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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2016 10:13:34 GMT -5
You know what to do, but in case not, 3 choices for everyone. Get them in before midnight, June 1.
3rd Bass – Derelicts of Dialect (June 18, 1991)
Second and final studio album of the Queens hip-hop trio, featuring “Pop Goes The Weasel”
The Beat – Wha’ppen (June 1981)
Album two from the Birmingham ska group also known as The English Beat
Beck – Odelay (June 18, 1996)
Varied, sample-heavy fifth album from the L.A. singer-songwriter and producers The Dust Brothers
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request (June 18, 1996)
Fourth studio album (and second of three released in 1996) by the San Francisco rock group
Frank Zappa – Make a Jazz Noise Here (June 4, 1991)
Live double album, featuring material recorded during Zappa’s 1988 world tour
Herbert – Bodily Functions (June 5, 2001)
Album number five from the English electronic producer and vocalist Dani Siliciano
Joni Mitchell – Blue (June 22, 1971)
Vaunted fourth album from the Alberta singer-songwriter, featuring guitar contributions from James Taylor and Stephen Stills
Kevin Ayers – Yes, We Have No Mañanas (So Get Your Mañanas Today) (June 1976)
Seventh solo album from the former Soft Machine vocalist/bassist
Kid Creole and the Coconuts – Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places (June 1981)
Sophomore record from the August Darnell-led collective, a concept travelogue album
Metallica – Load (June 4, 1996)
Sixth, hard rock-leaning album from the San Francisco quartet
Motörhead – No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith (June 27, 1981)
Live album #2 from the London hard rock trio
Nada Surf – High/Low (June 18, 1996)
Debut full-length from the NYC rock group, featuring “Popular”
The Psychedelic Furs – Talk Talk Talk (June 6, 1981)
Second album from the London five-piece, featuring “Pretty In Pink,” the inspiration for the John Hughes film
Regina Spektor – Begin To Hope (June 13, 2006)
Commercial breakthrough fourth album from the Russian-born, NYC-based singer-songwriter
Screaming Trees – Dust (June 25, 1996)
Seventh and final album from the Washington rock group, featuring contributions from Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Juju (June 6, 1981)
Fourth record from the London post-punk quartet
Sloan – One Chord To Another (June 12, 1996)
The Halifax rock quartet’s fourth, gold-selling album
The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead (June 16, 1986)
Record number three from the Mancunian act, featuring “The Boy With The Thorn In His Side” and “Bigmouth Strikes Again”
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists – The Tyranny of Distance (June 19, 2001)
Second album (and the first as a full band) by the Washington, D.C. rock outfit
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Post by repulsionist on May 24, 2016 11:59:11 GMT -5
Stump-time! I hardily and heartily endorse moimoi 's selection Juju (1981). Seeing the video for "Spellbound" in my teens (ca. late 80s) was like watching An American Werewolf in London for the first time. Creepy moods from running in the woods at night. I wonder if there's any reference to Curse of the Demon in this vid? Kid Creole and CocoNuts is such a wonder of influences. August Darnell is a disco-cumbia-calypso-new-wave fixture in Sweden and Hawaii (now). This album came out on ZE Records, which is a BIG DEAL from 80s NY music history. I started with Off the Coast of Me. I kind of passed through their other work. I do remember seeing their profile rise in the mid-80s. The stage show with the singing ladies is great to see footage of! The Beat's Wha'apen? is one of those albums that I don't know well, but I've heard enough of The Beat that I want to get to know this one. |
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Post by moimoi on May 24, 2016 12:17:57 GMT -5
I'm conflicted about The Queen is Dead, because although it is a monumental album by my all-time favorite band (waaay before Zooey Deschanel got her sticky mitts all over them) and I am apparently going to be speaking about it at the June Classic Albums Sunday in Chicago, I like to discover new stuff through this record club, not albums I know so well that I can't really listen with fresh ears (though perhaps I will in June?). That's why I went for Juju. I'm a huge Siouxsie fan, but I've never listened to this one aside from "Spellbound". It's in their classic period, though, so I'm hoping to make some discoveries. |
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on May 24, 2016 13:48:24 GMT -5
I voted for a couple of albums because whatever, but the one I REALLY want to talk about is Derelicts of Dialect by 3rd Bass.
These guys seem to be mostly forgotten today, but at least in the circles I traveled they were the first legit white rappers (the Beasties were still seen as more of a novelty act at that point). Fans of early De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest will probably appreciate what’s going on here.
As further enticement, I will simply link their video for “Pop Goes the Weasel” featuring one Henry Rollins dressed as Vanilla Ice:
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Post by repulsionist on May 24, 2016 15:06:33 GMT -5
Some Kind of Munster , I remember these lads well. I avidly watched Rap City on BET from 1991, when my rap epiphany waxed highest (context: I was so enamored of what went on at Rap City I collected bottle caps, or labels - I cannot distinctly remember - from St. Ides 40s until I had enough to send in for a free T-Shirt.), until 1995 when I felt that 90s rap/hip-hop was moving on to something post-Wu-Tang and Will Smif was just about to start singing about his "Big Willie Style". I never felt that anything they put out rallied to the heights of other equals and peers. Their flow is solid. Their lyrics are pointed and fun. Something with these guys just didn't stick.
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Post by moimoi on May 24, 2016 15:11:02 GMT -5
Some Kind of Munster , I remember these lads well. I avidly watched Rap City on BET from 1991, when my rap epiphany waxed highest (context: I was so enamored of what went on at Rap City I collected bottle caps, or labels - I cannot distinctly remember - from St. Ides 40s until I had enough to send in for a free T-Shirt.), until 1995 when I felt that 90s rap/hip-hop was moving on to something post-Wu-Tang and Will Smif was just about to start singing about his "Big Willie Style". I never felt that anything they put out rallied to the heights of other equals and peers. Their flow is solid. Their lyrics are pointed and fun. Something with these guys just didn't stick. I think MC Serch came across as having a chip on his shoulder - insisting they were 'realer' than the Beastie Boys or Vanilla Ice when no one was really comparing them. They had a great DJ though and Pete Nice was the man with his cane. |
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Post by Dellarigg on May 24, 2016 15:20:33 GMT -5
Motorhead, Beck, BJM.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on May 24, 2016 15:28:28 GMT -5
Some Kind of Munster , I remember these lads well. I avidly watched Rap City on BET from 1991, when my rap epiphany waxed highest (context: I was so enamored of what went on at Rap City I collected bottle caps, or labels - I cannot distinctly remember - from St. Ides 40s until I had enough to send in for a free T-Shirt.), until 1995 when I felt that 90s rap/hip-hop was moving on to something post-Wu-Tang and Will Smif was just about to start singing about his "Big Willie Style". I never felt that anything they put out rallied to the heights of other equals and peers. Their flow is solid. Their lyrics are pointed and fun. Something with these guys just didn't stick. I think MC Serch came across as having a chip on his shoulder - insisting they were 'realer' than the Beastie Boys or Vanilla Ice when no one was really comparing them. They had a great DJ though and Pete Nice was the man with his cane. Yeah, that sounds about right. There seemed to be an element of seeing himself/themselves as gatekeepers of hip hop, what with railing against “pop rap” on this and their previous album, where they took a lot of shots at Hammer. You can either see it as “punching up” or “sour grapes”, I suppose. |
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on May 24, 2016 18:52:06 GMT -5
As much as I love any chance to dust off my anecdote about meeting Dave Wakeling after a concert, I implore everyone to vote for One Chord to Another. Just a fantastic pop record.
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Post by moimoi on May 24, 2016 20:57:30 GMT -5
As much as I love any chance to dust off my anecdote about meeting Dave Wakeling after a concert, I implore everyone to vote for One Chord to Another. Just a fantastic pop record. I'd like to hear the Dave Wakeling story - he's very underrated, IMO. |
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Post by rimjobflashmob on May 24, 2016 22:39:03 GMT -5
As much as I love any chance to dust off my anecdote about meeting Dave Wakeling after a concert, I implore everyone to vote for One Chord to Another. Just a fantastic pop record. If my fandom of Sloan has taught me anything, it's that this sudden surge in votes will inexplicably peter off and I'll be left to trawl defunct aughts-era Canadian music forums to try to talk about this band again. |
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Post by ganews on May 24, 2016 23:42:02 GMT -5
Vote for Beck and you can learn about how I sing "Sissyneck" out loud when I'm ridin' my bike to the depot.
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Post by Dellarigg on May 25, 2016 1:32:31 GMT -5
Vote for Beck and you can learn about how I sing "Sissyneck" out loud when I'm ridin' my bike to the depot. I already have voted for Beck, but I'll pass, thanks. |
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Post by Nudeviking on May 25, 2016 2:13:10 GMT -5
Don't vote for anything I nominated because everyone already picked better stuff than I did when I got around to nominating things. Vote for Sloan or whatever instead.
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Post by Some Kind of Munster on May 25, 2016 10:41:55 GMT -5
SLOOOOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOAN!
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Post by repulsionist on May 25, 2016 13:07:01 GMT -5
troll-pinion, guys, Sloan ain't my cuppa, though I appreciate their British Invasion nods in crafting fun alterna-pop-rock . Actually, I'm quite surprised I never came across these guys in the 90s; even moreso considering that I spent that particular year of 1996 in the company of business-ready-to-climb-to-director-level expat-Canadians who introduced me to The Tragically Hip and Barenaked Ladies!
But, this is a democratic process that will pick a winner based on popular vote, not swayed by muted dismissal. Vote away!
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Post by repulsionist on May 25, 2016 13:26:33 GMT -5
Fading susurration of history here.... Kid Creole and the Coconuts was important to late 70s, early 80s NY. This was the transitional period from peak-Disco-Studio54 to Palladium-era night clubs. Creole offered a synthesis of styles lumped into the "mutant disco" developments that precipitated ZE Records. From Creole's ferment I really think stuff like Konk, Liquid Liquid, Jellybean Benitez, and a lot of other producers/creators gives way. Granted, ZE Records itself stands in the same field of influence, but that could be discussed to in relation to how this album makes the listener feel. Think about Basquiat and Vincent Gallo palling around with Keith Haring, and what kind of music might inspire them. In my opinion, this band's work does a lot for that. They're like a Bronx-based Gauguin collective going to the Caribbean and extracting great music to present in music halls via the Cab Calloway-like emcee and Big Jazz-era stage show.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on May 25, 2016 18:52:28 GMT -5
As much as I love any chance to dust off my anecdote about meeting Dave Wakeling after a concert, I implore everyone to vote for One Chord to Another. Just a fantastic pop record. I'd like to hear the Dave Wakeling story - he's very underrated, IMO. Since a coworker started to talk to me about the English Beat today completely outside of the context of this poll, I was thinking of this today anyway. Year was 2011, won free tickets from a local radio station to see them at an under capacity club that seemed to noticeably shrink after they played "Save It For Later" (their best song, but they played several after and hadn't even gotten to Mirror in the Bathroom yet). Said radio station had a few interns passing out bumper stickers I shoved in my pocket with no intention of sticking to my car or any other surface. After the show, he was just sitting on the edge of the stage, causually talking with anyone who wanted to say hi or get him to sign something (which I thought was cool and not something you typically see). There was virtually no wait to talk to him, and when I got up to him, I had nothing for him to sign accept that bumper sticker I was intending to throw away. He signed it, but also drew two eighth notes followed by an exclamation point, and an X. He then proceeded to launch into a brief history lesson of how the X was the official symbol of St. Andrew and how and why it meant to mean "kiss" as in the XOXO you see signed on cards. A fun fact, and I only know it because I stopped to talk to an old New Wave singer. Of course I was somewhat preoccupied by learning just moments before that the girl I'd taken to the show had technically been underage when we started dating a few weeks prior and whatever social ramifications that entailed. |
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Post by ganews on May 28, 2016 23:22:04 GMT -5
I guess now is the time to start a couple sockpuppet TI accounts and vote again for Beck's generally-acknowledged best (but not necessarily my favorite) album.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on May 29, 2016 1:01:36 GMT -5
You guys are a bunch of Herberts for not voting for Herbert.
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Post by Jimmy James on May 31, 2016 19:02:23 GMT -5
Well, the Onion has clearly indicated which horse they're backing in this race. |
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