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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Phoenix Dark on August 12, 2008, 08:18:49 PM
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Obama's comments on Stevie Wonder's amazing 5 album run got me thinking...
Obama revealed to the The Telegraph: "If I had one musical hero, it would have to be Stevie Wonder.
"When I was at that point where you start getting involved in music, Stevie had that run with Music of My Mind, Talking Book, Fulfillingness' First Finale and Innervisions, and then Songs in the Key of Life.
“Those are as brilliant a set of five albums as we've ever seen."
My mom has all those albums on vinyl and I grew up listening to them; today I'm not a fan of R&B in general but that run is still fucking awesome to me. What are some other examples of great consecutive album runs in you guys' opinions. Would be cool if you separate genres :pimp
(No particular order outside of the first)
Rock/metal:
Led Zeppelin:
Led Zeppelin I (1969): Zeppelin's predominantly blues reworking jacking album simply rocks
Led Zeppelin II (1969): Blues era continues simultaneously as the band's song writing becomes more prevalent
Led Zeppelin III (1970): Under appreciated at release but imo the album was the perfect transition to IV
Led Zeppelin IV (Zoso, 1971): While II features many of my favorite Zep songs, IV features the best of their repertoire - the ballad (Goin to California), the epic (Stairway), folk (Battle of Evermore), blues reworks (When the Levee Breaks)
Pink Floyd:
Dark Side of the Moon (1973): Like Zeppelin III for Zeppelin, Meddle seemed to be the album that best foreshadowed the group's future. Not much to say about DSOTM that hasn't been said already
Wish You Were Here (1975): My favorite Floyd album by far. I've read that it had a mixed reception due to people expecting/demanding DSOTM II eh. Shine On pt I is better than that album imo
Animals (1977): Took me awhile to get into this album. There aren't many songs here but there's no filler
The Wall (1979): Overrated but still features a bunch of awesome songs. But like every double album I've heard...there's some filler here.
Iron Maiden:
The Number of the Beast (1981): See, this is the metal I like - melodic yet heavy shit with vocals that can soar when needed and punch you in the face without cookie monster barking
Piece of Mind (1983): Same as above :bow
Powerslave (1984): Good poster, great album. The last track is one of the most epic songs I've ever heard
Hip hop/rap:
A Tribe Called Quest
People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm (1990): Hip hop is full of classic debut albums, this being among them. I miss the Native Tongue movement as well as more jazz oriented production, which really propels this album.
The Low End Theory (1991): While their first album is a great album, this is a masterpiece. The live instrumentation - from Ron Carter and other jazz musicians - created such a beautiful canvas for Q-Tip and Phife to paint over.
Midnight Marauders (1993): Another absolute classic. The jazz influence is still prevalent but they really funked things up on tracks like Oh My God and Lyrics to Go
MF DOOM
Vaudeville Villain (2003), as Viktor Vaughn: DOOM's first full length album since his 1999 debut. Vaudeville Villain is one of the oddest hip hop albums I've ever heard. The production is good overall, and DOOM uses every opportunity to drop his mentally deranged rhymes, from teenage love (the hilarious Let Me Watch) to a how-to-rob guide for crooks too cheap to buy bullets (Modern Day Mugging)
Madvillainy (2004), as Madvillain: Madlib's brilliant colab album with DOOM - it's always in my playlist/CD player. One of the absolute best hip hop albums of the 21st century
MM...FOOD (2004): Food metaphors and samples galore, DOOM continued his ownage of 2004 with another great album. While the album features a collection of great songs it also includes some of the most entertaining skits I've ever heard
More later. add on :o
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Add Houses of the Holy (probably my favorite Zeppelin album) and possibly Physical Graffiti to that Zeppelin run.
Soundgarden
Louder Than Love (1989)
Badmotorfinger (1991)
Superunknown (1994)
Down on the Upside (1996)
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Beastie Boys
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Liscence to Ill
Pauls Boutique
Check Your Head
Ill Communications
Hello Nasty
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MC 900 Ft Jesus
Hell with the Lid Off
Welcome to my Nightmare
One Step Ahead of the Spider
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This isn't even close
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The White Album
Abbey Road
Let It Be
All recorded in a five year span. (I'm not counting Yellow Submarine because it contained next to no original music and half the album was George Martin muzak)
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Hey Bulldog would like to have a word with your shitty valley girl liking ass.
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Hey Bulldog would like to have a word with your shitty valley girl liking ass.
I didn't claim the album contained no original music; I claimed it contained next to no original music.
And the two best original songs on the album were composed by Harrison: "Only a Northern Song" and "It's All too Much."
"All Together Now" and "Hey Bulldog" are okay. That's four original songs! So I won't count the album because it's a throwaway soundtrack.
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going from memory here:
The Who had:
Tommy -1969
Live at Leeds - 1970
Who's Next - 1971
Quadrophenia -1973
All of which have a better rep than Hello Nasty (smh)
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Metallica:
Kill Em All
Ride The Lightning
Master of Puppets
And Justice For All
Black album (Yes I liked this one a LOT, even though many fans consider it Metallica's "jumping the shark" moment)
(streak ends)
Sasha:
Renaissance - The Mix Collection
Northern Exposure East Coast/Northern Exposure West Coast
Global Underground 009: San Francisco
Northern Exposure: Expeditions
Xpander EP
Global Underground 013: Ibiza
Communicate
Airdrawndagger
Involver
(streak ends, Fundacion was kinda boring, Avalon Los Angeles was a total mess, and the emFire colleciton is hit or miss with me. How will Invol2ver be???)
And of course, the whole of the In Search of Sunrise mix series, granted it has its ups (3!) and downs (4 and 7), but on the whole it's usually very good. Not a fan of Tiesto's artist albums outside of the GODLY In My Memory though.
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going from memory here:
The Who had:
Tommy -1969
Live at Leeds - 1970
Who's Next - 1971
Quadrophenia -1973
All of which have a better rep than Hello Nasty (smh)
and 'The Who Sell Out' in 1967
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OutKast
Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
ATLiens
Aquemini
Common
Resurrection
One Day It'll All Make Sense
Like Water for Chocolate
Electric Circus
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going from memory here:
The Who had:
Tommy -1969
Live at Leeds - 1970
Who's Next - 1971
Quadrophenia -1973
All of which have a better rep than Hello Nasty (smh)
and 'The Who Sell Out' in 1967
patchy tho. it's fairly hard to listen to now, i think.
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The Rolling Stones' four album run is one of the very best:
Beggars Banquet - 1968
Let It Bleed - 1969
Sticky Fingers - 1971
Exile on Main St. - 1972
And of course there's the Dylan golden era:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - 1963
The Times They Are A-Changin' - 1964
Another Side of Bob Dylan - 1964
Bringing It All Back Home - 1965
Highway 61 Revisited - 1965
Blonde on Blonde - 1966
John Wesley Harding - 1967
Nashville Skyline - 1969
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disgusting thread, although Tiesto and dcharlie posted quality shit
how the fuck can people actually listen to shit like Beastie Boys
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ok, first off,
where the fuck is WHERE I"M COMING FROM??? some of the shit from this is just as good if not better than MoMM
and Key of Life is just overrated. some songs justify its length because it's so just godamn good [As - one of the best wONDER songs], and some just phail [that first song from the second disc, cant remember name, Joy something]
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disgusting thread, although Tiesto and dcharlie posted quality shit
how the fuck can people actually listen to shit like Beastie Boys
theres this thing called 'great music' lemme introduce him to you
great music, this is scenester
scenester, this is great music
you'll do well together..
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hey heres a new song that I wrote that is just as great and exactly the same as every beastie boys song:
buh, buh buh buh buh BUH
buh, buh buh buh buh BUHHH
buh buh buh buh buh BUH
honestly, one of the worst groups ever, on par with the Beatles
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Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Get Your Wings
Toys in the Attic
Boston
Boston
Don't Look Back
Third Stage
Elton John
Tumbleweed Connection
Madman Across the Water
Honky Chateau
David Bowie
Hunky Dory
Ziggy Stardust
Aladdin Sane
Steve Miller Band
The Joker
Fly Like An Eagle
Book of Dreams
I agree 100% on Zep's first four albums. Everything afterwords is vomit-inducing.
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The Rolling Stones' four album run is one of the very best:
Beggars Banquet - 1968
Let It Bleed - 1969
Sticky Fingers - 1971
Exile on Main St. - 1972
And of course there's the Dylan golden era:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - 1963
The Times They Are A-Changin' - 1964
Another Side of Bob Dylan - 1964
Bringing It All Back Home - 1965
Highway 61 Revisited - 1965
Blonde on Blonde - 1966
John Wesley Harding - 1967
Nashville Skyline - 1969
very cliched, but still... :bow
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It's only three albums, but for my money you really can't beat
Radiohead
The Bends
Ok Computer
Kid A
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Also, smh @ Pee Dee and no mention of
Outkast
ATLiens
Aquemini
Stankonia
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all of dexter gordon's output
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Seal I
Seal II
Human Being
Seal IV
System
Oh yeah.
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hey heres a new song that I wrote that is just as great and exactly the same as every beastie boys song:
buh, buh buh buh buh BUH
buh, buh buh buh buh BUHHH
buh buh buh buh buh BUH
honestly, one of the worst groups ever, on par with the Beatles
There was a bootleg going around a while ago of "Intergalactic" over Alan Braxe's "Vertigo" that made me practically spooge the first time I heard it. (was in 1999 or so)
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There's some good stuff listed already... my personal favorite runs:
Neil Young
Time Fades Away
On the Beach
Tonight's the Night
Zuma
David Bowie
Station to Station
Low
Heroes
Brian Eno
Here Come the Warm Jets
Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
Another Green World
Discreet Music
Before and After Science
Pink Floyd
Meddle
Dark Side of the Moon
Wish You Were Here
Animals
Talking Heads
77
More Songs About Buildings and Food
Fear of Music
Remain in Light
Speaking in Tongues
Radiohead
Everything that isn't Pablo Honey
:heartbeat
edit: I'd add all the Okkervil River albums too, I just love 'em.
edit2: Just remembered, Built to Spill and Modest Mouse had fantastic runs in their prime too!
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This isn't even close
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The White Album
Abbey Road
Let It Be
All recorded in a five year span. (I'm not counting Yellow Submarine because it contained next to no original music and half the album was George Martin muzak)
QFT!!!
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QFT!!!
Finally, someone else with taste on Evilbore. The only album on that list that has any bad songs is "the White Album." And it's a double album, so it's somewhat understandable.
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WTF you homo I love the Beatles too, I just thought you said Yellow Submarine was terrible, as I read it wrong. Also the best Beatles song is "Dont Let Me Down" because it's the only one that makes you actually think Ringo knows how to play drums.
Also bashing Hello Nasty is lame. Like me bashing radiohead lame.
Also I forgot the Pixies
Surfer Rosa
Come on Pilgrim
Doolittle
and and
BT
Movement in Still Life
Emotional Technology
This Binary Universe
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WTF you homo I love the Beatles too, I just thought you said Yellow Submarine was terrible, as I read it wrong. Also the best Beatles song is "Dont Let Me Down" because it's the only one that makes you actually think Ringo knows how to play drums.
Also bashing Hello Nasty is lame. Like me bashing radiohead lame.
Also I forgot the Pixies
Surfer Rosa
Come on Pilgrim
Doolittle
and and
BT
Movement in Still Life
Emotional Technology
This Binary Universe
No ESCM or Ima? I still need to hear This Binary Universe, especially in 5.1.
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I went by US releases.
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ringo is a consistent drummer
not a versatile drummer. therefore, not a great drummer, just a drummer with a famous, classic, and consistent and preditable sound
and ive said this before: many wellregarded beatles songs from their mid and later albums are vastly overrated [lots of shit from Pepper, some from White album, tons from abbey raod] while many of their early career songs, even their covers, and most of their amazing amazing singles deserve any acclaim they get, and more.
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ringo is a consistent drummer
not a versatile drummer. therefore, not a great drummer, just a drummer with a famous, classic, and consistent and preditable sound
and ive said this before: many wellregarded beatles songs from their mid and later albums are vastly overrated [lots of shit from Pepper, some from White album, tons from abbey raod] while many of their early career songs, even their covers, and most of their amazing amazing singles deserve any acclaim they get, and more.
Well, at least he was better than Pete Best.
Name the overrated songs on Abbey Road.
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Thats why Dont Let Me Down is awesome.
Oh and overrated AR song: Come Together
But beatles overrated is different than Muse overrated.
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Ehhh ET is one of those albums I think that some either love or hate.
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The Rolling Stones' four album run is one of the very best:
Beggars Banquet - 1968
Let It Bleed - 1969
Sticky Fingers - 1971
Exile on Main St. - 1972
And of course there's the Dylan golden era:
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan - 1963
The Times They Are A-Changin' - 1964
Another Side of Bob Dylan - 1964
Bringing It All Back Home - 1965
Highway 61 Revisited - 1965
Blonde on Blonde - 1966
John Wesley Harding - 1967
Nashville Skyline - 1969
very cliched, but still... :bow
Needed to be said, anyhow.
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Sonic Youth's entire catalog, basically.
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You're joking, right?
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You're joking, right?
Should I be?
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BUMP
Rolling Stones:
Beggar's Banquet
Let it Bleed
Sticky Fingers
Exile on Mainstreet
(I think Sticky Fingers is good not great)
KRS-One:
Return of the Boom Bap
KRS-One
I Got Next
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KRS-One:
Return of the Boom Bap
KRS-One
I Got Next
i would say it ended w/ return of the boom bap
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Radiohead
Pablo Honey
The Bends
OK Computer
Kid A
Muse
Origin Of Symmetry
Absolution
Hullaballoo
Black Holes & Revelations
Radiohead's first three albums are worth more to me personally than any other run of albums ever made. I love their new stuff too, but its not as universal, whereas I was able to get people into the earlier stuff. Muse are just awesome. Especially live.
Obviously, you guys have posted a lot of classic runs here, I just thought I'd mention these, because these are the albums that shaped my taste in music before both these bands came along and afterwards.
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Yay for more sameness.
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Now for a quick injection of Steel
Metallica
Kill em' All
Ride the Lightning
Master of Puppets
...and Justice for All
Iced Earth
Burnt Offerings
Dark Saga
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Horror Show
Iron Savior
Iron Savior
Unification
Dark Assault
Condition Red
Battering Ram
Megatropolis
Pantera
Cowboys from Hell
Vulgar Display of Power
Far Beyond Driven
The Great Southern Trendkill
Reinventing the Steel
Down
NOLA
Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
Down III: Over the Under
Black Label Society
Sonic Brew
Stronger Than Death
1919 Eternal
The Blessed Hellride
Mafia
Korpiklaani
Spirit of the Forest
Voice of Wilderness
Tales Along This Road
Tervaskanto
That's all I can think of off the top of my head
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Yay for more sameness.
Directed at me?
Radiohead led me back to the Pixies. The Pixies made me appreciate Nirvana more. RH put me onto Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada. I got into Muse through already liking unique voices, like Jeff Buckley's (Matt Bellamy sounds NOTHING like Thom Yorke btw), I got into Tom Waits because of them. I saw Coldplay support Muse in Liverpool before Coldplay released Yellow and went massive worldwide. Muse are nothing like Radiohead generally. Rachmaninoff inspired piano, classical sounding guitar at times, appregiators, loops, sweeps, swoops, bleeps, bloops, portamento.. totally different to what Radiohead do. And live: they give you giant bouncing balls, a big lazer show, a tonne of screens or a floating UFO as well as an ass kicking performance.
Its a shame this is restricted to albums...
I could probably name good runs for U2, Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails. If you lived in the UK in 1994, chances are you thought Definitely Maybe, Whats the Story and Be Here Now was a great run for Oasis. Their B-Sides were better than their A-Sides and Album Tracks back then.
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People here have pretty good taste in music! :-*
A lot of stuff I'd list has been listed already.
Ehhh ET is one of those albums I think that some either love or hate.
I didn't really like ET when it first came out, but since then it's really grown on me. I'd say it's about 50/50 now. I really like TBU, but only through the DVD really. Tiesto, get the DVD!
Ones I didn't see mentioned~
BT
Ima
ESCM
Movement In Still Life.
The Dandy Warhols
Everything through this last one.
New Order
The other band I dig almost everything by.
Pulp
Different Class
This is Hardcore
I'd really like to include Beck, but he's inconsistent. I'd also include Shonen Knife, but I like it less the older I get. :-\
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KRS-One:
Return of the Boom Bap
KRS-One
I Got Next
i would say it ended w/ return of the boom bap
I definitely understand why some people don't like I Got Next but his self titled album is great imo. The thing I like about KRS is that he can make full album where none of the songs sound the same; every song might have a different feel (reggae, hardcore, beat box, etc), production style, etc. Plus he's one of the few MCs who rarely wastes lines imo. That being said, I usually find his political opinions to be nauseating, perhaps moreso than even Immortal Technique :/
might as well add another
Portishead:
Dummy
Portishead
Third
Their second album is sort of a mixed bag but it features so many amazing signature songs it has to be considered/appreciated. It took me awhile to digest Third; I listen to it almost every day now. The Rip is such an awesome song
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Core
Purple
Tiny Music
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To me, of all the 90's bands .. they had the best 3 consecutive albums.
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Dammit RoboJ, you took my post :(
I'll narrow it down a bit more for you though, cause while all of Dylan's 60s albums were great, there were only a few incredible ones.
Another Side of Bob Dylan
Bringing It All Back Home
Highway 61 Revisited
Blonde on Blonde
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Can't disagree with that.
A few more:
Pavement
Basically everything.
Elliott Smith
Likewise.
Wire
Pink Flag - 1977
Chairs Missing - 1978
154 - 1979
Elvis Costello
My Aim Is True - 1977
This Year's Model - 1978
Armed Forces - 1979
Get Happy!! - 1980
Almost Blue - 1981
Trust - 1981
Imperial Bedroom - 1982
The Kinks
The Kink Kontroversy - 1965
Face to Face - 1966
Something Else by The Kinks - 1967
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society - 1968
Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) - 1969
Lola vs. The Powerman & The Money-Go-Round - 1970
Muswell Hillbillies - 1971
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Gosh, Village Green is suck a kickass album.
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Agreeing with Wire, Bowie (Station to Station through to Lodger) and Eno. Disagree with New Order, they were never really a consistent albums band, although I won't deny Power, Corruption and Lies and Technique are gems. Also strongly disagree with Pulp, because His 'n' Hers is the tits and the best thing they ever did.
Adding
The Fall
Dragnet
Grotesque
Slates
Hex Enduction Hour
The Velvet Underground
The Velvet Underground and Nico
White Light/White Heat
The Velvet Underground
Loaded
Kate Bush
The Dreaming
Hounds of Love
The Sensual World
Nico
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Chelsea Girl
The Marble Index
Desertshore
The End
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'Matt Bellamy sounds NOTHING like Thom Yorke btw' :lol
i'm sorry, i like them both but :lol
:lol can't breathe :lol
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Muse and Radioheads lead vocalists soundb the exact fucking same.
More proof that england doesn't have unique singers.
Should've stopped at Rod Stewart, shitty country.
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Muse and Radioheads lead vocalists soundb the exact fucking same.
More proof that england doesn't have unique singers.
Should've stopped at Rod Stewart, shitty country.
Joke post? Rod Stewart isn't English...
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Yes he is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart
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Yes he is.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Stewart
Yeah I just saw that and tried to edit but the server fucked up. Funny, I always thought he was completely Scottish.
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Speaking of Rod Stewart...
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
Gasoline Alley
Every Picture Tells A Story
Never A Dull Moment
...and you could squeeze his stuff with The Faces in there, and top it off with the two albums he did with the Jeff Beck Group, from a period of 1968 to 1973. Truly an oddly exceptional start to what would become one of the most shameful musical careers of all time.
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Rod could make a million bad albums and I wouldn't care; Young Turks is prob my favorite song of all time next to Here Comes Your Man.
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Tori Amos
- Little Earthquakes
- Under the Pink
- Boys for Pele
- From the Choirgirl Hotel
- To Venus and Back
Tom Waits
- Swordfishtrombones
- Rain Dogs
- Franks Wild Years
- Big Time
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It just so happens he's working on his millionth terrible album right now.