Board 8 > Rank the Tracks 162: Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain (+ future album voting)

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Beyond the Anglosphere nominees (rank your top 5):
ABBA - Arrival
Babymetal - Babymetal
Bjrk - Homogenic
Blmchen - Jasmin
dEUS - The Ideal Crash
Enya - A Day Without Rain
Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
KMFDM - Nihil
Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores
Lordi - The Arockalypse
Machinae Supremacy - A View From The End Of The World
Nouvelle Vague - Novelle Vague
Polysics - Now is the Live!
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night

Previous results can be seen here:
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Rank_the_Tracks
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Rank_the_Tracks_Set_2
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Rank_the_Tracks_Set_3
https://board8.fandom.com/wiki/Rank_the_Tracks_Set_4

The rules:
1. Listen to the album in full
2. Rank every track on the album
3. For the results, there will be a curve at the top of each list; two additional points between #1 and #2, and one additional point for the next two ranks. This way, the songs that really stick out to someone get an edge that is not immediately negated by someone else putting it lower. In the case of Demon Days, someone's 15th track will get 1 point, 14th 2 points, 4th 12 points, 3rd 14 points, 2nd 16 points, and 1st 19 points. For albums with greater than 15 tracks, everything ranked below #15 will be given 0 points and the scale for the top 15 will be the same as a 15-track album. For albums with more than 20 tracks, you only have to list your top 15 (with 16-20, I still like having the average rank listed)
4. If you want to include comments for individual songs, I will compile them in the results
5. The results will be posted at the beginning of the next topic
6. The deadline to vote is Thursday, May 2nd at 8:00 AM Central Time; If you do get in a vote after the deadline but before I post the results, I will probably include it.
7. Every few weeks, a nomination period will open; there may or may not be a theme. Each user can nominate one album. The following week, everyone will be able to rank their top ~5 among the choices - this will use a bottom-up scoring approach, i.e. voting for one album will give your #1 a single point, voting for five will give your #1 five points, so it is always better to vote for the maximum number of albums. The top ~5 will then be covered.
8. Skits and tracks under 40 seconds will be excluded from the rankings unless argued otherwise

Viktor Vaughn - Vaudeville Villain track list:
(1. Overture)
2. Vaudeville Villain
3. Lickupon
4. The Drop
5. Lactose and Lecithin
6. A Dead Mouse
7. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 1
8. RaeDawn
9. Let Me Watch(/Can I Watch?)
10. Saliva
11. Modern Day Mugging
12. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 2
13. Never Dead
14. PopSnot
15. Mr. Clean
16. G.M.C.
17 (hidden track). Change the Beat

Future weeks:
5/2: Garbage - Version 2.0

Comments from nominator - I have added a link to the most streamed song on Spotify if the nominator did not include any

ABBA - Arrival:
ABBA is a Swedish pop band that that put out a series of hit albums and songs in the 70s and 80s. Arrival is considered one of their best albums and has a few big hits you've heard before, like Dancing Queen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFrGuyw1V8s , Money Money Money https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETxmCCsMoD0 , and Knowing Me, Knowing You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrzicaiRLU . If you want fun, easy listening pop, this is the album for you!

Babymetal - Babymetal:
Babymetal basically created an entirely new genre with this album that by no means should have actually worked, combining heavy metal instrumentals with j-pop vocals. Somehow it ended up capitalizing on the best of both genres, making something that is legitimately metal as all hell while having a wildly differnet sound from anything that came before it. I considered going with one of their other albums, Metal Resistance or Metal Galaxy (all three are great) but I feel like it makes more to introduce them via their self-titled debut which pretty much immediately knocked it out of the park.

This song is what made them go viral initially and the one that introduced most people to the band to begin with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIKqgE4BwAY

Bjrk - Homogenic:
A beautiful, otherworldly album. Bjork has four albums I would love to cover, but Homogenic has always stood out as her best to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5hMHLwqPR4

Blmchen - Jasmin:
Style: Ballad, Euro House, Happy Hardcore, Synth-pop (according to Discogs)

I don't think that this topic series has covered this style of pop yet (correct me if I'm wrong). Album is in German.

Note, the original release of this album had 13 songs but the version on Spotify/Youtube has 15 (after some research I discovered that this was a special edition released like a year later). Normally I wouldn't be pushing for bonus songs to be included, but one of those extra songs is one which I think people are most likely to have heard before, so it feels right that it should be ranked. So I'm nominating all 15 songs even though it adds an extra 7 minutes.

Sample song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsAISp5C8CE

dEUS - The Ideal Crash:
Belgian art-rock band. The Ideal Crash isn't as experimental or artsy as predecessor 'In a Bar, Under the Sea', but the creativity and art is still there, it's just interwoven into the music more subtly. The band at its peak, an album with amazing consistency and quality throughout.

Sample track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0hPLvWPvac

Enya - A Day Without Rain:
AKA the album with Only Time on it. Her most acclaimed album is Watermark, but when I listen to it I get mostly vibes and that doesn't work very well in this format. My favorite album is Dark Sky Island, but I'm more curious to see the opinions of the rest of A Day Without Rain when put up against the most pervasive song in Enya's discography. Plus I think this album is great too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wfYIMyS_dI

Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_GjLs9YOrcLCgTdhrb4xr6DUA5cAuSmJ

Japanese psychedelic rock band beloved by Rate Your Music. I'm not familiar with most of their work. Their highest rated album, Long Season, is one continuous song, so I'm nominating this instead. Open to changing based on feedback.

KMFDM - Nihil:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdmhFhxJIXQ

Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores:
Since we recently did a Portuguese-speaking album with Clube da esquina, I figured it'd also be cool to cover a Spanish-speaking album. It's a really cool modern take on Mexican folk music. Some really good songwriting and Lafourcade's voice is fantastic.

Sample track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nx5CZ83o1Z8

Lordi - The Arockalypse:
Just pure fun heavy metal out of Finland. This album has Hard Rock Hallelujah, which made history when it won Eurovision in 2006. Link to that song here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H4mJXcQaRU

Machinae Supremacy - A View From The End Of The World:
machinae supremacy are a swedish metal (but not particularly heavy) band who sing mostly about video games and use a SID synthesizer, the chip from the commodore 64, to get authentic 8-bit sounds. this is my favourite album of theirs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQJXLqqKB1w

Nouvelle Vague - Novelle Vague:
This French-based band basically does bossa nova covers of rock and pop tunes with a heavy focus on the 80s. So it's kind of in line with the stuff I typically nominate with a bit of a deviant twist. They're pretty catchy and I honestly feel like I've heard their cover of "I Melt With You" in commercials before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeX8Ah1eSt8

Polysics - Now is the Live!:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBhxnlnLIM

Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUjbBMOUBg

The Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
MaxGalactica (28)
HBJDubs (34)
Johnbobb (40)
FoolFantastic (46)
Sheep007 (48)
Seanchan (50)
rwlh (54)
jcgamer107 (60)
Fluttershy_Pony (70)
Mega_Mana (74)

General Album Comments

Seanchan: Not sure I'll rank this week. 17 songs, mostly instrumental...

But it was generally enjoyable!

Sheep007: I love Bebop, I love this soundtrack as a soundtrack, I dont care for it so much as an album. A lot of other soundtracks work better in album form, and either feel more wildly varied (like, game soundtracks tend to cover wider tones) or like they have more cohesion without getting tiring. Rains vocalist was a jumpscare and a half the first listen, and the actionier songs didnt tend to sit so highly with me past the opening two. The 1-2 punch of Spokey Dokey and Bad Dog No Biscuits was rough following that, and I dont think they led well into the rest of the album. Most of the rest flows decently, given its not really intended to be a typical album. Still obviously so much great music here! I feel like I'm being very critical but it's unfortunately hindered by not being the best way I've experienced this soundtrack. Go watch Bebop (the anime version please) if you haven't already - one of the best animated shows of all time.

FoolFantastic: "Tank!" is pretty much the greatest theme song ever written (the other contender being the theme from Twin Peaks). Few shows make such perfect use of its music, but the team behind Cowboy Bebop knew exactly what they were getting with Yoko Kanno. She is not merely scoring scenes - in several of the best moments, it's more that the scenes are set to her music. As such, the songs have a leading quality where many soundtracks try to operate in the background. The wide range of genres make another strong selling point. This is one of the few OSTs that I would actually recommend as its own entity.

MaxGalactica: There are probably about 20 Kanno soundtracks that I have rated higher than this one (including Ragnarok Online II that we covered a couple of months ago), as it does have a few more filler tracks than I'd like. However the good tracks on here are really, really good and Space Lion is my overall favorite Kanno song which is saying a lot. There's a lot of variety genre-wise with the spaghetti western, big band jazz, blues, and other influences. If you enjoyed this soundtrack, definitely check out the second (Cowboy Bebop 2: No Disc) and third (Cowboy Bebop Blue) soundtracks as well as the Vitaminless EP. They're all quite varied and include more vocal songs if you felt those were missing from this soundtrack (The Real Folk Blues, Adieu, Call Me Call Me. Blue, Fantasie Sign, and Don't Bother None being highlights amongst them).

rwlh: I liked this a lot more on my first listen. There are some songs I really like here, particularly Space Lion, and there's a wide enough range of styles that I could see myself gravitating toward different songs on subsequent listens. That sax is pretty great.

Seanchan: Fine, I did do a ranking, just not to my usual level of effort, though I did do my normal 3 listens. The album starts off really well, outside of Spokey Dokey. Lots of big, jazzy, upbeat numbers. Then there's the rest of it. Nothing too bad, it's just an album that peaks early.

HBJDubs: Not my style of music typically, but Yoko Kanno just knows how to make good music out of anything. The top songs can definitely stand on their own without the context of the show.

Cowboy Bebop track ranking

17. Memory (Track #17)
Score: 28 (Average Rank: 13.4/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Fluttershy_Pony (#8)
Biggest Detractor(s): Mega_Mana, rwlh (#17)

rwlh: the only ones i don't like (alongside "The Egg and I")

16. Digging My Potato (Track #16)
Score: 29 (Average Rank: 13.3/17)
Biggest Fan(s): rwlh (#5)
Biggest Detractor(s): MaxGalactica, Fluttershy_Pony (#17)

jcgamer107: slightly better harmonica than Spokey Dokey. Now I want a baked potato.

15. Felt Tip Pen (Track #14)
Score: 29 (Average Rank: 13.1/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Mega_Mana, jcgamer107 (#9)
Biggest Detractor(s): FoolFantastic, MaxGalactica, Fluttershy_Pony (#16)

jcgamer107: this ollll' Ruby rider.......is Ruby ridin' alonnngggg . This is what you hear when you hit the ol' dusty trail.

14. Cosmos (Track #6)
Score: 37 (Average Rank: 12.4/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Fluttershy_Pony (#6)
Biggest Detractor(s): Seanchan (#17)

jcgamer107: OK little trumpet interlude

13. Spokey Dokey (Track #3)
Score: 38 (Average Rank: 12.4/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Mega_Mana (#5)
Biggest Detractor(s): Sheep007, HBJDubs (#17)

Sheep007: Im sorry, but can we please have a tiny, teensy bit less harmonica? Just a tad? A smidgen toned down, perhaps? I promise, I like it. I love your harmonica, Ms Kanno, I really do. Its just a lot, yknow?

jcgamer107: kinda grating harmonica that goes on for too long. decent slide guitar.

12. Pot City (Track #10)
Score: 49 (Average Rank: 11.1/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Fluttershy_Pony (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): Mega_Mana, FoolFantastic (#15)

jcgamer107: Kinda similar to Cat Blues, not quite as good

11. Car 24 (Track #12)
Score: 54 (Average Rank: 10.7/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Mega_Mana, jcgamer107 (#7)
Biggest Detractor(s): FoolFantastic (#17)

rwlh: sitcom music, a little too cheesy for me

10. The Egg and I (Track #13)
Score: 72 (Average Rank: 8.8/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Mega_Mana (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): rwlh (#16)

jcgamer107: cool slide guitar, and interesting use of fife. Sounds like some PilotWings shit or somethin.

rwlh: the only ones i don't like (alongside "Memory")

9. Cat Blues (Track #5)
Score: 74 (Average Rank: 8.7/17)
Biggest Fan(s): rwlh (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): Mega_Mana (#14)

jcgamer107: chill & groovy. Begging for someone to recite beatnik poetry over it.

8. Waltz for Zizi (Track #8)
Score: 75 (Average Rank: 8.8/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Fluttershy_Pony (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb (#17)

jcgamer107: Pleasant enough. Sounds like something I'd have on while sitting by the fireplace around Christmas time.

7. Rain (Track #15)
Score: 76 (Average Rank: 8.5/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Mega_Mana (#3)
Biggest Detractor(s): Fluttershy_Pony (#15)

jcgamer107: wtf is this. No lyrics allowed. Pretty jarring to throw this in near the end.

6. Too Good Too Bad (Track #11)
Score: 90 (Average Rank: 7/17)
Biggest Fan(s): FoolFantastic, jcgamer107 (#4)
Biggest Detractor(s): Johnbobb (#12)

jcgamer107: fun brass & sax. Snare makes it into like a jazz-march ?

5. Bad Dog No Biscuits (Track #4)
Score: 99 (Average Rank: 6.9/17)
Biggest Fan(s): jcgamer107 (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): Sheep007 (#16)

jcgamer107: this song goes HARD right from the start - the brass, the drums, the radio static sounds - everything is great. Really pushes the boundaries of hard jazz. Then opens into this wild ska section just over a minute in. I eat it up every time. Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (PS3) allowed you to insert your own custom soundtrack into the game - I put this song in, and for some reason it always played whenever the game started up, at the title screen. It was bad-ass and got me pumped for some hard drivin'.

4. Piano Black (Track #9)
Score: 109 (Average Rank: 5.5/17)
Biggest Fan(s): rwlh (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Mega_Mana (#13)

jcgamer107: more dope jazz. Not enough piano though, given the title.

rwlh: lovely repetitive crunch

3. Rush (Track #2)
Score: 114 (Average Rank: 5.2/17)
Biggest Fan(s): jcgamer107, Seanchan (#2)
Biggest Detractor(s): Fluttershy_Pony (#14)

jcgamer107: This is quite my tempo - jazz with some real punch. The Bond motif section is neat.

2. Space Lion (Track #7)
Score: 142 (Average Rank: 4.4/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Mega_Mana, MaxGalactica, rwlh, Fluttershy_Pony, HBJDubs (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): jcgamer107 (#17)

Sheep007: I very nearly like this more than Tank and thats high praise indeed.

MaxGalactica: This is one of my favorite songs of all time. The ambient intro with the gorgeous sax is incredible. Amazing melody, amazing chords, amazing soundscape, I love everything about this song.

jcgamer107: wow this is long, it's puttin' me to sleep. I'm sure it serves its purpose within the context of the show, but I wouldn't ever listen to it on its own. Plus the vocals are just weird.

rwlh: 10/10 song for me, an all-timer

Fluttershy_Pony: I love this song enough that I listened to the entire album just so I could give it first place. I kinda hoped to find something on its level on this soundtrack, but alas, this song is *way* beyond anything else here. I'm not sure any other album we've covered has such a massive gap between first & second place.

1. Tank! (Track #1)
Score: 155 (Average Rank: 2.8/17)
Biggest Fan(s): Sheep007, FoolFantastic, Johnbobb, Seanchan (#1)
Biggest Detractor(s): rwlh (#10)

Johnbobb: might be the most obvious winner we've had, and that's stiff competition

jcgamer107: an all-time great TV show theme, that I can only ever hear with Bill Cosby (impersonations) thanks to YTMND

Fluttershy_Pony: Eh. I've honestly never been a fan of this song and kinda hate the shorter intro version of the track. I blame Super Robot Wars T; whenever any of your characters attacks or gets attacked, their anime's theme will play. So if you use Spike, you're going to hear "Tank!" whenever he does anything. And since he's a pretty decent character--very evasive, decent damage, and you get extra money for each enemy he shoots down--you'll probably hear the song hundreds of times per playthrough. After three trips through that game, my distaste for the song has turned to hatred.

BUT this extended version isn't all that bad. There are enough new moments that it feels different & the instruments are much clearer and high quality than the game's rendition. I still don't like it--and the fact that it's so high up on my list should tell you how I feel about the album as a whole--but... this song is pretty okay.

my vote:
1. Bjrk - Homogenic
2. ABBA - Arrival
3. Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores
4. dEUS - The Ideal Crash
5. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya

FoolFantastic posted...

jcgamer107: slightly better harmonica than Spokey Dokey. Now I want a baked potato.

and I did, in fact, get one for lunch

1. Babymetal - Babymetal
2. Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las floras
3. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
4. Bjork - Homogenic
5. Blumchen - Jasmin

HM to KMFDM and Machinae Supremacy for both sounding great, and Nouvelle Vague, who I absolutely fuckin loved. I can't justify voting them given it's I think all covers. I do these rankings to listen to new music, or coherent albums from artists that I like. But I listened to it all after seeing the tracklist, (there's nine songs on that album that are absolutely phenomenal in their original form) and all of them are excellent covers. Go listen to it even if you don't wanna have it as a ranking week.

Dishonourable mention to ABBA who I hear blasting from the pub downstairs every single night and have had enough of.

I made a playlist with the sample songs, though I think the Polysics album nominated is a live one not on Spotify (or anywhere? My googling makes me think it is a DVD concert film and not an album...)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4mPvhgY8mOWpkTUefoe2vj?si=5b28c190f4814a3a

Oops I think you're right - what's the ruling on that? Not that it will get top 5 anyway lul

I think I can provide a link to the full album (at least the audio) if it's allowed

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Easily one of my all-time favorite rap albums. Doom is always interesting, between his distinct pronunciation and flow, his classic Fantastic 4 clips and comic book themes and his lyrics that go back and forth between harsh and goofy. Viktor Vaughn is probably my favorite of his faces beyond the classic MF Doom, though Madvillain and King Gheedorah are up there too. Basically every song on this album is a banger. I'm also a sucker for a great concept album, and Viktor's character of a time traveling villain in the streets of old NY is hard to top

Also this is technically the second MF Doom album we've done if you count the one song he appeared in on Gorillaz - Demon Days

1. Vaudeville Villain
2. Lickupon
3. Saliva
4. G.M.C.
5. Let Me Watch
6. Lactose and Lecithin
7. Never Dead
8. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 2
9. The Drop
10. PopSnot
11. Modern Day Mugging
12. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 1
13. Change the Beat
14. Mr. Clean
15. RaeDawn
16. A Dead Mouse
17. Overture

Done 2 listens so far. As you might expect (since I say the same thing about nearly every rap album we've covered), I'm not really a fan. This is just so very verse heavy and I need those choruses to ground me, otherwise these songs tend to just glom together. The songs that stood out to me are the 2 Open Mic Nites and Can I Watch?. That's not surprising, as they're the songs that prominently feature other voices.

Which gets to my second takeaway, which is that I also think I'm just not a big fan of MF DOOM's rapping, just in terms of voice and delivery. This might be herasy to rap fans, but from my limited perspective, his overall sound reminded me a lot of Nas. I could also see maybe some of the Wu Tang influence with some of the little skit/clip things at the end of a bunch of the songs?

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On a completely unrelated note, I started watching Cowboy Bebop. About a quarter of the way through and I'm not really seeing what makes it so beloved so far? I'm not a big anime guy, but maybe it goes crazy like Neon Genesis Evangelion does near the end? (No spoilers!)

I did do a lot of "Leo DiCaprio pointing" at recognizing a whole bunch of the music. Not to say that it doesn't still land, but I can't imagine how much harder the opening theme must have hit 25 years ago. Also, I was surprised it's a different vocalist for Rain in the show than it is for the album.

BTW, Hulu fucking sucks ass. Start episode, ADS, opening, ADS, 1-2 AD breaks during the episode. Literally 5-6 minutes of horseshit for a 25 minute episode. No way to skip the intro or the outro (so I skip the little "on the next episode bits at the very end). Not auto playing the next episode. Just awful.

1. ABBA - Arrival
2. Blmchen - Jasmin
3. Lordi - The Arockalypse
4. Machinae Supremacy - A View From The End Of The World
5. dEUS - The Ideal Crash

Honorable mention to Reckoning Night, which would be in my top 5 if we hadn't already covered Sonata Arctica.

Bump

Love this album, all-time classic. No real weak tracks, but the Open Mic tracks don't really compare to the DOOM solo tracks.

1. Vaudeville Villain
2. Saliva
3. Let Me Watch
4. Modern Day Mugging
5. Lickupon
6. G.M.C.
7. Lactose and Lecithin
8. A Dead Mouse
9. Change the Beat
10. The Drop
11. Raedawn
12. Never Dead
13. Mr. Clean
14. Popsnot
15. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 1
16. Overture
17. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 2

1) Polysics - Now is the Live!
2) Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague
3) Machinae Supremacy - A View From The End Of The World
4) dEUS - The Ideal Crash
5) Bjork - Homogenic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5TQ5jcJemY

you guys need to recognize how bad-ass Polysics are. I mean, what other band can rock out with a recorder??

I listened to 3 tracks from each album again, so here's my ranking based on those (wasn't sure what to do with the Polysics nom since it's not really an album, so I didn't include it in my ranking, but the posted videos were fun).

1. Bjrk - Homogenic (the best Bjrk album. The first four tracks are all some of my favorite songs in general)
2. Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores (really good songwriting all-around)
3. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya (I listened to Long Season a few weeks ago, and I really liked it, and the tracks I heard from this one were good too. Really nice production and songwriting.)
4. KMFDM - Nihil (Electro-industrial rock scratches an itch I didn't know had to be scratched. Love the sound of this one.)
5. Enya - A Day Without Rain (Enya is always beautiful music.)

6. ABBA - Arrival
7. Blmchen - Jasmin
8. dEUS - The Ideal Crash
9. Nouvelle Vague - Nouvelle Vague (Cool cover of I Melt With You)
10. Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night
11. Machinae Supremacy - A View from the End of the World
12. BABYMETAL - BABYMETAL
13. Lordi - The Arockalypse (yeah, the heavy/power metal noms were mostly not my thing, so they're all at the bottom. Sonata Arctica and Machinae Supremacy had some cool synth elements though, so they ranked higher.)

1. Natalie Lafourcade - De Todas Las Flores
2. Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya
3. Bjork - Homogenic
4. Enya - A Day Without Rain
5. ABBA - Arrival

Listened to the album yesterday. Loved it but wasn't paying nearly close enough attention to rank the tracks. I feel like I could try again but I also rank Madvillainy in my top 100 albums and would have no idea how to rank that one either. MF Doom is one of the best examples of an album artist to me. When I want to listen to one of his projects, I'm rarely listening to just one track.

1. Saliva This sounds wayyyy more interesting than a lot of the rest of the album. Im not sure what it is, but it captures me a lot more in comparison.
2. Vaudeville Villain
3. Lickupon
4. Can I Watch? Feels a bit more down to earth than the rest of the album and I think I like that?
5. A Modern Day Mugging
6. The Drop
7. Raedawn
8. Open Night Mic, Pt. 2
9. Mr Clean Mr Bean reference spotted
10. Untitled A.K.A. Change the Beat The Doogie Howser line was the peak of the entire album
11. A Dead Mouse
12. Never Dead
13. Lactose and Lecithin
14. G.M.C.
15. Popsnot
16. Open Mic Night, Pt. 1

This album is almost entirely held up by the bars and wordplay which are, in fairness, phenomenal. Ive liked most of what Ive heard from MF DOOM and this was no different, really fun concept.

1. Vaudeville Villain
2. Saliva
3. Lickupon
4. Can I Watch?
5. A Dead Mouse
6. Change the Beat
7. A Modern Day Mugging
8. Never Dead
9. The Drop
10. Mr. Clean
11. G.M.C.
12. Raedawn
13. Popsnot
14. Lactose and Lecithin
15. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 1
16. Open Mic Nite, Pt. 2

This isn't quite as strong as other DOOM records I've heard, but this is still pretty great. The top 6 in my ranking have some really cool beats, and DOOM's flow is unmatched. I'm glad we got to cover this one.

Reckoning Night would be my #1 pick, but they don't need featured for a good while

Bjrk - Homogenic
KMFDM - Nihil
Enya - A Day Without Rain
Lordi - The Arockalypse
Babymetal - Babymetal

Vaudeville Villain
The Drop
Raedawn
Can I Watch?
A Modern Day Mugging
Saliva
Never Dead
Lactose and Lecifin
A Dead Mouse
Open Mic Night, Pt. 2
G.M.C.
Mr. Clean
Lickupon
Open Mic Night, Pt. 1
Change The Beat
Popsnot
Overture

Good album, but tough to rank individually

Future album vote results:
Bjrk - Homogenic: 27
Babymetal - Babymetal: 19
Natalia Lafourcade - De todas las flores: 16
ABBA - Arrival: 15
Enya - A Day Without Rain: 15

missed the cut:
Blmchen - Jasmin: 14
KMFDM - Nihil: 14
Fishmans - Uchu Nippon Setagaya: 11
dEUS - The Ideal Crash: 8
Machinae Supremacy - A View From The End Of The World: 8
Lordi - The Arockalypse: 7
Polysics - Now is the Live!: 5
Nouvelle Vague - Novelle Vague: 4
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night: 2

Well my top 2 got in at least

Man, I killed my own nom by voting for ABBA (which I was on the fence about because I was assuming that they'd win a spot anyway (in fact 4th place is worse than I was expecting for them)). It was either that or Lordi.

MaxGalactica posted...

wasn't sure what to do with the Polysics nom since it's not really an album, so I didn't include it in my ranking, but the posted videos were fun

I'll take it