musical wankery

[rocknrollpsycho]

Still working on the Top 10 Albums Evar list - I know, lame, huh? A lot of thought has to go into it! There are some bands I feel I should include just BECAUSE they were my favorite band at some point (cases in point: U2, Savage Garden) but who don't seem to have a PERFECT album...

Observations on U2's Back Catalogue

Achtung Baby's Failing Points

Comments

[newgeneration]

SYMM should never have been included, ever. I'm probably missing some genius political statement, but the lyrics just sound lazy to me. I think This Is My Truth has more sentimental value for me than anything because it was my first Manics album and it reminds me of being 14 and feeling like I'd just discovered something really, really important.

GATS is actually my favorite Manics record. *shame*

EMG is brilliant when its history is considered along next to it, at least for me. It's so triumphant. It amazes me still that it was made by the same (or mostly similar) band that made THB, the darkest album I've ever heard.

This is a cool idea for an entry. I don't think the Manics will ever have a perfect album, even though they're far and away my favorite band. Even my favorite of their albums has its share of stinkers on, and I've tried to get into Lifeblood but it makes me sleepy. :-[ I don't know why they're my favorite band. Non-musically, they put their collective foot in their collective mouth all the time, and their politics get on my nerves, and James has grown bitch tits and Wire is a fat hamster now, but... they just are my favorite band and there's no way I can possibly explain it, because I try and it's impossible. ;_;

[rocknrollpsycho]

EMG is really gorgeous. "No Surface All Feeling" is probably my favorite Manics song. I just wish the album still packed as much of a punch for me at 21 as it did when I was 16.

GATS is the favorite among some of my friends, too! Don't feel bad. I just didn't think it held up, but I have a dancier taste in music. They were my favorite band more for the IDEA than the MUSIC, I think. And Richey's disappearance is really dramatic and you automatically want to know more about it and the band's history and that's what got me into it, I suppose.

Also, slash potential!

As great an idea as that icon is, I honestly can't look at that photograph without crunching up into a ball and wanting to die. D: So much blood. Ahghhghghhfjfhghghg. I've never gotten used to it. But in theory, the sliced Richey thing is great!

[newgeneration]

It's diminished for me too, but I think in my case it's more repetition than anything. I can't have an epiphany every time I listen to any one album, but it blew my mind when I bought it. :D TIMT's appeal has aged for me too, but I think every album I own has that problem except my three Pulp albums, and those are only new and cool to me because I just discovered them a few months ago.

"Life Becoming a Landslide" is mine, though I'd estimate I don't relate to like 99% of the words. But it's good. "Nostalgic Pushead" is severely underrated. You've got a point about the idea. I think I liked having a band with a manifesto. And I'm pretty sure one of the first pictures I saw of them was either Richey looking beautiful and not entirely emaciated, or Nicky hanging off of him like they were about to bum each other in front of the photographer -- either way I was hooked, obviously. LOL.

Haha, sorry. I won't use it in your journal if you don't want me to. ♥ I was horrified when I first saw it, but now it's like... I have to make fun of him, because if I don't, OH THE EMO I WOULD FEEL. D: But I have kind of a dark sense of humor anyway.