Jive Turkey
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So my karaoke singer comparison was apt?
spot on
So my karaoke singer comparison was apt?
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
I actually enjoy a good chunk of this record. It's certainly more vital and lively than much of his '80s material, but it really is inconsistent, to the point of being jarring. Chaos And Creation In The Backyard is so much better.
R.E.M. - Accelerate
R.E.M. - Monster
Guns & Roses - Chinese Democracy (For the most part)
I know some of those choices are gonna be unpopular...
I haven't really listened to any of his solo stuff, that album was free in the paper. Gave it a couple of listens and just haven't gone back to it since. I just remember it being really average, although maybe it was more inconsistent. I'd give it another listen but...I'd rather listen to music I enjoy.
X&Y probably wins most average album though, even if most of the songs aren't bad (save for What If, The Hardest Part...don't make me remember that album), it's harder to get through in one listen than Metal Machine Music
Even Better Than the Real Thing meets Zoo Station, mostly. You can almost sing the latter track over the whole thing.
Canadian Vegan Poetry
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This. Ever Present Past is my favourite, but as a whole, it feels so disjointed.I actually enjoy a good chunk of this record. It's certainly more vital and lively than much of his '80s material, but it really is inconsistent, to the point of being jarring.
Good call. I loved Final Straw for a long time, first hearing "Spitting Games" with the release of MVP Baseball 2004. Eyes Open wasn't any good, but there are one or two nice songs ("Shut Your Eyes" is actually all the comes to mind). I didn't listen to the latest because I don't want to hear all the Grey's Anatomy-ness of their hit singles from the previous record.
Keane - Under The Iron Sea
The Cure - 4:13 Dream
Red Hot Chili Peppers - By The Way
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sex Sugar Magik
The Dead 60s - The Dead 60s
Paul McCartney - Memory Almost Full
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
R.E.M. - Accelerate
R.E.M. - Monster
Coldplay - X&Y
Guns & Roses - Chinese Democracy (For the most part)
I know some of those choices are gonna be unpopular...
In fact, I'd argue it was the only great baseball video game.
I nominate The Fray's newly-released eponymous album.
The slick, blurry, poorly-lit, pseudo-artistic front cover says it all. It's been done at least 10,000 times before, it's record company-sanctioned, and it feigns artistic inspiration. Pretty much sums it up for an album that finds itself so lacking in dynamics that it resorts to rhyming homophones (here, hear) because anything else would prove too eclectic.
Things I learned while listening to The Fray:
1. Sometimes, the difference between a rocker and a ballad is the way it's marketed.
2. Consistency and coherence is not always a good thing.
3. A 1/10 can be infinitely more enjoyable than a 5/10.
I think both of their voices sound more or less the same for some reason
I turn it off if it's "Waiitin' on the World to Change", as I think that song has one of the shittiest messages of any pop song of the last few years. "If you don't like how the world is, don't do anything about it, just wait for someone else to!"
Now this is my kind of thread.
Even if it includes deplorable evidence of GAF disliking video games, which really destroys a part of the image I had of him.
The View - Hats Off to the Buskers
That album taught me to stay the heck away from any band that gets compared to The Libertines. Who are themselves utterly average IMO.
Now this is my kind of thread.
Even if it includes deplorable evidence of GAF disliking video games, which really destroys a part of the image I had of him.
Whoa, big, original thinking man here, having an irrational dig at Coldplay.
Why would you listen to it in the first place mate? Doubt you even did, or are a closet fan like most anti-Coldplay bashers.
Wow. Are you supposed to be in the deep end without your swimmies?
Viva La Vida (which I own) is the epitome of an average album. There is nothing on the album that is bad. There is nothing on the album that is great. It's all good ... average. I put it on in the background and I am neither annoyed nor excited by anything that I hear. When I have people over for dinner, I will often put this album on low in the background because I know no one will ask me to turn it up or down. It is pleasant background noise.
I'm reminded of you a quote by Abraham Lincoln when I read your posts: "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
Why would you own the album then? There are tons of other albums out there which are more effective at being "background noise"....
I'm the same way for "Bedshaped," for one reason or another.
Here's one reason: because it's fucking heartbreakingly beautiful.
That's why.