(loved parts of kissme3x, but i thought it was way too long.)
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
("never enough" was the last thing i loved by them. which makes me a big fan of their first decade. never really listened to what came after that.)
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
HoTD seems almost as hit-or-miss as The Top to me, even if the hits are better (though I don't like the hornless version of "Close To Me" on it much). Prefer the albums before and after those two as wholes, would have even expected KMKMKM over Head, but then this is a list that declares Achtung Baby the best/most influential album of the last 25 years.
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:46 (fourteen years ago) link
What? No Bandwagonesque at number 1?
― Shin Oliva Suzuki, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what's funny, i really like achtung baby! it's definitely my fave u2 album by a long shot. i just sold u2 and cure records to a guy, like, five seconds ago. he seemed happy.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, it's good, but no. 1 of the past 25 years?!?
this is a stupid list.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:55 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost Bandwagonesque: It's defiantly there, which it wasn't always in their lists...
Achtung Baby sucks and it's a great list.
― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:56 (fourteen years ago) link
u2 albums sell so good. i always try and have some on hand. u2, smiths, cure, rem. i can sell them forever. if i get 4 or 5 smiths records in they are gone in a week or two.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:01 (fourteen years ago) link
achtung baby doesn't suck. it's got the fly on it! i love the fly!
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i hate to hate on this list, though. Aside from some hippie-indie shit and technoid fuckery I'm at least down with the singles on the overwhelming majority of these albums (achtung probably is my fave u2 album!). It'd be a perfectly fine list for canon-hungry kids if not for the plodding format, lazy text and constant threat of a sun chips pop-up if your mouse dare wander.
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:05 (fourteen years ago) link
they also did a great job of ignoring emo!
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
well, there is that.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
emo is horrible.
if my eyes don't deceive me, there's nary a sop to Hot Topic unless you want to count American Idiot. That's more of a line in the sand than leaving out Kid A.
― da croupier, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
meh. on second viewing, this list is better than i thought. no. 1 is crazy. nos. 2 -- 3 make sense.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago) link
pete's right, this is a real 40 year old person's list. it does have good stuff on it. all basically crit faves since day one. kollege klassics!
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I laughed out loud when I saw No. 1, and I love that album (but come on). And the mag reads as being written by 40-year-olds who seem perfectly comfortable w/their age, not trying to act younger. (xpost)
― Please Do Not Swagga Jack Me (Matos W.K.), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:25 (fourteen years ago) link
"This Is Not a Fugazi Article" reads one of many sub-headlines in what is most definitely a Fugazi article from SPIN in 1991.
― kissogram powers (Abbott), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:32 (fourteen years ago) link
I prefer my Cure writing three-minute pop songs instead of nine-minute dirges about crocodiles that rhyme "pain' with "rain."
I am so with you on this...plus "The Blood" is top 10 Cure song for me.
― kissogram powers (Abbott), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
And the mag reads as being written by 40-year-olds who seem perfectly comfortable w/their age, not trying to act younger.
no problem with that. forty-year olds should write like forty-year olds.
word up.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:41 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm 41 and i write like i'm 17. but i was writing like i was 10 when i was in my 30s, so i'm making some progress.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
That was too much math for me.
― Throwing Muses are reuniting for my next orgasm! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 April 2010 21:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm 42 and i write like i'm 62, but i'm gonna regress over the next 20 years.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
of all the bjork albums, they go for Debut?
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:06 (fourteen years ago) link
that's right spin, The Battles Of Los Angeles IS better than the soft bulletin, fables of the reconstruction, endtroducing, rain dogs, american recordings...*gives up*
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:09 (fourteen years ago) link
lol. just give in. THE BATTLES OF LOS ANGELES IS BETTER THAN THE SOFT BULLETIN, FABLES OF THE RECONSTRUCTION, ENDTRODUCING, RAIN DOGS, AMERICAN RECORDINGS.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Congratulation to Rage Against The Machine on their excellent LP
― Jamie_ATP, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.artsjournal.com/dewey21c/51052rage-against-the-machine-posters.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
even better:
http://www.comicartcollective.com/artImages/AFC1771E-08C4-45BF-84EB3CAE28FF3CC2.jpg
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
that one dude who was always climbing things at awards shows just to prove that you couldn't keep him down! i loved that guy. he was truly raging.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:15 (fourteen years ago) link
he just had ants in his pants.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:16 (fourteen years ago) link
actual independent record labels represented on that list? like, six? i can't count them all. i see kill rock stars, sst, dischord, um, matador... oh who cares. tiny labels mostly suck anyway. too emo.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
you couldn't hold that guy down with your RULES! with your "corporate award show" RULES. wasn't gonna happen. that dude was gonna climb something. you never knew when, but he would do it.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:19 (fourteen years ago) link
wait waht? no! so many good small labels. like small wineries.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
is their an animated gif of that doofus from nirvana getting bonked in the face with his bass on mtv awards night? i still remember that fondly.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:20 (fourteen years ago) link
you know what was cool? when the nirvana guy climbed up the side of the MTV studios after their set. f--k a RATM.
I never understood Kid A. I can dig older Animal Collective and Sonic Youth's bizarrest of bizarre, but Kid A seems to be only an album one respects if they're familiar with the rest of Radiohead... as in you're astonished at their progression, or their change of pace. Otherwise, taken as a sole album it just doesn't do very much to impress me.
― kelpolaris, Friday, April 23, 2010 10:09 PM Bookmark
naaaw, I'm an infamous Radiohead playa hata and even I like Kid A
― it ain't trickin if yo gotti (The Reverend), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, the nirvana bass player was a doofus. he's a state senator now, right?
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
well, apparently there weren't a whole lot of GREAT albums put out by tiny labels in the last 25 years. spin says so.
x-post
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
spin is all-knowing, all-seeing.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i just sold a copy of hello nasty and a tears for fears 12 inch to a woman in her 30's.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
tears for fears. i dunno. i'm torn on that band. i mean, shout and everybody wants to rule the world, okay, but after that . . .
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm a hurting fan 4ever.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
sowing the seeds of love! how deranged was that thing? god bless them.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, 'saright. a little too hippie-ish for me.
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
mind you, i like the politest of the polite indie (iron & wine, the clientele, f--k buttons, bands like that).
― Daniel, Esq., Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.goldensounddist.com/images/Emo%20Phillips/emo_philips_birthday_party.jpg
― This display name has been removed by the user. (KMS), Saturday, 24 April 2010 22:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"... inventing sorrowful anthems ("Oh lordy, trouble so hard")... "
do they not know that MOBY didn't write that?
who reads this magazine? is it like Q?
― piscesx, Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
the only people who read spin are 40 year old men who explode after they fist bump.
― scott seward, Saturday, 24 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
for the record, both MPP and Speakerboxx/The Love Below are two of the most unlistenable albums of the 00s
and that's the truth, ruth
― Fade to Ugly Dave Gray (King Boy Pato), Sunday, 25 April 2010 01:54 (fourteen years ago) link