#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.

#246

Think Screaming Trees were aiming high with Dust after the relative success of Sweet Oblivion.

Reckon they might have been in with a chance had they released it in 93 and not faffed around until 96.

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#247

It’s such a good record as well, probably the great lost rock album of the 90s. Don’t know what would have happened if it had broken through, I think they all hated each other by then anyway.

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#248

Full of singles. Sworn and Broken should be one of those songs that everyone knows.

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#249

Completely forgot that Toy are made up of members of Joe Lean and the etc. Them and Yuck coming out of Cajun Dance Party was a weird period of quite good bands forming from absolute rot.

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#250

It’s a great album. I saw them on their UK tour in 96 (with an extra guitarist in the form of Josh Homme) and they were excellent. Played Working Man by Rush as an encore too!

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#251

I also saw then on this tour and they excellent. Don’t know if you’ve read Lanegans book yet but this tour features at one point. The book also helps explain the gap between the two albums. It’s worth a read.

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#252

God Yuck were a great band

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