jason from volo wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:16 pm

brownreasontolive wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:08 pm Pavement, "Watery Domestic" - I hear lots of folks say Slanted is their best, or even their only good album, which is insane. This follow-up smokes.
If somebody says they don't like Pavement, this 4 track EP is my conversion tactic.

++ on the shout-out to this disc, though not quite sure if I'd call it a "bastard child" album as it was released while they were at what I consider to be their peak. Three of the four tracks are amongst their best (apologies to the Linden Lions).

TEXAS NEVER WHISPERS!

To me it's definitely a bastard child.
My logic being that fans of Slanted and Carrot Rope alike seem to over look it, and it's release was still a few years ahead of Cut Your Hair hitting anyone's ears.

But for my taste, Crooked/Wowee Zowee is peak Pavement, so YMMV!

brownreasontolive wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 2:08 pm
Smashing Pumpkins, "Pisces Iscariot" - I guess it's a compilation or whatever, but as far as double albums go, I much prefer it to "Mellon Collie ".

I love the variety of material on this album, I used to play it all the time when I was in high school. 'Hello Kitty Kat' is one of their best, rip-roaring songs.

wot wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 8:29 pm
Pere Ubu's St. Arkansas is easily one of my favorite things they ever did.

Yes indeed, on of my favorites. I listen to latter day PU more than the classic early records, which I also love, I just find many of the post Ray Gun Suitcase albums more interesting.

Everything Spoon recorded before they landed on Merge. I dislike everything that came after. Maybe it's different now, but back in the late US-90s people didn't like Spoon much. Merge ruined them. They should have stayed with a major label. That's not something often said.

A while back I went to see Jim DeRogatis and his Flaming Lips cover band, The Satellite Hearts, do a one-off at his book release party for Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips. It was ok. Afterwards I asked why they didn't play any early material. He called me a fanboy and said nobody wants to hear "Shaved Gorilla." I do. I want to hear a Flaming Lips tribute band play "Shaved Gorilla."

The Flaming Lips - Telepathic Surgery is my submission to this thread. It's a beautiful, fucked-up, noisy mess of a record that nobody wants to hear, especially now, and it's amazing.

enframed wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:49 pm Everything Spoon recorded before they landed on Merge. I dislike everything that came after. Maybe it's different now, but back in the late US-90s people didn't like Spoon much. Merge ruined them. They should have stayed with a major label. That's not something often said.

This trashes like 5 of my favorite records, but to each their own.

Maybe those first couple kind of are bastards though. They're talked about much less and I can't remember listening to them.

kicker_of_elves wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 12:51 pm

motorbike guy wrote: Wed May 12, 2021 6:27 am

My entry in this list:

Its just a great record. I find myself listening to this more than all my other Placemats records.

Have you listened to Dead Man's Pop? It's on my should-check-out list, but I'm having a hard time building up the gumption to listen to a remastered album that was originally marginal. Pleased To Meet Me was the best post-Bob record the Mats put out, everything else was just Paul solo album material. I totally own my bias, I think Stink and Sorry Ma...are both masterpieces.

My entry: Voivod-RRROOOAAARRR. The musicianship is solid and the songs are engaging, but the production really takes it out at the knees. It sounds like they were recording inside of a culvert.

RÖARRRRRRRRR is fuckin' awesome. It's their most virulent record. Not exactly an album, but Coda by Led Zeppelin has "Wearing and Tearing," which might be their best song.

My hand is raised in support of Drama, 0+2=1, Dead Letter Office, Into The Unknown, New Picnic Time and the muthafukin' Monkeywrench. And Fingerprint File,

Still not a big fan of Don't Tell A Soul but I saw the Placemats on that tour at the Aragon and they were bitchin'.

I really like Down by The Jesus Lizard. Obviously not as brutal as their previous albums but nevertheless full of great music.

3 Way Tie (For Last) is an anomaly in the Minutemen's catalog but it was the first record of theirs I bought. I kind of worked my way backwards through the rest of their stuff.

Soundtracks by Can is sandwiched between two classics but contains 14 1/2 glorious minutes of Mother Sky and the sublime She Brings The Rain.

enframed wrote: Wed Aug 18, 2021 6:49 pm Everything Spoon recorded before they landed on Merge. I dislike everything that came after. Maybe it's different now, but back in the late US-90s people didn't like Spoon much. Merge ruined them. They should have stayed with a major label. That's not something often said.

A Series Of Sneaks (on Elektra) was the first thing I ever heard from Spoon and I bought it immediately. I still listen to it often. I tried a few that came later but gave up over a decade ago. That album is awesome. I don't know what happened to them.

I enjoy Nico's Cale produced harmonium albums, but I've been really into Drama Of Exile.

I don't think I've ever said this out loud before, but I've always preferred Aladdin Sane to Ziggy Stardust.

Breeders' Title TK rules.

I love American Stars N' Bars.

The Kinks' Percy has some filler, but also some INCREDIBLE songs.

wot wrote: Thu May 13, 2021 8:29 pm At this point everyone knows Weezer's Pinkerton and Jawbreaker's Dear You are great albums, right?

No. Weezer is terrible. It was good when I was a teenager, and I had fond memories, but I heard Pinkerton a few years ago and I realized it was just as bad as all their other shit.