― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Also, Mayhem, if you leave out demos and live albums: De Mysteriis > Wolfs Lair Abyss > Grand Declaration Of War > ChimeraKatatonia can be taken off the list, as they've just released a better album than Viva Emptiness (although it's still not in the league of the first three).
― Siegbran (eofor), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
(Watch dudes who have never heard Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik or ATLiens flip out.)
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracey Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 28 May 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Come off it, no way was Gold Against the Soul better than the Holy Bible.
I dunno. I know conventional knowledge is that Holy Bible is the very best of them, but I find it almost unlistenable. I haven't listened to all of Gold Against The Soul (it may just be THAT bad), so I can't be sure, but I suspect that I at any rate would agree with the Manics.
Don't see what people are getting at with the Pets. Actually is significantly better than Please, Behaviour is significantly better than the terrible Introspective (some great singles, but really uninspired production. except for Left To My Own Devices), and Very is [arguably] better than Behaviour. (I personally am not crazy about either Behaviour or Very; but Actually is amazing.)
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
You mean, they were at their best when they were just a small, local cellar band in my own native Ski, Norway?
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Aquemini is great, but not as good as their first two.
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 May 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Period period period (Period period period), Sunday, 28 May 2006 22:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― xhuxk, Sunday, 28 May 2006 23:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― pleased to mitya (mitya), Monday, 29 May 2006 01:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― sotough, Monday, 29 May 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:23 (eighteen years ago) link
No, because their demos were crap and the live recordings I've heard pre-1990 were absolutely terrible too.
Also, Notorious B.I.G.
― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 29 May 2006 11:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― sotough, Monday, 29 May 2006 11:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― dave q (listerine), Monday, 29 May 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Record buying audiences, particularly here in Europe, disagreed, and that was for a reason. From 1998 onwards, though, everything she has done has been fantastic, other than the somewhat patchy "American Life". She did a correct choice, leaving house and hip-hop/trip-hop behind her forever and making electronica and electro instead.
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 12:49 (eighteen years ago) link
record buying audiences in usa certainly don't agree; it's been a steady decline since the amazing take a bow (I think it's her most popular single ever, in terms of record sales?)
and mirwais is obviously a twat, everybody agrees. have you listened to music lately? it's awful
― sotough, Monday, 29 May 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― max (maxreax), Monday, 29 May 2006 14:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― sotough, Monday, 29 May 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 29 May 2006 14:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 29 May 2006 16:25 (eighteen years ago) link
What this all means is that in 2023 The New Strokes will re-form with Conner Oberst taking over the JC spot.
― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Monday, 29 May 2006 17:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Silver Convention, maybe? (But only if *Love In a Sleeper* came before *Golden Girls,* which I'm not sure it did.)
Billy Squier? (Possibly even including his Piper and Sidewinders albums; I'd have to go back and check.)
The Babys? Point Blank?? You tell me...
― xhuxk, Monday, 29 May 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
M.Au Pairs.And Flying Lizards?
― xhuxk, Monday, 29 May 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I only know one song by them but if "Another Cha Cha" isn't the best thing ever, I don't know what is.
― Dr. Rodney's Original Savannah Band (R. J. Greene), Monday, 29 May 2006 18:01 (eighteen years ago) link
SICK BOY: "Yeah."
RENTON: "That's your theory?"
SICK BOY: "Yeah, Beautifully fucking illustrated."
― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Monday, 29 May 2006 18:09 (eighteen years ago) link
Really? Because I see it the exactly the other way around: Experience has a bunch of similar-sounding (but great) hardcore bangers (excluding "Weather Experience", of course) and no filler, whereas Music for the Jilted Generation is more "experimental and adventurous". It ends with three-piece "suit" (which of course could be horrible thing, but fortunately not in this case), for chrissakes, and the sound is much more varied.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― mucho, Monday, 29 May 2006 19:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Patrick South (Patrick South), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:44 (eighteen years ago) link
While I may agree their debut was their best, I would certainly rank "Heartbeat City" ahead of "Panorama".
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 29 May 2006 19:46 (eighteen years ago) link
Ok, so i change my answer to Gus Gus.
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Monday, 29 May 2006 20:02 (eighteen years ago) link
Here Come the Warm Jets > Taking Tiger Mountain > Another Dull World > loads of subsequent records I can't be bothered to remember the names of, and so on
― Hot Hot Heat (Hot Hot Heat), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mats Blomqvist (Blomqvist), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 09:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― grapple (grapple), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link
Number of Boston songs still on US 'classic rock' radio playlists, by LP:
1st LP: 9 songs (the entire LP!)2nd LP: 3 songs3rd LP: 1 song4th LP: 0 songs5th LP: 0 songs
I think that works out to 3^(3-n), where n is the LP sequence number. Round results to the nearest whole number.
― drench, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 11:38 (eighteen years ago) link
yep, see May 19, 2005 above (but also my caveat, since the third album was probably better than the second one. unless it wasn't.)
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 11:50 (eighteen years ago) link
Some days I think Led Zeppelin would fit here.
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 12:46 (eighteen years ago) link
"Music" is great. Reminds me of the good old synthpop that I used to enjoy in the good old early 80s, back when mainstream pop was still good and did not suck like in the 90s.
"Take a Bow" is just a boring mainstream ballad. Reminds me of Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston.
Boston good call btw. (Devo not good call. "Oh No It's Devo" was their best)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
(OK, I had no idea there was a fifth.)
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
would seem that they define this thread...tho i've never neard "the melvilles" reunion record which, by some accounts, comes close to the debut.
― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 14:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― deeej, Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago) link
roxy music
― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:27 (eighteen years ago) link