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View Poll Results: Which album is better? | |||
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses | 19 | 28.79% | |
Pixies - Dootlittle | 40 | 60.61% | |
Meh | 7 | 10.61% | |
Voters: 66. You may not vote on this poll |
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09-29-2012, 10:02 AM | #111 (permalink) |
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Doolittle i find is one of the finest albums of its era. Better than Surfa Rosa in my opinion but that was still an amazing album. The Stone Roses is a classic album but they were no Pixies, they will forever be known as a one album wonder and they never had the legacy which Pixies left behind, so many bands after the Pixies wanted to be the Pixies and they have to be credited with having an influence what was a golden era in American alternative music. Then Kim Deal went and formed the Breeders, another amazing band, POD is up there with Doolittle imo.
Stone Roses just never had that legacy, they have been in recent years seen as the cool thing to listen to and have been given too much credit for influencing a golden era of british alternative rock which they were merely part of. By the early 90's the marketing men had jumped upon the bandwagon and rebranded it 'Britpop', a name which always makes me cringe. Oasis, Suede, dodgy, space, pulp and countless other instantly forgettable bands followed, it was in my mind a poor era for British alternative music and so far away from the golden years of the 80's. |
09-30-2012, 06:49 AM | #112 (permalink) | |
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11-01-2012, 04:04 PM | #113 (permalink) |
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I voted for the Meh option. I love both albums and understand and respect the importance of both for different reason. Now if the question was: who is the better band, that would be The Pixies but when it comes to better album that's too close to call.
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11-03-2012, 01:19 PM | #114 (permalink) |
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Doolittle every time for me and I'm from the UK, reason being i was in my early teenage years when both these albums were released and having heard bands such as Sonic youth, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, previously, the whole "american" indie rock sound appealed to me much more as at that time in the UK the Stone Roses were kind of lumped in with the whole Madchester drug scene which i had no interest in whatsoever so perhaps never gave the Roses much of a chance, i have later come to appreciate the album much more but doolittle holds much more nostalgia and meaning for me.
Now ask me to choose between Doolitte and Teenage Fanclubs Bandwagonesque and that would be a much harder choice. |
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