(answer is still Aerial though)
― thousand-yard spiral stairs (f. hazel), Sunday, 22 November 2020 21:39 (three years ago) link
Psychedelic Furs!
― Patriotic Goiter (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 November 2020 12:38 (three years ago) link
The new Furs album is very good but I'd still pick Slowdive over it.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 23 November 2020 18:12 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Monday, 14 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Voted Portishead, but just wanted to highlight the following comeback albums from 2015 (in Veruca Salt's case, a comeback of the original lineup as the previous decade's output had pretty much been Louise Post solo):
Veruca Salt - Ghost NotesSleater-Kinney - No Cities to LoveFailure - The Heart is a Monster
― peace, man, Monday, 14 December 2020 11:27 (three years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:01 (three years ago) link
Excellent results - sticking by my 'other' Mission Of Burma vote though, even though it's 'Obliterati' where they hit stride.
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:16 (three years ago) link
i want to live in the alternate reality that you guys live in where black messiah wasn't terrible to the brink of embarrassment.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:29 (three years ago) link
Austin i like you lots but get the fuck out with that
― Uptown Top Scamping (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:33 (three years ago) link
the fuck
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 00:49 (three years ago) link
Didn't see this in time and have not heard all listed or later mentioned but would have voted either A Tribe or write-in for xpost Sleater-Kinney.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:10 (three years ago) link
Went back and re-listened to all known-by-Spotify D'Angelo-inclusive tracks in the lead-up to release of Black Messiah, but something a little too hermity about his approach to win over A Tribe or Sleater-Kinney. Not that I had any prob listening to any of his.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:14 (three years ago) link
And not that I'm not hermity, but doesn't mean I want (all *that* much) sonic mirroring.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
I say, as I sit here w headphones on, typing again.
― dow, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:16 (three years ago) link
You should be embarrassed of that take Austin lol wtf
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
third still absolutely stuns me every time, sometimes I think it's the best album ever
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:33 (three years ago) link
Love you Austin but on this score you're RONG.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:35 (three years ago) link
not sure I think of all of these as comebacks, but Third, m b v, Black Messiah, Aerial and Syro are all great albums, and maybe the others are too
― Dan S, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 01:58 (three years ago) link
Not loving it I might be able to see, but "terrible to the brink of embarrassment" no less lol
― A Scampo Darkly (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 08:00 (three years ago) link
The first three songs on Black Messiah attempt this Prince-with-Bowie-production thing that I'm not into at all tbh, but I love the rest of the album iirc
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
the second track is heavy as hell!
― imago, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
like, heavier than I've ever heard from Bowie, but maybe I've not heard the heavy Bowie
It's more "Bowie production", the drums sound completely distinct from the D'Angelo universe otherwise, none of the tensile qualities. I'm not into those three tracks at all. Album obv gets amazing tho
― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, 15 December 2020 17:08 (three years ago) link
Thanks everyone, I love you all too.
Black Messiah was very disappointing at the time. We listened to it twice and both times it very much felt like a chore to get through. Never revisited it since. Junior was a lot more harsh on it than Andy was; I just thought it was kind of plodding and tuneless, he said it sounded "like shitty Frank Zappa outtakes." Nobody is wrong or right, as I would be the first to say that we probably did not give the album a fair chance. Maybe we will again in the future, maybe we won't.
Am very happy Portishead won though, even if we did not vote for it.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
it sounded "like shitty Frank Zappa outtakes." Nobody is wrong or right
um yeah i would say this opinion is wrong as fuck
― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 00:11 (three years ago) link
please point me to the zappa song that sounds like "another life" or "the charade"
I can't believe I overlooked the nonstop tinkling marimbas when I was listening to Black Messiah. Truly, this thread has opened my eyes (and ears!).
― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, 16 December 2020 00:14 (three years ago) link
Proof that opinions can be counterfactual.
― Soundslike, Wednesday, 16 December 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link