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Originally Posted by OccultHawk
You make some good points. The thing is, I grew up with only one of those records in my collection. Never Mind the Bollocks is the record that’s imprinted on my mind. It’s almost like asking who do you like better yourself or the parallel universe version of you. The production, the layering, the energy all went unchallenged forever so that’s it. I like to consider myself open minded but it’s impossible for me to see this objectively. Another analogy: the dog I raised or the one that escaped a few weeks in.
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Pretty much the same.
Never Mind the Bollocks was the first punk album I ever listened to, one of the first albums I ever burned to a CD back when I didn't have the money to buy albums or the bandwidth to download lots of albums, so it's a foundational album for me that I've listened to more times than I can count.
Spunk's greatness for me is like what you said, it's a parallel universe version of
Bollocks that feels fresher and more interesting simply because I haven't heard it as much. More brilliant albums need to have bootleg versions.
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