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  1. Essential Albums

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    Personally, when I think of essential albums, I think of albums that you must own or have heard, for example:

     

    The Beatles: Revolver

    Nirvana: Nevermind

    Pink Floyd: Dark Side Of The Moon

    The Clash: London's Calling

    Marvin Gaye: What's Going On

    Led Zeppelin: IV

    R.E.M.: Automatic For The People

    Radiohead: OK Computer

     

    Albums that everyone should hear, regardless of their musical tastes. Albums which are creative and cultural highpoints. Albums that you can listen from start to finish, and every track stands out.

     

    Meddle is simply a good album. I wouldn't reccomend it to anyone who didn't like Floyd's type of music. I like it, but it doesn't deserve to be in the same class as the albums above.

     

    Besides which, I think more people like Wish You Were Here, don't they?

  4. Essential Albums

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    Oh and Clash on Broadway is essential.

    You would argue this over London Calling?

    Can't BOTH be essential?

    I'd consider an "essential" album to be something of a landmark. London Calling is certainly a landmark album; nothing else the Clash did--regardless of quality--is a milestone.

     

    Sometimes it doesn't have to be your favorite album by a particular band. What's generally considered the essential VU album is the first one, and, while I like it a great deal, I prefer White Light/White Heat and the self-titled third record. Still, I wouldn't deny The Velvet Underground & Nico its place in the sun.

    Agreed. I don't think any band, with the possible exception of The Beatles, has released more than one "essential" album.

  13. Essential Albums

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    Radiohead - Kid A

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    Too much blip-bloop hatred! I'm not sure if I'd call it essential, but I think it might be my 2nd favorite album of theirs. Lyrically a lot of it's hogwash free-association, but musically it evokes wonderful mood and feeling. Every time I go back to it works. It's also structured really well, building tension up to "Idiotheque" and then sort of swimming about in the aftermath.

    The problem I have with Kid A is that it's way too derivitive, more than any other of theirs since Pablo Honey. While The Bends and OK Computer were both great, individual albums, Kid A just sounded like a Warp side-project. Plus, almost all the songs off the album sound better live. I'd probably argue for I Might Be Wrong being a better album...

  15. Most overrated band?

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    I am a massive Radiohead fan, but for a long time they were put on a pedestal as other-worldly in "credible" music magazines when they're just a damn good band.

     

    But they haven't been as over-rated as Nirvana are now...

  18. You are all banned!!!!!

    in No Holds Barred

    Posted · Edited by chave

    Mine will come with photo's of my cock?

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    Kid: Wow! It's so cool! I wonder if its anatomically correct?

     

    Parent: Don't worry Billy, it says here that every inch of "The New Me Action Figure" is correct, modelled on ACTUAL PHOTOS!

     

    *Thats right! And what's more, pull on his string and you can make him talk!*

     

    The New Me Action Figure: LOOK AT MY COCK!

     

    Kid: Wow. I love you "The New Me Action Figure"!

     

    *"The New Me Action Figure". In shops everywhere, so go buy it. NOW!*

  21. Essential Albums

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    Should greatest hits even be listed?

    no.

    Why not? There are plenty of bands out there with a great collection of songs, but which are scattered throughout dozens of shitty albums. I'd recommend a best-of KISS over any of their albums ANY day (that includes destroyer). Same goes for a band I'm ashamed to like, the Moody Blues, and I don't doubt the same can be said for many other bands aswell.

     

    EDIT: And I'm aware that this is an essential albums thread, but I think best-ofs should be included regardless.

    You're proud to like Kiss, and ashamed to like the Moody Blues?

     

    Kids today, huh?

    Exactly. Got a problem?

    Surely The Moody Blues are more credible than Kiss.

     

    Surely anyone is more credible than Kiss...

  22. Should foreign born citizens...

    in Current Events

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    Does it really matter if they have feelings for their native country?

    Yes.

    If someone can do a good, impartial job, then it doesn't matter whether he is biased towards a country or not. Do you think Bush wasn't biased towards Saddam and Iraq after his dad went to war with them?

     

    Ultimately, I don't think Americans would ever elect a remotely non-American president anyhow.

     

    By the way, I said yes :)

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