One Great Album Wonders

[Frankenhooker]

get out of where? it's no boho bedwetter my Dad was a projectionist on Hancocks Half Hour so i've got airtime and a social circle with some instruments somewhere and a life viewpoint based on that. i'll grant you that.

Not sure what this means, but it hasn't changed the fact that Hard-Fi were average at best.

[Frankenhooker]

Leftfield - Leftism

Good call this.

[thegreatelephant]

Why the long nose?

this is not a jew thing again is it?

[thegreatelephant]

yeah, because Rhythm and Stealth is shite. righto.

[alles ist gut]

(peeks head above parapet)

 

 

Gomez

[cochyn]

You all know that there have been albums released after 2004, right?

 

Unless we've all realised that all albums released after 2004 have been universally shite.

[General Dryness]

(peeks head above parapet)

 

 

Gomez

Rep owing. I love their first album and parts of their second.

[PestiRed]

You all know that there have been albums released after 2004, right?

 

Unless we've all realised that all albums released after 2004 have been universally shite.

Yep but we all still believe that Justin Bieber, Robin Thicke and Rebecca Black will produce second great albums soon and disqualify themselves from the thread

[Bjornebye]

this is not a jew thing again is it?

Obviously not

[TheHowieLama]

Montrose

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

The Fratellis - Costello Music

 

They're currently touring it as a 10th anniversary thing.  You really shouldn't be so artistically spent so early.  (You should at least be rehashing the same ideas and pretending they're new, like Oasis.)

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

 

Followed by a long career of trying to recapture some of the same.

[cloggypop]

The first Neutral Milk Hotel album was alright to be fair but hardly anyone heard it then or since. The second one was fantastic. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wabrnt1MVVQ

[cloggypop]

The Stairs - Mexican R&B was boss. Great Scouse album. Shame they only made the one.

[thegreatelephant]

 

went a bundle on this and was soundtrack to my first trip to Amsterdam, which was the first time i'd been on a plane. 

[Remmie]

Controversial opinion as no one likes them on here but Parachutes was a great album I thought.

 

Most of what followed was pretty boring

[Remmie]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers nearly qualify as there is 1 great album if you add up the best of Californication & By the way.

 

Aside from under the bridge, I don't rate their earlier stuff.

[Carvalho Diablo]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers nearly qualify as there is 1 great album if you add up the best of Californication & By the way.

 

Aside from under the bridge, I don't rate their earlier stuff.

Chili Peppers remind me of Foo Fighters in so far that their albums are all patchy as fuck but with a scattering of great songs here and there.

[Bjornebye]

The Strokes.

[Boss]

The Libertines - Up the Bracket - Far better than their second record. 

 

The Modern Lovers - self titled - Classic one album wonder before Jonathan Richman went solo

 

The Vines - Highly Evolved - Never replicated the energy of that record again

 

The Von Bondies - Pawn Shoppe Heart - Disbanded and then became shit

[manwiththestick]

Took me a while to get into but I quite liked Vision Valley by The Vines. Obviously not as good as Highly Evolved.

[General Dryness]

Controversial opinion as no one likes them on here but Parachutes was a great album I thought.

 

Most of what followed was pretty boring

I think Rush Of Blood is a brilliant album. The singles are massively overplayed, but as a whole it's a fantastic piece of work.

[General Dryness]

The Strokes.

Reptilia is a fucking ace track, but other than that I agree.

[Remmie]

I liked Room in Fire but I don't think it was well received by critics

[cloggypop]

I just asked my mate who writes for the Quietus and Louder Than War and a few other things this question and he was shite. Marquee Moon by Television was his best effort which is obviously correct but nothing new.

 

To be fair he was steaming but he usually is before he puts the reviews in.