This article raised a giggle
http://music.guardian.co.uk/pop/story/0,,2262624,00.html
I actually love Dazzle Ships, stone-cold masterpiece
What is your favourite instance of losing your entire audience in one fail swoop?
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I'm a pretty big fan of
'Vitalogy' by Pearl Jam.
Vitalogy
is a great album!
brilliant album
one of their best actually.
Hi, I'm Neil Young!
So you like my pleasntly idiosyncratic rock/pop do you? Well, sod you, I'm gonna turn up to all my gigs off my head on tequila and sing reeeaaalllly slooowww unreleased songs about the overdose of a friend. Heck, I might even play the same song three or four times.
What? "Critical acclaim?" Damn. Er... ok, have an album of live, shapeless feedback. You still like me?? What's wrong with you?! Ok, fine, you asked for it, here's my techno album. Mwahahahaha!!
Still, at least I didn't have to go the whole right-wing hog and support Reagan...
Dazzle Ships =
arguably the greatest English synth pop album of the 80s.
it is indeed a beautiful piece of work
The Spaghetti Incident
Guns and Roses.
Covers albums are an excellent way to swallow your career, eh?
I've got it on gatefold vinyl
I love it. Lack of historical context made me assume it was some kind of revered synth music text, clearly I was wrong.
in certain circles
it probably is
lets make a circle
where it is
haha
i had no idea about that.
it's their best record too.
'Six'
lost the interest of any mansun fans except for the obsessives
i must be obsessive
i love that album...with tom baker too, before he went anywhere near little britain
Wings At The Speed Of Sound.
Made me become a punk, I was that disgusted with it. And I've never looked back, so thumbs up to Macca.
hahaha
good call
boo
Six & Dazzle Ships FTW
'fell swoop'
.
oops
sorry yes, you got the drift though lol
Bob Mould's attempts to go electronic?
Boo Redley
Surely? world at there feet after Wake Up Boo etc.. then they release Com'n kids
(Com'n kids is my favourite album ever though)
Boo Radleys even
Stupid fat fingers..
should be c'mon too lol
The Sound of Animals Fighting - Lover, The Lord Has Left Us
boy, that was bad
What about...
Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music
Telegraph
is a TUNE.
Terence Trent D'Arby
after having a couple of top ten hits he released "Neither Fish nor Flesh" which was pretty un-commercial to say the least.
Fair play to the man
the smashing pumpkins
become the biggest band in the world, plying your own brand of distorted guitar rock.
lose it all by making a piano-driven, synth-heavy album that the lead singer describes in pre-release press as "arcane night music".
did he really?
what a fucking comedian
yep
i love billy corgan :D
this is hardcore
pulp
bet all the kids bopping away to common people got an awful shock when that one came out
so very true
my favourite pulp album too for sure
Liz Phair - Liz Phair
If you're switching genre from 'guitar welding, male hating bitch'.. make sure the genre you seek success in isn't bubblegum pop. It could end in tears.
They did a survey on the Pulp website
and This Is Hardcore came out on top. It's an absolute masterpiece. Fuck the haterz.
^
damn straight. Great album
Make This Your Own - The Cooper Temple Clause.
That album seemed to loose almost their entire audience, I've hardly listened to them since, even though I liked their earlier stuff. I was really looking forward to that release and it let me down. Big time.
I question my own musical tastes
when I listen to it and find myself enjoying at least half of the album, including songs that I KNOW are shit like Damage and Waiting Game.
I apologise and think that in some way, it is people like me that killed the Coopers.
Don't feel bad.
Your username more than makes up for any harm you have caused. :)
Storytelling
Belle & Sebastian and every subsequent album.
Manic Street Preachers - Know Your Enemy
Even after This Is My Truth... they were still one of the biggest bands in the world at that time. After KYE those number 39 with a bullet chart positions came thick and fast.
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises.
^this
its just rubbish in comparison to the first 2 albums.
i just sold a set
of 12 coopers singles on eBay for £4.65. oh dear.
janes addiction v ice t
the cover of 'dont call me whitey, nigger'.
need to distinguish
between purposefully alienating your fanbase with something that's meant to be artistic and challenging and, er, just making a shit record...
I still can't get over bob dylan with an electric guitar, what a twat..!
eh, lol.
i think
janes addiction was both..
i have not heard this
and i don't think i ever ever ever want to
...
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk to thread.
Dexy's
Don't Stand Me Down - incredible way of losing the '...Eileen at a wedding' crowd
stunning album
and just to make sure he loses any shred of an audience he had left, kevin rowland later turns up in a dress...absolute genius
I had breakfast on the same table as him a couple of months ago
at Pullici's on bethnal green road. He had eggs on toast. I could hardly get my bacon down i was that excited. We talked about steven berkoff and aston villa.