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Rob Instigator 06.18.2007 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by screamingskull
really?, what ones???


Texas never Whispers, Gangsters & Pranksters, Haunt You Down, No Tan Lines, Give It A Day, Father to a Sister of Thought, shot the singer, frontwards, etc.

some guy made a mix CD of B sides

1. Sue Me Jack
2. So Stark (Your a Skyscraper)
3. Texas Never Whispers
4. Frontwards
5. Lions
6. Shoot the Singer
7. Kneeling Bus
8. Strings of Nashville
9. Exit Theory
10. S-4 Vocal
11. Brink of the Clouds
12. False Skorpion
13. Easily Fooled
14. father to a sister of thought
15. kris kraft
16. mussle rock (is a horse in transistion)
17. Give It a Day
18. Gangsters and Pranksters
19. Saganaw
20. Westie Can Drum
21. Winner of The
22. Slowly Typed
23. Cherry Area
24. Wanna Mess You Around
25. No Tan Lines

Danny Himself 06.18.2007 05:19 PM

The only songs I can think that age perfectly are those written by The Violent Femmes.

Savage Clone 06.18.2007 05:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Danny Himself
The only songs I can think that age perfectly are those written by The Violent Femmes.



I guess you're right.
"American Music" was unlistenably bad upon its initial release, and remains so to this day.
Theory=rock solid.

Onani Nic 06.18.2007 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bicorn Halfelven
Sleep's Dopesmoker = all killer, no filler.

I was thinking the same thing when i read this thread.

CHOUT 06.19.2007 12:26 AM

...But you know an album is good when you don't wanna skip the shitty songs.

Torn Curtain 06.19.2007 05:08 AM

I agree with Porkie (David Bowie or Neil Young especially come to my mind).

From the top of my head some masterpieces I may consider having no weak tracks:

The Cure - 17 Seconds / Pornography
The Notwist - Shrink / Neon golden
Talk Talk - The spirit of Eden / Laughing stock
U2 - The Joshua tree
Björk - Homogenic
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
Morrissey - Vauxhall and I
Van Morrison - Astral weeks
The Rolling Stones - Sticky fingers

demonrail666 06.19.2007 05:21 AM

The only double album that might genuinely be described as perfect:

 

sarramkrop 06.19.2007 04:42 PM

Sister hasn't got a single song on it that I don't like.

demonrail666 06.19.2007 04:47 PM

I'd say that about all SY albums to Sister.

With the exception of maybe Bubblegum on Evol. Not that I HATE it exactly.

demonrail666 06.19.2007 04:48 PM

Appetite for Destruction is a perfect album, I always think.

Rob Instigator 06.19.2007 04:55 PM

my top reason for preferring vinyl over CD's is that I am forced to listen to all the songs on the album, which ussually results in me appreciating and enjoying songs which at first listen did not strike me as good.

first impressions are shit

sarramkrop 06.19.2007 04:55 PM

There's not such a thing as a perfect album. Full stop. Unless we're free-forming it into such, goodbye.

Rob Instigator 06.19.2007 04:58 PM

it is all in the eye of the beholder.

perfection can only be defined, in the instance of music, or any art, as a personal choice.

to me Daydream nation is perfect.
The Beatles white album is perfect.
Dinosaur Jr's Green Mind is perfect

sarramkrop 06.19.2007 05:00 PM

you're not perfect.

sarramkrop 06.19.2007 05:09 PM

I knew you were arseholes but.....

demonrail666 06.19.2007 05:21 PM

This is gonna degenerate into the whole 'define greatness' thing again. I can tell.

demonrail666 06.19.2007 05:44 PM

Another 'perfect' double:

 

Rob Instigator 06.19.2007 06:02 PM

sarramkrop is perfect

sarramkrop 06.20.2007 04:48 PM

Sister is a perfect album. One of the few that exist in the rock canon.

Bicorn Halfelven 06.20.2007 05:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
Texas never Whispers, Gangsters & Pranksters, Haunt You Down, No Tan Lines, Give It A Day, Father to a Sister of Thought, shot the singer, frontwards, etc.

some guy made a mix CD of B sides

1. Sue Me Jack
2. So Stark (Your a Skyscraper)
3. Texas Never Whispers
4. Frontwards
5. Lions
6. Shoot the Singer
7. Kneeling Bus
8. Strings of Nashville
9. Exit Theory
10. S-4 Vocal
11. Brink of the Clouds
12. False Skorpion
13. Easily Fooled
14. father to a sister of thought
15. kris kraft
16. mussle rock (is a horse in transistion)
17. Give It a Day
18. Gangsters and Pranksters
19. Saganaw
20. Westie Can Drum
21. Winner of The
22. Slowly Typed
23. Cherry Area
24. Wanna Mess You Around
25. No Tan Lines


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