Quickie Discography Reviews Game Thread

Daring

Cave In:

1. Until Your Heart Stops
2. Antenna
3. Jupiter
4. Tides Of Tomorrow
5. Perfect Pitch Black
6. Planets Of Old
7. White Silence
8. Creative Eclipses
9. The Sacrifice Poles

The top 3 change depending on the order in which I last listened to them but this is correct as of RIGHT NOW.

George "George" Harrison:

Cloud 9
All Things Must Pass
Thirty Three And A Third
Living In The Material World
George Harrison
Dark Horse
Extra Texture
Somewhere In England
Gone Fucking Troppo

And, as if anyone gives a shit:

Wonderwall Music
Electronic Sound

Sorry, Brainwashed, you don't get a look in.

Unsurprising Ealton Jean Rankings

1) Tumbleweed Connection
2) Madman Across the Water
3) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4) Honky Chateau
5) The Union
6) Songs From The West Coast
7) Peachtree Road
8) The Captain & The Kid
9) Captain Fantastic & The Brown Derby Cowboy
10) Empty Sky
11) The Diving Board
12) A Single Man
13) Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
14) Caribou
15) Rock of the Westies
16) Sleeping With the Past
17) Blue Moves
18) Made in England
19) Elton John
20) Made in England
21) 21 at 33
22) The One
23) The Fox
24) Too Low For Zero
25) Jump Up!
26) Reg Strikes Back
27) The Big Picture
28) Leather Jackets
29) Wonderful Crazy Night
30) Ice on Fire
31) Breaking Hearts
32) Duets
33) Victim of Love

Callou-callay! No one has yet weighed in on the smiffs! I’ll just lay my coat here and return with commentary in the morning:

1. The Queen Is Dead
2. Strangeways Here We Come
3. Louder Than Bombs
4. Hatful of Hollow
5. The Smiths
6. Meat Is Murder

I thought the rules were you can rank as many or as few albums as you like. I include those compilations because the Smiths released so many non-album tracks and b-sides in between albums that the compilations are essential listening. 

I'll grant you ranking Meat is Murder over The Smiths, though. There are more good songs on Meat is Murder, but in my opinion, it's a bit labored. The Smiths has an urgency and rawness that I still find thrilling. I also personally prefer Strangeways to The Queen is Dead, but if I'm being objective, The Queen is Dead is the more consistent and cohesive album. 

Rules?  Pah!  But actually i was just being a pedant, nothing to do with the rules on the thread, sorry I should have made that clearer.

To be honest I don't think either of the first two Smiths albums are quite "there" yet.  They have outstanding moments (Reel Around The Fountain, Suffer Little Children,  The Headmaster Ritual, the frankly stunning Barbarism Begins At Home, and arguably my favourite Smiths album track, That Joke Isn't Funny Any More), but they never quite cohere. I don't really have any argument with someone who prefers Queen to Strangeways, both are top-to-bottom excellent. But the weirdness of A Rush And A Push... , the "for once Morrissey actually gets it" of Paint A Vulgar Picture, and the sheer, unadulterated brilliance of Death Of A Disco Dancer seals it for me.  The other thing I love about Strangeways, though, is I Won't Share You. It feels like a perfect cap to their career, but I also think it might well be the most honest and unguarded Morrissey has ever been. There's a real ring of truth about the way he basically admits he'll let absolutely everything, including love and friendship, slide away - his career comes first ("I won't share you with the dream and ambition/ the zeal I feel / this is my time). He's basically admitting that he's a selfish asshole and he's at peace with that.  It's not pretty, necessarily, but there's something about the rather naive honesty that works, and it's infinitely preferable to his "I'll say anything to explain away this fucking stupid thing I said rather than just admit I might have made a mistake" pose he strikes now.

TL;DR - I prefer Strangeways!

I don't think I ever did The National and if I already did well tough

1. Boxer
2. Alligator
3. Sleep Well Beast
4. High Violet
5. Trouble Will Find Me
6. Cherry Tree EP
7. Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers
8. The Virginia EP
9. The National

I have difficulty ranking them, but if Always Ascending (which I haven't heard yet) is better than YCHISMB or any of the others then that's a very good sign.