Here’s a question: what’s this daily prompt business? Every—yes—day with this, and today’s question is the first to spark action. I guess Day One Incorporated didn’t attend the Fiftieth Anniversary Super-Biffy™ spectacular and it’s just as well, for three reasons: the nominees are somewhat out of date; sponsor Blogger no longer acknowledges its participation; and Day One representatives would surely have burned alive alongside everyone else.

Are these the five greatest albums of all time? Of course not. Foon Hoost isn’t even up here.

I wrung every last laugh out of that Nico bit and regret nothing. I do regret the Foon Hoost Fun House folly and recognized it even then, instead waiting eight and a half years to correct the record after responding to a data miner’s effort to hack my banking passwords. Let me guess, next week’s prompt will be something about my maternal grandmother’s maiden name—I’m onto you, motherfucker!

According to the Lower Galactic Biffy Council Strongman, one can infer my favorite albums from that day in Lynn:

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Orange (1994)

Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)

John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (1965)

Sleater-Kinney – The Woods (2005)

Stooges – Fun House (1970)

Orange, Nation of Millions and A Love Supreme remain firmly in place, if rearranged, even though I don’t listen to them as often as I should. Same with The Woods, outside of “Let’s Call It Love” (song of the millennium?). Hawkwind’s Space Ritual (1973) takes its place, as well as that of the Groundhogs’ Split, for the sixtieth anniversary. (Sadly, George Brigman’s Jungle Rot hasn’t survived its year—replaced in March by Witch’s Lazy Bones!!—never mind its ten-year span—likely Chrome’s Half Machine Lip Moves (1979) next time around. “Beware the jungle rot.” Noted!)

And Fun House? And Fun House! The second Stooges album contains much of what I love about music:

Down on the Street  Blooze

Loose  Soul

TV Eye  Rock & roll

Dirt  Dirge

1970  Punk

Fun House  Jazz

LA Blues  Skronk

Most of my favorite artists had inspired or were/are since inspired by one or more of the above. Coltrane, Spencer, PE, the Sonics, the Monks, the 13th Floor Elevators, Captain Beefheart, Blue Cheer, Can, Funkadelic, Sonny Sharrock, Hawkwind, Chrome, Keith Morris, the Fall, Bad Brains, Dead Kennedys, Yo La Tengo, Guided by Voices, Royal Trux, Mudhoney, the Jesus Lizard, Kathleen Hanna, Ian Svenonius, PJ Harvey, Six Finger Satellite, Mary Timony, Dead Meadow, Ty Segall, John Dwyer… it’s all in there. Right on.

Thanks for asking. Thanks for prompting. Thanks for Fun House.