bdrummond
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Are you referring to the rumor that Kurt helped ghostwrite the album?
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Nee Lewman
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Even if Kurt didn’t ghost write it (and really it is a leap in quality and suspiciously Cobainesque) - it came from that experience with him.
bdrummond
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Fair enough. Although Violet was apparently about Billy Corgan.
So maybe Live Through This as it was wouldn't have been...but would Hole have broken though regardless if that connection didn't exist?
Nee Lewman
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I mean, we don’t know, but her profile certainly rose because of their relationship.
Joe Mac
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Yeah that’s kind of what I was getting at in the other thread more than popularity. In my location and in my generation I’d say more new bands started from Oasis than anyone else and it wouldn’t be that close. It would be exponentially more than even the critically lauded likes of Radiohead, Spiritualized etc who also would have had relatively high degree popularity. But as we know they were never possessed with originality and got increasingly more derivative as they went on. But that first album and the singles of the second were a real call to arms.
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Wes C. Attle
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Isn’t it thought that Billy Corgan wrote most of Celebrity Skin?
spilledleche
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He’s at least credited on several tracks and will be very happy to tell you more he wrote
MikeH
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I might check out the MOV then but also wouldn’t be opposed to a 2LP tricky reissue. Surprised nobody has done it yet. I think everything has been 1LP
Mather
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I'm not sure what's up with his catalogue but Pre Millennium Tension has only ever been pressed once as far as I know. So there's a few that are long overdue for a repress.
bdrummond
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Yup, PMT definitely needs one.
Knowle West Boy definitely could use some love too...just an all round mediocre pressing. Wife made me pick this one up after hearing it in a record store and after the wizardry that was Maxinquaye it was a super disappointing pressing.
Mather
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Yeah I tempered my disappointment with those two by going out and getting the only pressing of his "Nearly God" release with Martina Topley-Bird. It's actually pretty well mastered and pressed.
folsom_lives
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Both my copies had some GZ noise here and there. Still a good master, but your tolerance for a perfectly silent pressing should be tempered.
hayema7
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If you grab it, don’t pay full price. They’ve been discounting it frequently.
I like my copy but don’t have anything to compare it to. No issues.
bdrummond
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Same, scattered GZ noise. Not bad otherwise.
jamieanderson1968
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Speaking of GBV, looks like Scat has done a repress/reissue of Bee Thousand done at RTI
TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeah, I think pretty much all of their GBV records have been pressed at RTI. The Bee Thousand comes in a nice Tip-On gatefold jacket as well.
jamieanderson1968
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The next time we meet for a beer, you better be wearing a Nudie Suit
Turbo
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I imagine nobody would bat an eye in Toronto if you pranced around like that. But if you travel to Montreal, it's not flashy enough. Get the Nudie suit in that case.