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 (three years ago) link
Early Banshees ruled so fucking hard.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 06:18 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 00:01 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Where have all the Suburban Relapse boosters gone?
― DJP, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 15:56 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link