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El Barto
= Song DB Master =
USA
4020 Posts |
 Posted - 05/26/2004 : 22:37:56
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Boycott cults and t's |
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faulkndj
- FB Fan -
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Posted - 05/27/2004 : 01:30:52
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obviously this is virtually impossible, so i will list the five albums that i would choose right now... which changes weekly
pixies-bossanova (while doolittle is hailed as the masterpiece, no cd I have ever heard elicites as much emotion than this one)
modest mouse- lonesome crowded west. (I am a big fan of these guys and all of their albums are worth having, but this one takes the cake)
a tribe called quest-midnight marauders. (the best "rap" cd ever made)
pavement-brighten the corners
fb-teenager of the year/frank black tie..
of course I love all the pixies and fb solo and catholics, I just wanted to pick a few different |
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jediroller
* Dog in the Sand *
France
1718 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 05:23:40
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This is trop beaucoup difficult.
I'll play anyway.
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses
FB&tCs - Dog in the Sand
Robert Wyatt - Shleep
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Vic Chesnutt - West of Rome
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Everything I say to you is gonna come out wrong anyway |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 10:25:04
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Originally posted by bedrock_barney
The Chameleons - Script of the bridge
 "I've rejoined the Cult of Ming / Star of favourite childhood movie of 1980"
Aaah!!! From my home town of Middleton!!!
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
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Homers_pet_monkey
= Official forum monkey =
United Kingdom
17125 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 10:27:20
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Originally posted by Frog in the Sand
OK Cheeseman, if you really wanna know...
(in alphabetical order)
The Amps - Pacer
Beck - One Foot in the Grave, Mellow Gold
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix, Higher Power
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year, Dog in the Sand
Goran Bregovic, Iggy Pop - 'Arizona Dream' soundtrack
Johnny Cash - American Recordings I-IV
The Clash - London Calling, Sandinista
Lisa Gerrard - Duality
Ben Harper - Fight For Your Mind
Kat Onoma - Stock Phrases, Billy the Kid
D. Robbins, E. Vedder, N.F. Ali Khan, Ry Cooder, V.M. Bhatt - 'Dead Man Walking', The Score
Elliott Smith - XO, Figure 8
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead, Rank
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, Rain Dogs
The Walkabouts - Satisfied Mind
Neil Young - Comes A Time, Old Ways, Freedom, Ragged Glory, Mirrorball
Don't hate me please...
 "Welcome back to the 10th grade!"
That's the worst counting to 5 I have ever witnessed!!!
Hansel and Gretel have formed a band, .....And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Breadcrumbs!!! |
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 11:54:06
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Groop Dogdrill - Every Six Seconds
Radiohead - OK Computer
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Low - Things We Lost In The Fire
Therapy? - Troublegum
Great to see there is another Therapy? fan on the forum cheese! I would have a difficult time picking between Troublegum and Infernal Love.
Anyways my Top 5 (for today at least, and not in any particular order)
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Godfodder
Porno For Pyros - Good God's Urge
They Might Be Giants - Flood
Do dyslexic-insomniac-agnostics stay up all night wondering if there really is a dog? |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 12:01:01
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Yeah, I struggled with the same dilemma, shine! Such good albums.
Hmm, I may have to dig some out...
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shineoftheever
> Teenager of the Year <
Canada
4307 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 12:03:17
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Remind me to tell you a great Therapy? story when I have more time to write.
Do dyslexic-insomniac-agnostics stay up all night wondering if there really is a dog? |
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VoVat
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
USA
9168 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 14:34:53
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For now, I'll say:
XTC - Skylarking
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Moxy Früvous - Bargainville
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
Pixies - Bossanova
That's certainly subject to change, though.
Cattle in Korea / They can really moo. |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 14:40:39
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For all those who posted that they are likely to change, I'll mention my rules again: feel free. Just edit the original post rather than reposting the whole lot. At some point in the future I'll notify you of a deadline and let you fight it out.
Just out of interest, has anybody ever heard Groop Dogdrill, who are on my list? They were around a couple of years ago, but never made it very big. I'd just be interested to see if anyone else likes them.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1887 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 15:57:01
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Got bored and added pictures to my list.
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WolfManMikeLonely
= Cult of Ray =
USA
936 Posts |
Posted - 05/27/2004 : 18:01:32
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Ramones - Leave Home
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Johnny Thunders - Play With Fire Live(bootleg)
Pixies - Doolittle
Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
This is the best I can do right now, I can't believe the bands that I couldn't fit into this list.
"Hey fuck you if you don't like it."
-Johnny Thunders
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1965 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 02:11:27
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Weezer - Pinkerton - I must have listened to this record from start to finish at least 50 times when I was 16. The words of Rivers Cuomo were like the Bible for me at the time. And now that I listen to the lyrics 8 years later, they seem to mean entirely different things.
Pixies - Doolittle - While Bossanova was the record that I first really listened to (I bought Surfer Rosa at the same time and it took a lot longer for me to fully appreciate that... I think today was the first time I REALLY got into it), Doolittle stands as the strongest Pixies album overall, the one that I seem to reach for the most, though Come On Pilgrim really is a close runner-up.
Beatles - White Album - I almost want to say that the American version of Rubber Soul is my favorite (even though Nowhere Man isn't on it, the US version has an earthier sound and better flow than the UK version), but the White Album just has so much range and so many fantastic songs. There's no discernable theme, but it all flows flawlessly despite the twists and turns. I enjoy every song. Hell, I even like Revolution 9, I used to listen to that over and over when I was 14.
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - I think Pavement is a great band, and Malkmus is my guitar idol, but I still have never been completely blown away by EVERY single song on a Pavement record. There's usually a few songs that I can never get into and usually just skip, and I'm not a big track skipper with bands that I really like. It usually tends to be songs towards the ends of their records that I don't dig all that much. Crooked Rain wins as my favorite Pavement record because it only has one song, Heaven is a Truck, that I don't care for. I didn't really like Fillmore Jive for a long time, but now I've come to understand it and like it. But Hit the Plane Down is one of the best Spiral Stairs songs ever, I just love the groove to it, it's very much like the Fall. And Stop Breathing is possibly the greatest Pavement song of all-time, and definitely the best outro of all-time for any song. I feel odd having the first half of this commentary on the album saying something negative, but I'm not really being bashing the band in any way. I just have noticed that there's a few songs on each album that I don't really get into, but I love the majority of their material. Pavement and the Pixies are the two bands that I've gotten into in the last few years that really got me excited again about both listening to music and playing music.
Ween - The Pod - It's really hard for me to pick one Ween record as my favorite. I had to sit and really think about it, but in the end the dark murkiness of the Pod wins out over the oceanic 3/4 seachanty of the Mollusk, the playful brightness and funk of Chocolate and Cheese, and the mythical, somewhat-ethereal new record quebec. The Pod is just Ween at their most raw. The guitars don't sound properly tuned on many songs, the drums are all programmed (as is most of the bass), the vocals range from high and soulful to sludgy and lazy, there's songs about ordering Mexican food, captains named Fantasy, pork rolls, making awesome sounds, a girl named Molly, having mononucleosis. The record is produced in the a primitive format, and there's mistakes galore throughout the record, but they don't really sound like mistakes to me anymore. It all just sounds like a masterpiece. Everything falls in all the right places, and there are very few records out there which compare to this one when it comes to experiencing it while stoned. The only track I don't care for is She Fucks Me, but a much greater live version is out there on the Paintin' the Town Brown disc, so I even can like the crappy version here since if it weren't for that there would be no live She Fucks Me. So, as Biggie would say, it's all good, baby BABY!
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1887 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 17:07:46
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Originally posted by WolfManMikeLonely
Richard Hell and the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Great choice!
Had 'New Pleasure' going through my head at work today.
quote:
Originally posted by TarTar
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain - And Stop Breathing is possibly the greatest Pavement song of all-time, and definitely the best outro of all-time for any song.
That is a great outro.
...but I think 'Range Life' is sort-of their tippy-top track.
To me, Malkmus' songs never came across as being very, um, emotional. 'Range Life' seemed somehow sincere.
"out on my skateboard the night is just hummin'
and the gum smacks are the pulse i'll follow if my walkman fades
but i've got absolutely no one, no one but myself to blame
don't worry- we're in no hurry"
Somehow that still give me goosebumps. (OMG. It's been ten years since this album came out?!?!?)
*Shka-pow! |
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tiredeyes
- FB Fan -
USA
69 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 19:02:26
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1.ry cooder ..... into the purple valley
2.nrbq .... tiddly winks
3.larry norman .... something new under the son
4.frank black .... black letter days
5.starflyer 59 .... everybody makes mistakes |
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mun chien andalusia
= Quote Accumulator =
Italy
2139 Posts |
Posted - 05/28/2004 : 20:30:44
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These in one way or another changed my life. In no particular order
1)Dead Kennedys : Plastic Surgery Disasters
2)Pixies : Bossanova
3)Mwra Sth Fwtia : S/T
4)Cure : 17 Seconds
5)Dire Straits : Making Movies
 join the cult of errol\and you can have a beer\without having to quit smoking
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2004 : 05:53:42
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
For all those who posted that they are likely to change, I'll mention my rules again: feel free. Just edit the original post rather than reposting the whole lot. At some point in the future I'll notify you of a deadline and let you fight it out.
Just out of interest, has anybody ever heard Groop Dogdrill, who are on my list? They were around a couple of years ago, but never made it very big. I'd just be interested to see if anyone else likes them.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev"
Never heard of Groop Dogdrill before. I've ordered a few cd's from Amazon after going through this thread. I'm waiting for Groop Dogdrill, Jen Trynin, Bettie Serveert, Godspeed and Dirty three.
A few excellent albums have been mentioned here, I am not changing my list but I can understand how these albums could make a top 5.
Liz Phair - Exile, Neil Young - Ragged Glory, Pavement - Crooked Rain, Low - Things we have lost, Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Radiohead - OK Computer, Pixies - Trompe, REM - New Adventures, Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones, FB - TOTY, Elliot Smith - XO, Sonic Youth - Evol, The Smiths - The Queen is dead, Leonard Cohen - New skin, Blondie - Paralel lines
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2004 : 08:26:19
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You'll love Godspeed I think, and if you like a bit of The Rock, you should enjoy Groop Dogdrill. Which album did you get? Every Six Seconds? Good man.
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offerw
* Dog in the Sand *
South Africa
1264 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2004 : 08:35:12
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Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
You'll love Godspeed I think, and if you like a bit of The Rock, you should enjoy Groop Dogdrill. Which album did you get? Every Six Seconds? Good man.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev"
Yep, I ordered Every Six Seconds. I'm looking forward to it, the bits I heard on Amazon sound like it should be good. Amazon is just damn slow with dispatching, I've ordered on Tuesday and they've still not dispatched.
Have you heard the album Low and Dirty Three has done together. I forget the title now but I've ordered that on impulse too.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/29/2004 : 08:39:59
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Hve not, but it sounds like it might be pretty good.
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 14:01:50
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2. Guided By Voices - Earthquake Glue (any album with "The Best of Jill Hives" HAS to be recognized)
3. Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (Ineffably miraculous exemplary of genius)
4. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (for those who don't respect this album: I challenge you to write a song as good "Peaches en Regalia"; what a riff)
5. Radiohead - OK Computer (I can't even comprehend how much work it took to construct a monolith like this)
Ron Carter's Pastels was close, Ramones are a great band to whom one album does not do justice, an album by The Residents was also very very close, and NUMBER ONE ON THE LIST I left absent; I'll have to wait until Smile comes out. I like the songs on bootleg versions of Smile slightly better than those of Pet Sounds. |
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1887 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 16:13:10
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Originally posted by IceCream
an album by The Residents was also very very close
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No one really ever agrees with me on this, but I love GOD IN THREE PERSONS.
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 16:29:13
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| Apparently, allmusic agrees with you. They gave the album FIVE stars (which they don't distribute very generously) |
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1887 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 16:47:37
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Oh.
Vindicated.
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mattkendall
- FB Fan -
USA
52 Posts |
Posted - 05/30/2004 : 19:04:04
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"And when you get blue and you've lost all your dreams, there's nothin' like a campfire and a can full of beans." |
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2004 : 01:57:00
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Which Ween and Kinks records are those? I can't quite see them, and I'll need to tot 'em up later on...
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
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klikger
= Cult of Ray =
693 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2004 : 02:20:35
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1. Radiohead - OK Computer
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
4. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
5. Frank Black & the Catholics - Black Letter Days
The Frank and Pixies albums are always changing though. Sometimes its Bossanova or Trompe le Monde and Dog in the Sand. |
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ObfuscateByWill
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1887 Posts |
Posted - 05/31/2004 : 14:09:38
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quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Which Ween and Kinks records are those? I can't quite see them, and I'll need to tot 'em up later on...
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev"
Ween: Chocolate and Cheese
Kinks: Arthur - Or The Rise And Fall Of The British Empire
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2004 : 15:18:08
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Gracious molto. Or something.
Anyone else? C'mon, 2 pages? You call that a comprehensive poll?
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev" |
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Brackish Girl
~ Soul Eater ~
Ireland
1750 Posts |
Posted - 06/01/2004 : 16:30:51
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Originally posted by klikger
4. Built to Spill - There's Nothing Wrong With Love
The Frank and Pixies albums are always changing though. Sometimes its Bossanova or Trompe le Monde and Dog in the Sand.
oh i like that song 'big dipper'. oh don't know much else of bts's stuff, but a couple of my friends love 'em and gave me a few songs on a copied cd.
and i agree with the changing of pixies and frank faves, its just hard cos they both changes styles so much and so often they all hold different moods or whatever.
as for my list, this definitely isn't definite, cos i haven't even heard all the albums i want to hear yet. and then i've more to discover after that...and this is my favourites right now.
1. shins- 'chutes too narrow'
it's just a really good bunch of songs, and james mercer is a really good lyricist.
2. Guided by voices- mag earwig
first album of theirs i got into
3.Smiths-' the very best of...'
kinda cheating but i only really got them in the past couple of weeks, even though i owned 'louder then bombs' for ages. but i could never get into it, til i heard morrissey on jools holland doing 'irish blood english heart' 'first in the gang to die' and ' there is a light that never goes out. morrissey's new album is really good too. and the beta band's new one!! this list sucks.
4. pixies- 'surfer rosa'
at present.
5. frank black- 'devil's workshop'
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1965 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 14:32:50
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You should've listened to a different Frank Black album last. As far as I'm concerned, Devil's Workshop is one of his weakest records. But hell, it's still not bad. Take all the best songs from most modern radio bands, add them up, and they still couldn't score as high as San Antonio, Texas or His Kingly Cave do on my list. I just don't really care for the latter half of the record all that much, and it's far too short to be priced the same as Black Letter Days.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
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TarTar
* Dog in the Sand *
1965 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 17:48:58
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Fuck! I listened to it earlier, after I made that post, and goddamn, it's a kickass record. While I listened to it quite a bit after it's release, I mostly focused on the first half. The second half never quite grabbed me. But now that I listen back and remember these songs, it's struck me how kickass the record really is. Okay, I withdraw my earlier comment about it being one of the weaker FB albums.
"You gotta watch the mota, Thurston. Yr fuckin memory just goes out the window." |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 06/03/2004 : 21:26:32
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I'm happy that you like it now, TarTar. I mean, you're entitled to have not liked it, but I'm entitled to personally like it when I agree with someone.
DW is my favourite album he did with the Catholics. |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 06/05/2004 : 20:45:46
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quote:
Originally posted by Cheeseman1000
Gracious molto. Or something.
Anyone else? C'mon, 2 pages? You call that a comprehensive poll?
"Everywhere I go I want to travel by Maglev"
No, I don't, but I have a premonition we won't hear from too many others. |
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fudd
= Cult of Ray =
664 Posts |
Posted - 06/05/2004 : 22:17:17
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Pixies - Surfer Rosa - we all know what an aural onslaught this is
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona - yeah, I know she says she didn't like the whole major label/studio/production thing, but dammit it sure came out sounding good
Violent Femmes - debut - alternates with Hallowed Ground depending on how suicidal I'm feeling, but let's go with the debut
The Sonics - Here Are The Sonics - struggling with what to say here - they are STILL ahead of their time (or our time, or something like that) - if you are not clued in to this just go buy it already and find out where it really all began
Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear - Elfman said Oingo Boingo wasn't punk, but it was; and with a horn section; too genius for words |
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Official FB.net Albums Poll
