Are there no Neil Young Junkies here?

Nice thread

SpcMs said:

dang you beat me to it!!!!

also

bedtime stories, ray of light, music, american life, confessions on a dancefloor

control, rhythm nation, janet, velvet rope, all for you

mariah carey, emotions, music box, daydream, butterfly

SpcMs said:

Someone had to agree with it!

i think the beatles had the greatest run of 5
REVOLVER...ST PEPPER....MAGICIAL MYSTERY TOUR...WHITE ALBUM...ABBEY ROAD..

cant be beaten if you ask me...

stevie wonder , prince and bowie all had a great run of albums....prince from 1999 til s.o.t.t with atwiad being the weakest and bowie had a great run of albums in the 70s with pin ups being average...

blackbob said:

Again, Magical Mystery tour ruins it for me! Stevie's still the best IMO

blackbob said:

strictly speaking, Let It Be preceded Abbey Road.

Stax said:

no it didnt....let it be was recorded BEFORE abbey road but the beatles abandoned the recordings because they were a mess.....it was finally put together and released AFTER abbey road...

blackbob said:

yes, but it was "made" before Abbey Road.

IamtheDJ said:

magicial mystery tour...the fool on the hill...i am the walrus...penny lane..strawberry fields forever....all you need is love.....yes thats a lot of weak tracks there ????

Stax said:

yes but it was officially RELEASED AFTER abbey road.....

blackbob said:

Love that album. I agree with your list, but I would knock off Abbey Road and add Rubber Soul.

blackbob said:

No doubt, but that's not the question being asked. It doesn't matter anyway, the Beatles take it.

IamtheDJ said:

Magical Mystery Tour isn't even really an album. It was intended to be an EP and it was in Britain, but for the US, they expanded it with some of their other single-only tracks to make it into an album.

namepeace said:

Indeed.

With both those cats, if you lined up those albums against a wall in chronological order, you could almost throw a dart and whichever album it hit count 5 albums forward or backwards and make an argument.



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Raze said:

"Low" is pure quality

blacksweat said:

Low was in my list


things fall apart for me with Lodger, though Scary Monsters is an improvement.

Raze said:

I'm in agreement with you

Zappa;

Freak out
Absolutely free
Were only in it for the money
lumpy gravy(vinyl without dialogue)
hot rats

I'm going with Stevie on this one. As far as the Beatles go, their run is hampered by two less-than-mediocre (IMO) songs: "Yellow Submarine" and "Revolution 9."

Another great run: Crowded House:

Crowded House (1986)
Temple of Low Men (1988)
Woodface (1991)
Together Alone (1993)
Afterglow (1999)

If Afterglow doesn't count (because it's a rarities collection), then Time on Earth (2007) takes its place.

AlexdeParis said:

yes, these are definitely the 2 worst songs from that run, but still, 2 songs out of 5 albums plus countless EP's and singles doesn't ruin that run for me

Raze said:

See, I tried to choose my words very carefully there. I certainly don't think the run is ruined by any stretch. Still, I have a hard time acknowledging an album as excellent or great when I have to skip a track 100% of the time (as is the case with "Revolution 9" in particular). It also blows my mind that there are so many people who would proclaim Revolver as one of the greatest albums of all time (and even the greatest) when it has such a lackluster song like "Yellow Submarine" on it.
[Edited 7/4/07 14:11pm]

AlexdeParis said:

every other song on it is top notch though, and YS does serve a purpose. but yeah, it's not very good. and I agree about #9 as well. there's experimentation, which i laud, but then there's Revolution 9. it's just very random and doesn't go anywhere and has absolutely nothing to do with music.

for that matter, they should have left Revolution 1 off as well. the single version kills it and it's completely unnecessary on the album.

AlexdeParis said:

I like Yellow Submarine. Sure, it is far from the Beatles best, but it is a great children's song. I can't hate on a song that introduced me to the Beatles.

Raze said:

I actually prefer Revolution 1 to the B side version.

Cloudbuster said:

hey, that's your problem

Raze said:

icke4presidant said:

Nah, won't happen. Great material is great material, poor sound quality or not.
Lovesexy was a fave once upon a time. Not so keen now, tho' I still like it.
Never warmed to the other two and I've listened to them plenty.

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Cloudbuster said:

those 3 are the weakest of his classic albums to me as well. Controversy and ATWIAD in particular sound to me like he didn't have enough top-notch material after he shot his wad with the previous stellar releases (and the quality of Purple Rain probably benefitted from him having not put out an album the previous year).

Lovesexy, I think is very good, but I think he put it together a bit too quickly. Letting it marinate for awhile probably would have led to something a little bit better. (Also, this album is the beginning point for my theory that the building/use of Paisley Park led to the downfall of Prince's producing genius.)

Raze said:

Yep, you nailed it.