Wall of Mouths

Agree about Mellon Collie.

The Fragile by NIN. Only got it a couple of weeks back as I never liked the band but it was £3 in cd-ex so I thought I might as well get it and I actually am quite digging it…

And “in Your Honor” by the Foo Fighters is pretty good (cue abuse)…

Selected Ambient Works Vol 2 & Drukqs by Aphex Twin

NIN- The Fragile. Very depressing but behind the lyrics lies a great amount of interesting soundscapes and creative music.
SP- Mellon Collie
The Wall. Good album, but musically just not my style. I prefer other work by Pink Floyd.
Beatles- White Album. Every song is great, but it barely fits together as an album. Just a bunch of classic tracks to me.
Say Anything- In Defense of the Genre. Sort of a White Album deal, although not every song is good.

Think the only double albums i have are (as already mentioned) Mellon Collie, In your Honour (even tho i’ve only ever listened to disc 2 once) and The Wall.

Really cool to see people still go to the shops and physically buy music once in a while…and gav, I agree. RHCP have been the most godawful boring band for the last 10 years.

Pink Floyd - The Wall - great, if I’m in the sulky-my-life-is-shit-cuz-I’m-a-rock-star-with-mommy and/or daddy-issues mood
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - fucking brilliant pop music, no matter what you say ;-)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie - the best SP imo.
Tori Amos - To Venus and Back - it was okay, not her best, but I’d tired of her by this point.
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - I vaguely remember being blown away by this twenty years ago, but haven’t really given it a listen in ages.
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation - Meh. Bought it on a friend’s recommendation. I know they’re some sort of indie gods, but I couldn’t get into them for whatever reason.

I love Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, because it has Phil Lynott in it :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Waynes_Musical_Version_of_The_W … the_Worlds

hoochalobster wrote:

:-o Don’t have Daydream Nation but Dirty is a classic album… and the Sonic Youth version of Superstar by The Carpenters is probably one of my all time favourite songs.

Is that from “If I Were a Carpenter?” God, now there’s an album begging to be unrecorded! ;-)

not that kind of guy wrote:

i am convinced still that mellon collie should not have been a double album.

You’re mad. Mad I say!
There are only 2 weaker tracks, and I wouldn’t necessarily change those either. And on top of that there was an hour of really good b-sides from the singles too - so enough stuff for a treble album ;-)

London Calling by the Clash - surprised no one’s mentioned that

Divers wrote:

I agree that Mellon collie has alot if fat that could have been trimmed. It has sone if their best songs on it but it’s not as amazing as it’s made out to be and I get bored and start skipping after a while. But he’ll if you love it then sweet, I’m sure I have albums that are forty minutes long and think that every second of it is just as important as the next but someone else thinks could be cut down to a one song single.

True, all a matter of personal taste in the end. I love the heavy and fast songs on Mellon Collie, but I also love the slower songs - which seem to be the ones most people don’t like. I also think it flows perfectly between them.
The two weaker tracks for me though are: Take Me Down and Lily. But as I love the album so much, I wouldn’t want to change them now anyway. Maybe if they’d been left off to begin with and replaced by a couple of the b-sides it could’ve been an even better album.

Adventures Beyond The Underworld - The Orb
Inside The Machine - Bad Company

I think they’ve become the textbook example of how a great band can turn into a plodding, middle of the road band within 2 albums.
They now churn out coffee table rock.

Epitome wrote:

I’ve never listened to any of his solo stuff. Does he have enough variety to do a good double album? Most of his stuff (based on AIC) is pretty mellow - thought that might get boring spread over a double album. How does his solo stuff compare to AIC - I should probably check it out one day.

Degradation Trip is fantastic. New AIC is very much in the vein of his solo stuff. It is mellower than old AIC though. The double CD version of DT is IMO actually a much better listen than the bastardised 1 cd version forced out by Roadrunner. It’s not all mellow though with a lot of corking heavier tunes - in fact there’s probably more heavy tunes on here. I honestly don’t think there’s a single bad track on both CD’s and some such as Angel Eyes, She was my girl, locked on, Anger Rising, 31/32 are as good he’s written!

If you like the new AIC then there’s much to enjoy on here and I can’t recommend it highly enough - but only the double as the 1 CD version is a complete waste of money. Try his debut Boggy Depot too as it’s basically all of AIC minus Layne playing on there.

Duvall is great live.

The old songs would have sounded empty with just ole JC on vocals.

I’m still convinced that he’s got more presence on the album than people give him credit for. :)

I couldn’t get into the JC solo album, I got the 1 disc version when it came out, and aside from the odd track, i thought it was a bit dull. I refused to get the two disc version as I assumed it was a typical Roadrunner cash-in stunt.

I might have to have another listen.