#142

Nonsense. Shame DiS, shame! I mean itā€™s not great but fucking hell itā€™s a lot better than DM. :open_mouth:

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#143

Not wildly surprising given they scored 2.22 in HGATR.

You may as well put Brothers in Arms on the list if youā€™re trying to get yin and yang :grinning:

#144

Yeah, I think there are certain bands that are just too easy to put down. Some of the HGATR scores are unbelievable, I know itā€™s a bit of fun but still gets to me a little bit :upside_down_face:

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#145

Itā€™s on there! Canā€™t remember it coming up in a poll yet though

#146

And the Kaiser Chiefs opened. Quite a tour, that.

#147

Fucksake, So isnā€™t on there but Brothers in Arms is? The state of your listā€¦

#148

I listened to So at the weekend actually after your eulogising. Itā€™s alright but it does have that horrible mid-to-late eighties sheen on it. That song with Kate Bush is superb but I donā€™t even like Sledgehammer really. The lyrics are total filth though which has taken me about 35 years to clock

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#149

Love So and Sledgehammer is an ATD. Fabulously filthy lyrics, breathtakingly sexy bassline and a church organ gospel happy ending. Absolute magic, made even better by the Aardman animated video. And my god, the musicians! Tony Levin, Manu Katche, Daniel Lanois (also produced it), P.P. Arnold on backing vocals!

#150

Iā€™d love a So HGIIR, some of itā€™s awful (lookin at you Big Time) but the likes of Red Rain and Mercy Street are incredible.

#151

Meant to say that I like the Sledgehammer coda, thatā€™s easily the best bit of the song. I saw something on the making of the video and some of the things the director made Gabriel do just wouldnā€™t be allowed these days

#152

But I mean surely Brothers in Arms, Graceland (and your beloved Rio) are also massive victims of their period. I mean a lot of the albums weā€™ve already done are.

I am glad you gave it another listen though :smiley: The lyrics to Big Time are definitely strongly referencing penis size at one point thatā€™s true.

That said, I absolutely buy that probably itā€™s far less known than BiA and Graceland and so might get a hugely uninterested responseā€¦ An oddity to have been so lauded at the time and yet it feels like it has no impact on this siteā€™s demographic unlike so much else. OTOH I reckon

ā€œPeople whoā€™ve heard about Brothers in Armsā€ >>>>> ā€œPeople whoā€™ve ever listened to itā€

The album that people bought CD players for. Wow!

#153

Only You Can Call Me Al really suffers from 80s production on Graceland. Iā€™d argue Brothers In Arms Sounds quite timeless apart from Walk Of Life and thatā€™s just an awful song anyway. I donā€™t mind the early 80s sounds like you have on Rio, itā€™s dated, sure, but dated in a way I like. Itā€™s the mid-eighties where you have the cheesy brass and more polished synth sounds that I donā€™t like

#154

5.56?? That is faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar too high.

#155

Hmm. Iā€™d argue that despite being about the only really good song on there, the keyboard sounds on Brothers in Arms sound so very very dated. Money for Nothing itself is very very BIG DRUMS 80s STADIUM. I mean I get itā€™s a satire of that but it also IS that.

Thereā€™s also the peculiarity of the extended versions of a bunch of songs purely (as far as I can tell) to fill up the CD. At least two have these huge meandering outros or something. Itā€™s quite odd.

Not that sure Walk of Life sounds that dated really, but itā€™s certainly true that you donā€™t really get that cheesy country sound much outside of cheesy country where Iā€™d imagine itā€™s sort of timeless?

#156

Brothers in Arms, Graceland and So to me are absolutely all tied together - all critically acclaimed, sold massively, associate them with the big cd push and were the sort of albums dadā€™s would buy.

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#157

I certainly see them as the part of a sort of a big 3 wall

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#158

Team So is an absolute all-timer. One of my all-time favourite albums. I bought it for my dad (on cassette as this was before weā€™d got a CD player) as a birthday present, but he didnā€™t get to play it much.

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#159

You mean at the beginning of the track? Yeah, maybe. But in the main part of the track it sounds like hammond organ to me which I donā€™t associate with the mid-eighties sound

#160

Oh, and the Money For Nothing lyrics have certainly dated badly regardless of the intention behind them

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#161

I honestly had forgotten until just now looking it up, that the CD album version of Money for Nothing is eight and a half minutes long. Holy moly.