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Among hardcore Pavement fans it tends to rate extremely high. It's always been my personal favorite of theirs and probably my #3 album of all time.
What's your top five or ten?
Among hardcore Pavement fans it tends to rate extremely high. It's always been my personal favorite of theirs and probably my #3 album of all time.
Aerial by Kate Bush.
Could probably count most post-Automatic REM, I guess. I like new adventures, monster, and up. I like those albums a lot. But pre-Automatic and post-Automatic REM almost seem to be separate discographies, be it major label vs IRS distinction or the "I like their earlier stuff better," comment that people cling to (out of either having discovered the band when that was all there was and thus forming an attachment to that stuff, or because it just makes you sound cooler to only like the early albums when it's a band that followed the sort of career trajectory the did).
Since I was most assuredly not an rem fan until way late, and didn't give a shit* about them in the mid 90s I have virtually no knowledge of critical/popular opinion regarding hi-fi, aside from thinking somewhere that ebow was generally accepted as one of their best or something of the sort. Monster, though, wasn't that considered to be one of the most albums commonly found in the record store bargain bin? And Up, people are always defending their picks off up for why they're good songs despite being post-Berry REM (sad professor FTW).
*i read a quote from stipe saying he didn't give a shit about the Beatles, so when I was 12 I had no time for people who said stuff like that. I was dumb. I was 12, though. Caused a minor crisis when I discovered that's who did "it's the end of the world as we know it"...
Fuck, I was gonna mention Pop. I'm gonna go with Too Fast For Love by Mötley Crüe, I just saw them last weekend and they played some cuts from TFFL. It's a great punky, hard rock album with some killer songs. I'll probably get shit for liking the Crüe, but they made three great albums (TFFL, Shout at the Devil, and Dr. Feelgood). They always get lumped in with the hair metal bands, which isn't fair to them.
Destroyer's Trouble in Dreams is underrated I think (not that there's many people rating their albums). My third fav after Kaputt and Rubies.
iYup where do you stand on Morrissey currently? Not that I've followed any of his solo work (or indeed even heard anything bar The Queen is Dead) but I'm growing mightily tired of the man. But perhaps that's because Pitchfork and their ilk know they'll get hits if they write about him.
Not sure if 'underappreciated' is strictly the right word, maybe it is, but:
Everything Tricky did after Maxinquaye into the latter half of the nineties.
Sounds like me with Kanye. I think my latest opinion of him has been based on the lyrics that have been quoted in reviews of his latest albums, which all seem angry, judgemental and lacking any subtlety. I should look deeper.
Not to pick on you but wth? The mans been solo for decades now and you're saying that you've not heard anything since The Queen Is Dead? How could you possibly be growing tired of him?
It just sounds like you've read more about him in mags than actually listened to him..and that to me is really strange..reading about a musician - and a brilliant one, at that - more than listening to him/her.
Another for me: Morrissey's Southpaw Grammar. It is certainly a departure for him in musical terms; I guess "prog" would be the appropriate term. His voice though is in a very rich tone - a tone he seems only to have had for that album - and the 10-minute-plus bookends are both stunners. "Southpaw" in particular is one of his best solo tracks.
And speaking of Radiohead, King of Limbs is an album I hold very dear. Ironically reminds me of a very positive time I spent in London.
Not to pick on you but wth? The mans been solo for decades now and you're saying that you've not heard anything since The Queen Is Dead? How could you possibly be growing tired of him?
It just sounds like you've read more about him in mags than actually listened to him..and that to me is really strange..reading about a musician - and a brilliant one, at that - more than listening to him/her.
Also I could quite possibly be guilty of it also, when it comes to say Kanye or Gaga, but that's just because of how in the mainstream eye they are. However, I still know all their current tunes..
The first album that comes to mind for me is the Manics' Know Your Enemy, it was the next album after their biggest and most commercially successful and it was this sprawling 70-odd minute mess that didn't register much positivity from the critics at all (RS gave the whole thing no stars!). The background of the album is just as interesting as the music in it, it was essentially a deliberate fuck up of substantial proportion, not much cohesiveness, a variety of ventures into different styles and most importantly, the sound of a band who at the time did not seem to give a shit about what the critics would think (although as their career went on naturally they put a bit more stock into what the critics thought). For all those reasons above, I have a strong admiration for it, it's not even near perfect, there are a few songs I don't have much of an interest in but overall it's a big thrill to listen to it.
It's not the sort of album that is mentioned among their best with any regularity, and fan opinion is still divided on it, it's the sort of album that in the context of their career can only provoke strong, love or hate reactions. For as little critical positivity as it attracted I do tend to think that it is a 'necessary' album in the space of their entire discography.
The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
The Jesus And Mary Chain - Stoned And Dethroned
Also Wish. Disintegration was impossible to follow, but Wish is a fantastic pop album.
Haha, yes. I love Wish, especially the more rocking tracks like End and Open. From the Edge of the Deep Blue See is my favorite track by the Cure.If it wasn't for fucking WENDY TIME