Favorite P&J No. 5 Album (1971-2005)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell (Interscope) 2003

Really?

Very for me, closely over More Songs About Buildings and Food, Second Edition, I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, and Tonight's the Night. I like a few others a lot too, particularly S-K, Lennon, '94 Neil, Waits, and Radiohead. But most of these are pretty lousy.

by "most" I mean "most of the '80s ones" obv

Are The Donnas going to show up in the next poll?

I have to vote Talking Heads even though I hate them. Still a better album than Aja, Tonight's the Night or Metal Box, all quite overrated.

Why do old white men like John Hiatt? Oh.

tonight's the night
i'm guessing aja in a landslide tho
can someone explain the appeal of michelle shocked, 20 years later i still don't get it

tonight's the night

raw
like
sushi

I love Tonight's the Night, but it's not the sort of thing I often want to hear anymore (life's been good, etc.). Whereas I'm always putting on the first PM Dawn record. So on that basis I go with PM Dawn.

Very, but I'll hate myself for ignoring More Songs and PiL. Of the 1981-89 batch, The Blue Mask is by far my favorite.

I'm curious if each one of these is gonna feel more filled with overrated bloat or if there will be some fluke position that attracts a lot of gold. I can't even do a top 8. Voting for Fever To Tell, love Tonight's The Night, More Songs, Second Edition, I can Hear The Heart Beating As One and Colossal Head. Private Dancer and The Blue Mask are sitting in my "to listen to" vinyl pile from PRE and elsewhere. I bet I'd really dig that McGarrigle album, maybe Raising Hell. Should revisit Very, haven't heard it since high school. The rest is basically stuff I either kept the best tracks from or have little desire to check out.

I can't believe Mirror Ball actually hit the top 5. "I'm The Ocean" is great, but were people really that gaga about him and Pearl Jam getting together for a week?

it was the perfect way to smuggle PJ into the top ten.

LOVE:
Neil Young
Elvis Costello
Public Image Ltd.
Pet Shop Boys
Yo La Tengo

LIKE:
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Steely Dan
Talking Heads
Run-D.M.C.
P.M. Dawn
Neneh Cherry

INDIFFERENT TO:
John Lennon
Rolling Stones
Lou Reed
The Police
Tina Turner

DISLIKE OR DON'T KNOW:
all the rest

the Neil love is for Tonight's the Night btw.

Voted for PiL; easy.

Second place, easy:
Neil Young: Tonight's the Night (Reprise) 1975

Other ones I care about:
Steely Dan: Aja (ABC) 1977
Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire) 1978
Elvis Costello: Armed Forces (Columbia) 1979
Run-D.M.C.: Raising Hell (Profile) 1986
Neneh Cherry: Raw Like Sushi (Virgin) 1989

I don't own The Blue Mask anymore, but I'm not sure why I got rid of it; I liked it when I used to have it. Others I expect I wouldn't hate if I owned copies: McGarrigles, Tina Turner, Police, Stones, Pet Shop Boys, John Lennon. Not that I expect I'll ever go out of my way to seek them out.

No use for the rest.

I like most of these.

Armed Forces/I Can Hear the Heart/XO

The Blue Mask

then comes
Armed Forces, Tonight's The Night & I Can Hear The Heart. But they all bow down before the genius that is The Blue Mask.

Lotsa made-it-on-their-rep-from-past-glories artists on this list, huh?

I am not xhuxk's sock puppet (honest!), but I do agree that Second Edition and Tonight's the Night are the best things on this list. Still, even though The Metal Box is probably one of my 20 favorite albums ever, I already voted for PiL in the 1980 poll. Therefore, I'll be voting for Neil here.

Also, y’all do realize that no one has done a favorite P&J no. 1 album poll yet, right?

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Would have been a terrific top five if not for Elliot Smith.

Not even one vote for "Check Your Head"? It's not my favorite on the list, but it's still great.

The Elliott Smith record is quite good, though.

XO is his best album.

The Heads, P.M. Dawn, Lou Reed, Neil Young and Run-D.M.C. albums all deserved an extra vote or two. And who the heck voted for Sun City in this day and age?

Er...the Neil Young album being Sleeps With Angels.