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
― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 19:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Faithful Shooter (faithfulshooter), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:18 (eighteen years ago) link
And I'm going to be alone in that opinion, but what the hell.
My nomination: The Pursuit Of Happiness.
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 04:26 (eighteen years ago) link
Big & Rich
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
Pantera, if you don't count the pre-major-label stuff.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link
New York Dolls David Johansen (solo career)
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Hootie & the Blowfish?
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Blue Cheer, maybe.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:58 (sixteen years ago) link