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Post by stu77 on Feb 15, 2023 18:03:52 GMT
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Post by jsm on Feb 15, 2023 22:53:38 GMT
Don't know if they were/are all brilliant artists, but there certainly seems to be a lot of dreck on show there
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Post by stu77 on Feb 16, 2023 0:28:10 GMT
Yeah Kiss would certainly not be my idea of brilliant.
The fact they did a concept album is interesting though.
Anyone heard it ?
I've not heard many of these. A lot seem to be post mid 80s therefore unlike!y to win a place in my heart anyway.
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Post by jsm on Feb 16, 2023 2:23:22 GMT
The only 'punk' album there is Cut The Crap, which most people say is crap, but there must be others by some of the other original punks whose output is otherwise considered credible. Sid Sings seems to get a general slating, not that Sid was usually billed as brilliant
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 16, 2023 6:56:02 GMT
Heard/heard of very few of them
The Bowie one is dreadful in the main
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Post by personunknown on Feb 16, 2023 7:18:43 GMT
I'd take issue with their slating of Dog Eat Dog by Joni Mitchell. It's a good album and it was particular critics back in the day who didn't like that Joni had taken lyrical potshots at the American liberal left.
Can't think of any 'horrible' albums by punk bands. This Is The Modern World was a disappointment to me and No More Heroes had a handful of unnecessary shock value songs.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 16, 2023 7:33:08 GMT
Can't think of any 'horrible' albums by punk bands. This Is The Modern World was a disappointment to me and No More Heroes had a handful of unnecessary shock value songs. That's a good point PU 77-79 was remarkably strong for the first wavers All the debuts I can think of were excellent, and often the follow ups too |
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Post by doug61 on Feb 16, 2023 12:13:07 GMT
TRB2 was a real stinker, sad to say.
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Post by politician2 on Feb 16, 2023 12:42:43 GMT
I'd take issue with their slating of Dog Eat Dog by Joni Mitchell. It's a good album and it was particular critics back in the day who didn't like that Joni had taken lyrical potshots at the American liberal left. Agreed. I thought it was one of her best albums for quite a while – she seemed to rediscover her flair for melody after spending years writing increasingly jazzy and impressionistic melodies. She was also one of the few sixties or seventies artists to take on eighties technology and win – in particular, the brief vignette "Smokin' (Empty, Try Another)", built around a repeated sample of a cigarette machine clicking and whirring, was a great little diversion and indicated that she had a good sense of humour, something not readily apparent from most of her work. |
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Post by Billy Idle on Feb 16, 2023 14:56:03 GMT
Joni Mitchell is someone we 're all supposed to like but she 's never done it for me .
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Post by smogquixote on Feb 16, 2023 17:56:06 GMT
Loads of these artists either aren’t that brilliant to begin with or the albums aren’t horrible by any measure. The #1 is weird also considering Kanye has put out like three albums worse than “Ye”
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Post by jsm on Feb 16, 2023 22:05:38 GMT
TRB2 was a real stinker, sad to say. I remember that being said. Not sure I ever heard it. |
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Post by jsm on Feb 16, 2023 22:22:34 GMT
Joni Mitchell is someone we 're all supposed to like but she 's never done it for me . If I remember the story correctly, John Lydon went to Jamaica with Don Letts and some other people in 1978. They somehow met Joni Mitchell and she invited them back to her villa where they smoked some huge spliffs, when suddenly somebody reacted to the music she had put on and yelled out 'What the fuck is this shit?!" It was her new album.
Having just written that I googled Lydon and Mitchell and found a different version of the story. Sounds true enough, but the one above was circulating back in the day.
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