like at all.
4. Happiness is a Warm Gun
This is that surrealistic silliness I love of the Beatles. I also like how dark it is in the beginning, and then goes almost motown. That guitar tone that rips in is the epitome of surrealism. It's got a bit of a hippie vibe. It's just this mixed bag of music in a single fantastic song - it's like the White Album in one song.
5. Blackbird
I really don't have to defend this... like at all.
6. Julia
The emptiness this performance leaves me is almost heartbreaking. Those that think The Beatles are missing any depth just really haven't even tried to understand this track:
Donovan said: (from wikipedia on the track)
He told me he wanted to write a song about his mother. He said, "Donovan, you're the king of children's songs. Can you help me? ... I want to write a song about the childhood that I never really had with my mother." He asked me to help him with the images that he could use in lyrics for a song about this subject. So I said, "Well, when you think of the song, where do you imagine yourself?" And John said, "I'm at a beach and I'm holding hands with my mother and we're walking together." And I helped him with a couple of lines, "Seashell eyes / windy smile" — for the Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland feel that John loved so much.
7. Birthday
This and track 9 are some of the most fun Beatles songs ever recorded. Probably one of Ringo's better performances, I feel the song really rides off those drums more than anything else.
8. Yer Blues
I feel like this is a better performance of nearly any Rolling Stones blues song - like the traditional type/covers they did.
9. Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey
Again - fun energy is what this is about. Is it bad I get a sexual innuendo from this? Guitar and bass performance on this are fantastic.
10. Sexy Sadie
I just like how this feels.
11. Helter Skelter
I really don't have to defend this... like at all.
12. Long Long Long
This has some kind of solemn, heartfeltness to it. I remember really loving it as a teenager when I first heard this album in it's entirety. It's painful, yet blissful at the same time - a bit of explosion at the end perhaps of these mixed emotions.
13. Cry Baby Cry
"Make your mother sad... she's old enough to know better." Musically solid, and hits home. I like the outro/Take Me Back song within a song. It just fits somehow.
14. Revolution (but the electric single version)
I really like the message of this song. It's like hey, you know you want change, but do you even understand status quo? Have you really tried working it out? Do you really want to violently revolt for something that maybe if you just chill it'll be cool and everyone will live more in peace? Are your ideas really that much better/thought through. It's a bit on Leibnitz's concept of this really is the best of all worlds.
I love the distorted guitar on this single version. Bass is driving, and still gets a slight blues feel with the piano. I guess Geoff Emerick quit working with the Beatles due to the dispute on which take to use...
Hoping that was enough meat to dig into those albums on.
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.
Location: Kansas
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Exist-en-ciel
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- #16
- Posted: 10/31/2018 20:12
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The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway:
1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2. Fly on a Windshield / Broadway Melody of 1974
3. In the Cage
4. Back in N.Y.C.
5. Hairless Heart
6. The Carpet Crawlers
7. The Waiting Room
8. The Lamia
9. The Colony of Slippermen
10. It
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Yann
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Location: France
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- #17
- Posted: 11/05/2018 21:31
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| Purplepash wrote: | Here's my attempt at Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me as a single album.
1. The Kiss
2. Like Cockatoos
3. Snakepit
4. Just like Heaven
5. Catch
6. Perfect Girl
7. How Beautiful You Are
8. A Thousand Hours
9. One More Time
10. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
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I like it, 3 first tracks experimental, and then all the sugar, why not? perhaps not The Snakepit after Like Cokatoos, though, a bit too similar. Here's my try (a vinyl edition  )
Side 1
1. Just like Heaven
2. Catch
3. All I Want
4. like cockatoos (a good side 1 closer I think, with the synthesized strings at the end)
Side 2
5. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep (a good side 2 opener, I think)
6. How Beautiful You Are
7. Icing Sugar
8. One More Time (the melancholic penultimate number)
9. Fight (I could not see another closer, except perhaps The Kiss ?)
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Keatownrodriguez
Aimless Angler
Gender: Male
Age: 21
Location: Utah
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- #18
- Posted: 11/28/2018 21:15
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If you did Mellon Collie and didn't end with Farewell and Goodnight, I'd reconsider.
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21stCenturySchiz
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Age: 23
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
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- #19
- Posted: 11/29/2018 00:31
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Being The Big Prince fan i am. I'm going to take a stab at the Sign O' The Times
Side 1
1. Sign O' The Times
Always loved this as an opener. Bites down hard from the start
2. Play In The Sunshine
Nice way to go from the topical nature of Sign O' The Times to a playful track like Play In The Sunshine
3. Slow Love
Slowing down the mood with a very sensual ballad from the master of talking dirty himself.
4. Starfish and Coffee
Anthem to being different. I couldn't not include it as it is my favorite song off of here
Side 2
5. U Got The Look
Big hit for Prince and i don't think would disrupt the flow from SaC
6. Strange Relationship
Cheerful sounding song even if that isn't the subject matter. Definitely has place in line with the title track
7. Adore
Beautiful Ballad to close off the album. The falsettos give me goosebumps sometimes
Here is the album that I nominate
All Things Must Pass by George Harrison
Technically a Triple album but i don't think most people would include the Jams
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