this thread is for "LOOOKEE ME IM'A diffrunt"
I got Harvest, Harvest moon and after the goldrush by Neil Young and so far have only really been able to get into Harvest Moon, despite everyone else saying the other two are better. Though I suppose they're all meant to be good so whatever.
And I think Acrobatic Tenement is at the drive in's best album.
the great escape by blur
widely derided; not in our house
this
i like all of them though.
The Great Escape -
a wonderful album. Fo' Sho', Jo' Fo'.
The Great Escape -
a wonderful album. Fo' Sho', Jo' Fo'.
+1
ACROBATIC TENEMENT!!!????
It sounds like it was recorded in a shoebox!
Yeah.
It's brilliant.
all the niel you mentioned are superb
but After the Gold Rush and Harvest are better that H-Moon.
*neil
/
Yeah
that was my point.
For me it is the appalling opinion that Mr Beast
is the best Mogwai album. That was until I listned to CODY and EP+6. Now I know how foolish I was.
hmm i get the idea
but i'm gonna be difficult, a lot of the time.. if i have a favourite band/artist, i'm going to generaly enjoy more than one album of this performer, hence everything but their best wouldn't be.. if you see what i mean.
thus; Neon Bible.
Antics
I was listening to this the other day and decided it might just be my favourite. Everyone loves the Turn On The Bright Lights obviously, and the most recent was reviewed in the main as a 'return to form' if I remember rightly, why no love for this? Some really wonderful work and probably at their strongest lyrically too, I feel.
Yes, Antics.
not my fav
but i like make believe - weezer... well some of it
For ages
I thought "Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Peasant" was Belle and Sebastian's best album. I was wrong, though it does still have my favourite B&S song on it.
I also think "Let It Come Down" is the best thing Jason Pierce has ever put his name to.
Almost agree with you on Fold Your Hands there:
Not my favourite B&S album by any means, but it's a lot better than received opinion holds. If anything, it's only real problem is that it tries to do too much: the shift from The Wrong Girl to The Chalet Lines is baffiling to this day. Some of my favourite B&S songs come from that album: The Model, There's Too Much Love, Don't Leave The Light On, Waiting For The Moon To Rise and, of course, the mighty I Fought In A War...Nice Day For A Sulk isn't much cop though, I will admit.
On a similar note, I've always been pretty fond of Winchester Cathedral by Clinic. Again, certainly not their best album, but it still stands up quite well: Falstaff is, for my money, the definitive Clinic ballad - pisses all over Distortions.
I love a lot of the songs on Fold Your Hands
But it just doesn't work as an album. Same can be said for Boy with the Arab STrap, to some extent.
I even like Nice Day for a Sulk, but Beyond the Sunrise is surely the shittest thing they've ever put their name to.
I once made a tape with the best songs from Fold Your Hands, Boy with the Arab Strap and Storytelling on it. It was fucking brilliant.
Pure Phase all the way
It's my favourite Spiritualized album, and miles away from Ladies and Gentlemen, Let it Come Down, and the rest.
I Am Not Afraid Of You And I Will Beat Your Ass
Yo La Tengo
beck
midnite vultures
i love it
This is my favourite Beck record too.
I METCHOO...AT JAY-CEE-PENNAYYYYYY
I THINK YER NAMETAAAAG...SAID JENNAYYYYYY
just listening to this...
...its my favourite Beck record too. Sounds like Prince which is probably why i like it so much.
this is the correct opinion
of all proper people
+1
The Rising Tide - Sunny Day Real Estate
Everyone hates it. Except me. One of my favourite albums.
Yes...
...I agree ^
That was supposed...
...to be under Yo La Tengo! Fool!
"Through The Past Darkly"
somehow this greatest hits Stones record is my favorite one of theirs.
Razor's Edge by AC/DC
I listen to that one the most
Jesus and Mary Chain
'Psychocandy' is, by common consent, their best - but 'Honey's Dead' has better songs on it. Pyschocandy is more groundbreaking and really shook things up when it came out by Honey's Dead is the one I'd take to a desert island.
"Black Market Clash"
my fav clash
"Anything"
my favorite Damned
Aural Sculpture
my favorite Stranglers
I could go on like this all day
I generally like the mutts
'Wish'
is as good as 'Disintegration' in my book.
i agree.
Any album that has a song like 'To Wish Impossible Things' is fine by me
Faith
Is my favourite cure album, way better than pornography or disintegration.
I'd actually rate 17 seconds above Faith or Pornography
Worlds Apart by Trail of Dead
Washing Machine by Sonic Youth
midnite vultures
I COULD STEP YO YOU
WITH A FRESH PACK GUM
Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever (as mentioned on another thread by someone)
Led Zep 1
Neil Young - Greendale
mine
Beck - Sea Change
Futureheads - News & Tributes
Placebo
Meds
is an absolutely fantastic album.
Teenage Fanclub - Grand Prix
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Pavement - Brighten the Corners
Blur - Think Tank
Elbow - Cast of Thousands
Jetplane Landing - Zero for Conduct
the
TF, SY and P suggestions are hardly silly.
Well no
but they're not 'commonly regarded as their best' either are they?
That's be:
Bandwagonesque
Daydream Nation
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
srsly
don't know how anyone puts Bandwagonesque in front of Songs From Northern Britain or Grand Prix
or how Daydream Nation gets put ahead of Sonic Nurse
I thought Grand Prix
was generally considered their best?
I thought Bandwagonesque was?
Touche.
In any case, it's a fantastic album.
True, they both are!
13
I really like and that is rarely considered one of TFC best
Descendents
i prefer Everything Sucks (perfect) to Milo Goes to College (almost perfect)
me too
I prefer Everything Sucks.
Led Zep
III
yes
yes yes yes
aye!
deffo
This Is Hardcore
I realised I had 6 of its songs on my favourite tracks playlist.
Its great.
RATM
Battle of Los Angeles. At the time, not loved. But I still liked it.
Dude, clearly their least good album
'Evil Empire' though, while much-derided, is killer
This /\
Is pretty much what i was going to say. I love the other two albums but keep going back to Evil Empire.
flowers of romance.
i liked worlds apart
by ..trail fo dead that others had a problem with
teenage fanclub grand prix..like someone mentions below
blue jesus lizard
Fullerov
Bloc Party: A Weekend In The City
Afghan Whigs: 1965
Bright Eyes: Digital Ash...
Elliott Smith: From A Basement...
a few...
i much prefer howdy! and grand prix by teenage fanclub to bandwagonesque.
agree with they person who preferred honeys dead to pyschocandy
and black sheep boy is my least favourite okkervil river album despite it being generally considered buy critics to be their best. i much prefer all the other ones, black sheep boy has a few songs on it that i get a little bit bored by.
although i love
SFNB, Grand Prix and Bandwagonesque, i find Howdy! really lacking in tuneage.
i prefer Darklands to Pyschocandy as well.
R.E.M - Up
THE best REM album.
Also Maladroit by Weezer is OK.
^up seconded
not the best r.e.m. album, but a very fine one indeed and nowhere near as bad as ANYONE would have you believe.
REM wise
would go for New Adventures in Hi Fi.
all the way for me.
Pulp - We Love Life
I must have listened to that more than any other album ever, not sure why, but it's glorious.
It also had the added bonus of getting me into Scott Walker (he produced it, I decided to find out who he was, realised he was my favourite thing ever).
Also, another vote for Let It Come Down by Spiritualized. I saw them on that tour, got down the front, and now I'm half deaf in my left ear.
Also, I find Be Here Now strangely listenable, when the mood takes me.
Ben Folds Five- 1st album
over 'Whatever and Ever Amen' any day of the week. It seems that people favour it for some reason.
Whatever and Ever Amen
is my favourite album ever. The debut is merely in my top ten.
Rockin' the Suburbs
is Ben Folds career highlight, in my opinion. Is that controversial?
We Love Life
is incredible. Definitely the best Pulp album.
I'm with you on Be Here Now
the only Oasis album I find at all listenable.
Kingsize by Boo Radleys
Monumental record. When will they reform? Come on Carr, get your arse in gear!
Also Strangeways by The Smiths. Much more varied than either Meat is murder or the Queen is Dead, and with better songwriting too (and no Some Girls Are BiggerThan Others).
^^^^^^
(regarding the Boo Radleys)
They really should reform for a bit.
i love
Takk by Sigur Ros. OK, hoppipolla is completly overused by the bbc but the rest of the album is 10/10 in my opinion
Pablo Honey- Radiohead
Only joking.
yeah I love takk
really don't understand why everyone hates it... Oh wait, I COMPLETELY understand why people hate it, and you've said it already.
surely
Takk is a perfect record?
no
( ) is a perfect record
....
but overall Takk is a 9.9. its just very annoying for every scene of natural beauty on a bbc program to use hoppipolla. I know this really shouldn't take anything away from the album but it does.
I think I prefer Takk to ( ),
The first four songs from ( ) are amazing, but the darker last 4 songs aren't my cup of tea so much.
Whereas I like all the songs from Takk. I agree that BBC have overplayed that one song off the album though.
Have you seen Heima? The performance where they do the last song from Takk is stunning.
takk
is better, but only becasue Saeglpur is a perfect perfect PERFECT song.
A Northern Soul
is by far the best Verve record.
Beck - Sea Change
Mogwai - Come on Die Young
i vote for.....
radiohead - hail to the thief. it's probably got the best opening and closing songs on an album ever. my favourite after kid a.
honorable mention to fold your hands child and let it come down, 'cos they were mentioned already.
The Bends
is better than OK Computer.A far more exciting record but the slow songs give it the right mixture.
In Rainbows better than Kid A
then; Kid A, HTTT, Amnesiac, OK Computer, The Bends
Nu Clear Sounds - Ash
Everyone hates it but I quite like it!
^their best album by a mile
^ Yes
I din't like the one after, or 1977 particularly.
Although the best Ash album is the singles collection.
adrenaline
has always been my favourite deftones album