Now you've done it; go out back, and bring back a switch.
Sorry Guys! Of course was at work when my pick came around.
With the final Selection of the 7th round My next pick is:
The Smashing Pumpkins- Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness-1995
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This is my all time favorite Smashing Pumpkins album. At the time of it’s release I only had a tape deck in my car. I bought the two tape set and played it until the cassette was warped and would no longer play. I replaced it with the two CD version which I still have in my rotation of every day listening today. Some of my favorite tracks include “1979", “bullet with butterfly wings”, “muzzle”, and “zero”. But who am I kidding? I love EVERY song!! The songs of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are intended to hang together conceptually, with the two halves of the album representing day and night. This is a MUST have on my island and I am so grateful it was still available!
I think you picked the wrong album here, but LOVE the pick regardless. You have some of my favorite picks so far
I'll turn that around and agree with KG4 taking Mellon Collie as the first Pumpkins album. Love a decent amount (certainly not all) of their other stuff, but Mellon Collie stands out from a songwriting point of view.
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels (1980)
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It's a like a northern soul greatest hits compilation updated to sound fresh in the new wave era, except that there's only one cover and all the other songs are composed by the band. If you put this on expect an unealthy amount of horns, a boatload of catchy hooks and a passionate, dramatic performance by lead singer Kevin Rowland. If I were drafting on personal value rather than having a strategy this would have been in the top 5 for sure.
Before seeing a song from their sophomore album (this is their debut) in a grades theme by bricklayer about one hit wonders I wasn't aware they were considered as such. Well, that's a wrong notion on two levels. First technically, because they had another #1 single, which is "Geno" (linked below, as it was featured in Searching for the young soul rebels). Second because they put out two full albums worth of absolutely stunning pop songs that a lot of people never bothered to listen.
this album, like its title implies, quite literally changed the course of punk. it was Swedish-born Refused's definitive statement that punk music should no longer be associated with the unfortunate, shriveled pop-punk acts of the late-90's, but rather that punk should become reacquainted with chaotic noise, crushing volume, extremely raw production values, and scalding dissidence. the result is quite certainly post-hardcore's most important album, a monolithic landmark that hasn't aged a day...
as with Converge's Jane Doe, i arrived late to The Shape of Punk to Come's party, having only caught wind of this album a few years back after borrowing a friend's copy of the music documentary Refused Are F***ing Dead on DVD. he told me that, after watching it, i would rush out to find a copy of The Shape of Punk to Come and listen to it for weeks straight. he wasn't wrong. it hit me in the dead heat of a Northern CA summer, and this "new noise" altered the landscape of my brain. it is so fiery with passion, so convinced of its message, that the listener can't help but scream along...
Refused have recently enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, as many like me discover a gem of a band that few Americans were aware of during their peak, as brief as it was before they called it quits. they reunited for a worldwide tour last year and headlined the famous Coachella Music Festival, among others, but The Shape of Punk to Come remains their masterwork, as convincing a closing argument as any punk band could have made without drinking and drugging themselves into oblivion. as lead vocalist Dennis Lyxzén shouts on "Summerholodays vs. Punkroutine": "I'd rather be forgotten, then remembered for giving in!!"
Okay, this is a draft strategy pick -- each of the next 5 acts on my list is probably more essential for my island, but I just haven't felt any danger toward any of them and have strong backup albums for several, so I'm going to nab this now while the nabbing is good even though its more of a #15 type pick for me than a #8. And if because of that any of you jump up out of the blue and steal something from me that I really want, well I will call you poopyhead and cry:
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers - 1999
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Having me of all people take this album would come as a surprise to many who know my tastes, because I am a long term and notorious RHCP poo pooer, even during their prime when you weren't cool unless you thought they were. Well...I didn't. In fact they often annoyed the **** out of me, and if I had accidentally bumped into them at any point in the months after they released "Give It Away" -- a Top 10 all time most annoying song for me (from Blood Sex Magik, which has already been taken so I can say that) -- I could never have made this pick, because I probably would have beaten them all to death with the nearest heavy blunt object, and they would have been dead and I would have been in prison. But that would have been unfortunate on several fronts, not leastwise because it would never have given RHCP a chance to finally grow up and find the deep soulful groove they did on this album. Scar Tissue, Otherside (my favorite RHCP tune), Californication as well as lesser known tunes like This Velvet Glove and Easily made this an album deep both in good tunes and contemplation. This is my RHCP, and makes me glad I didn't beat them to death with a plastic cactus years earlier.
you can find that in its entirety on youtube, btw, if anybody's interested. hell of a pick.
I have to say, this draft is an eclectic's dream! I am not sure if i am in the minority here or maybe i just dont know my stuff, but it seems like it will be very hard to pick the top overall selections with such a wide variety of Artist. I just counted and there are 16 Artists whom i have never even heard of.
Wiki helps though!
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I know you disagree and you like "Cosmos Factory" better, but, though Green River had less singles, I still feel Green River was a stronger album...
Hey, I basically like all of their albums and think they all have their singles.
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Now you've done it; go out back, and bring back a switch.
Okay, this is a draft strategy pick -- each of the next 5 acts on my list is probably more essential for my island, but I just haven't felt any danger toward any of them and have strong backup albums for several, so I'm going to nab this now while the nabbing is good even though its more of a #15 type pick for me than a #8. And if because of that any of you jump up out of the blue and steal something from me that I really want, well I will call you poopyhead and cry:
Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers - 1999
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Um Brick, Can i borrow your bat for a minute? Why you ask? Um, well, uh no reason! GRRRR. Great pick! POOPYHEAD!