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also Appetite for Destuction >>> Live @#$% Like a Suicide, but maybe that doesn't count

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:12 (twenty-one years ago)

(xp obv)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Boston, they just couldn't follow the success of Smells Like Teen Spirit.

No wonder. How could they possibly expect to get away with ripping off Nirvana like that?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)
i'm fascinated that spaghetti incident trumps use yr illusions by about 50 arrows, but appetite trumps @#$% by only three arrows!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, @#$%^&* had a rose tattoo cover on it, y'know! that's worth 40 arrows alone, don't you think?

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

this is why i'd never make a good critic. i never remember that kinda stuff!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Killing Joke?

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Knack

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:34 (twenty-one years ago)

the bangles

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:35 (twenty-one years ago)

was (not was)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:36 (twenty-one years ago)

David Sedaris

― Guayaquil, Thursday, 19 May 2005 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Stone Roses.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

ian dury and the blockheads?
nick lowe?
b-52s?
devo?

(or maybe not; freedom of choice > duty now for the future, right?)

― xhuxk, Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Wall of Voodoo, maybe. Not sure how many albums they released post-Call of the West, but it should work up to their 3rd LP at least, and the 1st release (EP) was the best. EP>Dark Continent>Call of hte West>Andy PRieboy stuff

― 666, Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

oh and a case could be made for the Velvet Underground, if you are on the John Cale side of things.

and Nico > White Light > s/t > Loaded

I'd probably reverse 2 & 3, though

― 666, Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Suede.

Drowners Ep > Suded > Dog Man Star > Hell

― elwisty (elwisty), Thursday, 19 May 2005 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

j.j. cale?

cyndi lauper?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the cars?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricky.

― paulhw (paulhw), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Orb?

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I almost said the
Beatles and the Beach Boys but
then I caught myself

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

The Orb?

At one point, I might have been persuaded to agree, but their last album was shockingly good.

Also, "Orbus Terrarum" was a huge letdown. I think they recovered a bit after that.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 19 May 2005 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Orb?

"Pommes Fritz" is a better album than "Orblivion"?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:04 (twenty-one years ago)

BADLY DRAWN BOY

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Tori Amos - no way, her Pele through to Venus period trumps her first two albums by a very long way.

Tricky - probably, but who's even bothered to track the descent of the last few?

Garbage - surely no one can argue against them. And they've done it to such an extreme (from an awesome debut to really hideously bad stuff within two albums).

― The Lex (The Lex), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

1) Chuck is crazy re: The Clash.
2) Though Liz Phair is most certainly in decline, "Rock Me" from her last record along with several tracks from Whitechocolatespaceegg and Whipsmart blow at least half of the songs on Exile In Guyville out of the water. Exile is so overrated, I've always considered Whipsmart to be the real classic in her catalog.
3) Boys For Pele is the best Tori Amos record by a massive margin.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

haha "re: the Clash"--dude, Cxxxk is crazy period.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, in spite of my defense of Make Believe, I totally agree that each Weezer record is weaker than the previous, though I like the songs I like on Maladroit a lot more than the songs I like on the Green Album. Filler can really ruin an average.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Tricky is in decline as well, but I think Premillenium Tension is a little bit better than Maxinquaye, which I don't think has aged nearly as well. Nevertheless, Tricky still makes a lot of great music, he's just wildly erratic and overeager to release his worst material and bury gems on very obscure records, if he releases them at all.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoever said Oasis was pretty dead-on, though I do like Morning Glory better than Definitely Maybe. Be Here Now is about 60% good, then the percentages drop off sharply with each new record.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Garbage's best album is their second.
There are too many people being listed who only really have two albums.
Tori Amos NOT being an example fourthed, fifthed and sixthed.

― edward o (edwardo), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Tortoise

no, the first tortoise album is terrible.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

(that is a massive overstatement. it's just not nearly as great as tnt and millions. I can't believe anyone would think it was).

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 20 May 2005 00:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Though Liz Phair is most certainly in decline, "Rock Me" from her last record along with several tracks from Whitechocolatespaceegg and Whipsmart blow at least half of the songs on Exile In Guyville out of the water.

Agree completely, on a track-by-track basis. But... I think there was a good track on Heartbeat City, yet I'll still take The Cars...

Exile is so overrated, I've always considered Whipsmart to be the real classic in her catalog.

Contrarian. DeRogatorous. Please expand to 2500 words and submit for "Kill Your Second-Tier Idols."

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

bad brains

― tipustiger, Friday, 20 May 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Well let's put it this way - I really love just about everything song on Whipsmart, but I only really like about 2/3 of Exile. I really like the guitar tone on Whipsmart, there's this overall sound to the instruments and production that I think it quite distinctive and special. I could expand on this, but that's really what it boils down to. Obvs a lot of her big classics are on Exile and I don't dispute that.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

A lot of people might say Michael Jackson, if you start with Off The Wall. Not me though.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

JAMC?

― smirky, Friday, 20 May 2005 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Kennedys
Feelies? (I confess I haven't heard all of Only Life)

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Friday, 20 May 2005 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd say Michael Jackson. I'm kinda odd though for liking Off The Wall better than Thriller.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 20 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

that doesn't really make you that odd, but it's neither here nor there inasmuch as michael j released a bunch of solo albums before off the wall.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, two in 1972 that were off my radar.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

and one in 1973. and one in 1975.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 20 May 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica.

― cdwill, Friday, 20 May 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Xhuxk, gotta disagree with you on ABC--"How to Be a Zillionaire!" is way way better than "Beauty Stab" (I actually like it better in many ways than "The Lexicon of Love").

I also think Sandanista! is the Clash's best album, but I don't expect many people to agree with me on that one.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Katatonia
Anathema
Paradise Lost
Celtic Frost
The Prodigy (surprised they weren't mentioned yet!)

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:55 (twenty-one years ago)

tricky wins

― Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 20 May 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Wu Tang Clan
Venom (pre-reunion)
Emperor

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 20 May 2005 07:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I think most people would feel exactly the opposite way I do, but for me Nightsongs > Heart > Set Yourself On Fire, so I say: Stars.

― brittle-lemon, Friday, 20 May 2005 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

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