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As the title says.

 

Paul Weller - Wake up the Nation.

 

I was already starting to grow out of him, and then this monstrosity comes along. 22 Dreams was a solid album, and then he released that load of crap. I rarely buy albums anymore owing to my taste in older music, but I was actually ashamed to spend near £10 on that horse****.

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"The Wall' by Pink Floyd, sorry all other PF fans but as an old PF fan I much prefer their earlier work.

 

Roger is bring his tour over here, started at just "only one show" - now 4 shows due to genuine

hugh demand, but I won't be going.

 

Admittedly not their best at all. Couple of (obvious) classics on there though.

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The Clash - Cut The Crap.

 

Awful (although i like This Is England).

 

I was initially massively disappointed with Combat Rock, but it won me over when I played it a few months later on a very hot afternoon and with the volume low. Now consider it one of their best.

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Metallica - Load

Unkle - Psyence (?) Fiction

 

Most bands do their best album as their first if you ask me - they are still hungry

 

I think if Load/Reload were 1 album, with the best songs off the 2, I think it would have been a decent album.

 

Still nowhere as good as Death Magnetic, but a decent album imo

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I think if Load/Reload were 1 album, with the best songs off the 2, I think it would have been a decent album.

 

Still nowhere as good as Death Magnetic, but a decent album imo

 

It was just the anticipation of the gap between albums and their last 5 being amazing! (a bit like the Chinese democracy hype)

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It was just the anticipation of the gap between albums and their last 5 being amazing! (a bit like the Chinese democracy hype)

 

Dunno. Never fully got into the Black album. I think they sacrificed too much of themselves on that. Granted, Enter Sandman was ace - but I was a bigger fan when they were ostensibly anti-establishment and doing eight minute tracks. Up until and including ...And Justice For All, they were the complete opposite to the "first album is the best" rule. Every album was better than the last, imo.

 

The black album was a crossroads for Metallica, a veritable stepping stone into sh*te.

 

How does Death Magnetic compare to their earlier stuff?

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Dunno. Never fully got into the Black album. I think they sacrificed too much of themselves on that. Granted, Enter Sandman was ace - but I was a bigger fan when they were ostensibly anti-establishment and doing eight minute tracks. Up until and including ...And Justice For All, they were the complete opposite to the "first album is the best" rule. Every album was better than the last, imo.

 

The black album was a crossroads for Metallica, a veritable stepping stone into sh*te.

 

How does Death Magnetic compare to their earlier stuff?

 

I still love Kill em all

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Dunno. Never fully got into the Black album. I think they sacrificed too much of themselves on that. Granted, Enter Sandman was ace - but I was a bigger fan when they were ostensibly anti-establishment and doing eight minute tracks. Up until and including ...And Justice For All, they were the complete opposite to the "first album is the best" rule. Every album was better than the last, imo.

 

The black album was a crossroads for Metallica, a veritable stepping stone into sh*te.

 

How does Death Magnetic compare to their earlier stuff?

 

It really is very good.

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As the title says.

 

Paul Weller - Wake up the Nation.

 

I was already starting to grow out of him, and then this monstrosity comes along. 22 Dreams was a solid album, and then he released that load of crap. I rarely buy albums anymore owing to my taste in older music, but I was actually ashamed to spend near £10 on that horse****.

 

Must agree, I am a massive Weller fan, but all his new stuff has recently been dump, have you heard starlite yet ?? Also pretty crappy TBH.

 

Its a shame, as the man clearly has so much to offer, but annoyingly he is trying to reinvent himself, the b*stard.

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Must agree, I am a massive Weller fan, but all his new stuff has recently been dump, have you heard starlite yet ?? Also pretty crappy TBH.

 

Its a shame, as the man clearly has so much to offer, but annoyingly he is trying to reinvent himself, the b*stard.

 

Good summerisation bessie. He has produced some of the greatest music of our generation, i just wish he'd stick to what he is good at, that raw sound, like C'mon Lets go & From the Floor boards up out of his newer stuff. Although to be fair Sunflower, Brand New Start, Above the clouds (one of my favourite songs ever), You do something to me etc are brilliant, brilliant songs. I'll always be a huge Weller fan for what he is done, not what he is doing, sadly.

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Good summerisation bessie. He has produced some of the greatest music of our generation, i just wish he'd stick to what he is good at, that raw sound, like C'mon Lets go & From the Floor boards up out of his newer stuff. Although to be fair Sunflower, Brand New Start, Above the clouds (one of my favourite songs ever), You do something to me etc are brilliant, brilliant songs. I'll always be a huge Weller fan for what he is done, not what he is doing, sadly.

 

I still cant listen to the key change in Going Underground without the hairs on my neck standing up. His Jam stuff was excellent.

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Good summerisation bessie. He has produced some of the greatest music of our generation, i just wish he'd stick to what he is good at, that raw sound, like C'mon Lets go & From the Floor boards up out of his newer stuff. Although to be fair Sunflower, Brand New Start, Above the clouds (one of my favourite songs ever), You do something to me etc are brilliant, brilliant songs. I'll always be a huge Weller fan for what he is done, not what he is doing, sadly.

 

Exactly this, I still go to every local gig he has. And every time I am dissapointed when he plays some sort of ladeedaa crap from his newest couple of albums, Heavy Soul is and will probably be in my top 5 albums forever.

 

Its his rawness that is Weller, from the Jam and up through his solo stuff (I'll skip over the whole Style council era)

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I still love Kill em all

 

As do I, and I think that might have been the second one I actually listened to. Doesn't sound as polished as some of the other stuff they did, but still brilliant - and I bet they still play Seek and Destroy at every gig. I like The Four Horsemen off that one.

 

Creeping Death off their second album is fecking awesome live.

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As do I, and I think that might have been the second one I actually listened to. Doesn't sound as polished as some of the other stuff they did, but still brilliant - and I bet they still play Seek and Destroy at every gig. I like The Four Horsemen off that one.

 

Creeping Death off their second album is fecking awesome live.

 

They usually finish with Seek and Destroy. Although at Sonisphere, it was Creeping Death. Along with Pantera, Metallica I would say are my favourite band.

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Recently, Battles' Gloss Drop was rather disappointing considering how incredible their debut was. John Stanier is truly a phenom on the drums, but it's clear Tyondai Braxton was the band's creative force. They've lost their edge live, too.

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The Strokes' second album and Humbug by Arctic Monkeys in recent years.

 

To go for a controversial one, people always raved about Forever Changes by Love and how influential an album it was. The first track "Alone Again Or" was brilliant, the next was good, then it all descended into over-indulgent rubbish. It's probably the most disappointed I've been with a "classic".

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The Strokes' second album and Humbug by Arctic Monkeys in recent years.

 

To go for a controversial one, people always raved about Forever Changes by Love and how influential an album it was. The first track "Alone Again Or" was brilliant, the next was good, then it all descended into over-indulgent rubbish. It's probably the most disappointed I've been with a "classic".

 

I was disappointed the Arctic Monkeys were born, grew up, learned to play instruments, formed a group and then released anything in the first place...!

 

"The Wall' by Pink Floyd, sorry all other PF fans but as an old PF fan I much prefer their earlier work.

 

Roger is bring his tour over here, started at just "only one show" - now 4 shows due to genuine

hugh demand, but I won't be going.

 

Yeah it's not my favourite as I said before, and it can be hard to listen to at times. That said, when I was in college and loathing my existence as a 16 year old it was good to listen to whilst waiting for the bus.

 

Other than Dark Side of the Moon I'm not sure I even like a whole Pink Floyd album. 'Wish You Were Here' for example has 'Have a Cigar' and 'Welcome to the Machine', neither of which I'm too keen on. I actually think 'Meddle' is their best album other than DSotM, but 'Animals' is also an underrated work of absolute genius.

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Dunno. Never fully got into the Black album. I think they sacrificed too much of themselves on that. Granted, Enter Sandman was ace - but I was a bigger fan when they were ostensibly anti-establishment and doing eight minute tracks. Up until and including ...And Justice For All, they were the complete opposite to the "first album is the best" rule. Every album was better than the last, imo.

 

The black album was a crossroads for Metallica, a veritable stepping stone into sh*te.

 

How does Death Magnetic compare to their earlier stuff?

 

Yep I do not think that the albums best to worse go in any order. I was speaking to a friend of mine about Metallica, and Kill em all has a couple of good tracks on it, one of them still hold up today and normally closes their gigs. Ride the lightening is a very good album with a more good tracks on it, and then Justice for all is a fantastic album and not to far behind the greatest of their albums Master of the puppets. Then from there it went downhill slowly with the black album, and then down hill rapidly, until Death Magnetic which is up there with Justice for all imo.

 

Pulps best Album for me was babies, but different class was up there with this.

 

Foo Fighters best album was the colour in the shape, not the first album.

 

OK OK this could go on and on, but some bands have many albums and then make the breakthrough, just take a look a Biffy Clyro who have been around for over a decade, but it was not until 2007/08 that their best work started coming through, and then BANG the best!!

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As do I, and I think that might have been the second one I actually listened to. Doesn't sound as polished as some of the other stuff they did, but still brilliant - and I bet they still play Seek and Destroy at every gig. I like The Four Horsemen off that one.

 

Creeping Death off their second album is fecking awesome live.

 

Seek and Detroy is normally what they close with to this day and is one of my favourite songs of theirs. They are still awesome live, and saw them again this year at Sonisphere. I saw them in 92 with yourself, and then not again until 2009, and have now seen them 4 times since then, they are one of the best live bands on the curcuit.

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