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

Nee Lewman said:
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?
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I quite like Rewind the Film and rank it higher than Resistance and Postcards. Futurology was a real return to form as well. The singles off the new one sound reliably good but nowhere close to top-tier manics.
 
Poly-Rythmo said:
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.
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I am sorry for your pain.
 
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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The Lita pressing over two discs is excellent. The standard pressings over one disc are pretty dire, or at least were 4 or 5 years ago.
 
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Joe Mac said:
The Lita pressing over two discs is excellent. The standard pressings over one discare pretty dire, or at least were 4 or 5 years ago.
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I have an OG from 1990 on one disc and that sounds pretty great. But the standard repress from a couple of years ago might be worse? (But the discogs reviews on that are pretty solid too. And those can be had for 15-20 bucks or so.)
 
Whiteout75 said:
I have an OG from 1990 on one disc and that sounds pretty great. But the standard repress from a couple of years ago might be worse? (But the discogs reviews on that are pretty solid too. And those can be had for 15-20 bucks or so.)
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I’ve not heard an OG but I felt the one discs I heard were were really thin. The 2 disc pressing is much fuller which I felt benefits this type of music. The album is really a bit too long to be squeezed onto one disc.
 
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