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Originally posted by Barcelona: belle & sebastian, very good albums at the beginning, but getting bad, worse as a new album comes out. seems to be happening a lot out there, to me, pavement or interpol are other examples.
Originally posted by Venerable Bede: QuoteOriginally posted by Barcelona: belle & sebastian, very good albums at the beginning, but getting bad, worse as a new album comes out. seems to be happening a lot out there, to me, pavement or interpol are other examples. interpol only has 2 albums out. . .how can you make such a statement like that? as for pavement. . .the whole last album was a mistake, as evidenced by "the slow century." although, i think that terror twilight was the funniest album they put out, even though it didn't have a spiral song on it. unlike dean wareham's tiresome similies and metaphors in later luna albums, SM was still very funny. [/b]
Originally posted by BookerT: you could tell that SM was treating the whole thing as a joke. i mean, look at the three singles: "spit on a stranger," (ridiculous), "major leagues," (very ridiculous), "carrot rope" (most ridiculous of all). i still like "terror twilight" better than "brighten the corners." as for B&S ... IMO, everything they did up through the "this is just a modern rock song" EP is essential. nothing after it is even close.
Originally posted by Barcelona: I guess with Interpol I was referring to the trend they seem to be following, from one to ten, the first album was an 8 and the second one was a 1. Following this trend, the third album might probably be negative, although I wish it was good.
Originally posted by Venerable Bede: QuoteOriginally posted by Barcelona: I guess with Interpol I was referring to the trend they seem to be following, from one to ten, the first album was an 8 and the second one was a 1. Following this trend, the third album might probably be negative, although I wish it was good. there is no way for you to determine that. the sample size is simply not large enough. 2 albums is not a "trend." [/b]