Best Album Of...(Volume 24)

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Other - Augustus Palbo "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown" -- much better than Super Ape

runners up -

Jorge Ben -- Africa Brasil
Stevie
Ramones

Others:

Roy Ayers -- Everybody Loves The Sunshine
Jorge Ben -- Africa Brasil
Travis Biggs -- Challenge
Black Renaissance (Harry Whitaker) -- Body Mind & Spirit
FBI -- FBI
Bryan Ferry -- Let's Stick Together
Marvin Gaye -- I Want You
Steve Reid -- Nova
Bootsy's Rubber Band -- Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band
Lafayette Afro Rock Band -- Malik
Milton Nascimento -- Geraes
Milton Nascimento -- Milton
Hyldon -- Deus, A Natureza E a Musica

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 12:59 pm

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

Bootsy's Rubber Band -- Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band

Tell me a story about this record. Never even heard of it.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:04 pm

meh - other: "a trick of the tail" genesis

who also had another great album, "wind & wuthering" that same year

shmoo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:05 pm

Didn't My Aim Is True come out in '76? AMG says '77 but I could've sworn...

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

paladisiac Wrote:

meh - other: "a trick of the tail" genesis

who also had another great album, "wind & wuthering" that same year

Wind and Wuthering was 1977?

paladisiac · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:08 pm

Spade Kitty Wrote:

paladisiac Wrote:

meh - other: "a trick of the tail" genesis

who also had another great album, "wind & wuthering" that same year

Wind and Wuthering was 1977?

allmusic & my personal db (that probably noted the copyright year) both say 76. there might've been that whole us vs uk thing going on with wuthering. (i was only 5.)

Spade Kitty · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 11:49 am **Posts:** 4401

another omission is Queen - A Day at the Races

billy g · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:41 pm **Posts:** 9020

Yail Bloor Wrote:

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

Bootsy's Rubber Band -- Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band

Tell me a story about this record. Never even heard of it.

From AMG:

Quote:

Arguably, William "Bootsy" Collins was to 1970s P-funk what Snoop Doggy Dogg was to 1990s gangsta rap — a quirky, goofy, highly colorful figure who was as funky as he was entertaining. The very sound of Snoop's voice is amusing, and the same goes for Collins. But for all their eccentricity, neither Snoop nor Collins are mere novelty artists. If you removed all the humorous banter from Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band, it would still be an album of ultra-funky grooves. Released in 1976, this LP found a 24-year-old Collins launching his solo career after having been employed by James Brown and George Clinton. Collins produced his solo debut with Clinton, and not surprisingly, the Parliament/Funkadelic influence is impossible to miss on P-funk gems like "Psychoticbumpschool" and the hits "I'd Rather Be With You" and "Stretchin' Out (In a Rubber Band)." But this album also made it clear that Collins was very much his own man; in fact, he was Clinton's most distinctive disciple and inevitably became influential himself. All of the albums that Collins provided in the late '70s are worth owning, but Stretchin' Out in Bootsy's Rubber Band is among his most consistent and his most essential.

Don't really have any personal stories to convey.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:14 pm

Sen.LooGAR'sCrunkmas Wrote:

Easiest answer yet, with a bunch overrated shite, a middling Dylan album, and Jailbreak -- music to murder to in competition.

This is where I part ways with y'all. I love Black and Blue, but it's barely fit to lick the boots of The Ramones. Probably one of the best debuts and most influential albums of the last 30 years. It destroys pretty much everything in its wake.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:18 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Sen.LooGAR'sCrunkmas Wrote:

Easiest answer yet, with a bunch overrated shite, a middling Dylan album, and Jailbreak -- music to murder to in competition.

This is where I part ways with y'all. I love Black and Blue, but it's barely fit to lick the boots of The Ramones. Probably one of the best debuts and most influential albums of the last 30 years. It destroys pretty much everything in its wake.

I like The Ramones. A LOT. But Black and Blue slays any of their out put. It is the MASSIVE JAIL.

So MONGEROUS, its unbelievable. And yeah, it may be a "down album" for The Stones, but it has songs like "Cherry Oh Baby" and "Memory Motel" on it.

Twilightkid · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:21 pm

Ramones - easy.

from the list; Vibrators.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:24 pm

Sen.LooGAR'sCrunkmas Wrote:

I like The Ramones. A LOT. But Black and Blue slays any of their out put. It is the MASSIVE JAIL.

So MONGEROUS, its unbelievable. And yeah, it may be a "down album" for The Stones, but it has songs like "Cherry Oh Baby" and "Memory Motel" on it.

Don't disagree with anything you've said. Like I said, I love the album and play it almost as much as Exile sometimes. Memory Motel is easily one of their best songs. But...slapped up against Judy is a Punk? I don't know, man. I'd tend to side with that brilliant debut.

Mind you, we might as well be comparing moldy oranges and mealy apples.
They're different entities rotting from the inside out.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:26 pm

dr winston o'boogie Wrote:

Don't really have any personal stories to convey.

Thanks dick---i can click on and navigate AMG on my own. :wink:

No, I'm just a fan of Bootsie's work through the years (even his backing vocal on the Limbomaniacs "Buttfunkin'") and hadnt heard of this particular rekkid.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:28 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Sen.LooGAR'sCrunkmas Wrote:

I like The Ramones. A LOT. But Black and Blue slays any of their out put. It is the MASSIVE JAIL.

So MONGEROUS, its unbelievable. And yeah, it may be a "down album" for The Stones, but it has songs like "Cherry Oh Baby" and "Memory Motel" on it.

Don't disagree with anything you've said. Like I said, I love the album and play it almost as much as Exile sometimes. Memory Motel is easily one of their best songs. But...slapped up against Judy is a Punk? I don't know, man. I'd tend to side with that brilliant debut.

Mind you, we might as well be comparing moldy oranges and mealy apples.
They're different entities rotting from the inside out.

"Fool To Cry" is the dealbreaker. Right up there with "Tops" in the pantheon of monged out Stones songs.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:36 pm

Ramones

Station to Station and The Modern Lovers are close, though.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:41 pm

i'm probably in the minority here regarding the ramones. i hear their music and don't hear anything extraordinary. i saw them perform at milwaukee's new rock thing around 1995 and heard straight-ahead-but-choppy rock with the guitarists moving forward-and-back onstage and the singer introducing every-other song with "1-2-3-4". seemed very pedestrian. sure, it did rock, but i had more fun listening to letters to cleo, and at that point they only had their 1 "yabbadabba - here & now" song.

of course, i'm not the big punk rock fan either. i like some of the sentinal sex pistols album and some other punk stuff "on the fringe" but most has always seemed more attitude than musical proficiency and songs that i could just dig listening to.

you may enter me on your killfiles....NOW.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 1:45 pm

DumpJack Wrote:

Sen.LooGAR'sCrunkmas Wrote:

I like The Ramones. A LOT. But Black and Blue slays any of their out put. It is the MASSIVE JAIL.

So MONGEROUS, its unbelievable. And yeah, it may be a "down album" for The Stones, but it has songs like "Cherry Oh Baby" and "Memory Motel" on it.

Don't disagree with anything you've said. Like I said, I love the album and play it almost as much as Exile sometimes. Memory Motel is easily one of their best songs. But...slapped up against Judy is a Punk? I don't know, man. I'd tend to side with that brilliant debut.

Mind you, we might as well be comparing moldy oranges and mealy apples.
They're different entities rotting from the inside out.

Yeah, both will get you thrown under a jail for 25-Life.
One for stabbing your mom's boyfriend after he takes the last slug of Romilar and then tries to leave with two bottles of glue

The other for letting wild goats run through your house and letting your wife get run through by 137 Rastas in a Jamaican jail, cos you can't rouse yourself from a smack stupor.

They are noth decadent and depraved, and I'll let y'all decide which scenario to play out with which album

jewels santana · **Joined:** Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:36 pm **Posts:** 10198

paladisiac Wrote:

i'm probably in the minority here regarding the ramones. i hear their music and don't hear anything extraordinary. i saw them perform at milwaukee's new rock thing around 1995 and heard straight-ahead-but-choppy rock with the guitarists moving forward-and-back onstage and the singer introducing every-other song with "1-2-3-4". seemed very pedestrian. sure, it did rock, but i had more fun listening to letters to cleo, and at that point they only had their 1 "yabbadabba - here & now" song.

of course, i'm not the big punk rock fan either. i like some of the sentinal sex pistols album and some other punk stuff "on the fringe" but most has always seemed more attitude than musical proficiency and songs that i could just dig listening to.

you may enter me on your killfiles....NOW.

of course it's "more attitude than musical proficiency"
in fact, they were going to call their band that. But it's easier to say The Ramones.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:08 pm

I too think Black & Blue is a highly underrated Stones reckid. It was also the first reckid post-Mick Taylor and those were some mighty big shoes to fill. Both Ry Cooder and Harvey Mandel did a great job on tracks from what I understand were done on very short notice. Hot Stuff, Hey Negrita....that shite can fire anyone up.

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

jailbreak, for me. that's a monster of an album.

i'd put king tubby meets rockers uptown and songs in the key of life up there too. this was a good year, but the next...

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:19 pm

mcaputo Wrote:

I too think Black & Blue is a highly underrated Stones reckid. It was also the first reckid post-Mick Taylor and those were some mighty big shoes to fill. Both Ry Cooder and Harvey Mandel did a great job on tracks from what I understand were done on very short notice. Hot Stuff, Hey Negrita....that shite can fire anyone up.

Pretty sure its just Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins, & Ronnie Wood who were the only guitarists on the album besides Keith.

Ry probly claims that he wrote, produced, recorded and played on every trach though. Fucking asshole.

mcaputo · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:26 pm

Quote:

Pretty sure its just Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins

Your absolutely right YB.
I mixed up Ry 'Sister Morphine' with Wayne Perkins. My bad.
It's early here on the left coast and my brain is acting a bit like a 'Memory Motel'....facked up. Coffee, that's what I need. Yeah, coffee.

Anyway - good reckid me thinks.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:27 pm

paladisiac Wrote:

i hear their music and don't hear anything extraordinary.

That's the point, and that's part of what makes it so good. It's fast, loud girl group songs. They helped put music back into the hands of regular kids who didn't even necessarily know how to play.

I know you're one of the resident prog guys, so it's not surprising at all that you're aren't a Ramones or punk fan. The Ramones are one of those bands that really embodies the spirit of my Rock and Roll. It's loud, it's made my common people for common people and it scares your parents.

paladisiac · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:36 pm

maybe i'll have an old college buddy of mine share his ramones stuff and try again. it's been a few years -- maybe i was high on markers.

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Thu Dec 15, 2005 2:40 pm

mcaputo Wrote:

Quote:

Pretty sure its just Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins

Your absolutely right YB.
I mixed up Ry 'Sister Morphine' with Wayne Perkins. My bad.
It's early here on the left coast and my brain is acting a bit like a 'Memory Motel'....facked up. Coffee, that's what I need. Yeah, coffee.

Anyway - good reckid me thinks.

You do know the story about Ry claiming that The Glimmer Twins ripped him off on all those riffs from the Beggars Banquet through Sticky Fingers period, right? His assertion is that he auditioned to be their guitarist after Brian got sacked and that the Stones secretly taped the jams and then stole his ideas---mainly "Jumping Jack Flash", "Brown Sugar" and those other open-tuning Keith-riff based tunes. I guess Ry failed to realize that Keith wrote the riff to "Satisfaction" kinda proving his penchant for the style.

Hilarious.

Also, probably true. Mick and Keith would steal from Jesus if they thought they could make a buck on it.

Thats why they are the best.

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