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- #1
- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1612): White Ladder by David Gray
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Today's album of the day
White Ladder by David Gray (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1998.
Country: 
Overall rank: 890
Average rating: 71/100 (from 123 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Please Forgive Me
2. Babylon
3. My Oh My
4. We're Not Right
5. Nightblindness
6. Silver Lining
7. White Ladder
8. This Years Love
9. Sail Away
10. Say Hello Wave Goodbye
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Skinny
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- #2
- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:07
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You can find me singing along to 'Babylon' at every party I go to.
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- #3
- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:14
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| Skinny wrote: | | You can find me singing along to 'Babylon' at every party I go to. |
Wow, really?  I mean this album and the artist seem to be unfairly reduced to a punchline in jokes by the British music press. Seeing you post first in thread, my first thoughts were you were going to take the mick out the album.
Babylon is the only song I remember here.
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Skinny
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- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:46
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| Kiki wrote: | Wow, really? I mean this album and the artist seem to be unfairly reduced to a punchline in jokes by the British music press. Seeing you post first in thread, my first thoughts were you were going to take the mick out the album.
Babylon is the only song I remember here. |
Oh, I think the song and the album are terrible, and I would probably be pretty annoyed if it came on the radio while I was sober, but everybody knows 'Babylon' and it's always fun to drunkenly sing along to. Falls into the same category as Toploader's 'Dancing in the Moonlight' and Texas' 'Say What You Want'.
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RockyRaccoon
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- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:52
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| RockyRaccoon wrote: | | I've always been under the impression that David Gray was/is a lot more popular in the UK than in the US. Is that accurate? |
Who?
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Skinny
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- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:53
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| RockyRaccoon wrote: | | I've always been under the impression that David Gray was/is a lot more popular in the UK than in the US. Is that accurate? |
He was inescapable for a good couple of years when I was a kid. Even bigger in Ireland, by all accounts.
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Patman360
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- #8
- Posted: 04/29/2015 20:59
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| Skinny wrote: | | Toploader's 'Dancing in the Moonlight' |
Pure class, drunk or sober. 
Another drunken song of note that everyone needs is Vanessa Carlton's 'A Thousand Miles'.
As for David Gray, it's ok, I'm more or less impartial towards him and this album, nothing spectacular, but I've sat through it said to myself that I've heard worse.
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SleepDealer
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- Posted: 04/30/2015 10:44
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He was pretty big in the UK. It's the kind of inoffensive music that magazines like Q seemed to get excited about in the 2000s, like Toploader, Keane, Athlete etc. The commercial appeal was obvious but there was always something about the music that made me steer well clear, and get angry about when friends enthused about it (I was a big music snob at the time).
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Perring
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- Posted: 04/30/2015 17:50
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I like it. Even if it is a bit safe and bland.
It also sounds pretty good for something recorded primitively in his own apartment without the use of proper studio.
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