say it proud people

I've only got the first 3.

Voted for Los Angeles, but it's kind of a toss-up between that and Wild Gift.

Are any of the last three going to get one vote? LA for me.

They better not. "More Fun" for me. Made my Listmania.

They're all great to me up until Ain't Love Grand when they started going downhill for me. I'm pickin' More Fun in the New World, just because it's spent many a night with me...memories and all that. Los Angeles is up there too and would have won hands down when I was younger.

By the way, the new John Doe is probably his best solo outing so far. And, the Original Sinners with Exene are pretty darn good too.

I went with "Sun" cuz it was my first X record. Soft spot, & all that.

More Fun then Los Angeles - the only two I own. I'm not proud.

hey guys, i've never heard this band, but have always meant to.

do i suck?

Had to go with Under The Big Black Sun, but tomorrow I might have voted for something else.

Never listened to anything after their first 4.

Steve

I actually only own Ain't Love Grand, so I voted for it. Must own LA and Wild Gift soon.

You don't suck because either:

1. You're fucking around
2. I know your age and you have obvioously immersed yourself in a lot of newer stuff which is equally as good, and it's not easy to hear every band out there.

They were seminal to me growing up and any of their first four albums are great starting points.

I go for sun, because i am fucking awesome.

There is also that out-of-pring live album that was pretty good.

also, they're doing another Knitters project i think as i type this. yah.

It's okay. Unfortunately, Zoom was gone by then.

Steve

It really a 3-way tie with the first 3 albums, so I went right in the middle and chose Wild Gift.

By the way...anybody heard Unclogged? It's the X unplugged album. It's actually really good and some of their later songs, like See How They Are for example, sound better in the intimate setting. I highly recommend it.

This is a tough call for me. I like those first 4 albums a lot and consider Billy Zoom something of a guitar god, but goddammit Exene needed to have her vocal chords ripped out. Her tuneless caterwauling makes my ears pucker. So even though my fave X tunes are "Hot House" and "The Have-Nots", I gotta go with the album on which John Doe takes the greatest role: See How We Are.

I know it's heresy to prefer a Billy Zoom-less X album, but I think See How We Are gets unfairly dumped on. Sure, the band is a long way away from its L.A. punk beginnings, but mostly because John Doe was moving toward the country influence of his later solo work. The album holds the best ever version of "4th Of July" (a leftover from Dave Alvin's brief tenure with the band) - which is one of my favorite songs from the '80s - and the rockers like "Left And Right" are as spirited and melodic as anything in the band's catalogue. Tony Gilkyson's guitar work is exactly what Doe was looking for at the time. He's no Billy Zoom, but it works in context of the songs. And Exene comes close to hitting her intended notes throughout the album, which is almost miraculous.

I quite frankly can't pick. I'll agree with Radcliffe though that See How We Are deserves to be in the running.

A nice 80's memory for me was seeing X play "4th of July" on the 4th of July on the Washington Mall. Great stuff.

np: 1st proof listen on my Afrobeat mix for Loogar

I voted for Los Angeles. The only one I haven't heard was See How We Are.