[records] favorite albums
Submitted by Nick Vane on Wed, 10/16/2002 - 05:44
Tags:
- "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", Wilco (representative track: "Poor Places")
- "Elliott Smith", Elliott Smith ("Coming Up Roses")
- "Astral Weeks", Van Morrison ("Ballerina")
- "Figure 8", Elliott Smith ("Happiness")
- "Bringing It All Back Home", Bob Dylan ("It's Alright, Ma, I'm Only Bleeding")
- "The Beatles", The Beatles ("Dear Prudence")
- "Liquid Skin", Gomez ("California")
- "The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner", Ben Folds Five ("Narcolepsy")
- "Pink Moon", Nink Drake ("Know")
- "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea", Neutral Milk Hotel ("Holland, 1945")
- "The Argument", Fugazi ("Cashout")
- "Marquee Moon", Television ("Guiding Light")
- "The Rise and Fall Of...", Brainwash Projects ("The Daydreamers")
- (tie) "The Soft Bulletin", The Flaming Lips; "Paul's Boutique", Beastie Boys ("Buggin' (remix)"; "Shadrach")
- "Blue", Joni Mitchell ("River")
- "Dusk", the The ("Lonely Planet")
- "Rubber Soul", The Beatles ("You Won't See Me")
- "Abbey Road", The Beatles ("Because")
- "Bring It On", Gomez ("Get Miles")
- "Transmissions From the Satellite Heart", The Flaming Lips ("Moth in the Incubator")
- "Highway 61 Revisited", Bob Dylan ("It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry")
- "Loaded", The Velvet Underground ("New Age")
- "Love Songs, Volume 1", The Magnetic Fields ("A Chicken With Its Head Cut Off")
- "Forever Changes", Love ("You Set the Scene")
- "The Great Twenty-Eight", Chuck Berry ("Too Much Monkey Business")
- "EP-LP", Subhumans ("Love Is...")
- "And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out", Yo La Tengo ("Our Way to Fall")
- "...And Justice For All", Metallica ("The Shortest Straw")
- "Whatever and Ever Amen", Ben Folds Five ("Fair")
- "Fear of a Black Planet", Public Enemy ("Welcome to the Terrordome")
- "Pet Sounds", The Beach Boys ("I'm Waiting For the Day")
- "Summerteeth", Wilco ("ELT")
- "Revolver", The Beatles ("And Your Bird Can Sing")
- "Pinkerton", Weezer ("Across the Sea")
- "Free at Last", DC Talk ("Socially Acceptable")
- "Exile on Main Street", The Rolling Stones ("Just Want to See His Face")
- "Never Mind the Bollocks Here's...", The Sex Pistols ("New York")
- "Rocket to Russia", Ramones ("Do You Wanna Dance?")
- "Is This It", The Strokes ("Take It or Leave It")
- "Weezer [1994]", Weezer ("Surf Wax America")
- "Clouds Taste Metallic", The Flaming Lips ("When You Smile")
- "XO", Elliott Smith ("Waltz #2 (XO)")
- "Havalina Rail Co.", Havalina Rail Co. ("Sha La La")
- "Much Afraid", Jars of Clay ("Overjoyed")
- "musicforthemorningafter", Pete Yorn ("Murray")
- "Jesus Freak", dc Talk ("Mind's Eye")
- "Vegas Car Chasers", Silage ("Original")
- "Electro-Shock Blues", Eels ("Going to Your Funeral Pt. 2")
- "Luxury", Luxury ("Euphrates With the Golden Hands")
- "seven songs", Kevin Lawson ("Testify")
Author Comments:
...and Revolver moved up and Pinkerton moved down.
I must agree about "I'm Waiting for the Day" selection off of Pet Sounds. A truly creepy song disguised in a sweet melody.
My favorite line is "You didn't think that I was gonna let him win," what a great testement to the insane jealousy and competitive nature of male teenage love.
You're f-f-f-f-riggin' right on that one. It's really a study about the male's perception of himself as protector, whether Brian and Mr. Tony Asher knew it or not. Good stuff.
It's my favorite song off the album, yet it's the one song that Brian dislikes from Pet Sounds . He doesn't like his vocals, or so he is quoted as saying in the liner notes. I disagree, but I'm not a pop deity.
Good to see "Loaded" show up on a list other than mine. Also good to see New Age as your pick off of the album. A personal favorite of mine as well.
it's just solid, through and through. every track uniquely pop yet still fiercely independent and self-assured. in a way, this album is America to me, if that makes any sense.
I agree with Fear of a Black Planet. Awesome to listen to from start to finish, although Welcome to the Terrodome brings it to another level. Another great track off of Exile is Let It Loose.
yep. also Soul Survivor, Shine a Light... chock full o' soul on that LP.
Nick, you'll be happy to know that I have a vinyl copy of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in the mail on its way to my apartment as I speak! I should receive it Monday, so I'll try to post my reactions to it not too long after.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
that's excellent! I almost asked for it for Christmas...I really should have. I hope it's a revelation.
It is terrific. They actually cut the record from the original analog master tapes instead of the digital masters, and the vinyl is a thick, weighty 180 g., so the sound is rich and full, with heavy silent sections and odd noises that float out of nowhere. The resolution is breath-taking.
Oh, did I mention the album is every bit as great as it is cracked up to be?
Yummy stuff!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
It is terrific. They actually cut the record from the original analog master tapes instead of the digital masters, and the vinyl is a thick, weighty 180 g., so the sound is rich and full, with heavy silent sections and odd noises that float out of nowhere. The resolution is breath-taking.
Oh, did I mention the album is every bit as great as it is cracked up to be?
Yummy stuff!
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
that's awesome. I need to locate a friend (or make a friend) with a copy. that and the Flaming Lips' Zaireeka. I've come close to organizing a listening party, but no dice.
did you read Christgau's pummeling of the Pazz/Jop poll for 2002?
I've heard that the last few Flaming Lips vinyl records had some strange mixing problems that don't mar the CDs. I can't confirm this first hand, but when I land a new job, I may have to pick one up and find out myself.
Christgau lost his mind around ten years ago, and he has the bully pulpit to make sure that nobody forgets that sad fact.
I mean, have you seen his 90s consumers' guide?
Not that the Pazz and Jop poll is ever perfect, but I have little problem with Wilco doing well on it.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Yeah. I don't know what Christgau expects from his music. Apparently "passive-agressive" is an undesirable characteristic.
You know, I just typed in a blast about what is wrong with the man nowadays, but I deleted it. I'm not really sure he's worth it.
I'm not sure I'd even always describe Wilco's meditative trances as 'passive/aggressive'. But perhaps he's trying to read the entire album as a post-9/11 reaction.
Shalom, y'all!
L. Bangs
Great List! An idea for a list is album of the year for the last 40 years. here is mine;
1964-John Coltrane-A Love Supreme
1965-Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited
1966-Bob Dylan-Blonde On Blonde
1967-Captain Beefheart-Safe as Milk
1968-Bob Dylan-John Wesley Harding
1969-Jethro Tull-Stand Up!
1970-Derek and the Dominoes-Layla and other assorted Love Songs
1971-The Who-Whos Next
1972-Rolling Stones-Exile on Main Street
1973-Pink Floyd-Dark Side of the Moon
1974-Steely Dan-Pretzel Logic
1975-Neil Young-Tonight's the Night
1976-David Bowie-Station to Station
1977-Television-Marquee Moon
1978-Talking Heads-More Songs about Buildings and Food
1979-Neil Young-Rust Never Sleeps
1980-The Clash-London Calling
1981-The Police-Ghost in the Machine
1982-Richard and Linda Thompson-Shoot out the Lights
1983-U2-war
1984-Minutemen-Double Nickels on the Dime
1985-REM-Fables of the Reconstruction
1986-Robert Cray-Strong Persuader
1987-Husker Du-Warehouse;Songs and Stories
1988-John Hiatt-Slow Turning
1989-Lou Reed-New York
1990-Neil Young-Ragged Glory
1991-Nirvana-Nevermind
1992-Black Crowes-Southern Harmony and the Musical Companion
1993-Nirvana-In Utero
1994-Latin Playboys-Latin Playboys
1995-Pavement-Wowee Zowee
1996-Steve Earle-I Feel Alright
1997-YO La Tengo-I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One
1998-Pearl Jam-Yield
1999-Pretenders-Viva El Amor
2000-Lou Reed-Ecstasy
2001-Bob Dylan-Love & Theft
2002-Bruce Springsteen-The Rising
2003-Warren Zevon-The Wind
Electro-shock blues is a fantastic album.
The Eels are such a great band, it is a shame that a generic band is 'wasting' a potential spot in the limelight. They really deserve a shot at the big time, at the very least.
Do you have Beautiful Freak? I bought it the other day for a meazley $10 Australian, something like 6 dollars American. Worth every cent, no doubt.