Entertainment For Lively Minds
The One Good Album/ Achtung Loser
Posted by goatboyuk69 on 7 August 2010 - 6:04am.
I'm interested in the one good album which made you stick wirh a band through ever increasig levels of dissapointment.
We've all been there. A band you didn't care that much for somwhow delivered an unikely masterpiece. So you bought their next album. It was shite. Then you bought their next album. It was shite. So you bought their next album unable to believe that your youthful self sucumbed to the hype over the album you loved. It was shite as well.
And then, somewhere in your 40's you look back ruefuly on the con trick that was played on you.
What was the amazing record that tied you to a life of dissapointing sequels? Or De Niro Syndrome as I'm calling it from now on.
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And then
at an advanced age when you were more intersted in the funeral insurance adverts during Countdown than Rachael Rileys arse you heard that the band had released an album which was a "return to form".
You bought it.
It was shite.
Sorry...
...but I shall never be so preoccupied by the inevitable that the funeral insurance ads take precedence in my attentions over Miss Riley's divine derriere (wipes away drool...)
From the bench, Lord Justice Parker asked
Who is Rachel Riley?
Your honour, if I may...
http://www.mywebjpg.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache8dc7b_ra...
The interweb doesn't know either
"Page not found" - is Rachel Riley an actual person or not? We should be told.
Is this your idea of humour,
Mr Pintman?
Perhaps after a night in the cells for Contempt, I wonder if we might still see you laughing in the morning?
One from the bottom....
I believe this is the machine they use to calculate Mr Hepworth's and Mr Ellen's per-hour earnings.
Cor.. A thing of wonder
Like a pair of Cox's pippins in a handkerchief..
I hope the per-hour machine is priced in guineas.
Profound apologies, m'lud.
Neither humour or contempt were intended. I'm pleading incomptence. May I refer your honour to the post above?
The Fiery Furnaces
had one brilliant SINGLE - Tropical Iceland. The album version of it was rubbish and the rest of the album had a few promising tracks but was underwhelming as a whole. Same with the next album. The next album was next to unlistenable (it literally had one of their grandmas talking all over it). The album after that I only listened to once. I managed to stop after that. What was I thinking..?
Actually as they're avant garde/proggy they might grow on me a bit. They're in the "cellar" of my record collection to be opened in 15 years time, when I'll have the time to "put the effort in". Or not.
Couldn't agree less...
I always found Tropical Ice Land to be one of their least interesting songs. Both Blueberry Boat and Bitter Tea are incredible albums, although I'll agree with you on the subject of Rehearsing My Choir (the one with the grandma).
As evidence I present this gem from their odds and sods collection EP. A pretty perfect pop song...
REM - Murmur
Am I the winner?
N
o.
Close
I have 13 REM CDs plus the the Chronic Town EP and the first four IRS albums on vinyl. I've tried sooo hard to enjoy REM in the 90s and 2000s. I've put them on the ipod and hope to be pleasantly surprised, but never am. The only ones I really enjoy are the first half dozen Green was the beginning of the end. Every successive album (including Automatic) has been less and less interesting. Why I kept buying them I'll never know. Ditto Bowie. So not just the one great album, but lots of purchasing regrets nevertheless
REM for me.
Document is the album.
Unimpressed up until then, loved Document, thought Green was OK, OOT was a bit commercial, AFTP was exactly that, Monster got listened to about twice, NAIHF (was that next?) I tried to like and then gave up buying any more of their stuff.
I'm not having that
Reckoning was just as good .... downhill after that, mind
Disagreed.
Here is a list of completely wonderful R.E.M. albums:
Murmur
Reckoning
Dead Letter Office
Fables of the Reconstruction
Lifes Rich Pageant
Document
Green
Out Of Time
Automatic For The People
Monster
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Up
Other than that, I don't think they're much cop. ;-)
You've just described....
....Pearl Jam's back catalogue. Nothing of any use after "10".
Except maybe bits of "Vitalogy".
Spot on
although I'd add the bizarre cover of the Cavaliers 'Last Kiss' that they released as a single. A good, old-fashioned car-crash dead-girlfriend ballad.
Again, not QUITE having that.
Vs. is my favourite Pearl Jam album, and Yield was a genuine return to form.
I think there's something to cherish in every album up to and including Yield. Snoozefest thereafter though.
How about .....
How about Dexys Midnight Runners ??
Wrongity-wrong
It's all good.
I was a teenage Marillion fan..
bought the first few 12" singles and then got Script For A Jester's Tear. Giddy with excitement at articles in Kerrang and Sounds and the first few live gigs I saw. Stuck with 'em through ever increasing dissappointment with album after album, until 33 gig later, I decided to jump ship at the same time Fish did. I cringe now when I hear one of the early tracks that held me in such rapture. Those lyrics....oh dear.
Arctic Monkeys
I really liked the first album, but the law of diminishing marginal returns set in from the second album (which I bought on the first day of release, natch) onwards. Guess I need to keep buying them for 20 more years to feel truly robbed though!
I'm the opposite
I didn't like the first Arctic Monkeys record, the production on it is awful and I found a few of the songs quite grating ("scummy man..." "mardy bum..." etc). However, Brianstorm made me give them another chance and I think the more recent two are great.
Frank Black solo albums
Why do i buy them? Occasionally there's the odd tune to step out of the shadows of his old band but since his 2nd solo effort he's just produced lots of dreary pup rock.
I quite liked the
Honeycomb detour into alt country territory but yes otherwise, much diminishing of return
They're quite a good
series of records really. But have to admit I don't play 'em much. The Fank Back Francis album of radical reworks of Pixies tunes is brilliant though.
A serial apologist writes...
I seem to be doing a lot of defending here. Anyway, the first two Frank Black albums are great, most of the Catholics output is gorgeous, and there's even a few winners on The Cult Of Ray. Not many, though.
He's a godsend, is Mr. Thompson.
Which is worse?
A teenage Marillion Fan or a teenage mutant ninja turtle?
I was the same with Genesis - Foxtrot was a magnificent album but for me they never made its equal again. Flashes yes but a whole album? No.
Obviously its..
Oasis
Yes..
But how many albums after the one after Deffo Mayhaps did you buy, just hoping..?
I've only got the first two.
loss of sense...
...and how many, like me, ignored Be Here Now on the basis that the lead single had no melody but were foolishly tempted into buying the loathesome Standing on the Shoulder of Giants by its lead single (which was the ONLY good thing on the album)
Be Here Now.
I still contend that Be Here Now is up there with the best Oasis records.
Sure, there's only a handful of good songs, but it's the production that I love - that colossal, insane, overblown, kitchen-sink of a production where there was always room for just one more guitar overdub and you could hear the bugle in every note.
Bit of an iffy mid-period
Bit of an iffy mid-period, but the last 2 albums are really good. They're the only ones I ever play now, sick to death of the first two.
Throwing Muses Loved The
Throwing Muses
Loved The Real Ramona but no other album I've subsequently heard of theirs could match it. Although if anyone thinks I am being harsh on the 4AD outfit I am still open to persuasion.
A little harsh.
I would mostly agree, but "University" is a fabulous record.
Mine is a gig rather than an album. The band is Mogwai
god love 'em. Their gig at the Roadhouse in Manchester in the early days when they still had Brendan O'Hare as vibesmaster/percussionist, is probably still one of the greatest live shows I have ever witnessed. It was like listening to a supernova exploding..or something.
But they have still yet to translate that to an album...maybe because you can't turn the album up loud enough. Maybe I need to get a bigger hi fi.
Blur
I heard bits of "Leisure" and "Modern Life..." but was rather underwhelmed, although "Modern Life..." has some really good songs on it. Then along came "Parklife" which was terrific. There's been some great songs and moments since then but, for me, no album has held it together as a 'sit-down-and-listen-right-through'album since then.
Nah '13'
is the one for me.
Although after that their career didn't have much more distance left to run
Counting Crows
I kept buying their stuff for a few albums after the sublime "August And Everything After". Christ. I wish I hadn't.
Well....
...I like "This Desert Life", in particular "Mrs. Potters Lullaby".
'August' was an unbelievable debut
but I find I listen to 'Recovering The Satellites' more these days. 'A Long December' is a lovely track
Agreed
I stopped after that though, for no real reason. I did buy Hard Candy in Fopp for a fiver a few years later. It went back after a couple of plays. No good.
The first four
I really like all those three already mentioned and the fourth one, Hard Candy.
The Strokes –
- while albums 2 and 3 had some brilliant singles, the album tracks were way below par. That said I’ll probably still get number 4 as those singles were pretty fantastic.