Albums/artists on/for which you really only dig a handful of tunes.

[dan_smee]

Arcade Fire for me.

I LOVE most of the first album, and add Intervention to that. Otherwise...

 

[Kieran McConville]

Reflektor has come very close to destroying my interest in Arcade Fire. Which is odd in some ways, as it's not without some good tracks, it's just a mess... and before then, I was fairly keen on them. The trouble is it has caused me to look askance at earlier work as well, particularly The Suburbs, and to wonder, just how long the emperor has been without clothes...

 

[lazarus]

Is it possible that you were only...pretending to like them before?


#anu

 

[Kieran McConville]

hahaha. No, really, I did for a long time. I like Neon Bible way more than most folks seem to.

 

[cobl04]

I'd rate Neon Bible as my second favourite Arcade Fire album, after Reflektor

 

[Vlad n U 2]

I enjoyed much of Reflektor but I couldn't get into anything they'd done earlier.

 

[Kieran McConville]

So we're seeing an admirable spread of opinion here, that's great.

 

[iron yuppie]

1. Funeral
2. Neon Bible
3. Suburbs
4. Reflektor

in order of quality. There are tremendous peaks on all four, but each successive one is increasingly spotty.

 

[dan_smee]

Funeral





















Neon Bible











Reflektor
The Suburbs


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[dan_smee]

I always thought Dire Straits would fit in here for me, until one day I just forced myself to go right through the discog - cannot get enough now. I used to only like greatest hits, now the deep cuts are taking over.

Here's what is likely to be an unpopular one - Led Zeppelin. I just can't find a way in to liking more than 5 or 6 tunes.


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[Axver]

Actually, Dire Straits may be a good pick. Love Over Gold is a great album, but I have no need for almost any other song from their discography.

 

[dan_smee]

Actually, Dire Straits may be a good pick. Love Over Gold is a great album, but I have no need for almost any other song from their discography.

Brothers in Arms is all time. Fond of walk of life and tunnel of love too.


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[Axver]

Brothers in Arms is all time. Fond of walk of life and tunnel of love too.

I grew up with my mother's cassette of On The Night - a great live EP - being a soundtrack to many trips by car, and that was pretty cool. But apart from Love Over Gold, I never warmed to an entire Dire Straits studio album. Individual songs, sure. But Love Over Gold is where it's at for me, and in particular Telegraph Road.

 

[dan_smee]

Fair call. I'm pretty keen on making movies as a whole. The Brothers in Arms album would be better with one or two clunkers removed


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[Axver]

Fair call. I'm pretty keen on making movies as a whole. The Brothers in Arms album would be better with one or two clunkers removed

I don't know if Skateaway is a particularly well loved song in their discography, but it's always been the song that's stood out to me most from Making Movies.

 

[dan_smee]

I don't think there is a single weak song on making movies. Expresso Love and Tunnel of Love are my standouts


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[dan_smee]

Just listening to Telegraph Road for the first time in years. So much epic.


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[Salome]

Neil Young.
Though I'm being harsh here.

 

[dan_smee]

Neil Young.
Though I'm being harsh here.

I agree

 

[iron yuppie]

You'd be hard-pressed to find a more consistent artist than Neil Young between Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere and Tonight's the Night. Straight gold through that run.

 

[dan_smee]

Just can't get into him. I've tried, just not happening

 

[cobl04]

I love so many of their hits (and their live album Alchemy is fucking great) that they can't be in this category for me.

 

[cobl04]

Neil Young may end up being in that category for me. Admittedly I've heard very little at this point of such a varied career but Old Man trumps everything else I've heard. Kinda like IWB and Life is Not a Movie or Maybe, I just love that song so goddamn much.

 

[liamcool]

Elton John!

 

[Kieran McConville]

If you sort of pretend the lyrics are in some other language, Tiny Dancer is an amazing tune. Amazing tune.

 

[Northern Soul]

Led Zeppelin fall into that category for me. I can pick a few tunes from each album that I like, but the rest...meh.

 

[LemonMelon]

Neil Young has one of the best discographies ever, get out of here.

 

[liamcool]

There's also a ton of spotty shit on there! Everybody's Rockin', say?