Giuseppe Zangara

Number One: Numbers Two through Ten: some other stuff

Harvey Milk is the best Athens band no one talks about.

Important.

Sticky Exile Beggar's Their Majesty's and...uh...Some Girls? Not in any order, but I'd guess those are 1-5. Switch 2 and 3 and you got it. In spite of what I said earlier, number six switches between Let It Bleed and Between the Buttons.

They can have it.

"Monkey Man" is awesome, fuck you. And while Let It Be isn't as dire as some would have you believe, it's still a bunch of tossed-off piffle. Also, Let It Bleed is my sixth favorite Stones album, lest you think I have some gigantic boner for it.

The Replacements' Let It Be is really good, btw, but about fifteen years too late to participate.

You Sallys done jizzin' your panties?

I don't think anyone's going to argue with that.

I often read "Kreese" so that it rhymes with "Sensei."

List irrelevant due to glaring absence of Siamese Dream.

Let's not kid around: "25 Or 6 To 4” is a fucking awesome song.

Good thread.

I love you.

uhm, no. I just noticed this, and yes. Why? John Cale didn't understand this band at all. I hate his production on the original Stooges recording of it, as well as the rest of the album it came from. Too clean and sterile; plus, mixing Iggy's vocals so high in the mix was total idiocy. Why attract attention to the lyrics, which was the one bad thing about the band? Had the s/t been less sanitary and more sleazy like Fun House, I would never have stated the above. I don't really want to be a jerk here, but I'm just going to have to shut you down on that one. First of all, I agree-- he Uncle Tupelo version is better. And the mixing on the first Stooges album IS very unfit for the group's sound. But, John Cale doesn't have as much to do with the poor mixing as you think. John Cale PRODUCED the album, sure, but it should be noted that when he turned the album in to Elektra Records in 1969, the sound WAS slightly sleazier and the vocals WERE lower in the mix. It was actually Elektra head Jac Holzman who took the album, and remixed it in the way that it was eventually presented. He himself raised the volume of the vocals in order to make the sound more commercial and whatnot. So, yeah-- not John Cale. I'll give you the mixing, but the production is still Cale's doing, so yes, he deserves blame.

And there's one right there.

I almost made this thread, but realized I didn't want to read all the stupid "funny" posts that would result.

Anti Pop Consortium barely qualifies as hip hop.

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies New Order's always been a singles band for me—and they've certainly had a great run of singles, what with "Blue Monday," "Temptation," "Bizarre Love Triangle," "True Faith," etc.—but their full length albums always bored me. Well, it's been a number of years since I bothered to listen to any one of their whole albums, so I thought I'd give what's generally considered one of their best a shot. I don't recall that I've actually heard this one all the way through before, so here goes. New York Dolls - One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This Okay, so, I was really, really reluctant to check this one out—what nerve does some short-lived though very great band from the 70s have recording a new album some thirty years later when three of the five members from their heyday are no longer among the living?—but there's been a shocking number of positive reviews from generally trustworthy sources (both in the music critic world and people I actually know), that I'm willing to give this a listen. I'm still preparing for the worst, but who knows.

I actually listened to that album, as I had to review it back in the early days of my college radio tenure. I remember nothing it about other than mediocrity.

Remember? Of course not. Who cares about Johnny Marr?

Well, now, good to know I can instantly discount your opinion on most anything.

Salinger handles the English language deftly enough to where Catcher is readable, but that did little to make me want to do anything other than throttle Holden Caulfield.

uhm, no. I just noticed this, and yes. Why? John Cale didn't understand this band at all. I hate his production on the original Stooges recording of it, as well as the rest of the album it came from. Too clean and sterile; plus, mixing Iggy's vocals so high in the mix was total idiocy. Why attract attention to the lyrics, which was the one bad thing about the band? Had the s/t been less sanitary and more sleazy like Fun House, I would never have stated the above.

The Clapton tune is "Your Kid Committed Suicide Because You Suck."