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Brett wrote:I thought of another one for my own categorization: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Granted, I've not really bothered to dive deep into their catalog, but I've heard a few others from the discography, and a handful of songs beyond those, but that one album's still tops. In fact, I rank it as one of my favorite albums by anyone. I guess I just wish more of Wilco's music was similar to their NPR Tiny Desk Concert than what it really is.

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Brett wrote:I thought of another one for my own categorization: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Granted, I've not really bothered to dive deep into their catalog, but I've heard a few others from the discography, and a handful of songs beyond those, but that one album's still tops. In fact, I rank it as one of my favorite albums by anyone. I guess I just wish more of Wilco's music was similar to their NPR Tiny Desk Concert than what it really is.

get the fuck out of here

Heathen wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Brett wrote:I thought of another one for my own categorization: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Granted, I've not really bothered to dive deep into their catalog, but I've heard a few others from the discography, and a handful of songs beyond those, but that one album's still tops. In fact, I rank it as one of my favorite albums by anyone. I guess I just wish more of Wilco's music was similar to their NPR Tiny Desk Concert than what it really is.

get the fuck out of here

For real. All Wilco albums suck in equal measure.

Kevin Davis wrote:Yeah, I can't fathom there aren't hundreds of exceptions. In addition to what you are saying, I think with widely recognizable artists it is easier to identify a sort of widespread "perception" of certain records, which helps steer the conversation away from just being a list of artists that people (meaning individuals) generally dislike but happened to produce one record that they can tolerate. I think the only interesting spin on this conversation almost has to involve a recognition of these more widespread perceptions, such that it looks at artists who really managed to make a splash -- not just commercially but also critically and/or culturally -- with one record but otherwise ultimately ceased to be relevant. Otherwise the thread just becomes a list of various artists' best albums, or what I described above.

What about Liz Phair?

Kevin Davis wrote:What about Liz Phair?

cutuphalfdead wrote:Of all the bands I came up with, Violent Femmes is the one that fits this the most.

stip wrote:Hole and Bush

durdencommatyler wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:Of all the bands I came up with, Violent Femmes is the one that fits this the most.

Yeah, Violent Femmes is a great one. Well played, Petern. Maybe the best answer in this whole thread. Given how fucking, blindingly amazing their debut is.

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:Hole and Bush

Bush's second album is only marginally worse than their first, I'd say. And some of the individual songs are better than anything on that first record.

Heathen wrote:

stip wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:

stip wrote:Hole and Bush

Bush's second album is only marginally worse than their first, I'd say. And some of the individual songs are better than anything on that first record.

yeah, but since we're not talking about game changing songwriting the first album is the one that was the never ending hit factory.

Heathen wrote:

cutuphalfdead wrote:

Brett wrote:I thought of another one for my own categorization: Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Granted, I've not really bothered to dive deep into their catalog, but I've heard a few others from the discography, and a handful of songs beyond those, but that one album's still tops. In fact, I rank it as one of my favorite albums by anyone. I guess I just wish more of Wilco's music was similar to their NPR Tiny Desk Concert than what it really is.

get the fuck out of here

For real. All Wilco albums suck in equal measure.

Kevin Davis wrote:None of the bands I am familiar with that have been listed thus far belong here -- certainly not Pink Floyd, AIC, or Bruce. The one I keep coming back to is "Illmatic," but even then I can't quite bring myself to write off some of Nas's other stuff. This is an interesting thread simply because it seems that if you interpret the thread as I did -- which is the same as how Spenno did, basically to mean an anomalous masterpiece amidst an otherwise disposable body of work -- there really isn't a good answer to the original question. I figured I would be able to come up with at least a dozen examples.

turned2black wrote:

Kevin Davis wrote:None of the bands I am familiar with that have been listed thus far belong here -- certainly not Pink Floyd, AIC, or Bruce. The one I keep coming back to is "Illmatic," but even then I can't quite bring myself to write off some of Nas's other stuff. This is an interesting thread simply because it seems that if you interpret the thread as I did -- which is the same as how Spenno did, basically to mean an anomalous masterpiece amidst an otherwise disposable body of work -- there really isn't a good answer to the original question. I figured I would be able to come up with at least a dozen examples.

Agree with Illmatic, unfortunately. His rhymes are as good as ever, but some of the music choices, beats and production on his albums are laughable. He's the complete opposite of Kanye.