[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Disturbed- The Sickness
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Not a “Believe” fan, eh?
Flaw-Through the Eyes. No way of topping that one, really. Probably my favorite album of all time.
[quote]DirtyM wrote:
Mother Love Bone. Yes. This was a good album.[/quote]
I think this is an excellent album. Very underrated.
Same with Brad. I bought that when I heard ‘20th Century’.
[quote]postholedigger wrote:
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
Grohl proves with foo that he’s more or a goofball, fun-lover.
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Right on.
“Fuckin’ nailed that solo!”
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
Pretty much every punk band. (real punk, kids)
Pistols, Buzzcocks, Adverts, Clash, Damned, X-Ray Spex, Slits, Gen X, Gang of Four, Raincoats.
I don’t care what the opinion of the plebs is, the Clash had one good album.[/quote]
This
[quote]limburg wrote:
Megadeth-Countdown to Extinction[/quote]
LOL
Surely you can’t be serious?
[quote]HeavyTriple wrote:
[quote]bond james bond wrote:
Disturbed- The Sickness
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Not a “Believe” fan, eh?
Flaw-Through the Eyes. No way of topping that one, really. Probably my favorite album of all time.[/quote]
Nope, not a believe fan, can’t really put my finger on it why really. The Sickness was so good and set the bar pretty high. The albums after that were good just rehashed in my mind, no crime in that, it’s their sound. Great live band btw.
I have one Flaw song on my i-pod. I’m listening to Through The Eyes as we speak. Just might have to visit the i-tunes store 
[quote]BradTGIF wrote:
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
Bands that sucked because Kurt Cobain is dead: F__ F_gh_ers.
argue with me.[/quote]
I think F__ F_gh_ers are a whole different kind of band with a completely different message.
Grohl proves with foo that he’s more or a goofball, fun-lover.
Cobain had a lot to say, but it was all very grey and gloomy. Grohl makes fun music, pop music.
Grohl wants to learn to fly
Cobain is forever in debt to your priceless advice.
Dichotomy in it’s purest.
The question is:
Would foo really be foo if it weren’t for Cobain? Does Kurt represent the 0 degree that Grohl turned 180 degrees from with the foo project?
I don’t know that answer, but I bet Pat Smear does.[/quote]
I agree with what you’re saying. I suppose my beef with Grohl is what I percieve to be a lack of anything original or an important message, a feeling, in his music. I know a lot of people will say that Cobain was far from original, but to me he’s always going to embody the dismal, lost feeling of my teenage years. There are so many other things to listen to if I want something more positive and/or energetic, like The Toadies, The Pixies, or Nine Inch Nails (energetic, but far from positive).
By the way, ID, tell me you don’t play Unplugged in New York every once in awhile, on a lazy Sunday morning perhaps. I think that album will always be of value.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
Bands that sucked because Kurt Cobain is dead: F__ F_gh_ers.
argue with me.[/quote]
Even though I loved Nirvana, I can’t listen to them anymore.
Foo Fighters, on the other hand get regular play on my iTunes. [/quote]
I don’t think anyone who was upset when Cobain died and Grohl formed FF a few years later would have imagined the level of success his band has experienced. I certainly didn’t. I really thought it was all dead in 1994.
Guns n Roses “Appetite for Destruction”
Counting Crows - August and Everything After. I love every track on that album. Recovering the Satellites had a few good songs but not nearly as strong as its debut album, and after that things went downhill fast, with each new album only having 1 or 2 good songs.
The first Suicide album is a classic. I don’t even know why. It’s horrible and harsh on the ear yet it just has something about it that I can’t quite explain
[quote]DirtyM wrote:
Mother Love Bone. Yes. This was a good album.[/quote]
To their defense, they were literally DOA.
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
By the way, ID, tell me you don’t play Unplugged in New York every once in awhile, on a lazy Sunday morning perhaps. I think that album will always be of value.[/quote]
I like all their albums.
I had been a “left of the dial” listener since the early 80’s, and when Nirvana released Bleach, I was hooked. It was 1989 and Nirvana was a nice shift for me from punk to a more hard rock/metal sound (Bleach is still my favorite Nirvana album).
When they signed to DGC and released “Nevermind”, I was surprised and NEVER expected them to catch on in the mainstream, let alone become rock gods and virtually change rock history. - especially since hair metal was so damn popular. Personally, I think other bands deserved the attention (The Replacements or Husker Du for example) that Nirvana got, but timing is everything, and the public needed a change.
Anyway, as much as I played their albums over the decade, it became like a weight on the shoulders with Cobain’s angst. By the time he died, I was already over that emotional bent and his music for the most part. His death probably wasn’t a surprise by then. Sad as it was, it has secured his legend status.
Foo Fighters were a breath of fresh air after all that 90’s turmoil. Ocasionally I hear an old Nirvana song and I remember how great they were. But the Foos just connect with me in a way that’s hard to ignore. Great and catchy chord progressions, great guitar sounds, tons of energy, and damn near untouchable screaming vocals.
lol
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Ambugaton wrote:
By the way, ID, tell me you don’t play Unplugged in New York every once in awhile, on a lazy Sunday morning perhaps. I think that album will always be of value.[/quote]
Foo Fighters were a breath of fresh air after all that 90’s turmoil. Ocasionally I hear an old Nirvana song and I remember how great they were. But the Foos just connect with me in a way that’s hard to ignore. Great and catchy chord progressions, great guitar sounds, tons of energy, and damn near untouchable screaming vocals.
lol
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ID dont feel bad, same for me I like the Foo. I think I have most if not all there songs on my IPod.
But I lift to KORN, Tool, NIN and R Zombie
most bands have more than one good album. certainly most, if not all of the bands mentioned in this thread have multiple good records, it’s just a lot of work to get into a new one after you spend so much time with an older one.
ps. lol at vicomte hating on “london calling” and then saying MUSE was cool.
Frampton Comes Alive
It’s amazing this album was such a big hit… considering Pete’s solo studio albums were basically crap (although I did own them all as a teen in the 70’s).
[quote]LaPointe wrote:
most bands have more than one good album. certainly most, if not all of the bands mentioned in this thread have multiple good records…[/quote]
This is where I am, too. Is one particular album transcendent? Yes. Are later albums not to that level? Sure. Are later albums thus “not good?” No, not at all.
When people ask me what my favorite Pearl Jam album is, I exclude Ten from the running because it is so completely in its own class. And yeah, some of their albums are better than others, but it’s purely subjective.
Anyone who thinks an album is “bad” because it didn’t sell a lot or hit #1 needs to remember that Nickelback has sold over 50 million albums…
Pearl Jam had a good album?
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]LaPointe wrote:
most bands have more than one good album. certainly most, if not all of the bands mentioned in this thread have multiple good records…[/quote]
This is where I am, too. Is one particular album transcendent? Yes. Are later albums not to that level? Sure. Are later albums thus “not good?” No, not at all.
When people ask me what my favorite Pearl Jam album is, I exclude Ten from the running because it is so completely in its own class. And yeah, some of their albums are better than others, but it’s purely subjective.
Anyone who thinks an album is “bad” because it didn’t sell a lot or hit #1 needs to remember that Nickelback has sold over 50 million albums…
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[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Pearl Jam had a good album?
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
[quote]LaPointe wrote:
most bands have more than one good album. certainly most, if not all of the bands mentioned in this thread have multiple good records…[/quote]
This is where I am, too. Is one particular album transcendent? Yes. Are later albums not to that level? Sure. Are later albums thus “not good?” No, not at all.
When people ask me what my favorite Pearl Jam album is, I exclude Ten from the running because it is so completely in its own class. And yeah, some of their albums are better than others, but it’s purely subjective.
Anyone who thinks an album is “bad” because it didn’t sell a lot or hit #1 needs to remember that Nickelback has sold over 50 million albums…
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Dead to me.
I’ve got a whole new appreciation for Eddie Vedder after watching the Pearl Jam “20” documentary.
Probably the best “behind the music” style docs I’ve seen. Cameron Crowe knows what the fuck he’s doing.
LOL at Stone Gossard having a coffee cup or two that actually had that said the bands’ name.