Perfect Albums

[daveyjones]

3 minutes ago, Speedo said:

I often wish I could. I never was a drug person

i hear you. i'm being funny. i haven't smoked pot in like 15 years.

[Speedo]

Just now, daveyjones said:

i hear you. i'm being funny. i haven't smoked pot in like 15 years.

Oh, I know!

Fun story: The CBD shop gave me a joint that has no THC in it to try 'cause I was having trouble sleeping. I decided to draw a bath and relax and smoke it in there. It made me cough so hard I threw up all over myself and the bath water.

[Locean Breeze - Jan]

4 hours ago, prankerd14 said:

Linkin park - hybrid theory 

Whoops, totally forgot about LP.  Perfect albums indeed but have to go with Meteora, a little bit more defined.

[Kay]

1 hour ago, Speedo said:

Oh, I know!

Fun story: The CBD shop gave me a joint that has no THC in it to try 'cause I was having trouble sleeping. I decided to draw a bath and relax and smoke it in there. It made me cough so hard I threw up all over myself and the bath water.

Now that's hot! 

[twentytwenty]

2 hours ago, daveyjones said:

i can't imagine creedence comparing to the discography of a group like R.E.M. their greatest hits barely fills a single CD, and half those songs aren't really good anyway. the beach boys were popular in the early years, sure. pet sounds is brian's masterpiece. the rest of the sixties are really hit or miss. their seventies output is more dreadful than listenable. holland? jesus.

if you read polls of music journalists, worldwide, R.E.M. consistently ranks one or two, up with bands like radiohead.

We’ll have to agree to disagree on all of those statements haha! 
love me some R.E.M though, The Great Beyond is my favorite of theirs, that pre chorus is so damn amazingly good

[daveyjones]

27 minutes ago, twentytwenty said:

The Great Beyond is my favorite of theirs

this well describes the difference in our outlooks. that track is R.E.M. exceedingly past their prime. i don't know how old you are, but you do know that R.E.M. pretty much single-handedly created the genre of college rock in the united states, which lead to the entire alternative genre? in ethos, they were pretty much a punk band all throughout the 1980s. kurt cobain worshipped them:

"I don't know how that band [R.E.M.] does what they do," Cobain said in a 1994 Rolling Stone magazine interview. "God, they're the greatest. They've dealt with their success like saints, and they keep delivering great music."

http://www.mtv.com/news/1671211/r-e-m-michael-stipe-nirvana-kurt-cobain/

check out the IRS albums (1983–1987) if you want to see what the band is all about. by the time of "losing my religion" etc that era was gone (and era that i myself sadly missed).

[daveyjones]

On 6/16/2020 at 3:45 PM, daveyjones said:

man there are way more than ten... ask me tomorrow and the list will be different.
i can't rank either. in order of band's founding:

at least for @Kay and @Patient #48273 i need to amend to add both 

ani difranco - out of range

tori amos - little earthquakes

to my list. those albums are flawless.
 

[Kay]

1 minute ago, daveyjones said:

at least for @Kay and @Patient #48273 i need to amend to add both 

ani difranco - out of range

tori amos - little earthquakes

to my list. those albums are flawless.
 

Your gayer than me then because Ani wouldn't be on my perfect record list

[daveyjones]

Just now, Kay said:

Your gayer than me then because Ani wouldn't be on my perfect record list

 i believe the qualifier is an album in which no tracks are skipped, yes?

[Kay]

7 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

 i believe the qualifier is an album in which no tracks are skipped, yes?

Yeah which is why I wouldn't have her there, I don't love every track on any of her records that I'm familiar with. But tbh that's the case for basically all of my favourite artists. I was mostly just fuckin' with ya. 

[twentytwenty]

18 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

this well describes the difference in our outlooks. that track is R.E.M. exceedingly past their prime. i don't know how old you are, but you do know that R.E.M. pretty much single-handedly created the genre of college rock in the united states, which lead to the entire alternative genre? in ethos, they were pretty much a punk band all throughout the 1980s. kurt cobain worshipped them:

"I don't know how that band [R.E.M.] does what they do," Cobain said in a 1994 Rolling Stone magazine interview. "God, they're the greatest. They've dealt with their success like saints, and they keep delivering great music."

http://www.mtv.com/news/1671211/r-e-m-michael-stipe-nirvana-kurt-cobain/

check out the IRS albums (1983–1987) if you want to see what the band is all about. by the time of "losing my religion" etc that era was gone (and era that i myself sadly missed).

I’m 31, yeah it’s a little different because of the difference of the culture as well. Here’s an example so you get the difference; R.E.M has never been that big here, if you went out on the streets and asked people about Michael Stipe no one would know who it is. Whilst Fogerty is viewed as a living legend, I saw him live only last summer with around 35-40.000 in the crowd. Barely no one know of Pet sounds either lol, if you talk with people about Beach Boys, 9 out of ten would only know of the surf hits. I’m guessing it’s somewhat the same-ish for you as well @thongrider?

But if you could only chose one R.E.M album, which should I give a go? 

 

[daveyjones]

26 minutes ago, twentytwenty said:

R.E.M has never been that big here, if you went out on the streets and asked people about Michael Stipe no one would know who it is. Whilst Fogerty is viewed as a living legend, I saw him live only last summer with around 35-40.000 in the crowd.

wow. i don't know where you live but that's amazing! 40k people for john fogerty? that's fucking amazing (and shocking). yes, the consensus among music writers worldwide is that R.E.M. is up with the beatles, the stones, radiohead etc. and their role in development of american rock music (college, alternative) is MASSIVE.

chronic town / murmurs / fables of the reconstruction are more the indie period.

if you like creedence, lifes rich pageant /document / green are their more traditional rock albums.

out of time is a lovely pop record. automatic for the people is brooding and melancholic, and is often cited as their masterwork (R.E.M.'s pet sounds).

monster is a cheeky take on glam rock. many dislike it. new adventures in hi-fi is a hybrid demo/live/studio album, and the last with their original lineup.

after that it's all downhill.

it's funny that music can be so provincial... i can say that no one i know listens to ABBA and they're one of the biggest bands the world has ever seen. conversely, no one has given a shit about CCR (a band which existed for only four years) or john fogerty in the united states since the 80s. i don't know any american under the age of 45 who even knows who he is.

oh, and here is R.E.M. in germany in 1985 playing "Have You Ever Seen The Rain?" (they were a southern band and loved CCR):

 

[twentytwenty]

7 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

wow. i don't know where you live but that's amazing! 40k people for john fogerty? that's fucking amazing (and shocking). yes, the consensus among music writers worldwide is that R.E.M. is up with the beatles, the stones, radiohead etc. and their role in development of american rock music (college, alternative) is MASSIVE.

chronic town / murmurs / fables of the reconstruction are more the indie period.

if you like creedence, lifes rich pageant /document / green are their more traditional rock albums.

out of time is a lovely pop record. automatic for the people is brooding and melancholic, and is often cited as their masterwork (R.E.M.'s pet sounds).

monster is a cheeky take on glam rock. many dislike it. new adventures in hi-fi is a hybrid demo/live/studio album, and the last with their original lineup.

after that it's all downhill.

it's funny that music can be so provincial... i can say that no one i know listens to ABBA and they're one of the biggest bands the world has ever seen. conversely, no one has given a shit about CCR (a band which existed for only four years) or john fogerty in the united states since the 80s. i don't know any american under the age of 45 who even knows who he is.

I’m gonna check it out tomorrow, I’ll get back to you and let you know what I think.

Haha yeah, it’s amazing of how big of a difference it is. 
 

I thought you knew where I lived, sorry about that,, —> Sweden, and ABBA was damn great

[Kay]

ABBA are amazing and I will defend that to my grave

[daveyjones]

Just now, twentytwenty said:

I thought you knew where I lived, sorry about that,, —> Sweden

nice. i've been to stockholm. if you were the dude who posted moving to ashbury, sorry, i've forgotten! see above for an REM CCR cover.

[daveyjones]

Just now, Kay said:

ABBA are amazing and I will defend that to my grave

i love the "winner takes it all." it's the fleetwood mac thing... they broke up but are still in the band... so they just write singles about it.

[Speedo]

2 hours ago, Kay said:

Now that's hot! 

It's my wife's favorite naughty story.

[twentytwenty]

8 minutes ago, daveyjones said:

nice. i've been to stockholm. if you were the dude who posted moving to ashbury, sorry, i've forgotten! see above for an REM CCR cover.

Yeah that was me, and it’s okay.

The cover was a bit of a mess though lol. Stipe looked like a totally different person back then. One things for sure though is I love his voice, always have. The great beyond was the first song I heard by them and his voice was the thing that got me hooked, and the pre chorus. Damn that pre chorus, it’s so absolutely lovely. Weirdly they’ve always been a band that I liked a couple of songs of, but then never explored more from. So it’s going to be interesting 

[Locean Breeze - Jan]

28 minutes ago, Kay said:

ABBA are amazing and I will defend that to my grave

True pop.  SOS>all

[daveyjones]

27 minutes ago, twentytwenty said:

but then never explored more from. So it’s going to be interesting 

yea those early albums on IRS before they went to warner brothers are all boss. those are their "college rock punk years."