#329

5/5. put Room On Fire on yesterday and i will always defend it as their best album. it’s fucking brilliant. sure the rest of their output was never as good but there’s always some absolute bangers on each album. in fact i would argue that the strokes are the best band at openers ever. every single one of the first tracks on their albums is amazing.

anyway, you’re all a bunch of miserable sods.

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#330

Not sure there’s ever been a better late-game rescue than this post since Helm’s Deep

#331

disappointment 5/5, ironically disappointing

#332

Is This It is very rare for me in that it’s an album where, aside from the obvious ones, i have no idea which track is which.

we only had a copied CD-R of it in our house, there must have been a tracklisting somewhere but i don’t remember it having a back cover, so that’s probably why.

we had a proper version of Room on Fire so i know which song is which on that. i liked Is This It at the time, mainly a few specific tracks, but i definitely got more into Room on Fire overall, for whatever reason. haven’t listened to either in a while but would instinctively cite RoF as my fav

Juicebox and Heart in a Cage from the third album are absolute bangers but never got the album (until i got a really cheap copy a few years ago which i’ve listened to like twice - don’t remember much about it)

liked a couple of tunes on Angles (Under Cover of Darkness was a pretty good ‘Strokes by numbers comeback single’, in a good way, and i used to like the opener) but don’t remember the rest

never listened to Comedown Machine or that last EP

not a band i will listen to very often but i still think the first two albums largely hold up as decent if maybe not thrilling. overhyped at the time but probably a bit easier to enjoy now without all that noise?

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#333

Got Is This It on while I’m working in the stock room. Without a doubt in my top 10 of all time. Not a track on there less than an 8/10.

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#334

i think i always preferred when they went minor key and a bit more ‘dramatic’ (by their standards) over the happy major key outings, and felt like there was more of the former on Room on Fire (first two tracks especially) which was why i liked it better. a little bit more of an edge or something? not explaining this well

#335

wouldn’t go that far but this might be their best song

really like bits of the vocal melody where he goes to notes you’re not expecting. ‘in the middle of nii-iight’. lovely stuff.

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#336

also a big fan of when bands split lead guitar duties

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#337

Fuck it, revising from a 4 to a 5 just for ITI and ROF, and some severe nostalgia pangs.

#338

has this been posted yet and if not why not

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#339

Fairly good case to be made that ITI and ROF are 2 of the best albums for guitar solos. Most, of not all, of them are short, memorable and very well crafted. Struggling to think of a bad one on a pair of albums where almost every track has one

#340

people who’ve never listened beyond Room On Fire are depriving themselves of all these stone cold bangers

also Julian’s first solo album is 5/5

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#341

gbol

wish there was a better recording of this but i guess it’s appropriate

#342

the drums are so fucking high in the mix in the chorus of you only live once, it’s so good

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#343

5/5 from me. few of you have any sort of taste at all.

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#344

Sleaford Mods aye?

#345

i had a dream last night that i went to see Malkmus play Wowee Zowee in full. then later remembered songs from the album he hadn’t played and got annoyed about it

weird dream as it’s my second least favourite Pavement album

#346

pavement will rank below Beyonce here, I promise you that.

#347

if Prince doesn’t top the all-time HGATR rankings then I’m gonna quit these boards

…for an hour

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#348

It’s not even that they’re playing out of time with each other… They seem to be playing in different time signatures to each other.