Daniel Amos Message Board | Print: So yes, a poll for all to read...

Posted by jedwardkeyes on 02-12-2004 at10:55:

No order

Joy Division Unknown Pleasures
The Smiths Strangeways, Here We Come
REM Life's Rich Pageant
Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Public Enemy Fear of a Black Planet
Marvin Gaye Let's Get it On
Neutral Milk Hotel In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
David Kilgour Here Come the Cars
David Bowie Low
Daniel Amos Darn Floor - Big Bite

I could easily pick 20 more...

Posted by Scrimshaw Nick on 02-14-2004 at22:08:

For everyone's entertainment . . .

I present not a list of agoraphobic essentials, but a complete lack of any van halen cdebates. (oh yeah, this could also be taken as my agoraphobic essentials, by the way.

No order

Swirlingt Eddies - Zoom Daddy
Keb Mo' - Just Like You
Run Lola Run - Soundtrack
Lucinda Williams - World Without Tears
Vigilantes of Love - Blister Soul
Talking Heads - Sand In the Vaseline
John Hiatt - Walk On
Mark Heard - Dry Bones Dance
Bruce Cockburn - Trouble With Normal
The Alarm - CHANGE

Posted by PuP on 02-14-2004 at23:43:

Ah, heck, just give me any ten TST-related recordings and be done with it. Oh, and you'd better give me a solar-powered battery charger and some rechargeable batteries for my CD player.

Posted by dorfsmith on 02-15-2004 at00:03:

I forgot the talking heads--sand...I think I need eleven now.

Posted by Scrimshaw Nick on 02-15-2004 at11:58:

quote:

Originally posted by dorfsmith
I forgot the talking heads--sand...I think I need eleven now.

I know, these posts go fine until you read the next person's list. Not me, though. I c hoosed the ones I wanted, and I'ma gonna stick to my list!

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Posted by dennis on 02-15-2004 at14:00:

RE: Van Halen is a talented band...

quote:

Originally posted by PuP

quote:

Originally posted by DwDunphy
...without an anchor.

David Lee Roth wasn't the best singer or lyricist, but he was a showman.

Sammy Hagar wasn't a good lyricist either, and his drinkin' & druggin' attitude was tired, tired, tired, but he could sing the antennae off a cabo-wabo-cockroach.

But Gary Cherone... He just did not fit. Not at all. He's not a wild showman, he's not a particularly powerful singer. Good, yes but not earth-shakingly good. His lyrics weren't so swell either. In Extreme, he could play off of Nuno Bettencourt but in VH, he seemed exactly like the surrogate he was.

DwD

Very well said. Except that after,

quote:

"How do I know when it's love?
I can't tell you but it lasts forever
Oh! How does it feel when it's love?
It's just something you feel together

(Oh oh oh oh) Oh, when it's love
(Oh oh oh oh) You can feel it, yeah!
(Oh oh oh oh) Nothin's missin', yeah!"

I would say "...Hagar wasn't a good lyricist" is being charitable.

)

Posted by You Gotta Be There on 02-16-2004 at10:44:

quote:

Originally posted by baxter
i like that list. i haven't heard "Rushing towards oblivion..." in awhile.

"...like lemmings to the sea,
we stumble through this lifetime and call it being free.
Ah, but knowing where you're going;
and what you're meant to be;
that's what freedom means to me."

Haven't heard that in a while, myself. Think I'll crank it tonight.
That's actually kind of a tropical album; maybe Jimmy Buffet would like it.
- ygbt

Posted by You Gotta Be There on 02-16-2004 at10:50:

quote:

Originally posted by Joey T.

quote:

Originally posted by dennis
I really like the first Van Halen record and I am pretty fond of 1984 as well.

van halen was only van halen with david lee roth..... period.. end of discussion.... Red Face

Yeah, I remember when I played 5150 it kind of felt like the end of an era.
- ygbt

Posted by dorfsmith on 02-16-2004 at10:51:

Can I add Pink Floyd--The Wall? Crying

Posted by You Gotta Be There on 02-16-2004 at11:19:

quote:

Originally posted by dorfsmith
Can I add Pink Floyd--The Wall? Crying

To the "end of an era" list? We'd definitely have to throw Queen's "Hot Space" to that list; what a horrible follow-up to a masterwork like "The Game".
- ygbt

Posted by carl on 02-16-2004 at11:29:

Angry

Hey, Hey, Hey!

quote:

Originally posted by You Gotta Be There

quote:

Originally posted by dorfsmith
Can I add Pink Floyd--The Wall? Crying

To the "end of an era" list?

Nope. That've been Meddle. Tongue

(quasi-interesting side note: There's a college station 'round here that does a 20-minute block of Floyd every Thursday afternoon, and are pretty liberal with the earlier stuff -- one set was "A Saucerful of Secrets" in its entirety. Smile

) But when they play the Wall stuff I go cruising for another station until it's over.... really, anything from Dark Side on sends up a red flag....)

quote:

We'd definitely have to throw Queen's "Hot Space" to that list; what a horrible follow-up to a masterwork like "The Game".
- ygbt

"The Game" a masterwork? Whoa. Granted, it was better than Jazz (the album that has the distinct honor of being the first album I ever literally took out and shot), but uh-uh. I love "Sail Away, Sweet Sister," but the rest I could more or less take or leave. And yes, side one of Hot Space is dreck. But Side Two starts with "Put Out the Fire" and closes with "Under Pressure" (arguably the best thing they EVER did) so how bad can THAT be? (& I like the Lennon tribute, awkward as it was at times).

Posted by dorfsmith on 02-16-2004 at11:45:

The Division Bell Tongue

No Roger Waters but still one of the greatest CD's ever. Pink Floyd plain rocks.

Posted by jiminy on 02-16-2004 at12:13:

for those who do

there is an interesting game with DA and Pink Floyd
I ought to know- I made it up!

If anyone wants to play- let me know and we'll create a thread.
It is in its infancy- but I thought it was a fascinating little "Dark Side of DA" coincidence.

as in the Dark side of Oz- are we all familiar with that?

Posted by dorfsmith on 02-16-2004 at12:33:

I wanna play Tongue

Posted by carl on 02-16-2004 at12:36:

Angry

I wanna know what the @%&$ y'r both talking about.... Evil

Posted by You Gotta Be There on 02-16-2004 at13:15:

RE: Hey, Hey, Hey!

quote:

Originally posted by carl
"The Game" a masterwork? Whoa. Granted, it was better than Jazz (the album that has the distinct honor of being the first album I ever literally took out and shot), but uh-uh. I love "Sail Away, Sweet Sister," but the rest I could more or less take or leave. And yes, side one of Hot Space is dreck. But Side Two starts with "Put Out the Fire" and closes with "Under Pressure" (arguably the best thing they EVER did) so how bad can THAT be? (& I like the Lennon tribute, awkward as it was at times).

"The Game" is incredible. Their first six songs on it were all over FM and rightfully so. I heard there's a DVD out on the making of it; I'd love to see it.

"Hot Space", I don't know, it was way too radical of a change, and they didn't sound like much of a band on it. "Under Pressure" was already out way before it; I think they threw the song on there to save it from being a total disaster. "The Works" was an OK comeback, but a little too little to late. "One Vision" was a cool song; but haven't heard any of their albums newer than "The Works". I had kinda lost interest by then.
- ygbt

Posted by Mark on 02-16-2004 at13:59:

The Prayer Chain - Mercury should also be on the list.

Posted by You Gotta Be There on 02-16-2004 at20:52:

Maybe the ultimate example of an "end of an era" album, would be The Beach Boys with "Smiley Smile" being released after "Pet Sounds". In the words of Carl Wilson, it was "definitely more of a bunt than a grand slam."
- ygbt

Posted by wes berlin on 02-16-2004 at22:33:

RE: Hey, Hey, Hey!

quote:

Originally posted by You Gotta Be There
"One Vision" was a cool song; but haven't heard any of their albums newer than "The Works". I had kinda lost interest by then.
- ygbt

i think that "innuendo" is a great cd. i also think that "made in heaven" is great.....especially if you look at how (and why) it was made.