This album > that album.

Nine Black Poppies · 06-14-2010, 04:04 PM

Mmm.

The Mountain Goats
All Hail West Texas > We Shall All Be Healed > Tallahassee > The Sunset Tree > Sweden > Get Lonely > Zopilote Machine > The Life of the World to Come > Nothing for Juice > The Coroner's Gambit > Heretic Pride > Full Force Galesburg

Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation > EVOL > Sister > Washing Machine > Goo > A Thousand Leaves > Murray Street > Dirty > Sonic Nurse > Rather Ripped > Bad Moon Rising > The Eternal > Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star > NYC Ghosts & Flowers > Confusion is Sex

Low
Secret Name > Things We Lost in the Fire > The Great Destroyer > The Curtain Hits the Cast > Trust > Long Division > Drums & Guns > I Could Live in Hope

R.E.M.
Automatic for the People > Murmur > New Adventures in Hi-Fi > Document > Reckoning > Fables of the Reconstruction > Green > Life's Rich Pageant > Up > Accelerate > Out of Time > Reveal > Monster > Around the Sun

Ween
Chocolate & Cheese > The Mollusk > Pure Guava > Quebec > 12 Golden Country Greats > White Pepper > GodWeenSatan: The Oneness > La Cucaracha > The Pod

Eh, that's enough.

Goblin Tears · 06-14-2010, 04:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Have a Cure one

Faith, Head On The Door, Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, Three Imaginary Boys, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration, The Top, Wild Mood Swings, Japanese Whispers, Bloodflowers, Mixed Up, Wish, The Cure

And no, Disintegration isn't too low.

I was going to scold you for that, but you get points for putting so much of their early work on top. Btw, Three Imaginary Boys is the US release of their debut album? It's called Boys Don't Cry here, I think they're slightly different, but I'll just count it as one album.

Pornography > Head On The Door > Seventeen Seconds > Disintegration > Faith > Kiss Me Kiss Me > Boys Don't Cry > Japanese Whispers > Mixed Up > Bloodflowers > Wild Mood Swings > The Top > Wish > The Cure > 4:13 Dream

dankrsta · 06-14-2010, 04:16 PM

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Dead Can Dance
The Serpent's Egg > Spleen and Ideal > Into the Labyrinth > Spiritchaser > Within the Realm Of a Dying Sun > Aion > Dead Can Dance

My Dead Can Dance album list is very different. I liked them better when they had a more dark wave and ethereal sound and less when they were approaching new age, medieval and world music.

Dead Can Dance>Spleen and Ideal/Within the Realm Of a Dying Sun>The Serpent's Egg>Into the Labyrinth>Spiritchaser>Aion

Bulldog · 06-14-2010, 04:21 PM

^ Man, that is very different

Oh well, at least we nearly agree on Spleen and Ideal eh.

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I've only heard their s/t and you consider it their worst? Wow...I actually quite liked that album. I better get in on their other stuff...

You should indeed

Seriously, pretty much every DCD album's worth it. They did do much better than their debut over the years though.

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Originally Posted by Seltzer

Ok, here's my Bowie ranking excluding Pin Ups and a few others I haven't heard...

Low > Aladdin Sane > Station to Station > Hunky Dory > Heroes > Scary Monsters > Man Who Sold the World > Young Americans > Ziggy Stardust > Diamond Dogs > Outside > Buddha of Suburbia > Lodger > Space Oddity > Reality > Earthling > Let's Dance > Tonight

And here's mine;

Heroes > Low > Scary Monsters > Heathen > Aladdin Sane > The Man Who Sold the World > Station To Station > Buddha Of Suburbia > Diamond Dogs > Hunky Dory > Outside > Earthling > Young Americans > Lodger > Ziggy Stardust > Pin Ups > Let's Dance > Tonight > Space Oddity > Black Tie, White Noise > Hours > David Bowie > Reality > Never Let Me Down

...I think that's all of them.

~~James~~ · 06-14-2010, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Nine Black Poppies

Mmm.

The Mountain Goats
All Hail West Texas > We Shall All Be Healed > Tallahassee > The Sunset Tree > Sweden > Get Lonely > Zopilote Machine > The Life of the World to Come > Nothing for Juice > The Coroner's Gambit > Heretic Pride > Full Force Galesburg

Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation > EVOL > Sister > Washing Machine > Goo > A Thousand Leaves > Murray Street > Dirty > Sonic Nurse > Rather Ripped > Bad Moon Rising > The Eternal > Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star > NYC Ghosts & Flowers > Confusion is Sex

Eh, that's enough.

Confusion Is Sex last? The ****?

Urban Hat€monger ? · 06-14-2010, 04:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Goblin Tears

I was going to scold you for that, but you get points for putting so much of their early work on top. Btw, Three Imaginary Boys is the US release of their debut album? It's called Boys Don't Cry here, I think they're slightly different, but I'll just count it as one album.

Almost, but you got them the wrong way around.
Three Imaginary Boys was their debut proper, Boy's Don't Cry was a compilation made up of stuff from their first album & their first 3 singles made up for the American market.I thought it would be better to go with the original as it was released seeing as I'm doing that with all the rest of them.

OctaneHugo · 06-14-2010, 05:22 PM

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So I like albums you dont and you take that as a personal insult, seriously you act this way all the damn time and it's getting irritating.

That's funny. Considering that I never, you know, showed any offense to what you said, I think I know where you pulled that from.

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Aside from Mother, I love all the songs on Sync and I consider it their most consistant work

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Consistently terrible.

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and the fact that it is also their most diverse and experimental is all the more impressive.

Except that the experiments are failures and diversity doesn't always mean greatness - if I release a 10-song album and every song is a different genre than the others is that a masterpiece?

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Tea in the Sahara a bad song? WTF YOU MAD?? One of the highlights of the album by far. Walking in Your Footsteps, Every Breath You Take, King of Pain, Synchronicity and and Wrapped Around your Fingers are solid as well.

"Tea in the Sahara" is boring and pretentious. "Every Breath You Take" is the most boring song they ever made. "Walking in Your Footsteps" sticks out in a negative way. "King of Pain" gets tiring on repeat listens. "Synchronicity I" is annoying. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is better than I claimed but still isn't a highlight in their discography.

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Though best songs on the album are O My God, Synchroncity II and Murder by Numbers.

Well at least you got that right.

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Synchronicity I doesn't even have any synths on it

Are you deaf?

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and it has a really odd structure that you never hear in pop songs, it's not at all synth pop.

If itt sounds like pop, I DGAF if it has 37 time signatures, it's pop.

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And if you think Ghost in the Machine is mostly crap then I don't know what to say.

That "sentence" should be changed to "GITM has some crap" which it does.

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What kind of Police fan are you?

The kind that likes their good songs.

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Every Little Thing is a good pop song but not one of the highlights.

Not one of the highlights but still shi‎t.

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Spirits in the Material World, Invisible Sun, Too Much Information, Rehumanize Yourself, Omegaman, come the f*ck on.

Omegaman gets dreadfully old but the rest are good.

Synchronicity is the first Police album I heard and I thought three things when I heard it.

1: "This doesn't sound like 'Message in a Bottle'."
2: "Wow, this song is a pile of turd."
3: "This song is a lot better than the others."

The Police were my favorite band for about 2 1/2 years but even then I thought that album was awful. It's basically Sting with his terrible solo output featuring Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.

I think you should stop taking personal offense to what everyone says. I don't think I've read an exchange between members that features you that didn't contain a statement similar to the one you started your post with here. Just because I don't like Synchronicity and don't agree with you doesn't mean I took personal offense or something.

OctaneHugo · 06-14-2010, 05:32 PM

Relevant: I found a review I did of Synchronicity such an incredibly long time ago I don't think it ever saw the internet.

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ALBUM TITLE: Synchronicity
RELEASE DATE:: 1983

Song Number One:
Synchronicity I
The lead off hitter, the semi-eponymous song "Synchronicity I" is a light, fast-paced number that opens and features a constant, high synthesizer "bing" noise. Sting sings in a light, fast-paced tone about trances and dream lances and everlasting principles for about four minutes or so. Accompanied by some light guitar from Andy Summers and also fast drums from Stewart Copeland make the song a good one, though it can get a bit "old" at one point.

Song Number Two:
Walking in Your Footsteps
The song that can only be described as "jungle sounding" is entertaining and, certainly, interesting. This does not make it a good song, but it flows well and the prehistoric sounds mix well and the vocals are good as they are in just about every Police song. The scratches and drums and whistles are placed in the right spot at the right intensity and make this a good song to listen to, though not uniform.

Song Number Three:
O My God
A jazzy number with a catchy guitar and bass line and good vocals and even some good Sax playing. The drums are loud and hard (that's what she said) and flow with the song very well. It's five minutes of jazzy goodness and, dare I say, worthy of an all-jazz album the Police would make in a perfect fantasy world where they STOPPED BICKERING TO MAKE MORE THAN FIVE ALBUMS.

Song Number Four:
Mother
"Mother" is...intriguing, but in a bad way. Andy Summers performs screaming vocals to a Native American beat thing and while the main "riff" sounds fairly decent and I could listen to as an instrumental of sorts the vocals and other things just aren't up to par. Why is Summers, at this point nearing his 40's, acting the part of a tortured soul he obviously shouldn't portray? This should have been a humorous track Copeland does; he's a silly man (also what she said) and could have made us all laugh at some form of dark humor in a two or three minute song of sorts. Wasted oppurtunity.

Song Number Five:
Miss Gradenko
"Miss Gradenko" is one of the catchiest songs I've ever heard; listen to it, and you'll be humming it, thinking it and singing it for hours. It's an upbeat, light, very well made song by Copeland yet is quite dark in some places. It's something you certainly don't realize until you look at the lyrics and understand them. Great guitar, drums, vocals, all around performing.

Song Number Six:
Synchronicity II
Easily my favorite on the album and one of the best The Police ever did, this seven minute jam is a story within itself. It's catchy, dark, pleasuring (.dias ehs tahw s'taht) and just a phenomonal song with some great guitar, drums, vocals and a solo and closedown.

Song Number Seven:
Every Breath You Take
This song made The Police internationally known to rock the microphone. While assumed a lvoe song, it's actually a very dark tune that Sting wrote while going through a painful seperation. So, it's about a stalker of sorts, not a caring lover. Anyway, the drums, bass, haunting guitar line and other instruments featured all blend together perfectly and it's one of the album's heavy hitters.

Song Number Eight:
King of Pain
A very symbolic song that paints many different pictures. The backup vocals are excellent, as are the main ones, the guitar is killer and the whole thing is like a gift from some unknown source. Great song, no video like the other singles but coulda had a good one.

Song Number Nine:
Wrapped Around Your Finger
An excellent, long, well written epic about something I'm not clear of. Anyway, it's good, it's wrapping up the album, it's a slugger, it's great.

And uh it ends there. Guess I never finished it. It's pretty awful, and not because I say every song is great.

boo boo · 06-14-2010, 06:13 PM

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That's funny. Considering that I never, you know, showed any offense to what you said, I think I know where you pulled that from.

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Consistently terrible.

Except that the experiments are failures and diversity doesn't always mean greatness - if I release a 10-song album and every song is a different genre than the others is that a masterpiece?

I said the album was diverse AND it worked. Of course I'm not saying it's the best simply because it's the most diverse.

While they did trade out their old reggae influences for something new they didn't lose their substance, the lyrics have never been stronger, than melodies have never been stronger and the musicianship has never been stronger.

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"Tea in the Sahara" is boring and pretentious. "Every Breath You Take" is the most boring song they ever made. "Walking in Your Footsteps" sticks out in a negative way. "King of Pain" gets tiring on repeat listens. "Synchronicity I" is annoying. "Wrapped Around Your Finger" is better than I claimed but still isn't a highlight in their discography.

Not fast paced rock =/= boring.

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Are you deaf?

Well maybe there is, if they are synths they sound like some kind of Idiophone which is what I thought they were.

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If it sounds like pop, I DGAF if it has 37 time signatures, it's pop.

The Police were ALWAYS a pop band. And if you'd write off an extremely complex song as pop just because it has a really catchy melody then you are an idiot and you should join progarchives where all the other members of the anti pop brigade reside.

If you have listened to real synth pop, you'd know the subject matter was a little more straightfoward and sexual than say Jungian philosophy.

One thing the band didn't come become was watered down, smoother production yes (and since you're a Pink Floyd and Steely Dan fan I can't see you having a problem with that), more of an emphasis on jazz and world music, but Sting's songwriting abillity hasn't diminished, let's face it he was always the songwriter of the group.

They went from making simple love songs to making pretty grandoise stuff about all kinds of things and I can understand why you find that pretentious and prefer their older stuff, if you know anything about my tastes you'd understand why I prefer the latter.

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That "sentence" should be changed to "GITM has some crap" which it does.

None of the songs are bad, some are less than great but that's an issue with every Police album, Synchronicity is easily their most consistantly successful, Mother doesn't bother me THAT much, I always assumed it was a joke, and guess what, that's one of only two songs Sting didn't write, lol. And Walking in your Footsteps drags a little too long, but overall it's my favorite Police album and one of my favorite 80s albums period.

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Not one of the highlights but still shi‎t.

Your debating skills are just astonishing. What makes this one so bad and De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da a masterpiece?

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Omegaman gets dreadfully old but the rest are good.

Omegaman is one of the most underrated Police songs, the guitar is crazy.

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Synchronicity is the first Police album I heard and I thought three things when I heard it.

1: "This doesn't sound like 'Message in a Bottle'."
2: "Wow, this song is a pile of turd."
3: "This song is a lot better than the others."

So you hate the album primarly for not sounding like the previous albums? So a band can't evolve? It's understandable if you prefer the older stuff but if you're gonna judge their music by nostalgia alone it's no wonder you're being so biased.

I also want to know what is so terrible about Every Breath You Take, I think it's a great song just overexposed.

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The Police were my favorite band for about 2 1/2 years but even then I thought that album was awful. It's basically Sting with his terrible solo output featuring Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers.

How is it any more of a Sting solo album than the others? He was always the primary songwriter of the band and Summers and Copeland didn't really have less input here than previous albums. The only song that really resembles Sting's solo material is Walking in Your Footsteps (the only song with a noticable absence of Summers' guitar) and I do consider that one of the low points of the album. But overall it's still very much a group effort.

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I think you should stop taking personal offense to what everyone says. I don't think I've read an exchange between members that features you that didn't contain a statement similar to the one you started your post with here. Just because I don't like Synchronicity and don't agree with you doesn't mean I took personal offense or something.

If I recall, you're the one who told me to f*ck off because Synchronicity is my favorite album. You're the one trying to tell me how wrong I am. And you're doing a very poor job of it so all you have accomplished is annoying the crap out of me.

Engine · 06-14-2010, 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

Have a Cure one

Faith, Head On The Door, Seventeen Seconds, Pornography, Three Imaginary Boys, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me, Disintegration, The Top, Wild Mood Swings, Japanese Whispers, Bloodflowers, Mixed Up, Wish, The Cure

And no, Disintegration isn't too low.

I agree almost 100% but.. Head on the Door above 17 Seconds I just can't accept. Other than that I'm with you but I don't know Wild Mood Swings, Bloodflowers and The Cure (I'll have to google that even, don't even remember hearing about it).

Mine goes:

17 Seconds > Faith > Porn > 3 Imaginary > Head on the Door > K me K me K me > Disintegration > The Top > Japanese Whispers > Mixed Up

I only didn't put Wish last so I can say: My ranking hardly matters because I absolutely love all of those albums (ok Mixed Up is a novelty but I still really like it).

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Nine Black Poppies Music Addict Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: A State of Denial Posts: 357	Mmm. The Mountain Goats All Hail West Texas > We Shall All Be Healed > Tallahassee > The Sunset Tree > Sweden > Get Lonely > Zopilote Machine > The Life of the World to Come > Nothing for Juice > The Coroner's Gambit > Heretic Pride > Full Force Galesburg Sonic Youth Daydream Nation > EVOL > Sister > Washing Machine > Goo > A Thousand Leaves > Murray Street > Dirty > Sonic Nurse > Rather Ripped > Bad Moon Rising > The Eternal > Experimental Jet Set, Trash & No Star > NYC Ghosts & Flowers > Confusion is Sex Low Secret Name > Things We Lost in the Fire > The Great Destroyer > The Curtain Hits the Cast > Trust > Long Division > Drums & Guns > I Could Live in Hope R.E.M. Automatic for the People > Murmur > New Adventures in Hi-Fi > Document > Reckoning > Fables of the Reconstruction > Green > Life's Rich Pageant > Up > Accelerate > Out of Time > Reveal > Monster > Around the Sun Ween Chocolate & Cheese > The Mollusk > Pure Guava > Quebec > 12 Golden Country Greats > White Pepper > GodWeenSatan: The Oneness > La Cucaracha > The Pod Eh, that's enough. __________________ Like carnivores to carnal pleasures, so were we to desperate measures...