Nirvana’s three albums for me are all really very close. And even Incesticide, if you count that as a fourth album in the way Odds N Sods should be considered a Who album, is also right there with the other three. I can’t ever fully embrace one over the other because at varying points I see the virtue behind each. And I am, well no longer, a Nirvana zealot. I just think their output was very consistent, and Bleach has a balance to it that I could argue it’s their best one, while Nevermind is clearly the easiest to listen to, and In Utero their most willing to push the envelope.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 4:37 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 4:42 pm
by dad
tragabigzanda wrote:Nevermind is trash
absolutely howling at this.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 4:48 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 4:48 pm
by Higgs
dad wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Nevermind is trash
absolutely howling at this.
Yeah man, wtf?
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 4:57 pm
by dad
i support your campaigning effort, trag.
for the record, i don't think nevermind is trash.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:00 pm
by Jorge
The funny thing about Trag's anti-Nevermind campaign is that it's based on some extremely persnickety complaint about a specific sonic frequency
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:01 pm
by dad
maybe he doesn't like butch vig.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:04 pm
by wease
Nevermind has Breed on it. That automatically saves it from being the worst.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:04 pm
by Kevin Davis
liebzz wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Radiohead
Nirvana
Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Beastie Boys
Sleater Kinney
Radiohead, agreed. Nirvana, really hard to say. Beatles, no way (Yellow Submarine is the worst, but if you don’t count that then Beatles For Sale). Beastie Boys, not sure but I don’t think so. Stones, no effin’ way (I could find almost 15 Stones albums I prefer less).
The first Stones album is great (I especially like the UK tracklisting that opens with "Route 66"). I'd rather listen to it than anything from the second half of their career.
I do agree with Radiohead and the Beastie Boys.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:06 pm
by Mickey
Jorge wrote:The funny thing about Trag's anti-Nevermind campaign is that it's based on some extremely persnickety complaint about a specific sonic frequency
Like all of his opinions tbh.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:11 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
dad wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Nevermind is trash
absolutely howling at this.
I feel like if I keep saying it eventually someone else might come around
godspeed, friend
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:12 pm
by epilogue
Kevin Davis wrote:
liebzz wrote:
VinylGuy wrote:Radiohead
Nirvana
Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Beastie Boys
Sleater Kinney
Radiohead, agreed. Nirvana, really hard to say. Beatles, no way (Yellow Submarine is the worst, but if you don’t count that then Beatles For Sale). Beastie Boys, not sure but I don’t think so. Stones, no effin’ way (I could find almost 15 Stones albums I prefer less).
The first Stones album is great (I especially like the UK tracklisting that opens with "Route 66"). I'd rather listen to it than anything from the second half of their career.
I do agree with Radiohead and the Beastie Boys.
I'll agree with Beastie Boys, too. But strong disagree with Radiohead.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:15 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:18 pm
by dad
tragabigzanda wrote:
Mickey wrote:
Jorge wrote:The funny thing about Trag's anti-Nevermind campaign is that it's based on some extremely persnickety complaint about a specific sonic frequency
Like all of his opinions tbh.
dad wrote:maybe he doesn't like butch vig.
Outside of a couple specific albums, I hate Vig; I think most of his records are unlistenable.
EQ is part of it, but also compression, multitracked vox, lack of room tone. He tends to suck the life out of a band and replace it with a patina of choices that I find unpleasant…
But beyond that, I think about half the songs on Nevermind are dreadfully boring. I’ve never cared for Nirvana’s poppier side; I love about half of Incesticide, and can’t stand the other half.
Yeaaahhhh-ah-ah, yeaaaahhhh-ehhhhhh-ehhh-ow
i'm going to start using this whenever the opportunity presents itself.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:21 pm
by epilogue
I don't necessarily love the production of Nevermind but I think the songs are fucking great. Bleach is good but it's not Nevermind.
Re: Bands Whose First Album Is Their Worst
Posted: Thu December 30, 2021 5:25 pm
by Jorge
I'm not a huge Nirvana fan anymore, but most of the songs of theirs I still like are on Nevermind. "Lounge Act"!