Heston and Marky's Friday Top 5

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so cute that you all think i'll cede my power if i don't get enough "votes"
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In case anyone hasn't heard early versions of what might have been a second La's album: https://blonderazorblade.blogspot.ca/20 ... -tape.html
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
02 Dec 2017, 6:16pm
In case anyone hasn't heard early versions of what might have been a second La's album: https://blonderazorblade.blogspot.ca/20 ... -tape.html
I've got the CD "Calling All" which has the Lee Mavers demos and its brilliant. Better than the album for me. It's an official release.
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Marky Dread wrote:
02 Dec 2017, 8:44pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
02 Dec 2017, 6:16pm
In case anyone hasn't heard early versions of what might have been a second La's album: https://blonderazorblade.blogspot.ca/20 ... -tape.html
I've got the CD "Calling All" which has the Lee Mavers demos and its brilliant. Better than the album for me. It's an official release.
I had that one and one called, I think, Lost La's. So, so much promise there.
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Marky Dread wrote:
02 Dec 2017, 8:44pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
02 Dec 2017, 6:16pm
In case anyone hasn't heard early versions of what might have been a second La's album: https://blonderazorblade.blogspot.ca/20 ... -tape.html
I've got the CD "Calling All" which has the Lee Mavers demos and its brilliant. Better than the album for me. It's an official release.

I've got every combination of their released stuff and it's all ace.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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I had something else in mind, but conversation from last week's Top 5 got me thinking...

Since we did top 5 debut records last time around, how about...

Top 5 Sophomore albums!

1. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
2. Crass - Stations of the Crass
3. Weezer - Pinkerton
4. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
5. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black

I think all of these represented pretty staggering leaps forward from their debuts (and in a few cases, a high water mark that would never be replicated - looking at you, Weezer). I contemplated tossing on GEER, but I rank S/T quite highly and I like the "sophomore leap forward" concept, rather than just incremental improvement.
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1. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
2. Doolittle - Pixies
3. GEER
4. David Bowie (Space Oddity) - Bowie
5. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
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JennyB wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:04pm
1. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
4. David Bowie (Space Oddity) - Bowie
these are good, good picks. 16 year old me wouldn't have said Paul's Boutique is lightyears better than license to ill, but 32 year old me winces at a lot of spots on that debut record. Paul's Boutique still feels flawless.
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No order other than how they emerged from my brain.

PiL - Metal Box
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Pixies - Doolittle
Wire - Chairs Missing
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Flex wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:06pm
JennyB wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:04pm
1. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
4. David Bowie (Space Oddity) - Bowie
these are good, good picks. 16 year old me wouldn't have said Paul's Boutique is lightyears better than license to ill, but 32 year old me winces at a lot of spots on that debut record. Paul's Boutique still feels flawless.
Yes. I remember how disappointed people were when it came out. It was so ahead of its time.
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Gonna recycle some pics:
1. Bruce - The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle (my all time fav Bruce album)
2. Weezer - Pinkerton
3. PE - Takes a Nation of Millions (fav PE album)
4. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (fav Beasties album)
5. Zeppelin II
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:07pm
No order other than how they emerged from my brain.

PiL - Metal Box
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Pixies - Doolittle
Wire - Chairs Missing
Blimey, Solid Gold must be good if it is much better than Entertainment. I'd better give it a listen.

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[quote=laxman post_id=481408 time=1512757971 user_id=72]
[quote="Dr. Medulla" post_id=481404 time=1512756456 user_id=54]
No order other than how they emerged from my brain.

PiL - Metal Box
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Pixies - Doolittle
Wire - Chairs Missing[/quote]

Blimey, Solid Gold must be good if it is much better than Entertainment. I'd better give it a listen.[/quote]

Wait, do these have to be better than the first album or just really fucking good second albums? I went with the latter assumption. All my picks still work, tho the Go4 is a bit of a stretch.

Edit: Why is the quoting fucked up?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:42pm
Wait, do these have to be better than the first album or just really fucking good second albums? I went with the latter assumption. All my picks still work, tho the Go4 is a bit of a stretch.
I would just say records that avoided the "sophomore slump". I decided to pick records I thought made a significant improvement on the debut, just because I found it to be an interesting exercise, but that was not a requirement.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:42pm
laxman wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:32pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
08 Dec 2017, 2:07pm
No order other than how they emerged from my brain.

PiL - Metal Box
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Pixies - Doolittle
Wire - Chairs Missing
Blimey, Solid Gold must be good if it is much better than Entertainment. I'd better give it a listen.
Wait, do these have to be better than the first album or just really fucking good second albums? I went with the latter assumption. All my picks still work, tho the Go4 is a bit of a stretch.
Solid Gold is awesome though. I often think of it as more industrial sounding than the debut, kind of in the same way that Closer is moreso than Unknown Pleasures. Not as in "industrial music," but more the mood or driving pulse.

Either way, it's a rad as hell album. I like it a lot.

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