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 Post subject: FLOP ALBUMS OF 2007
PostPosted: Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:40 pm 
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any albums you were looking forward to in '07 and they ended up being a let down?

I was pretty amped up about the Stooges putting a new one out.
HATED IT!
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 Post subject: Nope
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But I did go see "Cloverfield." (2008)

And I must say that I am still chuckling at the thought of it.

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cloverfield was a really fun movie but it didn't make up for that bagged running-belly of an lp by the stooges...was that on electra? if not then i can streamline my affection for them to the electra era junk...i am going out on a limb but i have to say that i enjoyed the mike watt/nels cline stooges tribute trio that opened for jake and fields of gaffney in hollywood more than the coachella and long beach shows i saw some years back but i am not one for giant crowds or big on reunions...i saw onwards and upwards always..on that note i will go further out on a limb and say that i was let down by the new dinosaur record (i wish it had just been a seven inch with that single and some other song on the back side) i guess my expectations were too high
i also was let down by the sonic youth daydream nation reissiue...the extra disc wasn't worth all the build up and it kind-of weakened the the strength of the original and oh man...those covers....with each new step they make, sonic youth makes me believe that they are the hillary clintons of underground music and that is unsettling to me...i feel bamboozled by them especially looking back from now....man, should just crawl back into bed!


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You're right about Sonic Youth - they have used a kind of formula for the last ten-odd albums....which means that some stuff works, other stuff doesn't....every now and then they make a nearly-great record (A Thousand Leaves, Murray Street), but there are lots of largely forgettable ones (Sonic Nurse, NYC Ghosts...) - they're the Woody Allen of alternative rock!!!

I also think DN is one of the most boring records they ever did. I mean, Teenage Riot is at least four or five minutes too long. And that goes for pretty much every track on the album. I wish they'd go back to the Sonic Youth/Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols type stuff. Really noisy, interesting and aggressive music - and still their best I reckon


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smart patrol wrote:
You're right about Sonic Youth - they have used a kind of formula for the last ten-odd albums....which means that some stuff works, other stuff doesn't....every now and then they make a nearly-great record (A Thousand Leaves, Murray Street), but there are lots of largely forgettable ones (Sonic Nurse, NYC Ghosts...) - they're the Woody Allen of alternative rock!!!

I also think DN is one of the most boring records they ever did. I mean, Teenage Riot is at least four or five minutes too long. And that goes for pretty much every track on the album. I wish they'd go back to the Sonic Youth/Confusion is Sex/Kill Yr Idols type stuff. Really noisy, interesting and aggressive music - and still their best I reckon



Yeah... Im afraid that I agree here for the most part... They kinda lost me on the Daydream Nation record... Wasnt completely terrible, but they had something different going on for the other records that just disappeared!
BUT "By what measure of success..."
That was the beginning of them getting into a much wider audience, so some would say that it was a good thing... Me, I just wanted good records!

BTW... I have been saying that LOU was the Woody Allen of indie rock for years and years... Based on looks though...
Maybe Rick Moranis?

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I meant Woody Allen cos he hasn't made a great film for years - safe in the comfort zone of living-legend status, mainly re-using the same techniques and storylines over and over again with little regard for his audience.

Lou reminds me of someone, but I can't think whom......a little bit of Harold Ramis perhaps? (That's Egon Spengler to you)


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Yeah,and Eric Gaffney is a cross between James Spader-looks,and Charles Manson-not for the looks but more for the "What the fuck?!"
(that wasn't too mean,was it?) :?:


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Jason reminds me of a young Corey Feldman!


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smart patrol wrote:
Jason reminds me of a young Corey Feldman!


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Houlihan, you son of a bitch! :D


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That's uncanny. Scary even


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 Post subject: Well, Okay, So Then
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smart patrol wrote:
You're right about Sonic Youth - they have used a kind of formula for the last ten-odd albums....


It may not be easy to name a single favorite Sonic Youth tune. You might have to name more than one. And that's okay. However, do you have a favorite and/or favorites?

"Mote" here. By far and away. Was incredible then, and still is to this day.

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justice is might


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Destroyer, Wish Fulfillment, the first four songs of Evol, Teen Age Riot, and I Dreamed a Dream

Mote was amazing too.


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Stuff like Mote and Teen Age Riot are the kind of SY songs that I don't really like. World Looks Red, I Don't Want to Push It, Kill Yr Idols are my fave SY songs - Shadow of a Doubt is also great


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 Post subject: *Chortle*
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smart patrol wrote:
Stuff like Mote and Teen Age Riot are the kind of SY songs that I don't really like.


Something tells me that you're not the kind of fella that enjoys the overly romanticle poppy sounds. Can't imagine what might make me think that. *GRIN*

Yeah. The "deeper/heavier" stuff packs more of a whollop sometimes.

So - did you like the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, or Circle Jerks? Just curious.

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I love romantic pop. Human League, Erasure, Yazoo, Madonna......all that sort of stuff.....Michael Jackson etc. I just don't really love those big sludgy SY songs on their late 80's early 90's records really. I liked em a bit more when I was younger, but it just kind of bores me now. Dirty has it's moments though. And Washing Machine is a cut above any other of that era's stuff I reckon.

I just think that Sonic Youth and Confusion is Sex is still the best stuff they've ever done. World Looks Red is about as close to perfect a band can get


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talking of S.Y. I don't konw if it was released last year or in 06 but 'Rather Ripped' is definitley the best sonic youth album ever, in my opinion. Its like they finally got their own formula right after 25 years or so of 'nearly-albums'. I love it...


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Yeah Incinerate was an awesome song. I was watching Juno when she said "I bought another Sonic Youth CD and it sucked! It was just noise!" to which I laughed and my girlfriend agreed.


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i thought rather ripped was awesome. saw kim, thurston, and steve in easthampton they came out as a trio and did a bunch of rather ripped songs (at a mascis markers, sunburned hand of the thurston, jeff show) in late 05' before the album was out... and it was fucking awesome. show was only 5 bucks too. the sonic trio opened.. and the set was not announced, it was great.

later that year i saw sonic youth open for ween and flaming lips at a outdoor show in syracuse NY. GREAT show.. opened with candle.. played skip tracer.. and lots of rather ripped that were great. thought flaming lips were the worste band of the night.. sonic youth the best. and i dug the ween set much.


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