The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

Joe Mac said:
I just grab Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers debut album
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One of my favorite things about The Strokes was they absolutely worshiped Bob Pollard and Guided By Voices even though their music has much more in common with Television, The Modern Lovers, and early Tom Petty, at the time Julian Casablanca swore they were ripping off GBV even though outside a bit vocally they really sounded nothing like em.
 
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jamieanderson1968 said:
I am happy that I have the first 2 Strokes albums from VMP. Never need to spend another nickel on them
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I have two copies of Is This It, one of each cover.

And while the first two are the only truly essential albums, every album since has had at least a couple gems on it. Just not enough to fill out a whole album. At this point I think they are all bored with the whole Strokes thing and have enough money to only really follow artistic endeavors that excite them.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
The funny thing is being a somewhat “hip” music nerd, seeing these trust fund pretty boys on the cover of every music magazine with their immaculately disheveled hair and thrift store suits, I wanted to hate them so bad, I wanted them to just be a bunch of phonies riding the hype.

Then I heard “Last Nite” and my immediate reaction was letting out a resigned “fuck” as I knew even if all the manufactured hype was a put upon, these dudes were making the music I had been waiting for. The music was good which made the t much easier to buy into the hype moving forward.
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I have the exact same story except I was 25 when it came and it was The Modern Age off the first ep that had me surrendering.

I still love this album to this day with all my heart and everything I hold dear. It’s fucking perfect.
 
Around 2002, one day I might have told you Wilco was my favorite band. The next I might tell you it was the Lips. Both had been favorites since my college (radio DJ) days. I still follow both although Wilco releases music I like more in my old age.

I thought when I pulled this in the generator that it’s an album I’ve never spent a proper amount of time with. Then I put the CD on and then the hook on A Spoonful Weighs a Ton hit and I knew that I had not spent enough time with this album and also that I had never listened to it on my current set up. Good googly moogly.
 
Nee Lewman said:
1/13/25
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The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin



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The Soft Bulletin - The Flaming Lips | Album | AllMusic

The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips released in 1999. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I love this album and while I enjoy several of their earlier Record this and Yoshimi were the height of their powers. I think The Soft Bulletin, Wilco’s Summerteeth and Mercury Rev’s Deserters Songs define what could be done with Pro Tools in the late 90s.
 
Interesting. The hi-res on Qobuz sounds good but there is some grit lost. This isn’t completely surprising. What did kind of bug me out a bit was the drums are more crisp on the cd. This might be a great demo recording.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Sometimes I wonder how I would feel about This album had I been born in 1961 instead of 1981.

As it stands, I was 18 when this album was released and it was the perfect soundtrack to hanging out until the wee hours drinking cheap beer and smoke packs of Parliament Lights.

What a time to be alive.
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I was born in '61 and we had a doppelganger record that elicited the same effect - Pink Floyd - The Wall.

I'm noy saying the influence has remained as strong over the decades, but in '79 it was the shit.

Released in December '79, The Clash London Calling blew a hole into the new decade as well as our minds.
 
Alright, last thought before I see what we get today…. I like The Soft Bulletin a lot. If I had been paying attention when it came out, I would probably know and revere it more. Because I missed it initially (I was turned off a bit by Zaireeka a bit - a nifty album that was impractical to play), working back to it felt like it was a step to their masterpiece Yoshimi. I actually like Yoshimi’s return to a more experimental sound and really like the albums that followed it. At War With The Mystics felt like treading water but Embryonic and The Terror are fascinating and rank with Bulletin and Yoshimi as their finest hour.

To @jamieanderson1968 , they are a very different band for the cycle of Bulletin through Mystics but they then get even weirder than they were initially. They really are a great and important band.
 
Ooohhh. I love these guys. This is a bit like Soft Bulletin to me in how I came to it. I came to WOD through @GatorJim ‘s love of the band. He was so psyched about A Deeper Understanding when it came out, that I picked up the VMP variant and … swoon. I eventually picked up everything (I need to get the new Live one and also dig into Kurt Vile.). Anyhow, will be cool to give this one a more serious listen.
 
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