Can a 'Volume 2' ever be any good?
Posted by stimpy on 12 October 2008 - 5:09pm.
A comment I just made to a different thread got me thinking; can any album with the words 'Volume 2' or 'Part 2' in the title ever be any good?
- Bat Out Of Hell 2
- Tubular Bells 2
- ELP's Works Volume 2
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Yes, sometimes
Jackson Browne's Solo Acoustic Volume 2 springs to mind.
I guess
The Complete Stax/Volt Soul Singles Volume 2 isn't what you meant. Apart from that Josh Rouse Bedroom Classics Volume 2.
The Travelling Wilbury's Volume 2
takes some beating.
Very Good!
It's kinda 'ambient'
You mean Volume 3?
There was no Vol 2 (Nurse! The rib repair kit!)
Often, I'd say
Tubular Bells 2 basically led me to my current career (creating and messing with audio and music), so I quite liked that. It does sound a bit early-90s now though. That said, the original sounds quite 70s.
Tubular Bells 3 shouldn't really have been called that in my opinion, but it may have been a marketing move given that Mike Oldfield albums tend to sell better when they are called Tubular Bells.
Rufus Wainwright's Want One and Two go together well, and the first three albums by the Afro Celt Sound System went by Volumes 1-3 (as well as having proper titles too). The same could go for Peter Gabriel's first four albums. Also excellent is Aphex Twin's second volume of Selected Ambient Works, although it's probably the kind of thing you need to be in the mood for.
I'm not sure about Oxygene 7-13 though. Or the third disc of stuff on the re-released Blade Runner soundtrack.
Peter Gabriel's first 4 albums...
...didn't have titles (on original UK release, anyway).
I guess you could make an argument that the title was 'Peter Gabriel' in each case - but they definitely weren't 'Volume 2', 'Volume 3' etc.
Issue 4
That's true, but he's been quoted as saying that he didn't give them titles them because he saw them as consecutive issues - like a magazine - rather than as individual works. So it's really close to being volumes.
Led...
Zeppelin II.
Tin Machine II?
I'll get me coat.
Never as bad as...
...part 3!!
UB40
...Labour Of Love II....no!!!!!!!!!!
Scott
2,3 & 4?
Reasons to be cheerful?
I never heard parts 1 and 2, so can't comment.
Cortex...
Volume 2. Though I don't think there was a Volume 1.
I'll venture
Tindersticks II
Apple Venus volume 2 (aka "Wasp Star")
from the mighty XTC. it's a cracker.
Biscuitbiscuit.......
Don't raise your voice, this will be likely a career limiting question for me, but with the concurrent thread about BareNakedLadies, is there anything in the fact that I think I don't don't like XTC as much as I feel I should either? Are they the "same" thing?
'Tis just a co-incidence, I reckon
They are entirely, but entirely, different.
Thing is, there are always going to be some groups that just don't do it for you and it's probably not worth forcing it. I bet there's enough music that you do genuinely love to keep you busy! Personally, I'd love to *get* Neil Young and Van Morrison, but neither of them have ever set me on fire.
To go off on a tangent, I don't enjoy eating fish. I'm aware it's my loss, and millions of people love the stuff, but I just don't enjoy it and that's that.
Having given you a strange fish analogy, if you're still interested, I'll put together a "very best of, promise no annoying singles" XTC / BNL playlist for you, with absolutely no offence taken if they still don't float your boat.
Ooooo...
...that's fighting talk. Post it here so all us XTC/BNL-heads can rip it apart
I will, I will...
...but you might have to wait a bit (I've gone into labour... no better way of killing the waiting time than pootling about on here!)
Crikey
Go girl, etc.
I've gone and come back...
Baby Bickie arrived safely. She's very cute. I prob won't be posting so frequently for a while though...!
Heartiest congratulations
(from us all, I'm sure). I'd just asked for a progress report on the XTC thread and then saw the above.
Ditto
Congratulations from all at The Word.
Thanks for all your good wishes!
...now, if anyone can arrange me a good night's sleep I'll be delighted ;-)
Just be thankful
it's not twins...
You're telling me...
My hubbie has younger twin sisters, so I was a bit worried...!
I asked them to double, triple check at the ultrasound that there was only one bubs in there...
"Huntley and Palmers make 'em......
....like biscuits out of beans"
Never understood that, but congratulations anyhow.