and no way on springsteen. #2 and #3 both > #1. #6 > #5. actually, #6 > everything else.
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Shellac.
― hmmm (hmmm), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Anybody taking odds on whether or not The Arcade Fire will be on this list in a few years?
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 20 May 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Eppy (Eppy), Friday, 20 May 2005 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Runaways, maybe?
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:28 (nineteen years ago) link
-- kyle (akmonda...), May 20th, 2005 9:36 PM. (akmonday) (link)
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(that is a massive overstatement. it's just not nearly as great as tnt and millions. I can't believe anyone would think it was). -- kyle (akmonda...), May 20th, 2005 9:37 PM. (akmonday) (link)
Oh, y'know what? I'd actually forgotten there was an album before Millions. Ha!
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
Meat Puppets?
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
You've got your arrows back to front.
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:44 (nineteen years ago) link
So you did. OTM, though! As for Meat Puppets, I think II is a little better than I.
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Cohen (dayan), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:55 (nineteen years ago) link
I think this is the best suggestion yet!
― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Friday, 20 May 2005 16:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― Erik The Mainer (EZSnappin), Friday, 20 May 2005 17:08 (nineteen years ago) link
Third Police album Zenyatta Mondatta is probably their best (hence better than Regatta De Blanc and Vagina Dentata or whatever); otherwise, they would probably totally work.
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― B Wilson, Friday, 20 May 2005 18:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there only xhuxk and me, and one of us is off the mark again.
Or should at least acknowledge that this is an idiosyncratic nomination, since conventional wisdom establishes Talk Talk Talk as the Furs' highwater mark, and many would rank Book Of Days over Midnight To Midnight and Mirror Moves.
I concede Love Spit Love > Trysome Eatone
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:34 (nineteen years ago) link
I wish Martin Popoff was here so he could nominate Def Leppard (at least that's my recollection; his metal book is not in front of me.)
Pysch Furs' debut is better (funnier, catchier, more energetic, more rocking, more consistent) than *Talk Talk Talk,* which I still like a lot. (And yes, "conventional wisdom" is indeed wrong sometimes.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 18:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― TV's Mr Noodle Vague (noodle vague), Friday, 20 May 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Warren Zevon, maybe (though I guess there was an Eminem-style early years album years before his "debut", so I suppose he's disqualified)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link
upthread: SPOON???!!? what'r you, nuts?
― 666, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:11 (nineteen years ago) link
>no way is the first red cross ep better than Born Innocent<
And "I Hate My School" and "Annete's Got the Hits" and "Cover Band" are the best songs Red Cross/Kross ever did. So their debut EP was their best record, in my book. (And their second EP, *Teen Babes From Monsanto,* beats anything they did after it, though *Neurotica* comes close.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Interpol will probably count for this. I can't imagine them making anything that tops Turn on the Bright Lights.
― Ian Riese-Moraine is on toffuti break! (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:20 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, CeCe Peniston, who I'm listening to right now.
And I gave some thought to Lenny Kravitz, but ... nahh.
― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:30 (nineteen years ago) link
Or (re QOTSA): Loose Groove, or whatever the label was. (The split EP was on Man's Ruin, though, I think.)
Screaming Blue Messiahs belong here, too.
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Billy Joel?Rod Stewart! (not that i know the entire recorded output of either, unfortunately)
ODB.
(I wanna disagree about Tiffany tho -- as I recall, "we're both thinking of her tonight" is on her 2nd album, and that's her best track. also her "comeback" album recently kills her 3rd, which isn't hard to do at all tho. probably OTM about debbie gibson however.)
Green Day?The Offspring!311!RATM!
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:45 (nineteen years ago) link
but that album has "detox mansion"! which is on the wagon but off the sappy!
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― Not Thaat Chuck, Friday, 20 May 2005 19:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Je4nne ƒury (Jeanne Fury), Friday, 20 May 2005 19:48 (nineteen years ago) link
Yeah, that's the brown one I was talking about, on Loose Groove, and it's my favorite, too. (But I wasn't referring to Kyuss, either -- the split with Beaver Man's Ruin EP is QOTSA, not Kyuss--a band who, bizarrely enough, I have never even listened to much. Though probably I should, someday.)
― xhuxk, Friday, 20 May 2005 20:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
And how can you discuss the great songs off the "Warren Zevon" album without mentioning his Stairway To Heaven, The French Inhaler?
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 20 May 2005 20:05 (nineteen years ago) link