Nee Lewman
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Glamour Boys is just from another album. Sounds like Culture Club trying to do Reggae. Well until it gets to the chorus and goes to full cult of personality rocker.
The 1001 Album Generator Project Thread
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Nee Lewman
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What's Your Favorite Colour? is their weird theme song to a sitcom starring them that never existed.
Nee Lewman
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Which Way to America is a good way to end a record. It fits thematically and sonically but doesn't succumb to the problems of earlier songs.
Nee Lewman
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Giving it a 3. It has so much potential that is just squandered. Like there is a better album buried under the weird production.
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TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeah, On The Beach might be my favorite NY album but it wouldn’t be the album I would use to introduce Neil. I would go After The Gold Rush and/or Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.
Nee Lewman
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I mean, I am one hundred percent of the time gonna hand someone Harvest and then Everybody Knows This is Nowhere. Can respect your choice though. Probably send them to Weld and to explore on their own if they come back after that.
Nee Lewman
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Maybe warn them to stay away from Trans and the Geffen stuff until they are sure they LOVE Neil. Even then, no need to ever listen to Landing on Water.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Harvest is a good one too. My thinking is Harvest has strong singles but not as strong an album overall as Gold Rush and Nowhere shows off his electric rocking side.
Nee Lewman
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I remember when Silver and Gold came out, some old dude was in the record store when I grabbed my copy from the display wall. He was all like "It's good to have him doing the stuff he started out with again." I was like what the fuck old man? This doesn't sound anything like Buffalo Springfield or his first album or Everybody or CSNY....
Nee Lewman
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The other book has me listening to this this week:
I wish there were more of this in this list. It would be fun to see how you all feel about it. For those not familiar, this would definitely be closer to Ayalew Mesfin than Songhoy Blues. Les dancey though.
I wish there were more of this in this list. It would be fun to see how you all feel about it. For those not familiar, this would definitely be closer to Ayalew Mesfin than Songhoy Blues. Les dancey though.
avecigrec
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I had this one on CD back in the day and loved it:
I really should give the whole series a listen sometime.
Nee Lewman
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The RIYL in the book had that as well as these two:
The reissues of these have been on my long list of to buys for forever.
Poly-Rythmo
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Check out Alemayehu Eshete (forget which number compilations are his) - he's my absolute favourite Ethiopian artist (even more than Mulatu Astatke). V funky and danceable.
Nee Lewman
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irony is I would be the old dude telling some young whippersnapper that they don't know anything about Neil Young now... (wouldn't actually - well unless they showed an ignorance that they decided to be vocal about)
Rip_City
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36/1001
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
For many people, this was their entry into the music world, so I thought it had to be an interesting listen of some sorts all these years later. But I would have never thought that I would dislike their debut album to the level I do now. Time has done Hybrid Theory no favors.Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
If there's one positive takeaway, I truly respect Chester Bennington's (RIP) effort on vocals giving it his all, even if comes out as forced and rough on the ears. However, I have no respect for Mike Shinoda's amateurish rap verses and the really gnarly metal guitarwork is consistently gross.
Rap rock should stay in the past. Like 99% of its brethren, it's bad. But it's not totally unlistenable even if almost all of the songs are indistinguishable from the others.
Personal highlights: "In the End," but really only for nostalgic and meme value
Rating: 1.5/5 [Bad]
Joe Mac
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And the 1% is pretty much exclusively Rage Against The Machine.
Nee Lewman
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I go back and forth on Rage. It is definitely mood music for me. And regardless of my mood, Zach is the part I least enjoy.
Joe Mac
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I might have agreed with you once. Then I heard Audioslave, which were all kinds of horrifically bad, and it made me appreciate him a lot more.
Nee Lewman
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I don’t like Audioslave either.
Hemotep
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I've mentioned this already, but it's really made this project more enjoyable to listen to the extended versions with bonus material for a lot of these when they pop up. I'll likely never listen to most of that stuff again, so this seems like a good time to do it, especially with albums I like. I'm on the Super Deluxe edition of this one, which I may not be able to finish before my meetings start today because it's 3 hours and 8 minutes long. But either way it's a fun addition to this whole endeavor. And it needs not be said, but yes, I love this album. 5/5
