But for me, the discography I would save above all others in my collection is American Music Club's.
alas, San Francisco is a real step down. Otherwise I agree wholeheartedly. Still waiting on that reissue campaign...
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Friday, 31 January 2020 01:16 (four years ago) link
Go-Betweens― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn)
I guess I can see this working in a 'their flaws only make them more charming' sort of way, but a debut LP that seems to be classed as 'strictly historical interest' by almost everyone who wasn't hip to it at the time seems a little problematic. Plus the insistence on giving an official release to barrowloads of never-progressed-beyond-demo-stage juvenilia seems almost like Forster actively ensuring that their record is anything but flawless.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 31 January 2020 01:28 (four years ago) link
Just thought of one more: Sisters of Mercy. I like all three albums, and even the early EPs (which a lot of people like a lot more than I do) are solid. I can't think of a single song I actively dislike.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 31 January 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
Go-Betweens
Hm, now that you mention Australian post-punk bands... this is a very boutique suggestion but I think every Laughing Clowns release is pretty amazing (albeit they're such an acquired taste that it's kind of in for a penny in for a pound)
― umsworth (emsworth), Friday, 31 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
Autechre, forever.. all of it
― Lowell N. Behold'n, Friday, 31 January 2020 06:51 (four years ago) link
~ sparks ~
just so ned will present a case
― mookieproof, Friday, 31 January 2020 08:12 (four years ago) link
What about Soundgarden? I’m not a huge fan of the early stuff, but I don’t think it’s considered “bad”.NIN? Godflesh?Did A Tribe Called Quest ruin their legacy with the one after Midnight Marauders?
― beard papa, Friday, 31 January 2020 08:28 (four years ago) link
no way, i love all the tribe albums except the one they dropped a few years ago
― Bstep, Friday, 31 January 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
XXXP: Yes, Laughing Clowns were pretty consistently good! Can only help that they disbanded after barely five years.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 31 January 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
Drive By Truckers? First two albums are pretty weak.
Cocteau Twins? One of my top 5 bands but I think the 90s is a big letdown.
Brilliant one album band not mentioned yet: TOWERING INFERNO!
I'm hoping Trance To The Sun might qualify, but I haven't heard their newest album or the compilation appearances.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 January 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link
This might seem like too big a caveat, but enough dirt digging might prove that the band's newer albums are a case of stolen identity: Jacula.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 January 2020 18:49 (four years ago) link
I have never encountered this opinion before
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 18:50 (four years ago) link
also Beats, Rhymes and Life did not destroy their legacy. The Love Movement is not well-regarded tho
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 31 January 2020 18:56 (four years ago) link
The Love Movement is mostly bad except for the parts where it's really good
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 31 January 2020 18:59 (four years ago) link
I don't know if you're being ironic or not but: me neither, and I'm more than a little baffled by it.
― pomenitul, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
born again: somehow still underrated despite recent rehabilitation, one of my favorite sabbath records
Born Again is in that zone of records that's been "underrated" for so long I think it's almost becoming overrated
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
not ironic at all!
baffled that any Tribe fan would prefer the Love Movement to We've Got It From Here (which is incredible/probably the best "comeback"/reunion record ever)
xps
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:05 (four years ago) link
i don't think ATCQ ever destroyed their legacy (tho there was the whole Georgie Porgie thing which was obviously fucking awful and shameful), they just coasted on their last couple albums before WCTIFH...TYFYS, which it could be argued is their best one.
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
I wouldn't say "coasted" because both Beats, Rhymes and Life and The Love Movement are ambitious records. The first one wasn't understood in its time, which is not Tribe's fault. The second one is weak, which is.
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Saint Etienne is a good suggestion tho I don't think Good Humor is their weakest (not sure what i would call their weakest, though i probably put on Sound of Water less than anything else, and it's really good nonetheless).
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:11 (four years ago) link
Ramones? I thought they were supposed to have years and years of bad albums?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
What is the ILX verdict on '80s Miles Davis?
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:13 (four years ago) link
I think Alfred considers it his best era
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
some of it is fine, some of it is v bad imo
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:14 (four years ago) link
yeah. 80s production cheese was a menace.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, January 31, 2020 2:13 PM (forty seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink
I don't think they have any outright BAD albums, but they have like four classics, two or three actually p dope post-70s joints and a buuuuunch of middling-to-weak stuff flailing around in the metal '80s and alt-rock 90s.
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:16 (four years ago) link
I love w all my heart FoxBase Alpha and So Tough but rest of SE's catalog varies from meh to ugh
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:17 (four years ago) link
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 31, 2020 2:13 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― omar little, Friday, January 31, 2020
what the
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:18 (four years ago) link
sorry sorry just a bit of fun
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
Ramones footnote
Search: The four classic seventies joints, the Phil Spector experiment (1980's End of the Century), the chilly heavy metal one (1984's Too Tough to Die) and the Lollapalooza return to form (1995's Adios Amigos).
The rest are meh compared to their peaks but none are really terrible
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
nice to see someone else rep for End of the Century
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:19 (four years ago) link
my knowledge of Miles' '80s era extends mostly to a copy of 1986's Tutu being in a scene in The Talented Mr. Ripley.
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
80s miles is good imo. actually miles is a good answer for this thread, only one i think i can think of
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
the synth sounds on Star People are truly shocking
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
I remember liking Aura
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
cocteau twins don't really have any albums I dislike
― akm, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:22 (four years ago) link
100000 xps but "What's the New Mary Jane is pretty bad" yeah but it wasn't really officially released until relatively recently so I don't know that it counts
― akm, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
could argue for Royal Trux
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
OP: take in every single thing a band has recorded from start to finish – albums, B-sides, loosies
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:23 (four years ago) link
Aura's fine, don't care for the rest in toto.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
re AMC: "Still waiting on that reissue campaign..." 2021.
― akm, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:24 (four years ago) link
My Miles era is E.S.P. through In a Silent Way.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:25 (four years ago) link
decoy i guess is kind of bad
― frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:27 (four years ago) link
good cover tho
pfft one listen to "disturbing the priest" or "zero the hero" would disabuse you of this notion
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
'80s Miles:
The Man With The Horn has its momentsThe 1981 comeback live band rules (We Want Miles, Miles! Miles! Miles!)Star People and Decoy are just OK; Decoy is betterYou're Under Arrest is really goodTutu is a masterpieceAmandla is pretty good, as is SiestaDoo-Bop is a solid EP if you delete all the tracks with vocals (in fact, delete every track Miles ever recorded with a vocalist)Any and all '80s live material is better than the studio stuff. His bands were uniformly hot from 1984-1989.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
but i do think it's a bit much to consider sabbath for this thread xp
I've never made it all the way through Aura.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Friday, 31 January 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
(in fact, delete every track Miles ever recorded with a vocalist)
truthbomb. the lone vocal on Birth of the Cool is abysmal.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:31 (four years ago) link
Underworld would be a decent choice if we forget their first two rock albums, which they might want us to forget.
― omar little, Friday, 31 January 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link