Sophomores

[mockney piers]

Yes, yes and yes sean, quids and FnB respectively.

[Fear 'n boozin]

always suspected you were a fan of the loaf.

[Roll Deep]

Vera Lynn's A Nightingale Sang In Berkley Square.

[*Bob*]

Parallel Lines = Blondie Peak

Surfer Rosa = Pixies Peak

Neil Young: Everybody Knows This is Nowhere AND THEN After The Goldrush AND THEN Harvest.. ooh.

The ultimate second album highpoint followed by forty years of PLEASE STOP.. Freewheelin' Bob Dylan.

[????]

Roxy Music For Your Pleasure = peak

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm going to risk Smiths fans displeasure and say Meat is Murder is not great. And to be honest that first album is patchy too

[mockney piers]

Weirdly prefer Doolittle, maybe it was the first one I heard, eiher way spanking start by he band and yes, downhill from there.

[Fear 'n boozin]

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

[Jah Lush]

*Bob* Wrote:

> The ultimate second album highpoint followed by

> forty years of PLEASE STOP.. Freewheelin' Bob

> Dylan.

Now you really are being ridiculous. How can you possibly discount Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisted, Blonde On Blonde (probably his best), Blood On The Tracks, The Basement Tapes and more recently Time Out Of Mind, which is a real corker and an amazing comeback record after all the (granted) years of cak?

[Roll Deep]

The Anfield Rap saw Liverpool F.C's success take a dive in the 1988 F.A cup final.

Does that count?

[mockney piers]

How could i forget that FnB. One of th best albums of all time. Mind you, I'm still waiting for album no 3.

Elf Power doesn't really fill the void.

Which reminds me, Beirut was another one crushed under the weight of expectation.

[david_carnell]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> The ultimate second album highpoint followed by

> forty years of PLEASE STOP.. Freewheelin' Bob

> Dylan.

I'd agree with the "second album hihgpoint" bit....for me it's never been bettered BUT to discount Blonde on Blonde, Nashville Skyline, Blood on the Tracks and maybe Desire seems a tad harsh.

Still, can't help myself hating three albums of pseudo Judeo-Christian rock shite.

Edit - as Jah has also pointed out.

[Sandperson]

I think me and Sean (of the Dead) are the only people to like Second Coming. I can listen to that album over and over again....after fast forwarding through the over blown intro of coures.

[mockney piers]

Inwasnt taking the pee SP. I do like it, it's not a great album but there's a place in my heart.

Though truth be told it's essentially a John Squires tribute album to his favourite artists isn't it, ooh that's the Stones one, hmm Hendrix etc.

[*Bob*]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Now you really are being ridiculous. How can you

> possibly discount Bringing It All Back Home,

> Highway 61 Revisted, Blonde On Blonde

He should never have gone electric. (*Finishes cider, does up duffle coat, leaves*)

[Sandperson]

I didn't thinkyou were taking the Pee mockers. I think Tightrope, Ten Storey Love Song, Good Times, How Do You Sleep and Love Spreads are seminal works. I am much derided for that opinion. My wife and I had Tightrope playing before our marriage ceremony.

[mockney piers]

Then there are the bands that imploded under the weight if their egos.

ELO and Yes spring to mind. The eighties weren't kind to any of the seventies prog era bands were they (well musically, financially some did well, Phil Collins who must have done some evil pact to create such dire turgid shite and sell 150 million albums!!!!!!!!!)

[*Bob*]

How could I forget..

THE ULTIMATE second album (in relation to subsequent output)... Lou Reed / Transformer

[titch juicy]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> I dont dislike Third, it's just I'm never inclined

> to put it on except occasionally to try and work

> out why I'm not gelling with it.

>

> Any more bands like Massive Attack that just

> haven't put a foot wrong? (let's say minimum of

> three albums in the discography).

>

> Broken Social Scene, their sophomore 'you forgot

> it in people' is great, and the eponymous follow

> up is almost flawless.

i utterly disagree with massive attack- the first album was sublime- the second album good and everything since has been dull

however; one i forgot to mention on the new albums thread is massive attack....i've heard a track from it and it sounds superb

[titch juicy]

not forgetting john wesley harding and another side of.....

oh, and blood on the tracks is his best ;-)

[titch juicy]

i think all 5 of the coral's albums are excellent

[mockney piers]

Oooh Jefferson Airplane.

Takes off is a bit dull, Surrealistic Pillow surely one of the definitive sixties creations full stop. And then it all turned sour again.

Thy should hang their collective heads and apologise to the world for Starship too while they're at it.

[titch juicy]

titch juicy Wrote:

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> mockney piers Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > I dont dislike Third, it's just I'm never

> inclined

> > to put it on except occasionally to try and

> work

> > out why I'm not gelling with it.

> >

> > Any more bands like Massive Attack that just

> > haven't put a foot wrong? (let's say minimum of

> > three albums in the discography).

> >

> > Broken Social Scene, their sophomore 'you

> forgot

> > it in people' is great, and the eponymous

> follow

> > up is almost flawless.

>

>

> i utterly disagree with massive attack- the first

> album was sublime- the second album good and

> everything since has been dull

>

> however; one i forgot to mention on the new albums

> thread is massive attack....i've heard a track

> from it and it sounds superb

[mockney piers]

Well I haven't heard the new one, but I thought they were pretty consistent. I loved mezzanine, but it is darker and less touchy feeling than protection for sure

Right, Radiator for the Super Furries, and I'd nominate them for not doing much wrong if you can get past the odd self indulgent weirdness and of course the Welsh!!!

[Jah Lush]

*Bob* Wrote:

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> How could I forget..

>

> THE ULTIMATE second album (in relation to

> subsequent output)... Lou Reed / Transformer.

Back on track *Bob*. Nail on the head.