Ten out of Ten Albums

[eamo]

Here's a few of mine:

• Pixies: Surfer Rosa
  REM: Automatic for the People
  REM: Out of Time
  The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
  The Wedding Present: Seamonsters
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Good Son (probably my favourite ever)
  Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: I see a Darkness
  La Bradford: Mi Media Naranja
  The Divine Comedy: Promenade
  Julian Cope: Jehovahkill
  Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
  
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[whyohwhy]

• Radiohead: The Bends
  
• Radiohead: Ok Computer
  
• Led Zeppelin: IV
  
• Jeff Buckley: Grace
  
• The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
  
• Prodigy: Fat of the Land
  

[lyonsee]

Damien Rice - O
Alanis Morrissette - Jagged Little Pill
Queen - Greatest Hits I and II
U2 - Joshua Tree
U2 - Unforgettable Fire
U2 - Rattle and Hum

Eamo, you told me yesterday that Arcade Fire was the best album you've heard this millenium - was its ommission an oversight?

[lyonsee]

whyohwhy said:

• Radiohead: The Bends
  
• Radiohead: Ok Computer
  
• Led Zeppelin: IV
  
• Jeff Buckley: Grace
  
• The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
  
• Prodigy: Fat of the Land
  

Prodigy - Fat of the Land gets 10 out of 10 for me too.

[eamo]

Arcade Fire is the best album I have heard so far this Millenium but I haven't heard any ten out of tens so far yet this Millenium, so I guess its an ommission. Firestarter by the Prodigy was the best single of the Nineties after Paranoid Android (both shook music to its core), but both hold up the respective album where they can be found i.e. The Fat of the Land and OK Computer. My point is that without them both albums are ordinary (OK Computer has the awesome Lucky but that came from the War Child album)

[lyonsee]

eamo said:

Arcade Fire is the best album I have heard so far this Millenium but I haven't heard any ten out of tens so far yet this Millenium, so I guess its an ommission. Firestarter by the Prodigy was the best single of the Nineties after Paranoid Android (both shook music to its core), but both hold up the respective album where they can be found i.e. The Fat of the Land and OK Computer. My point is that without them both albums are ordinary (OK Computer has the awesome Lucky but that came from the War Child album)

Firestarter isn't anywhere near the best song on that album.

[whyohwhy]

eamo said:

Arcade Fire is the best album I have heard so far this Millenium but I haven't heard any ten out of tens so far yet this Millenium, so I guess its an ommission. Firestarter by the Prodigy was the best single of the Nineties after Paranoid Android (both shook music to its core), but both hold up the respective album where they can be found i.e. The Fat of the Land and OK Computer. My point is that without them both albums are ordinary (OK Computer has the awesome Lucky but that came from the War Child album)

Wrong Wrong Wrong

Those albums are not held up by one song!

Karma Police; savage song (personally my favourite from album), No Surprises; great song. Let Down; great song. It's irrevelant that Lucky was first on the war child album, it was released as an OK Computer track.

Smack my B*tch up is a great tune as are Narayan and Breathe.

Havn't heard the whole Arcade Fire album to comment

[lyonsee]

whyohwhy said:

eamo said:

Arcade Fire is the best album I have heard so far this Millenium but I haven't heard any ten out of tens so far yet this Millenium, so I guess its an ommission. Firestarter by the Prodigy was the best single of the Nineties after Paranoid Android (both shook music to its core), but both hold up the respective album where they can be found i.e. The Fat of the Land and OK Computer. My point is that without them both albums are ordinary (OK Computer has the awesome Lucky but that came from the War Child album)

Wrong Wrong Wrong

Those albums are not held up by one song!


Smack my B*tch up is a great tune as are Narayan and Breathe.

Just about every tune on that album is class. Firestarter is probably my least favourite on the album.

[whyohwhy]

• Johnny Cash: American IV: A Man Comes Around
  

P.s. On 2fm last night, that he recorded another album just before he died, due to be released on July 4th

[eamo]

I was just running through OK Computer's songs in my head and I admit I was very harsh. It is a very good album, possibly even a nine out of ten in my opinion. For me No Surprises is the weakest song on there. The Bends is overrated however... I rather the later Radiohead stuff like Idioteque from Kid A, The Pyramid Song, I Might be Wrong from Amnesiac and There There and Myxamatosis from Hail to the Thief...

[whyohwhy]

eamo said:

I was just running through OK Computer's songs in my head and I admit I was very harsh. It is a very good album, possibly even a nine out of ten in my opinion. For me No Surprises is the weakest song on there. The Bends is overrated however... I rather the later Radiohead stuff like Idioteque from Kid A, The Pyramid Song, I Might be Wrong from Amnesiac and There There and Myxamatosis from Hail to the Thief...

True, it takes a good few listens for Kid A and Amnesiac, to grow on you as on first few listens, they come across as a mess.

There, There - savage when they play it live, just immense

[iamthelaw]

eamo said:

Here's a few of mine:

• Pixies: Surfer Rosa
  REM: Automatic for the People
  REM: Out of Time
  The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
  The Wedding Present: Seamonsters
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Good Son (probably my favourite ever)
  Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: I see a Darkness
  La Bradford: Mi Media Naranja
  The Divine Comedy: Promenade
  Julian Cope: Jehovahkill
  Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
  
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Excellent call on Promenade.

Yes to Dylan too, also Blonde on Blonde (10/10 for the images conjured up by the title too)

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
U2 - Achtung Baby
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Tom Waits - Closing Time

[eamo]

iamthelaw said:

eamo said:

Here's a few of mine:

• Pixies: Surfer Rosa
  REM: Automatic for the People
  REM: Out of Time
  The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
  The Wedding Present: Seamonsters
  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: The Good Son (probably my favourite ever)
  Bonnie 'Prince' Billy: I see a Darkness
  La Bradford: Mi Media Naranja
  The Divine Comedy: Promenade
  Julian Cope: Jehovahkill
  Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited
  
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Excellent call on Promenade.

Yes to Dylan too, also Blonde on Blonde (10/10 for the images conjured up by the title too)

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
U2 - Achtung Baby
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Leonard Cohen
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Tom Waits - Closing Time

Can I say how chuffed I am to see Promenade getting the credit it deserves.

Got into jazz big time over the last 2 years or so. I should have included Coltrane's masterpiece. I do however think that Davis has done better than Kind of Blue, particularly In A Silent Way - incredible stuff. Keith Jarrett's Koln concert is another masterpiece.

I forgot The Velvet Underground and Nico - up there with The Good Son in terms of all time favourites.

Innervisons by Stevie Wonder is quite awesome as well

What about 'It takes Takes a Lot to Laugh, It takes a Train to Cry' for a song title? What a song it is as well! Dylan at his blooming best...

[pagey]

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska, Tunnel of Love, The Rising, Devils N' Dust, We Shall Overcome.
Westlife - Coast to Coast
The Wolfe Tones - Spirit of a Nation
The Fureys - Alchoholidays
Counting Crows - Hard Candy
Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illiusion II
Rod Stewart - Reasons to Believe

[therock67]

Finally getting to post on this one:

• U2 - Joshua Tree
  
• Bright Eyes - Digital Ash in a Digital Urn
  
• Eire Og - Live at the Barrowlands
  
• Dubliners - 25 Years A Celebration
  
• Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
  
• Damien Dempsey - Seize the Day
  

[humbug]

The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Morrissey - Bona Drag
The Clash - London Calling

[eamo]

humbug said:

The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Morrissey - Bona Drag
The Clash - London Calling

Another one that springs to mind:

Morrissey: Vauxhall and I

I read a review for Morrissey's new album in the Day and Night Supplement in the Irish Independent. The reviewer basically said in the first paragraph that Morrrisey is having a creative rebirth after You are the Quarry, after a barren nineties. What a gobsh1te. Vauxall and I is one of the albums of the nineties. You are the Quarry is overrated. He only said that because Moz is doing interviews now for the first time and is 'cool to like' at the moment.

[lyonsee]

Eamo, you are extremely close-minded when it comes to music which pisses me off. Music is about what it does for the listener so for you to spout that some guy is a gobsh1te for not liking/rating one album and saying that the other is fantastic is utter tripe. You're entitled to your opinion (although you state it as though it is fact) but so is he.

[iamthelaw]

Eamo, that karma is flying down! A few crowd-pleasing comments required or who knows what you'll come back as in the next life.

[therock67]

lyonsee said:

Eamo, you are extremely close-minded when it comes to music which pisses me off. Music is about what it does for the listener so for you to spout that some guy is a gobsh1te for not liking/rating one album and saying that the other is fantastic is utter tripe. You're entitled to your opinion (although you state it as though it is fact) but so is he.

To be fair to Eamo (and I'm not often fair to the lad) is the reviewer not doing the same thing? Expressing an opinion and stating it as fact. I often find reviewers in newpapers irritating because too often they pass off their own opinions as gospel.

[lyonsee]

admin said:

lyonsee said:

Eamo, you are extremely close-minded when it comes to music which pisses me off. Music is about what it does for the listener so for you to spout that some guy is a gobsh1te for not liking/rating one album and saying that the other is fantastic is utter tripe. You're entitled to your opinion (although you state it as though it is fact) but so is he.

To be fair to Eamo (and I'm not often fair to the lad) is the reviewer not doing the same thing? Expressing an opinion and stating it as fact. I often find reviewers in newpapers irritating because too often they pass off their own opinions as gospel.

Yup, that was kinda my point although not exactly expressed clearly by me. Eamo is doing exactly as the reviewer is, and Eamo's criticising him fo it.

[eamo]

The point of that piece was to ridicule the reviewer. I was not trying to impose my opinion on anyone. If it came across that way then I apologise. Beauty is the in the eye of the beholder and all that.

My point is that this 'reviewer' came on and gave his 'expert' opinion on Morrissey's new album. Any Morrissey fans out there will concur with me (I have had this discussion with quite a few and they all hold the same view), that Vauxhall and I is a good album, good enough at least to discount any notion of the barren nineties. But what this guy did was give an uninformed opinion. He probably heard the last album, realised that he has been in the public eye only now since he left the Smiths, therefore everything he did in the nineties is rubbish.

And we are supposed to listen to him..... as a Morrissey fan I am insulted by that

[humbug]

Eamo, you are spot on irt Vauxhall and I. The new album is amazing. It's too early for me to say that it is a 10 out of 10 but it is well worth a listen...with the exception of song 2 (can't remember the name of it) which I find a too vulgar in the lyrics for my taste.

[bandage]

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Radiohead - The Bends and OK Computer
Whipping Boy - Heartworm
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots
Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On A Hill
Bright Eyes - I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise!

Nearly but not quite - my 9/10s:
Bloc Party - Bloc Party
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Bell X1 - Music In Mouth
Damien Rice - O
Antony and the Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now

That's all I can think of now. I reserve the right to add and/or subtract from my list.

[eamo]

Auditing was getting me down today and then I stuck on 'Users' by Whipping Boy and now I can take over the world.