With my next pick, in the Compilation/Greatest Hits Category, I am thrilled to select Citizen Steely Dan.
Citizen Steely Dan is a four-CDboxed set musical album by Steely Dan, released in 1993. The set is a collection of all of Steely Dan's albums (up to 1993) in chronological order, and also contains a non-LP single ("FM"), a non-LP B-side ("Bodhisattva (Live)"), a rare compilation track ("Here at the Western World"), and a previously unreleased demo of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies".
The set is not, however, a complete compilation of every track released by Steely Dan up to 1993. Missing are both sides of the band's 1972 debut single ("Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway"), neither of which has ever been re-issued on CD.
For goodness sake, don't let this period (which is their greatest, no question) be all you allow yourself to judge this band by. Steely Dan continues to make fantastic music to this day and I count Two Against Nature as one of their greatest albums. However, this period of Steely Dan is incredible. I have every track on my iPod and I think that is what defines a great compilation. I hope Fagen and Becker continue to go until they're 75! Happy Birthday to Walter Becker who turned 59 yesterday.
Track listing
All songs by Walter Becker and Donald Fagen except where noted.
Youtube goodness to follow as I am going to try to find worthy clips.
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It appears a couple of the songs I wasn't able to share in the other draft when I chose Steely Dan now have youtube videos! Here's 6 that most non-Dan fans likely don't know. Great stuff!
Charlie Freak
The Boston Rag
Dirty Work
Don't Take Me Alive
Midnight Cruiser
Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)
The Royal Scam
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The music in Meteora represents significant changes since the release of Hybrid Theory. It is characterized by more relevant influences from rapcore ("Lying from You", "Hit the Floor", "Faint", "Figure.09", "Nobody's Listening"). Their instrumental song "Session" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2003. It is considered Linkin Park's heaviest album to date.
It is the most successful album in the history of the Modern Rock Tracks chart, a chart that specializes in radio play of alternative rock songs. "Numb" was the biggest song of the year on the chart. The album has sold 6 million copies in the United States and over 20 million worldwide to date[1].
Great pick DFF of my favourite band of all time. I only wish I didn't misinterpret the rules and think Citizen SD was ineligible as a Compilation pick. Of course since their two newest 21st century albums are not included, that means the boxset isn't disqualified.
(P.S. a bunch of your youtube clips are showing up as the same "Dirty Work" video to me. And "The Royal Scam" has embedding disabled, but no big deal.)
Peter12, welcome back! I for one hope you can rejoin us.
Proto, you are almost caught up. Since it's still your turn until 24 hours after the last pick, you have til around noon tomorrow to get your 12th pick in.
Bargainville was a 1993 album by Canadian band Moxy Frόvous, their first major-label release. This disc's subject matter is divided between comedy and serious personal, social, and ecological issues.
Bargainville features the band's strong songwriting, playful humor and complex harmonies. It is considered to be among their better efforts.
Great pick DFF of my favourite band of all time. I only wish I didn't misinterpret the rules and think Citizen SD was ineligible as a Compilation pick. Of course since their two newest 21st century albums are not included, that means the boxset isn't disqualified.
(P.S. a bunch of your youtube clips are showing up as the same "Dirty Work" video to me. And "The Royal Scam" has embedding disabled, but no big deal.)
Fixed! Thanks for the compliment. I find that Steely Dan is one of the most underappreciated bands of all time.
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In the 12th round, team Twist/Shout picks The Director's Cut by Fantτmas in the 2000-2002 category.
The unimitable and seemingly limitlessly talented Mike Patton and his supergroup (Dave Lombardo, Buzz Osborne, Trevor Dunn) taking liberties with more or less famous movie scores, mostly thrillers and horror. Absolutely great stuff, highly recommended.
I'll take in the 94-96 category, one of my favorite and what I view to be the most misunderstood and under-appreciated REM album, 1994's Monster
1994 was the seminal year for a musical era that has been defined primarily by it's angst and misery... Under these circumstances, it seemed peculiar for a group who inspired so many of the new superstars to release a glam rock album. But that is exactly what they did.
Glam rock is everywhere now, but it certainly wasn't in 1994. I think that is an important thing to keep in mind in contextualizing Monster. I view it as REM's last great album, and find it unfortunate it rarely gets included in the REM canon.
Skylarking is XTC's eighth studio album, released on October 27, 1986. Considered by many to be their finest album, Skylarking is a "life-in-a-day" semi-concept album which displayed songwriting and arranging heavily influenced by The Beatles, The Beach Boys and The Kinks. The title of the album was inspired by Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem To a Skylark and many of the songs expand on the pastoral themes of their 1983 album, Mummer, most notably "Summer's Cauldron" and "Season Cycle".
The album was produced by Todd Rundgren after the band chose his name from a list of potential producers submitted by its label, Virgin Records. The recording sessions took place in the spring of 1986, at Rundgren's upstate New York recording studio. Rundgren convinced the band that the songs which Andy Partridge and Colin Moulding wrote would form a concept album. It was recorded track to track on one reel of 2 inch tape. Segues between songs were performed.[1]The sessions were fraught with tension, due to creative differences between Rundgren and Partridge.
Despite the album's poor sales and the band's initial dislike of the record, Skylarking is seen by many fans and critics as their finest work, citing Rundgren's innovative production and the cohesive nature of the album as its strengths.[citation needed] In 1989, it was ranked #48 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s. The album was ranked #15 on Pitchforkmedia's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, calling it a "beacon of psychedelic greenery".
well since sparks has given me the go ahead to choose
for my next selection
2003-2005: Garbage - Bleed Like Me
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Bleed Like Me is the fourth album by alternative rock group Garbage. It was released in April 2005 worldwide, following critical appraisal and unexpectedly high chart positions for its lead-off single "Why Do You Love Me", which entered the Billboard Hot 100 and debuted in the Top 10 of the UK singles chart. Bleed Like Me debuted on the Billboard 200 at a career-high #4 - the band's first top ten album ever in the States. Bleed Like Me had a very strong opening week globally, debuting in the top five in many countries - including the United Kingdom, Australia, and the States.
Sorry, need to head out but I'll fill in the rest once I get back from coaching hockey tonight
With my 12th pick I'll choose Ozzy Osbourne's Randy Rhoads Tribute
Heavy / Metal
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The album was released in memory of Rhoads, guitarist for Osbourne's band between 1980 and 1982. It showcases Rhoads' guitar work onstage. Particularly notable is the song "Suicide Solution", which features an unaccompanied guitar solo by Rhoads. The album also includes outtakes of the classical-influenced acoustic guitar piece, "Dee", a song Rhoads wrote for his mother Delores, and which was originally included on the debut album Blizzard of Ozz. These outtakes include Rhoads talking. Also the last bars of "Dee" can be heard in the outro and ending of "Goodbye To Romance".
The songs from "I Don't Know" through to "Paranoid" are recorded live in Cleveland, Ohio on May 11, 1981. Rhoads' guitar solo spot in "Suicide Solution" is taken from the show in Montreal, Quebec on July 28, 1981. "Goodbye to Romance" and "No Bone Movies" are rumoured to be taken from the very first Blizzard tour, possibly from Southampton on September 2, 1980. These two tracks feature Bob Daisley and Lee Kerslake.
The album was originally intended to be released in 1982 but, due to Randy Rhoads' death, the album was shelved. Instead, another live album, Speak of the Devil (which featured an entire set of Black Sabbath songs, and future Night Ranger guitarist Brad Gillis replacing Rhoads) was issued later that same year.
Track listing
1. "I Don't Know" - 5:40
2. "Crazy Train" - 5:19
3. "Believer" - 5:08
4. "Mr. Crowley" - 5:37
5. "Flying High Again" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Lee Kerslake) - 4:17
6. "Revelation (Mother Earth)" - 5:58
7. "Steal Away (The Night)" [with Drum Solo] - 8:04
8. "Suicide Solution" [with Guitar Solo] -7:46
9. "Iron Man" (Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward) - 2:50
10. "Children of the Grave" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) - 5:57
11. "Paranoid" (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) - 2:59
12. "Goodbye to Romance" - 5:33
13. "No Bone Movies" (Osbourne, Rhoads, Daisley, Kerslake) - 4:02
14. "Dee" [Randy Rhoads studio out-takes] (Rhoads) - 4:22
Dee
Mr. Crowley
CRazy Train
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With much fanfare and ado, the "Rock and Roll Means Well" team is proud, and indeed, humble to select in the only category fit for the following artist...
GRINDERMAN BY GRINDERMAN in the ROCK category
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For decades, Nick Cave, ringmaster of his own rock'n'roll circus, has been an unlikely paragon of routine. Not routine music, per se, but music made as part of a routine. Check in to the office, check out of the office. Repeat. Don't wait for your muse to come to you. Go to her first and demand she appear. Contrary to his reputation as a bit of a wild man, by his own account Cave's spent the past several years a man of discipline, with rules right down to what rules need be discarded, and when.
Grinderman, then, is Cave's considered decision to set aside those rules and make a sideways move into the realm of stripped down-- but far from mellow-- rock. Inspired by the creation of the most recent Bad Seeds release, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus, Cave took his cohorts Warren Ellis, Martyn Casey, and Jim Sclavunos into the studio to slash and burn their way through new ideas until they'd amassed enough for an album. Unlike Abattoir/Lyre however, Cave kept the remaining Bad Seeds on the sidelines and, rather than flesh out the results, left them raw and stinging, setting aside his piano in favor of guitar.
By doing so Cave has predictably invited comparisons to his first claim to fame, the Birthday Party-- and not without reason. Grinderman reveals Cave has rediscovered (or at least reembraced) the possibilities of the theatrical punk dirge, with arrangements that threaten to fly right off the rails.
But the Cave of the Birthday Party and the Cave of Grinderman are totally different beasts, and for that we can thank Cave's (yes) discipline-- as a writer, singer and as a bandleader. Grinderman are an indulgent study in excess, sure, but the twist is that at every turn Cave keeps the chaos carefully in check, emphasizing messiness when need be but also showcasing the deceptively precise playing of his band as well as his loose and at times gloriously silly lyrics.
1. Get It On
2. No Blues
3. Electric Alice
4. Grinderman
5. Depth Charge Ethel
6. Go Tell The Women
7. (I Don't Need You To) Set Me Free
8. Honey Bee (Lets Fly To Mars)
9. Man In The Moon
10. When My Love Comes Down
11. Love Bomb
Personal favourite from Nick Cave and the gang. Seeing as how all these guys are pushing late 40s, early 50s and they rock about 3200 times more than your average "rock" group, I see no better pick for the "rock and roll" category.
No Pu$$y Blues should be the anthem of all men, no matter what their creed, ideology or religion.
Power, Corruption & Lies, released in March 1983, was a synthesizer-based outing and a dramatic change in sound from Joy Division and the preceding album, although the band had been hinting at the increased use of technology during the music-making process for a number of years then, including their work as Joy Division. Starting from what earlier singles had hinted, this was where the band had found their footing, mixing early techno music with their earlier guitar-based sound and showing the strong influence of acts like Kraftwerk and Giorgio Moroder. Even further in this direction was the electronically sequenced, four-on-the-floor single "Blue Monday", which became the best-selling independent 12" single of all time in the UK. The disc's sleeve was so elaborate, resembling a large 5Ό-inch floppy disk, that the band and Factory themselves were said to lose from 2p to £1 on each copy sold.[9] However, later presses became less elaborate, and the band reaped large profits from the sales of the single. The American edition of Power Corruption & Lies, released later, featured "Blue Monday" and its B-side, "The Beach", as extra tracks.
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Power, Corruption & Lies is the second album by Manchester band New Order, released in May 1983. The album achieved more widespread popularity than any of the band's previous releases, including those of previous band Joy Division. The music is more electronic-based than previous albums, with heavy use of synthesizers. In 1989, it was ranked #94 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.
The dean of American rock critics, Robert Christgau says of this album,
"I find it relatively gentle and melodic in its ambient postindustrial polyrhythms, their nicest record ever."
This is the album complement to habernac's earlier pick of the 12" single "Blue Monday." I think both belong in this draft.
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