#40

anything swans did before 2010. theres just so fucking much of it

#41

it’s different, but plenty of it’s just as good this era. If you can stick with three 2-hour long albums, you can’t complain about how much there really is.

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#42

you’d actually be surprised, i can complain about a lot of stuff

#44

Understandable as Lullabies isn’t the best. I may be the only one but I love Era Vulgaris and Like Clockwork is great too.

#45

Exactly - it’s THEIR worst album. Which means it’s only a 9.9 instead of a 10 by BoC’s standards.

#46

I usually go the other way and hoover up everything, love everything for a while, realise the quality is getting worse and worse (or I’m just getting bored) and then give up on them entirely (hello, Eels).

PS The three EPs IS their best and Hot Shots II is awful
PPS all of Swans is/are remain brilliant (but I’d try the White Light/Love of Life reissue next)

(IMO)

#47

Micah P. Hinson and the Gospel of Progress. Loved this growing up but didn’t try anything else for fear of diminishing returns.
Also:

Antony & the johnsons - i am a bird now
Okkervil River - black sheep boy

Two of my favourite albums i dont want sullied by lesser albums. (Which happened with of Montreal after hissing fauna)

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#48

The new Okkervil River record is superb

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#49

All of the Okkervil River albums are superb (except I Am Very Far)

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#50

No way is Geogaddi worse than Campfire Headphase or Tomorrow’s Harvest, especially the latter.

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#51

Ah I misread your post & thought Sax Colossus was the only jazz album you liked. Doh. It is indeed the biggest, longest and most wonderful rabbit hole in music.

#52

I have this with particularly good gigs. For instance Flaming Lips in Bristol in 2001 or whatever it was, was so absolutely perfect, that I have totally lost interest in ever seeing them again. Or listening to them. Won’t be as good.

#53

Never listened to anything by The Feelies other than Crazy Rhythms and never intend to.

#54

You’re missing out! The Good Earth is wonderful.

#55

I’m in the ‘everything they did was amazing’ camp. Even the singles and b-sides comp is ace. Probably my all time favourite British band though so you know…I’m a fan.

#56

You ditched Radiohead after Kid A? You missed Pyramid Song. Poor you.

#57

Tomorrow’s Harvest is my favourite BofC record. Absolutely brilliant. True, Campfire Headphase has a good first half and then falls off a cliff

#58

MICAH P HINSON & the Gospel of Progress is the correct answer.

Amazing record. I tried tentatively with his other albums. Nope. Withdrew. Decided to leave Gospel of Progress as it’s own spectacular island of amazing-ness.

#59

nope, never done this deliberately. but sometimes love an album but for some reason just don’t feel like i need to go any further with them and it feels like a magical little one off. or don’t even necessarily think i don’t need to go any further, just naturally never really get round to it or it doesn’t feel like a priority.

with music so easily accessible now i think i’m far more likely to check out at least something else they’ve done at some point.

#60

The Good Earth is not only brilliant but also fascinatingly different. I don’t think a band has ever released two such excellent but completely different sounding records as their first two albums.