The Lemonheads. Come On Feel is approximately 37 times better than It's A Shame About Ray which gets most the praise and the whole ATP playback thing. That is fact.
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Kid A >>>>>>>> OK computer
desperate youth, blood thirsty babes
is better than rtcm. i love both but dybtb justhas vetter tunes.
I agree with both
of these opinions.
Good stuff.
Come on...
better than Shame? Madness. Shame was the final album they made before becoming a parody of their former selves.
NO way.
The new TVOTR album is MUCH more consistently good.
new tvotr album
is the only album which gets a full 10/10 from me this year. amputechture was my other hope. but it doesnt't quite cut the mustard. I'm just hoping blood mountain is amazing....
i think that
experimental jet set, trash and no star and a thousand leaves are way better than goo/daydream nation/evol
Nah...
Confusion is Sex >>>>> Everything else.
two that might count
Eels - Electro Shock Blues > Beautiful Freak
Cat Power - What Would the Community Think > Moon Pix (even though it's crying out for a question mark)
Talkin bout Eels
Daisies Of The Galaxy = >>>>>>> Everything
not true
Electro Shock Blues is better. Well, I think so anyway.
bits of it
Actually that crazy noise at the start of Cancer For The Cure makes it better than Daisies. I just listen to Daisies more.
Eels
I'd say Electroshock Blues is the best I've heard, if only for the wonderful PS You Rock My World at the end.
electro shock blues
is my favourite. i also really like shootenanny which seems to get quite a bashing at times
:|
i was going to say..
moon pix > you are free
thats the critical consensus
anyway.
Nobody thinks Beautiful Freak is better, do they??
Under The Western Freeway > The Sophtware Slump
Lots of Beefheart albums = >>>
Trout Mask Replica
yep
true dat
Transmit Disrupt
beats
The Neon Handshake
Agreed
with the Lemonheads and Kid A.
On the subject of the ATP thing, pretty much every Melvins album is better than Houdini and they still made them play that.
As mentioned before Big Black's Songs About Fucking << everything else Big Black (as far as I know) despite what pitchyfork says.
Wowee Zowee is the best Pavement album too, not Crooked Rain...
most people say
Slanted and Enchanted. Crooken Rain is better than both, though Wowee Comes second methinks.
my favourite is terror twilight
followed by s+e, cr cr and brighten.not got wowee zowee yet as it always seems to cost a fortune. this is stupid.
also, couldn't pick between beautiful freak and electroc-shock,which i guess gives beautiful freak half a point. the second half is perfection.
Miss Black America:
Terminal >>>> God Bless...
Seafood:
As The Cry Flows >>> Surviving the quiet
This makes me think, Talking Heads
What's their best album supposed to be? I don't think there actually is a general conception about one album being their strongest.
Or am I wrong? I suppose Speaking in Tongues was their biggest hit, and Little Creatures was a good pop album, but really not representative of Talking Heads at all. Most 'best' albums are quite representative, I'd say. Like Doolittle with the Pixies. You can hear both sides of the Pixies past and future in it, to a point. I don't think it works with Talking Heads so much, as there's no album that the band really hinge on. I suppose it would be Speaking in Tongues, though. Opinions?
...
77? Remain In Light?
I don't personally think any of the Talking Heads albums on their own are as "classic" or whatever as they should be. They obviously have loads of great songs but I don't think they made a great album.
.
They're a bit too bitty for most people/general consumption, I'd say. It seems to me that Speaking in Tongues pivoted them back to pop from Remain in Light.
Oh, and His n Hers is better than Different Class. Fact. I do love both incredibly, mind.
Tigermilk > ...Sinister.
Although, only just, in my opinion.
i dont think there's much between
those two albums ^
fold your hands child... > the last two albums i think.
yes
tigermilk > sinister > arab strap > fold your hands > dear catastrophe waitress > whatever the last one was called.
no way
the averageness of pink glove, happy endings and someone like the moon, as well as the fact that his n hers is missing tons of songs better than the album tracks that were recorded at the same sessions (his n hers, seconds, your sisters clothes, street lites) to me makes it a slightly flawed classic, whereas different class is 100% perfect throughout.
If you think
"someone like the moon" is average then I think you have fundamentally failed to grasp a major dimension of Pulp.
.
His N Hers > Different Class.
See Joyriders & Acrylic Afternoons for proof.
Lovey
is better than the pair of them.
...
Tenneage Fanclub.
Bandwagonesque is a bit rubbish, yet Grand Prix rules to bits.
christ...
i should learn to spell / type / whatever
Grand Prix is indeed the better album
I guess I think Mercury Rev's All is Dream is a better album than Deserter's Songs (which has great moments but a fair bit of filler).
I also think "You Can Have It So Much Better" is a much better album than the Franz debut.
Oh and "Abbey Road" is miles better than "Revolver" but I imagine everyone knows that ;)
Modern Life is Rubbish/Blur (Self Titled)>>>>>>>>>Parklife
<.>
agree on electro-shock
reckon it's a toss up between the bends and kid A
I'm a Magical Mystery Tour fan myself, but think there are about four equal-ish beatles albums
nah.
I am going to be a twunt and say that the 2 best 'head albums are The Bends and Hail to the Thief. I mean, Hail to the Thief has Scatterbrain, Myxomatosis and Wolf at the Door on it.
Although their best SONG is Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A.
And I agree with JQ about Daisies of the Galaxy. Super super super album.
and...
music critics always say that the best divine comedy album is casanova. it isn't. it's promenade HANDS DOWN
Liberation's great too.
But Promenade probably wins on acount of Tonight We Fly.
isn't anything > loveless
you
die now
Nothing is better than Loveless
i agree with the lady on MBV
other examples..
badmotorfinger > superunknown.
trompe le monde > doolittle+surfer rosa
crocodiles > ocean rain
^ yes,. in your face, jesus
pixies
bossanova > anything else they did
controversial, no?
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COCK OFF!!!
LOVELESS >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> isnt anything
no.
this could deserve its own thread :)
isnt anything > loveless
FOR THE FINAL TIME!!
You can get hanged for that in some countries.
Like this one.
Anyone wanna form a posse with me?
Flowers is toast.
......................
.............................................................................................. it doesnt look like they do, does it? :p
Posse me up
loveless pisses all over isnt anything. only shallow soon and sometimes are the best songs mbv wrote. and the best songs from that year most probably.
make the thread!
any excust to talk about mbv. :)
loveless IS better though.
i knew that MBV would
be brought up.
i'm actually surprised it took as long as it did.
ANYWAY: WRONG WRONG WRONG :D
Blur (self titled)
Definitely the best
Pixies
Bossanova > Doolittle and Surfer Rosa
REM - New Adventures In Hi-Fi > Automatic For The People
pffft no wai
Mercury Rev - All Is Dream > Deserter's Songs
Indeed.
pppffffft NO WAI
ppffffft YA RLY
it's a perfect beautiful concept album. Deserter's Songs is patchy.
:-S
I disagree on this one. Deserter's SOngs isn't as coherent, sure. It's more like snatches and fragments and bits of different stuff. But I found All Is Dream a bit bloated and grandiose and with only a few moments of beauty peeking out through the guitar-holic murk.
Deserter's Songs
is like a broadcast from a parallel universe, and it's both very beautiful and brilliant. All Is Dream is much darker and weirder beast, and I like it a lot but I don't think it has the perfect clarity that Deserter's has.
Mercury Rev's first album
kicks the arse of the later stuff.
Fugazi
Repeater
No.
True
The Argument
Yes.
Primal Scream
Vanishing Point>XTRMNTR>Screamadelica
:-0
I hate this thread.
Same
Not sure I agree with any of the suggestions so far...
Dylan
Isis > Highway 61/Blonde on Blonde
Also
More Specials is far superior to the first Specials album, which is pretty overrated.
yeh but
Isis isn't the name of an album....
Desire is good, not as good as those albums though!
Yeah
Desire not Isis.
God I am such a noob.
And yes, it is better than those.
definitely
with you on the second point, but vanishing point seems like just slightly below XTRMNTR to me. evil heat would come next, and then all the pure shite they've otherwised produced.
Bjork
Vespertine > everything else
Bjork
I'm inclined to agree here.
i think
a lot of people think that... lots of my friends do anyway
Nobody I know thinks so except Mike Diver
everyone seems to rate Post. Which is good, but several divisions below the revelatory wonder of Vespertine.
totally agree.
Homogenic
is miles better than Vespertine in my opinion. I'd even say that Post is better than Vespertine but Homogenic seems pretty clearly better than Vespertine.
wrong
sorry.*
*"imho", if you require it
Homogenic
is miles better than Vespertine in my opinion. I'd even say that Post is better than Vespertine but Homogenic seems pretty clearly better than Vespertine.
actually
does Bjork have an album that is 'accepted' as her 'best' anyway? (too many '' methinks...)
Yeah, it's quite split.
On DiS, people always say Homogenic or Post, for some reason. On Plan B, people think Medulla, obv.
i agree with vespertine
it's so hushed and personal, i love it. post is great but it's too polar, there are songs i could play on repeat forever and songs i always skip.
medulla is fine as an experiment or something but i don't play it very much now.
the most obvious one is
Nevermind, when both other studio albums are arguably better, in different ways
Yeah.
In Utero slays.
Agreed
Nevermind is a bit ho-hum.
Bleach
Is my current fave, but sometimes it's In Utero
Change Giver > A Maximum High
LOLZ.
I don't know.