My theory is that people are finally starting to agree with me that LDR fukkin sux
― castanuts (DJP), Saturday, 21 January 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
Norman Fucking Mockwell!
― J. Sam, Sunday, 22 January 2023 05:10 (one year ago) link
shit!
― omar little, Sunday, 22 January 2023 06:19 (one year ago) link
DJP OTMFM
― assert (matttkkkk), Sunday, 22 January 2023 10:23 (one year ago) link
Good points upthread: the last two LDR albums were too much like what she had just done, and came out too soon together, to really garner much acclaim. There's one good album split between the two.It's the upcoming album that will really point to what's to come for her.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:36 (one year ago) link
last two albums were really good, stragglers just moved on
― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Sunday, 22 January 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link
Will be interesting to see if she can keep the faith, or will go out in a blaze of glory.
― George Santos' If I Could Only Remember My Name - C or D? (President Keyes), Sunday, 22 January 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
I'm sure we'll find out one of these days
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 01:12 (one year ago) link
ITT I learned that Bon Jovi has a whole bunch of albums in the 21st Century I've never heard of
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 January 2023 01:25 (one year ago) link
Every band has a "This House is Not for Sale"
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 23 January 2023 01:26 (one year ago) link
I think there was definitely a huge shift in how Lana was perceived after she made her "Question for the culture" Instagram posts, which came a few months after NFR.
― monotony, Monday, 23 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
Celine Dion - CourageBrand New - Science FictionBrockhampton - IridesenceMadonna - Madame XJack White - Boarding House ReachThe Killers - Wonderful WonderfulLCD Soundsystem - American DreamThe Raconteurs - Help Us StrangerCake - Showroom of CompassionIncubus - Light Grenades
(Thanks to whoever posted https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_200#Largest_drops_from_number_one in the Odelay thread)
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 23 January 2023 01:41 (one year ago) link
― Lord Pickles (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, January 22, 2023 7:25 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
"It's My Life" is their 3rd biggest song on Spotify
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 January 2023 05:26 (one year ago) link
Well, it seems that "Sgt Peppers" itself was being perceived as The Beatles' "New Jersey" according to this review on its release. ...Not quite altogether wrong?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/01/arts/music/archives-beatles-sgt-peppers-lonely-hearts-club-band-review.html
― Max Florian, Saturday, 4 February 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
that definitely feels like the last album where everyone is aligned on a unified vision of the ban
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 4 February 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
Another partial UK example: Biffy Clyro's Opposites. Their BPI certifications (2x Platinum at best) seem to underplay how ubiquitous this band was during the Only Revolutions era. That album alone had a string of hits and was in the charts for two years straight (and only peaking in its 43rd week). Follow-up double (!) album Opposites inevitably claimed them their first UK No. 1 album and stayed in the charts fine enough for 41 weeks but the only song I remember, the one with the promotional weight behind it, was the (shite) lead single Black Chandelier. Their subsequent chart-topping albums are fanbase-only affairs.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Sunday, 28 May 2023 08:05 (one year ago) link
I've never heard a note by Biffy Clyro, who remain inexplicably unmentioned in the "worst rock band name ever" thread. Name aside, are they any good?
― Vast Halo, Sunday, 28 May 2023 11:26 (one year ago) link
no
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 28 May 2023 12:22 (one year ago) link
They are the worst band in Scotland by a cuntry mile
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 28 May 2023 12:46 (one year ago) link
For a while, I used to confuse Biffy Clyro with Rilo Kiley.
Now I just confuse Rilo Kiley with Riley Keough.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 28 May 2023 13:21 (one year ago) link
I confuse them with Buffy the Cyclone Slayer
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Sunday, 28 May 2023 13:24 (one year ago) link
Biffy Ray Clyrus
― Josefa, Sunday, 28 May 2023 13:49 (one year ago) link
Excuse me Clyro, I have to use the Biffy.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 28 May 2023 14:59 (one year ago) link
I too have never ever ever heard of this apparently very popular band, to the point that I thought the post was kind of a meta "make up a New Jersey" prank until I looked it up. Does this act have no US presence at all?
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Sunday, 28 May 2023 15:25 (one year ago) link
They had their moments - mostly on the two really big 00s albums. But being as I am no stickler for pretty much any band with roots in post-hardcore or emo (which those two albums largely jettison) I largely avoid them.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 14:30 (one year ago) link
Which are their two big albums? Their first three albums I’ve looked up never even had had a US release.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 14:58 (one year ago) link
A search of Pitchfork shows no reviews, and one entry in “the worst album covers of 2007”.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:00 (one year ago) link
SonI think the answer is, they probably had little US presence, although they toured this continent in 2022.
― Every post of mine is an expression of eternity (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:02 (one year ago) link
I think a rule for New Jerseys should that you were able to buy them in New Jersey.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:07 (one year ago) link
Not sure if we talked about this one, retrospectively reviewed this weekend:
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/sheryl-crow-sheryl-crow/
It did go 3x Platinum--after 7x for Tuesday Night Music Club. And her next three were single platinum.
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:17 (one year ago) link
Which are their two big albums?
Puzzle and Only Revolutions - particularly the latter. As I said this is a UK-only thing.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:33 (one year ago) link
As in not even a Europe thing.
Apparently their biggest albums on the continent were the later ones.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:34 (one year ago) link
Sheryl Crow is interesting; its chart/arc status got some discussion here: [MODERATOR REDACTION OF BAD LINK]
It's interesting in that it sold less than the predecessor, but had three singles that were very big on rock radio and MTV, versus the predecessor having one gigantic crossover hit. Those three singles have also stuck around, to varying degrees. I think she sort of wasn't huge enough to have something land like a New Jersey in 1996 --- even though the s/t underperformed, relatively, it helped cement her as a headline artist, whereas a true NJ should really play like the inverse of that.
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:19 (one year ago) link
Discussed in a very specific place
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:27 (one year ago) link
yeah, was gonna say re: sheryl crow- i still occasionally hear songs from that second album out and about, whereas i can't remember the last time i heard "all i wanna do" or "leaving las vegas."
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:42 (one year ago) link
I heard both those songs in the last month, "All I Wanna Do" specifically last week on an oldies station during a road trip
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:44 (one year ago) link
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino),
Also important to mention: her firstself-produced album, and listening to it again yesterday after Sodomsky's Sunday piece I remembered that while it's of a piece with a certain mid '90s Tchad Blake/Latin Playboys ear for arrangements, the organ fills and guitar parts are her own.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
For some reason, anytime I've been in a casino in the past 15 years I've heard "Soak Up The Sun."
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:00 (one year ago) link
Whoops, that was from her next album after the s/t.
― underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
they played “if it makes you happy” over the PA before a MUNA show I saw recently and TONS of ppl were singing along
― brimstead, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:27 (one year ago) link
to the chorus
OOOPS at the bum link. Should have been this permalink: commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996
― got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:52 (one year ago) link
For some reason, anytime I've been in a casino in the past 15 years I've heard "Soak Up The Sun."Whoops, that was from her next album after the s/t.
Actually it was from two albums after s/t. There was also The Globe Sessions with "My Favorite Mistake", which followed s/t.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:06 (one year ago) link
> For some reason, anytime I've been in a casino in the past 15 years I've heard "Soak Up The Sun."
Compensating for the lack of windows?
― Terrycoth Baphomet (bendy), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:16 (one year ago) link
"My Favorite Mistake" is my Crow jam.
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
More like song is the equivalent of pumping (more) pure oxygen onto the gaming floor.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:17 (one year ago) link
xp
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 19:18 (one year ago) link
I heard both those songs in the last month, "All I Wanna Do" specifically last week on an oldies station during a road trip― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 30, 2023 9:44 AM
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, May 30, 2023 9:44 AM
you actually listen to the radio, whereas i actively avoid it. so fair enough!
― my beard exists more than i do. (Austin), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 00:33 (one year ago) link
Funny, Biffy Clyro are exactly the kind of band I imagine doing well in America. They're basically the 2000s Bush, aren't they?
― Do I look like I know what a jpeg is? (dog latin), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 09:27 (one year ago) link