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Ooh, been a while since we had one of these.


Had a similar rediscovery with Portishead's eponymous debut. Hadn't really been near it since This Life overkilled it, but it's still a pretty damn fine album.


btw, do music threads get godwinned when someone says The Beatles were overrated?

I dunno, 22 years has allowed me a bit of objectivity on this one and in my world it has been demoted to the ranks of the merely good. All that heady scent of youth dipped in acid and mdma has definitely kept it in the upper echelons for far too long.


See also anything by the Happy Mondays (actually an even bigger drop to 'mostly irritating with a couple of passably catchy tunes').

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I dunno, 22 years has allowed me a bit of

> objectivity on this one and in my world it has

> been demoted to the ranks of the merely good. All

> that heady scent of youth dipped in acid and mdma

> has definitely kept it in the upper echelons for

> far too long.



You could apply that analogy to the Floyd* album too.

Both albums very much captured the zeitgeist.


*Floyd night on BBC4 the other night was very good.

Appetite for destruction - GNR


August & everything after - Counting Crows


Hot Fuss - The Killers (this one fades after about track 6, but the first few tunes are good enough to keep it up there IMO).


Twelve Stops and Home - The Feeling (Great pop/rock album, but everything I've heard of them since has been rubbish)

>>"You could apply that analogy to the Floyd* album too.

>>Both albums very much captured the zeitgeist."


I could except I was born a couple of years afterwards.

I was specifically referring to my own relationship with Stone Roses, what I was up to and the hazy days of coming of age that are now steeped in nostalgia for me.


It doesn't undermine how critical that album was in terms of my development and relationship with music.

It's just it's now long enough away for me to also be more objective about the songs themselves and I don't think they live up to the pedestal on which they've been placed (in my head) for so long.


Weirdly enough I fell in love with Saucerful when I was only about 12 and too young to understand what it was all about, but just loved the music!


*and I too enjoyed Floyd night :)

Ha a, yes he is.

The footage of that first reunion with Waters' rictus grin whilst fist pumping crazily and the rest of them looking a bit bemused and embarrassed, like he was a small child who'd just discovered that shouting 'tits' briefly amused adults but didn't know when to stop, was just priceless!!

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