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Wilco - A ghost is born:

1. Hell is chrome - 10
2. Less than you think (yes, including the 13 minutes of distortion) - 10
3. At least that's what you said - 10
4. Wishful thinking - 9
5. Spiders (kidsmoke) - 9
6. The late greats - 9
7. Company in my back - 9
8. Muzzle of bees - 9
9. Theologians - 8
10.I'm a wheel - 8
11. Handshake drugs - 8
12. Hummingbird - 7

that was a severe ranking i made a couple of months ago. I think "theologians" could maybe get a 9, and "wishful thinking" a 10. It depends of my mood. But in it's entirety, when i listen the album from start to end, it sounds like all tracks are perfect (except Hummingbird)


I'll do one of my fav records of this year: Heretic Pride by The Mountain Goats

1. Sax Rohmer #1 - 8
2. San Bernardino - 7
3. Heretic Pride - 8
4. Autoclave - 9
5. New Zion - 8
6. So desperate - 9
7. In the craters on the moon - 8
8. lovecraft in Brooklyn - 7
9. tianchi lake - 8
10. How to embrace a swamp creature - 10
11. Marduk T-Shirt men's room incident - 9
12. sept 15 1983 - 9
13. Michael Mayers resplendent - 9

Abbey Road looks like fun:

1. Octopus's Garden
2. Golden Slumbers
3. Here Comes the Sun
4. Something
5. Oh! Darling
6. You Never Give Me Your Money
7. Come Together
8. Carry That Weight
9. I Want You She's So Heavy
10. The End
11. Mean Mr. Mustard
12. Polythene Pam
13. She Came In Through Bathroom Window
14. Sun King
15. Because
16. Her Majesty
17. Maxwell's Silver Hammer

Here's my take on Wolf Parade

Apologies to the Queen Mary
1. It's a Curse (10)
2. I'll Believe In Anything (10)
3. Shine A Light (9)
4. Grounds For Divorce (9)
5. You Are A Runner (9)
6. We Built Another World (8.5)
7. Modern World (8.5)
8. Same Ghost Every Night (8)
9. Dear Sons And Daughters of Hungry Ghosts (8)
10. Fancy Claps (7.5)
11. This Heart's On Fire (6.5)
12. Dinner Bells (6)


At Mount Zoomer
1. Kissing the Beehive (10)
2. An Animal In Your Care (10)
3. The Grey Estates (9)
4. Language City (9)
5. Bang Your Drum (8.5)
6. Soldier's Grin (8)
7. Fine Young Cannibals (8)
8. Call It A Ritual (8)
9. California Dreamer (7)

Boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady

1. Chillout Tent
2. Stuck Between Stations
3. Massive Nights
4. First Night
5. Hot Soft Light
6. Southtown Girls
7. Party Pit
8. Chips Ahoy!
9. You Can Make Him Like You
10. Citrus
11. Same Kooks

i'll rank the last album i bought, which is a very surprisingly great one: Polvo - Exploded drawing. This band is sometimes called the fathers of Math rock.

Fast Canoe - 8/8.5
Bridesmaid Blues - 8
Feather of forgiveness - 9
Passive attack - 8
Light of the moon - 8
Crumbling down - 9
Street knowledge - 8
High-wire moves - 8
monoloth - 8
in this life - 8
the secret's secret - 8
snowstorm in Iowa - 8
The purple bear - 7
taste of your mind - 7
missing receipts - 8
When you die the last time in my dreams - 9

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Originally posted by sans_success:

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11. Climbing Up The Walls 5

Damn, a 5? "Climbing up the Walls" is one of the best tracks on that record. I'd put it right up there with your top five as the "great" tracks on it.

Ditto. one of the best on album

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Originally posted by ProfAmaretto:
Peter Gabriel - "So"
(don't see his name mentioned much around these parts... Where's the love???)

1. Mercy Street
2. Big Time
3. Red Rain
4. Sledgehammer
5. That Voice Again
6. This is the Picture (excellent birds)
7. In Your Eyes
8. Don't Give Up
9. We Do What We're Told (milgrams 37)

Weee!!! This is fun!!

Nice choice, but I would rank em like this:

1. In Your Eyes (one of the best songs of the 80's)
2. Red Rain
3. Mercy Street
4. We Do What We're Told
5. Sledgehammer (a little sick of it now....but great track when released)
6. That Voice Again
7. Don't Give Up
8. This is the picture
9. Big Time

Mclusky - The difference between me and you is that i'm not on fire:

01. Without MSG I Am Nothing - 10
02. That Man Will Not Hang - 9
03. She Will Only Bring You Happiness - 8.5/9
04. Kkkitchens, What Were You Thinking? - 9
05. Your Children Are Waiting For You To Die -9
06. Icarus Smicarus - 9
07. Slay! - 9
08. You Should Be Ashamed, Seamus - 9
09. Lucky Jim - 9
10. Forget About Him, I'm Mint - 8
11. 1956 And All That - 9
12. Falco Vs. The Young Canoeist - 10
13. Support Systems - 8 (the slow parts are pretty boring, but the heavy parts are great)

I am going to post a few reviews from my Epinions account, since over there I have been ranking songs from 1-5 for many years now. Samples:

Outkast - Aquemini

1. Hold On, Be Strong
2. Return of The G [4/5]
3. Rosa Parks [5] *
4. Skew It On The Bar-B [5]
5. Aquemini [4]
6. Synthesizer [5]
7. Slump [4]
8. West Savannah [3]
9. Da Art of Storytelling (Part. I) [5] *
10. Da Art of Storytelling (Part. II) [5]
11. Mamacita [3]
12. SpottieOttieDopaliscious [4] *
13. Y'all Scared [3]
14. Nathaniel [1]
15. Liberation [5]
16. Chonkyfire [5]

(highlights are marked with *)

Bjork - Volta (I actually disliked this album)

1. Earth Intruders [4]*
2. Wanderlust [4]
3. Dull Flame of Desire [5]*
4. Innocence [2]
5. I See Who You Are [3]
6. Vertebrae by Vertebrae [2]
7. Pneumonia [1]
8. Hope [1]
9. Declare Independence [2]
10. My Juvenile [3]

Roots - Rising Down (from earlier this year)

1. The Pow Wow [0]
2. Rising Down [4]
3. Get Busy [5] *
4. @ 15 [0]
5. 75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction) [4]
6. Becoming Unwritten [0]
7. Criminal [5]
8. I Will Not Apologize [3]
9. I Can’t Help It [4]
10. Singing Man [4]
11. Unwritten [2]
12. Lost Desire [4]
13. The Show [4]
14. Rising Up [4]
15. Grand Return (Hidden Track) [2]

Here's how I rate WOWEE ZOWEE! If you omit all songs rated 7 and lower, You have not only the best Pavement album, but easily one of the greatest albums of all time.
1. "Half a Canyon" 10
2. "Grounded" 10
3. "Grave Architecture" 10
4. "Motion Suggests" 10
5. "Pueblo" 9
6. "Fight This Generation" 9
7. "We Dance" 9
8. "AT&T" 9
9. "Father to a Sister of Thought" 9
10. "Rattled by the Rush" 8
11. "Best Friends Arm" 8
12. "Extradition" 8
13. "Blackout" 7
14. "Western Homes" 6
15. "Brinx Job" 6
16. "Flux=Rad" 6
17. "Kennel District" 6
18. "Serpentine Pad" 5

Yeah, Wowee Zowee has some really great moments on it. I wouldn't rank it up with Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain but it's certainly equal to Slanted and Enchanted.

"Kennel District" is an awesome song. You consider that one of the worst?

It's O.K. The song doesn't really go anywhere and it has always felt out of place among all the crazy, dynamic stuff going on around it. I always wanted that record to be tighter.

I do think "Kennel District" is one of the best songs on the album. It's maybe out of place, but is anything really in place on the record?

Kid A, Radiohead

"Everything in Its Right Place" 4.8
"Kid A" 5
"The National Anthem" 4.8
"How to Disappear Completely" 4.7
"Treefingers" 4.3
"Optimistic" 4.7
"In Limbo" 4.4
"Idioteque" 5
"Morning Bell" 4.3
"Motion Picture Soundtrack" 5

=

4.7

This album is likely so over done, but whatever, it's one of my all time favourite. Some of you may be thrown off by a few of my ratings.

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boys And Girls In America - The Hold Steady

1. Chillout Tent
2. Stuck Between Stations
3. Massive Nights
4. First Night
5. Hot Soft Light
6. Southtown Girls
7. Party Pit
8. Chips Ahoy!
9. You Can Make Him Like You
10. Citrus
11. Same Kooks

Love the band, so I thought I would post for all of their albums (you'll notice I also ranked the albums in order of preference...)


Boys and Girls in America

1.) You Can Make Him Like You
2.) Stuck Between Stations
3.) Chillout Tent
4.) First Night
5.) Chips Ahoy!
6.) Massive Nights
7.) Southtown Girls
8.) Party Pit
9.) Hot Soft Light
10.) Citrus
11.) Same Kooks (I don't know a single Hold Steady fan who likes this song)


Stay Positive

1.) Slapped Actress
2.) Sequestered In Memphis
3.) Constructive Summer
4.) Stay Positive
5.) One For The Cutters
6.) Yeah, Sapphire
7.) Both Crosses
8.) Magazines
9.) Lord, I'm Discouraged
10.) Navy Sheets
11.) Joke About Jamaica


Separation Sunday

1.) How A Resurrection Really Feels
2.) Your Little Hoodrat Friend
3.) Hornets!! Hornets!!
4.) Cattle and the Creeping Things
5.) Banging Camp
6.) Don't Let Me Explode
7.) Multitude of Casualties
8.) Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night
9.) Stevie Nix
10.) Charlemagne in Sweatpants
11.) Crucifixion Cruise


Almost Killed Me

1.) Killer Parties
2.) Positive Jam
3.) The Swish
4.) Knuckles
5.) Certain Songs
6.) Barfruit Blues
7.) Sketchy Metal
8.) Sweet Payne
9.) Most People are DJs
10.) Hostile, Mass.

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Originally posted by crob3888:

11.) Same Kooks (I don't know a single Hold Steady fan who likes this song)

You do now.

I don't really like "Same Kooks" either. I do, however, think "Joke About Jamaica", "Stevie Nix" and "Most People Are DJs" are great songs that you've ranked too low.

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You do now.

Haha, I totally expected this to happen. I actually did it in order to see how many people would bother responding that they like it. It isn't a terrible song in my opinion, I just don't love it nearly as much as I love every other song off of BAGIA.

It also pained me to not put bonus tracks on the albums (Arms & Hearts and Girls Like Status would both be high up on the list for that album alone).

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I don't really like "Same Kooks" either. I do, however, think "Joke About Jamaica", "Stevie Nix" and "Most People Are DJs" are great songs that you've ranked too low.

Joke About Jamaica used to be my favorite song on the album, and it still has my favorite lyric from Stay Positive ("We were kids in this crowd/Now we're dogs in this war").

I also realize that most HS fans hold Stevie Nix to a really high degree, much higher than I do. I guess I just never felt that same connection.



On a completely different note, has anybody posted on this thread for Portishead's Third or The Bug's London Zoo? I'd like to see what other people think of the individual songs on those albums.

Nas- Illmatic

1.One Love
2.Memory Lane
3.Represent
4.The World Is Yours
5.It Ain't Hard To tell
6.New York State of Mind
7.Half Time
8.Lifes A Bitch
9.On Time For Your Mind
10.Genesis

Oasis (Whats" The Story) Morning Glory

1.Cast No Shadow
2.Wonderwall
3.Some Might Say
4.Morning Glory
5.Hey Now
6.Don't Look Back IN Anger
7.Roll With It
8.Champagne Supernova
9.Hello
10.She's Electric