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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: atomic on June 12, 2014, 11:50:51 am
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So I was thinking what the best back to back albums by the same band/act that ever was. I came up with a few off hand:
1) Fleetwood Mac
a) Fleetwood Mac
b) Rumours
2) Depeche Mode:
a) Music For the Masses
b) Violator
3) Adele
a) 18
b) 21
4) Beatles
a) White Album
b) Abbey Road
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Don't most bands put out great LPs back to back? You could make an argument for any of these:
Radiohead -- The Bends / OK Computer /Kid A
Husker Du -- Zen Arcade/ New Day Rising / Flip Your Wig
Rolling Stones -- Beggars Banquet / Let It Bleed / Sticky Fingers / Exile on Main Street
The Stooges -- self-titled / Fun House / Raw Power
Springsteen -- Born to Run / Darkness on the Edge of Town / The River / Nebraska
Bad Religion -- Suffer / No Control / Against the Grain
X -- Los Angeles / Wild Gift / Under the Big Black Sun / More Fun in the New World
Sonic Youth -- EVOL / Sister/ Daydream Nation
The Who -- Sell Out / Tommy / Who's Next / Quadrophenia
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Ween owns this
Pure Guava/Chocolate and Cheese/12 Golden Country Greats/Mollusk/White Pepper
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Ween owns this
Pure Guava/Chocolate and Cheese/12 Golden Country Greats/Mollusk/White Pepper/Quebec
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Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor / Dig Me Out
PJ Harvey - Dry / Rid of Me
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Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
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Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor / Dig Me Out
PJ Harvey - Dry / Rid of Me
Amazing you are the only one who did it correctly. And those PJ Harvey albums are actually both really good.
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Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.
Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
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Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.
Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
and listed Fleetwood mac, Adele, and Depeche Mode as options.
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Built to Spill
Perfect From Now On > Keep It Like a Secret
Modest Mouse
The Lonesome Crowded West > The Moon and Antarctica
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Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.
Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
Well it was two albums not three albums. That is my main complaint.
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New Pornographers - Mass Romantic / Electric Version
Spoon - A Series of Sneaks / Girls Can Tell
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Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.
Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
Well it was two albums not three albums. That is my main complaint.
How could you call Exile an "awful" album?
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Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.
Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
Well it was two albums not three albums. That is my main complaint.
How could you call Exile an "awful" album?
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Everybody has the right to be wrong. You listed the two worst Beatles albums.
Let It Bleed > Sticky Fingers > Exile on Main St.
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First it is only two albums and third "Exile on Main Street" is an awful album and "Let it Bleed" is uneven.
Well it was two albums not three albums. That is my main complaint.
How could you call Exile an "awful" album?
Two decent songs on a double album on the decent songs aren't even that good. Even the Stones think it is a shitty album.
Here is another one:
Pulp -
His n Hers
a Different Class.
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The Jam
All Mod Cons > Setting Sons
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Replacements Let It be > Tim
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Big Star #1 Record > Radio City
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GnR - Use your Illusion 1......and 2 ;D
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Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde are pretty tough to beat. And Bringing it all Back Home preceded those.
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Replacements Let It be > Tim
damn, you stole mine....
ok I submit
The cure: The Head on the Door / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The cult: Love/Electric
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk/If your feeling sinister
this is actually harder than I thought, I can think of very few in the last 20 years
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Replacements Let It be > Tim
damn, you stole mine....
ok I submit
The cure: The Head on the Door / Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The cult: Love/Electric
Belle & Sebastian: Tigermilk/If your feeling sinister
this is actually harder than I thought, I can think of very few in the last 20 years
I thought about putting the Cure albums you have listed but I thought there were some weaks songs on Kiss Me...
Those Cult albums are quite different.
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Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Slanted and Enchanted
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never really liked: Hey You!!! but the rest of the album has so many solid tracks
that's why I picked love/electric is it's almost like two different bands
Have you ever heard the manor sessions...basically recorded most of the Electric songs in the Love style and then they just decided scrap the scott brown sound and get Rick Rubin
also Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk/ Blood Sugar Sex Magik were two pretty solid back to back albums
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Pavement
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain > Slanted and Enchanted
definitely...
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never really liked: Hey You!!! but the rest of the album has so many solid tracks
that's why I picked love/electric is it's almost like two different bands
Have you ever heard the manor sessions...basically recorded most of the Electric songs in the Love style and then they just decided scrap the scott brown sound and get Rick Rubin
also Red Hot Chili Peppers: Mother's Milk/ Blood Sugar Sex Magik were two pretty solid back to back albums
Sounds like I have to listen to the Manor Sessions.
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Don't most bands put out great LPs back to back?
No they don't. Albums that stun you with their greatness when they are released and then stun you again on the next album? Not often. And I am not talking bands who all their songs sound the same.
Oasis - What's the Story Morning Glory - amazing..follow up: don't even know it anymore
Primal Scream - Screamadelica - followup embarrasing
Stone Roses - s/t great followup sucks
Or maybe the followup is great but not up to the one before it
Magnetic Fields - 69 love songs - incredible , "I" - great but it isn't going to make me forget about 69 love songs.
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Love Nut
Bastards of melody > Baltimucho!
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I've been a part of board threads where we talk about the most amazing run of albums, usually 4 or 5, but once everyone goes through Beatles, Stones, Bowie (who I think wins based on his 70s run), the Smiths and Radiohead, the conversation evolves into a lot of bickering.
However, what popped into my head when I saw this thread title was Meat Puppets II / Up on the Sun, followed by Husker Du New Day Rising / Flip Your Wig (Zen doesn't do it for me as much as those two).
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Let Love in/Murder Ballads/Boatman's Call
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Guided By Voices- Bee Thousand/Alien Lanes
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NWA
Straight Outta Compton > Niggaz4Life
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I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title. But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.
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I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title. But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.
the master troller.
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I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title. But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.
I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.
I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.
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I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title. But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.
I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.
I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.
Maybe you have lower standards to what is great.
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I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title. But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.
I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.
I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.
Why would you be suprised by Adele. She has sold 35 million albums between the two. That is a good sign that a lot of people think they are great albums. You would be more likely to question Husker Du who never had an album in the top 100 and weren't popular in the punk/hardcore scene back in the day.
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fuckin a atomic when you going to get it that sales do not equal quality? stop being such a low level troll and amp up your game.
the new kids on the block sold a trillion records.. i guess you think they're quality too?
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I think its pretty remarkable that bands like Husker Du and Meat Puppets recorded albums on the extreme cheap, with no production budgets, no label promotion, nothing, and they're still relevant, discussed and beloved 30 years later. That is significant.
I agree that Adele is talented and her records will be listened to in the future, but you cannot compare her 'art' to bands that made music entirely on their own, without a legion of handlers and writers and promo people, that is still cherished by a significant number of people.
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I actually have to work at my new job so I don't have time to think up an intelligent reply to the question posed by the thread title. But aside from picking albums that are actually by different artists, atomic couldn't have screwed his up any worse.
I was sorta surprised to see Adele on that list. Weird.
I still think most bands worth a damn puts out more than one "great" record and usually they're back to back. And my point was suggesting that a lot of times it's more than one. You can take your pick.
Why would you be suprised by Adele. She has sold 35 million albums between the two. That is a good sign that a lot of people think they are great albums. You would be more likely to question Husker Du who never had an album in the top 100 and weren't popular in the punk/hardcore scene back in the day.
God you're naive. I feel sorry for you.
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Semisonic - Great Divide > Feeling Strangely Fine
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FZ: Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar -> You Are What You Is
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Luna- Penthouse and the one before Penthouse
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Luna- Penthouse and the one before Penthouse
Hutch, I was JUST listening to Penthouse. Agreed. 2 of my favorites.
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Pavement- Crooked Rain/Wowee Zowee
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fuckin a atomic when you going to get it that sales do not equal quality? stop being such a low level troll and amp up your game.
the new kids on the block sold a trillion records.. i guess you think they're quality too?
You are being stupid for calling me a troll. My point is why would you be suprised that someone like albums that are almost universally loved? It is like saying you are surprised that someone think Michael Jackson's Thriller is a great album. Husker Du were loved by the critics and still didn't sell any records and plus they haven't done anything in 30 years.
I am sure if you talked to some women on their thirties they would have good things to say about New Kids on the Block and a vast majority would prefer them over Husker Du. Popularity is the only measurable argument you can make for something being better. The other things are just your opinions and aren't shared by many other people.
I am not arguing that it is wrong to think Husker Du's albums are great it is just an opinion you won't find many people agreeing with.
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PJ Harvey- To Bring You My Love/Is this Desire (So underrated)/Stories from the City
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Stereolab- Emperor Tomato Ketchup/Dots and Loops
boy the 90s were great!
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Andres Calamaro- Alta Suciedad/Honestidad Brutal
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Bob Dylan- Time Out of Mind/Love and Theft/Modern Times
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Stereolab- Emperor Tomato Ketchup/Dots and Loops
boy the 90s were great!
I would state Mars Audiac Quartet/ emperor tomato ketchup
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Wilco: AM/Summer Teeth
or if I can use Mermaid Sessions Vol 1.
Summer Teeth/Mermaid Sessions
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Stereolab- Emperor Tomato Ketchup/Dots and Loops
boy the 90s were great!
I would state Mars Audiac Quartet/ emperor tomato ketchup
most would but I love Dots and Loops...my favorite Lab
actually according to rate your music dots and loops is more beloved than mars audiac quartet... who knew?
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation/Goo
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Meat Puppets: II/Up On the Sun
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Lucinda Williams: Sweet Old World/Car Wheels
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Son Volt: Trace/Straightaways
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Steve Earle: I Feel Allright/The Mountain
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Wilco: AM/Summer Teeth
or if I can use Mermaid Sessions Vol 1.
Summer Teeth/Mermaid Sessions
what happened to being there?
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Wilco: AM/Summer Teeth
or if I can use Mermaid Sessions Vol 1.
Summer Teeth/Mermaid Sessions
what happened to being there?
oops..i amend:
Wilco: Being There/Summer Teeth
I am all apologies..I'm just working so fast here...:)
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Johnny Cash: American Recordings/Unchained
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I know people don't like Pink Floyd but here goes.. Dark Side --> Wish you were here --> Animals --> The Wall.
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Pink Floyd: Meddle/Dark Side/Wish You Were Here
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Rolling Stones: Beggars/Let it Bleed/Ya Yas/Sticky Fingers/Exile
The greatest hot streak in rock and roll history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Elvis Presley: Elvis Presley/Elvis
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Morrissey: Kill Uncle (LOVE IT!)/Your Arsenal
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New Order....oh good lord this is cheating.. Power Corruption/Low Life/Brotherhood/Technique
followed by the worst album ever: Republic.
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Depeche Mode: Black Celebration/Music for the Masses/Violator
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Metallica: Kill them all/Ride the Lightning
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New Order....oh good lord this is cheating.. Power Corruption/Low Life/Brotherhood/Technique
followed by the worst album ever: Republic.
Waiting for the Sirens Call or whatever it's called is worse
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Pink Floyd: Meddle/Dark Side/Wish You Were Here
Meddle is horrible.
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Pink Floyd: Meddle/Dark Side/Wish You Were Here
Meddle is horrible.
Fearless
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GnR - Use your Illusion 1......and 2 ;D
Metallica: Kill them all/Ride the Lightning
Now all we need is for someone to post about U2 to have the holy grail trifecta of bands that suck ass.
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Pink Floyd: Meddle/Dark Side/Wish You Were Here
Meddle is horrible.
Fearless
And Echoes..
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Meddle is horrible?? Atomic is so trolly today and hutch is high out of his mind on pain killers.
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Meddle is horrible?? Atomic is so trolly today and hutch is high out of his mind on pain killers.
Meddle is great. I'll listen to that before the Wall (which I also enjoy). But Meddle is a terrific LP. "One of These Days"? Come on. I heard a bootleg once of a show from Miami I think and they opened with that and it sounded positively massive.
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Meddle is horrible?? Atomic is so trolly today and hutch is high out of his mind on pain killers.
Meddle is great. I'll listen to that before the Wall (which I also enjoy). But Meddle is a terrific LP. "One of These Days"? Come on. I heard a bootleg once of a show from Miami I think and they opened with that and it sounded positively massive.
Meddle is probably my favorite Pink Floyd album.
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Meddle is horrible?? Atomic is so trolly today and hutch is high out of his mind on pain killers.
Yeah that is why it is so well played on the radio. Shit band, horrible album. Not as bad as Animals. But what is?
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Chronic Town > Murmur > Reckoning > Fables > Life's Rich Pageant > Document
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The Decline of British Sea Power > Open Season
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Ultraglide in Black > Dangerous Magical Noise
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Surfer Rosa > Doolittle
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Chronic Town > Murmur > Reckoning > Fables > Life's Rich Pageant > Document
I don't think you know how this works. Murmur and Reckoning are better than the other ones so you should have put down:
REM
A) Murmur
B) Reckoning
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Chronic Town > Murmur > Reckoning > Fables > Life's Rich Pageant > Document
I don't think you know how this works. Murmur and Reckoning are better than the other ones so you should have put down:
REM
A) Murmur
B) Reckoning
Fleetwood mac'd
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Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit to Write About Love
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King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown > East of the River Nile
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Sinsemilla > Red
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Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit to Write About Love
you are kidding...right?
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Meddle is horrible?? Atomic is so trolly today and hutch is high out of his mind on pain killers.
Yeah that is why it is so well played on the radio. Shit band, horrible album. Not as bad as Animals. But what is?
You seem to think that getting played on radio + huge sales = better album. So I pose this question to you. What's the best LP, in your opinion... "Human Clay" by Creed, "No Strings Attached" by 'N Sync, "Yourself or Someone Like You" by Matchbox 20, or "Cracked Rear View" by Hootie and the Blowfish? Given that they have all moved over 10,000,000 copies, got radio airplay, and sold massive amount of copies then that must mean they are exemplary recordings that withstand the test of time, classic pieces of music that will endure for generations.
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Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit to Write About Love
you are kidding...right?
Maybe Maybe not
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Prefab Sprout Swoon to Steve McQueen
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Meddle is horrible?? Atomic is so trolly today and hutch is high out of his mind on pain killers.
Yeah that is why it is so well played on the radio. Shit band, horrible album. Not as bad as Animals. But what is?
You seem to think that getting played on radio + huge sales = better album. So I pose this question to you. What's the best LP, in your opinion... "Human Clay" by Creed, "No Strings Attached" by 'N Sync, "Yourself or Someone Like You" by Matchbox 20, or "Cracked Rear View" by Hootie and the Blowfish? Given that they have all moved over 10,000,000 copies, got radio airplay, and sold massive amount of copies then that must mean they are exemplary recordings that withstand the test of time, classic pieces of music that will endure for generations.
I am not familar with any of those albums. As for what will endure generations I think that is more luck than anything else. Lot of crappy music still being played. Tune in to a classic rock station for verification of that.
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Belle & Sebastian The Life Pursuit to Write About Love
you are kidding...right?
Maybe Maybe not
Life Pursuit is great but I would change the other one to Dear Waitress.
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The Jam
All Mod Cons > Setting Sons > Sound Affects
Fixed that for you.
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Truth be told The Life Pursuit is one my all time favorite albums and this week I've listening to Write About Love, which is a perfect summer album. Plus Cary Mullgen can sing in my headphones anytime. So at the moment these are the two B&s albums. Next it could be the Red and Green ones..
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The Jam
All Mod Cons > Setting Sons > Sound Affects
Fixed that for you.
I was following the rules! Although I almost put AMC > SS then SS > SE ;)
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Are You Experienced? > Axis:Bold As Love > Electric Ladyland
Highway To Hell > Back In Black
My Aim Is True > This Years Model > Armed Forces > Get Happy
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Are You Experienced? > Axis:Bold As Love > Electric Ladyland
I like!
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Dresden Dolls -
s/t
yes, virginia
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For me It would be any combination of the first 6 Black Sabbath records. With Master of Reality > Vol. 4 edging out the rest.
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My Aim Is True > This Years Model
Can't believe I forgot these two as well...TYM is such a great follow to MAiT
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dead kennedys
fresh fruit for rotting vegetables
plastic surgery disasters
dinosaur jr
green mind
where you been
polyphonic spree
the beginning stages of...
together were heavy
prince
purple rain
around the world in a day
guns n roses
use your illusion one
use your illusion two
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For me It would be any combination of the first 6 Black Sabbath records. With Master of Reality > Vol. 4 edging out the rest.
yes...
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Mazzy Star
She hangs brightly
So tonight that I may see
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Mazzy Star
She hangs brightly
So tonight that I may see
I don't know..I just don't know....could you make a case as to why? I find all their albums to be pretty similar....and pretty darn good if a bit narcoleptic...
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Mazzy Star
She hangs brightly
So tonight that I may see
I don't know..I just don't know....could you make a case as to why? I find all their albums to be pretty similar....and pretty darn good if a bit narcoleptic...
Those two albums are nothing alike. The first one would be in my top 50 of all time.
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Boredoms
Super æ
Vision Creation Newsun
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Blur: Leisure / MLIR / Parklife
The Dandy Warhols: Come Down / 13 Tales
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Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures/Closer
Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman/Second Toughest In The Infants
Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children/Geogaddi
Gary Numan - Replicas/The Pleasure Principle
A Place To Bury Strangers - self titled/Exploding Head
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Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey / The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
(you could also probably go Twitch / The Land of Rape and Honey)
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Led Zeppelin: I / II / III / IV / Houses of the Holy / Physical Graffiti / Presence
some will probably argue about the inclusion of Presence, but the guitars on that album are some of Page's best work IMO.
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The Beach Boys Greatest Hits
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The Beach Boys 50 Big Ones Greatest Hits
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The Beach Boys Greatest Hits
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The Beach Boys 50 Big Ones Greatest Hits
do greatest hits count?