Swamp Album Draft: Current Pick - BFJ (329th) + SKIP J-LO (324/325th)

[rass]

I fucking quit.

[Giff]

No way.

[govmentchedda]

I’m at lunch LOL.

Stealing bread, probably.

I don't mind.

[Giff]

Luckily Decadence is my favorite stripper at the gentlemen's club with a really awesome Friday lunch buffet.

[Shirley]

If we're still debating, I think it's pretty clear that The Byrds and CSNY and two separate, real bands. Not side projects or gimmick groups, like The Traveling Willburys. And I'd say Neil Young's solo career is separate from CSNY as well. But Neil Young & Crazy Horse counts as redundant with solo Neil Young.



And the Neil Young album we were looking for was Harvest. Harvest.

[Jerloma]

God dammit, Giff!

[rass]

No way.

I had a heartfelt ode to Midnight Marauders all queued up, complete with a h/t to cerrano for the exposure.

I need to think on a couple of other options (and wrap up a couple of work issues since I wrote up the now moot selection during lunch). Will get it in by 4PM NJ time at the latest.

[govmentchedda]

If we're still debating, I think it's pretty clear that The Byrds and CSNY and two separate, real bands. Not side projects or gimmick groups, like The Traveling Willburys. And I'd say Neil Young's solo career is separate from CSNY as well. But Neil Young & Crazy Horse counts as redundant with solo Neil Young.



And the Neil Young album we were looking for was Harvest. Harvest.

Harvest Moon, maybe.

[DaveInSeattle]

If we're still debating, I think it's pretty clear that The Byrds and CSNY and two separate, real bands. Not side projects or gimmick groups, like The Traveling Willburys. And I'd say Neil Young's solo career is separate from CSNY as well. But Neil Young & Crazy Horse counts as redundant with solo Neil Young.



And the Neil Young album we were looking for was Harvest. Harvest.

Harvest Moon, maybe.

Rust Never Sleeps, my friend...

[sancarlos]

I thought Pruitt's pick of Neil Young was great. i would have chosen Rust Never Sleeps, though. Or, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.

[Pruitt]

I thought Pruitt's pick of Neil Young was great. i would have chosen Rust Never Sleeps, though. Or, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.

It was a tough call between the two. Love Rust Never Sleeps, but I can live with out a couple of the dirge-like acoustic tunes. - if we were allowed live albums, I might have gone Live Rust.

Can't help it, this is the Neil Young I love and still listen to.

[rass]

So after Block Gifford stole my pick, I had to go back to my list. I had a very limited number of hip-hop options, especially for this early in the process, so limited that I'm unfortunately out of choices for now. I'll stick with classic rock, and go with an album that I once proclaimed includes the "greatest fucking classic rock radio single of all time".

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

[mister d]

Goddamn that's some kind of fall.

[govmentchedda]

Fall, or fail?

[Pruitt]

Wow! So there are men who like that album.

[Ryan]

Screw them, it’s a good pick. Stevie Nicks is the Phife Dawg of Wiccan Rock.

[mister d]

So someone who doesn't have a career if not for ... Fleetwood?

[rass]

I know you guys are just making loving fun.

[Nonlinear FC]

I freakin' love that album. I will fight all of you.

(I actually mentioned it last night. That album was a staple for me as a kid. And, btw, the inside jacket had a bunch of pictures of them in "casual settings" and kind of blew my 8-9 year old mind.)

[Pruitt]

I realize that "Rumours" is the absolute pinnacle of a style of music and an era's music, but it - like "Hotel California" - is an example of an album (or just songs from an album) that I have heard thousands of times without ever once wanting to hear them.

Radio in the late 70s was like that - you want to hear some Zeppelin? Some of that new music from the UK? AC/DC? Than endure "The Chain" or "Life In The Fast Lane" again. And again.

Every restaurant, every mall, everywhere - that music was inescapable. I was 13, and not in the mood for introspective California rock.

[EnochRoot]

OK for my next pick I gotta go back where it started. These guys never got the credit they deserved.

Start to finish, their best whole LP effort, IMHO. Yeah, The Village Green Preservation Society gets points, but I burned out on that several years ago.



My island's gonna rock (and roll)...

[rass]

Goddamn that's some kind of fall.

You picked an album that includes this ponderous, condescending, faux social-commentary disguised as a song that I bet you skip all of the time:

Fall, or fail?

Did I mention Alligator was a reach at #4? And I love The National.

Wow! So there are men who like that album.

Look at this Trudeau-esque figure rushing forward, chivalrously and loudly proclaiming that anything other than white male opinion drives nostalgia era rock.

“Pardon me, but Mses. McVie and Nicks prefer the terms sing-hers, eh?”

[rass]

Nice Enoch.

[sancarlos]

Great pick Enoch. I was hoping the Kinks would fall to me.

(Lola versus Powerman)

[Pruitt]

Wow! So there are men who like that album.

Look at this Trudeau-esque figure rushing forward, chivalrously and loudly proclaiming that anything other than white male opinion drives nostalgia era rock.

“Pardon me, but Mses. McVie and Nicks prefer the terms sing-hers, eh?”

Oh, I didn't realize we were making our choices for society as a whole, and not for ourselves.

I'll go back and pick some Sara McLauchlan or Black Eyed Peas if that's the case.

And everyone knows that Young Trudeau only listens to Female Indigienous Throat singers. Like this one who - believe it or not - beat out Drake and Arcade Fire to win one of Canada's top music prizes a few years ago. (Yes - the one partially sponsored by the government)

[rass]

That was a response to your suggestion that men don’t like Rumours.

[Shirley]

I thought Pruitt's pick of Neil Young was great. i would have chosen Rust Never Sleeps, though. Or, Everybody Knows This is Nowhere.

Oh, I love that Neil too. Rust Never Sleeps (or as Pruitt mentioned, Live Rust) is probably my second favorite. But Harvest was still his masterpiece.

[rass]

[Shirley]

Goddamn that's some kind of fall.

You picked an album that includes this ponderous, condescending, faux social-commentary disguised as a song that I bet you skip all of the time:

There's a dev on my team that I swear sounds just like the robot voice in this song. I get this song in my head every time he starts talking in a Skype. Still kisses with tongue.

[Pruitt]

That was a response to your suggestion that men don’t like Rumours.

Yeah, I guess.

Just certain bands and albums flare up my nerves for reasons detailed above.

[Nonlinear FC]

First off, while I stand by Johnny as a huge musical influence in my life, I probably should've moved on when I realized Folsom Prison was off the table. Orange Blossom Special is a cool album, but if I'm honest, there were a bunch of other artists and albums across the board that had a much bigger impact on me, and I think just in general are more accessible.

Anyfuck, it helped get my head straight going forward and I'm now 15 albums deep into a depth chart. I'm slightly surprised my next pick is still on the board, given how big the album was, not to mention the group:



From start to finish, one of the best albums of all time, IMO. It's hard for us old heads to remember just how mindblowing this album was for anyone not familiar with the Seattle scene at the time.

[mister d]

You picked an album that includes this ponderous, condescending, faux social-commentary disguised as a song that I bet you skip all of the time

This is 100% true.

[Nonlinear FC]

I realize that "Rumours" is the absolute pinnacle of a style of music and an era's music, but it - like "Hotel California" - is an example of an album (or just songs from an album) that I have heard thousands of times without ever once wanting to hear them.

Radio in the late 70s was like that - you want to hear some Zeppelin? Some of that new music from the UK? AC/DC? Than endure "The Chain" or "Life In The Fast Lane" again. And again.

Every restaurant, every mall, everywhere - that music was inescapable. I was 13, and not in the mood for introspective California rock.

I think I can understand, but what's so weird to me is that (I"m not gonna list all the albums, because a bunch are still definitely likely to get picked) a bunch of albums I listened to were were vinyl I was pulling off my mom's shelf and playing for myself. So, things like Hotel California, or Rumors was what I wanted to listen to. I was born in 70, so this was before it had hit Ed Shearan level of "fuuuuck. i liked this song when I heard it the first gazillion times."

It really clouds how you try to compile this list, if we're being honest.

[Nonlinear FC]

Goddamn that's some kind of fall.

You picked an album that includes this ponderous, condescending, faux social-commentary disguised as a song that I bet you skip all of the time:

Fall, or fail?

Did I mention Alligator was a reach at #4? And I love The National.

Wow! So there are men who like that album.

Look at this Trudeau-esque figure rushing forward, chivalrously and loudly proclaiming that anything other than white male opinion drives nostalgia era rock.

“Pardon me, but Mses. McVie and Nicks prefer the terms sing-hers, eh?”

I typically let musical tastes go, but Radiohead is a group I have a VERY tough time with. Just not an enjoyable experience for me.

[mister d]

Oh yeah, there’s a ton of their stuff I don’t get and no way I take them there if this were an artist draft.

[govmentchedda]

Goddamn that's some kind of fall.

You picked an album that includes this ponderous, condescending, faux social-commentary disguised as a song that I bet you skip all of the time:

Fall, or fail?

Did I mention Alligator was a reach at #4? And I love The National.

Wow! So there are men who like that album.

Look at this Trudeau-esque figure rushing forward, chivalrously and loudly proclaiming that anything other than white male opinion drives nostalgia era rock.

“Pardon me, but Mses. McVie and Nicks prefer the terms sing-hers, eh?”

I typically let musical tastes go, but Radiohead is a group I have a VERY tough time with. Just not an enjoyable experience for me.

That's me, but with quite a few of these classic rock choices.

[Nonlinear FC]

Not a confrontational question, by any means.

Age range, 20-28; 29-35; 36-dead

[govmentchedda]

40 last year.

[Nonlinear FC]

Ya. I think I'm too old for some stuff

[govmentchedda]

Clearly, this exercise is as subjective as it could be, but I went and put on the Led Zeppelin one, as well as the Rolling Stones one, and felt absolutely nothing. Don't get me wrong, these are seminal bands with amazing songs, but still, very underwhelmed.