Copper Feel

If people paid any attention to their policies, Truthiness would be the hot contendor to win this instead of Marvin.

I'm intrigued. "Forgot About Dre" and "Still D.R.E" are givens, but what's the other big single? I want to say "The Next Episode", but I never listen to the radio and was only 8 years old when 2001 was released, so I'm not quite so sure.

I now wish that I had remained silent.

I hate to sound like a parrot, but I completely agree with all of Czech's choices. Could you just count them twice for me please?

TaigaStar has no positive qualities.

On some forums members can just change their own names. Would that be possible to install here?

The only thing that separates "Premature Ejaculation, How to Guard Against It?" from the other classic LSD threads is the fact that it was legitimate.

Ah damn, I take a day off from the board and this happens. Luckily, as much as I like Pet Sounds, it wasn't amongst my next few choices. The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1967) Pure amphetamine fuelled genius. This is where the melting pot of the band's visceral rawness, Lou Reed's smack inspired lyrics and the well masked musicality of John Cale really came into its own. The end result is wonderful: the songs on this record are at times frantic ("White Light/White Heat", "I Heard Her Call My Name"), poetic ("Lady Godiva's Operation"), and at other times even genuinely humourous ("The Gift"). The album's sole transitionary song, "Here She Comes Now", is a fun little melodic number that works well within the context of the album. I personally am not that fond of "Sister Ray", the track that many consider to be the pinaccle of their entire career. Don't get me wrong, the first four minutes or so are fairly awesome, but as soon as it meanders off point my attention goes with it. Cale gets a few nice organ parts in before the song finishes, I suppose. But still, the other half an hour or so of the album is so strong, that despite the song's length, this really is a minor quibble. Absolutely essential listening.

Oh shit, I'm sorry to hear about this. My grandfather had a stroke about four years ago, it's left him pretty much incapable to do anything.

I nominate TaigaStar, no other poster quite possesses her ability to make you want to take a pick axe to their head with every consecutive post.

The gay club that I am occasionally dragged to (The Bath Taps, that might mean something to Chave, I guess) just features karaoke to an incessant degree. It's all stuff like "It's Raining Men" though, complete tripe.

The fact that he managed to release anything that's even remotely listenable with Bernie Taupin as his wordsmith is pretty impressive though. His lyrics were always total garbage, even by the standards of popular music.

I never delved into his back catalogue in the manner that I once intended to, but Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is pretty awesome.

That's wierd, I have only ever seen the advert. Maybe a moderator can provide this thread with a poll w/r/t what people view beneath his username.

Bob Marley's shit.

Elvis Costello - This Year's Model (1978) With only a few notable exceptions, most songs succeed on the basis of anything but their use of the English language. That does not apply to This Year's Model (or Elvis Costello's greater discography, for that matter) at all. Virtually every song on the album is based around sexual obssession. Whether they express dissapointment ("No Action", "Living in Paradise"), alienation ("(I Don't Want to Go to) Chealsea", "Lipstick Vogue") or just plain observation ("This Year's Girl", "Pump It Up"). In the hands of a lesser songwriter this could come across as juvenile, but Costello's aforementioned literary leaning and the genuine feelings of anger that this record conveys prevent that from ever truly happening. Elvis did not have the help of the Attractions on his previous album My Aim Is True , and the difference in production and musicianship is immeasurable. His debut was a great record, but it was overly raw and skeletal sounding, this sounds alot more complete. The playing of the Attractions also fits all of the songs really well, since it never oversteps its boundaries, but will still shift in dynamic when necesseary, which at times conveys an intense, almost sarcastic feeling. So yeah, if I continued to write about this album I would just end up going around in circles... Which I sort of am already, but you get my point. Great record.

Scroby. Edit: the dream is obviously dead.

I hated Juno. There was just something grating about it, you know, it seemed to think it was a lot smarter than it actually was.

Oldschool and TaigaStar are quite the oblivious tandem. May they find happiness in their land of equal opinions and Alicia Keys albums!

Goddamit, Rain Dogs was going to be amongst my early choices, so were the two Dylan albums, but that's all the Waits I have. The album I have selected for this round has more of a unified sound than Houses of the Holy, so there shall be no need for me to ramble on pointlessly for as many paragraphs: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986) Really, of all the albums by the Smiths, this is the one that most deserves a spot in the canon of popular music. This album partially* works on the basis of the sarcastic contrast between Marr's joyful guitar parts and Morrissey's morose lyrics. Both are in great form throughout, leading to many superb songs. Oh, and what songs they're! "The Queen Is Dead (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty Medley)", "I Know It's Over", "Cemetry Gates", "Bigmouth Strikes Again" and "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out" are all amongst their absolute best. Had you asked me one year ago, I would have told you that this was my favourite album. I'm not quite so sure about that anymore, but it certainly merits consideration for such an accolade. *I say partially because Andy Rourke is an excellent bassist. The interplay between him and Marr is another thing that I love about the Smiths.

I don't like the precedent that executing those we deem as being freaks creates either. Also, a person may be exclusively attracted to dead animals. They're not exactly going to go on a murderous human killing rampage based upon their copulating of a toad, are they?

Quick, somebody ban that PujolJunkie loser!

That was glorious, let him stay.

The difference between the two of them was that Wild Pegasus actually improved his fair share of threads through his general retardation, Brigante drags absolutely every thread he posts in down to his level. That isn't even mentioning the threads he starts himself, which all strictly adhere to the Eddie Winslow code.