I listen to songs on this album at least once a month
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:52 (four years ago) link
Like others above, it's been years since I've played it. One of those things, like watching Blue Velvet, that leaves me oddly angsty and depressed afterwards. (It's also totally awesome, obviously.) Hard to pick a favorite, I think of it as one experience.
― Album Moods: Rambunctious; Snide (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 15:05 (four years ago) link
I think I'm on record with the opinion that "Suburban Relapse" is their most underrated song
― DJP, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
Just remembered that part after the false ending in Switch with the saxophone dragging the song back to life. Great use of the instrument throughout the album.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 18:02 (four years ago) link
This one is like the Lodger poll, where I'd be comfortable with voting for half the album, depending on my mood. "Jigsaw Feeling" this time.
― Doctor Madame Frances Experimento, LLC", Friday, 3 April 2020 15:00 (four years ago) link
Switch!
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 6 April 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
Love this from beginning to end, with the Beatles cover being the weakest link. My vote goes to "Mirage".
― LeRooLeRoo, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
Everything on here is so good
― DJP, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
This may have been polled before; I'm not bothering to check.
lol
― donald failson (sic), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
haaaaa I am not surprised
― DJP, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
I just realized I need to buy this.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Wednesday, 8 April 2020 00:26 (four years ago) link
same here. only one I know is “jigsaw feeling” and it rules
― brimstead, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 01:10 (four years ago) link
Pretty much every song rules.
― DJP, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 14:01 (four years ago) link
How come neither Love In A Void nor Mae Up To Break-Up aren't on this?
― piscesx, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:23 (four years ago) link
MaKe
the 1st was a B-side and the 2nd was on the Polydor demos but not the LP, iirc
― sleeve, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 15:29 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
Still get a rush when I hear "Carcass." As a kid when first heard it (from the Peel Sessions) I didn't have a lyric sheet and thought she sang "be endlessly in love, endlessly in love!" And I thought "that's right, love is dumb!" (Because other people seemed to be getting some.) Then I learned she was singing limblessly in love — the titular carcasses were literal. I liked that too, but lacked the means to hack apart any despised lovers in the locker-lined junior high hallways. At least I could go home and blast this album.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 00:19 (four years ago) link
Early Banshees ruled so fucking hard.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 06:18 (four years ago) link
I still think of "Join Hands" as the second disc of the double album.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 06:54 (four years ago) link
Huh. I find Join Hands flat and dull compared to The Scream.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 07:34 (four years ago) link
Large parts of Join Hands don't work as well as they should but the parts that do ("Icon" and PARTICULARLY "Playground Twist") are all-time
― DJP, Tuesday, 14 April 2020 13:28 (four years ago) link
xp - yeah agreed that JH feels very dour and lifeless, apart from a couple of goth bangers (hello Icon). I guess internal dynamics must have been pretty bad for them to lose so quickly the debut's incredible energy.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 14:05 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 00:01 (four years ago) link
The two zero-vote placers also got zero last time; otherwise a light shuffling overall.
― donald failson (sic), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Where have all the Suburban Relapse boosters gone?
― DJP, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 15:56 (four years ago) link
Not feeling these results. Mirage and Metal Postcard are probably the two tracks I skip when I play this. Not bad songs per se but the most conventional ones on the album.
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure how "Metal Postcard" is a more conventional song than "Jigsaw Feeling" or "Carcass"
― DJP, Thursday, 16 April 2020 13:29 (four years ago) link
I've always wondered how it was the only single out of the first dozen that was left off Once Upon A Time
― koogs, Friday, 17 April 2020 05:19 (four years ago) link