With our next selection, Anal Bum Cover picks Born on a Pirate Ship by Barenaked Ladies in the 1994-1996 category.
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Born on a Pirate Ship (sometimes abbreviated BOAPS[1]) was the third full-length album by Barenaked Ladies. Its well-known tracks are "Shoe Box", "The Old Apartment", "When I Fall" and "Break Your Heart." "The Old Apartment" would become BNL's first US hit in 1997 and began the process of winning many new American fans.
Tracks recorded for this album but left off the finished record are: "Trust Me" (earlier recorded for Maybe You Should Drive but left off the album -- included on the Shoe Box EP) and "Back" (included on the "Brian Wilson 2000" single). As with each of their early albums, the band recorded one song completely naked. On this album, "Back" was the "naked track".
The front cover features a boy in a newspaper hat pulling at his cheeks, in reference to the childhood prank alluded to by the album's title. Contrary to popular belief, this is not a childhood picture of BNL bassist Jim Creeggan, but simply an actor hired for the photos.
The band was a fourpiece during the recording of this album. Kevin Hearn was asked to join the band for the 1995 tour that preceded the album's release and first appears on the live album Rock Spectacle. He is thanked in the liner notes for "injecting new spirit."
Although a hit in Canada, the album only managed #111 in the US. Born On A Pirate Ship was awarded gold status in the U.S. in 2000, after the band became more popular there.
Aeneas, I think we are missing a rd 12 pick from you (or I missed it - wouldn't be the first time).
Otherwise, the AK list is:
FanIn80
Sowa
dodsdomd
WindomURL
peter12
Ro
Jagger
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"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"
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1. "Finest Worksong" – 3:48
2. "Welcome to the Occupation" – 2:46
3. "Exhuming McCarthy" – 3:19
4. "Disturbance at the Heron House" – 3:32
5. "Strange" (B.C. Gilbert, Graham Lewis, Colin Newman, Robert Gotobed) – 2:31
6. "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" – 4:05
7. "The One I Love" – 3:17
8. "Fireplace" – 3:22
9. "Lightnin' Hopkins" – 3:20
10. "King of Birds" – 4:09
11. "Oddfellows Local 151" – 5:21
I find "The One I Love" to be way too overplayed. While "It's the End of the World as We Know It" is probably played as much (or maybe more) I'm not nearly as tired of it. Document was the first REM album I could associate with REM, probably because it was big when I went to university, and so has had a soft spot ever since.
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"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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Fantastic choice Bobblehead, and it was on my radar. Love every song. Oddfellows Local 151 is probably my favorite REM tune ever.
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In 2006-2008, I'll take the self-titled Grinderman debut.
Grinderman is a Nick Cave led pick up garage rock band that also includes Warren Ellis from The Dirty Three. I've never been a huge Cave fan, but this album is something else. It got released right at the height of the nine piece pop dork-estra glockenspiel craze (is that over yet?) and was the perfect remedy to a stage full of earnest kids playing banjos and accordions. This is loud, nasty, squalling, noisy rock and roll. It sounds like the mustache on Cave's face.
With my 13 th pick in the draft, I'm happy to select in the 1999 category, Live's Secret Samadhi.
Secret Samadhi is Live's third release and followed the overwhelming success of Throwing Copper. In my opinion, this album is their best and showed (at least for the time being) that Live wasn't going to be a band that taylors its music to recapture the commercial success of their previous multi-platinum release. The record is edgy and dark, even somewhat etherial at times. It's one of the best rock records of the late 90's IMO.
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Side one#TitleLength1."Get Innocuous!" (Murphy, Tyler Pope)7:112."Time to Get Away" (Murphy, Pope, Pat Mahoney)4:113."North American Scum" 5:254."Someone Great" 6:255."All My Friends" (Murphy, Mahoney, Pope)7:376."Us v Them" (Murphy, Mahoney, Pope)8:297."Watch the Tapes" 3:558."Sound of Silver" 7:079."New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down" (Murphy, Mahoney, Pope)
If it's been four days, then there are some asskickings to be done, so who is up?
troutman has gone someplace warm for spring break. We'll need to harass people to get their picks up.
I guess proto it AKed and Itse is up.
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"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
Good thing that someones wathing for the deadlines, I was starting to wonder.
For our 14th round pick, team Twist/Shout picks Alright Still by Lily Allen in the 2006-2008 category.
I have no idea how big Lily Allen was/is in Canada, although I've understood she's been more of European hit. However, she was huge over here, and about the only pop artist ever that I've actually liked in album length, which makes it a bit strange for me. Then again I've heard tons of people give similar comments, something to the tune of "I never listen to that kind of stuff normally, but Lily Allen is actually pretty good". That's where I stand too.
An excellent pop album.
These are all official promotional videos, for a change. I guess there's an upside for picking a really popular album
My kids introduced me to that Alfie song and I have to admit I like it. The video is definitely good. Nice pick.
__________________ I am in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection, but with Montana it is love." - John Steinbeck
My kids introduced me to that Alfie song and I have to admit I like it. The video is definitely good. Nice pick.
Yeah that was actually what catched my ear first too. I also find the video for Smile to be hilariously twisted, just like a lot of her lyrics. She's just so incredibly smug there, quite decent acting/directing.
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"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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I select in the Pop category (at least allmusic calls it pop), LOU REED for NEW YORK (1989):
I like the story-telling on this record. I like the guitar playing by Mike Rathke. Halloween Parade is one of my favorite songs - very bitter-sweet. I lost a friend to AIDS.
There's a Greta Garbo and an Alfred Hitchcock and some black Jamaican stud There's five Cinderellas and some leather drags I almost fell into my mug There's a Crawford, Davis and a tacky Cary Grant and some Homeboys lookin' for trouble down here from the Bronx But there ain't no Hairy and no Virgin Mary you won't hear those voices again and Johny Rio and Rotten Rita you'll never see those faces again This Halloween is something to be sure especially to be here without you
New York is a 1989 album by Lou Reed. It was received very warmly as a return to the style of The Velvet Underground, the group which Reed founded in the 1960s and whose legacy had grown in stature during the 1980s as it was carried on by any number of alternative rock acts. Reed's straightforward, rock and roll sound on this album was unusual for the time and along with other releases such as Graham Parker's The Mona Lisa's Sister presaged a back-to-basics turn in mainstream rock music. On the other hand, the lyrics through the 14 songs are profuse and carefully woven, making New York Reed's most overtly conceptual album since the early 1970s. His polemical liner notes direct the listener to hear the 57-minute album in one sitting, "as though it were a book or a movie."
In 1989, Rolling Stone ranked it the 19th best album of the 1980s.
"Dirty Blvd." was a #1 hit on the newly created Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart for four weeks.
New York City figured so prominently in Lou Reed's music for so long that it's surprising it took him until 1989 to make an album simply called New York, a set of 14 scenes and sketches that represents the strongest, best-realized set of songs of Reed's solo career.
Produced with subtle intelligence and a minimum of flash, New York is a masterpiece of literate, adult rock & roll, and the finest album of Reed's solo career.
Dirty Boulevard
Romeo Had Juliette
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I can't believe this draft has been going since the beginning of Nov. and we are only on the 14th round. It is going to span 3 years if we are not careful...
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