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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 15, 2007 15:09:02 GMT -5
Actually, Ken, as a self-contained piece, I think there's more of an internal logic to the "Accidents Will Happen" through to "Two Little Hitlers" version (or given that's it was a product of the 33 1/3 world, "Goon Squad" through TLH). But I know what you mean. We had the same version as you and you get used to what you had. Yeah, I can see what Elvis was thinking, but for me "What's So Funny About Peace Love and Understanding" is just an essential part of the record. It's the cathartic cry at the end of the whole mess. You've got all these disasters documented throughout the rest of the record, and then at the end you've got Elvis wailing over that pounding riff: "every time I feel like this inside there's one thing I wanna know -- just what's so funny about peace love and understanding?" After forty minutes of "emotional fascism," he's still the guy saying "WTF happened to All You Need is Love?" Similarly, "Night Rally" is a great closing piece for This Year's Model, but "Radio Radio" makes it into a cathartic boogie at the end of the record instead of this insular repetitive groove. Either way is great, but I'm so used to the catharsis of "Radio Radio" (and prefer to find some reason to believe after looking around at the mess we've made of the world). |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 15, 2007 18:02:17 GMT -5
Thanx thorny. Say, did you ever listen to the CDs? I dig the Hank III you recorded for me.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 15, 2007 18:08:53 GMT -5
Melaun -- did you see my earlier post about some of your picks not being album closers? You might want to edit or repost your selections to reflect that.  |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 15, 2007 18:15:42 GMT -5
Yes, and I shall.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 15, 2007 18:27:40 GMT -5
Cool. Thanks.  |
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 16, 2007 11:28:02 GMT -5
Goddam, I've got almost 60 candidates on my "short list" right now, and I haven't even finished sifting through my collection! This is in-freaking-possible.
BTW, R.E.M. has got to be the all-time champ of this category (with the Who right there). I think I've got the closers from Reckoning, Fables, Lifes Rich Pageant, Green, Out of Time ("Me in Honey" is one of my fave R.E.M. songs), Automatic, Hi-Fi, and Up ("Falls to Climb" -- gorgeous!). If Reveal had cut out one track sooner ("I'll Take the Rain" vs. "Beach Ball") it would've been there too. And the Who ... "Won't Get Fooled Again," "Who Are You," "Love Reign O'er Me" ... damn!
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 20, 2007 11:49:21 GMT -5
Another bump -- and a reminder that this list will close not this Friday but NEXT Friday, March 2, also at 6:00 p.m. Mountain Time. Unless I change my mind.
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Post by kmc on Feb 20, 2007 15:07:55 GMT -5
1. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
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Post by Galactus on Feb 20, 2007 15:21:27 GMT -5
Whatever Ken's list says, so says mine.
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Post by Fuzznuts on Feb 20, 2007 15:25:53 GMT -5
1. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) Gayest. List. Ever. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 20, 2007 15:44:14 GMT -5
1. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) One hundred percent Gaye. |
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Post by kmc on Feb 20, 2007 15:52:33 GMT -5
I am into a lot of Gaye music, actually.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 20, 2007 17:03:19 GMT -5
I am into a lot of Gaye music, actually. I knew it. You're so Gaye, Kenny. |
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Post by upinkzeppelin2 on Feb 22, 2007 17:19:16 GMT -5
List fixed, Ken.
19. "Heaven 90210" - Urge Overkill - Saturation
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24. "Year Of Tha Boomerang" - Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Mar 1, 2007 4:12:43 GMT -5
I made a quick list on the back of this 'ere envelope, then read those already posted, and I realise I've not exactly been original. Never mind. I've plagiarised Mary before now, so it's nothing new.
This is harder than track 1 isn't it? Nearly every great album kicks off with a bang, but many of them end with some gentle little come-down afterthought.
1. Knights of Cydonia - Muse / Black Holes & Revelations
2. Street Spirit (Fade Out) - Radiohead / The Bends
3. Shoot Speed/Kill Light - Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
4. (Track 8) - Sigur Ros / ()
5. Sister Ray - VU / White Light/White Heat
6. Leif Erikson - Interpol / Turn on the Bright lights
7. Decades - Joy Division / Closer
8. All Apologies - Nirvana / In Utero
9. I Am The Resurrection - The Stone Roses / The Stone Roses
10. Do You Love Me? (Part 2) - Nick cave / Let Love In
11. Some Kind Of Stranger - Sisters of Mercy / First & Last & Always
12. Hurt - NIN / Downward Spiral
13. Third Eye - TOOL / Aenima
14. Champagne Supernova - Oasis / What's The Story Morning Glory
15. Indifference - Pearl Jam / Vs
16. Suffer Little Children - The Smiths / The Smiths
17. The Dancer - PJ Harvey / To Bring You My Love
18. Last Exit For The Lost - Fields of the Nephilim / The Nephilim
19. Southpaw - Morrissey / Southpaw Grammar
20. My Body Is A Cage - The Arcade Fire / Neon Bible
21. Please Please Please Let me get What I Want - The Smiths / Hatful Of Hollow
22. Cymbal Rush - Thom Yorke / The Eraser
23. Aerials - System Of A Down / Toxicity
24. The Transfiguration - Sufjan Stevens / Seven Swans
25. Edit The Sad Parts - Modest Mouse / Interstate 8
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