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Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 10:59am
by msza2
We did this for the Meskies a couple years ago so why not the Wilderness Years too. Anything released between Cut the Crap and X-Ray Style is fair game. First gets 3 points, second 2, and third 1. I'll tally in a week or two. VOTE VOTE VOTE!

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Here's the current tally. Feel free to still vote if you havent.

Trash City (26)
Burning Lights (14)
Unknown Immortal (13)
Island Hopping (12)
Tennessee Rain (10)
It's A Rockin World (9)
Gangsterville (8)
Cholo Vest (7)
Dum Dum Club (7)
Love Kills (7)
Shouting Streets (7)
Sleepwalk (7)
Afro-Cuban Be-Bop (6)
Ride Your Donkey (4)
Leopardskin Limosines (3)
Mango Street (3)
Nothin Bout Nothin (3)
Pouring Rain (3)
Tropic of No Return (3)
Jewelers and Bums (2)
Slant Six (2)
Harder They Come (1)
Permanent Record Theme (1)
Punk Rock Blues (1)
When Pigs Fly (1)

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1. Island Hopping
2. Tennessee Rain
3. Burning Lights

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:03am
by Wolter
1. Unknown Immortal
2. Nothin' 'Bout Nothin'
3. Trash City

EDIT: Sorry, Shouting Street. You just got nudged.

EDIT 2: Rethinking it.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:07am
by Flex
Good call.

1. Unknown Immortal
2. Island Hopping
3. It's a Rockin' World

The first two are always my top two Wilderness era Joe songs. Lotta great contenders for #3 tho, feeling "It's a Rockin' World' today.

EDIT: me good with the wordmaking

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:14am
by Wolter
It's weird, but Island Hopping never did it for me the way it does for a lot of folks on here. I don't dislike it, but it's just never what I think of when I think of great solo Joe songs.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:16am
by Flex
Wolter wrote:It's weird, but Island Hopping never did it for me the way it does for a lot of folks on here. I don't dislike it, but it's just never what I think of when I think of great solo Joe songs.
That's because I hate you.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:19am
by msza2
Wolter wrote:It's weird, but Island Hopping never did it for me the way it does for a lot of folks on here. I don't dislike it, but it's just never what I think of when I think of great solo Joe songs.
Man, I could live inside that song. That and Mondo Bongo have similar 'trouble in paradise' vibes that I can't get enough of.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:20am
by Wolter
msza2 wrote:
Wolter wrote:It's weird, but Island Hopping never did it for me the way it does for a lot of folks on here. I don't dislike it, but it's just never what I think of when I think of great solo Joe songs.
Man, I could live inside that song. That and Mondo Bongo have similar 'trouble in paradise' vibes that I can't get enough of.
And Mondo Bongo is another that I like ok, but think of as utterly disposable.
Flex wrote:
Wolter wrote:It's weird, but Island Hopping never did it for me the way it does for a lot of folks on here. I don't dislike it, but it's just never what I think of when I think of great solo Joe songs.
That's because I hate you.
Seems like you're putting the cart before the horse, you stupid robot.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:22am
by JennyB
It's a Rocking World
Shouting Street
Burning Lights

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:24am
by Dr. Medulla
1. Trash City
2. It's a Rockin' World
3. Permanent Record theme

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:26am
by Wolter
So, on Sunday I was listening to the CD mix of Wilderness Years songs I had in my car, and while that era was very disjointed and aimless, he really had a lot of solid material coming out in dribs and drabs. I wish he had a stronger willed collaborator willing to both encourage and push him in that period.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:26am
by Wolter
Dr. Medulla wrote:1. Trash City
2. It's a Rockin' World
3. Permanent Record theme
Shit, Trash City. I forgot. I've got to edit my list.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:40am
by Low Down Low
Love the wilderness years, everything special and brilliant about the Mescalero era is bound up in that tough, soul-searching era imo. Can't do a top 3 without cheating, however.

1. Cholo Vest
2. Afro Cuban Be Bop
3. Walker (all of it, the whole damn thing, it's just one complete mass of inspired brilliance)

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 11:57am
by msza2
Wolter wrote:So, on Sunday I was listening to the CD mix of Wilderness Years songs I had in my car, and while that era was very disjointed and aimless, he really had a lot of solid material coming out in dribs and drabs. I wish he had a stronger willed collaborator willing to both encourage and push him in that period.
Ok, we can agree on something.

I read somewhere that Joe's contract with Sony prevented him from singing on more than a few tracks per album unless it was an official solo album. Not sure if that's true but it would explain a lot, and would have contributed to that aimless feel.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 12:26pm
by Wolter
msza2 wrote:
Wolter wrote:So, on Sunday I was listening to the CD mix of Wilderness Years songs I had in my car, and while that era was very disjointed and aimless, he really had a lot of solid material coming out in dribs and drabs. I wish he had a stronger willed collaborator willing to both encourage and push him in that period.
Ok, we can agree on something.

I read somewhere that Joe's contract with Sony prevented him from singing on more than a few tracks per album unless it was an official solo album. Not sure if that's true but it would explain a lot, and would have contributed to that aimless feel.
Yeah. I can't discount that recording contract hell is not a good place for anyone to be.

Re: Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

Posted: 23 Aug 2016, 12:39pm
by Heston
It's a Rockin' World
Unknown Immortal
Sleepwalk (Loses points for the murky production but one of Joe's best songs for me)