Rocktimism (Again)

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

No P&J poll today because I am too busy. BUT a reminder that it's POPTIMISM tomorrow!

Meanwhile you can talk about the strange and fearsome world of Pazz And Jop Album Winners if you like.


1971 - The Who - Who's Next
1974 - Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
1975 - Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
1976 - Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
1977 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1978 - Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
1979 - Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
1980 - The Clash - London Calling
1981 - The Clash - Sandinista!
1982 - Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
1983 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
1984 - Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
1985 - Talking Heads - Little Creatures
1986 - Paul Simon - Graceland
1987 - Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
1990 - Neil Young - Ragged Glory
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1992 - Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of...
1993 - Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville
1994 - Hole - Live Through This
1995 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
1996 - Beck - Odelay
1997 - Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
1998 - Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
1999 - Moby - Play
2000 - OutKast - Stankonia
2001 - Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
2002 - Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
2003 - OutKast - Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
2004 - Kanye West - The College Dropout
2005 - Kanye West - Late Registration


How many of them have you owned? (My answer: unlucky 13)

Comments

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

6 - and i'm not being any more specific

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

OH GO ON!

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

bah

1989 - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising - still got on (original!) TAPE only
1991 - Nirvana - Nevermind
1993 - Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville - given away, rub
1995 - PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love - the first one of hers i didn't wholly love
1996 - Beck - Odelay - meh
1999 - Moby - Play - fab

Moby has a bad name around these parts (planet Earth), but of these I think Moby's would be my favourite.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

'Honey' off Play is terrific, at least the version with Kelis on it.

TBYML is like the PINNACLE of Peej's career! Her 1995-98 output is astonishing, still.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

dry /rid of me / 4track demos totally ruled my world, and i was totally wrong footed by the direction of TBYML. i went to see her touring it tho, and she was amazing (may have seen her at glasto at this point too - it was her pink catsuit era). i even went as far as buying the next alBUM (louse point) and by then it had killed my interest.

after constant media attention i bought stories from the city, but really she's just not doing it for me any more. it happens

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i can see how you'd have been wrong-footed - TBYML was the first PJ I ever heard though so it was precisely this mannered, theatrical, rather bleak aesthetic with undertones of hysteria rather than overt emotional rocking-out catharsis which drew me in (and louse point and desire are shades of the same thing - I might even prefer ITD because it's such a successful electronic departure).

I like Stories but it doesn't deserve any more than that lukewarm defence. Uh Huh Her is 'interesting' and 'admirable' rather than something you ever want to listen to