The Perfect Album(s)

[Some Random]

i forgot american idiot, and i just listened to it today. i wouldn't change a thing about that album. i don' know how they can follow that without it not being as good.

[shade]

i forgot american idiot, and i just listened to it today. i wouldn't change a thing about that album. i don' know how they can follow that without it not being as good.

/shoots self

[soundless_space]

Ugh, don't change this into a "let's bash other people's taste in music" thread.

[HoboFactory]

Well shit now... now I've lost respect for a few people here and their terrible choices.

[marx marvelous]

Beth, have you heard the "Ribbons and Sugar" album by Gatsby's American Dream? I'm not a very big fan of the band overall, but I think the songs on that album are a lot more interesting than those on Volcano (disregard my opinions if you've already heard it and have your own.)

[soundless_space]

Yep, I love Ribbons and Sugar. I chose Volcano over that album because it was my first impression of them. Volcano made me go out and listen to everything else they'd done.

 

I definitely agree, though. The songs on Ribbons and Sugar are more interesting. Lyrically and instrumentally.

[marx marvelous]

Ah, okay! In The Land of Lost Monsters was the first I heard of them. I still like it and R&S, but they lost me as a fan as a result of the singer's voice, the absence of anything fresh on their newest release, and their utter incompetence performing live. I can still listen to Why We Fight these days, but it's like hearing a completely different band.

[soundless_space]

Yes his voice can get quite annoying.

 

Why We Fight is completely different than anything else they've done. That was the last of all their albums I listened to and I couldn't believe how different it was. When I need a break from the whiny newer stuff, I listen to that one.

 

As for the "absense of something fresh on their newest release" I know what you mean. My brother was the one who introduced me to the band and he absolutely hates that CD.

[marx marvelous]

Well, Why We Fight had a different drummer, I'm fairly certain. I think that after Ribbons & Sugar, all the members kind of branched out in different directions, which resulted in flashes of brilliance (Speaker for the Dead, Your Only Escape) among some really unmemorable tracks (A Mind Of Metal And Wheels, The Hunter.) I can't really comment on the new album because I can't make myself listen to it, haha.

[soundless_space]

I was going to say we should make a Gatsby's thread, but I think it would just be the two of us in there. ;)

 

I think you're right about the drummer.

 

So then have you not heard the newest release in its entirety? If I can ask, what makes you want to not listen to it?

[marx marvelous]

I've listened to each song twice, but I don't really consider that enough to verbalize detailed feelings about it. Just enough for me to know I don't enjoy it.

[soundless_space]

;) I see. I know the feeling well.

[marx marvelous]

But anyhoo--all your musical interests are terrible and you make me want to kill myself.

 

;)

 

(I was joking with this post.)

Edited February 23, 2007 by NotFromOklahoma

[shade]

Word, Gatsby's American Dream is a pretty lame group from what I've heard (though this was a few years ago) and a bad reflection of the book.

[saturnine]

then don't look at music as art.

That's my choice. If you'd like to kowtow to albums full of technically good Justin Timberlake songs, that your decision to make. ;)

i don't know where you keep pulling the 'technical' aspect from. i didn't mention that anywhere.

[juanpe]

One of my last perfect albums is Placebo's Meds... there's NO song in that album I don't like, something that doesnt normally happen to me

[CaptainRocket]

Pavement's "Slanted and Enchanted" is pretty perfect for me. Wilco's "A Ghsot is Born" maybe, but it all depends on my mood. There is almost no album that is perfect for every single moment of my life, just really good ones I can fall back on if need be.

[heyrabbit]

are you experienced? - hendrix

 

revolutionary

[sodamntired]

The La's - S/T

 

 

every single goddamn song on that album is worth a listen. (I) You can't skip a single track on that one.

[bishopx]

I need to add the following:

 

David Lee Roth - Eat Em And Smile, and Skyscraper

 

Rush - Every album

 

Enuff Z Nuff - Strenghth, Enuff Z Nuff

 

Pearl Jam - Ten, Vs, Vitology

 

Alice In Chains - Every Album

[Some Random]

Alice In Chains - Every Album

dirt=hell yes

facelift=hell yes

unplugged (if you count it)=hell yes

 

 

the self titled had a stinker or two on it. jar of flies could have done without that whale and wasp instrumental. the live one was too hodge podge for me to like. it's been so long since i listened to sap the whole way through that i can't remember.

[bishopx]

I'm listening to "Again" right now...it kicks ass...It really should have been a Jerry Cantrell solo album...Layne was pretty far gone, in the studio.

[Some Random]

watching the unplugged show always breaks my heart. layne looks so broken ;)

 

and another album to add:

texas flood by srv. total awesomeness.

[mrs jesus]

I'm listening to "Again" right now...it kicks ass...It really should have been a Jerry Cantrell solo album...Layne was pretty far gone, in the studio.

no fucking way. again wouldn't be what it is without layne, and besides that, he sounded just as good on that album as he did on any other. again could NEVER be a cantrell solo song. i suggest you look further into cantrell's solo work if you honestly think that.

[marx marvelous]

I'm listening to "Again" right now...it kicks ass...It really should have been a Jerry Cantrell solo album...Layne was pretty far gone, in the studio.

no fucking way. again wouldn't be what it is without layne, and besides that, he sounded just as good on that album as he did on any other. again could NEVER be a cantrell solo song. i suggest you look further into cantrell's solo work if you honestly think that.

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