What's the least acclaimed album you love?

I can safely say that I do not care for Transmission, but I think The Edges Of Twilight is a pretty.. perfect album? What they're trying to do is extremely stupid! But they do it so perfectly! It is amazing to see how much sound they made as a rock trio, too

Buke And Gase are named after their instruments (baritone uke, guitar-bass) and even were originally named Buke And Gass for spelling consistency but were constantly introduced with the Gass being pronounced "gas" so, yeah. They don't have good album covers and actually they don't particularly have good albums either? Like, obtuse self-sabotaging mixing decisions that are particular to virtuosos with lofty goals who choose to shoot themselves in the foot at the last moment rather than turn in "the album that their efforts produced"? But it's really about seeing them live, they are the loudest and most brilliant two-piece in history, I must've seen them play two dozen times now over the years and I'm still shattered every time. Think of Deerhoof scaled-down to a two-piece and with added ambition and less levity

My partner cites The Edges of Twilight as the album she has listened to the most in her life. I do mean to listen to the whole thing at some point. I think I always felt that the drummer let them down a bit?

What they're trying to do is extremely stupid! But they do it so perfectly!

ahaha this is a perfect summation of their whole thing. they were the most embarrassing and thus most enjoyable of the "major" CanCon radio rock acts of the 90s. (have we ever polled those?)

i guess i need to get into the tea party

(i already love olp and matthew good)

They were no Gandharvas imo.

Brad I can safely say that you would love both Splendour Solis and The Edges Of Twilight

The lead singer is definitely something. It felt even in the 90s like everyone was trying to take down the band for the lead singer being "lame-o" because he equal parts aped Jim Morrison and Jimi Hendrix, was the only person I'd stoop to using the word "pseudo-intellectual" to describe, but his insufferability comes off as charming now. I remember in high school, my friends saying things about him like "lol he's from WINDSOR" and "people who went to high school with him said he only listened to New Order and only developed this guitar-mystic persona once he graduated lololol" and these "criticisms" just seem kind of charming now? idk, those first two albums are hit after hit after hit. Brad just listen to The Edges Of Twilight's first six tracks and either you'll flip out or you'll know the band is not for you

Jim Morrison and Jimmy Page, surely?

As a side note, did we ever poll Big Shiny Tunes 2?

Yep!: Favourite track from Canada's 5th biggest selling album of all-time "Big Shiny Tunes 2"

I listened to Edges of Twilight a lot, but did eventually get rid of the CD in my early 20s because I thought it looked embarrassing in my CD collection. Haven't listened to it in about 20 years but looking at the track listing right now I could remember most of the songs. Sister Awake is the one I remember liking the most. I should listen to it.

Yeah, that's her favourite.

Yes I got my Jameses confused

Me I like The Bazaar and Inanna and especially Silence... this album really got into some tightly controlled cacophony

Edges of Twilight is better than I expected tbh.

I unfortunately have The Tea Party to thank for my introduction to "what all the Indian instruments are called and what they do"

I managed to listen to half of Edges of Twilight. It's not really that bad, but I don't need or want any of this.

It's not really that bad, but I don't need or want any of this.

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TRIPtych was my intro. Some good singles off that one. I imagine some of the deep cuts are pretty dire, though.

Daughters self titled album is my favorite thing they've ever done including the new stuff. Usually is pretty forgotten.

I still love the Tomorrow, in a Year by The Knife, Planningtorock and Mt. Sims. Generally unloved.

I feel like I was shouting into the void with Self Defense Family's Have You Considered Punk Music last year. Still love it.

The Sunn/Scott Walker collab might get some more love now due to recent sad events but I was genuinely shocked at how little acclaim it got comparatively to how much i loved that thing.

For this question thought I'm going to go with the Mountain Goats - Goths. Its my favorite by them and easily one of my favorite albums of the decade. It definitely got a fair amount of love but they have a lot of acclaimed albums and this generally probably isn't considered top tier. And that is a testament to a lifetime of excellent releases. It's also very different than the others and i love it very much.

Love is a funny word to use in the case of Rick Dees' "Disco Duck" album, but hey.

can't actually remember any full albums if i look at the tracklistings but i probably really enjoy a modern talking album or two

Siegbran to thread.

Modern Talking were the best. I still play that shit now. I even wrote a musical based on their songs back in the 90s (in my head, but still).

ot unacclaimed but inexplicably underrated, I would trade Buke And Gase for the entire oeuvre of both Kate Bush and Sonic Youth

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, March 31, 2019 4:48 AM

Meant to ask if you're a huge fan of Kate Bush and Sonic Youth?

Could Buke & Gase support a thread because I'm thinking of getting Riposte soon.

Daughters self titled album is my favorite thing they've ever done including the new stuff. Usually is pretty forgotten.

I only listened to it again when the new one came out, but 'The Unattractive, Portable Head' is such a great song.

i don't even know how to process my appreciation of jason falkner's _all quiet on the noise floor_ as kind of perfect statement of power pop and pop formalism, in structure, technique, and delivery. but a) i don't know if anyone outside of 100 people have ever heard it b) i am not a musician, critic or anything, i just like that genre generally and holy shit c) trying to like stuff other ppl don't know is an annoying trait.

Some bloke came in the shop. I said hello. He started singing:"Is it me you're looking for..." I added:"I can see it in your eyes." He turned around and fistbumped me saying I had top taste and asked if I knew of Paul Young.

One of the better clients. Lol. But no, I hate the song, dude. Lol

Siegbran to thread.

Modern Talking were the best. I still play that shit now. I even wrote a musical based on their songs back in the 90s (in my head, but still).

― breastcrawl, Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:41 AM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nice

Thomas Anders and Modern Talking Band (how they're billed) played my city on Wednesday :'(

i don't even know how to process my appreciation of jason falkner's _all quiet on the noise floor_ as kind of perfect statement of power pop and pop formalism, in structure, technique, and delivery. but a) i don't know if anyone outside of 100 people have ever heard it b) i am not a musician, critic or anything, i just like that genre generally and holy shit c) trying to like stuff other ppl don't know is an annoying trait.

― Hunt3r

fuck it i'll listen to that record, i've only heard his record with r stevie moore but it was pretty good and i like power pop

seriously that experience is just goddamn normal for me, you know what power pop i listen to? goddamn hussalonia, there are maybe about five people who know who that dude is

feel free to drop by the thread where i just post shit i love but can't actually talk about to anybody because maybe three people have heard it, the more the merrier

Some bloke came in the shop. I said hello. He started singing:"Is it me you're looking for..." I added:"I can see it in your eyes."

that song was one of my mum's favourite songs when I was a kid. for kinda sad reasons, it was her sort of theme song for a failed relationship. although I can't stand the song myself I can't hate it either

It's more that nobody has heard it, but I found out the first self-titled Autre ne Veut is on streaming services, and that might still be my album of the decade. Love it so much.

Xpost it is actually a good song. Just heard it a gazillion times way back. :-)

Co-sign all that Tea Party talk upthread, have always loved The Edges Of Twilight, especially the songs where they amplified the Zep love and Eastern elements to a huge scale, the big drum break in Sister Awake is genuinely thrilling after all these years.

I don't think it's hated or anything - it just kind of fell into a crack in the earth upon release, as one would expect, but the Cult's 2012 album Choice of Weapon is really good.

Metal Machine Music for me - glad to see it's received several mentions on this thread already. When I first heard it (the Buddha Records reissue on CD) I was quite disappointed, expecting some kind of rip-your-head-off wall of feedback. But now I appreciate it as almost a relaxing record.

It's really beautiful. It's the only Lou Reed record I ever listen to anymore (I spent years trying to get into him and the VU before finally giving up).

I still stand by my answer at the start of this thread.

i like mmm too, it is a quite soothing listen.

I just realised it's most likely 'Monsters' by Meat Puppets

Ha; I remember buying that record in high school after hearing Huevos and Up On The Sun, liking both a lot, and wanting more of that; I put it in my Walkman and was instantly like "What is this terrible pseudo-metal?" (I love metal, but that wasn't what I wanted from the Meat Puppets at all.) I turned around and returned it; luckily, my friend's family owned the store and he let me pick something else instead.

First track I heard was 'Light' on the radio, which is a kinda Grateful Dead sounding thing, but I was at home with the heavier stuff on the record, not having heard them before, I love the whole thing, Linn-Drum and all but the last track 'Like Being Alive' is absolutely beautiful.

Well, your post has me revisiting them on Spotify, for the first time in ~30 years, so maybe I'll check it out.

I guess my real answer should be Tremolo by Blue Rodeo, generally regarded (when it's regarded at all) as a generic mid-career MOR album but was genuinely mind-expanding for me as a kid, esp the closing run of songs, which include Cowboy Junkies style slowcore, intricate instrumental gorgeousness, and the closest they ever got to cutting a punk tune.