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Spyglass
Resident Metalhead
Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map 
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- Posted: 04/23/2020 22:57
- Post subject: I like this artist's album more than their "best."
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I'm more of a Seasons of the Abyss man than a Reign in Blood man. I even like South of Heaven more. The thrash power of Reign in Blood is undeniable, but it's a very monotonous half-hour. On the subject of thrash, there are three Kreator albums that I think are better than Pleasure to Kill because all that album does is thrash. My favorite Kreator album is Coma of Souls.
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
Age: 30
Location: Massachusetts
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- Posted: 04/23/2020 23:07
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Does this prompt mean...?
a. Artists where you think one album is their best but enjoy listening to another album more
b. Artists where you disagree with the consensus regarding their best album
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craola
crayon master
Location: pdx
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- Posted: 04/23/2020 23:30
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | Does this prompt mean...?
a. Artists where you think one album is their best but enjoy listening to another album more
b. Artists where you disagree with the consensus regarding their best album |
i'm assuming the latter, which gets tricky cause bands don't always have a consensus no.1. nonertheless, it's a cool topic. here're a few of mine:
animal collective
consensus: merriweather post pavillion
personal: feels
asobi seksu
consensus: citrus
personal: fluorescence
boards of canada
consensus: music has the right to children
personal: geogaddi
broadcast
consensus: tender buttons
personal: haha sound
the church
consensus: starfish
personal: seance
cocteau twins
consensus: heaven or las vegas / treasure
personal: victorialand / blue bell knoll
depeche mode
consensus: violator
personal: black celebration
esperanza spalding
consensus: emily's d+evolution
personal: junjo
the flaming lips
consensus: the soft bulletin
personal: at war with the mystics
jeff buckley
consensus: grace
personal: mystery white boy
mercury rev
consensus: deserter's songs
personal: all is dream
portishead
consensus: dummy
personal: third
radiohead
consensus: ok computer / kid a
personal: amnesiac / hail to the thief
the smiths
consensus: the queen is dead
personal: strangeways, here we come
siouxsie and the banshees
consensus: juju
personal: tinderbox
sonic youth
consensus: daydream nation
personal: sister / rather ripped
the sound
consensus: from the lion's mouth
personal: jeopardy
stina nordenstam
consensus: and she closed her eyes
personal: memories of a color
talk talk
consensus: laughing stock / spirit of eden
personal: the colour of spring
tim buckley
consensus: starsailor
personal: blue afternoon
u2
consensus: the joshua tree / achtung baby
personal: the unforgettable fire
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Spyglass
Resident Metalhead
Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map
- #4
- Posted: 04/23/2020 23:34
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| baystateoftheart wrote: | | b. Artists where you disagree with the consensus regarding their best album |
I know I'm new to music forums, and I don't mean to be offensive, but I figured this kind of discussion had been done before on places like this.
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- Posted: 04/24/2020 04:28
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I think my most controversial one is that my favourite Paul Simon album is Surprise.
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- Posted: 04/24/2020 13:09
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The first one that came to mind was Godspeed, there's absolutely no way List Yr. Skinny Fists is better than F# A#.
I dug through my severely outdated chart and I came up with a few more:
Maiden, The Number of the Beast is great and has Hallowed Be Thy Name, but cmon it's not in the top 3 in terms of overall album experience. Great songs, yeah, but other albums have better ones.
Joy Division's Closer is a better release than Unknown Pleasures. Darker, more intense and interesting, flows really well from song to song. They're pretty different though, so I guess I understand if people prefer the debut more, but Closer is often overlooked.
Dire Straits. I admit I was never a big fan, but Love Over Gold is an incredible release, much better than anything else they've done. Telegraph Road maaaaaan. Also Communiqué and possibly the debut are both better than Brothers in Arms.
Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited is not even near Blood On The Tracks. I'd also take Blonde On Blonde over it any time of the day. Desire too.
The Cult's Dreamtime is actually their best. Love and Sonic Temple are close, but Electric is not. IMO their most overrated release.
Black Sabbath's Master of Reality is muuuuch better than Paranoid. Also the debut and possibly Heaven & Hell. But that's maybe because I've overplayed some of their most popular tracks, many of which are from Paranoid.
Death Grips, I can't see The Money Store as their best release. It could be Exmilitary or No Love Deep Web, but not The Money Store.
Helplessness Blues is easily better than the debut Fleet Foxes.
This became a "which band's best album is overrated compared to others" post midway, but yeah.
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Also yeah, The Unforgettable Fire is U2's best and The Smiths debut is at least as good as The Queen Is Dead
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babyBlueSedan
Used to be sort of blind, now can sort of see
Gender: Male
- #7
- Posted: 04/24/2020 13:56
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| LedZep wrote: | | Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited is not even near Blood On The Tracks. I'd also take Blonde On Blonde over it any time of the day. |
Agreed with this. In fact, I'd also take Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Times They Are A-Changing, and especially Bringing it All Back Home over Highway 61. I really don't like it much.
Also agreed that Geogaddi is better than Music Has the Right to Children.
My favorite Smiths album is Strangeways Here We Come. Johnny Marr agrees with me!
It's a Wonderful Life seems to be the consensus best Sparklehorse album but it's the only one of his four albums I don't like much.
For a long time I didn't care for Low's I Could Live in Hope, and I'm still lukewarm on it. My favorite Low album is Trust.
And I'm not sure Pavement have a commonly accepted best album, but I think Slanted and Enchanted is much better than Crooked Rain.
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pctrooper
Gender: Male
Age: 27
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- Posted: 04/24/2020 16:13
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Elephant by the White Stripes has some great songs (Ball and Biscuit, Black Math, Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine... please I never want to hear Seven Nation Army again) but in my opinion it is also their least consistent album. I pretty much prefer any of their other albums over it
Queen II beats Bohemian Rhapsody.
Maybe this doesn't count but I much prefer John Frusciante's solo albums over Red Hot Chili Peppers.
I could name a lot. Many of my personal favorite artists have an album which I like more than their "best" one.
Edit:
Queen II beats A Night at The Opera I meant
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Spyglass
Resident Metalhead
Gender: Male
Location: The red dot on the map
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- Posted: 04/24/2020 16:35
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This is going to be much more of a common post, but my favorite Neil Young album is Harvest. There's so much heart and feeling in each song, and it doesn't feel monotonous like After the Gold Rush which is still a very fine album.
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Fischman
RockMonster, JazzMeister, Bluesboy,ClassicalMaster
Gender: Male
Location: Land of Enchantment
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- Posted: 04/24/2020 17:02
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Asia - I much prefer 2012's XXX over the more lauded debut
Miles Davis - In a Silent Way way over Kind of Blue
Foghat - I'll take either Energized or Stone Blue over Fool for the City
Grand Funk Railroad - I'm not really sure what is considered their best, but I know it's not Good Singin', Good Playin', which is my favorite.
Led Zeppelin - III over IV
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