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Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 9:50 pm
by Kaius
Lament wrote:
Kaius wrote:I think I agree with dct, but they're both unbelievably good records.

"Songs..." is a double album, and still manages to remain potent and lush without dragging its feet or feeling diluted.
I prefer Innervisions as well, but Songs in the Key of Life is no doubt his most landmark record (and his personal favorite as well, for what it's worth).
:thumbsup:

My favorite is usually whichever one I just listened to, to be honest.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 9:52 pm
by bada
Stevie prefers Thriller to Purple Rain.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 9:57 pm
by epilogue
bada wrote:Stevie prefers Thriller to Purple Rain.
You're goddamn right he does.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:05 pm
by Lament
Kaius wrote:My favorite is usually whichever one I just listened to, to be honest.
I think 50% of the time Innervisions is probably my favorite. 25% of the time it's Talking Book, 20% of the time it's Songs in the Key of Life, and 4% of the time it's Music of My Mind, and 1% of the time it's Fulfillingness' First Finale.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:06 pm
by Lament
It is never In Circle Square.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:10 pm
by stip
bada wrote:Stevie prefers Thriller to Purple Rain.
I almost made a Stevie a Wonder vs. Prince thread but then I realized I can't afford to lose lament as an occasional supporter

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:12 pm
by bada
Who the hell is Stevie Wonder? I'm taking about Stevie Johnson down the street.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:13 pm
by epilogue
Lament wrote:
Kaius wrote:My favorite is usually whichever one I just listened to, to be honest.
I think 50% of the time Innervisions is probably my favorite. 25% of the time it's Talking Book, 20% of the time it's Songs in the Key of Life, and 4% of the time it's Music of My Mind, and 1% of the time it's Fulfillingness' First Finale.
Sounds about right.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:15 pm
by Birds in Hell
Definitely Innervisions.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:26 pm
by Lament
stip wrote:
bada wrote:Stevie prefers Thriller to Purple Rain.
I almost made a Stevie a Wonder vs. Prince thread but then I realized I can't afford to lose lament as an occasional supporter
There's actually a much more reasonable to be made there. They were both prodigies who stormed through their twenties releasing classic albums nearly every single year. They're both guys who exercise almost total control over their music, often to the extent of playing nearly every instrument on some of them (or in Prince's case, literally every instrument). They were both at the forefront of integrating new technology into pop music, and their "trademark" sounds were tied to these technologies (in Stevie's case the Clavinet, in Prince's the Linn Drum). They were both praised for being at the forefront of fusing "black" and "white" sounds in their music in their respective eras. They both followed up runs that are frequently held up as among the greatest in history with periods of questionable output before settling in as elder statesmen...

When I used to lurk daily over at Prince.org, Stevie Wonder was to Prince on that board what R.E.M. or Tom Waits are to Pearl Jam here.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:36 pm
by Kaius
if dsb1218 was here we could really boomerang this thing back around.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:40 pm
by Rangi Guy
Kaius wrote:if dsb1218 was here we could really boomerang this thing back around.
I was thinking the same thing, but didn't want to say anything since I held things up earlier....

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:44 pm
by stip
everyone should do like team Australia and lament and bada and a few others and make sure you PM me picks!

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:54 pm
by dsb1218
Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:56 pm
by doug rr
dsb1218 wrote:Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate
:thumbsup: On My favorite album of all time

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 10:57 pm
by bada
Black Sabbath - Supernaut
Foghat - Slowride

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 11:01 pm
by dsb1218
Big Star - Thirteen

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 11:02 pm
by Birds in Hell
Seeing how slowly this has moved in the last day or so, I'm all for a 2 hour timeframe.

PM your picks to someone if there's even a slight chance you won't be around, keep things moving.

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 11:02 pm
by Lament
Oh shit, I'm up again?

Re: Best Decade Tournament - 70s: Round 4 Dsb1218

Posted: Thu June 19, 2014 11:02 pm
by Birds in Hell
Nice picks, dudes.

:thumbsup: