Red Mosquito

Kaius wrote:

LoathedVermin72 wrote:Yeah, I love MACHINA. I'm almost tempted to say I like it more than Siamese Dream.

That's dumb

I'm tempted, but I probably wouldn't actually say that.

I do like Adore more than SD, though.

I can't get into The Smashing Pumpkins.

I sometimes think that the Pumpkins were one of those you-had-to-be-there kind of bands.

Animal
Warrior

zeb wrote:I sometimes think that the Pumpkins were one of those you-had-to-be-there kind of bands.

I can see that.

Siamese Dream
Pisces Iscariot
Mellon Collie
Gish
Aeroplane
Machina
Adore
Zeitgeist
Machina II
other reunion stuff

Springsteen

1. Born to Run
2. Born in the USA
3. Darkness on the Edge of Town
4. Nebraska
5. Tunnel of Love
6. Magic
7. The River
8. The Rising
9. The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle
10. Greetings from Asbury Park
11. Devils & Dust
12. The Ghost of Tom Joad
13. Wrecking Ball
14. Lucky Town
15. High Hopes
16. Working on a Dream

chewm wrote:No way these last 2 albums are better than Machina!
Not even better than Zeitgest.

I may need to give it a serious listen. I bought the CD the day it came out and wanted to like it so much but absolutely hated it. It was so disappointing to me. There were some decent songs but the final mix seemed too loud/slick/overproduced and I don't even know what that means. I like Age of Innocence, Wound and This Time and that's about it. The demos that have surfaced make me even more disappointed by the final result - there are some great songs in there. Maybe it has aged better over time? Time to fire it up!

MACHINA is a bit longer than it needs to be, but I think it's a killer album. One of my favorite from SP.

Local H

1. Pack Up The Cats
2. As Good As Dead
3. Here Comes The Zoo
4. Whatever Happened To P.J. Soles
5. Hey, Killer
6. Ham Fisted
7. 12 Angry Months
8. Hallelujah, I'm A Bum


6, 7, and 8 could be switched but it doesn't really matter.

Blue Album
Pinkerton
Maladroit
White Album
Green Album
Everything Will Be Alright...
Red Album
Make Believe
Hurley
Raditude

LoathedVermin72 wrote:1. Saturday Night Wrist
2. Around the Fur
3. White Pony
4. Deftones
5. Diamond Eyes
6. Koi no yokan
7. Adrenaline

1. Sorry
2. It's the Evil
3. Deep Fantasy

It's funny, I would now exactly reverse my original White Lung ranking.

Also, updated Deftones:

1. Saturday Night Wrist
2. White Pony
3. Around the Fur
4. Deftones
5. Diamond Eyes
6. Adrenaline
7. Koi no yokan
8. Gore

In honor of the REM tournament:

R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Collapse Into Now
Up
Automatic for the People
Monster
Green
Life's Rich Pageant
Out of Time
Around the Sun
Accelerate
Document
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reckoning
Murmur
Reveal

chewm wrote:Automatic for the People
Reckoning
Green
Up
Fables of the Reconstruction
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Lifes Rich Pageant
Monster
Out of Time
Accelerate
Reveal
Murmur
Document
Collapse into Now
Around the Sun

Automatic for the People
Reckoning
Green
Up
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Life's Rich Pageant
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reveal
Out of Time
Monster
Accelerate
Murmur
Document
Collapse Into Now
Around the Sun

durdencommatyler wrote:In honor of the REM tournament:

R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Collapse Into Now
Up
Automatic for the People
Monster
Green
Life's Rich Pageant
Out of Time
Around the Sun
Accelerate
Document
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reckoning
Murmur
Reveal

It hurts me to see Reckoning and Reveal so low, especially when Collapse is in 2nd place.

Interesting how different our rankings are, we seem to like a lot of the same artists.

chewm wrote:

durdencommatyler wrote:In honor of the REM tournament:

R.E.M.
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Collapse Into Now
Up
Automatic for the People
Monster
Green
Life's Rich Pageant
Out of Time
Around the Sun
Accelerate
Document
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reckoning
Murmur
Reveal

It hurts me to see Reckoning and Reveal so low, especially when Collapse is in 2nd place.

Interesting how different our rankings are, we seem to like a lot of the same artists.

That is interesting, for sure. But to be fair, I've only listened to Reckoning and Reveal once each. I hated Reveal with a passion the one and only time I listened to it. But that was when it first came out.

Collapse is just a really lovely career capper. And I find myself reaching for it a lot when I'm in the mood for some REM. Part of that is its easy "greatest hits" - esque quality. But I just think the song crafting is excellent on that record and it gets extra sentimental points for being the last REM record and for not for being a pretty fucking great way to say goodbye.

You should definitely give more time to Reckoning.

Kaius wrote:You should definitely give more time to Reckoning.

That's certainly true. I'm not sure why I haven't really given it the time it deserves.

Reckoning
Green
Up
Monster
New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Out of Time
Automatic for the People
Murmur
Life's Rich Pageant
Fables of the Reconstruction
Reveal
Document
Accelerate
Collapse Into Now
Around the Sun

Man, y'all got Collapse like waaaaaaay too low on your lists. Pffffft.

Um, you're the one with Reckoning nearly at the bottom.