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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nabubrush on August 05, 2003, 02:23:07 am
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What are your three favorite albums from your birth year, the best trio of albums from any year, and the trifecta from the last 3.5 years (i.e. the years starting with 200X.) And don't wrack your brains too much - just off the top of your head is fine.
Birth year (1968): Jimi Hendrix "Electric Ladyland", Johnny Cash "at Folsom Prison", and Rolling Stones, "Beggars Banquet"
Best trio (1977): Television "Marquee Moon", Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks", and Steely Dan "Aja"
The 00s: Ryan Adams, "Gold", Nickel Creek "Nickel Creek", and White Stripes, "White Blood Cells"
Note: I suppose a good case could be made for any trio, but the birth of punk was enticing, expecially to put Steely Dan as counterpoint to The Pistols, and then with Television representing the whole NYC CBGB's thing. Anyway, for what it's worth, I'm interested in what others have to say because I'm always looking to listen to music that other folks are passionate about. Shit, I had another idea . . . 3 underrated albums that more people should know about:
Split Enz "True Colours", Stanley Clarke/George Duke "The Clarke/Duke Project", Brad "Shame"
OK, I'm going now.
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To ease your burden, a nice music search site.
http://www.roadkill.com/MDB/searching.phtml
Anybody have a better one? [/url]
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Birth Year (1979):
Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door
The Clash, London Calling
Pink Floyd, The Wall
First runner-up: Foreigner, Head Games
Dang. '79 was a big year for rock albums. No question.
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I'm such an old man I was born in the era of singles.
~Paul
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Birth Year (1976):
Parliament "Mothership Connection"
Led Zeppelin "The Song Remains the Same"
Lou Reed "Rock and Roll Heart"
Runners-Up:
Bob Marley "Rastaman Vibration"
Eagles "Hotel California"
Iggy Pop "Lust For Life"
Queen "A Day at the Races"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers "[Eponymous]"
Best Year Ever (1969):
Beatles "Abbey Road"
Velvet Underground "The Velvet Underground"
Miles Davis "Bitches Brew"
Runners-Up:
The Who "Tommy"
Bob Dylan "Blonde on Blonde"
Chicago "Chicago Transit Authority"
The Doors "The Soft Parade"
Jefferson Airplane "Volunteers"
Led Zeppelin "Led Zeppelin II"
Rolling Stones "Let It Bleed"
Sly & The Family Stone "Stand!"
The Stooges "The Stooges"
The Mothers "Burnt Weenie Sandwich"
Santana "Santana" (debut)
This last one is hard. Music in the past three years has really sucked.
Radiohead "Kid A" (2000)
The Strokes "Is this it?" (2001)
The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious" (2001)
Runners Up:
Radiohead "Hail to the Thief" (2003)
White Stripes "White Blood Cells" (2001)
Beck "Sea Change" (2002)
Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been" (2002 - best of)
Nirvana "Nirvana" (2002 - best of)
Belle & Sebastian "Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant" (2000)
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Dang. '79 was a big year for rock albums. No question.
That would be my Senior Year.
~Paul
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Last 3 Years:
2003- Dixie Chicks Home
2002- Beck Sea Change
2001- Radiohead Live Recordings "I Might Be Wrong EP"
~Paul
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Birth year (1981)
The Cars-Shake it Up
Elvis Costello-Trust
The Cure-Faith
Best year (1977)
Elvis Costello-My Aim is True
Bob Marley-Exodus
Neil Young-Decade
And the since '00
Bright Eyes-Lifted or the story is in the soil, put your ear to the ground (2002)
The Weakerthans-Left and Leaving (2000)
Wilco-Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (2002)
as for 3 underrated albums everyone should know about.....
the Weakerthans-Left and Leaving
Cub Country- High Uinta High
Braid Movie Music vol. 1 and 2 (2000)
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Well, I can do last three years off the top of my head...
Damn no I can't.
erm,
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Tweaker - The Attraction to All Things Uncertain
Jerry Cantrell - Degredation Trip
possibly as Jough - And All the Could Have Been, mainly for the bonus CD Still, cos I'd rather have the normal albums in that the live, but Still us wonderful!
maybe, I can never decide favourites!
Oh, and I don't know that I could find one album I listen to from the year I was born. Goddamnit!
One Clash album, but not even a great one at that. That's all I could find anywhere near worthwhile.
Aaaah - Bad Religion, Meat Puppets (eponymous) and Husker Du.
Crap decade though.
Finest year would probably be somewhere in the late 60's to mid 70's as with most people.
UBL (http://www.ubl.com) excellent band search including by year, though it's not by any means it's best feature, cross searching producers and things is though.
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I've been wondering about degradation trip because I have boggy depot and it's pretty sweet.
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I've been wondering about degradation trip because I have boggy depot and it's pretty sweet.
It's really good. Especially if you get the newer released and as intended double disc version. It's a very mood based album I find, though I always think it's great, but you know, has to be come to in the right mood to sit through the 2 hours.
If you liked Boggy Depot I would highly recommend it though.
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Birth Year (1973):
Brian Eno-Here Come the Warm Jets
The Residents-Meet the Residents
Tom Waits-Closing Time (not actually that good, but his first and therefore seminal and such like)
Trio (1993)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion-Extra Width
Royal Trux-Cats and Dogs
The Gibson Bros.-Memphis Sol Today!
(Damn, that was a good year. They don't make years like that anymore.)
00s
Manu Chao-Clandestino
Drawing a blank (mainly listening to older stuff lately).
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Tom Waits-Closing Time (not actually that good, but his first and therefore seminal and such like)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion-Extra Width
Just for having those two in your list!!
I've been sat here thinking, wow, it would have to be, erm, oh whichever '70 it was that Nighthawks at the Diner was released since I think that's my favorite Waits in a lot of ways. Just an album where I wish I could have been there every time I listen to it. Also the album that has inspired an entire chapter of my novel, and created the flow between chapters too.
I'm also always tempted to fit Boss Hog into a favorites, since it's well, Jon Spencer with his (utterly gorgeous) wife singing, and are superb.
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Oh yes, Boss Hog indeed, thank you. The overlooked (even by me) White Out (2000), there's a second one for the 00s. Still need a third: maybe The Avalanches' Since I left you(2001)? Feels like a cop-out...
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I of course forgot for the '0x's that there's the new Mark Lanegan coming out imminently, which I'm sure by his past record will leap to the top. (Finally got to see him live, he was with QotSA this summer in the UK, so my mom hates me cos she's in love with him!)
And if it has to be already out, I'd probably bump NIN - Still off for Field Songs which I think was 2001. Much as I love NIN and all...
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Apparently the year of my birth was a musical wasteland.
However, I spent some time looking up bands that I like that were around at the time of my illustrius entry into this world, and I finally found my three albums. This was a lot of work, so I'm not even going to try the other questions, although I do hang my head in shame
Ok.....
Sonic Youth, EVOL
Yo La Tengo, Ride the Tiger
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Yep..... the year was 1986. I'm a young'un.
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The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
Yep..... the year was 1986. I'm a young'un.
Good call on the Smiths.
'86 wasn't a bad year for music:
Bruce Hornsby and the Range "The Way It Is"
Cinderella "Night Songs" (like you didn't own a copy of this album)
Beastie Boys "License To Ill"
Dead Kennedys "Bedtime For Democracy" (sadly their last)
Joe Jackson "Big World"
Billy Joel "The Bridge"
Huey Lewis and the News "Fore!"
Madonna "True Blue" (don't pretend you don't like this album)
Metallica "Master of Puppets"
New World Order "Bizarre Love Triangle"
R.E.M. "Life's Rich Pageant"
Paul Simon "Graceland"
Top Gun Soundtrack
Now I feel old, though. I owned all of those on vinyl.
Do you kids even know what vinyl record albums are?
-- jough
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This last one is hard. Music in the past three years has really sucked.
Radiohead "Kid A" (2000)
The Strokes "Is this it?" (2001)
The Hives "Veni Vidi Vicious" (2001)
Runners Up:
Radiohead "Hail to the Thief" (2003)
White Stripes "White Blood Cells" (2001)
Beck "Sea Change" (2002)
Nine Inch Nails "And All That Could Have Been" (2002 - best of)
Nirvana "Nirvana" (2002 - best of)
Belle & Sebastian "Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like A Peasant" (2000)
This sort of made me sad (the "really sucked" part). I noticed a few years ago that most of the music in my collection was the stuff I listened to in high school, i.e. Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, Judas Priest . . . well, I won't continue. But I've been trying lately to find new music that is somewhere near as good as that was, and I'm really enjoying the experiment. So, all these folks released good stuff (I think) in the last few years:
Beck, White Stripes, Strokes, Vines, Hives, New Pornographers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nickel Creek, Ryan Adams, Green Day, Radiohead, Libertines, Queens of the Stone Age, Kills, Modest penis, Godspeed You Black Emperor, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Rage Against the Machine, Outkast, Fugazi, Clutch, and The Hunches.
And then there's stuff like Sigur Ros, Super Furry Animals, Liars, and Pretty Girls Make Graves, which I'm sure are dope, I just haven't gotten around to listening to them yet.
Sorry to get all I don't know what, but I just wanted to throw some stuff out there and I appreciate other folks turning me on to new stuff, so thanks.
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Birth year only:
1965:
The Beatles -- Rubber Soul
Bob Dylan -- Highway 61 Revisited
Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention -- Freak Out
I'm not answering the best year ever because it would require some research (and thus effort) on my part, but based on Jough's list, 1969 looks pretty damn good.
I'm not answering the last 3.5 years part because I don't know that I could name three albums that came out in that time period. God, I suck.
Anyway Jough, glad to see Burnt Weeny Sandwich on your list. This is one of my all-time fav-o-rite albums. It's one (along with Hot Rats) I play for people who don't think they like Zappa.
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I'm really a little too lazy to chime in on all the research-based questions at the moment, but I do have answers for the three underrated obscure albums:
Moxy Fruvous, You Will Go To the Moon
Radio Iodine, Tiny Warnings
Thomas Dolby, Aliens Ate My Buick
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'86 wasn't a bad year for music:
Beastie Boys "License To Ill"
Dead Kennedys "Bedtime For Democracy" (sadly their last)
Paul Simon "Graceland"
Do you kids even know what vinyl record albums are?
-- jough
Yea, those three put together a remarkably good 80's year. Though 1989 with NIN - Pretty hate Machine and Nirvana - Bleach kind of sways me to that...
And vinyls... those be them big cd's right?
Hell I'd still be listening to them if my asshole ex's brother hadn't destroyed my deck ::sobs::
(things like - Mudhoney - SuperFuzzBigMuff and my Mothers of Invention live LP's would get some play)
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1975
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Leonard Cohen, Best Of Leonard Cohen (do not mock me for putting a "Best Of" on my list, or it will come back to you).
Best Year Evah - too much work
Best Since 2000
Tom Waits, Blood Money
Coldplay, A Rush of Blood to the Head
Radiohead, Kid A
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Birth year (1967)
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Favorite year (1991)
Nirvana - Nevermind
Smashing Pumpkins - gish
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
not to mention:
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Pantera - Vulgar Display of Power
Pearl Jam - Ten
Pixies - Trompe le Monde
Public Enemy - Apocalypse 91: The Enemy Strikes Black
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bloodsugarsexmagik
R.E.M. - Out of Time
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
U2 - Achtung Baby
Past 3.5 years? Sigh. I'm so damn old.
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi vs. the Pink *****s
High On Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
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oh, and three underrated albums:
Yes - Drama
Peter Gabriel - Up
R.E.M. - Up
The temptation to put Shania Twain's Up on the list just so I could have an entire list of Ups was outweighed by the fact that I've never heard it. Such is life.
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Past 3.5 years? Sigh. I'm so damn old.
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi vs. the Pink *****s
High On Fire - The Art of Self Defense
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II: Friends and Enemies of Modern Music
Fowl! Non-traditional release on the field. 5 yard penalty, 2nd down.
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Fowl! Non-traditional release on the field. 5 yard penalty, 2nd down.
Oh, for Christ's sake. OK, fine. To un-"fowl" myself, then:
Los Lobos - Good Morning Aztlan
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OK, let me add Radio Tarifa - Cruzando El Rio, and maybe Gotan Project - La Revencha Del Tango.
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Top three "non-traditional" albums? Glad you asked.
Smashing Pumpkins - Machina II: Friends and Enemies....
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams
Prince - Chocolate Box
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Hey Slink, which live Mothers of Invention albums are you talking about?
I've got Live at the Fillmore East and Just Another Band from LA.
Flo and Eddie. Heh heh.
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All that and more, INCLUDING an electric cooled pony harness, with fuel injection, fuel injection, fuel injection...
The Mothers at the Fillmore East is one of the best live albums of all time.
And did you know that John and Yoko were sitting in on those sessions, too?
And of course that Flo and Eddie were the two guys from the Turtles, which makes their "Happy Together" all the more sinister.
-- Jough
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Oh Howie. You're so professional.
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What's a girl like you doing in a place like this?
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We'd better watch it, or Studebaker Hoch and his cocksucking flies will show up and demand we report to our draft boards.
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Hey Slink, which live Mothers of Invention albums are you talking about?
I've got Live at the Fillmore East and Just Another Band from LA.
Flo and Eddie. Heh heh.
I got Live at Fillmore East. I'd been going to say that was it, but I couldn't remember if it was just someone else I remembered playing Fillmore. The LP's upstairs at the moment so I couldn't be bothered going to look when I posted it!
Probably not the kind of thing my parents should have introduced me to when I was 9, but hey, brought me up with discerning taste!