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Well, well, well. Here we are. Nice to see you Glibbies! It’s been a minute. I’ve been a bit occupied with the whole running a coffee shop thing.
Stumbled upon this atrocity. What’s going on down there in Texas?
New Titanic wreckage footage released
Reddit on albums with zero bad songs. Curious to see what people like.
I had more links but the website ate my blog post.
No Italian cowboys means nobody to hold them accountable for that.
At least they didn’t include beans like some savages.
Winner. Shut down the intertubes.
Non sono un cavallero, é vero.
Ah, nuts, I guessed wrong. It’s cavaliere.
Texas Chicken Spaghetti is actually good. I make it. But I use spiral noodles instead of spaghetti.
I read that recipe. You should be tried for war crimes.
Country grandma food. It’s delicious…don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.
“It’s delicious…don’t knock it till you’ve tried it.”
That’s exactly what Harvey Weinstein told me during my audition. I feel like this dish may be an even bigger test of my gag reflex.
My only problem with it is that it congeals like a brick in my stomach.
Meh. With certain substitutions, it reads like every simple casserole dish ever to be written down as a recipe.
It’s fine. I’d serve it as a side, or at a potluck or funeral.
You could always serve it to cause a funeral.
Make that with ziti or rigatoni and ain’t no one bitching.
Ex-wife use to make Turkey Tetrazzini with Thanksgiving leftovers. Similar to this but with a béchamel sauce instead of cream of chicken soup.
I thought I knew R.J. I thought he was solid.
He’s a cheap Zwak lookalike. You can’t trust that!
I didn’t say what I did with it after I made it.
I’ve had that. It’s a comfort food thing. You’ll eat more of it than you think you will.
It wuz aliens wot dunnit.
Albums with no bad songs… I would throw in the self titled Amazing Royal Crowns (later renamed to the Amazing Crowns after a lawsuit by WB) album, this is my least favorite song on that album. Their second album was hot garbage.
I’ll also kick in Red Roses for Me by the Pogues.
Toadies Rubberneck, Rancid’s Let’s Go!, almost anything by Man or…Astroman? Urine Trouble S/T
Waiting for someone to troll with Rush in 3… 2… 1…
How would you troll with something that is objectively amazing?
True. Thought I could summon MikeS. I was wrong.
I would pick Hemispheres. It was their first album where you didn’t have something like “Going Bald” or “Bytor and the Snow Dog.” Solid good album. It
The best of the old school Rush for certain
*weeps in sheer joy someone else said it*
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation is the first one that comes to mind for me.
pet shop boys, actually.
Also:
Helloween — Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1
Lindsey Stirling – Lindsey Stirling
Ben Folds – Rockin’ The Suburbs
Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation
Michael Jackson put out one Bad album. Not all the songs on it were Bad.
But Al’s were Even Worse.
I believe these albums should be known by the official nomenclature of “All killer, no filler”
Here are a few off the top of my head:
Jane’s Addiction / Jane’s Addiction (the XXX label live debut release)
The Killers / Hot Fuss
U2/ War
David Bowie / Station to Station
Weezer / Pinkerton
Kanye West / My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
the latest Strokes album (The New Abnormal, 2020) is pretty close.
I am the biggest Jane’s fanboy out there.
But their Stones cover on that album was not good.
Now their next two otoh, even the filler was great,
I loved the percussion on the Sympathy cover. I found it interesting.
You know, I saw them in ’89. Back before the sell out known as Ritual.
No bad songs is a very low bar, tons of albums have no bad songs but also no good songs either, an album filled with ‘meh’ isn’t much of an achievement. I think a better standard would be all good song with at least one or two great songs. Off the top of my head only a few Stones albums, Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower, Rock and Roll Backlash by The Woggles, and everything Tom Waits or the Kinks released fit the bill.
Tom Wait’s duet with Bette Middler shuts down part of that argument.
That’s a fair cop.
The Bulletboys’ first album. I also think the Black Album by Metallica had no bad songs.
Nick Cave’s Let Love In
Ooh, good choice. Another album I discovered on account of The X-Files.
I was reading an interview with Mick Harvey, and he was saying that Cave wrote the title track in like 15 minutes, and thought it was crap because it was so easy to come up with. They had to beg him to keep it.
And for the uneducated, Rowland S. Howards Teenage Snuff Film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTqsncrbbzE
Ten good songs here.
The more I think on it,
Strange Pleasures
Rid of Me
Fire of Love
Los Angeles
Ragin’, Full On
Portishead
Kind of Blue
Smithereens 11
Gentlemen
The Sky’s gone out.
That is a great list as well.
There is a surprising number of great albums.
Dr. Dre – The Chronic
Guns and Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Also Beastie Boys Licensed to Ill, Paul’s Boutique and Check your Head
The problem with studying Phoenicians is that their library was sacked. What survives are the volumes that managed to a. get through the Punic Wars and b. get copied by Greco-centric Romans.
I meant Carthaginians, not Phoenicians.
We aren’t that Phoenicy.
The attempts to get kids hooked on Phoenics was not successful.
I believe Carthage was originally a Phoenician colony so you’re technically correct.
There are things/people I like
There are things/people I don’t like
There are things/people I don’t know if I like or don’t like
I like beans in my chili and I don’t care. Don’t put any spices in it ’cause I’m from Minnesoda.
I grew up with Cal-Mex so beans in chili are normal.
I’ve never made chili without beans. Honestly, I can’t even picture it sans legumes… isn’t that just spicy beef vegetable soup?
Soup? Chili should be so thick you can eat it off a plate!
Ok… stew then. Happy?
I’m never happy.
Well, stew then.
Chili sans beans goes on hot dogs.
No beans for me.
In fact, when I freeze mine, I label it “Chili – No Fucking Beans”.
Beans make me fart even more than normal. Juicy, juicy farts.
Eh, it’s a regional thing. Chili is peasant food, and there’s probably as many variations as there are abuelas. I’m prone to getting all snotty about mi abuela’s New Mex recipe being the One True Chili, but I’ve never actually had it in its original formula.
The recipe is very simple – it’s basically a chili roux, that she would add chunks of pork to. I learned later those pork chunks were originally the chicharonnes that were made when bacon was rendered for its lard – essentially, chicharonnes are the lean part of bacon, slow cooked in lard as the lard is rendered. My fathert’s uncle had would slaughter a hog every year, render the lard, and keep the chicharonnes in coffee cans and add them to his “red sauce” when he made breakfast. I submit that this was culinary genius.
Unsurprising Reddit answers, at least the most updooted. Although I have to agree with Doolittle and Boston.
For me, Here Comes the Indian and Strawberry Jam by Animal Collective, Keep It Like A Secret by Built to Spill, American Don by Don Caballero, Spilt Milk by Jellyfish, Six Demon Bag by Man Man, The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse, Dub Housing by Pere Ubu, Nowhere by Ride, Fun Trick Noisemaker by The Apples in Stereo, Oh, Inverted World by The Shins, and Swordfish Trombones by Tom Waits.
Good choices. Big Jellyfish And BtS fan.
I don’t think you were here the other day when I mentioned it, but Built to Spill put out a new album back in September. It’s pretty good.
OH thank goodness. I thought Tundra meant the OTHER BTS.
The lowercase “t” is doing a lot of work there.
Legit LOL!
I had to look it up. SAD!
Thank you, Pat! I will check it out.
The closing track makes the album for me.
I don’t see any Justin Bieber on there.
That list is moot!
He’s all over the list about albums with zero good songs.
Jackson Browne, Running on Empty
Larry Norman, Only Visiting This Planet; In Another Land
I’d support the Norman choices. Bonus: both my brothers *hated* those albums because they were “Christian.”
Naturally, I’d crank ’em when they’d say that. ;-)
That seems like going a bit far to placate them.
“Placate”?
That’s so cute.
Pere Ubu!
One of the greatest songs of all time featuring (to me, imho) the greatest guitar solo of all time.
In 2016 they remastered and compiled the Hearpen singles onto a single album. Available from their Bandcamp.
Genesis – Duke
No.
I was going to go for Selling England by the Pound, but I figured that would really get the punk rock aficionados’ panties in a twist.
Heathens…
Was never a big Phil Collins fan. Peter Gabriel on the other hand …
If you think you don’t like Collins, listen to Dance on a Volcano (Genesis) or Nuclear Burn (Brand X).
You were supposed to respond to me with “Fuck off, slaver.”
This shit is all subjective anyway.
I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that I didn’t really understand any of their work, though on their last album of the 1970s, the concept-laden And Then There Were Three (a reference to band member Peter Gabriel, who left the group to start a lame solo career), I did enjoy the lovely “Follow You, Follow Me.” Otherwise all the albums before Duke seemed too artsy, too intelleotual. It was Duke (Atlantic; 1980), where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent, and the music got more modern, the drum machine became more prevalent and the lyrics started getting less mystical and more specific (maybe because of Peter Gabriel’s departure), and complex, ambiguous studies of loss became, instead, smashing first-rate pop songs that I gratefully embraced. The songs themselves seemed arranged more around Collins’ drumming than Mike Rutherford’s bass lines or Tony Banks’ keyboard riffs. A classic example of this is “Misunderstanding,” which not only was the group’s first big hit of the eighties but also seemed to set the tone for the rest of theiralbums as the decade progressed. The other standout on Duke is “Turn It On Again,” which is about the negative effects of television. On the other hand, “Heathaze” is a song I just don’t understand, while “Please Don’t Ask” is a touching love song written to a separated wife who regains custody of the couple’s child. Has the negative aspect of divorce ever been rendered in more intimate terms by a rock ‘n’ roll group? I don’t think so. “Duke Travels” and “Dukes End” might mean something but since the lyrics aren’t printed it’s hard to tell what Collins is singing about, though there is complex, gorgeous piano work by Tony Banks on the latter track. The only bummer about Duke is “Alone Tonight,” which is way too reminiscent of “Tonight Tonight Tonight” from the group’s later masterpiece Invisible Touch and the only example, really, of where Collins has plagiarized himself.
Abacab (Atlantic; 1981) was released almost immediately after Duke and it benefits from a new producer, Hugh Padgham, who gives the band a more eighties sound and though the songs seem fairly generic, there are still great bits throughout: the extended jam in the middle of the title track and the horns by some group called Earth, Wind and Fire on “No Reply at All” are just two examples. Again the songs reflect dark emotions and are about people who feel lost or who are in conflict, but the production and sound are gleaming and upbeat (even if the titles aren’t: “No Reply at All,” “Keep It Dark,” “Who Dunnit?” “Like It or Not”). Mike Rutherford’s bass is obscured somewhat in the mix but otherwise the band sounds tight and is once again propelled by Collins’ truly amazing drumming. Even at its most despairing (like the song “Dodo,” about extinction), Abacab musically is poppy and lighthearted.
My favorite track is “Man on the Corner,” which is the only song credited solely to Collins, a moving ballad with a pretty synthesized melody plus a riveting drum machine in the background. Though it could easily come off any of Phil’s solo albums, because the themes of loneliness, paranoia and alienation are overly familiar to Genesis it evokes the band’s hopeful humanism. “Man on the Corner” profoundly equates a relationship with a solitary figure (a bum, perhaps a poor homeless person?), “that lonely man on the corner” who just stands around. “Who Dunnit?” profoundly expresses the theme of confusion against a funky groove, and what makes this song so exciting is that it ends with its narrator never finding anything out at all.
Hugh Padgham produced next an even less conceptual effort, simply called Genesis (Atlantic; 1983), and though it’s a fine album a lot of it now seems too derivative for my tastes. ‘That’s All” sounds like “Misunderstanding,” “Taking It All Too Hard” reminds me of “Throwing It All Away.” It also seems less jazzy than its predecessors and more of an eighties pop album, more rock ‘n’ roll. Padgham does a brilliant job of producing, but the material is weaker than usual and you can sense the strain. It opens with the autobiographical “Mama,” that’s both strange and touching, though I couldn’t tell if the singer was talking about his actual mother or to a girl he likes to call “Mama.” ‘That’s All” is a lover’s lament about being ignored and beaten down by an unreceptive partner; despite the despairing tone it’s got a bright sing-along melody that makes the song less depressing than it probably needed to be. “That’s All” is the best tune on the album, but Phil’s voice is strongest on “House by the Sea,” whose lyrics are, however, too streamof-consciousness to make much sense. It might be about growing up and accepting adulthood but it’s unclear; at any rate, its second instrumental part puts the song more in focus for me and Mike Banks gets to show off his virtuosic guitar skills while Tom Rutherford washes the tracks over with dreamy synthesizers, and when Phil repeats the song’s third verse at the end it can give you chills.
“Illegal Alien” is the most explicitly political song the group has yet recorded and their funniest. The subject is supposed to be sad—a wetback trying to get across the border into the United States—but the details are highly comical: the bottle of tequila the Mexican holds, the new pair of shoes he’s wearing (probably stolen); and it all seems totally accurate. Phil sings it in a brash, whiny pseudo-Mexican voice that makes it even funnier, and the rhyme of “fun ” with “illegal alien ” is inspired. “Just a Job to Do” is the album’s funkiest song, with a killer bass line by Banks, and though it seems to be about a detective chasing a criminal, I think it could also be about a jealous lover tracking someone down. “Silver Rainbow” is the album’s most lyrical song. The words are intense, complex and gorgeous. The album ends on a positive, upbeat note with “It’s Gonna Get Better.” Even if the lyrics seem a tiny bit generic to some, Phil’s voice is so confident (heavily influenced by Peter Gabriel, who never made an album this polished and heartfelt himself) that he makes us believe in glorious possibilities.
Invisible Touch (Atlantic; 1986) is the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility, at the same time it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. It has a resonance that keeps coming back at the listener, and the music is so beautiful that it’s almost impossible to shake off because every song makes some connection about the unknown or the spaces between people (“Invisible Touch”), questioning authoritative control whether by domineering lovers or by government (“Land of Confusion”) or by meaningless repetition (“Tonight Tonight Tonight’. All in all it ranks with the finest rock ‘n’ roll achievements of the decade and the mastermind behind this album, along of course with the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford, is Hugh Padgham, who has never found as clear and crisp and modern a sound as this. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument.
In terms of lyrical craftsmanship and sheer songwriting skills this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Take the lyrics to “Land of Confusion,” in which a singer addresses the problem of abusive political authority. This is laid down with a groove funkier and blacker than anything Prince or Michael Jackson—or any other black artist of recent years, for that matter—has come up with. Yet as danceable as the album is, it also has a stripped-down urgency that not even the overrated Bruce Springsteen can equal. As an observer of love’s failings Collins beats out the Boss again and again, reaching new heights of emotional honesty on “In Too Deep”; yet it also showcases Collins’ clowny, prankish, unpredictable side. It’s the most moving pop song of the 1980s about monogamy and commitment. “Anything She Does” (which echoes the J. Geils Band’s “Centerfold” but is more spirited and energetic) starts off side two and after that the album reaches its peak with “Domino,” a two-part song. Part one, “In the Heat of the Night,” is full of sharp, finely drawn images of despair and it’s paired with “The Last Domino,” which fights it with an expression of hope. This song is extremely uplifting. The lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I’ve heard in rock.
Phil Collins’ solo efforts seem to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying in a narrower way, especially No Jacket Required and songs like “In the Air Tonight” and “Against All Odds” (though that song was overshadowed by the masterful movie from which it came) and “Take Me Home” and “Sussudio” (great, great song; a personal favorite) and his remake of “You Can’t Hurry Love,” which I’m not alone in thinking is better than the Supremes’ original. But I also think that Phil Collins works better within the confines of the group than as a solo artist—and I stress the word artist. In fact it applies to all three of the guys, because Genesis is still the best, most exciting band to come out of England in the 1980s.
Holy embedded article, Batman!
Most of my Phil Colins stuff is definitely his solo stuff… “In the Air Tonight” in particular (really, the Miami Vice soundtrack was a good album), and oddly enough his songs for Tarzan. I think part of that is hoping my son will take some heart and messages from “Son of Man”.
Here’s a hint: Brochetta’s avatar.
^
He’s laying out newspaper on the carpet as we speak.
Step away from the meth pipe, bro.
Holy Prog Rock Liner Notes!
“who left the group to start a lame solo career”
I beg your pardon? You’ve clearly been blue pilled by the Grammys people.
Thanks, Mrs. Collins.
Damn, son. If that was off the cuff, I’m impressed.
You mean “Out of the Past”; not “Against All Odds”..
Swordfish Trombone is only the fifth best Tom Waits album, See Here of the definitive list.
I respect the list, but to be honest I never really got into his earlier piano bar stuff or later soundtrack stuff. His Beefheart phase is pretty much it.
Frank settled down in the valley, hung his wild years on a nail he drove threw his wife’s forehead.
Swordfishtrombones is first, if only for that line. His later work is good, damn good until recently, buy nothing surpasses the Blues Trilogy.
The
“Never could stand that dog.”
I’m surprised Little Creatures or Stop Making Sense by the Talking Heads aren’t mentioned.
I don’t think live albums should count because they are basically compilations, no (save for a self-contained live album that does not feature songs from other works)
Thanks, WebDom!
Curious to see what people like.
The Clash London Calling
The Church Blurred Crusade
The Who Quadrophenia
Pretty much any Police record
Soul Asylum And The Horse They Rode In On
Replacements Tim
I was going to shit on your any Police record, but they were fortunate enough Sting was such a prick they only put out 5 studio albums—all pretty good. Maybe we should be thanking Yoko Ono for keeping The Beatles from becoming a Wings/Plastic Ono Band bullshit mashup in the 1970s.
Sting crawling up his own asshole saved their legacy. I’ll stand by it. No bad songs on any record. INXS had three or four records like that, too.
Listen Like Thieves was the only one for me. The others were good but had a dud or two.
Godfodder by Ned’s Atomic Dustbin was also excellent.
Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
New Order Low Life
Descendents Everything Sucks
Duran Duran Rio
Looking forward to KK’s write up!
Crooked Rain is damn good.
The chicken spaghetti (although a little Paula Deen-ish for me) doesn’t sound any weirder than Barbecue Spaghetti, which I cook almost every time I have leftover pork butt. I use one of my favorite ‘cue sauces that I have in the fridge instead of the Neely’s recipe.
Album with no bad songs: Taproot – Welcome
https://archive.ph/znT8R
Mammary Monday.
It just looks like Texas hot dish to me.
Bring out your hate . . . . .
Sgt Pepper and Abbey Road.
I prefer Let it Be.
For hate?
White Album & Sgt. Pepper.
Love?
Rubber Soul and Revolver
Revolver
Off the top of my head, I can’t think of any Beatles album that I have that has any songs that I skip over.
But, I know all of people here hate the Beatles.
The weird experimental shit on SP and WA turned me off.
Otherwise, yes. I dig them.
Love SP. Don’t care too much for WA.
Not a fan of Paul’s “Grandma music” That’s what Lennon called it.
When Im 64 is a classic case of great writing and woven melodies,
Macaa is a genious.
I prefer Let It End.
I’ll see the potential hate directed at you and raise it by several factors: Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited; Blood on the Tracks
Every song on Blood on the Tracks (other than ‘You’re gonna make me lonesome…’) is at least two minutes too long and “Idiot Wind” is unlistenable. Other than that it’s a great album.
Time Out of Mind and Love and Theft are damn good albums too.
From the Roman pestle/dildo previously, I’m guessing nobody read it to see that as per the CNN style guide the object had to be contextualized in the Romans toxic whiteness oppression.
Sounds more like Collins has a pegging fetish and wanted to work that into his profession.
And if it had wheels it could have been a bike. Where’s my PhD?
I got a new knife today:
https://www.smkw.com/pro-tech-godson-smkw-artic-storm
😃
That’s pretty. I’m a Spyderco man.
I lose too many. I carry Kershaws.
I got a SOG for edc, good balance and heft
How about instead of your albums with no bad songs, your guilty pleasure albums? I expect I’m not alone in owning Wilson Phillips (1990).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FExBwfQHXlE&list=OLAK5uy_k7oRGGpja1m6yois5ZaMA3ByE03fAJuYQ
Mike Judge approves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOaidZAPb0A
What’s funny about that one is I didn’t buy it. Found it in a parking lot one day — wish the guy had done more, it is catchier than you’d expect.
Spandau Ballet, I guess. Maybe Culture Club?
The Bones of What You Believe by CHVRCHES, Hell or Highwater by David Duchovny (yes, I got it just because of The X-Files), Shepherd Moons by Enya, Pickin’ Up The Pieces by Fitz and The Tantrums, Moenie and Kitchie by Gregory and the Hawk (not because it’s actually bad, just because it’s so fay), Maybe I’m Dreaming by Owl City, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines? by The Vaccines (which ironically I might also put on the “no bad songs” list).
Shepherd Moons by Enya
I have every studio album. I also have Clannad when she was with them and some of her sister Moya’s albums.
That’s another one where it’s not a guilty pleasure because it’s bad, just because you can’t help but feel like a middle aged wine aunt listening to new age music.
Sometimes you need to get in touch with your wine drinking feminine side. Ministry is more for when I’m breaking things so they fit in the trash.
What is this guilt of which you speak?
Hmmm… are Hall and Oates a guilty pleasure?
No
Jesus Crist Superstar. Not religious, but I love that soundtrack (movie is much better version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGcIvK7f77o
1970s dancing
The original Broadway recording of Chess.
Huey Lewis
Eiffel 65
Album with no bad songs — Animal Logic’s first album
Also no bad songs:
Miles Davis & Gil Evans – Sketches of Spain
Chick Corea – Return to Forever
+1 for busting out Chick Corea.
Also, Miles Davis, “Kinda Blue”.
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon (duh)
Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
King Crimson – Lizard (maybe with an asterisk)
Overwerk – Canon (EP)
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets
Michael Rother – Katzenmusik; also Flammende Herzen
This Mortal Coil – It’ll End in Tears
George Benson. White Rabbit.
George Benson, Breezin’
Got that one too 😉
You didn’t build that
The U.S. Department of Transportation and the Biden administration on Wednesday laid out a set of requirements for charging hardware—and charging network behavior—that any company looking at claiming federal funds in the buildout of the $7.5 billion national EV charging network will need to submit to. Even Tesla.
The Ministry of Plenty will allocate resources fairly. The market can fuck off.
lolwut
That might be enough to cover a medium-sized city.
The goal is to only have cars for elites, remember. Our time is over. No cars for us.
The train cars are for us though.
guilty pleasure albums?
Bananarama.
Good one!
Go Go’s, too.
Other than Trick of the Night I don’t go back to that one too often.
I do have 4 Jane Wiedlin albums, though… which given Kissproof World is almost certainly one too many.
guilty pleasure- Jimmy Buffett A1A
Collective Soul- Blue self title
Oddly, they’ve had 2 self titled albums
Well, their soul is a collective — so that makes sense.
Weezer says “that’s cute.”
At least Scott Walker numbered his.
Peter Gabriel says hold my beer.
There’s Car, Scratch, Melt and Security!
“So, the other thing we have to be conscious of is that it would be easy to cast such an object as silly and frivolous and just about sexual gratification, but it could be a tool for perpetuating power imbalance and subjugation,” Collins said.
Tell me more about your mother, Doctor.
I’m still thinking it was a pestle or tool of some kind, and a bored 14 year old carved a dickhead on it.
Black Sabbath’s Heaven and Hell. Every song is great.
Yes, also Blackmores rainbow,
Long live rock and roll, no bad songs,
But, I know all of people here hate the Beatles.
Not everything. Help and A Hard Day’s Night are okay by me.
Helter Skelter. *Manson stare*
Don’t give me your fucking’ Manson lamps
Death Grips
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qxa91EwFco
/mu/ flashbacks
Yo, zwak
https://giphy.com/gifs/gilmoregirls-season-2-netflix-l1AvyYYoX1nYBeNeU
Yeah, I totally deserve that. Sorry, I completely forgot, and now I am living up to my pronouns.
You may have to fight some local curmudgeons for those pronouns
No bad tracks:
“Waylon and Willie” by Waylon and Willie
“The Planets” by Holst
“Heads and Tales” by Harry Chapin
“Take a Chance” by Jerry Riopelle (Big in AZ and NM unknown elsewhere)
and to get the hate replies: “”Born to Run” by Bruce Springsteen
My reaction to Springsteen is roughly the same as Mile’s reaction to Merlot.
https://youtu.be/uLtlwAGZx6U
“The Planets” by Holst
Der Ring des Nibelungen has no bad albums.
“Wagner is better than it sounds”
MTV Unplugged.
I thought I knew you.
I can think of several albums without a bad song.
Back in Black. AC/DC
Sonic Temple The Cult
Paul’s Boutique beastie Boys
Badmotorfinger Soundgarden
Cure for the Pain Morphine
Freedom of Choice Devo
The Chronic Dr Dre
The Killers Hot Fuss
Swans To Be Kind
Songs For the Deaf QOTSA
Solid
I get the Paul’s Boutique love, but Check Your Head is my go-to BBoys album with no bad tracks.
I’ll communication is even better to me. But there are few wrong answers out of those 3.
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Van Morrison – Astral Weeks
How about albums/artists that you used to like a lot, but now can’t understand why?
Nirvana and Pearl Jam scream to the top for me.
Heh. A friend of mine went to a Chili Peppers concert, with Nirvana and Pearl Jam opening.
Had to think about it, but GnR or Jane’s. Both start out great, but the last thing I listened too sucked green donkey dicks.
The first album is often the best from acts that get signed after touring for years. 5 years to make the first album while they are hungry. Once they get rich, famous, and put under pressure to make another it will me mediocre.
There are exceptions for bands that never make it big on the first album.
Yeah, and it applies to authors too. Spend all their lives thinking about that first book, and then get published… and have to do it all over.
I said I’d stop when I started repeating myself. Well, I didn’t notice when that happened, but it did. But I really stopped because I had no more stories to tell.
There was a very brief period when I was into Chicago.
Don’t judge me.
Satan commanded it.
Chicago kicking ass.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XJxSP3LC9BA
“Stay the Night” slaps. Sue me.
They have a couple amazing songs but I was never interested in diving in any further.
I mean, if I go back and listen to the good stuff, I understand why.
I mean, U2 (hate time) managed it for 12-13 years and 6-ish albums. There’s still cherries to pick out of the later stuff but most of it is just blah corporate middle aged pop stuff. Which makes sense—they were rich as fuck and didn’t have to worry about their next meal.
I mean, just listen to how Larry Mullen’s drums sound on the first 3-4 albums and then the last 3-4 albums. It’s like a disappearing act — so far back in the mix it’s a wonder he’s even there at all.
P.O.D., Disturbed, Korn, Cold. Nu-metal in general I guess. It was high school, OK?
REO Speedwagon
Loggins & Messina
Guns and Roses
Look, I don’t know if an album’s every song is great. I listen to whole albums because that’s what I used to do when I had no selection or I was too busy to change the needle on the vinyl or fast forward on the cassette. Are there songs I will skip if it’s convenient for me to do so, sure. There are songs I like more than others, but I may like them all. But I listen to whole albums now because I always find a gem somewhere in the back 40. Here. No bad songs.
Dude kills cop in Philly. Dude kills Catholic bishop in Cal. Anyone else coming around to the idea that murdering scum like this, properly and swiftly tried and convicted, should be removed permanently from society? And by permanently, mean…..
I’m getting there.
I just read about the Philly cop.
And I still don’t trust the state enough to kill. Even those who richly deserve it.
This. I am against the death penalty on the grounds that the state is wholly irresponsible at making decisions with people’s lives.
It’s an agnostic area for me. I agree with what you said but I also am not going to be bothered about some murdering POS get theirs. I certainly don’t see them existing into old age at the collective expense of everyone else as a better alternative.
That’s begging the question. The government’s process on deciding who is a murdering POS is hardly infallible.
I’m not saying it is. I’m saying it’s two bad alternatives.
What the fuck is going on in Ohio?
No reason to think it was anything other than an accident, but god damn what a mess.
I have an alibi.
The media are sure feeding a narrative. The problem is I have no idea what to make of it.
But why?
Industrial plants are dangerous places. I have no idea how many blow up every day. Lach has shared some incredible video and stories that would never make the news.
They like clicks.
Humans see patterns everywhere?
Aja
+1
I didn’t bother because I knew someone would.
Yeah?
Well, I’ve got spies.
We’ll find out, Sean.
😋
Spies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0F984w4vLQ
I had a buddy whose father had a massive shortwave. We would tune into these stations for fun.
Remembering stringing an antenna out in the backyard for my dad.
Pre internet he loved listening to all the English broadcasts from all over the world.
Tyler Childers https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&sa=X&rls=en&q=purgatory&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgVuLVT9c3NEzLNrAsTkmzfMRowS3w8sc9YSn9SWtOXmPU5OIKzsgvd80rySypFJLmYoOyBKX4uVB18ixi5SwoLUpPLMkvqgQARRun7VgAAAA&ved=2ahUKEwj1jfD2p6X9AhXFGzQIHci7BjgQ1i96BAgIEAM&biw=1440&bih=837&dpr=1
Whelp it might not have a bad song but obviously a fan who can’t HTML
Try Dos:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mbN08hevYSN2ZbLl_q7S-pKkkykFjCje8
DOS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrgJBCtCmE
“Meghan ‘has been upset and overwhelmed by her depiction on South Park for DAYS’ after irreverent US cartoon described Duchess as ‘sorority girl, actress, influencer, victim’ in scathing episode”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11773161/Meghan-Markle-upset-overwhelmed-depiction-South-Park-DAYS-says-source.html
OFFS, it’s literally South Park.
She and her cuck husband are whiny sacks of shit. He seemed alright back when he was a-whorin’ and wearing Nazi Halloween outfits in his 20s but he’s been emasculated now.
She’s toxic. I suspect she ruined him. I’ve seen it before.
Reference Colin Kapaernik and Jemele Hill.
From the Spectator article quoted
I despise them, much like Jeremy Clarkson. What a useless pair of parasites. Well done by South Park.
The episode was actually tame by SP standards. However, they were the entire plot unlike many of their other celebrity takedowns.
“If we destroy Biden who will replace him? Kamala Harris?’ Russia’s propagandists discuss why Kremlin LET Biden visit Kyiv ‘with guarantees’ because for them he’s a better option than VP Harris who has ‘no restraints or opinion'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11772709/Russias-propagandists-discuss-Kremlin-LET-Biden-visit-Kyiv-guarantees.html
LOL
As lame as it seems coordinating with the Russians is a good thing. If they unwittingly dropped a missed on his head or shot down Airforce One it’d be WWIII.
Additional great albums that are also a guilty pleasure.
Willy and the Poor Boys CCR
Wings at the Speed of Sound
Purple Rain
I wonder if Putin’s tried to get to Z and can’t, or doesn’t want to. At least from here it looks like Z is in the open quite a lot, entertaining foreigners all the time as he does.
In any number of spy thrillers, a Spetnaz sniper would have hit Z already from about a kilometer away.
Taking out Zelenskyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy would martyr him in the eyes of the Western world. That juice ain’t worth the squeeze.