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Dear sweet lord.


Perfect album to lift and get pumped up to.

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Perfect album to lift and get pumped up to.

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Eerie as fuck: I'm listening to Broken Social Scene right now. I like that one better, though I'm not sure either is perfect (s/t loses me with the crap between "Superconnected" and "It's All Gonna Break").

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The Who: Quadrophenia

Bowie: Ziggy Stardust

Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus

Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend

Pink Floyd: Darkside and WYWH

Beatles: Rubber Soul, Revolver, Abbey Rd...

Joe Jackson: Look Sharp

ACDC: BIB

The Clash: The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope

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I think there's some generous use of the word "perfect" here.
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I cannot for the life of me call Hysteria perfect. There is some real hot garbage on there...including the first 2 songs.

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Song for song High n Dry was better.


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Song for song High n Dry was better.


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High n Dry is a Masterpiece. perfect album...no, but it's pretty fucking awesome.

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I don't know if Details by Frou Frou is perfect, per se, but something about it is great for putting on and playing all the way through on a regular basis. It's more than SOLID, but not quite in my pantheon of unassailable masterpieces like Another Green World, Key Lime Pie, or Kid A.

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Bowie: Ziggy Stardust

Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus

Matthew Sweet: Girlfriend

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Joe Jackson: Look Sharp

ACDC: BIB

The Clash: The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope

Pretenders: 1 & 2

Rolling Stones: Some Girls, Sticky Fingers



Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus - Best live album of all time - Incredibly underrated
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I don't know if Details by Frou Frou is perfect, per se, but something about it is great for putting on and playing all the way through on a regular basis. It's more than SOLID, but not quite in my pantheon of unassailable masterpieces like Another Green World, Key Lime Pie, or Kid A.


Key Lime Pie? Really?

I used to listen to that album a lot 15 years ago or so. I always thought it was good, but it never occurred to me that it could be considered a masterpiece. Maybe I'll have to give it a spin later today.

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The guitar tone on "Sweethearts" is gorgeous, "When I Win the Lottery" is fun, and "All Her Favorite Fruit" is the best Gravity's Rainbow-inspired alt.country song that I know of. I've had lyrics from it in my profile/sig from time to time. Really, it's about the flow of the whole thing, starting with the overture, building up to "All Her Favorite Fruit," tailing off a little, sorta closing with "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and then winding down with "Come On Darkness."

I'll admit, though, that I may be a little partial to it because I picked it up at a time when I was devouring new (to me) books and music and it really stood out for some reason.

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Haven't listened to it in years but I remember getting bored after "Metronomic Underground." Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements is better, "Jenny Ondioline" and "I'm Going Out of My Way."

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The guitar tone on "Sweethearts" is gorgeous, "When I Win the Lottery" is fun, and "All Her Favorite Fruit" is the best Gravity's Rainbow-inspired alt.country song that I know of. I've had lyrics from it in my profile/sig from time to time. Really, it's about the flow of the whole thing, starting with the overture, building up to "All Her Favorite Fruit," tailing off a little, sorta closing with "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and then winding down with "Come On Darkness."

I'll admit, though, that I may be a little partial to it because I picked it up at a time when I was devouring new (to me) books and music and it really stood out for some reason.


Most of the songs are good, not great, though. And there are a couple of clunkers in there.

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To list Rolling Stones albums as perfect and then exclude Exile on Main Street is criminal.

As for BSS, You Forgot It In People doesn't have anything quite like Ibi Dreams of Pavement or Major Label Debut but delivers anyways. It moves, its an album. Maybe its the last album. I'll have to think about that.

HERES A QUESTION:

The Boy with the Arab Strap OR If You're Feeling Sinister***

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Wrong. You know that's wrong. You're posting it even though you know its wrong, who do you think you are? Brick? JORR? I will allow Drees Up In You amongst the pantheon of Dirty Dream II, TBWAS, Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying etc.

I give the edge to Boy and the Arab Strap. But if you took the ATP version of Judy and the Dream Horses and put it on If You're Feeling Sinister the edge would swing towards IYFS. The two are damn even.


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I'll give you he was good but did you see the hip hop episode with LL Cool J blow muther fuckers out with Mama Said Knock You Out and going back to Cali?

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Vh best tune is runnin with the devil or panama

I was thinking Panama too. Jump isn't in the conversation. It's ok I guess. But their best song? No.


To me it is Dance the Night away. Reminds me of drinking beers at the park as a kid

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I forgot to add,
Elvis Presley Blue Cover Christmas Album.

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Wrong. You know that's wrong. You're posting it even though you know its wrong, who do you think you are? Brick? JORR? I will allow Drees Up In You amongst the pantheon of Dirty Dream II, TBWAS, Get Me Away From Here I'm Dying etc.

I give the edge to Boy and the Arab Strap. But if you took the ATP version of Judy and the Dream Horses and put it on If You're Feeling Sinister the edge would swing towards IYFS. The two are damn even.

The Boy with the Arab Strap is the better of the two you mentioned. It's one of those that without achieving moments of transcendent greatness, still makes a great through listen, like Broken Social Scene, Details, More Songs About Buildings and Food, among others. If You're Feeling Sinister has higher highs in "Fox in the Snow" and "Dylan in the Movies," but I find myself going to it much less often. Like I said in your school thread, I'd be horrified to find out how many times I've played TBWTAS over the years. It's one of my favorite distance-running go-tos, right next to Summerteeth and Skylarking. I also went through a phase where I always had it on during crossword puzzles and high-stress games of Mahjongg Solitaire. These would seem to be all the characteristics of a capital-letters Favorite Album, but I keep pulling back on that.

I know the B&S purists (not sure whether you are one) don't like anything from Dear Catastrophe Waitress on, but I love The Life Pursuit. There's not a skippable track until "Act of the Apostle II," which drags like hell after all the perfectly crafted songs ahead of it: not just "Dress Up in You," which is pantheon for sure, but "Sukie in the Graveyard," "White Collar Boy," and those call-and-responses on "Another Sunny Day," I mean, the whole album is sunny. Great summer album from people in a country that doesn't even see the sun. I just wish the album dropped "Mornington Crescent," which drags even more, and ended with "For the Price of a Cup of Tea," which I unashamedly love and which a longtime internet friend of mine pooh-poohed in an identical argument, calling it "a Mentos ad." He wasn't wrong but I love it anyway.

Also, the best two B&S songs are both non-album tracks: "Lazy Line Painter Jane" and "Your Cover's Blown."

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