Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

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Wilderness Years - vote your top 3

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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
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1. Unknown Immortal
2. Nothin' 'Bout Nothin'
3. Trash City

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

EDIT 2: Rethinking it.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.

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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.
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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.
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It's a Rocking World
Shouting Street
Burning Lights
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1. Trash City
2. It's a Rockin' World
3. Permanent Record theme
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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.
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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.
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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)

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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.

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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.
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It's a Rockin' World
Unknown Immortal
Sleepwalk (Loses points for the murky production but one of Joe's best songs for me)
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