― 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
Montrose.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm tempted to say Plaid, although they're very first stuff (i.e. the first half of the 1st disc of trainer) doesn't touch their 94'ish stuff.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Meat Loaf
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:02 (sixteen years ago) link
No way, Bat Out Of Hell II totally smokes his 80s stuff.
― Jeff Treppel, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:03 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, duh, I was only thinking of the Steinman records.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:07 (sixteen years ago) link
xhuxk, I haven't read the other thread, but would you really rank Dream of Life over Gone Again? (Maybe you would, just curious.)
― Sundar, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
New York Dolls
Hells no. The debut rocks like everybody's business. But In Too Much Too Soon is even more inclusive than that, popping and rocking with equal amounts of glee. It's the greatest album of the 1970s.
So definitely not the Dolls (although I usually go the Xgau cheat route and choose that 1978 Brit comp that includes both albums).
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:53 (sixteen years ago) link
greatest album of the 70s??? really???
― ian, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Is it really possible that Liz Phair's newer albums are worse than Whip-Smart? I somehow manage to own a copy of that album...I've listened to it once and it was one of the worst things I've ever heard.
― Reatards Unite, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 03:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Did you like her first record?
― Mark Rich@rdson, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
Unquestionably.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
You outcho damn mind
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
OK what's your choice, kemosabe?
― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
The House of Love
― Pillbox, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 05:34 (sixteen years ago) link
eno is an interesting option here, because i do kind of agree with that, but I would say that the actual slope of his decline is very, very gradual, and the degrees of 'worseness' between each record are very slight.
― akm, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 05:39 (sixteen years ago) link
flying burito bros
― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 07:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Feel free to shoot me down: Bjork.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 09:29 (sixteen years ago) link
The Dolls' debut and their second album are really really really close, and both really great. I'd give the first one the edge myself, but I can definitely see how the second one adds more roll to the rock, and they're both among the best albums of the '70s. So I'm not gonna fight Kevin on that one.
By the same token, there are days I think Warrant's followup was better than their debut, too, and Dog Eat Dog and Ultraphobic are both way better than most people give them credit for, but Warrant might well belong on this thread anyway, for slight incremental dropoffs (sort of like Eno!)
Rednex? Aqua? (They both eventually made third albums, right? Never heard them, but I doubt they'd be as good as the first two, and in both cases the second one was a major dip from the first.) The Briefs? Black Lips? (The latter still making good albums, but seems there's a gradual steady decline there.) How good is the third Electric Six album?
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 11:00 (sixteen years ago) link