I'm cool with this version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penVzLsOuyg
― pplains, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
Frontier Psychiatrist
― brimstead, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
lily is definitely one of the best on that album. though as with most of blood on the tracks I prefer the ny session except for maybe idiot wind
Meet me in the morning is the dud on that album imo
― marcos, Thursday, 18 August 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
"Home Tonight" from Aerosmith-Rocks. a conventional ballad closing the band's most aggressive, focused effort to date kinda takes the wind out of the sails at the end.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 18 August 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
for some reason the Big Star thread made me want to listen to Murmur, and I can't help but think that record would be perfect without the hokey 'We Walk'.of course, that was the tip of the iceberg I suppose with REM and hokey, but try going from Shaking Through-West of the Fields and tell me it isn't better.
― campreverb, Saturday, 20 August 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
Hunky Dory minus "Kooks"
― MatthewK, Saturday, 20 August 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
i'm with you on that one
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 August 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link
home tonight is a good call. has anyone said hippie boy yet?
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 20 August 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
Remove Meat Is Murder from Meat is Murder ....
― svend (svend), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:53 AM
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 5:31 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I would have agreed with you if I hadn't gone back and reevaluated this album recently, but my post-high school findings are that MIM is mostly a dog. Easily the worst Smiths album, and if you don't think so, listen to them all back to back and tell me it isn't glaringly obvious. Tedious, joyless record.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 20 August 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
Motorhead - Overkill: CapricornUnconvincing spacey thing smack dab in the middle of a bunch of perfect locomotive self-combusting hardrock/early metal/whatever
― punksishippies, Sunday, 21 August 2016 04:38 (eight years ago) link
I mean it's still perfect with that song, but without it, it would be perfecter
― punksishippies, Sunday, 21 August 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link
cut "sex machine" from _stand!_
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 August 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
Good one. There's absolutely no need for Sex Machine to be 13 minutes long. It totally kills the momentum.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 21 August 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Remove "Make You Feel My Love" from Time out of Mind.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 21 August 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
You are SO RIGHT THERE. I've never understood why so many people cover it. Terrible song.
― MatthewK, Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
cuz it's so generic that anyone from Garth Brooks to Bryan Ferry can imprint a personality?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
My pick:
remove "Come Around" from Kala
otm. "Paper Planes" would be the perfect closer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 21 August 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
"Wendell Gee" from Fables
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
Good-bye, Wendell Gee
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Monday, 22 August 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Oh hai, can I not has "Leave Me Alone" off Power Corruption and Lies? Oh thanks, ta,
― Mark G, Monday, 22 August 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Nooooooo
― brimstead, Monday, 22 August 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
can we not has Mark G on this thread?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
move "We all stand" so that it ends the album and we're good.
― brimstead, Monday, 22 August 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
Yep, like that one.
It's mainly because I got the cassette box thing in Oxfam, and I played it in the car.
The original cassette I bought back in the day had "Blue Monday" and "The Beach" ending each side, and that's also good.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Lady Grinning Soul from Aladdin Sane
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Youd have to leave out a lot more to make that a perfect record imo
― niels, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
nope
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
(to both posts)
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
has no one else here thought the same about "we all stand"? i have nothing against it, it just feels awkwardly shoved in there between the faster tempo jams. and "leave me alone" really sounds like a penultimate song to me for some reason.. don't know why or how. swap "ultraviolence" with "your silent face" also, the latter is so powerful as a side-opener and the resulting first side becomes all uptempo etc.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
Michael Jackson's Thriller - take out the ghastly "The Girl is Mine"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
When I discovered the album in high school, it was the most mysterious track -- it's a koan or poem set to music. That eerie synth flute playing along with the "Life goes on" eventually hooked me. I hear it as an experiment to which they never returned but is most welcome.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link
Pixies - Silver from Doolittle Erasure - Sixty-five Thousand from The Innocents My Morning Jacket - Into The Woods from ZHaim - My Song 5 from Days Are GoneElastica - Indian Song from Elastica Goldfrapp - Oompa Radar from Felt Mountain The Divine Comedy - Freedom Road from Absent Friends Charli XCX - Hanging Around from Sucker
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
love Oompa Radar and can't imagine Felt Mountain without it, best ever 60s film soundtrack pastiche
― soref, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:26 (eight years ago) link
I always thought it was just a bit too silly and kind of ruined the mood of the album.
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:43 (eight years ago) link
I guess I can see that - but the whole album is walking on a knife-edge of overly-mannered silliness, I think the fact that it just embraces it on Oompa Radar adds to the overall effect, also keeps things from getting boringly tasteful.
― soref, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:54 (eight years ago) link
To make Aladdin Sane perfect- Remove Let's Spend...- Remove or go back in time and re-write/re-record "Panic in Detroit" (better vocals, and make the main riff not sound like some babyish preschool nursery)- KEEP IN Lady Grinning Soul (seriously wtf?)
― punksishippies, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 03:00 (eight years ago) link
nursery rhyme*
― punksishippies, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 03:01 (eight years ago) link
You can make it an almost perfect 7" EP by putting Drive-In Saturday and Aladdin Sane on the A-side, The Jean Genie and Lady Grinning Soul on the B-side
it's got a great cover, but it's not a great album
― niels, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:34 (eight years ago) link
Remove "Cat Food" from In The Wake of Poseidon.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:39 (eight years ago) link
"Time" and "Cracked Actor" (that guitar sound!) are actually my favorites off the album. I think maybe the mark of a great album is that everybody disagrees about what the best stuff is on it.Anyway, it's maybe the first time glam really entered creep-out territory where the decadence is mean-spirited rather than kitschy (proto-Marilyn Manson, except not shitty), which is something "significant" in my book
― punksishippies, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 08:49 (eight years ago) link
Feel "Time" is kinda overwritten and never liked the chorus of "Cracked Actor" much, sorta clumsy lyrics? But yeah, nothing wrong with a divisive album
― niels, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 09:03 (eight years ago) link
xxp I like Cat Food, but it is a bit of an outlier. Remove it and you'd basically be listening to In The Court part II
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 09:29 (eight years ago) link
remove "Lyrical Gangbang"
almost wanna say remove "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina" from Arthur but the album really doesn't work as well without it! Who'da thunk it
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 11:28 (eight years ago) link
... also it's great.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link
See, what looks like filler is actually "light relief"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:17 (eight years ago) link
Remove "Hippy Boy" from The Gilded Palace of Sin. I've listened to that album around a hundred times; I've heard "Hippy Boy" maybe twice.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:23 (eight years ago) link
OTM removing "Lady with the Grinning Soul" would be criminal !The only song I hate on Aladdin Sane is "let's spend the night". Awful.
Feel "Time" is kinda overwritten
What do you mean ? lyrically ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:31 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, lyrics don't do much for me - a bit pretentious, lack humor, that wanking line always annoyed me - but mostly the composition and scope of the song always seemed to me - wrongly, perhaps - a failed attempt at repeating or outdoing what was so effortlessly achieved w Life on Mars
― niels, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link
hum. OK. Well, his lyrics were often kinda pretentious and humorless in these days, weren't they ? (the whole Burroughs, cut-up approach...).I like "Time" a lot although it's not a favourite. To me it's more a 20s cabaret/Kurt Weill hommage than a remake of Life on Mars.It's darker and more decadent so the lyrics fit pretty well.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:26 (eight years ago) link