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fourteenwings ^_^ from Clad 6 Since: May, 2010
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#76: Sep 9th 2012 at 10:08:17 PM

Sam's Town by The Killers, I love this album with all my heart. Then I heard that they were in an experimental phase and that their other stuff was very different. It was, didn't like it at all.

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Ryuhza Brother from San Diego County, California Since: Feb, 2012 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
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#77: Sep 9th 2012 at 10:12:11 PM

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Both fore and aft? I haven't heard their new album, but Hot Fuss, Sam's Town, and Day & Age all sound very different.

edited 9th Sep '12 10:12:39 PM by Ryuhza

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fourteenwings ^_^ from Clad 6 Since: May, 2010
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#78: Sep 9th 2012 at 10:20:05 PM

[up] I thought there was some similarity between Hot Fuss and Day & Age. At the very least there was some consistency between the two (I listened to both twice) and they sounded like the same band.

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Sarkastique Hey, gorgeous from Baltimore Since: Dec, 2010
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#79: Sep 9th 2012 at 10:38:08 PM

Bad Company's Shot Down on Safari.

I don't love Hold Your Colour but it's leagues above Pendulum's later work.

edited 9th Sep '12 10:45:06 PM by Sarkastique

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0dd1 Just awesome like that from Nowhere Land Since: Sep, 2009
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#80: Aug 29th 2013 at 9:30:08 PM

RE: The Killers—I dunno, Hot Fuss and Day & Age sound pretty consistent with each other to me as well. They pretty much epitomize the idea of the Killers as "more '80s than the '80s" to me.

Fourteenwings, have you checked out their latest album Battle Born yet? It sounds kinda different from their typical sound.


I might need to listen again to it, but I was put off by Fitz And The Tantrums' second album (More Than Just a Dream). For context, their first album (Pickin' Up the Pieces) had an amazing sound inspired largely by retro soul and R&B, basically sounding like an update on the classic Motown sound mixed with some indie rock tropes. Their second album? Threw much of that out the window in favor of an electronic rock kind of sound. In fact, thinking about it, it pretty much sounds like a MGMT album. Nothing wrong with that per se...it just caused the band to lose everything that was unique about their sound previously.

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Twentington Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Desperate
#81: Aug 30th 2013 at 12:24:27 AM

I thought every song on Taylor Swift's debut was great, except "Should've Said No" (she sounded like an immature brat on it). I can't say I outright dislike anything since, except the title track of Fearless, simply for its clunky melody and poorly-scanning lyrics. I can find something to like in most of her songs, but her debut was the only one that made me really want to seek it out, as opposed to just downloading the singles. And even then, just the singles that went to country radio — I didn't care for "The Story of Us", and I doubt I'd like "I Knew You Were Trouble", but I do consider "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together" a guilty pleasure.

ZestierThanThou Since: Jun, 2013
#82: Sep 1st 2013 at 8:33:29 AM

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

iamathousandapples The Collective from Northeast Ohio Megablob Since: Oct, 2009
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#84: Sep 9th 2013 at 8:11:36 PM

The Fall of Troy - Doppelganger. The other albums are okay, but none of them really have that energy, y'know?

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Jhimmibhob Since: Dec, 2010
#85: Sep 10th 2013 at 5:09:03 AM

Some musicians & bands are always experimenting, to the point that virtually every release is a New Sound Album. In those cases, it makes perfect sense that only one or two of them would strike a chord with most individual listeners. For example, I'm fond of Cibo Matto's Stereotype A, but not their others; this isn't too surprising, though, because the others don't remotely resemble it, or each other too much.

Hadley Hadley from Mississippi Since: Jan, 2001
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#86: Sep 14th 2013 at 6:23:10 PM

R.E.M's Monster. The rest of their work doesnt do much for me, but this is a great album, much more hooky and upbeat. I'd go as far to say that "What's the Frequency Kenneth" is one of the best songs of the 90s (it's a shame that when people think of 90s R.E.M. they usually think of Everybody Hurts or Losing My Religion).

djbj Since: Oct, 2010
#87: Sep 14th 2013 at 8:24:02 PM

[up]Well if you want hooky and upbeat from R.E.M., what about It's the End of the World as We Know It?

theAdeptrogue iRidescence Since: Nov, 2011 Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
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#88: Sep 16th 2013 at 5:53:16 AM

I don't usually like one Single Album from specific artists, I'd like one or two songs from some of their albums and dislike the rest.

With Linkin Park, I like one or two of their songs from Meteora, Hybrid Theory, and Minutes to Midnight each (plus New Divide) and find the rest boring at best.

Quag15 Since: Mar, 2012
#89: Sep 23rd 2013 at 10:35:39 AM

The Psychedelic Sounds of The 13th Floor Eleavators by The 13th Floor Elevators.

I never really got interested in the following albums.

edited 23rd Sep '13 10:36:13 AM by Quag15

JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
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#90: Sep 24th 2013 at 2:13:38 PM

I think that this is the case with me and Wavves' first LP.

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ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#91: Oct 14th 2013 at 10:48:41 AM

Opheliac by Emilie Autumn was fantastic, but Enchant sort of bored me and Fight Like a Girl is more or less the sum of all the things I dislike about the woman as both an artist and a person.

Ryuhza Brother from San Diego County, California Since: Feb, 2012 Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
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#92: Oct 14th 2013 at 12:41:45 PM

I like a few songs beyond Ten from Pearl Jam, but I'd be hard-pressed to find a whole album after that one that I enjoy.

edited 14th Oct '13 12:41:57 PM by Ryuhza

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FromtheWordsofBR Since: Apr, 2012
#93: Nov 13th 2013 at 6:38:42 PM

The 1975. Then again, this is as of this writing their only album out right now.

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KlarkKentThe3rd Since: May, 2010
#95: Nov 16th 2013 at 2:24:11 AM

Does it count if the band only made one album? If yes, Charm by the short-lived scottish duo Intimate Strangers.

edited 16th Nov '13 2:25:19 AM by KlarkKentThe3rd

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