Which one do you prefer?
I think this one's going to be pretty even.

I'm going SAF because I love "Tiny, King of the Jews". It has that same cold atmosphere that I love about A Gilded Eternity by Loop.

Fucking is the stronger record, but 'Passing Complexion' is probably my favorite BB song.

penningtron wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:17 pm Fucking is the stronger record, but 'Passing Complexion' is probably my favorite BB song.

I'd go with this.

A_Man_Who_Tries wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 3:01 pm

penningtron wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:17 pm Fucking is the stronger record, but 'Passing Complexion' is probably my favorite BB song.

I'd go with this.

It was the first BB track I ever heard, it blew my mind--I'd never heard anything like it.

I like Atomizer just a tad more.

Atomizer by a half-dozen exploded heads here, mainly for the first side. 'Kerosene' and 'Fists of Love' are the best songs on the best album.

Fucking - it has this fractured attitude that I love. It’s like they had this idea, spent years refining it, waited until it had crystallised, then shot it so that it exploded, but pressed record just as it was expanding outwards. You can still see the form, but its topography is hurtling away from itself

Atomizer, as long as side 1 and side 2 are swapped. “Fists Of Love” is a great opening track. I always thought the sides were wrong.

Krev wrote: Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:11 pm I'm going SAF because I love "Tiny, King of the Jews". It has that same cold atmosphere that I love about A Gilded Eternity by Loop.

That song is one of the most cathartic songs ever and it comes out of now where in contrast to the preceding tracks.

SAF easily, it's a throughly relentless experience and the atmosphere of pure loathing and aggression carries the weaker material across the line. 'Fish Fry' and 'L Dopa' are particularly deranged.

The strong material on Atomizer is as good as anything they did, but it's more inconsistent, quality-wise, and sonically it's still a bit (just a tiny bit) in thrall to their English influences. Where as SAF is a much more fully realised, truly americanised beast.