Everyone has been burned before, everybody knows the pain: The Charlatans - Some Friendly Poll

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

missed this. would've bumped up TOOIK to a tie.

this thing got 19 votes, just surprised as there wasn't a lot of talk. the single did come out on top as i suspected.

single singles

Sorry, I meant to listen to this before voting because I haven't in nearly twenty years and I can hardly remember any of these songs - but I forgot. Will do so today.

Two strange things about the album: the horrible cover; and that this and Ride's Nowhere were two of the first albums I ever bought, and both had a track called 'Polar Bear' - was this some kind of indie zeitgeist in '91?

Okay. I'd probably have gone for 'Then' - sucker for the descending-bassline thing. The album sounds a bit odd listening to it now, actually - it sounds really thin production-wise, too clean almost as if it wasn't produced at all. That's weird for an album which had all those organ sounds to play with.

I had Up To Our Hips on afterwards 'til my spotify broke and it's much, much better. Not just in terms of sound and arrangement, the writing is better and there are nice bits of strangeness too, like the sudden loss of tempo after the introduction to 'Me And He'. Some Friendly sounds very demoish in comparison.

One thing I do really like about it, though, is that it takes wing in the last three or four tracks - nice to hear an album backloaded, rather than sticking the good stuff upfront then padding it out.

Forgot to vote. I think my favourite song at the time was Sproston Green, but I haven't heard it in nearly 20 years.

I remember seeing them live in 1991 and "Opportunity" sounded soooooooooooo good.