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Post by Terrapin Station on May 27, 2018 12:24:05 GMT
Yup. Rush 10 albums (12 if you include live albums). What's the first Rush album you'd say isn't very good to excellent? (I'd say they're all very good to excellent.) |
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Post by NJtoTX on May 27, 2018 12:26:30 GMT
My favorite run of Dead albums is: Wake of the Flood From the Mars Hotel Blues for Allah Terrapin Station Shakedown Street We connect for a 10-album run. |
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 27, 2018 12:28:00 GMT
My favorite run of Dead albums is: Wake of the Flood From the Mars Hotel Blues for Allah Terrapin Station Shakedown Street We connect for a 10-album run. Well, and I'd say the rest are very good to excellent, too. That's just my favorite five-album run for them. |
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Post by OrsonSwelles on May 27, 2018 12:47:07 GMT
Yup. Rush 10 albums (12 if you include live albums). What's the first Rush album you'd say isn't very good to excellent? (I'd say they're all very good to excellent.) Rush to GUP are very good to great. Power Windows could still make the grade I suppose. After that they start adding length to their albums (thanks to CDs) but lose quality. Still some great individual songs or parts of songs so if they'd kept their albums down around 40 minutes then their entire run to the end would be great.
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 27, 2018 12:53:58 GMT
What's the first Rush album you'd say isn't very good to excellent? (I'd say they're all very good to excellent.) Rush to GUP are very good to great. Power Windows could still make the grade I suppose. After that they start adding length to their albums (thanks to CDs) but lose quality. Still some great individual songs or parts of songs so if they'd kept their albums down around 40 minutes then their entire run to the end would be great.
I often list Presto as one of my top five Rush albums. I love Hold Your Fire, Roll the Bones etc. too. |
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Post by OrsonSwelles on May 27, 2018 13:21:36 GMT
Rush to GUP are very good to great. Power Windows could still make the grade I suppose. After that they start adding length to their albums (thanks to CDs) but lose quality. Still some great individual songs or parts of songs so if they'd kept their albums down around 40 minutes then their entire run to the end would be great.
I often list Presto as one of my top five Rush albums. I love Hold Your Fire, Roll the Bones etc. too. At the time of HYF, what I wanted to listen to was moving away from what Rush was doing. I liked Presto a lot more and it might be my fave 'modern' Rush album. Listening to them now, after the feeling of disappointment has faded, I like some of their songs more than I did then. Like I said, there's too much music in their CD era that doesn't connect with me a well. All their modern albums have 40 minutes of greatness, unfortunately they get downgraded with the additional 10 to 20 minutes.
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 27, 2018 13:29:46 GMT
The author seems to be one of those people who believe that consensus is really important when it comes to things like assessing music, to an extent where he seems to believe that consensus somehow confers objective valuations onto the things in question. People with this view seem to think that they need to keep their appraisals pretty close to the norm, and if their appraisal veers from the norm too much, they either need to do a lot of work to justify that or basically write it off as "it's a favorite of mine but it's not very good." Aside from the distasteful conformism of that, why people with these sorts of views can't see how blatantly they're ignoring the argumentum ad populum fallacy I don't know. |
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Post by Terrapin Station on May 27, 2018 13:36:23 GMT
"I feel like I need to briefly explain what a great 'bad' record is: It’s a record where the creators are clearly not fully engaged with the project . . . "
How in the world would he know that?
I'd bet anything that if we took his guesses about this and compared them to what the artist was thinking, doing, etc. while making the records in question, his guesses would be right no more than random chance would have it. In other words, he'd do no better than if he were merely flipping a coin.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on May 30, 2018 16:38:17 GMT
Nine Inch Nails - I would think all of them except for the Ghosts ones are great and those shouldn’t even count.
Surely The Who passes the test as well.
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Post by HorrorMetal on May 31, 2018 3:20:30 GMT
I'd say Black Sabbath can, yes.
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