MoFo Music Hall of Fame

The Head on the Door is a long time favorite of mine as is The Velvet Underground. I'm more than happy to listen to Coltrane and The Band as well. I haven't heard anything from Swan's nomination and I've heard Slyvian, but I have no idea what album I was listening to.

Wow, a very strong lineup, the complete opposite of what I expected from the music tournaments...

I am worried that my nomination will be too suthern for all y'all yankee folk.

haven't listened to any of it besides my nomination, but it looks like a strong set. i think i'm most excited for The Head on the Door because i've listened to The Cure's Pornography and Disintegration countless times, yet i've never bothered venturing out of those for whatever reason, but now i'm going to have to and this will hopefully prod me to explore the rest of their discography.

Southern Canadian?

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I knew somebody would bring up the Canadian thing.

The best part of The Band was southern though.

Yeah. I think in the tournaments people tend to go a little more conventional and what appeals to the masses more because it's just no fun not to have any dogs in the race after the first round.

With something like this I'm going to get more serious and nominate what I truly think deserves to be in a hall of fame regardless if everyone hates it or not. Judging from the other nominations, I no longer think that will be the case.

If anybody else would like to join, you have until the end of tomorrow to let me know.

Interesting selections. I'm only familiar with The Velvet Underground album, but I almost never listen to it because I prefer their first two albums. I considered nominating one of their first two albums. Also considered The Stooges' Fun House or Iggy Pop The Idiot. I'm not too familiar with The Band, though I've seen the Scorsese movie. A couple of those albums I've never even heard of... This should be interesting!

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What do you guys want to do about Guapo's nomination? Leave it in? Take it out? Wait and see if he changes his mind?

Even if he came back, he's not going to participate here. So if he's not going to listen to any nominations, why should we listen to his? I say leave it up to the individual. I listened to half of his nomination Angra Temple of Shadows and I found it generic sounding, soulless metal. Either you like it or you don't, and I doubt listening to that album will change your mind. From what I heard "Wishing Well" was the most standout song, because it's completely different than everything else. Listen to "Spread Your Fire" and you pretty much can grasp the content of the rest of the album.

I say take it out. I don't think Guap's coming back and in all honesty I don't think he is not in the right attitude to participate. I feel like if his album doesn't win, it's just going to prove him right in his own mind.

Drop it like it's hot.

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Aaaaaaand it's out.

I listened to Head on the Door today and some yesterday. I figured I'd listen to what I was most familiar with first. It might be the most obvious choice but my favorite track has been and still is Close to Me. I personally don't think there is a bad track, but I guess I'd go with Six Different Ways as my least favorite.

I think I prefer the Close to Me version on the Quadpus EP. Still, It's one of the best Cure albums without question. It's also really the only one that references several sounds of theirs, anything from the darkwave stuff to the Top (underrated record). What makes Six Different Ways your least favorite? Screw might be mine, if only because it sits between A Night Like This and Sinking...

Dammit. I just learned Flying Lotus is the nephew of John Coltrane. I totally should have nominated a FlyLo album.

Just finished listening to A Love Supreme.

I love jazz because it’s musical creativity in its purest form. Free expression. That said, I haven’t really explored the genre enough and this was a great album to further my jazz knowledge and experience. I can also see how Coltrane influenced his nephew, Flying Lotus, who is jazzy - or at least, jazz influenced - in his own right. The thing I love about FlyLo is the influence of the freeform of jazz on his music. With electronic music it’s easy to loop and make things really structured and repetitive, but FlyLo has always felt very freeform to me, constantly changing it up every second in his music. I know this turned into me talking about FlyLo, but the influence is there and it shows just how significant Coltrane was to a musical artist I love.

Paul Thomas Anderson said growing up he looked to the films that influenced his favorite directors, and watched those. As I am starting to make my own electronic music now I felt like I was doing the same thing musically while listening to this album. And I was definitely not disappointed. This should be high on my list. Great nomination, Iro.

If anyone has any other jazz recommendations, I’d love to hear them.

I like Miles Davis' On the Corner. I don't have comprehensive knowledge of the genre, but I am pretty sure this is a seminal jazz-fusion album.

Listened to The Band.

I was quite into classic rock when I was 12-15 years old, after being introduced to Yes by my father and subsequently exploring the genre. I grew out of it after that, and don't really care for most of the generic stuff anymore. That isn't to say there's not plenty of classic rock I do enjoy - my favorite band is Pink Floyd. But, the quintessential classic rock "sound" is not something I'm partial to anymore. A classic rock group really has to be distinct for me to care at all for them.

I did enjoy this one, I thought this group had a distinct sound, possibly due to the singer's voice and the skill of their overall musicianship. It's just a classy album that was very pleasant on my ears for the duration of the time. I don't know how high it will be on my list because I have yet to listen to the others, but if it's the last one that's just an ode to how great all these nominations are.