Veering a bit from our original list... with our second pick in the draft, The Upper Brash would like to select, in the category of 1997-99... one of my favourite albums in my own personal collection...
Veruca Salt's Eight Arms to Hold You!
Quote:
Track Listing
1. "Straight" (Post) – 2:32
2. "Volcano Girls" (Gordon) – 3:18
3. "Don't Make Me Prove It" (Post) – 2:29
4. "Awesome" (Gordon) – 3:32
5. "One Last Time" (Post) – 4:45
6. "With David Bowie" (Gordon) – 2:25
7. "Benjamin" (Gordon) – 4:05
8. "Shutterbug" (Post) – 4:16
9. "The Morning Sad" (Gordon) – 3:08
10. "Sound of the Bell" (Post) – 3:59
11. "Loneliness Is Worse" (Gordon) – 5:00
12. "Stoneface" (Gordon) – 2:44
13. "Venus Man Trap" (Post) – 3:29
14. "Earthcrosser" (Gordon) – 5:28
Edit: Changed the vids up a bit. One was mute-censored and two other ones were lousy quality. I'll try to get some more up later. Hard to find embeddable ones, though!
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—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Last edited by Bobblehead; 11-13-2008 at 09:48 AM.
Don't hate me, but is it possible to put the post # of the picks into the board?
Sure it is possible, but it'll need to wait a bit for me to sort through the posts. I wanted to be able to link to the posts, but I haven't figured out that functionality.
Edit: and of course now I figured out the correct search terms and think I can link them to the posts. It'll take me a bit, but it will be done.
Edit: This screws up the formatting a bit....but it works.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
Last edited by Bobblehead; 11-13-2008 at 10:14 AM.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
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With my 2nd pick in the CP Music Album Draft I am pleased to select in the Album 1981-1985 category Richard and Linda Thompson'sShoot out the Lights.
One of my favourite albums from this decade. I wasn't aware of it when it first came out and in fact it wasn't until the 90's when I first heard it but after one listen I was hooked. Unfortunately, the videos do not have Linda in them as I suspect they were made after they had broken up.
In the second round, I pick Big Country - The Crossing in the category 1981-85.
If your only recollection of Big Country is guys riding across Scotland on atvs then you need to give another listen to the whole album. Rolling Stone's description of the album: "Here's a big-noise guitar band from Britain that blows the knobs off all the synth-pop diddlers and fake-funk frauds who are cluttering up the charts these days. "
(more later when i have access to Youtube/allmusic/etc)
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
In the second round, I pick Big Country - The Crossing in the category 1981-85.
If your only recollection of Big Country is guys riding across Scotland on atvs then you need to give another listen to the whole album. Rolling Stone's description of the album: "Here's a big-noise guitar band from Britain that blows the knobs off all the synth-pop diddlers and fake-funk frauds who are cluttering up the charts these days. "
(more later when i have access to Youtube/allmusic/etc)
That was going to be one of my next picks actually! A very under-rated band - could have been as big as U2, but didn't have the same charisma. They were big in Europe, but in the US were seen as a one-trick pony. Great guitar rock. There is a great re-release of The Crossing that adds b-sides from the Wonderland EP. Stuart Adamson committed suicide in 2001.
There are 2 selections I was debating between, but went with this one because, well, I was listening to it when my turn came up.
__________________
"The problem with any ideology is that it gives the answer before you look at the evidence."
—Bill Clinton
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge."
—Daniel J. Boorstin, historian, former Librarian of Congress
"But the Senator, while insisting he was not intoxicated, could not explain his nudity"
—WKRP in Cincinatti
