#226

Great band. Fantastic live. Two superb albums. :heart:

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#227

Yeah, ‘Tim’ has some wonderful songs, however, the production is absolutely appalling. I can’t believe someone within the organisation didn’t say “this sounds shit”.

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#228

It’s very clearly “Say you arrow, as a fan? Eight days insane you boar, knee just Lee vet/we prefer lice after rent/Shay sit, Lee vet, lacking Lee vet”

#229

This book came up a lot in the Is This It HGATR thread, but in Meet Me In The Bathroom even Fischerspooner seem to be bemused by how seriously the music industry took what was a weird, arty, joke band. Fair play to them for making as much as they did (and by all accounts their deal was ridiculously lucrative) out of a complete piss take.

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#230

I’ve had a go at a post-2002 playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6uXHHYroWe5EachaMty6bT?si=jsgckUMNT7iDyfvKP_MaCA

There’s nothing from So Divided, which is awful, or IX, which isn’t that bad, just kind of treads water, but 2 or 3 each from the other albums.

However, if you haven’t heard Madonna or the self-titled debut I’d recommend those first.

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#231

If only the label had let them keep Alex Chilton as the producer. Doubt it would have made the album much more successful at the time, but in that alternate reality Tim would probably be regarded as the high point of their career and one of the best albums of the 80s.

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#232

Yeah, i think it has more great songs on it than any of their other albums, it is just a shame that Tommy Ramone made such a pig’s ear of producing it!

#233

Same, absolutely adored them when they came out and that album debut, the second one was decent too. Lost interest after that, but picked up The Haze, their 4th album that came out few years ago and it’s decent.

#234

appreciate it

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#235

King Princess.

Brilliant ep, lots of traction (great jools Holland performance, felt very ‘now’) but the lp kind of sunk without a trace it seems.

#236

Wasn’t that because she was revealed to be the heir to the Macy’s empire/fortune and was basically an industry plant?

#237

Oh really? Totally missed that. Doesn’t explain why the ep was great and the lp was lacklustre even so though but :man_shrugging:

#238

I’d never heard Lost Songs somehow, and that album title makes it sound like it’s a b-sides. Chucked it on today, it rips!

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#239

Great album

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#240

X: The Godless Void and Other Stories that came out this year is great too.

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#241

Would probably change a couple here and there but here you go…

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#242

Their second is a raging ball of alt-rock brilliance… also lost interest after that though lol

#243

I’ve been listening to this album quite a lot over the past week - I hadn’t appreciated quite how good it is. Self-Defense and Bookmark in particular are (sadly) beautiful.

Stereo/Mono and Come Feel Me Tremble have generally been my go-tos for solo Westerberg. I guess that ramshackle, lo-fi sound is more what fans (me included) wanted to hear from him.

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#244

It’s become such an autumn staple for me now that I find myself reaching for it a lot. I was trying recently to get into Stereo, which has always sounded like a much blander version of SG to me. Still not had a breakthrough with that, though did realise that the companion album, Mono, is up on spotify listed under his alter ego Grandpaboy. I really liked that - those songs with a bit more work on them could have been great. AAA would fit comfortably on a Replacements album.

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#245

Yes, I’ve always preferred Mono. Let’s Not Belong Together is especially great.