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― System, Saturday, 30 January 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
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― System, Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
no fucking way
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Maybe it's just that more people have heard Tonight--that album reached #11, NLMD didn't even make the Top 40.
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
#34 in the States but yeah. Also, affection for "Blue Jean" and "Loving the Alien."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:20 (eight years ago) link
NLMD is not a good album, but Tonight is by most measures a terrible album. Indefensible beyond 'Alien' and 'Blue Jean' (and the former based more on the potential of a well-written song than the final result on the album).
― Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Sunday, 31 January 2016 00:31 (eight years ago) link
outside of "day in day out" i basically love the first side of never let me down. i also like "glass spider" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 12 January 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
i like day in day out too. the first side of the album is really good! it's the second side that blows. I like the live version of Glass Spider that was in the TV special fine but the album version kind of sucked.
Surprised this lost to Tonight which is largely boring a dumb outside of Blue Jean and Loving the Alien.
― akm, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:35 (six years ago) link
'Tonight' without 'Blue Jean' is the worst album of the two. But 'Tonight' has 'Blue Jean' on it, so...
― bored at work (snoball), Saturday, 16 January 2016 13:11 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pretty otm. NLMD is better overall I think. I'd take both over Black Tie White Noise.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
although BTWN has Jump They Say on it... hmm
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 12 January 2018 23:48 (six years ago) link
no BTWN is pretty good through and through. only duff track is the title track to me.
― akm, Saturday, 13 January 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
BTWN is basically "this is what 92/93 sounds like!" in the same way that 'Earthling' is "hey it's 1997!". As long as I listen to it in that state of mind it's OK. I'll only skip the fuck-awful cover of 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday', so on the basis of truly duff tracks BTWN does better than 'Tonight' or NLMD.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Sunday, 14 January 2018 12:48 (six years ago) link
Outside of "day in day out" i basically love the first side of never let me down
I don't love it, but it's good. "Beat of Your Drum" is a catchy boneheaded Springsteen/Mellencampm mishmash. Crazy chord sequence too.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
Interesting comparing this album's release and promo schedule with Bryan Ferry's for Bete Noire a few months later. It looks like their respective labels put out all the stops for them, treating them as contemporary pop stars instead of aging dudes approaching forty.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2018 13:45 (six years ago) link