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Pick a Pair/Half Decade Album Draft - Bonus Rounds Thu & Fri - Pick three if you want (1 Viewer)

I decided to go another round after all after rock said something that inspired me.

11.13- Devo: New Traditionalists (1981) and Something for Everybody (2010)

If I could go back in time and clue my 13 year old self into what was going on around him, Devo would have been up there with Talking Heads, Roxy Music and Parliament. Two of those were already taken, so I'll go with these guys. I didn't like Whip It so I didn't pay them any attention, and I should probably credit having kids around the time that Mark Mothersbaugh was writing theme music to shows like Rugrats and Rocket Power.  Anyway, here are my picks:

Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth

Beautiful World

Fresh

Cameo

 
Charlie Steiner said:
I decided to go another round after all after rock said something that inspired me.

11.13- Devo: New Traditionalists (1981) and Something for Everybody (2010)

If I could go back in time and clue my 13 year old self into what was going on around him, Devo would have been up there with Talking Heads, Roxy Music and Parliament. Two of those were already taken, so I'll go with these guys. I didn't like Whip It so I didn't pay them any attention, and I should probably credit having kids around the time that Mark Mothersbaugh was writing theme music to shows like Rugrats and Rocket Power.  Anyway, here are my picks:

Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth

Beautiful World

Fresh

Cameo
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Devo! I thought of them when I was having trouble with the late seventies and eighties. Glad I said something so that you picked these. What was it, if you don't mind me asking? If it's personal and needs to stay that way, no sweat either. 

 
rockaction said:
Devo! I thought of them when I was having trouble with the late seventies and eighties. Glad I said something so that you picked these. What was it, if you don't mind me asking? If it's personal and needs to stay that way, no sweat either. 
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rockaction said:
I wouldn't worry about it if it did. I know mine won't flow, and that's fine by me, really. The songs are hopefully strong enough to transcend BPM or genre concerns. I'm used to jerking back and forth between influences, so a list that does so would be no surprise. 

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Thought you wrote that intentionally.

 
Charlie Steiner said:
Thought you wrote that intentionally.
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Heh. Nope. Glad it inspired something, though. I would have ostentatiously linked to it if I was making words play like that or something. I generally don't let try to hide nuggets in my writing because the form we're working within (message board communication) is so confusing regarding tone, sarcasm, irony, and other things like them that I try to keep as straightforward as possible. I don't always succeed at that and sometimes I'll put a nugget in there, but I've tried not to do that as much as I get accustomed to the confusion it causes. 

 
Charlie Steiner said:
I decided to go another round after all after rock said something that inspired me.

11.13- Devo: New Traditionalists (1981) and Something for Everybody (2010)

If I could go back in time and clue my 13 year old self into what was going on around him, Devo would have been up there with Talking Heads, Roxy Music and Parliament. Two of those were already taken, so I'll go with these guys. I didn't like Whip It so I didn't pay them any attention, and I should probably credit having kids around the time that Mark Mothersbaugh was writing theme music to shows like Rugrats and Rocket Power.  Anyway, here are my picks:

Jerkin' Back 'n' Forth

Beautiful World

Fresh

Cameo
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:wub:

But Duty Now for the Future is one of my favorite albums period.

 
11.ee

Herbie Hancock

Maiden Voyage (1966)
Head Hunters (1973)
River: The Joni Letters (2007)

Herbie Hancock has been an innovator and popularizer of Jazz for over half a century. He first came to prominence in his early 20s when Miles Davis chose him to play piano in his second great quintet.  Maiden Voyage features the rhythm section of that legendary group substituting Freddie Hubbard for Miles in the trumpet chair and George Coleman on tenor sax. The album has some of Herbie's finest compositions including Dolphin Dance and the title track.

Head Hunters is a Jazz Fusion classic made with a host of early ARP synthesizers and other electric instruments. Chameleon has one of the funkiest grooves to ever bubble out of the earth. The album has held up better than 99% of Fusion because nobody is playing at 100 miles per hour. Herbie embraces the technical limitations of the equipment by stripping the music down and treating his synths almost like percussion instruments.

I've avoided picking previously drafted artists throughout this draft. No snipe hurt as bad as Tim taking Joni Mitchell off the board early. But River: The Joni Letters is a strong plan B. It's a collection of Mitchell compositions arranged for a Jazz quartet including Wayne Shorter on saxes.  About half the songs feature guest vocalists including Norah Jones, Tina Turner, Leonard Cohen and Joni herself. The record beat out Kanye and Amy Winehouse at the Grammies. I didn't really bond with it when it came out but I rediscovered it early in the pandemic and enjoyed it a lot more in my current circumstances.

 
Eephus said:
It's a fine album by itself but it suffers a bit in the company of the late-60s Stones records that surround it.
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I like it fine - but psychadelia is not really their bag and at times it sounds like they're trying too hard. 

 
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Last pick is tough. I have it down to 3 very very different artists. Two of which have already been taken but have some 5 star level albums still sitting out there. 

 
Oh I thought one of the options would have given me the nerd points for hitting every half decade but I was wrong about the release of the debut album and I would miss '94. 

 
krista4 said:
Yikes!  I typed this up last night but didn't really suspect I'd be sniping anyone!  Glad to see you got some other great R.E.M. albums anyway.  They have many good ones to choose from.
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I could have taken three others easily.  1983 or 84, 88, and 1998 are all great records.

 
Steve Tasker said:
@KarmaPolice

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1aOSEVxiya6FCQHoh1Bluz?si=cc003409dc33463e

Here's a quick 86 songs culled from other random lists and the top of my head.  May want to listen on shuffle, it's not very well mixed.  It's a mix of saccharine bubblegum pop, indie pop, a little bit of pop-adjacent R&B/dance and synth.  I'll have to keep it updated.
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:bow:

Thanks!   I will listen to this in the next couple of days.  

ETA:  I scanned it, and I'm not sure I recognize more than a dozen songs out of the 92, so I I am looking forward to this one even more.   Thanks again, Tasker. 

 
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You B!tches Brew fans need to check out Jack Johnson. Same era, same rock fusion free jazz. I like it better. It's rockier. So why not load up on the Prince of Darkness.

Rd 11

Miles Davis

Birth of the Cool (1950) yes, he invented cool

Jack Johnson (1971) 

Doo-Bop (1991) RIP brilliant prince

On Doo-Bop

At the time of Davis' death in 1991, only six pieces for the album had been completed.[2] Easy Mo Bee was asked by Warner Bros. to take some of the unreleased trumpet performances (stemming from what Davis called the RubberBand Session), and build tracks that Miles "would have loved" around the recordings. The album's posthumous tracks (as stated in the liner notes) are "High Speed Chase" and "Fantasy". A reprise of the song "Mystery" rounded out the album's nine-track length.
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On Birth of the Cool

Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements influenced by classical music techniques such as polyphony, and marked a major development in post-bebop jazz. As the title suggests, these recordings are considered seminal in the history of cool jazz. Most of them were originally released in the 10-inch 78-rpm format and are all approximately three minutes long.
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So I kind of garnered Miles beginning to end in this draft...

 
If one was going heavy jazz or rap, this draft was like shooting fish in a barrel. Incredible scooping Birth of the Cool this late, love that record. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
:bow:

Thanks!   I will listen to this in the next couple of days.  

ETA:  I scanned it, and I'm not sure I recognize more than a dozen songs out of the 92, so I I am looking forward to this one even more.   Thanks again, Tasker. 
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:hifive:  let me know how it goes.  There's some stuff on there that's definitely not obscure, the Katy Perry and Lady Gaga and Rihanna types, but there's some good stuff.  Like I said, this was off the cuff off the top of my head and pulled from some other Spotify playlists I have....I'll keep adding to it when more comes to mind.

 
rockaction said:
A lot tougher than you'd think, actually. 
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The half-decade rule narrows the field a lot

The pace of album releases has also slowed this century. You rarely see artists other than King Gizzard and Ty Segall release five albums or more in a half decade.

 
Eephus said:
The half-decade rule narrows the field a lot

The pace of album releases has also slowed this century. You rarely see artists other than King Gizzard and Ty Segall release five albums or more in a half decade.
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Yeah, it has. I think people got caught up in the economic model of write, tour, break time, write, tour, break time. It makes me admire the hip hop guys of the early 90s even more. Tribe put out People's Instinctive Travels..., The Low End Theory, and Midnight Marauders in four calendar years. That was something else. And each album sounded different because a lifetime had elapsed as far as rap's musical growth goes. 

I'm honesty stunned they could do that. Back when I wrote, a competent, good-sounding verse would take a month or two -- and that would be a miracle. It's so very, very hard, especially when it's not really your vernacular. 

 
rockaction said:
Yeah, it has. I think people got caught up in the economic model of write, tour, break time, write, tour, break time. It makes me admire the hip hop guys of the early 90s even more. Tribe put out People's Instinctive Travels..., The Low End Theory, and Midnight Marauders in four calendar years. That was something else. And each album sounded different because a lifetime had elapsed as far as rap's musical growth goes. 

I'm honesty stunned they could do that. Back when I wrote, a competent, good-sounding verse would take a month or two -- and that would be a miracle. It's so very, very hard, especially when it's not really your vernacular. 
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Some prolific 80s and 90s rappers recorded a bunch to get out of multi-album commitments to their management and label.

The Rap game always been notoriously fickle even by pop music standards.  This was particularly true in the first decade of Hip Hop because everything was evolving at a lightning pace.

 
Eephus said:
Some prolific 80s and 90s rappers recorded a bunch to get out of multi-album commitments to their management and label.

The Rap game always been notoriously fickle even by pop music standards.  This was particularly true in the first decade of Hip Hop because everything was evolving at a lightning pace.
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Run-D.M.C. and Profile Records, who were notoriously bad about shelving stuff and not backing acts, as was Tommy Boy, if I'm not mistaken. 

eta* I mean, I could be wrong about the specific rappers, but I had heard about Profile and Tommy Boy from artists who had complained about them. Vicious game, the music biz back then. 

 
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Dr. Octopus said:
I'm a big fan of "Me In Honey".
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Me In Honey is probably the reason I finally became a big R.E.M fan two years ago.  I was at work and it was playing on the radio at work in the background, and I was like, damn this is a good song (I had never heard it before).  I googled the lyrics right then and there, found out the name of it, and there begun my long-awaited deep dive into their discography after 30 years of liking a few of their hits, but not wanting to bother with anything else.  Better late than never. 

 
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Eephus said:
Some prolific 80s and 90s rappers recorded a bunch to get out of multi-album commitments to their management and label.

The Rap game always been notoriously fickle even by pop music standards.  This was particularly true in the first decade of Hip Hop because everything was evolving at a lightning pace.
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It really is difficult to find hip hop artists who put out viable albums across multiple half-decades.  It's seemingly a fickle genre.  Even the venerable legends don't put out classic full albums repeatedly. 

I also don't know that hip hop is conducive to a full album.  Maybe it's the nature of sampling, but there's just a lot of disjointed albums.  I drafted a bunch because, well, that's my wheelhouse I guess, but once the first few were off the board, I feel like the genre was a bit barren in this half-decade context.

 
Steve Tasker said:
It really is difficult to find hip hop artists who put out viable albums across multiple half-decades.  It's seemingly a fickle genre.  Even the venerable legends don't put out classic full albums repeatedly. 

I also don't know that hip hop is conducive to a full album.  Maybe it's the nature of sampling, but there's just a lot of disjointed albums.  I drafted a bunch because, well, that's my wheelhouse I guess, but once the first few were off the board, I feel like the genre was a bit barren in this half-decade context.
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Lotta dudes dropped epic records in 88, then had a follow up. 

 
Round 11

Townes Van Zandt 

Townes Van Zandt (1968)

”Columbine”

“Fair Thee Well, Miss Carousel”

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (1972)

“If I Needed You”

”Poncho and Lefty”

Flyin’ Shoes (1978)

“Loretta”

”Dollar Bill Blues” 

My favorite country music songwriter and artist of all time. 

 
Townes was on my must-have list from the beginning, but I was trying to be less predictable.  :lol:   Probably would have taken him tomorrow anyway, but now I'll go in another direction.

 
Steve Tasker said:
It really is difficult to find hip hop artists who put out viable albums across multiple half-decades.  It's seemingly a fickle genre.  Even the venerable legends don't put out classic full albums repeatedly. 

I also don't know that hip hop is conducive to a full album.  Maybe it's the nature of sampling, but there's just a lot of disjointed albums.  I drafted a bunch because, well, that's my wheelhouse I guess, but once the first few were off the board, I feel like the genre was a bit barren in this half-decade context.
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Skits don't help either

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
Round 11  -  Neil Diamond

You knew it was going to happen, right?  I figure I'm the only one here who would take this, so I let it ride. 
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Neil was very much on my radar, but just couldn’t find any full albums I liked enough outside the first half of the ‘70s. Figured The Jazz Singer didn’t apply.

 
zamboni said:
Neil was very much on my radar, but just couldn’t find any full albums I liked enough outside the first half of the ‘70s. Figured The Jazz Singer didn’t apply.
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Sure it does.  He wrote or co-wrote everything that wasn't traditional.  So does Johnathan Livingston Seagull.

I was considering taking Flash Gordon for one of my Queen albums.  But I only got two albums.  I could pick three more right now.

 
Mrs. Rannous said:
So does Johnathan Livingston Seagull. 
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As I mentioned earlier in the thread, my second concert ever was Diamond at the Aladdin Theater in Las Vegas in 1976. I was 11 years old. Most of the show was awesome, Neil performed all the hits, quite similar to Hot August Night. 
Then, late into the evening, he performed about a ten minute medley from Jonathan Livingston Seagull, while the screen behind him showed scenes from the movie. Even at age 11 I knew it all sucked. 

 
12.23

Panda Bear  🐼

With an emphasis on harmonies and the word "pop," experimental pop/electronica genius Noah Lennox, aka Panda Bear of Animal Collective fame, has a burgeoning solo career that sometimes dwarfs his more famous Baltimore compatriots. Using samples and harmonies, he constructs musical pastiches for the listener. Beats and loops are his specialty -- his art is certainly found art, sound-collage heavy, and often concentrates on soaring, repetitive musical snippets to draw the listener into a finely wound psychedelic trance. It's good stuff, in short, and worth some time and patience for his Beach Boys harmonies that come through filtered vocals. Person Pitch was his first breakthrough in 2007 into Pitchfork/indie fame, Tomboy was the follow-up that many people found distant and confusing (I love it. It's probably my favorite. The harmonies and vocals are beautiful) while Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper is a melodic turn towards hip-hop-influenced dream-pop and glitch. In short, a mish-mash of genres, but always accessible and beautifully done. I think that his music is beautiful and sort of heaven-ascendant, if you'll permit me an little emotive editorial about what it sounds like.

Panda Bear - Person Pitch (2007)

Comfy In Nautica 

Bros

Ponytail

Panda Bear - Tomboy (2011)

Tomboy

Slow Motion

Surfer's Hymn 

Panda Bear - Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper (2015)

Mr. Noah

Boys Latin

Acid Wash 

 
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