Greatest Album Ever - Group G (Vote for your top 2)

[Total Longo]

12 hours ago, Code said:

Mediocre, not voting. 

It's almost like Code was pulling the exact pose that Mo is pulling on his avatar, when he typed this.

[Total Longo]

11 hours ago, an tha said:

They were - they've been absolute shite for 20 years though.

Don't think Stevie Wonder or Iggy Pop have exactly covered themselves in glory in the latter part of their careers either.

 

Funhouse should have got the nod anyway.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

I'd never listened to Raw Power or SHWC before: the former blew me away and the latter bored and annoyed me.

 

Stooges knock U2 out for my vote. (SITKOL was always going to get one of my votes, because it would be a worthy winner of the whole thing.)

[AngryOfTuebrook]

14 hours ago, Code said:

Mediocre, not voting. 

Imagine flaunting your lack of taste so proudly. 

[johnsusername]

1 hour ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

I'd never listened to Raw Power or SHWC before: the former blew me away and the latter bored and annoyed me.

 

Stooges knock U2 out for my vote. (SITKOL was always going to get one of my votes, because it would be a worthy winner of the whole thing.)

I absolutely love Raw Power, it's a bona fide classic, though not everyone's cup of tea. The first three songs-

 

Search and Destroy

Gimme Danger

Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell

 

...belong in the three great songs run.

 

As for Strangeways, I love that too, always have. I think it's the Smiths at the peak of their powers. Death of a Disco Dancer is peak Smith's. Again though - The Smiths are a very divisive band for people! 

[johnsusername]

3 hours ago, Total Longo said:

Don't think Stevie Wonder or Iggy Pop have exactly covered themselves in glory in the latter part of their careers either.

 

Funhouse should have got the nod anyway.

I dunno - those insurance adverts Iggy Pop did really spoke to me...

[cloggypop]

Iggy is great on Radio 6.

[Total Longo]

Seems an odd stick to beat U2 with, that they have been poor for 20 years, when this is about an album that came out 33 years ago

[AngryOfTuebrook]

10 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Seems an odd stick to beat U2 with, that they have been poor for 20 years, when this is about an album that came out 33 years ago

Yep. It's an albums thread, not a bands thread.

[Jairzinho]

14 minutes ago, Total Longo said:

Seems an odd stick to beat U2 with, that they have been poor for 20 years, when this is about an album that came out 33 years ago

Agreed. 

 

Personally, I think all of their music is shite. However they should be judged on the individual album. 

[Total Longo]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Agreed. 

 

Personally, I think all of their music is shite. However they should be judged on the individual album. 

Which is completely fair enough

[an tha]

5 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Yep. It's an albums thread, not a bands thread.

It is yes, but my comment was in response to a comment made about the band not this album.

 

 

 

 

[cloggypop]

As if most of the blerts on here have actually heard all the albums or will make the effort to listen before voting. 

[SasaS]

25 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

As if most of the blerts on here have actually heard all the albums or will make the effort to listen before voting. 

But if you dislike U2, you are not likely to decide Joshua Tree is a good album after listening to it.

[cloggypop]

1 minute ago, SasaS said:

But if you dislike U2, you are not likely to decide Joshua Tree is a good album after listening to it.

You never know. There might be one person on here that has somehow avoided hearing Joshua Tree and takes a chance on it and gives it a listen. They might end up saying to themselves afterwoods that you know what I've always hated U2 but that wasn't quite as bad as the last 33 years of utter shite. 

[cloggypop]

It's all been worth it for AoT listening to Raw Power anyway. 

[SasaS]

And Rain Dogs.

But he was aware of Iggy or the Stooges and Tom Waits before.

Most of the stuff I gave a go thanks to this tournaments didn't exactly change my mind. What I didn't know and liked was already roughly in the ball park.

 Some I may have been forced to admit is not that horrible, the rest just confirmed it was not for me.

[TheHowieLama]

4 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Most of the stuff I gave a go

Works the other way too - some of the records I thought I really liked (or I used to really like) - now meh.

[SasaS]

14 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Works the other way too - some of the records I thought I really liked (or I used to really like) - now meh.

True.

[Bjornebye]

2 hours ago, cloggypop said:

As if most of the blerts on here have actually heard all the albums or will make the effort to listen before voting. 

Says the second biggest blert commenting on the groups 

[cloggypop]

7 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Says the second biggest blert commenting on the groups 

Why have you only posted one song from each album instead of the whole album?

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, cloggypop said:

Why have you only posted one song from each album instead of the whole album?

Because thats what I wanted to do. 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 hour ago, TheHowieLama said:

Works the other way too - some of the records I thought I really liked (or I used to really like) - now meh.

Dark Side did that for me. I'm sure I used to think it was decent, now (apart from Money & Eclipse) it just left me cold.

[Mook]

1 hour ago, cloggypop said:

You never know. There might be one person on here that has somehow avoided hearing Joshua Tree and takes a chance on it and gives it a listen. They might end up saying to themselves afterwoods that you know what I've always hated U2 but that wasn't quite as bad as the last 46 years of utter shite. 

Sorted that for you.

[Bjornebye]

3 minutes ago, Mook said:

Sorted that for you.

The next group is a bastard