You never know what post is going to connect with readers or why. The Top Ten posts were mostly about esoteric albums like A Can of Bees by The Soft Boys.
Top 5 Most Popular Posts
1. The Soft Boys A Can of Bees.
"As we learned to play electric music, we festooned it with harmonies and booby-trapped it with odd time signatures." - Robyn Hitchcock
2. The Raincoats self-titled.
The band lived as squatters, paying no rent and living on air and the occasional meal and bath.
“It was a homemade, chaotic sound,” bassist and vocalist Gina Burch says. “The way we lived seeped in.”
3. Pil: Metal Box
How the boxes themselves turned out was awkward in the extreme...They were hard to prise apart, and it was impossible to get the records out. It was appropriate, though , because what you were about to listen to could've been construed as distinctly unpleasant--it was made for those consumers who were prepared to put in a bit of effort. - John Lydon
4. The Misfits : "Night of the Living Dead"
The punk band printed up 2000 copies to be sold at the door to their shows. In contrast, t-shirts sales featuring Misfit ghouls have sold well over a million by now. Even my daughter is wearing one today.
5. Godley and Creme : Freeze Frame
The idea was driven by a new piece of equipment called a harmoniser. It's used in studios all the time these days as a corrective device to get performances in tune, but this early version came with a keyboard. You could put a sound through a harmoniser and if you wanted an instrument or voice to hit a certain note that it hadn't, you could play that note on the keyboard. So we got to thinking, 'Let's forget about singing for the moment. What happens if I vocalize these words in a monotone - do an entire song on one note - and get Lol to play my vocal on the harmoniser keyboard?' That was the experiment. It worked pretty well. Predated Cher's digital gurglings by a few years. -Kevin Godley
Next 5:
The Shoes Present Tense
The Brains "Money Changes Everything"
The Pop Group Y
Marianne Faithfull Broken English
The Jam Setting Sons.
Least Popular:
For several weeks during the summer something strange happened in which I lost 95%-98% of the views I would regularly get. So the quality of the albums is not the blame here.
1. Dire Straits Communique
2. Japan Life in Tokyo
3. Swell Maps
4. Joni Mitchell Mingus
5. Sniff n The Tears " Drivers Seat"
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