Help me find the smuggest record of all time

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Is it a concept album?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)

something by latterday manic street preachers?

― the surface noise of psychotic badassery (electricsound), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Aqualung?

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Easy Lover

― don (don), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely the Kiss solo albums.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Sgt Pepper's has to be high up there

― de, Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Take the National Express when your life's in a mess, it will make you smile..
All human life is here, from the feeble old dear to the screaming child..
From the student who knows, that to have one of those, would be suicide,
To the family man, manhandling the pram with paternal pride

And everyone sings.. Yeah.. uh huh... alright...
we're going where the air, is free...

On the National Express there's a jolly hostess, selling crisps and tea
She'll provide you with drinks and theatrical winks, for a sky high fee..
Mini skirts were in style when she danced in the aisle, back in 63
But it's hard to get by, when your arse is the size of a small country..

And everyone sings.. Yeah.. uh huh.. alright..
we're going where the air, is free...

Tomorrow belongs to me.. When you're sad and feeling blue, with nothing better to do,
just don't sit there feeling stressed, take a trip on the NATIONAL EXPRESS..
On the National Express..
Let's go

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by Frank Zappa.

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I was thinking that this is quietly smug, look at those titles. And also, "Donna Summer".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, u2 guys?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Stephen Malkmus solo debut

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 16 May 2004 21:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Roger Waters, "Amused to Death."

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:03 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, u2 guys?

yeah, i was gonna say all that you can't leave behind, by a fucking country mile.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

George Harrison must be a goldmine here.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

all 80s rap to thread.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sting, Rod Stewart, U2, the usual suspects. They're easy targets but they pretty much wrote the book on latter-day "we've payed our dues and are now rock royalty and shit" smugness.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:15 (twenty-two years ago)

WHO'S NEXT
Bitchy, troll-baiting pick: Su3d3's _D0g M@n St@r_

― David R. (popshots75`), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:17 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that will smith line that used to make me laugh so hard where he is saying something like: Oh, and women, well, I've got miss jada, fellas. case closed. hahahahahah, i don't know why that used to crack me up so much. It IS really smug and there musta been a time when i thought jada pinkett was cute but i just think of here as one of those hollywood hard-asses now. really rich and probably a nightmare to her help. Its like bragging about spending the night with debbie allen or something.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I vote for the new Gift of Gab. The me from two years ago cries.

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 16 May 2004 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

BRIGHT EYES

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 16 May 2004 23:25 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dude what the fuck somebody did NOT just talk shit about the Jason Forrest record

my choice: anything by HAR MAR SUPERSTAR

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Monday, 17 May 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the Jason Forrest. It is just pretty smug.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Monday, 17 May 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I ain't hearin' it (though I suppose it could be considered smug if you had to depend on the titles -- and in that case, Richard D. James to thread). It doesn't seem all that arrogant or self-satisfied a record, sonically; it's more like a giddy pop-dork enthusiasm. Which, from personal experience, can be easily mistaken for smugness.

― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Monday, 17 May 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement's BHC strikes me as pretty smug in a I'm-so-clever-that-I-don't-have-to-make-the-smallest-bit-of-sense and dorky but successful for the most part kind of way.

― Mike Guy (Miss Lonelyhearts), Monday, 17 May 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike just described my EXACT feelings about Beck's Mellow Gold,an LP which I do enjoy even as it annoys me.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

What the hell is Pavement's 'BHC'?

My vote goes for any of the last three Radiohead albums: "We can give you shit and all you little twats are still going to buy it."

― Sasha (sgh), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:30 (twenty-two years ago)

typo for brighten the corners, methinks, sasha.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, that's completely it, Sasha. What a little twat I am.

― Melissa W (Melissa W), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I ain't hearin' it (though I suppose it could be considered smug if you had to depend on the titles -- and in that case, Richard D. James to thread).

Richard D. James to thread anyway

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

the one Britney Spears album with "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" on it.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I honestly haven't heard the Britney record yet, so is it more of a "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman...unlike YOU, you poor bastards" kind of smug, or a "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman...SUCKAS! HA HA HA HA!" kind of smug?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

BRIGHT EYES

-- Sonny A. (newaddres...) (webmail), May 17th, 2004 8:25 PM. (Keiko) (later) (link)

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Monday, 17 May 2004 01:56 (twenty-two years ago)

The White Album ten times more smug than Sgt Pepper's.

― Burr (Burr), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked how 'Double Fantasy' tried to be smug but failed, making it unlistenable

― dave q, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc400/c451/c45194pu5sp.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Post-Roth Van Halen to thread.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 07:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Escape (The Pina Colada song) - Rupert Holmes?

He answers a lonely hearts ad, goes to it, it's his own wife. They laugh and fall into each other. "I am into champagne" smuggest line in it.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 08:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Norah Jones sounds v. self-satisfied to me. Perhaps her second album is the most complacent record of all time (slightly different category) but she's plenty smug, too.
Bono OWNS this thread, obviously.

― lovebug starski, Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Zappa I imagine

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Mike, it's more like a "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman, yet I'm really more a girl, so stop jocking my shit when I get drunk and do stupid party stuff and make out with porn stars, fuck washing a hat" kind of smug.

― David R. (popshots75`), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Dandy Warhols

― cw28 (cw28), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything by 'Indie bands' like Keane, Coldplay, Snow Patrol ect.

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Phil Collins - "Another Day In Paradise" popped into my head on reading the thread title, and i'm sticking with it.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf100/f166/f16618fz627.jpg

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

You really have a thing against mooks in hardcore bands, don't you?

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes!

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drc900/c942/c94253c2436.jpg
http://www.handstandrecords.com/distro/atrillionbarnaclelapse.jpg

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Dom's nailed it upthread. With Beck's Midnight Vultures in 2nd place.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I love that Midnite Vultures has (kinda) STOLEN ALBUM ART.

― 24 hours with the King of Snake. (SNAKE!) (ex machina), Tuesday, 18 May 2004 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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