No Code: Official Album Thread

[tommymtcom]

Mankind is a bad song. It's only value is as a joke.

[Birds in Hell]

Your only value is as a joke, buddy!

[tommymtcom]

[Kaius]

Oh, fine.

Sometimes - 4
Hail, Hail - 5 (I wanted to say 10)
Who You Are - 3
In My Tree - 5
Smile - 5
Off He Goes - 5
Habit - 5
Red Mosquito - 5
Lukin - 5
Present Tense - 4
Mankind - 4
I'm Open - 2
Around the Bend - 4

I like your style.

[Kaius]

Mankind is a bad song. It's only value is as a joke.

It's not when compared to the rest of the album, or even on its own merit, but i really like it as part of No Code, "artistically". In other words, I think it fits perfectly.

[McParadigm]

I love Mankind. It's great fuzz-warmed, 60's-influenced, not-too-self-serious garage pop. And both Who You Are and I'm Open have great sonic merit, lyrics aside. So I wouldn't cut a goddamn thing from that album.

[Kaius]

You're not so bad.

[Kaius]

To be clear, the spoken word in I'm Open doesn't bother me, but I really love he music and as wonderful as Ed's baritone is, I think an uninterrupted version with just the title words part would be what the kids call "bangin".

[McParadigm]

Yeah maybe. I really do like the bit about the moon tho.

[VinylGuy]

No Code is perfect as it is...yeah, there are really good songs from those sessions, but leave No Code alone. Its a perfect album.

[Kaius]

It's a nice little picture he paints.

[darth_vedder]

I love Mankind. It's great fuzz-warmed, 60's-influenced, not-too-self-serious garage pop. And both Who You Are and I'm Open have great sonic merit, lyrics aside. So I wouldn't cut a goddamn thing from that album.

[stip]

What was that? Score an album? I would love to!


Sometimes - 3
Hail, Hail - 4
Who You Are - 4
In My Tree - 4
Smile - 3
Off He Goes - 2
Habit - 3.5
Red Mosquito - 4
Lukin - 3
Present Tense - 3.5
Mankind - 3
I'm Open - 2
Around the Bend - 3.5

[hlniv]

So, no 5's at all, Stip?

And I'm guessing you would have Life Wasted - WWS - Comatose as all 5-5-5, right?

You're weird.

[hlniv]

Sometimes - 3.5
Hail, Hail - 5
Who You Are - 4
In My Tree - 4.5
Smile - 4.5
Off He Goes - 4.5
Habit - 4
Red Mosquito - 5
Present Tense - 5
Lukin - 3.5
Mankind - 2
I'm Open - 2.5
Around the Bend - 5


So, who's going to through and average the latest ratings for this album? It's critical that we are able to keep the RM numerical evaluations of songs as up to date as possible.

[ABNorman]

AVERAGES:

Based on the last coupla pages and rounding to one decimal point:

No Code: 3.9

Sometimes: 4
Hail, Hail: 4.8
Who You Are: 4
In My Tree: 4.5
Smile: 4.2
Off he Goes: 4.2
Habit: 3.1
Red Mosquito: 4.5
Present Tense: 3.7
Lukin: 4.2
Mankind: 2.7
I'm Open: 2.5
Around the Bend: 4

[stip]

So, no 5's at all, Stip?

And I'm guessing you would have Life Wasted - WWS - Comatose as all 5-5-5, right?

You're weird.

No 5s. I'm not a huge fan of how Eddie sounds on this record, which takes quite a few of these songs down a notch, and I'm generally not a fan of the lyrical turn the record took.

I would give all of those songs 5, but again I think those are 5 star songs for me, as opposed to the 5 stars I'd give Last Exit, Tremor Christ, Corduroy, Betterman, Immortality, Rearviewmirror, Do the Evolution, Elderly Woman, Black, Alive, etc. that I think are objective 5 stars.

[Kaius]

What? Eddie sounds fantastic.

[chewm]

No fucking way Lukin is better than Present Tense, or Habit is better than Mankind.

[ABNorman]

No fucking way Lukin is better than Present Tense, or Habit is better than Mankind.

RM has spoken.

Or 11 of its members so far have.