Screamadelica: the poll

abbey road is an album that totally only becomes any good at "she's so heavy" and then remains very good for the remainder

I think we would all agree that.

No we wouldn't

absolutely fucking not

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Something is k-lassic, frank sinatra told me so

And all the Lennon stuff on Side 2 is shit

should do a thread of louis' totally random assertions

I'm surprised there's never been a "best Come Together" poll.

"Come Together" is the song that made me start hating Primal Scream. - if that is when you started hating them, does that mean you preferred the leather chaps & cowboy hats phase?

xxp actually can we not?

It's the "Come Together" Arena Thread!!!

I forgot MC5's "Come Together"!!!!

Yeah me too til I read that thread. Still Spiritualized though, with MC5 second.

if that is when you started hating them, does that mean you preferred the leather chaps & cowboy hats phase?

That means I liked "Loaded" a hell of a lot and was blindsided by how much I despised "Come Together". (I refused to listen to them for a long time after hearing "CT", which is why I didn't discover how great "Slip Inside This House" was until years after the fact.)

I'm sure the Bobster didn't forget the MC5 version...

wot no Hixxy ;_;

"Slip Inside This House" is 2nd-choice for me

if you compress this album to one song the end result can only be "come together".

"Come Together" sounded fucking perfect when I teenager, full of optimism & on drugs. These days, not so much. Loaded holds up, though.

i'm beautiful, i wasn't born to follow
i live just for today, don't care about tomorrow
what i got in my head you can't buy steal or borrow
i believe in live and let live
i believe you get what you give

no question, no contest. best song they ever did.

those are some horrible lyrics

oh they're so hilariously TRIPPY MAN

it's got early 90s peas luv and xtacy self-importance stamped all over it

how can you not love it

Who's a worse lyricist: Bono or Bobby Gillespie?

Mine is the only vote for 'Inner Flight'? And I'm not even a Beach Boys-fanatic.

No option for "unbelievably shitty, self-important, over-rated album" = no vote from me.

Multi-X-Post: "Come Together" is a bad song by a great band.

Are we talking about the "Come Together" with the Jesse Jackson sample that starts out "This is a beautiful day. It is a new day..." OR are we talking about the one that goes "Kiss me, won't you won't you kiss me... lift me right out of this world." I prefer the former, even though it sounds like an absolutely amazing beginning to a song that you expect to start rocking but it never really gets there and ten minutes later it ends.

Give me XTRMNTR any day.

Are we talking about the "Come Together" with the Jesse Jackson sample that starts out "This is a beautiful day. It is a new day..." OR are we talking about the one that goes "Kiss me, won't you won't you kiss me... lift me right out of this world."

Actually I am talking about the "Come Together" that starts with "Here come old flat top He come groovin' up slowly" :)

DFIFI FTW

a song that you expect to start rocking but it never really gets there

worst orgasm ever

ah, but the next day....

You feel a bit used?

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COME TOGETHER!!!

even though i sometimes don't acknowledge individual tracks when i play this album through, 'slip inside this house' is the definite winner for me.

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last 3 polls i've voted in, i've voted for the winner (protection, down on the upside, this)

yay conformity

How the fuck did "Loaded" place so low?? I love that song.

Let's party then!

That might be the best sample in any song ever.

How the fuck did "Loaded" place so low??

Too many great songs!

I completely missed this, give +1 for Loaded

Guys, "Higher than the sun" is higher as a sum!

rubbish lyrics and everything, but im surprised 'im coming down' got naaathing. prefer it to damaged any day.

It just hit me how much melody Country Girl takes from Damaged

Come Together 13

srsly, what is wrong with you ppl

If she can be believed, she's as excited to hang out as I am. Plus I can hear that amplified Kenyan preacher about 75 meters away. "Come Together" seems like the right choice here. And ... yes.

Seriously having a breakthrough with this album here, after years of listening to it.

there are some cool sounds here but it doesn't hang together really does it?

I thought this when it was first released, and still do. IIRC, it was largely cobbled together from various sources to capitalise on the success of "Loaded", rather than being planned as an album.

That's why I've always preferred Morning Dove White to Screamadelica. Both seriously good albums, but the former feels more cohesive, and gives a glimpse of what the latter could have been if Weatherall was more involved.