Fourteen Autumns... contains 50% great songs and 50% songs that are good but not as good as the great ones. The second album sounds like the first one but not as good. The one they released last year is just poor.
Haven't got around to buying the debut yet but No One Can Ever Know is excellent, kind of bounced off it initially last year but it's a real grower, the synths really suit them.
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Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die.
Brilliant first album, second album that tries to hard to match it's joyful quirkiness and fails miserably third album that saps any remaining joy from their repertoire to sound incredibly dull.
Surely you mean half an album there! It has a few great songs and a shed load of filler and for some reason they continued with the filler for their follow ups and ditched the great songs.
So, I'm not a fan to the other albums, YET. Anyway, "We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves" is absolutely fantastic. I don't think it will be surpassed too soon.
but you're not a fan of In Utero? Bleach? Use Your Illusions? Lies? Room on Fire? I just thought that if you liked those bands you'd be pretty keen on some of their other stuff as well.
There's bands that only have one good album, there's bands where only one of their albums click with you, there's bands where records sound totally different to each other.
Maybe I should listen to Vertigo of Bliss again, I hadn't listened to either of them in ages, and then put Infinity Land on and was surprised by how great it was.
I just dig a whole lot. The second LIghtspeed Champions album is barely interesting, has no big pop songs, is devoid of anything gripping, and just generally doesn't have Midnight Surprise on it.
Skeletal Lamping was a so-so album with a few great tracks, but past that album, I find them borderline unlistenable. False Priest was not very enjoyable for me, and I couldn't listen to Paralytic Stalks past the midway point of the second track - and I tried on that one several times.
I've heard their albums previous to that one (Gay Parade, Sunlandic Twins, and Satanic Panic specifically) but nothing ever grabbed me. And Hissing Fauna GRABBED ME, HARD. I ADORE that record. It's probably in my top 20 records ever, which is why it's all the more disappointing that I couldn't care less about the rest of their output.
Love Emergency & I, Change is alright but not great, think the first two are pretty crap (apart from The Ice of Boston which might be my favourite Plan song)
Isn't Anything is just awful and a bit annoying. MBV is just a bit boring to even remember and really patchy/disconected. Loveless is pretty perfect though.
Amazing album whose emotional heft came pretty much out of nowhere considering their first record and promptly dissolved back into nothing special. Although that may have been more to do with problems getting the follow up released.
Wait, Destroyer fans, this is only half true. I like Streethawk/Rubies/Troube in Dreams but the whole jolly-barroom shtick isn't a sound I'm really into. By contrast Kaputt (and the two E.Ps before) is just perfect.
But I don't really see it. I'm not saying they are all he same but really Kaputt stands on its own in most ways. I should add that since getting into Kaputt I have enjoyed his other stuff more as I have really invested in him as a songwriter.
But yeah Kaputt definitely sticks out in terms of vocals - he really switched it up there. Pretty much recorded it all whilst lying down on the sofa or something? haha
that Destroyer fans are a pretty militant bunch when angered. Like that One Direction fan who went ballistic about Harry Styles being voted NME's Villain of the Year.
I still think Open Season deserves some love but their subsequent albums vary from pretty great to decent and just don't quite match Decline which was just more vibrant and unpredictable.
If you love My Maudlin Career so much you should definitely check out Let's Get Out of This Country. I really like Underachievers Please Try Harder but it's quite different stylistically. Yet to hear the first one.
at the drive-in - relationship of command
bilge pump - let me breathe
black rebel - s/t
bright eyes - i'm wide awake
cake - fashion nugget
daft punk - homework
eagles of death metal - peace love death metal
eels - beautiful freak
folk implosion - one part lullaby
franz ferdiand - s/t
fun lovin criminals - come find yourself
hefner - fidelity wars
immortal lee county killers - love is a charm of powerful trouble
les savy fav - cat and cobra
liars - they threw us all...
misfits - legacy of brutality
rapture - out of the races and onto the tracks
six by seven - the way i feel today
sugar - copper blue
thingy - songs about evil...
young knives - voices of animals and men
zutons - whatever happened to the zutons?
'Hounds of Love' is terrific but although there's some great stuff on all of her other albums I'm never that moved to re-listen to them. Especially the one about snowmen.
All went wrong when they got a definite article. Didn't mind a Northern Soul, but even my relative indifference to that was eclipsed by the vomit I can still taste upon hearing Urban Hymns. Preposterous guff.
The Twilight Sad
Fourteen Autumns... contains 50% great songs and 50% songs that are good but not as good as the great ones. The second album sounds like the first one but not as good. The one they released last year is just poor.
Disagree
Haven't got around to buying the debut yet but No One Can Ever Know is excellent, kind of bounced off it initially last year but it's a real grower, the synths really suit them.
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Architecture In Helsinki - In Case We Die.
Brilliant first album, second album that tries to hard to match it's joyful quirkiness and fails miserably third album that saps any remaining joy from their repertoire to sound incredibly dull.
Places Like This is so fucking shit
SO SHIT
completely agree
stock answer:
violent femmes
The xx - xx
How is this even true?
the 2nd album is more of the same and they're both wallpaper
Hot Fuss
Surely you mean half an album there! It has a few great songs and a shed load of filler and for some reason they continued with the filler for their follow ups and ditched the great songs.
When You Were Young
Is a great song
John Maus - We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
:(
Songs and Love is Real are brilliant. Not to mention the rarities collection
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCCpVl06mC0
I listened to a few of his other songs.
So, I'm not a fan to the other albums, YET. Anyway, "We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves" is absolutely fantastic. I don't think it will be surpassed too soon.
It's easily his best album so far
his other ones aren't as smooth around the edges, but there's still some great tunes in there. Very lo-fi at times, but it works really well.
Ash - The Best of Ash
Fair call
Ash albums are all pretty patchy but they had some good sngles. And some irritating ones, like Kung Fu and Oh Yeah.
You don't like Kung Fu and Oh Yeah?
Fair do's and all that but they make my top 5 Ash songs I reckon.
What...but....how...
....the fuck can you not love Kung Fu?????
*Trailer
Intergalactic Sonic 7"s
As even their recent singles aren't up to much.
except Return Of White Rabbit
which is ace
hmmmmm lol it's okay :-)
Madonna - Ray of Light
mostly because it was produced by William Orbit
more a william orbit album maybe!
?? hence only liking that one, is my point.
the songs were good too
Good production without good songs is nothing
Producers in pop/dance actually contribute a lot more to the songwriting than the 'sound'.
Breeders - Last Splash
I love that album. Just couldn't get into Pod or Title TK. I've tried many times.
I'm with you on Title TK, the world moved on
But Pod has got some cracking songs on it and has the same vibe and excellent level of songwriting so I'm surprised. Did you like Belly?
Last Splash is the only one that sounds a bit dated!
Title TK has some of their best stuff on it. And some songs that are a bit duff. And Mountain Battles is all ace.
Agreed
Last Splash is great but sounds most like a 90s alternative album. Mountain Battles is very underrated.
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
The Strokes - Is This It
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Nirvana - Nevermind
Dude, go back and listen to other records by those bands
You might change your mind if you give them a chance.
Dude, read again the title of this topic...
It doesn't mean that I hate the other albums.
Yeah, I clocked the subjectiveness of the title
but you're not a fan of In Utero? Bleach? Use Your Illusions? Lies? Room on Fire? I just thought that if you liked those bands you'd be pretty keen on some of their other stuff as well.
There's bands that only have one good album, there's bands where only one of their albums click with you, there's bands where records sound totally different to each other.
I like some songs from the albums mentioned by you
Biffy Clyro - Infinity Land
Masterpiece. The rest of their albums all have a few very good songs (especially Vertigo Of Bliss) but I don't like them all that much.
you've got that the wrong way wrong bro
Vertigo Of Bliss probably has some songs that are better than anything on Infinity Land
But I've never been able to get into it as an album, sadly.
out of interest which did you hear first?
I like Infinity Land a lot but it has some pure stinkers whereas VoB is all gold
Infinity Land, I think
Maybe I should listen to Vertigo of Bliss again, I hadn't listened to either of them in ages, and then put Infinity Land on and was surprised by how great it was.
Crooked Fingers - Dignity and Shame
One of the greatest albums of all time. Can't even remember the names of any others, let alone any songs.
Red House Painters
which album?
Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
I just dig a whole lot. The second LIghtspeed Champions album is barely interesting, has no big pop songs, is devoid of anything gripping, and just generally doesn't have Midnight Surprise on it.
the first self titled one
Happy Mondays
Primal Scream - Xtrmntr
Actually
I lime banishing point as well
Give 'Vanishing Point' & 'Evil Heat' a try
Screamadelica??
Screamadelica too
Still, Vanishing Point & Evil Heat are closer to XTRMNTR style than Screamadelica.
I don't like any Primal Scream at all
except for Xtrmntr, which is excellent.
Too bad...
Weezer- Blue
Yeah this
Fuck Pinkerton
ban request?
A real admin would have just banned him
and not hidden behind Theo
Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump
Idlewild - The Remote Part
100 Broken Windows
Is phenomenal - try it again!
so is Captain
They haven't put out a bad record.
I reckon they have
Warnings/Promises
*Post Electric Blues
The horrors
Pro art colors
of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
It's this and Satanic Panic for me. The rest are very patchy.
nooo waaay!
give em more time
I've tried to get into their albums since then
Skeletal Lamping was a so-so album with a few great tracks, but past that album, I find them borderline unlistenable. False Priest was not very enjoyable for me, and I couldn't listen to Paralytic Stalks past the midway point of the second track - and I tried on that one several times.
I've heard their albums previous to that one (Gay Parade, Sunlandic Twins, and Satanic Panic specifically) but nothing ever grabbed me. And Hissing Fauna GRABBED ME, HARD. I ADORE that record. It's probably in my top 20 records ever, which is why it's all the more disappointing that I couldn't care less about the rest of their output.
you should probably stop getting your opinions from pitchfork media innit
Appreciated
But fuck off.
False Priest is awesome
I really like False Priest
but loads of people hate it, and I can totally see why, his Prince levels are bursting
The Dismemberment Plan
Love Emergency & I, Change is alright but not great, think the first two are pretty crap (apart from The Ice of Boston which might be my favourite Plan song)
Pretty much agreed, actually
I never cared much to give the others a strong go of it. I REALLY LOVE Emergency & I, though.
Nah
Is Terrified is their best album.
First is the worst by a country mile though.
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Definitely agreed
But for Antics.
Then you don't agree
I agree with the Interpol part.
But you like more then one album :(
Modest Mouse
Moon & Antartica
NO!
sorry
Antarctica
Silent Alarm
Probably a default answer. Their only record where they did more than break even with great to shit songs.
The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Nah, Frances the Mute is even better.
And Bedlam In Goliath is even better than that.
Seriously
Achtung Baby
I feel sorry for you that you can't get into...
War, Boy, October, Under A Blood Red Sky, The Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree.
All of these are great albums and surpass Achtung Baby for me.
Blur - Think Tank
I was ^this but I've discovered 13's not bad as well
Foals - Holy Fire
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Isn't Anything is just awful and a bit annoying. MBV is just a bit boring to even remember and really patchy/disconected. Loveless is pretty perfect though.
Band Of Horses - Cease To Exist
......Begin
I only like their first album
The second one seemed rather bland and never bothered checking out the others.
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
Amazing album whose emotional heft came pretty much out of nowhere considering their first record and promptly dissolved back into nothing special. Although that may have been more to do with problems getting the follow up released.
Amazing album
Can understand why they never really followed it up, I mean where do you go from there?
The one after (whatever it's called depending on the version) frankly is still better
Than most other albums by anyone.
Destroyer - Kaputt
Wait, Destroyer fans, this is only half true. I like Streethawk/Rubies/Troube in Dreams but the whole jolly-barroom shtick isn't a sound I'm really into. By contrast Kaputt (and the two E.Ps before) is just perfect.
Jolly barroom? Shtick?
I do not like this post.
Have you heard Your Blues? Really don't think you can say Destroyer had a shtick he's been pretty adventurous
However
I can appreciate that someone would be into Kaputt and find his other material quite distinct
People always say he jumps about a bit in terms of style
But I don't really see it. I'm not saying they are all he same but really Kaputt stands on its own in most ways. I should add that since getting into Kaputt I have enjoyed his other stuff more as I have really invested in him as a songwriter.
This Night to Your Blues was a huge stylistic shift for example
But yeah Kaputt definitely sticks out in terms of vocals - he really switched it up there. Pretty much recorded it all whilst lying down on the sofa or something? haha
I remember not giving Kaputt a go because it sounded like a metal band doing a metal album
Then I heard it and it reminded me of France 98 on the PS One and all my hesitations evaporated.
I can imagine
that Destroyer fans are a pretty militant bunch when angered. Like that One Direction fan who went ballistic about Harry Styles being voted NME's Villain of the Year.
Hjaltalin - Enter 4
It's absolutely brilliant, but I really don't like what I've heard of their previous albums.
The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out
Maybe it came about at the right time (I was 15/16 and it soundtracked a great summer) but I still enjoy the songs to this day if I hear them.
Badly Drawn Boy - Hour of Bewilderbeast
Elbow - Asleep in the Back
Frightened Rabbit — Midnight Organ Fight
I could probably list lots of others.
Sing The Greys is better though
*controversial*
maybe
I don't care for it, tho.
Wolf Parade — Apologies to the Queen Mary
British Sea Power - The Decline of British Sea Power
Yeah I'll give you that
I still think Open Season deserves some love but their subsequent albums vary from pretty great to decent and just don't quite match Decline which was just more vibrant and unpredictable.
Indeed.
The debut totally blew me away and I expected great things from them, but they've never matched it.
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci
How I Long To Feel That Summer In My Heart
oh hell yeah
although Gorky 5 comes close
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Have absolutely fucking adored this album for the last 4 years and yet I haven't bothered exploring their back catalogue. Worth it?
Yes.
If you love My Maudlin Career so much you should definitely check out Let's Get Out of This Country. I really like Underachievers Please Try Harder but it's quite different stylistically. Yet to hear the first one.
^ Listen to 'Lets Get Out Of The Country'
though I do prefer My Maudling Career
Rogue Wave - Descended Like Vultures
Minus The Bear - Highly Refined Pirates
Parts & Labor - Mapmaker
The Libertines - Up The Bracket
Kasabian - Kasabian
Superb debut
2nd album patchy and they've deteriorated ever since.
Re: the OP and TVOTR
Yes, absolutely. Desperate Youth is about half good, and the rest is cod funk nonsense. Return To Cookie Mountain is a BEAST.
the young liars ep tho
10.0 (even the a cappella pixies cover)
*ESPECIALLY* the a cappella pixies cover
Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley
Almost perfect. Only listen to bits of the other albums
Same here
Filter - Title Of Record
Great album. the others have hi-lights but alot of filler.
Controversial probably, but
Pet Sounds?
Personal choice Mate.
If that's the only album by The Beach Boys you're a fan of, then that's cool.
loads...
at the drive-in - relationship of command
bilge pump - let me breathe
black rebel - s/t
bright eyes - i'm wide awake
cake - fashion nugget
daft punk - homework
eagles of death metal - peace love death metal
eels - beautiful freak
folk implosion - one part lullaby
franz ferdiand - s/t
fun lovin criminals - come find yourself
hefner - fidelity wars
immortal lee county killers - love is a charm of powerful trouble
les savy fav - cat and cobra
liars - they threw us all...
misfits - legacy of brutality
rapture - out of the races and onto the tracks
six by seven - the way i feel today
sugar - copper blue
thingy - songs about evil...
young knives - voices of animals and men
zutons - whatever happened to the zutons?
Agree with Relationship of Command
The only other ATDI song I like is Chanbara.
Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
Blood Bank is good too but the self titled - nope sorry, I really, really tried!
The Morning Benders - Big Echo
Kate Bush
'Hounds of Love' is terrific but although there's some great stuff on all of her other albums I'm never that moved to re-listen to them. Especially the one about snowmen.
Verve - A Storm In Heaven
All went wrong when they got a definite article. Didn't mind a Northern Soul, but even my relative indifference to that was eclipsed by the vomit I can still taste upon hearing Urban Hymns. Preposterous guff.
...eclipsed by the vomit I can still taste upon hearing Urban Hymns
This can't be true. WTH, you don't like (at least a bit), "Bitter Sweet Symphony"? I'm not a The Verve fan, but Urban Hymns is good enough.