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Consensus Top 350 Albums of All-Time: 68. Automatic for the People – R.E.M. (207 Viewers)
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Mister CIA
Footballguy
@Mookie Gizzy
@zamboni
@Snoopy
Thoughts, y'all? Free Man in Paris is my pick if we want to stick to the well-known, but I'm game to reach for deeper tracks. I'm leaning Raised on Robbery slightly over Trouble Child. This is another album where picking just one song is sure to miss the mark.
Won't lie, I was introduced to this album based upon the RS Record Guide reviews of Dave Marsh and Kurt Loder (if memory serves) in my adolescence, when all I really knew were the AOR stylings of what would become classic rock. So, an acquired taste for sure, and quickly acquired. Can't be sure, but I think this is the first mile marker reached in my music-listening journey where I strayed from the beaten path, and I liked it. And so began my slow descent into snobbery.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
I had never listened to this one, so I was just making this my listening while working. Really good, and not sure why it escaped me before. “A Rose for Emily” sounded familiar, but I could not figure out why and then looked it up and see it listed as the theme song for the S-Town podcast (part of the Serial series) that I listened to when that came out.
landrys hat
Footballguy
Yeah, if we ever do a best album opener/closer combo draft, Care of Cell 44 and Time of the Season would be near the top for me.
Yo Mama
Footballguy
No other album captured this particular moment in time (Rodney King beating/trial and subsequent riots) than The Chronic. On top of its awesome songs that are still a major part of the L.A. music scene, this is an important piece of social commentary and groundbreaking work of art.
The album has some iconic individual songs, but to me still works best as an overall cohesive album with its flow and overall messaging.
Plus it introduced (most of) us to the incredible Snoop Dogg.
zamboni
Footballguy
At the expense of falling back on the opening/title song, I think it’s awesome and would be my choice.
zamboni
Footballguy
That would be a great draft idea - don’t think we’ve done that.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yeah it doesn't really have any hits except Time of the Season, it's very much an album album best listened to as a whole which is easily done at just 35 mins. Honestly, while Time of the Season is the best song and biggest hit, it doesn't really fit to me and seems like it was just tacked on at the end. Funny enough the first song that the studio released as a single in the US was Butcher's Tale which for me is the least catchy song on the album and the last one I would think to try to push for radio play. The second was Time of of the Season which was a slow burn and by the time finally caught on and started flying up the charts, the band had already broken up.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Time of the Season was the main one that I had heard and knew of before. It does seem a bit different from the rest, as others reminded of The Beach Boys with a more psychedelic bent.
135. The Last Waltz – The Band (174 points)
@turnjose7 #10
@krista4 #25
@Dennis Castro #33
@simey #42
The Last Waltz is the second live album by the Band, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1978, catalogue 3WS 3146. It is the soundtrack to the 1978 film of the same name, and the final album by the original configuration of the Band. It peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200.
The triple album documents the Band's "farewell" concert which took place at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day 1976. The event included an actual Thanksgiving dinner for 5,000 attendees, with ballroom dancing and a stage set for La traviata borrowed from the San Francisco Opera.
I'm good with "The Weight" if that's cool with everyone else. I had been planning to pick "Up On Cripple Creek" if I was high ranker on this, but I think that was chosen for The Band, correct? "Caravan" is probably my favorite performance on this album, but I think it needs to be an original Band song. So "The Weight" works.
Can someone add it for me? I also didn't realize we were supposed to add it ourselves when I chose "Rude Mood" off of Texas Flood, so if someone is able to add that as well that would be great. Thanks.
Mookie Gizzy
Footballguy
Sounds good to me
Mookie Gizzy
Footballguy
When this album was released U2 was still the biggest band in the world, a mantle they would not hold much longer as the music scene was about to undergo a massive change. They leaned on electronic and industrial music. There’s lyrics were dark and personal. This wasn’t your daddy’s U2. This was the future U2. These songs didn’t rattle and hum. They grinded. From the second I hit play it was different. The music scene would soon change, and so did my listening choices, but this stayed as an album I always played. For the playlist someone add Love is Blindness
Dennis Castro
Footballguy
I think I know who you are talking about. And they JUST missed my list.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Yeah I’m sure we all know Hu she’s talking about
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Love Is Blindness added.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The Weight (Last Waltz Suite version) and Rude Mood added.135. The Last Waltz – The Band (174 points)
@turnjose7 #10
@krista4 #25
@Dennis Castro #33
@simey #42
The Last Waltz is the second live album by the Band, released on Warner Bros. Records in 1978, catalogue 3WS 3146. It is the soundtrack to the 1978 film of the same name, and the final album by the original configuration of the Band. It peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard 200.
The triple album documents the Band's "farewell" concert which took place at Bill Graham's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day 1976. The event included an actual Thanksgiving dinner for 5,000 attendees, with ballroom dancing and a stage set for La traviata borrowed from the San Francisco Opera.
I'm good with "The Weight" if that's cool with everyone else. I had been planning to pick "Up On Cripple Creek" if I was high ranker on this, but I think that was chosen for The Band, correct? "Caravan" is probably my favorite performance on this album, but I think it needs to be an original Band song. So "The Weight" works.
Can someone add it for me? I also didn't realize we were supposed to add it ourselves when I chose "Rude Mood" off of Texas Flood, so if someone is able to add that as well that would be great. Thanks.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
129 (tie). Fragile – Yes (181 points)
@Yo Mama #3
@shuke #10
@zamboni #46
@Ghost Rider #57
@Pip's Invitation #62
@jwb #67
Fragile is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released in the UK on 12 November 1971 and in the US on 4 January 1972 by Atlantic Records. It was the band's first album to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who replaced Tony Kaye after the group had finished touring their breakthrough record, The Yes Album (1971).
The band entered rehearsals in London in August 1971, but Kaye's reluctance to play electronic keyboards led to his departure from the group. He was quickly replaced by Wakeman, whose virtuosity, compositional skills, and experience with the electric piano, organ, Mellotron, and Moog synthesiser expanded the band's sound. Due to budget and time constraints, four tracks on the album are group arrangements; the remaining five are short solo pieces by each band member. The opening track, "Roundabout", became a popular song. The artwork for the album was the band's first to be designed by Roger Dean, who would design many of their future covers.
@Yo Mama #3
@shuke #10
@zamboni #46
@Ghost Rider #57
@Pip's Invitation #62
@jwb #67
Fragile is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released in the UK on 12 November 1971 and in the US on 4 January 1972 by Atlantic Records. It was the band's first album to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who replaced Tony Kaye after the group had finished touring their breakthrough record, The Yes Album (1971).
The band entered rehearsals in London in August 1971, but Kaye's reluctance to play electronic keyboards led to his departure from the group. He was quickly replaced by Wakeman, whose virtuosity, compositional skills, and experience with the electric piano, organ, Mellotron, and Moog synthesiser expanded the band's sound. Due to budget and time constraints, four tracks on the album are group arrangements; the remaining five are short solo pieces by each band member. The opening track, "Roundabout", became a popular song. The artwork for the album was the band's first to be designed by Roger Dean, who would design many of their future covers.
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Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
127 (tie). Toxicity – System Of A Down (182 points)
@BLOCKED_PUNT #8
@Dan Lambskin #20
@titusbramble #40
@Yo Mama #46
@rockaction #62
Toxicity is the second studio album by the Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down, released on September 4, 2001, by American Recordings and Columbia Records. Expanding on their 1998 eponymous debut album, Toxicity incorporates more melody, harmonies, and singing than the band's first album. Categorized primarily as alternative metal and nu metal, the album features elements of multiple genres, including folk, progressive rock, jazz, and Armenian and Greek music, including prominent use of instruments like the sitar, banjo, keyboards, and piano. It contains a wide array of political and non-political themes, such as mass incarceration, the CIA, the environment, police brutality, drug addiction, scientific reductionism, and groupies.
@BLOCKED_PUNT #8
@Dan Lambskin #20
@titusbramble #40
@Yo Mama #46
@rockaction #62
Toxicity is the second studio album by the Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down, released on September 4, 2001, by American Recordings and Columbia Records. Expanding on their 1998 eponymous debut album, Toxicity incorporates more melody, harmonies, and singing than the band's first album. Categorized primarily as alternative metal and nu metal, the album features elements of multiple genres, including folk, progressive rock, jazz, and Armenian and Greek music, including prominent use of instruments like the sitar, banjo, keyboards, and piano. It contains a wide array of political and non-political themes, such as mass incarceration, the CIA, the environment, police brutality, drug addiction, scientific reductionism, and groupies.
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Masterpiece IMO.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
Since I saw this coming up and found the description interesting when i did the write up I listened while heading up to the beach and when sitting out. I only made it through 4/5 songs as it's just not for me, at this point.
Now I found it interesting and a cut above bands like Korn or Staind, so wanted to give it a chance, but in the end, I knew I was "wasting" time and would never listen again.
Even when I was young in the 90s - Nu Metal and it's like weren't my thing, I like plenty of heavier music but it didn't click for me.
In the 90s I listened to Grunge (Nirvana, AIC, etc,), Alt-Country (Wilco, Jayhawks etc.) , jam bands (God Street Wine, Big Head Todd, etc.) or some "indie" (Radiohead, Weezer, etc.).
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
BrutalPenguin
Footballguy
This is another album that was a staple at parties I went to in the early to mid 90s.129 (tie). Pretty Hate Machine – Nine Inch Nails (181 points)
@BrutalPenguin #10
@Rand al Thor #23
@Long Ball Larry #24
@Nick Vermeil #55
@Idiot Boxer #62
Pretty Hate Machine is the debut studio album by the American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails, released by TVT Records on October 20, 1989. Frontman Trent Reznor sang and performed most of the instruments, also producing the album alongside Keith LeBlanc, John Fryer and Flood, with a few other contributors.
The album features a heavily synthesizer-driven electronic sound blended with industrial and rock elements. Much like the band's later work, the album's lyrics contain themes of angst, betrayal, and lovesickness. The record was promoted with the singles "Down in It", "Head Like a Hole", and "Sin", as well as the accompanying tour. A remastered edition was released in 2010.
The level of blunt sincerity and extreme vulnerability offset by pure rage leads to some really powerful songs.
This album is likely responsible for a lot of the tinnitus I have today.
My favorites are Terrible Lie, Sin, and Head Like a Hole. Ringfinger too. They're all good.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
I have this ranked just below Close to the Edge because I don’t think all of the solo pieces work. But otherwise what I said about that album applies to this one.
I’m a huge fan of South Side of the Sky, which is probably the band’s best vocal performance as well as having dazzling instrumental passages like their other top-tier material. And it wasn’t played to death on FM radio like the other major works from their three big albums. I’m pretty sure Yo Mama loves it as well.
Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
Some really good songs on this, I know Zamboni is also a fan.
One that I like:
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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I think that’s a good choice
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
We all like what we like. Much like I said in the tv thread (though we all know it's true) you are HEAVILY influenced by what you listened to/watched when we were teens/young adults. Those are our formulative years. I haven't been listening to as much music from this year and some of it was pretty good and some I diskliked.
Mookie Gizzy
Footballguy
Who here didn’t try to play the beginning of Roundabout on an acoustic guitar, no matter how wrong the notes were?129 (tie). Fragile – Yes (181 points)
@Yo Mama #3
@shuke #10
@zamboni #46
@Ghost Rider #57
@Pip's Invitation #62
@jwb #67
Fragile is the fourth studio album by the English progressive rock band Yes, released in the UK on 12 November 1971 and in the US on 4 January 1972 by Atlantic Records. It was the band's first album to feature keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who replaced Tony Kaye after the group had finished touring their breakthrough record, The Yes Album (1971).
The band entered rehearsals in London in August 1971, but Kaye's reluctance to play electronic keyboards led to his departure from the group. He was quickly replaced by Wakeman, whose virtuosity, compositional skills, and experience with the electric piano, organ, Mellotron, and Moog synthesiser expanded the band's sound. Due to budget and time constraints, four tracks on the album are group arrangements; the remaining five are short solo pieces by each band member. The opening track, "Roundabout", became a popular song. The artwork for the album was the band's first to be designed by Roger Dean, who would design many of their future covers.
Yo Mama
Footballguy
I’m good with that. Hard to go wrong with anything here. Monster album.
The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
I already have a lot of U2 on my list so this one just missed for me.
If we’d done this 10-15 years ago it would’ve been my #1 or 2 from them but I don’t listen to it as often as some others nowadays.
Still a favorite of mine though.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
I'm pretty sure I noted this in the concert thread a while back, I took my son to see Yes a few years ago. The opener? Roger Dean giving a slideshow presentation on the history of art.
shuke
Black Ice Skeptic
Huge fan as well. Probably my second favorite Yes song following Heart of the Sunrise.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
127 (tie). Escape – Journey (182 points)
@higgins #27
@BroncoFreak_2K3 #35
@Dwayne_Castro #36
@BrutalPenguin #40
@zamboni #53
@Idiot Boxer #61
@Yo Mama #63
Escape (stylized as E5C4P3 on the album cover) is the seventh studio album by American rock band Journey, released on July 20, 1981, by Columbia Records. It topped the US Billboard 200 chart and featured four hit Billboard Hot 100 singles – "Don't Stop Believin'" (No. 9), "Who's Crying Now" (No. 4), "Still They Ride" (No. 19) and "Open Arms" (No. 2) – plus rock radio staple "Stone in Love". In July 2021, it was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) for at least ten million sales in the US, making it the band's most successful studio album and second most successful album overall behind Greatest Hits. Escape was the fifth-highest selling album of 1981, just behind Bella Donna from Stevie Nicks.
@higgins #27
@BroncoFreak_2K3 #35
@Dwayne_Castro #36
@BrutalPenguin #40
@zamboni #53
@Idiot Boxer #61
@Yo Mama #63
Escape (stylized as E5C4P3 on the album cover) is the seventh studio album by American rock band Journey, released on July 20, 1981, by Columbia Records. It topped the US Billboard 200 chart and featured four hit Billboard Hot 100 singles – "Don't Stop Believin'" (No. 9), "Who's Crying Now" (No. 4), "Still They Ride" (No. 19) and "Open Arms" (No. 2) – plus rock radio staple "Stone in Love". In July 2021, it was certified Diamond by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) for at least ten million sales in the US, making it the band's most successful studio album and second most successful album overall behind Greatest Hits. Escape was the fifth-highest selling album of 1981, just behind Bella Donna from Stevie Nicks.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
our first 7 participant submission.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
126. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere – Neil Young (183 points)
@timschochet #22
@jwb #23
@Dr. Octopus #23
@rockaction #33
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6349. His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it emerged as a sleeper hit amid Young's contemporaneous success with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, ultimately peaking at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 in August 1970 during a 98-week chart stay. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.
The album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and at number 407 in the 2020 edition. Additionally, it was voted number 124 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).
@timschochet #22
@jwb #23
@Dr. Octopus #23
@rockaction #33
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere is the second studio album by Canadian-American musician Neil Young, released in May 1969 on Reprise Records, catalogue number RS 6349. His first with longtime backing band Crazy Horse, it emerged as a sleeper hit amid Young's contemporaneous success with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, ultimately peaking at number 34 on the US Billboard 200 in August 1970 during a 98-week chart stay. It has been certified platinum by the RIAA.
The album is on the list of 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. In 2003, the album was ranked number 208 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time and at number 407 in the 2020 edition. Additionally, it was voted number 124 in the third edition of Colin Larkin's All Time Top 1000 Albums (2000).
rockaction
Footballguy
That's a fine choice, man. One of "Aerials," "Toxicity," or "Chop Suey!" would represent the album probably the best it could be represented. Nice choice! Glad we share this one in common. It's an incredible piece of modern art. "Aerials" is a great song off a great album that frankly came at a difficult point in my life, and was there as sort of a literal lifesaver along with Mogwai's Rock Action, which one might note to the left means a bit to me also but didn't make the one artist/one album cut. This one did. (You can't name yourself SOAD on a message board—rhymes with CHOAD or TOAD or too many easy others—heh).
127 (tie). Toxicity – System Of A Down (182 points)
The songs mentioned above, the singles, are the struts and shocks of this album, but there are other great songs on the album that really make it an album. They are its absurdities. They are what normal listeners who tune in for the bigger songs think are its throwaways; the songs that make you bounce, shimmy, and go psycho while making you feel something other than metal dirge and they are . . . well . . . songs named "Bounce," "Shimmy," and "Psycho." Simple, one word titles that dot the album and make it as concise, concentrated, and focused as the music and lyrics.
Those songs in particular are songs where Serj Tankian (lead singer and co-lyricist) and Daron Malakian's (lead guitar and at least co-songwriter) songwriting functions to provoke and snap the listener back to attention from System Of A Down's more rhythmic and "normal" metal moments during which one might trance out if not careful (if the listener is really used to and likes metal, that is). In these moments, System Of A Down become more than artists—they become provocateurs, something Serj Tankian excels at like few ever.
And Serj Tankian is one of the most transcendent frontmen ever in rock n' roll. Transcendent frontmen are a rare jewel when they happen, and Serj definitely happened. His cadences; guttural yells and barks; his melodies; but especially, as in the case of "Aerials," his ascending-yet-hanging Middle Eastern melismas drawn from maqamat Hijaz modal scales** leave the listener with something unique and awe-inspiring. He's within the tradition of the Situationists; a socially conscious Iggy Pop without the self-abuse and glass cuts—the bridge from Perry Farrell's wildly abandoned, drug-addled libertinism of the early nineties to a frontman for the more socially conscious part of the aughts.
The musical part of the band, led by Daron Malakian along with John Dolmayan, drummer, and Shavo Odadjian, bassist, are at their finest musically in their breakdowns and time signature changes. That's really when the band soars with late '80s East Coast hardcore influences and inventiveness.
If you asked me to expound; I'd go on about "Chop Suey!" and the "Why have you forsaken me?" line, along with the mistake I made thinking the song was, frankly, about Jesus's crucifixion, which would give the world an apoplectic fit and always gives this listener chills regardless; but SOAD seems to sidestep the ultimate American and Western risk, which dents it just a touch (they couldn't even release the song with the real title, "Self-Righteous Suicide"). That said, you still can't catch me listening to it without going "Wait a minute . . . is he?" The resultant video was also forward thinking and as visually stunning as the lyrics were. The song, which they insist is about drug addiction and self-harm, also fits in its most abstract sense also.
Regardless, it's one of the best metal albums ever. Sabbath, Slayer, and System of A Down. The big three. Whereas the other two were concerned with defying Christianity in their original constructs, SOAD tells you to "Wake up!" both literally and emotionally. They do so in a broader sense than the other two, which doesn't limit them as much (Sabbath got away from that and tackled other issues, too, but that name let the listener know they were in for darkness).
I'm listening to Toxicity now. It often gives me chills at certain parts of the record. One would have had to grow up taking metal earnestly and seriously as a kid, but if you did, it's challenging, revelatory, and yet comforting. The title track leaves one breathless. "Chop Suey!" is stuns. "Aerials," with its vocals, is nearly religious in its vocal delivery. It's spirit is straight from New York hardcore ca. '88, but it's written with a Middle Eastern influence and slowed down a bit. There are fewer aerial windmill kicks and more chances to contemplate simple mantras we should know and live. The perfect follow-up to the then-defunct underground Krishna-core scene.
Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind, you free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes, eternal prize
eta* sorry for the edits. Need to make this make sense as it was originally a note to BLOCKED_PUNT but became a little recap/blurb.
eta2** ask AI what Serj's "Middle Eastern-sounding and ascending-yet-hanging" vocal style on a track like "Aerials" is, and it'll sure as **** tell you. It'll give you the definition of "melisma" and give you the adjective "melismatic." It'll tell you about the maqamat modal system, which is when one uses "quarter tones or non-Western intervals that don’t resolve the way Western scales do—hence that 'hanging' feeling" often called the "Hijaz scale/Phrygian effect, which is often used to create that exotic, Eastern sound. It’s a Western approximation of what might be called maqam Hijaz. The scale has a raised third and flattened second, creating that haunting, serpentine effect." - ChatGPT 4.0.
eta3* It's coming, folks. Get in front of it.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
And yet not KP, who did them for a MAD countdown. I know he prefers their ‘70s stuff.
rockaction
Footballguy
Wow. Interesting line-up and this album finished rather highly. The first track on this pulls the listener in right away, and by the end of "Cinnamon Girl" you realize that a monster of an album with some unique guitar savagery is on your hands.
eta* No Pip! Heh. I actually didn't totally expect it. But I swear I was typing, "I'm gonna defer to Pip on this" because I was sure he'd be the number one guy. That's funny.
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BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Rock, is this the album you thought we'd have together?
Eephus
Footballguy
Final cuts were brutal and Prog sadly didn't make the cut because it was just a phase for teenage Eephus.
I probably would have gone w/ Close to the Edge if we went to 100.
rockaction
Footballguy
No, I didn't, BP. I thought it was something a bit different, but still in the metal vein. This will do just nicely. You can see upthread I dig it enough to write a bit about it. I was just riffing off of you and it turned into a blurb, hence the formatting.
The other album I thought it was might be forgotten about and not even make our countdown, though I'd be very surprised. I know the group is popular on the board, but maybe not our particular participant group. It's metal also, but a different kind of metal than SOAD's nü-metal, which is a brush I hate painting SOAD with, but if they're gonna paint the Deftones with it, then is it really a term that's earned disrespect in the end? (I hated nü-metal in general, but the Deftones and SOAD are all-time great metal bands and bands I listen to, so . . . if anyone wants to say I'm a nü metal lover, I'll have to cop to it, you know?).
What do you think of Toxicity? What does it for you? Just rocks? (It does.)
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DocHolliday
Footballguy
My taste in music is not that popular any longer. My album list would have been 80% hard rock/metal. Then again, I dont like a lot of what is being listed here and I find much of it to be downright boring. I need my music to be fiery and a little over the top.136 (tie). Ride the Lightning – Metallica (173 points)
@Dan Lambskin #3
@Mt. Man #12
@Tau837 #42
@jwb #54
Ride the Lightning is the second studio album by the American heavy metal band Metallica, released on July 27, 1984, by the independent record label Megaforce Records. The album was recorded in three weeks with producer Flemming Rasmussen at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Denmark. The artwork, based on a concept by the band, depicts an electric chair being struck by lightning flowing from the band logo. The title was taken from a passage in Stephen King's novel The Stand, in which a character uses the phrase to refer to execution by electric chair.
Literally my last cut. #71 on my extended list and I didn't feel good about leaving it off. I don't think @Dan Lambskin and me have many overlapping taste, but also agree with his choice of "The Call of Ktulu." Either my first or second favorite Metallica song, depending on the day.
My list is pretty metal heavy, but overall I have pretty eclectic taste. Metal, rock, pop, folk, country, bluegrass, jam, blues, rap. Can even do a little techno
There’s definitely a handful of popular/ well respected bands I don’t care for but the only genre im really not a big fan of is R&B type stuff. I can tolerate it but not really something I seek out
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
The Neilness of it all really started here. He had to share control with others in Buffalo Springfield, and his first solo album has good songs but an approach to producing and arranging that was typical of the trends of the time but not really what Neil was most comfortable with.
Here, he is in his element, developing the sound that made him a force on FM radio and eventually earning him the title of Godfather of Grunge. Both the stomping rock of the first two tracks and the freewheeling improvisation of both side closers (another album that ranks with LA Woman and Zeppelin IV for best pair of side closers) set the template for his approach to electric music and were monumentally influential to aspiring rockers everywhere.
So why isn’t this on my list? I can’t overload with Neil and had to make some tough choices. But the main reason is that I don’t think the other three songs are anything special.
Here’s how I ranked the EKTIN songs in my Neil countdown:
Down by the River 3
Cowgirl in the Sand 9
Cinnamon Girl 21
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 26
The Losing End (When You’re On) 176
Round and Round (It Won’t Be Long) 186
I did not rank the seventh track, which I actively dislike.
These sessions and the tour for the album also produced Winterlong (#83), Dance, Dance, Dance (#151), Wonderin’ (#187) and a song that showed up on an album that we are sure to see later.
Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Ha to your edit. I gave my rationale in my other post.
But is this among my top 70 most-listened-to albums? Probably.
titusbramble
Footballguy
The singles and imo better album tracks are from track 6 onwards.
titusbramble
Footballguy
Aerials is good with me
zamboni
Footballguy
Heart is probably my favorite Yes tune as well. Squire’s bass work is so freaking fat. This would be my pick for the playlist but any of them work.
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Pip's Invitation
Footballguy
Either Yo Mama’s taking a really long lunch or he got distracted by work or something.
higgins
Footballguy
I’ll go with “Stone in Love” for Journey’s Escape.
zamboni
Footballguy
Has to be the one.
