Surprise album drops are the best! Brings me back to when Radiohead released TKOL, a day before my wedding (best week ever!).
As much as i have loved the handful of singles released in anticipation of Currents, i've sat with them for weeks, months(?), and it's taking a bit of the luster out of the album release today for me.
Here's hoping we move to more and more surprise album releases going forward
Trim 3 tracks off of Brothers (for me it'd be Ten Cent Pistol, Black Mud & maybe I'm Not the One) and you're looking at clearly their best album & arguably one of the better albums of the past decade
...or at least his own column! I'd pay to read that. Rolling Stone would be smart to offer him one, at the very least to try to save a dying medium. Of course that's assuming he'd agree to take that on, a big assumption!
Used to dig this band during their peak, even kept following them for a few more albums. My tastes have changed considerably since then (high school). It's funny, when i'm feeling nostalgic i still enjoy listening to some of my favorite albums from that period (such as REM's Monster, hell even some Sublime or Everclear), but i just cannot get myself to revisit Live... and I think alot of that has to do with reading too much into the stories surrounding their breakup. Ed came off as a greedy jerk
I know they technically weren't SP, but I always considered Zwan in the mix with the Pumpkins albums. But then what would you do about Billy's solo album (and James and Jimmy's solo joints, i guess), so I get it. That being said, If i was throwing it into the ranking, i'd put it in one spot ahead of Oceania.
Maybe I just dig their moodier slow jams more, but "Zero Chance," "Limo Wreck," and "Boot Camp" would all be on my list.
I agree with what was said about King Animal... but "Attrition" gets my tailfeather shakin' !
Great list. Almost twenty years in and still putting out solid albums. It's so common to get diminished returns over time from "established" artists, but the Foo's have been remarkably consistent over their career. "White Limo" still makes me want to punch the sky every time I hear it!
woah, not much love for TKOL and Rainbows... too bad, they're both gems. Pablo would be a great album that most other bands would kill for in their catalog, but it just does not hold up with the rest of these giants.
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