Albums No One Else Owns

[Dalton]

No, not a troll trap. I was really just commenting on the idea of the thread, not the actual contents. You know... the whole 'that band that you dont know about' or perhaps 'I knew of them way before they were famous'.

When faced with a decision between being labeled a troll or unfunny, always choose troll. ~ Sir Thomas Moore

Stop using smilies. They're retarded. ~ Jesus

 

[martha]

Stop using smilies. They're retarded. ~ Jesus

 

[dudeman]

Growing up a huge devotee of shoegaze, my big brother turned me on to these guys back in the day - shoot, it was 90 or 91. they're less muscular than ride or MBV, less frantically creative than the boo radleys. but they had their finger on the melodic pulse of a pop tune, and got as many spins around my house as all those other bands because of that. his vocals add a bit of melodrama to the shoegaze formula - sometimes it's irritating, but i don't think it takes a lot of imagination to picture a mop-headed 16 year old moping along with this on the way to a high school party. "Baby's Angry" is really just a collection of prior singles. Standout tracks: "Painting Pictures" and "Drowning Inside"

Then came this second album - "Cold Water Flat" - released 1993. It took the pre-existing formula and pushed it forward with a wide variety of supplemental instruments, all really tastefully done, adding to the drama of the vocals and really well-written music. Again, it's not perfect, but i STILL play this one all the time. as someone who writes music on my own, this one has influenced me as much as anything i've ever listened to (and that's not hyperbole). It does it all - up tempo, down tempo, folky, blistering rock - and does it all well. The 3 song ending is saccharine as hell, but a great way to go out. Standout tracks: "Shakesdown", "Crimson", "I wear Your Chain", "Medicine Smile", "Wave". really, all of 'em.

 

[If you shout...]

Crazy coincidence: I got a problem-solver, and his name is Revolver.

 

[bonocomet]

 

[LuckyNumber7]

When faced with a decision between being labeled a troll or unfunny, always choose troll. ~ Sir Thomas Moore

Stop using smilies. They're retarded. ~ Jesus

So then... you're just trolling me right?

And... Jesus said that? Really?


But then again, I'm just trolling you, because I'm hilariously unfunny. What?



Wait for it... wait for it...


That should do it.

 

[Imperor]

You're still butthurt about the reaction to your Arcade Fire joke?

 

[LuckyNumber7]

You're still butthurt about the reaction to your Arcade Fire joke?

Quite the opposite, in fact. Making a little sly joke, and of course once again it upsets people (for some unknown reason) enough to comment on it. Again.

 

[BluRmGrl]

i have that.

 

[Jive Turkey]

I'm not sure where all the hatred came from. They seemed pretty well liked on the forum when the album first came out. I don't mean to point the hipster finger here or anything, but it seems like they only got to be so hated around these parts after they made it big.

That's just, like, how I saw it though, if someone wants to point out that I was wrong, feel free, I could very well be.

Oh no, I have hated them since the first time I heard them. I didn't even realize there was a time when they weren't well known.

 

[bono_212]

Quite the opposite, in fact. Making a little sly joke, and of course once again it upsets people (for some unknown reason) enough to comment on it. Again.

The fact that you think any of this is sad.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

I really don't even know how to respond to that. Why, why so hostile?

 

[PhilsFan]

Stop using smilies. They're retarded. ~ Jesus

Unless it's 2005 and you're making Menudo jokes about Broken Social Scene, then it's all acceptable.

Spoiler

I've grown to hate them as well.

 

[PhilsFan]

 

[Imperor]

Why must you play the race card, Peef Enchilada?

 

[If you shout...]

Back on track:

Spoiler

I doubt/hope that that didn't actually need to be spoilered for the sake of civility, but I'm erring on the side of insanity.

 

[Diemen]

... the fuck?

 

[If you shout...]

Punk rock 4 life.

 

[LuckyNumber7]

At least it's an album we dont own.

 

[If you shout...]

I must have dozens of such albums, but I have way too much music and can no longer keep track. In ten years, I bet you I'm going to be on whatever TV show will have, by then, taken the place of Hoarders. I'm not bragging. This is a legit problem. I'm looking at a stack of cassettes, as I type this; I bet that 90% of them are, like, editions of 20-40. Damn it. Still listen to my Sign 'O' the Times cassette semi-regularly, though! Ugh.

Without my external HDs, I shudder to think how both abjectly (as opposed to fairly) poor and crippled by my collection I would be.

 

[If you shout...]

Here's a good one, though:

 

[If you shout...]

Laughing out loud at myself, but I swear it's a fascinating listen:

^^^
This dude died in a freak hang-gliding accident, in the '70s! Can't make this shit up!

 

[If you shout...]

 

[bono_212]

There's no way that beard was aerodynamically sound.

 

[If you shout...]

No idea why I own this, and even less of an idea why I haven't sold it:

 

[corianderstem]

Is the band name Herpes and the album name "That Comes From Kissing"?

 

[PhilsFan]

This dude died in a freak hang-gliding accident, in the '70s! Can't make this shit up!

What an idiot!

 

[If you shout...]

Damn right. (Talking to cori, here.)

 

[corianderstem]

Wow.

 

[If you shout...]