Albums With A Cult Following -- You and Only You

It's a really surprisingly underrated album, I think it and The Chemical Brothers' "We Are The Night" were my two "gosh I actually dig this shit" choices from the RYM all-time bottom 1000 records

lol @ my turn of phrase tbh

have you heard "give yourself a hand?" it's probably rated even lower. but i love it, it's great night driving music.

Ooh, I got one. Despite the fact that seemingly every sentient being in the free world thought the debut album by Birdland was a steaming pile of dung, I quite like several tracks on it.

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Not heard GYAH but it is on Spotify so I guess my evening's sorted

First 8 tracks of AWL vary from ok to excellent (especially the title-track and maybe He Liked To Feel It, My Enemies t a stretch), but the last four are where it kicks off: a miniature suite of utterly differing, riveting little diamonds

"he liked to feel it" was such a bad choice of a first single. way too similar too MMMM MMMM MMMM lyrically. the first line is "there was a boy" fercrissakes.

I don't think they ever released 2 Knights And Maidens as a single, which was a terrific oversight imo

that's a good song. that whole album is really solid, to me.

Best song on A Worm's Life is obviously An Old Scab (which is mighty and moving), but picking just one off GSHF is much harder. I can probably narrow it down to God Shuffled His Feet, I Think I'll Disappear Now, How Does A Duck Know? and 2 Knights And Maidens, all of which are great in ways I can't quite explain (beyond 'alchemy')

Listening to AWL right now and those first 8 tracks are just fine tbh, really do give it another go :)

GSHF could possibly use a poll, and I don't say that about many albums

Have narrowed it down to title-track and 2 Knights fwiw but I'm Bimblin' so stfu

Robbie Fulks' "Couples in Trouble" is an amazing, wide-ranging album that sounds like very little else he's recorded. I wish he'd kept using this more eclectic style on more recent albums because from the sound of this album, he could do any style he set his mind to.

Ooh, I got one. Despite the fact that seemingly every sentient being in the free world thought the debut album by Birdland was a steaming pile of dung, I quite like several tracks on it.

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I once worked with a guy who, after finding out I didn't really care for punk, gave me a 2 hour lecture on this band and then ripped me a copy of this. Not like the Ramones or the Damned or whoever people actually like - for him the genre was all about Birdfuckingland.

That's a bit ridiculous.

my vote'd be for "i think i'll disappear now," if only for the line "you float by like a summer vacation." plus, the tempo. it's really loose -- easygoing, you might say -- which at first seems to reflect the narrator's state of mind. he's single now, life is uncomplicated. but after meeting her again he's starting to chafe against the life he's living now: "i'll buy a fast car, i'll drive it fast from here," which really jars with the tempo of the song. then in the last verse he's talking about the past and how he'll move on and he'll forget all about it and all that, but i can't help but feel like he's stuck and trying to rationalize how he's fucked up. at that point the tempo's less about being easygoing and carefree than about being directionless. and that bridge! "aren't you gonna miss me? aren't you gonna even say one thing to me anymore?" that's what we're left with. for some reason the end of that song gives me the mental image of watching a car drive off toward the horizon, and it's somewhere out west where the sky is kinda dusty and the road's really straight.

good song.

lotsa xposts

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great britpop record superior to all oasis imo

bug that is superb and true; the bridge, especially when it returns for a second time, even more impassioned and lushly-orchestrated, is a thing of beauty, and the song is desperate in a particularly controlled, leisurely way, which makes the effort of control seem all the more tortured

HOOS that is unexpected and somewhat cheering

I could do a similar exegesis on "An Old Scab" but that song speaks for itself a little more, employing pathos, bathos, musical flourish, musical resolution, and similar techniques of controlled emotional violence to evoke some really quite moving meditations on ageing, depression, helplessness and mortality, all in a sub-4-minute pop/rock odyssey

CTD really do have the nicest little guitar solos

the bass playing on GSHF is really tasty too.

they are a proficient, deceptively imaginative band with an original and compelling style who do not have a proper ILM thread of their own ;_;

they wanted to be the Canadian XTC and largely succeeded on their own terms

"The Gospel According To the Meninblack by The Stranglers."

you are certainly not alone. i love that album to death.

How does a duck POLL: The Crash Test Dummies "God Shuffled His Feet" Poll

Big Pig - Bonk

I've already pumped them on ILM before but Sardina: "Presents"

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From the first time I saw the cover to this album I felt like it was something special to me, something that nobody else would understand. Now I can see some of the flaws but still I think I like The Soft Parade more than probably 99% of humanity. That first song slays, the closing is tribal psychedelic sugary fun. The "I'm gonna love you" part in "Touch Me" I would gladly trade a zillion "God Only Knows" for.

I'm the only person I've met so far that recognizes Hetch Hetchy's Swollen as the best Hugo Largo album, and hence in the running for best dream pop of the 80s.

Its not my fault that other otherwise sane people aren't Paul Lansky completists. And yet, even amongst them, few recognize More Than Idle Chatter as the best psychedelic album of the 90s.

I've always loved the Soft Machine. Tell All the People, Runnin' Blue, all these weird schmaltzy bizarre Robbie songs. I love them to death.

and by Soft Machine, I mean Soft Parade.

Jewlia Eisenberg's Trilectic, who I have no doubt have more super fans, but sometimes I feel like I'm the only one.

"I'm the only person I've met so far that recognizes Hetch Hetchy's Swollen as the best Hugo Largo album, and hence in the running for best dream pop of the 80s."

Hetch Hetchy: Classic Or Dud?

so sad that i'm the only hetch hetchy fan on ilm. so cold...feel...so...all...alone. post-punk southern gothic at its finest, folks!!!!
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Does anybody else love this record as much as I do? I remember them being written about in the NME many, many years ago, but they seem to be totally forgotten.

i'm the only hetch hetchy fan on ilm. so cold.

Clearly I've failed this thread's mission, but you now know that your taste isn't, in some fundamental and unique to yourself way, defective. Here's a blanket.

AR Kane -New Clear Child
Boogiemonsters - Riders of the Storm: The Underwater Album

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"The Gospel According To the Meninblack by The Stranglers."

you are certainly not alone. i love that album to death.

Me too. I think it was also a top 10 record in the UK.

Big Pig - Bonk

Back in the day, "Devil's Song" by Big Pig was minor floor-filler in the goth clubs of Champaign/Urbana.

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I'm a huge fan of Bonk as well.

Abort - Tribe
When I Was a Boy - Jane Siberry
Gold Afternoon Fix - The Church

loveless - my bloody valentine
west coast - studio

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Change my display name to Fatbeard Badshave y/n?

euler i used to play the shit out of "shrine" back in the day on my radio show. what a jam!

fuck I love that album! "Slo-Mo Kikaida" is pretty much a perfect power ballad and it still get me worked up. "Shrine" is also badass; it had a video I think but youtube is letting me down.