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by prole-art-threat
I think for me it would have to be Kill Uncle by Moz or Levitate by the fall
prole-art-threat | 27 Apr '05, 09:59 | Send note | Report this | Reply

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Feathers by Dead Meadow. I love them, but Feathers is really boring

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Little Kix by Mansun. How is it possible to go from the grandeur of Six to that hideous atrocity?

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and of course The Great Escape by Blur - though amsure I will be a revisionist on this in 2013

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and of course The Great Escape by Blur - though amsure I will be a revisionist on this in 2013

Well that's only true if you ignore the existence of 'Think Tank'. In fact you'd probably have to ignore '13' too, IMO.

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I actually think Blur's recent work (last three albums) is FAR superior to the stuff they did in the Britpop days. They had a lot of good singles then but not as much depth or beauty to their music.

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My ordering of Blur albums from best to worst would go something like:

Blur
Modern Life is Rubbish
Parklife
Leisure
Great Escape
13
[Think Tank]

Blur is one of the truly great albums of the last decade without a doubt, but ditching Stephen Street gave us an unfocussed pile or arse.

Losing Graham resulted in a band that was no longer Blur so it's just worthless to even compare them really.

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Oh god indeed! Although having said that I don't exactly love Attack Of The Grey Lantern or Kleptomania to bits either so maybe they fit the opposite question to this thread.

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the self titled lp the Beach Boys recorded in 1985 with Culture Clubs producer, Steve Levine. Awful....at least the crappy songs could have been disguised by a nice eccentric Brian Wilson synth/snare drum production like '77's 'Beach Boys Love You'.

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Punch the Clock - Elvis Costello. Suppose the songs are OK but the production is just....horrible. That sickly 80s 'sheen' all over it.

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Rock Action by Mogwai - jesus that is gash

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*In Max from 'Max and Paddy' voice*

How dare you!

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'Songs of the Free' - Gang of Four. Apart from 'We Live As We Dream Alone', where King's voice is just stunning in the verses.

But come to think of it, every GOF album after Solid Gold is crap on a crutch...

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I dont like them now - but 13 by Teenage Fanclub was almost insulting in its toss-quotient

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For me...Terror Twilight by Pavement. Great songs but horribly sheened up by Nigel Godrich, making it sound far too smooth. Had it been a bit more ragged would have been better. I still like it though.

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Around The Sun by REM. It follows a pattern of what looks like a steady decline since 1998 which I really hope they can pull out of.

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pablo honey is a good call. was gonna say meat is murder, but hopefully its just a phase i am gonig through!

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god yeah - its better than Viva Hate (yes I know this is moz) - pull yrself together nothing - 'Rank' is, well rank but no smiths album can be deemed 'bad'
Pablo Honey is embaressing - thank god however they were allowed to make another album


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Yep, I really hate Pablo Honey.

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You lot are weird. Ripcord, Anyone Can Play Guitar, Vegetable and that one that goes "I'm better off dead": What's not to like??

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Hmm. Well you missed off 'You' and 'Thinking About You' which are also fantastic.

I think Pablo Honey only suffers from being badly produced - EMI were trying to make them into the British Radiohead after all, so bad producer choice.

I'd have put Kid A as an example for Radiohead, personally. If you take them out of context there are some good tracks on there, but the majority are just boring and suffer from the album having been made in such a sterile environment. Pretty much every track on there was an order of magnitude better when the whole band played them live, Idioteque being the most obvious example: Phil's live drumming over the original stagnant electronic beat totally lifts it and brings the sort of ideas to the track that Radiohead totally missed on Kid A.

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Radiohead - Pablo Honey

I also like REM, but Around the Sun was a fucking inexcusably bad album.

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I have never heard Pablo Honey. I love Radiohead, but I've heard so many bad reports of that album that I have deliberately avoided it.

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Well you can probably download most of it these days. It's just not very well produced. The first 6 tracks are quality, and there's some good stuff in the second half. Probably fair to say that John Leckie could have made that album sound every bit as good as The Bends if he'd produced both of them.

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Have You Fed the Fish ? - Badly Drawn Boy

*Awaits comments asking how he mananged to narrow it down*

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Rock N Roll by Ryan Adams

I still like it to a moderate degree though.

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Am I the only person who doesn't mind Pable Honey then? It would appear so...

Anyway. 'Readymades' by Chumbawamba. Fave band, worst album by a mile.

Oh, and 'Worlds Apart' by trail of dead. It blows.

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Any 80s Dylan album.

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yeah pablo honey is below par....and having listened to the nu qotsa album a cuppl of times, not impressed at all :S meh....

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i really really like pablo honey too bamos (me too! - says pv).
i dont think its below par. its great.

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Woohoo! No longer am I alone in my Pable Honey world. Cheers wishpig (and say cheers to pv too!) :)

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gutted i like worlds apart...i kno it doesnt touch madonna...but it seems to get more play than source tags n codes....i like the classical vibes

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I like pablo honey : P

Machina by the pumpkins

Last two by idlewild

Songs for the death by QOTSA (not even gone near the new album but i hear thats bad to?)

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Machina? Really?

What about Everlasting Gaze? (the orchestra of reverbed guitar that washes over the chorus... oooh yeah)
What about the dizzy euphoria of This Time?
What about the pretty vocals on "Scared and Profane"?
"Age of Innocence"?

True, half of it is dirge, but the other half is sublime.

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i was really excited by everlasting gaze when they started playing it on the radio, which i think made the rest of the record even more depressing. True there are a few decent tracks on there (especially this time), it's just that the rest is utter gash and that it really doesnt stand up to any of the of the other pumpkins albums. In fact i wouldnt even say that it was a bad album per se, just that when it's compared to what came before it really stands out as the litter of the runt.

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The band Wheat.
First two albums are fantastic but the most recent is awful. Its called something like per second. Got it on import for about £20. Avoid it.

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hmmm songs for the deaf at least hung on to the quirk and rea moody depth that qotsa once had in spades, new one is....altogether meh, no quirk no fun, just dull really. disagree bout the idlewild ones tho, fair enough theyv lost that sorta buzzing punky energy (tho 100 broken windows is my fave) but there are good songs in there, i thot warnings/promises was dire at first but after multiple listens u find urself singin along

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Thanks - i love the first two albums and was thinking of buying this but now i'll get something else i reckon!

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Coda - Led Zep.

But they did have about 6 crackin' albums prior to this one, so they can be excused.


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This sounds really naff, but none of Green Day's albums have disappointed me EVER! I still listen to all of them with as much vigour as I did when I was first getting into them.

I guess the first Reef album doesnt float my boat, but I love all the rest. And I get bored of Manics' "Know your Enemy" about 5 songs before the end. The beginning songs are good though.

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End Hits by Fugazi.
It's their least best album but is still better than so much else.

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Green S/T Album by weezer

UltraGash

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*Groans with frustration at the hatred of green album*

It is far superior to Blue.

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*Hugs fullerov for being so very right. Apart from Say It Ain't So, which is the best song ever*

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"Anthem" by Less Than Jake. What the hell was that all about?

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"Anthem" by Less Than Jake. What the hell was that all about?

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sorry but green is arse. Island in the sun is THE worst weezer song by a light year in my opinion, I fucking hate it. whereas blue has say it aint so AND my name is jonas. tunes of the highest order, I'm one of the few who actually like Maladroit though so I dunno, maybe I have odd/bad taste.

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I second Green Album by Weezer.

Also - Middle Class Revolt/Marshall Suite by the Fall.

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a third for green being "not all that"

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I really like Green, 30 minutes of pure radio-pop sweetness. Sure it isn't like the older stuff, but I love it for what it is. Even if the guitar solos do follow the vocal melody in EVERY song!

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I admit that Green ain't up to the standards of the others (even Maladroit!) but it is still a good, clean fun half an hour.

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Even if you think it is a good album that still does not detract from the fact that it may well be the worst Weezer album.

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I think its the second best.

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Never Let Me Down - Bowie
Welcome To The Monkey House - Dandy Warhols

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Grockle is spot-on:

"the self titled lp the Beach Boys recorded in 1985 with Culture Clubs producer, Steve Levine. Awful....at least the crappy songs could have been disguised by a nice eccentric Brian Wilson synth/snare drum production like '77's 'Beach Boys Love You'."

That record hurts me deep inside.

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Let it Be - Beatles... thats if I'm not allowed to say Yellow Submarine!

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The Top - The Cure
Radiation - Marillion
A New Morning - Suede

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I like The Top. It's Wish by the Cure that I'd wish would go away.

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For me it's bloodflowers !
And your right, The top is good.
But Wish is OK.

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Manics - This is My Truth Tell me Yours. Although Know your enemy is by all accounts worse, I don't own a copy so I can't really judge.

Idlewild - Warnings/promises. Not actively bad or anything, just nothing has stood out as being particularly good on the album. should give it another chance though.

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Now had New Order not released a follow up to Get Ready I would have said "Get Ready".

The new album is so laughably bad I smashed it into pieces the night I bought it.

They should go fucking hang themselves.

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ooooooooooo controversial

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'Four Calendar Café' by Cocteau Twins. 'Tis boring.

Although good call to whoever said 'Never Let Me Down' by Bowie....

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Little Kix - Mansun
Head Music - Suede
Pablo Honey - Radiohead

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ermmmmmm.

to the 5 boroughs - Beastie Boys, bar Check it out and time to build. very very average and dull compared to any of their other albums.

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The Second Coming