best YYYs is pretty easily It's Blitz! yeah
― ufo, Monday, 3 December 2018 09:28 (five years ago) link
luv u 2amazed that YYYs is a controversial answer to this q
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:03 (five years ago) link
have not listened to their final album yet but something tells me these dudes count
https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/the-futureheads
― frogbs, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
Looks like I argued this on another thread, but not here: Replacements. This is a completely subjective and certainly minority opinion, but it is mine and I hold it.
I love all 4 (not 5) VU albums pretty much equally for differing reasons. I don't hear a drop in quality at all.
― Drunk Charles Nelson Reily violating Paul Lynn at a toga party (Dan Peterson), Monday, 3 December 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
Anybody taking odds on whether or not The Arcade Fire will be on this list in a few years?
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, May 20, 2005 3:37 PM (thirteen years ago)
This turned out to be a good prediction.
― kitchen person, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
I'd also nominate Wild Beasts. I know I'm on my own thinking Limbo Panto is their best. I do think Two Dancers is almost as strong and I have a lot of time for Smother too. They seemed to get slightly more boring with each album though. I can barely remember anything about Present Tense and Boy King was a total misfire.
― kitchen person, Monday, 3 December 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
There's a case for Velvet Underground, if we're just talking about the 4 (or 5 if you include Squeeze) albums released during the band's existence
Six out of 109 voters agreed in this poll:
Ranking the Velvet Underground studio albums
― Josefa, Monday, 3 December 2018 16:45 (five years ago) link
This is a completely subjective and certainly minority opinion, but it is mine and I hold it.
new board descrip
― macropuente (map), Monday, 3 December 2018 16:50 (five years ago) link
YYY's 3rd album is the best
xp
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
madness.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
fever to tell vs it's blitz is at least an argument (i prefer it's blitz), but show your bones?
― galaxy brian (voodoo chili), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:14 (five years ago) link
Yeah, It's Blitz. is the best Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, so they do not count. Bloc Party don't count either, as Four is quite possibly their second or third best album. The Futureheads don't count either, as their worst album is their second one.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
I like a bunch of Show Your Bones. the real drop off isn't until Mosquito imo
― Οὖτις, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
already mentioned upthread but the two bands that are hard-red matches for this are the Pretenders and Interpol.
― flappy bird, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:17 (five years ago) link
tryin to think of the most challop thing I could post in here and the best answer I could come up with is Autechre
― frogbs, Monday, 3 December 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
Moby Grape?
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
tryin to think of the most challop thing I could post in here
― We're in 2009—it's time to take risks, (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
I like a bunch of Show Your Bones. the real drop off isn't until Mosquito imo― Οὖτις, Monday, December 3, 2018 6:16 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Οὖτις, Monday, December 3, 2018 6:16 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yup. I actually listened to Mosquito a few months back after not listening to it since it came out and yeah, that was a real disappointing record.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 3 December 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Buhloone Mindstate is my favorite De La album.
― o. nate, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:12 (five years ago) link
Moby Grape is tough but fair, IMO
― sleeve, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
LCD
― single bed mentality (||||||||), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:20 (five years ago) link
de la soul
Are You In? is possibly better than The Grind Date, which is definitely better than Bionix
good chall though
― sans lep (sic), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:21 (five years ago) link
Ultravox, if you only count the Midge Ure-era albums starting with Vienna.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:23 (five years ago) link
LCD I could see if you consider the debut album to just be the bonus disc
― frogbs, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:29 (five years ago) link
Ultravox, if you only count the Midge Ure-era albums starting with Vienna.― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, December 3, 2018 7:23 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, December 3, 2018 7:23 PM (six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah, I definitely agree with this.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:31 (five years ago) link
Gang of Four.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Monday, 3 December 2018 19:35 (five years ago) link
...except "Shrinkwrapped" is way better than "Hard" and "Mall".
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 3 December 2018 19:46 (five years ago) link
Oasis
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Oasis is a bad example, because Don't Believe the Truth and Dig Out Your Soul are stronger/better records than Standing on the Shoulder of Giants and Heathen Chemistry.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:27 (five years ago) link
Not to mention the equally obvious that What's the Story Morning Glory is far better than Definitely Maybe.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Monday, 3 December 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
mmmmmnnnnnnn...
― Mark G, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
Ride is a good example imo
― nostormo, Monday, 3 December 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link
The Field, Vitalic, and Disclosure come to mind.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 01:44 (five years ago) link
maybe Sun Kil Moon depending on how well you like the first 3 or 4 releases. IMO they're all very close neck and neck and then some cracks start around Among the Leaves and then it's been a steep decline since.
― akm, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 02:52 (five years ago) link
whoa The Field is sadly otm, his a rather gradual decline, his albums are still good but they are slightly less good each time, 11 years after Here We Go Sublime
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 04:57 (five years ago) link
Nothing they did was as good as the debut, but Moby Grape ‘69 is better than Wow.
Yes, it's why I added the question mark, I think you could be right.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Tuesday, 4 December 2018 09:45 (five years ago) link
Yeah, Ride is a pretty good one.I agree with the VU too although I could see why one would disagree.Also, Guns n Roses surely (I suppose they've been mentioned already) .
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 10:46 (five years ago) link
Metric. they went from apathetic, melancholy electro-pop w/ witty lyrics - to stadium rock, to dollar store yeah yeah yeahs... emily haines' solo stuff means the world to me, though.
― meaulnes, Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:18 (five years ago) link
i wish those first two self-released albums didn't exist so i could say mitski
― austinb, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 03:58 (five years ago) link
What exactly does everyone dislike about Moby Grape's Wow? Moby Grape '69 was more straightforward and conventional, but also not very memorable IMO. Wow could have benefited from fewer sound effects and gimmicks, but the underlying songs are mostly solid.
― Lee626, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 06:50 (five years ago) link
Disclosure's stuff from this year has been way better than anything from the second album BTW.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:30 (five years ago) link
I like "Wow", better than the debut even.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 5 December 2018 09:33 (five years ago) link
I don’t dislike Wow at all, but too much of it feels/sounds like not particularly clever goofy filler, like the song that can only be played at 78rpm, or “Funky Tunk.” And yes, I think “The Baby Song” on Flip Your Wig is fun and hilarious, but the difference is that the non-goofy songs on Wow are nowhere near solid enough to justify the goofiness.Moby Grape ‘69, on the other hand, is all killer/no filler (goofy or otherwise), and has “Seeing,” which is probably the best thing they ever did.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 5 December 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
(xp) Yes, but you are literally the only person who has ever existed who thinks that.
― Monica Kindle (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 December 2018 00:46 (five years ago) link
Underworld, mk. 2 mostly works.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 6 December 2018 10:44 (five years ago) link
^ Nah, it doesn't.
Their last album was easily their best since Beaucoup Fish
― groovypanda, Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:18 (five years ago) link
Hence the 'mostly'. I can't say I liked it better than Beaucoup Fish, but Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future was definitely a step up from Barking. Still, I wrote them off a long time ago, alas.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link
Yes but Barking was better than the one before it
― groovypanda, Thursday, 6 December 2018 11:46 (five years ago) link