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artie wrote:
Even though Diana f-d up the true mix by Edwards and Rodgers, this is still the pinnacle of her work. Not the least of which due to the strength of the material by the Chic boys.

I believe the true, intended "Chic" mix became commercially available years ago, but I haven't seen it. I'd love of to hear it.

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IanWagner wrote:


I can upload it, and great choice.

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Fancy Lad wrote:
(edited by fancy ladde)

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Jon wrote:
I'm gonna go with "Scary Monsters," though it PAINS me not to vote for "Crocodiles." I'll get the Bunnymen later on.

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Fancy Lad wrote:
Nor can I even look at Get Happy!! here without feeling a little ashamed because I too have harbored the wildly unforgivable hope that I might someday be able to play music like a black person. I feel sorry for you lost causes who have followed the painfully white and uncoordinated beating of your arrhythmic hearts and voted for Get Happy (for which I never am conceding to type the lame double exclamation points again)!!

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Fancy Lad wrote:
Sandanista? Really? I listened to half of one of the songs from that once and it is a complete disgrace to the spirit of punk rock so I cannot in good conscience vote for it. Nor can I even look at Get Happy!! here without feeling a little ashamed because I too have harbored the wildly unforgivable hope that I might someday be able to play music like a black person. I feel sorry for you lost causes who have followed the painfully white and uncoordinated beating of your arrhythmic hearts and voted for Get Happy (for which I never am conceding to type the lame double exclamation points again)!!

Had to go with the Feelies here. Yeah -- Television Jr. But the jittery wounded nerd stuff here seems a lot more AUTHENTIC (groans please remain seated) than EC, even tho they probably stole a lot from him and also Neu, Television, Bowie, Talking Heads, etc. But there is just some killer, killer guitar here. Velvets rips for sure (you thought I forgot them!!), but hyperspeed, like a hummingbird's wings. Such a consistent blur of sound that it's hard to discern whether there is actually movement there. Bill Million and Glen Mercer (or is it the other way around?) also have a really involved guitar interplay happening, much more so than Verlaine/Lloyd, I would argue (and am) -- it's like one couldn't exist without the other. Plus they get an incredible mixture of tones. The band's sense of dynamics is really extraordinary -- the persistence of the off-kilter beats (hey! crazy rhythms!) and how the group goes from a frenetic symphony of twitching nerves to just these huge swaths of silence (I totally ripped that coinage from Dave Marsh). And their "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" is one of the all-time best Beatles rips! Play it for your girlfriend who likes Across the Universe NOW!!

So then, the Feelies in 1980! Second in my series of votes where I actually tell you why I like something and second in your series of totally indifferent reactions!

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Summ-a-Briz wrote:
OK, so "I Can't Stand Up for Falling Down" has more than a little of the Committments in it, but come on, Laura Nyro and Dusty are white girls and they can sing. Van can sing. They have soul. It's not like Elvis is Rick Astley.

Tunes like King Horse and Opportunity are straight up white boy pop genius.

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Beckner wrote:
Get Happy!

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Fancy Lad wrote:


You didn't even spell it right.

Gah!!

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Beckner wrote:
Nice Kurdt Kobain pic.

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Fancy Lad wrote: I also really like "Oh, the Guilt."

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Fancy Lad wrote:
uncoordinated.. arrhythmic