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

Nee Lewman said:
So @Joe Mac , Postcards was a bit of a flop and is not thought of very highly?
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It reviewed decently and the singles off it are pretty great. I remember myself thinking it was good but not brilliant as an album. I think it probably suffered in comparison to the two before it, both of which harked back to, and almost reached, the heights of their two biggest albums.
 
Joe Mac said:
It reviewed decently and the singles off it are pretty great. I remember myself thinking it was good but not brilliant as an album. I think it probably suffered in comparison to the two before it, both of which harked back to, and almost reached, the heights of their two biggest albums.
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It was the first album not to have singles in the top forty and some mag ranked it at the bottom. I think maybe the dude who wrote the book I’ve been reading as I do this stretched out listen through doesn’t like it very much. (My wife didn’t like it. She said it sounded like a “heavy version of The Killers”. lol.)

The book also talked about Rewind being the start of an exciting new period for the band.
 
Nee Lewman said:
It was the first album not to have singles in the top forty and some mag ranked it at the bottom. I think maybe the dude who wrote the book I’ve been reading as I do this stretched out listen through doesn’t like it very much. (My wife didn’t like it. She said it sounded like a “heavy version of The Killers”. lol.)

The book also talked about Rewind being the start of an exciting new period for the band.
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It was also 2010 when what it meant to be a top 40 single has changed enormously from what it had been even 3 years earlier when Send Away The Tigers came out. I don’t think there were singles on Journal For Plague Lovers.

Rewind was consciously the start of a new chapter for the band regardless of how this one is thought of. They described this as “their last shot at mass communication”, deliberately wrote big pop songs and went for it. After it they released a career spanning singles collection to end that era of the band and came back wanting to just express themselves as how they were feeling rather than trying to make statements.
 
Joe Mac said:
Sorry postcards. Is around the middle somewhere. Rewind is lower middle.

Resistance is Futile and Lifeblood are my two least favourite. I do find something more in Lifeblood than I originally did reevaluating it with the anniversary reissue.
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When I finish the initial listen through, I plan on doing a straight listen through for a ranking. I quite like Lifeblood but no idea where I would rank it. Haven’t listened to Resistance yet (well not dedicated anyhow - last.fm shows a playthrough but I imagine that was when I was working and likely just loaded up the whole discography one night.). Somehow, I’ve listened to Send Away The Tigers the most?
 
I just watched Culture, Alienation, Boredom & Dispair. That was a good little flick. At the end when James gets a little choked up when Nicky talks about missing Richey when they play the songs from Generation Terrorists…. Man.
 
Ooooooh… I love this album. I don’t think I actually own a copy now. This was pretty much the beginning and end of my britpop collection. Lol

Kind of fitting to pull now with me running towards the finish line on the massive Manics listen through and also listening to The Smiths on vinyl for the first time (well other than Meat is Murder which I picked up because of the 33 1/3 series)

Is there a good pressing of this?
 
One of my all-time favourite albums (although definitely not britpop). Such talented musicians (plus Ian Brown) and such great tunes.

This also allows me to relate my dislike of the Manics (which makes these pages painful reading most of the time). The Roses were a bit too early for me for gigs (I was only 10 when this came out) but I got to see them at Wembley Arena in 95. It was a fabulous gig, one of the best I've seen. The Manics supported them, their first gig after Richey (I believe). The NME review of the Manics part began with something like - "the worst part of this was having to watch the Manics with a barn full of northern c*nts". Ever since, I've had a (no doubt irrational) dislike of the Manics.

Still, John Squire in particular was spectacular at that gig. Such a shame they couldn't really build from this and all the singles (although I quite like some of Second Coming). I think the opening trio of songs from this album may well be my favourite opening of any album. (And I Am The Resurrection not far off my favourite final track). I've also got a big soft spot for This Is The One too.
 
Nee Lewman said:
Ooooooh… I love this album. I don’t think I actually own a copy now. This was pretty much the beginning and end of my britpop collection. Lol

Kind of fitting to pull now with me running towards the finish line on the massive Manics listen through and also listening to The Smiths on vinyl for the first time (well other than Meat is Murder which I picked up because of the 33 1/3 series)

Is there a good pressing of this?
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I have this one and it sounds good to me.
 
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