Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Bob Dylan - Desire David Bowie - Let's Dance I rarely get past the first three songs on the latter; with the former, it goes to shit when "Joey" hits. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Oh, Joy Division's Substance. There's no point in continuing after "Love Will Tear Us Apart." Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vivalaultra 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 I don't know if I'd call Substance front-loaded. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is the 10th of 17 songs, with all the 9 before it are classics. Admittedly, the songs after it aren't as good as the first 10, but there's some decent stuff there. "Glass" is good. "These Days" is good. "Novelty" is interesting enough. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Annabelle 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 nico chelsea girl Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hank Kingsley 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Prince - 1999 I usually turn it off after "D.M.S.R.," if I even get that far after the first 3. (that's not to say it's not an overall great album, but the hits are definitely lined up first) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Felonies! Report post Posted June 26, 2006 The Joshua Tree is the one that comes to mind off the bat for me. I never get to Side 2 of Remain in Light. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Corey_Lazarus 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 ReLoad. The first two songs are good, the third is a decent in-betweener, and the fourth is good. The rest of them are lame, lame, lame. The closers aren't that bad, but there's no point in listening to the full album. Not truly a front-loaded, but the Zombie Apocalypse/Send More Paramedics split Tales Told by Dead Men is only worth listening to for the ZA tracks, which are the first 5. The 6th is just noise to link the final ZA track with the first SMP track, but the 5 SMP tracks on it are the weakest that the UK zombiecore icons have ever done. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 I don't know if I'd call Substance front-loaded. "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is the 10th of 17 songs, with all the 9 before it are classics. Admittedly, the songs after it aren't as good as the first 10, but there's some decent stuff there. "Glass" is good. "These Days" is good. "Novelty" is interesting enough. I see your point, but I find all that nearly impossible to listen to. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vivalaultra 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Both of Kanye West's CDs are quite topheavy. They really fizzle out by the end-The College Dropout moreso. Uh...and cuz I'm listening to it now, Devendra Banhart's new CD, Cripple Crow really runs out of steam going into the latter part of it. I don't know if that's just because of Devendra's scattershot songwriting, though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DMann2003 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 ReLoad. The first two songs are good, the third is a decent in-betweener, and the fourth is good. The rest of them are lame, lame, lame. The closers aren't that bad, but there's no point in listening to the full album. Would you count Low Man's Lyric as a closer? Cause I always loved that song, yeah ReLoad is the leftovers, should've just made like a 6-7 ep out of it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
randomguy 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Cathedral's The Ethereal Mirror. The first half is great, the second half they revert back to tired doom metal garbage. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DMann2003 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 ReLoad. The first two songs are good, the third is a decent in-betweener, and the fourth is good. The rest of them are lame, lame, lame. The closers aren't that bad, but there's no point in listening to the full album. Would you count Low Man's Lyric as a closer? Cause I always loved that song, yeah ReLoad is the leftovers, should've just made like a 6-7 ep out of it Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godthedog 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 to me the definitive example is michael jackson's 'invincible'. fantastic first 4 tracks, & everything up till "speechless" or so is solid. then from "2000 watts" on, everything is a terrible idea. if it were the 80s, he just could've released that first 40 minutes and had a hit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
EricMM 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Fuel, the one with "Shimmer" I don't know how "loaded" you'd call it, but it gets worse near the end.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Masked Man of Mystery 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Metallica's Black Album feels front loaded to me, I usually don't go beyond the first 5 songs Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MillenniumMan831 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Metallica's Black Album feels front loaded to me, I usually don't go beyond the first 5 songs There's some good stuff in the 2nd half of that album. "Wherever I May Roam" (I think that's past song #5) and "The God that Failed" are great tunes. I have a Best of The Cult album that I tend to turn off after "Here Comes the Rain" which I think is the 7th of about 14 songs. But I love the 1st half of the album. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Edwin MacPhisto 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Prince - 1999 I usually turn it off after "D.M.S.R.," if I even get that far after the first 3. (that's not to say it's not an overall great album, but the hits are definitely lined up first) The hits are definitely up front, but "Lady Cab Driver" is my favorite song on the whole album. I usually stick around all the way through 1999 just because it changes so radically in style about three different times. Feels like a couple of extremely good mini-albums to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Special K 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Bjork's 'Debut' Breeders' Last Splash. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godthedog 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 add to that bjork's 'vespertine'. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sideburnious 0 Report post Posted June 26, 2006 Queens of the Stoneage - Lullibies to Paralise. The album after about track 7 or 8 becomes incredibly lazy and just drags compared to a solid start and decent songs after that till about little sister. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted June 28, 2006 Frank Zappa's Zoot Allures. "Disco Boy" is retarded, and the title track is one of the few solos of his I don't really care for. "Wind up Working in a Gas Station," "Black Napkins," and "The Torture Never Stops" are all godly, however. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Felonies! Report post Posted June 28, 2006 "Wind up..." doesn't do it for me. Those other two, fuck yeah they're godly. I think the title track is pretty good but not legendary, easily the least worthy of the three off-limits-except-Dweezil songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coffin Surfer 0 Report post Posted June 28, 2006 Television-Marquee Moon -It ends with "Elevation" as far as I'm concerned Iron Madien-Peice of Mind -It ends with "The Trooper. " Fiona Apple-Tidal -The last three or four tracks are complete throw aways. Iggy and the Stooges-Raw Power -Nothing bad but nothng comes close to approaching "Search and Destory" and "Gimme Danger"; too bad "I Got A Right" "Gimme Some Skin" and "I'm Sick Of You" were shelved, they could have filled the overall album out alot better. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Henry Spencer 0 Report post Posted June 28, 2006 The New Pornographers - Mass Romantic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted June 28, 2006 "Wind up..." doesn't do it for me. Those other two, fuck yeah they're godly. I think the title track is pretty good but not legendary, easily the least worthy of the three off-limits-except-Dweezil songs. What do you mean by that last statement? Forbidden guitar solos? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Felonies! Report post Posted June 28, 2006 I read somewhere that Gail has prohibited anyone from covering "Watermelon In Easter Hay," "Black Napkins," and "Zoot Allures," as these were the three guitar pieces that Frank was most proud of. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted June 28, 2006 I think if "Rat Tomago" had a proper ending rather than just stopping abruptly in mid-note, it'd be my favorite of his "solo" pieces. Does that exist live anywhere that's accessible? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Felonies! Report post Posted June 28, 2006 Actually, "Rat Tomago" is just a live solo from "The Torture Never Stops" that he stuck a name on. You can hear some telltale moaning in the back of the mix. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
randomguy 0 Report post Posted June 29, 2006 Sun and Steel is pretty decent and I like To Tame a Land also. However "Quest for Fire" is just embarrassing - "In a time when dinosaurs walked the earth" is not how to open a song. Iron Madien-Peice of Mind -It ends with "The Trooper. " Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Agent of Oblivion Report post Posted June 29, 2006 Actually, "Rat Tomago" is just a live solo from "The Torture Never Stops" that he stuck a name on. You can hear some telltale moaning in the back of the mix. Really. Where's the full version? It doesn't sound very "Torture Never Stops"-y I always misinterpreted the moaning as people just hollering. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
