Popular Music Opinions

SGR · 07-25-2013, 07:17 AM

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Originally Posted by crazed

My favorite PJ Harvey album is To Bring You My Love..

Is that really popular opinion? I thought the popular opinion was that "Stories From The City..." and "Rid Of Me" were her best albums?

**Janszoon** · 07-25-2013, 07:19 AM

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Originally Posted by SoundgardenRocks

Is that really popular opinion? I thought the popular opinion was that "Stories From The City..." and "Rid Of Me" were her best albums?

People like Stories From The City...? It was was so roundly trashed when it came out that I never had any interest in giving it a listen.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-25-2013, 07:30 AM

I don't remember it being trashed, in fact I remember it being high up in most end of year lists. And it won her a Mercury Music prize.

SGR · 07-25-2013, 10:19 AM

^What he said. Stories from the city was like the combination of everything that made her great up to that point. Some didn't like it b/c it was too "polished" for a PJ album.

Stephen · 07-25-2013, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

People like Stories From The City...? It was was so roundly trashed when it came out that I never had any interest in giving it a listen.

Was it? I loved it and played the hell out of it for about a month when I got it.

The Batlord · 07-25-2013, 10:28 AM

I'm not sure if this is popular or unpopular, but whatevs. The second half of The Stooges' Funhouse is the best part of the record. How it slowly devolves into freeform madness is just wonderful.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 07-25-2013, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I'm not sure if this is popular or unpopular, but whatevs. The second half of The Stooges' Funhouse is the best part of the record. How it slowly devolves into freeform madness is just wonderful.

Took me a while to get there but I agree with this. I love how the guitars & the horns on the title track wind around each other.

The Batlord · 07-25-2013, 10:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

Took me a while to get there but I agree with this. I love how the guitars & the horns on the title track wind around each other.

Hell yeah. I love that it sounds like they're playing two different songs and not really paying attention to one another while Iggy just sort of shouts random noises and it's only brought together by the rhythm section. I even like "LA Blues" now. On it's own it's unlistenable, but in the context of the album it's the logical conclusion to the other two songs and is just wonderfully insane.

Edit: Whenever I listen to the second half I always have this fantasy of a band that just plays randomness to piss of a crowd, gets thrown out by the bouncers, and then plays on non-electric instruments in the parking lot until the cops show up.

Engine · 07-25-2013, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Janszoon

People like Stories From The City...? It was was so roundly trashed when it came out that I never had any interest in giving it a listen.

I think it was mostly trashed by people who were upset that she didn't sound 'raw' or 'heavy' anymore and this one was even poppier sounding than 'Is This Desire?' Don't quote me on that, I don't really remember. I do remember a general feeling in the air that she had totally lost her intensity, polished her sound, and just wasn't the same.

I was one of the people who wanted more of the earliest stuff but I still really liked the album when I listened to it. Still do.

The Batlord · 07-26-2013, 10:16 AM

An unknown but large percentage of people who say Nirvana are overrated are tools. Nirvana were brilliant.

07-25-2013, 07:30 AM	#13 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I don't remember it being trashed, in fact I remember it being high up in most end of year lists. And it won her a Mercury Music prize. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

07-25-2013, 10:19 AM	#14 (permalink)
SGR No Ice In My Bourbon Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: /dev/null Posts: 4,327	^What he said. Stories from the city was like the combination of everything that made her great up to that point. Some didn't like it b/c it was too "polished" for a PJ album.