BS Album Draft III: (unce, dice) Part Fee (times a mady)

[nicodemus]

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Bob Marley and the Wailers
Catch A Fire
1973
YES YES YES YES YES YES!

I LOVE this one. One of my top 2 Marley discs. "400 Years" is one of my favorite reggae songs.

You should really get the double disc version. They have the album the way you hear it with the cover you see, and then they have it as it originally was without overdubs/studio trickery. Awesome record.

[folha]

The Girl from Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook
Various Artists

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Bossa Nova and Braizilian music are my favorite kind of music. They are the perfect sound for a lazy day and chilling out. However, I choose this one because it contains all my fav. bossa numbers, like "Corcovado", "Wave", "A Felicidade", "Agua De Beber" and the killer performance of Dizzy's "Chega De Saudade (No More Blues)". You might say they are pretty standard bossa tunes, well, good luck finding another album that have them all. I might have sacrificed some other better performances of a few songs here, but I could live with that. And that brilliant "Chega De Saudade", everytime I heard it I wanna get up to dance, and I wish I've learned samba dancing. It literally transfer you to a world that is "no more blues".


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Well, I used to come to this board only to read Alax's thread (and I was here even for the very first MdB thread), up until I caught up with this draft fever I started posting. :p Also I was surprised that Michael K stole the first thunder from me, but I am not complaining. The more Brazilian music here, the better!

[minorthreat]

More catchup a la minorthreat.

drknow - The Stooges - Fun House

I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pick this album. Forget what everyone, especially the English, tries to tell you - punk effectively started with the Stooges, and this was their finest hour. A fiercely brilliant album, and an equally brilliant pick.

Via_Chicago - The Who - Tommy

You knew this was coming. For all the dreadful concept albums and rock operas that it would inspire, Tommy is still somehow great enough that it can transcend its pretention and the sheer ludicrousness of the plot (I mean, come on, an autistic pinball-playing Messiah?). True, you're probably sick of hearing "Pinball Wizard," but it's deservedly overplayed because it rocks. Hard.

bojendyk - Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport

After all the free-jazz picks, bojendyk enters the jazz stakes with a bona fide classic. Great stuff.

Quango - Best of Motown, Vol. 1 [Compilation Pick]

Ouch! Round four: fight! Quango wins. Fatality.

YanksFC - Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli - Quintette du Hot Club de France: 25 Classics 1934-1940

Django's hard to go wrong with and even harder to argue with, so I won't. There's some unexpectedly deep knowledge of jazz that's being thrown around in this draft.

JPH - XTC - Skylarking

XTC. Good band. Fifth-round band? Nah. You could have sat on this until the very last round, I think.

nancyb - Beck - Odelay

And nancyb comes to the round wielding two turntables and a microphone. Great album, great pick.

Bluto11 - Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come

Don't even bother picking another reggae album, all you drafters not named Bluto11. You have just been - what do the kids call it these days - PWN3D. A master stroke. A master work.

SirManchester - The Ramones - The Ramones

Between this and the Stooges album, we have the birth of punk very well covered in this round. I'd have to kill someone if the Ramones didn't show up in this draft.

ForeverRed - Fela Kuti - Zombie

I had a feeling Fela would make an appearance on this draft. Well done - I'm sure nicodemus was really happy when he saw this pick.

Toon² - The Specials - The Specials

ONE TWO! I was a rude boy when I was a teenager. Hell, I still go to ska shows. I loooooove this album despite the absolutely atrocious production (the first of more than a few times Elvis Costello has screwed the pooch in his career). I still listen to it at least once a week - more so after my recent breakup. After all, when I'm feeling sad about her, I just need a reminder that I shouldn't, because "for a girl of nineteen, it's more than sad, it's obscene!"

Iceblink - Paul Simon - Graceland

The best work of my homeboy Paul Simon's (Newark represent!) prolific career. Sure, he might have ripped off some of the African artists already drafted, and several ones undrafted. But let's face it, whitey had never heard this stuff before, and it's largely due to Simon's efforts that guys like Fela Kuti and Orchestra Baobab have been drafted.

sardus_pater - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine

Let's look at hard rock in the 90's, shall we? When we do, we'll find that all the awful rap-rock that we had to endure can be traced directly back to here. Korn is Rage Against the Machine's fault. Limp Bizkit is Rage Against the Machine's fault. Now, normally, I don't hold a band responsible for what they've inspired given that they're usually infinitely better than their derivatives (see ***** ** ****** and emo, for example), but when you get right down to it, Rage Against the Machine were not that much better than what they spawned - all that set them aside were their politics and a creative guitarist. And that's simply not enough. The first genuinely bad pick of the draft.

GringoTex - Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain

Great pick and a nearly flawless album (the intro to "Let's Go Crazy" is just plain silly, and I really could live without "Darling Nikki"). Take that one to the waters of Lake Minnetonka.

folha - The Doors - The Doors

When Dylan came up earlier, I said that I considered him the second most overrated lyricist in rock history. The crown for the most overrated lyricist in rock history belongs exclusively to Jim Morrison. Between him and Ray Manzarek's grating organ tone, I just really can't stand the Doors despite years of trying.

[JPH]

Yeah this is what I've been trying not to say -- which is why I've kept my per album comments limited. And it's not like Meridian and I have discussed this -- but clearly we're on the same Gort wavelength.

Seriously, people -- come on. We're talking 10 Albums. To represent the History of the Whole Frickin Planet.

With 24 other people taking potential choices.

Face it...the concept is inherently flawed. It's been pretty fun to participate, but come on now.

We don't even know if the aliens will know how to play these albums. For all we know, they'll just give them to their alien babies as teething rings. :D

[afgrijselijkheid]

(5) Tito Swings, The Exciting Lupe Sings - Celia Cruz & Tito Puente

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i don't have time to go into great length right now, but i doubt that this pick will require me to - it is a crying shame that celia cruz and tito puente didn't sell many records back in the '60's, but it didn't keep them from starting a salsa revolution... this is where it all began

[nicodemus]

sardus_pater - Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
The first genuinely bad pick of the draft.


Boooooo!

[afgrijselijkheid]

Boooooo!
agreed, the RATM hatred is lame

[minorthreat]

agreed, the RATM hatred is lame******** you, I won't do what you tell me!

;)

[bojendyk]

Bluedaddy and I are actually going to disagree about music!

I hated RATM, although "Renegades of Funk" is pretty good.

I'm also not sure how great they are politically, being that I remember reading an interview in which they defended Shining Path. I'm as left-wing as the next guy, but that's just idiotic.

[Footix]

In Tim Gunn fashion I'll give a little admonishment at this point of the proceedings, with most of the lists well formed, to make it work.

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Where's Andre?

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Carry on.

[minorthreat]

More minorthreat catchup.

bluedaddy19 - Bob Marley - Exodus

Probably the best of what's left with regard to reggae after Bluto11 grabbed The Harder They Come. I'm not a huge Marley fan myself, but this is a quality album that I knew was going to go.

Michael K. - Outkast - Stankonia

A hip-hop classic. But such a classic that it's the third hip-hop album picked in the draft? It's great, sure, but there's better out there.

pvan4 - Rush - Exit ... Stage Left

Anyone ever seen the movie SLC Punk? My high school years were exactly like that scene at the very end where one of them is listening to Rush and his friend ejects the tape, says "No. Listen to THIS." and the rest is history. I used to love Rush in high school - I still have 16 Rush albums gathering dust somewhere. I fancied myself a deep thinker, and I'd pull out my bass and play along with Geddy Lee for hours on end. Hell, I even tried to sing like him. Then I discovered Joy Division, and nothing was ever the same. Needless to say, I have a hard time looking at Rush objectively, but I'll try. ESL, as a live album, is a pretty good snapshot of Rush at the height of their powers (before Grace Under Pressure and keyboards and Alex being relegated to barely audible guitar lines) and a good album to check out if you're into this sort of thing. If helium vocals, sixteenth-note basslines, and seven-against-four drum patterns aren't your thing, though, avoid it like the plague. I'm still making up my mind.

MikeLastort2 - Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey

Mike, I know you know your industrial really well. I know you love your industrial. Therefore, I know that you know that you could do better than this album. Yes, it has some great moments - hell, the high point of Al Jorguensen's career might be him going apeshit on "Stigmata" - but there's better out there. And no, I don't mean **** **** *****.

Ghost - X - Los Angeles

GOD ********ING DAMMIT. Ghost, get out of my head. Seriously. It's like you're reading my mind. I guess I'll know for sure when I see your next pick, but I'm getting seriously weirded out here. As for the album itself, it's brilliant. Too bad it's the one of only a handful of worthwhile contributions to punk that California's ever made. (Yeah, you bitches from the Golden State, you heard me. What do you expect from a guy with my username? Bring it.)

[afgrijselijkheid]

absolutely no celia cruz/tito puente fans? you people need help

[Pints]

Ghost - X - Los Angeles

GOD ********ING DAMMIT. Ghost, get out of my head. Seriously. It's like you're reading my mind. I guess I'll know for sure when I see your next pick, but I'm getting seriously weirded out here. As for the album itself, it's brilliant. Too bad it's the one of only a handful of worthwhile contributions to punk that California's ever made. (Yeah, you bitches from the Golden State, you heard me. What do you expect from a guy with my username? Bring it.)


I can really only think of one more and I believe they were a made a major impression.:D

Edit: I left my original post as it was because it was so terrible.
Look at it! Sheeesh I need more sleep.

[minorthreat]

I can really only think of one more and I believe they were a made a major impression.:D

Edit: I left my original post as it was because it was so terrible.
Look at it! Sheeesh I need more sleep.Eh, okay, so I was exaggerating slightly. But sometimes you just have to put the Golden State in its place. Californians think way too highly of California.

[minorthreat]

absolutely no celia cruz/tito puente fans? you people need helpI'm getting there. I have a lot of catchup to do.

[GringoTex]

absolutely no celia cruz/tito puente fans? you people need help

They are the rage of every Latin wedding party. I shake my booty to them many times.

[Dr. Know]

absolutely no celia cruz/tito puente fans? you people need help

I love em. In fact I have a pretty big salsa album as one of my last picks.

[afgrijselijkheid]

They are the rage of every Latin wedding party. I shake my booty to them many times. ooooooh, nothing like a latin wedding party!!!

[Dr. Know]

Too bad it's the one of only a handful of worthwhile contributions to punk that California's ever made. (Yeah, you bitches from the Golden State, you heard me. What do you expect from a guy with my username? Bring it.)

jaja I know some people who might just kill you if they heard that. Cali has plenty of great punk albums. I can think of at least 6 more punk bands from the top of my head from Cali that are great.

[minorthreat]

And I should start doing said catchup.

taosjohn - Thelonious Monk - Underground

Not the Monk album I would have expected if one were to be taken in the draft, but a solid choice nonetheless. Bravo.

UnorthodoxYank - Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Roxy & Elsewhere

An unorthodox selection from the Unorthodox Yank. But a good one. The aliens definitely would find one of their own in Zappa.

petezuke17 - Alison Krauss & Union Station - Live

Another album that I honestly haven't heard. I'll defer to the other judges on this one.

Pints - Sam Cooke - Twistin the Night Away

Okay, so it's basically a twist album. But it's a great soul record nonetheless.

bmurphyfl - Otis Redding - Complete & Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul

To extend Kelly's D&D analogy, this is a critical hit. All other drafters must make a saving throw against death.

drknow - Funkadelic - Maggot Brain

Aww, hell yeah. The first, and possibly not the last, landing of the Mothership on this draft. Play like your momma just died, indeed. Great, great stuff here.

Via_Chicago - Chuck Berry - Chuck Berry is on Top

How the hell did it take five rounds before someone took Chuck Berry? Without Chuck Berry, there'd be no Beatles, no Stones, etc. ANY Chuck Berry is a steal this low.

bojendyk - The Replacements - Let It Be

I figured the Mats had to go at some point. Sure, this album has some weak spots, but when it's good, it's REALLY good.

Quango - Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Everbody Knows This Is Nowhere

It's rare that an artist reinvents themself twice in the span of a few months. Neil Young did exactly that, first with this album and then by joining ****. Great pick.

YanksFC - De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising

One of the most important and influential hip-hop albums of all time. This could quite possibly be the steal of the round, and shame on all of you for letting it fall this far.

Thelonious Monk - Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane

You know, I was in a band called Ebonious Monk once - we named ourselves that after an announcer at a gig we were playing completely butchered Monk's name. Just thought I'd share. Great pick.

nancyb - Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Will the Circle Be Unbroken

Haven't heard this one, deferring to my fellow panelists.