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[Binky The Doormat]

1.23  Hey Jude  - The Beatles

A 1970 collection of non-US album cuts, singles and B-sides.  Hey Jude went out of print during the CD era and the songs have since been recompiled onto other Beatles digital releases.  But it was an album and it looked like this.

I get early and late period Beatles with one pick, no Ringo vocals and a whole bunch of na-na-na-nanananas.
 

@Oliver Humanzee

that is some obscure, deep jungle, rule-pushin' #### right there .. .

can we expect this as your theme for the draft?

 

[KarmaPolice]

There were 2 versions of Rubber Soul; 1 was released only in North American markets, 1 everywhere else.  The North American version, as corroborated by Wikipedia, leads off with I've Just Seen a Face, but that song is completely absent from the other version. HTH.

Yeah I know but I think now the only versions available for a while have “I’ve Just Seen a Face” on Help!
 

That makes sense.   I put it on the playlist, I was just confused.  

 

[Northern Voice]

"Anything but an originally released studio album" desert island draft imo

I've found my draft gimmick

1.23  Hey Jude  - The Beatles

A 1970 collection of non-US album cuts, singles and B-sides.  Hey Jude went out of print during the CD era and the songs have since been recompiled onto other Beatles digital releases.  But it was an album and it looked like this.

I get early and late period Beatles with one pick, no Ringo vocals and a whole bunch of na-na-na-nanananas.
 

@Oliver Humanzee

 

 

[Ilov80s]

Yes please skip me and great start everyone.

1.15 Nirvanna - MTV Unplugged

The Man Who Stole the World

Where did you Sleep Last Night

It never gets old, seems to be getting better for me. Listen/Watch now more than I did 15 years ago.

Ok, nevermind my all live album draft. I needed this to drop to really get what I wanted out of it. Great pick, it's my favorite from the whole 90s rock scene.

 

[krista4]

I think he’s almost home so I’ll just let him post his own pick.  Fun fact:  if Eephus has sniped his pick, then OH’s next choice would have sniped my pick.  Thank you for not sniping, Eephus!

 

[Binky The Doormat]

 

if you're looking for @Eephus he's over there in that ratty old record store under a pile of cut-outs.  

 

[MAC_32]

Ok, nevermind my all live album draft. I needed this to drop to really get what I wanted out of it. Great pick, it's my favorite from the whole 90s rock scene.

My only debate was picking it round 1 or round 2. 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I think he’s almost home so I’ll just let him post his own pick.  Fun fact:  if Eephus has sniped his pick, then OH’s next choice would have sniped my pick.  Thank you for not sniping, Eephus!

Eephus is picking #### that Lester Bangs has never heard about.  

 

[krista4]

Nevermind, he's still 15 minutes away, so I'll post the pick and he can write it up when he gets here.  This one was not initially on his radar as we didn't think there was any chance it would be here at 1.24.

(For Oliver Humanzee)  1.24 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

 

[krista4]

@krista4

 

[Eephus]

Ok, nevermind my all live album draft. I needed this to drop to really get what I wanted out of it. Great pick, it's my favorite from the whole 90s rock scene.

The Man Who Stole Ilov80's Theme

 

[Eephus]

@krista4

Quality schtick

 

[PIK95]

Nevermind, he's still 15 minutes away, so I'll post the pick and he can write it up when he gets here.  This one was not initially on his radar as we didn't think there was any chance it would be here at 1.24.

(For Oliver Humanzee)  1.24 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

:sigh:  I was hoping this would post hype its way back to me, with all the nerd hipsters drafting Beatles greatest hits up in here.

All timer right there.

 

[Ilov80s]

Nevermind, he's still 15 minutes away, so I'll post the pick and he can write it up when he gets here.  This one was not initially on his radar as we didn't think there was any chance it would be here at 1.24.

(For Oliver Humanzee)  1.24 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Especially good pick because the Beach Boys aren't really an album band so unlike The Beatles, there aren't many options. 

 

[Eephus]

Eephus is picking #### that Lester Bangs has never heard about.  

I have a copy of Bangs' band's record.  It's not good.

 

[Ilov80s]

:sigh:  I was hoping this would post hype its way back to me with all the nerd hipsters drafting Beatles greatest hits up in here.

All timer right there.

I had it as my #2 rated album so it wasn't getting past me near the turn. 

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Eephus is picking #### that Lester Bangs has never heard about.  

I had that album on vinyl 

 

[mphtrilogy]

Great pick, @mphtrilogy !! - which 2 songs you want on the playlist?

Let's go with burning down the house and naive melody thanks!

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Especially good pick because the Beach Boys aren't really an album band so unlike The Beatles, there aren't many options. 

it's the most VBD "non-VBD" pick that is possible

she's just trying to throw us off 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

:sigh:  I was hoping this would post hype its way back to me, with all the nerd hipsters drafting Beatles greatest hits up in here.

All timer right there.

I'M A LUNCHBOX CARRYIN' OG 

 

[Northern Voice]

1.23  Hey Jude  - The Beatles

A 1970 collection of non-US album cuts, singles and B-sides.  Hey Jude went out of print during the CD era and the songs have since been recompiled onto other Beatles digital releases.  But it was an album and it looked like this.

I get early and late period Beatles with one pick, no Ringo vocals and a whole bunch of na-na-na-nanananas.
 

@Oliver Humanzee

I have this vinyl by the way. I wonder if it's worth anything. 

 

[landrys hat]

I have this vinyl by the way. I wonder if it's worth anything. 

about $10

 

[Abrantes]

Nevermind, he's still 15 minutes away, so I'll post the pick and he can write it up when he gets here.  This one was not initially on his radar as we didn't think there was any chance it would be here at 1.24.

(For Oliver Humanzee)  1.24 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Went in the 46th overall pick in the original DID, apparently. The FFA is the wild f'n west of music drafters.*   

*Or just low-bottom Beach Boys haters.

 

[PIK95]

I have this vinyl by the way. I wonder if it's worth anything. 

I'll buy it.  Do you take bit coin?

 

[KarmaPolice]

Nevermind, he's still 15 minutes away, so I'll post the pick and he can write it up when he gets here.  This one was not initially on his radar as we didn't think there was any chance it would be here at 1.24.

(For Oliver Humanzee)  1.24 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Tell him to post songs too, and to remind Eephus to choose his songs as well.  

 

[Chaos Commish]

Forget it - he’s rolling.

whooo i laughed. i cannot tell you how tired i am from 100 degree heat and landscaping... i will not fix it.

 

[Eephus]

Tell him to post songs too, and to remind Eephus to choose his songs as well.  

:whoosh:

 

[MAC_32]

Part of it was being born in 1983 - and they certainly had a unique sound, but I don't understand why Pet Sounds is so widely considered at the top of the best ever conversation. I think it'd be kinda cool to pop on once in a while while stranded on an island, but outside Sloop John B nothing by them stands out to me. What am I missing? 

 

[PIK95]

I'm trying to make an Imovie of kids art work and songs for my wife.  Who is a teacher in here again?  This suxors.

 

[PIK95]

Part of it was being born in 1983 - and they certainly had a unique sound, but I don't understand why Pet Sounds is so widely considered at the top of the best ever conversation. I think it'd be kinda cool to pop on once in a while while stranded on an island, but outside Sloop John B nothing by them stands out to me. What am I missing? 

Everything...

 

[Northern Voice]

Part of it was being born in 1983 - and they certainly had a unique sound, but I don't understand why Pet Sounds is so widely considered at the top of the best ever conversation. I think it'd be kinda cool to pop on once in a while while stranded on an island, but outside Sloop John B nothing by them stands out to me. What am I missing? 

"God Only Knows" for one thing.

 

[Northern Voice]

Part of it was being born in 1983

Also,

 

[PIK95]

Part of it was being born in 1983 - and they certainly had a unique sound, but I don't understand why Pet Sounds is so widely considered at the top of the best ever conversation. I think it'd be kinda cool to pop on once in a while while stranded on an island, but outside Sloop John B nothing by them stands out to me. What am I missing? 

Firat of all, Wouldn't it Be Nice and God Only knows may be the two best songs in history.  It has a few others that are top shelf.  The sounds they put in it were unparalleled for the time. And much of it was low key about doin it, which was frowned upon before marriage back then.

Plus goats.

 

[krista4]

1.25 - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

I felt pretty certain @Uruk-Hai would choose a Stevie Wonder record, and I think we'd discussed before that Songs in the Key of Life was his favorite.  This one is actually my favorite anyway, but with only nine songs compared to the abundance on SitKoL, I might have gone the other direction.  Glad Uruk made that decision for me.

I don't listen to a lot of more modern music as "an album" and don't know if much of it is intended that way.  This, along with a lot of the other "classics" is An Album.  It's cohesive and it has a flow that can't be beat.  For example, after "Living for the City" - in my opinion one of the masterpieces of modern music - you need that pure joy of Golden Lady, and then to get immediately back into your harder groove of "Higher Ground."  Ending on the slow build and then uproar of "He's Misstra Know-It-All" is sheer brilliance.  This album has it all - rock, soul, R&B, jazz, funk, dance, even Latin.  I could write paragraphs about each song on this record (I've been known to do this, though no one read them), but it's best appreciated as a full experience rather than a collection of songs.  Let it guide you, taking you on the journey through the panoply of human emotion and experience.

Oh, and remember that pretty much every sound you hear on this record was created by Stevie himself.  Mr. krista and I argued recently over whether Stevie or Paul McCartney was the bigger musical genius, but I don't think there's a wrong answer there.

I hate choosing two songs here, because it needs to be devoured as a whole.  I have to go for the aforementioned Living for the City since it's one of the best songs of all time, and while I'd be tempted to post "Golden Lady" for the intended flow of the record, let's instead go with that big build of the record's final flourish, He's Misstra Know-It-All.  

@landrys hat

 

[mphtrilogy]

I have this vinyl by the way. I wonder if it's worth anything. 

About $10 in vg+ shape

https://www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-Hey-Jude-The-Beatles-Again/release/3517183

I got back into vinyl 3 years ago, slightly obsessed .... but good clean fun...

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Tell him to post songs too, and to remind Eephus to choose his songs as well.  

:whoosh:

and we want the ones off the accompanying translucent yellow 78rpm

 

[otb_lifer]

I had that album on vinyl 

ditto, first time i ever heard "Old Brown Shoe" and "Inner Light"

ETA: actually won it on the boardwalk at Seaside ... Lucky Leo's

 

[zamboni]

whooo i laughed. i cannot tell you how tired i am from 100 degree heat and landscaping... i will not fix it.

Please don’t - love it.

 

[PIK95]

About $10 in vg+ shape

https://www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-Hey-Jude-The-Beatles-Again/release/3517183

I got back into vinyl 3 years ago, slightly obsessed .... but good clean fun...

I spent almost $400 on a record last week.  I'll tell you what it was after the draft.

 

[krista4]

Tell him to post songs too, and to remind Eephus to choose his songs as well.  

krista4:  Which two Pet Sounds songs do you want?  God Only Knows and what else?

 

[krista4]

Especially good pick because the Beach Boys aren't really an album band so unlike The Beatles, there aren't many options. 

it's the most VBD "non-VBD" pick that is possible

she's just trying to throw us off 

Not my pick!

 

[zamboni]

Nevermind, he's still 15 minutes away, so I'll post the pick and he can write it up when he gets here.  This one was not initially on his radar as we didn't think there was any chance it would be here at 1.24.

(For Oliver Humanzee)  1.24 - Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Damn - knew this wouldn’t last long. Surprised it made it this far, actually.

 

[mphtrilogy]

I spent almost $400 on a record last week.  I'll tell you what it was after the draft.

I was chasing the Beatles in mono collection by individual title, missed the boat on the 2014 mono box before I got back into vinyl, Sgt Peppers cost a pretty penny, but I kept it  under $100... would like to know what you grabbed later down the road....

 

[KarmaPolice]

:whoosh:

I didn't see your choices for the playlist.  

 

[Northern Voice]

I got back into vinyl 3 years ago, slightly obsessed .... but good clean fun...

I spent almost $400 on a record last week.  I'll tell you what it was after the draft.

My vinyl collection is an insane mix of albums inherited from my parents (60s/70s - mom had good taste, dad more... eclectic), much more recent stuff I've got at concerts (00s/10s) and a little bit filled in in between from record shops.

 

[PIK95]

I was chasing the Beatles in mono collection by individual title, missed the boat on the 2014 mono box before I got back into vinyl, Sgt Peppers cost a pretty penny, but I kept it  under $100... would like to know what you grabbed later down the road....

It's pretty rare, and something I had to have.

 

[zamboni]

1.25 - Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

I felt pretty certain @Uruk-Hai would choose a Stevie Wonder record, and I think we'd discussed before that Songs in the Key of Life was his favorite.  This one is actually my favorite anyway, but with only nine songs compared to the abundance on SitKoL, I might have gone the other direction.  Glad Uruk made that decision for me.

I don't listen to a lot of more modern music as "an album" and don't know if much of it is intended that way.  This, along with a lot of the other "classics" is An Album.  It's cohesive and it has a flow that can't be beat.  For example, after "Living for the City" - in my opinion one of the masterpieces of modern music - you need that pure joy of Golden Lady, and then to get immediately back into your harder groove of "Higher Ground."  Ending on the slow build and then uproar of "He's Misstra Know-It-All" is sheer brilliance.  This album has it all - rock, soul, R&B, jazz, funk, dance, even Latin.  I could write paragraphs about each song on this record (I've been known to do this, though no one read them), but it's best appreciated as a full experience rather than a collection of songs.  Let it guide you, taking you on the journey through the panoply of human emotion and experience.

Oh, and remember that pretty much everything sound you hear on this record was created by Stevie himself.  Mr. krista and I argued recently over whether Stevie or Paul McCartney was the bigger musical genius, but I don't think there's a wrong answer there.

I hate choosing two songs here, because it needs to be devoured as a whole.  I have to go for the aforementioned Living for the City since it's one of the best songs of all time, and while I'd be tempted to post "Golden Lady" for the intended flow of the record, let's instead go with that big build of the record's final flourish, He's Misstra Know-It-All.  

@landrys hat

Damn - another one on the short list.

 

[PIK95]

Damn - another one on the short list.

Kinda funny, but my short list is looking really fine at this point.  I probably just jinxed it.

 

[krista4]

Went in the 46th overall pick in the original DID, apparently. The FFA is the wild f'n west of music drafters.*   

*Or just low-bottom Beach Boys haters.

I purposefully haven't looked at the old draft.  That's surprising.

 

[zamboni]

I purposefully haven't looked at the old draft.  That's surprising.

I haven’t either - really don’t want to bias my picks.