XTC - Skylarking (Playful, melodic and impeccably produced pop-rock tunes about growing up, falling in love and dying, with 60’s influences and humourous, sometimes sardonic lyrics)
2 Likes
Harvey Milk - A Small Turn of Human Kindness
A couple in a cabin in the woods break up
4 Likes
Pro-wrestling
2 Likes
“Ouch, ooh John that hurt!”
“Relax John, it’s all part of the miracle of cloning.”
riff arrives like a fucking runaway train
Neon Neon - Stainless Style
8 Likes
good kid, m.A.A.d city
Soundtrack to a non existent film about a kid who falls in love, gets caught up in gang beef and avoids being dragged further into turmoil and potential death thanks to the advice of an old matron and the support of his parents just in time to be offered a life changing opportunity.
8 Likes
Andy Shauf’s entire post-2016 discography.
The Party (2016) - all takes place at a house party
The Neon Skyline (2020) - one night at a bar, guy’s ex Judy comes back unexpectedly
Wilds (2021) - Vignettes from the relationship with Judy from the last album
Norm (2023) - guy called Norm is infatuated with a woman, believes he’s been guided by God, ends up abducting her. Told through the POVs of Norm, the girl’s ex and God… Actually, that one does sound pretentious!
3 Likes
Compulsion - The Future Is Medium
Critiquing 1990s Britain from a Marxist perspective while Britpop was in full swing.
Pretentious.
Pretentious.
Pretentious.
7 Likes
Pretty much an oxymoron, I’m afraid
2 Likes
1st Arctic Monkeys album is almost one (particularly if you take out Riot Van)
1 Like
The Wall
lol jk jk
Jeff Wayne’s - The War Of The Worlds (1978).
2 Likes
Alice In Chains - Dirt.
1 Like
Neon Neon - Stainless Style.
1 Like
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Murder of the Universe
ISIS - Oceanic
4 Likes
Leaders of the Free World tells the story of a man getting over a broken heart, especially if you take the title track as being the first time he notices there’s a wide world out there
I’ve seen a number of Greg Dulli albums labeled as concept albums and none of them are pretentious.
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
The Twilight Singers - Blackberry Belle
The Twilight Singers - Powder Burns
Not sure if all actually are concept albums, but they’re all 10/10s regardless.
1 Like