Rank the tracks on your favorite album

[Forever_Jung]

Joni Mitchell's Blue:

1. River
2. A Case of You
3. Carey
4. All I Want
5. California
6. This Flight Tonight
7. Little Green
8. The Last Time I Saw Richard
9. Blue
10. My Old Man

 

[Hive]

By the way, [MENTION=20761]underwaterthing[/MENTION] and [MENTION=11809]unsung[/MENTION]

Listen to Parasite, and then listen to Subterranean Homesick Alien. Notice the similarities?

Yes. I don't have enough knowledge about music theory to aptly express it, but in both songs the main "riff" or whatever consists of the same chord being picked, but with a chromatically descending bass (I think).

Pretty obvious similarities now that you point it out. Haven't noticed earlier. It's even more apparent in the acoustic version of Subterranean Homesick Alien.

Keenly observed.

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Might as well do my own rankings of Pink Moon, since it's in my top 5:

1. From the Morning
2. Place to Be
3. Road
4. Which Will
5. Things Behind the Sun
6. Parasite
7. Pink Moon
8. Horn
9. Know
10. Free Ride
11. Harvest Breed

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand another fav of mine, Fun House by The Stooges:

1. 1970
2. Loose
3. Dirt
4. Down on the Street
5. TV Eye
6. LA Blues
7. Fun House

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

1. From the Morning
2. Place to Be
3. Road
4. Which Will
5. Things Behind the Sun
6. Parasite
7. Pink Moon
8. Horn
9. Know
10. Free Ride
11. Harvest Breed

Interesting rankings. I see you really like Road..

And Pink Moon is so low.

 

[Opal]

This is difficult.

Relatively unknown: Karnivool - Sound Awake

Deadman
Simple Boy
Caudal Lure
Change (Pt. 2)
Set Fire To The Hive
All I Know
Umbra
Goliath
Illumine
The Medicine Wears Off


Relatively known: Tame Impala - Lonerism

Sun's Coming Up
Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
Why Won't They Talk To Me?
Mind Mischief
Elephant
Keep On Lying
Apocalypse Dreams
Music To Walk Home By
Be Above It
Nothing That Has Happened So Far Has Been Anything We Could Control
She Just Won't Believe Me
Endors Toi

 

[cascadeco]

Rank the tracks on your favorite album from favorite to least favorite. If your favorite album isn't that well-known, rank the tracks on your favorite popular album too.
[MENTION=1206]cascadeco[/MENTION]

favorite album - Boys for Pele (Tori Amos):
1. Doughnut Song
2. Blood Roses
3. Father Lucifer
4. Talula (especially The Tornado Mix)
5. Beauty Queen/Horses
6. Hey Jupiter
7. Marianne
8. Caught a Lite Sneeze
9. In the Springtime of His Voodoo
10. Muhammad My Friend
11. Not the Red Baron
12. Professional Widow
13. Little Amsterdam
14. Putting the Damage On
15. Way Down
16. Twinkle
17. Mr. Zebra
18. Agent Orange

favorite well-known album - OK Computer (Radiohead):
1. Let Down
2. Paranoid Android
3. Exit Music (For a Film)
4. Lucky
5. Subterranean Homesick Alien
6. Airbag
7. No Surprises
8. Karma Police
9. Climbing Up the Walls
10. The Tourist
11. Fitter Happier
12. Electioneering

Ah, thanks for the call-out. Will be cool to compare my list to yours. (Also, 'Let Down' is definitely my favorite track from OK Computer) tbh, though, it feels kind of wrong for me to commit to a Favorite Album. haha.

For Tori Amos, Boys for Pele:
1. Doughnut Song
2. Caught a Light Sneeze
3. Jupiter
4. Muhammad my Friend
5. Blood Roses
6. Professional Widow
7. Horses
8. Mr. Zebra
9. Marianne
10. Father Lucifer
11. Talula
12. Little Amsterdam
13.In the Springtime of his Voodoo
14.Way Down
15.Putting the Damage On
16.Not the Red Baron
17.Agent Orange
18.Twinkle

 

[Flâneuse]

Listen to Parasite, and then listen to Subterranean Homesick Alien. Notice the similarities?

They do sound really similar - I could hear it almost immediately. I liked "Parasite" a lot and thought it had a timeless quality. I'll have to get over my tunnel vision for '90s and '00s music and check out more of Nick Drake's stuff.

For Tori Amos, Boys for Pele:
1. Doughnut Song
2. Caught a Light Sneeze
3. Jupiter
4. Muhammad my Friend
5. Blood Roses
6. Professional Widow
7. Horses
8. Mr. Zebra
9. Marianne
10. Father Lucifer
11. Talula
12. Little Amsterdam
13.In the Springtime of his Voodoo
14.Way Down
15.Putting the Damage On
16.Not the Red Baron
17.Agent Orange
18.Twinkle

Nice. I think "Doughnut Song" is sorely underrated by most Tori fans and IMHO is the most poignant, honest and emotionally nuanced song about rejection I've ever heard. I love your list, except for how low you ranked Father Lucifer and Talula (but of course, a song's value is subjective).

I love Tori's more recent stuff (both classical music and her more polished, poppy stuff like Abnormally Attracted to Sin), but I miss the rawness and magic of her 1st three (and to an extent, 1st five) albums. I think it's true that in general musicians tend to peak earlier than other types of artists.

Little Earthquakes (Tori Amos):
1. Silent All These Years
2. Mother
3. Winter
4. Crucify
5. Precious Things
6. Tear in Your Hand
7. Me and a Gun
8. Leather
9. Girl
10. Little Earthquakes (most Tori fans love it, but I can't get into it)
11. China
12. Happy Phantom

In Utero (Nirvana) (one of my favorite album covers too):
1. Scentless Apprentice
2. Dumb (Despite its relative softness and "poppiness", it hits me harder than any other track. Sounds like emotional hell from the start. The intentionally simple but ironic lyrics are sad in an almost childlike way.)
3. Rape Me
4. Milk It
(5, 6 and 7 are almost tied)
5. Heart-Shaped Box
6. All Apologies
7. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle
8. Serve the Servants
9. Pennyroyal Tea
10. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
11. Very Ape
12. tourette's

 

[Hive]

Interesting rankings. I see you really like Road..

And Pink Moon is so low.

Yup. Beautiful guitar picking. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU PLACE IT LAST

Pink Moon is still an ace song. But given how solid the record is through and through, the competition is just real rough.

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

They do sound really similar - I could hear it almost immediately. I liked "Parasite" a lot and thought it had a timeless quality. I'll have to get over my tunnel vision for '90s and '00s music and check out more of Nick Drake's stuff.

Cool.

Yup. Beautiful guitar picking. WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU PLACE IT LAST

Pink Moon is still an ace song. But given how solid the record is through and through, the competition is just real rough.

Oh, I know the guitar on it is brilliant. I just find his singing and lyrics sort of drab, and it also interrupts the line of all my favorite songs.

Still, there isn't actually a bad song on there.

 

[Hive]

Oh, I know the guitar on it is brilliant. I just find his singing and lyrics sort of drab, and it also interrupts the line of all my favorite songs.

Still, naturally there isn't a bad song on there.

The audacity.

How dare you have a different opinion?

Disrespectful punk. We can settle this, right now.

Accept the challenge, or be forever dishonoured.

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

The audacity.

How dare you have a different opinion?

 

[Hive]

The duel shall commence at sunrise.

Your gentleman's honour is at stake.

Don't be late.

 

[five sounds]

The Knife (The Knife)
1. Neon
2. A Lung
3. Lasagna
4. Zapata
5. I Just Had to Die
6. N.Y. Hotel
7. Bird
8. Parade
9. Reindeer
10. I Take Time
11. Keno

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

1. She Took a Long Cold Look
2. If It's In You
3. Dark Globe
4. Feel
5. Golden Hair
6. Love You
7. Terrapin
8. Long Gone
9. Late Night
10. Here I Go
11. Octopus
12. No Good Trying
13. No Man's Land

 

[cascadeco]

Nice. I think "Doughnut Song" is sorely underrated by most Tori fans and IMHO is the most poignant, honest and emotionally nuanced song about rejection I've ever heard. I love your list, except for how low you ranked Father Lucifer and Talula (but of course, a song's value is subjective).

Ah.. ... well, that's the thing about ranking songs on a really good album, all of which are pretty good... not all of the good ones can be high up!! But, yes, there can be a lot of subjectivity as well, personal preference.

I love Tori's more recent stuff (both classical music and her more polished, poppy stuff like Abnormally Attracted to Sin), but I miss the rawness and magic of her 1st three (and to an extent, 1st five) albums. I think it's true that in general musicians tend to peak earlier than other types of artists.

I like some of her new songs, and am not that into other ones. I think her newer stuff is pretty hit or miss -- not as consistent.

Regarding Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink, I don't even want to try ranking them! There aren't many tracks to begin with, and I think both of those albums are solid.

 

[Flâneuse]

Radiohead - The King of Limbs
1. Codex
2. Give Up the Ghost
3. Bloom
4. Separator
5. Lotus Flower
6. Little by Little
7. Morning Mr. Magpie
8. Feral

Radiohead - Amnesiac
1. Pyramid Song
2. You and Whose Army?
3. I Might Be Wrong
4. Dollars & Cents
5. Morning Bell/Amnesiac
6. Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box
7. Like Spinning Plates (probably ranked controversially low - most R.H. are crazy about it from what I've heard)
8. Knives Out
9. Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors
10. Life in a Glass House
11. Hunting Bears

Radiohead - Kid A
1. Everything in Its Right Place
2. How to Disappear Completely
3. Optimistic
4. The National Anthem
5. Morning Bell
6. Motion Picture Soundtrack
7. In Limbo
8. Kid A
9. Idioteque (it's just never personally resonated with me. I get what it's about, though)
10. Treefingers

Bjork - Vespertine
1. Undo
2. It's Not Up to You
3. Sun in My Mouth
4. Harm of Will
5. Pagan Poetry
6. Aurora
7. Unison
8. Heirloom
9. Hidden Place
10. Cocoon
11. An Echo, A Stain
12. Frosti

 

[ndovjtjcaqidthi]

Love - Forever Changes

1. Alone Again Or
2. You Set The Scene
3. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale
4. The Red Telephone
5. Old Man
6. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
7. A House Is Not A Motel
8. The Daily Planet
9. Andmoreagain
10. Live And Let Live
11. Bummer In The Summer

 

[hjgbujhghg]

Seether - Disclaimer

1. Fine Again
2. Sympathetic
3. Driven Under
4. 69 Tea
5. Broken
6. Fuck it
7. Fade Away
8. Needles
9. Pride
10. Your Bore
11. Pig
12. Gasoline

 

[hokie912]

Weezer - Pinkerton

1. Across the Sea
2. El Scorcho
3. Why Bother
4. Falling for You
5. Tired of Sex
6. Getchoo
7. No Other One
8. Butterfly
9. The Good Life
10. Pink Triangle

 

[á´…eparted]

iamamiwhoami - Bounty

Every song comes with a video, and in sequential order they tell a story.

1. O
2. T
3. Y
4. N
5. Clump
6. B
7. ; John
8. U-2
9. U-1

 

[Flâneuse]

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
1. Cloudbusting
2. Hello Earth
3. Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God)
4. Hounds of Love
5. Under Ice
6. The Morning Fog
7. Watching You Without Me
8. And Dream of Sheep
9. Jig of Life
10. Mother Stands for Comfort
11. The Big Sky
12. Waking the Witch