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| From | <nonstoppop@cox.net> |
| Subject | Re: Loving and Loathing (was Fotomaker) |
| Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 12:53:22 -0500 |
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> The glaring example of this that comes to mind is Marah. Their first two
> albums were excellent, especially Kids in Philly, on of my fave albums of
> the last few years. The follow up to Kids, Float Away With the Friday Night
> Gods, is a pile.
A pile which is the only thing I've ever heard by them, but which I quite enjoy. But, then, it's all where you first enter a band's catalog...
...which leads me into my own example: Public Image Limited's "Second Edition." I first discovered PiL with "Cassette" (a.k.a. "Album" and "Compact Disc"), then ventured forth into "Happy?" and "9," and I loved and continue to love all those albums. Then I started working my way back. While I enjoy "Public Image" and "This Is what you Want...This Is what you Get" (but don't have "Flowers of Romance, so I can't comment on it), I used to own "Second Edition" but eventually traded it away because I just couldn't listen to it. Maybe if I'd evolved with our man Johnny over the years, I could dig it...but I didn't enter into his music until he'd gone relatively mainstream with his sound, and I just can't stomach the sounds on "Second Edition." It just does nothing for me.
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