Coldplay, X&Y. Anyone else like this album?

Not really a great fan of that album...but there first 'parachutes' is pretty good...
'carry on up the charts' by Beautiful South anyone?

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Not really a great fan of that album...but there first 'parachutes' is pretty good...
'carry on up the charts' by Beautiful South anyone?

I love their lyrics, but sometimes they're just a little too MOR for me.

Marvin Gaye - What's Goin' On ( having a chilled out evening!)

What's MOR?

Sorry what's MOR?

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Sorry what's MOR?

Middle of the road ie bland

Love - Forever Changes and Kansas - Masque

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Middle of the road ie bland

I see..ah weird, i find them the opposite. The housemartins are good also

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Love - Forever Changes and Kansas - Masque

The Love album is brilliant. I'll pass on the Kansas though!

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Middle of the road ie bland

I wouldn't say bland necessarily. Safe. I like to say: uneventful.

ARIEL KATE BUSH  brilliant comeback album
SURFJAM STEVENS he`s got to be artist at the moment
was`nt  FOREVER CHANGES about 1968 ,not really album of the moment and very overated in my humble opinion.

Today I went out and bought REM's The Best Of REM and when I got it home, it was the wrong disc! There are two The Best Of REM albums. The one I thought I had was the 2003 one with a blue moon on the cover. In the shop they had put in another one with the same title, as far as I know released later, but I'm not sure. Anyway, the wrong one I was given was disappointing compared to this 2003 one. I noticed about half-way through that it was the wrong album (I don't know their music so well) and had the chance to notice that it's nothing on the 2003 compilation I went back to the shop for - which includes Man On The Moon, and Everybody Hurts.

Just an interesting little story, about a band with two compilations out with the same title! And, maybe to let anyone know which would be the best one to get if you are interested.

Sadly none of these comps include Shiny Happy People, a nice harking back to the sixties song.

I have the one with the moon on the cover

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SURFJAM STEVENS he`s got to be artist at the moment

And I'm sure he won't mind you spelling his name wrong then

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And I'm sure he won't mind you spelling his name wrong then

Never been my best subject.

As for REM albums i was well into them in the late eighties ,there best albums for me are
New adventures in hi fi
document  [ with the popular THE ONE I LOVE]
green
you cant go wrong with these albums ,but stay clear of there last three they awful.

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Why are they so underrated? Especially this one:

What an incredible talent. I can't believe how his life ended. Playing crap bars hawking his latest CD. How the hell does something like that even end up happening??? Bums me out.

Anyone ever see Festival Express when Joplin hangs all over him and as drunk or as high as he is he STILL looks mortified! Poor woman.

Listening to a lot of different things lately, mainly Bowie and The Buzzcocks,

Rediscovering Rod Stewart and James Brown ...

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Listening to a lot of different things lately, mainly Bowie and The Buzzcocks,

Funny, just listened to Diamond Dogs!

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Rediscovering Rod Stewart and James Brown ...

Rods first four solo albums are excellent. Every Picture Tells A Story is one of my favourite albums.

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Rods first four solo albums are excellent. Every Picture Tells A Story is one of my favourite albums.

He's got better albums than most people think ...

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He's got better albums than most people think ...

Well, it's a matter of opinion of course, but I think after 'Smiler' it's all shite!

^ sure it's a matter of taste and opinion, but my favourite albums at the moment are "Smiler"   and "Gasoline Alley" - very much like his 70s stuff. He's an underestimated singer and performer

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^ sure it's a matter of taste and opinion, but my favourite albums at the moment are "Smiler"   and "Gasoline Alley" - very much like his 70s stuff. He's an underestimated singer and performer

Gasoline Alley is excellent. I do think he sold his soul to the American market with Atlantic Crossing, and never turned back.

Stll Jeff Buckley's grace for me

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Why are they so underrated? Especially this one:

What an incredible talent. I can't believe how his life ended. Playing crap bars hawking his latest CD. How the hell does something like that even end up happening??? Bums me out.

Anyone ever see Festival Express when Joplin hangs all over him and as drunk or as high as he is he STILL looks mortified! Poor woman.

The classic band stuff is great, but the Jericho album in 1991 (with Rick, Garth and Levon) is still pretty damned strong.  Great vocals by Rick and Levon on "Blind Willie McTell"--one of the best Dylan covers ever.  Danko was one helluva of bass player too.  The live stuff like "Rock of Ages" is incredible.

  

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Gasoline Alley is excellent. I do think he sold his soul to the American market with Atlantic Crossing, and never turned back.

yeah, it's a pity.
At least he sang a Macca song  , think it's on "Smiler" and it's called "Mine for me".

Happy belated to Rod, he turned 62 yesterday.

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The classic band stuff is great, but the Jericho album in 1991 (with Rick, Garth and Levon) is still pretty damned strong.  Great vocals by Rick and Levon on "Blind Willie McTell"--one of the best Dylan covers ever.  Danko was one helluva of bass player too.  The live stuff like "Rock of Ages" is incredible.

  

I should check it out. I get in and out of the Band's music. They do fascinate me though. Their whole history and what they did at the time they did it.