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"Up In It' is my favorite. Good production, aggressive songs, and consistent the whole way through. 'Retarded' and 'You My Flower' are incredible. My list would be: Up In It Black Love Congregation Gentlemen 1965
0 | 9/9/14 4:29 PM
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Say Anything? Never heard of them.
+1 | 9/3/14 2:19 PM
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No, he's right. It sucks.
-1 | 9/2/14 3:27 AM
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'Einstein On The Beach'...that's a great tune
+2 | 8/28/14 3:26 AM
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Indeed. It has made music a much more singles driven market. That's fine for most of the disposable pop music that doesn't have much to say in the first place. But are we really going to have another R.E.M, another Cure, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Nirvana etc. in a singles driven market? Those are just a few examples of bands who had something bigger to say. Something that deserved the full-length medium of an album. The whole "cherry-pick" mentality of only downloading a single is to me the equivalent of tearing one page out of a book. You don't get the whole story. The whole experience of buying an album/CD was that you had the full package as the artist intended. The artwork, photos, lyrics. I still see that as an experience that has value even though the world is telling me it doesn't.
0 | 8/21/14 3:15 PM
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I also think that the whole digital downloads/streaming revolution will hurt bands in the long term as far as longevity goes. I think when people actually own an album in a physical format that they paid for there is more value ascribed to it. It's something you can go back to. I can walk up to my shelf of CD's and pick something great to listen to and keep coming back to it for years to come. I can discover something in my collection that I've forgotten about and it becomes new to me once again. If you can just download it for free or stream it it's more of a "right-now" thing. Once it gets buried among all your other mp3's or the cluttered morass of a streaming service like spotify it's kind of lost down the rabbit-hole. Out of sight, out of mind. Will you really keep coming back to it? Will you even remember to? If I were to take the viewpoint of an artist, I would much rather my fans own a physical CD of my work than to just have it available online for streaming and to be fighting for bandwith and "listener real-estate" with whatever the newest flash in the pan that has everyone's attention is. I feel like it has made music really a disposable commodity. It has lost the value that it really deserves. Now I'm not saying the value of it was the $16.98 overpriced CD at Sam Goody in the 90's, but I feel like the death of physical formats for music makes music less important somehow.
+2 | 8/21/14 2:12 AM
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I still buy CD's because I like owning albums in a physical/tangible format. Vinyl is too expensive for me to buy on a consistent basis. I find I'm more likely to give a good album the listening time it deserves when I have it on CD. I use Spotify too but I can't think of what I want to listen to half time because the choices are overwhelming. Also, CD's are much more convenient in the car when you can just pop one in and go instead of fiddling with your phone and crashing your car. It's a lot easier to change CD's at a stoplight than it is to go digging through menus on your iPod or phone.
+1 | 8/21/14 1:57 AM
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Oh yeah bro, Siamese Dream. What a terrible album. (yawn)
+5 | 8/19/14 11:46 PM
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That Afghan Whigs and Pavement comment than Thayil made gave me a good laugh though.
+3 | 8/19/14 5:06 PM
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Kim Thayil sounds far more arrogant in his comments than BC does. And sorry Kim, but the last Soundgarden album was pretty wack. It sounded like a soundtrack to an episode of Sons of Anarchy, which consequently featured the song "Been Away For Too Long" in an episode. It was fitting.
0 | 8/19/14 5:05 PM
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So she releases cheap misogynistic music that glorifies women who act like sluts yet she gets upset when men treat her like one?
-1 | 6/23/14 2:20 PM
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She sounded like crap.
-1 | 4/16/14 5:58 PM
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Some people, myself included, like to actually own physical copies of things they pay for.
0 | 4/14/14 9:09 PM
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Anyone who's ignored the first two Dio Sabbath albums is ignoring two of the very best heavy metal/hard rock records ever. 1. Paranoid 2. Master of Reality 3. Heaven and Hell 4. Vol. 4 5. Mob Rules 6. Black Sabbath 7. Dehumanizer 8. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath 9. Sabotage 10. Never Say Die 11. Seventh Star 12. Eternal Idol
0 | 2/6/14 2:03 PM
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Yeah, the fact that he comes from an extremely rich family is one thing that always has rubbed me the wrong way. They were really slumming it early on on those indie tours with dad's bank account to fall back on.
+3 | 1/16/14 7:28 PM
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He's a rock star in his own mind. I still think he's a big dork. Reflektor makes a great coaster though.
+4 | 1/16/14 7:26 PM
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Those last two tracks are a total waste and once I heard them it made me mad I spent $27 on a glorified EP. "Nothing Is" is a pointless loop and "Wonder 2" is just aimless noise. First 7 tracks are pretty good though.
-9 | 2/4/13 1:45 AM
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Oh and don't forget the ironic .gif to really put me in my place.
0 | 10/1/12 3:28 PM
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Great album and one of the best of the 90's. Someone who likes twee indie bands or those wussy beard flannel mandolin indie folk bands like Sanford & Songs is definitely not going to be down with this album so that fat guy Kevin's comments are not surprising. Indie rock fans can't handle any band that shows any hint of masculinity or testosterone since they're usually dork vegans that got bullied in high school. If you can't hear the brilliance of songs like "Rain When I Die", "Rooster", "Down In A Hole" and "Would?" I'd venture to say that you don't like rock music at all.
0 | 10/1/12 3:28 PM
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Not to mention that he can pretty much smoke any drummer on that list too.
+1 | 9/3/12 4:50 AM
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Where's Jimmy Chamberlin on this list? If Billy Corgan has a net worth of 50 million according to that site then Jimmy has got to have at least half or third of that. And Mick Fleetwood...there's no way that dude is worth only 8 million.
0 | 9/3/12 4:49 AM
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This is the only way it can be: 1. disintegration 2. wish 3. kiss me kiss me kiss me 4. pornography 5. head on the door 6. seventeen seconds 7. faith 8. the top 9. wild mood swings (a lot better than people give it credit for) 10. bloodflowers 11. three imaginary boys 12. the cure 13. 4:13 dream
0 | 8/20/12 2:29 PM
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The entire musical climate was completely different in the early 90's. Legitimate bands would get signed to major labels. Bands that were heavy hitters like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Smashing Pumpkins etc would get signed. Sloppy lofi indie bands that couldn't play their instruments didn't get the kind of attention like they do today. The bar has been significantly lowered talent-wise. To say that the Pumpkins were just some major label concoction is just sheer ignorance and denying one of the greatest 90's bands their due.
-1 | 8/20/12 3:25 AM
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Guess he never got the memo that there already was a really good album by Emmylou Harris called "Wrecking Ball".
0 | 2/20/12 3:01 PM
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"Brooklyn-based". That's all you have to say to make me quit paying attention. -12
-15 | 2/17/12 3:52 PM
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tl;dr
0 | 2/14/12 1:48 AM
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The girl playing Olsen actually looked a lot more like Zooey than the other girl. Blue eyes necessary
+1 | 2/13/12 3:34 PM
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silverchair weren't THAT bad man
+2 | 2/13/12 3:17 PM
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I'm sure she gives quite a fuck about the $$$ she got paid to do the performance. Yeah, she really stuck it to the man, man.
0 | 2/7/12 12:09 AM
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I have noticed, yes. Coldplay latest album is terrible. Still think Bon Iver sounds like a more ponderous Coldplay. His voice is very similar.
0 | 2/7/12 12:06 AM
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Bon Iver is not bad, but I find his music a bit boring. His stuff sounds dangerously close to Coldplay
-4 | 2/6/12 2:54 AM
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Radiohead with a default placement in the top 10 even though King of Limbs is the worst album they've ever done hands down. I've seen the same copies of it in used cd shops sitting there for months.
-8 | 11/29/11 3:28 PM
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Siamese Dream is just as good as Loveless in its own way and just as much of a landmark album IMO.
+3 | 11/4/11 3:39 PM
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Is it just me, or are you Skrillex?
0 | 10/28/11 2:46 PM
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Is the girl even real? There seemed to be nothing going on upstairs in this interview. Fake lips, fake everything. Stepford Wives as pop stars now?
+1 | 10/26/11 4:07 PM
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"Hurts Like Heaven" sounds like an imitation of "Keep the Car Running" by Arcade Fire
-2 | 10/21/11 11:30 PM
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Well that's a blatant rip off if I've ever heard one. Coldplay have Satriani'd themselves again.
0 | 10/21/11 11:28 PM
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This is probably my favorite U2 song so I was looking forward to hearing this cover. Pretty disappointing version of the song though. Lifeless and boring.
0 | 10/21/11 2:04 PM
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Wow that "Charlie Brown" sound couldn't be more formulaic. Sounds like one of those insurance or car commercial songs that tries to sound like U2.
-4 | 8/5/11 2:32 PM
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overrated album is overrated. if they weren't 5 rich kids from new york with industry connections and their carefully chosen thrift store attire with bedhead hair nobody would have ever heard them. the strokes were and always will be just a caricature of rock n' roll.
-15 | 7/26/11 3:16 PM
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