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The dispute was over the writing on ATYCLB, if memory serves. No Line is where they were first given songwriting credit--they have lyric credits on Unknown Caller and White as Snow, and music composition credit on all the tracks save for the notorious middle 3 and Breathe.

I'm not sure surgery can fix Bon Jovi's issue of making terrible music.

Well, I don't dislike any of the tracks outright, and even my least favorite (SATS) isn't something I'd kick off the album. I've messed with alternate tracklistings before (putting Mofo first, having Discotheque open "side 2", etc.) but never arrived at something I retained for posterity. I...

Should have been on the album.

She did it again, that little schemer. I hope GAF didn't go into cardiac arrest.

I listened to it several times today and yeah it's fairly disappointing. There's a very good 12-song album in here somewhere but in general it lacks both consistency and variety. Not a fan of the music itself, the instrumentation--it sounds cheap. I'd bet money that at least 2 of the 4 bonus...

Do Australian kites fly upside-down, like how the water going down their drains spiral the wrong way?

There are already reports that he's been recording with the band?

Someone call the plumber…

I feel like this has been discussed over and over again (like most topics here), but the “more time writing, less time recording” is indeed the band running away from their strength, which is the studio alchemy that occurs when they keep trying different things and improvise. So ATYCLB has some...

Including ATYCLB in a "wonderful 20 year run" but not HTDAAB in a "wonderful 25 year run" is ridiculous to me. It won the fucking Grammy and had several successful singles. Either write off the whole "back to basics" period or don't include any of it. And I'll take No Line over ATYCLB any day...

Exactly. Extremely catchy tune that isn't crippled by terrible production choices. I wouldn't want a whole album that sounds like it but on a pretty schizophrenic record it works for me. Would have been a better single than Get Out, that's for sure.

Bingo.

Anyone check out this Cindy Lee behemoth yet? 2+ hours and 32 tracks? Got one of the highest ratings Pitchfork has given out in quite a while (9.1). It's not available to stream on any services but the artist did put it up on YouTube. You can only buy it directly from them via a Pay Pal...

I've always loved it too. I understand why some don't like the lyrics (though it's fitting that an album called Pop has one song devoted to pop culture), but the music is so damned good.

Zooropa went triple platinum in the USA alone and didn’t have a hit single. Pop sold 1/3 of that, if memory serves. Yes, you need a big crossover track if you want your album have staying power on the charts and to do as well as JT or AB. But your lead single determines who beyond the...

It seems naïve to say it wouldn't have made a difference at all. Once you invite backlash, it can snowball. The combination of the song title, the dance elements, and the video (to say nothing of the tour announcement at K-Mart) just made the whole album and era a no sale for some people...

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Pretty sure I mentioned these guys last year, but the debut album of Daz & the Demons dropped yesterday, very much worth a listen if you like retro, jangly pop-rock. Aussies will know Daz as the former frontman of Kisschasy. Available on all the usual platforms: dazandthedemons - Listen on...

As noted there, the album would apparently need to be completed by July, and I'm going to assume that's due to the ever-present lag in vinyl production. Unless they were willing to not have the physical format ready by release day, as we saw with SOI. They're done recording for the moment in...

Am I the only one who did not read any pro-Trump sentiment in Digital Spy's post? It's okay to bemoan the current state of our country without meaning you'd prefer the cartoon villain in charge of it instead. I'm not voting for Trump, but I'm also disappointed that the only option we're left...

Isn't there a National thread? :sleep: Literally still on page one here. Anyway, RIP Karl Wallinger. Formerly of The Waterboys and his own band World Party, who have at least one masterpiece of an album in Goodbye Jumbo. I got turned onto that not long after I was first getting into The White...

I’ll repeat what I say anytime the early 2000s run comes up: Eno’s mandate to spend more time writing and less time recording is what downgrades ATYCLB. Sure, it has more sonic unity than the next two albums, but the tracks are simply undercooked and not performed as great as they could have...