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30 Days of Manics - Day 2 and 3
Jul. 18th, 2010 06:59 pmDay 2: Your favourite album.
It used to be, absolutely unequivocally, The Holy Bible but over the last year and a little bit my loyalty has shifted to Journal for Plague Lovers. It is like The Holy Bible in the sense that it sounds unlike everything else in my record collection but it has a couple of things which, in my opinion, push it over the edge into true greatness. Firstly, it is so much fresher than The Holy Bible, this is partly my fault for listening to it too many times but also there is a more sophisticated approach to mixing and actually compiling the songs and I think that results in a freshness that won't fade. Secondly, there is a warmth in that album which The Holy Bible willfully neglects to include - and certainly that does works - but the emotional connection the band have with those lyrics and their drive to create an album as a tribute imbues the whole album with something completely different, and, I think, better.
Day 3: Your least favourite album
Know Your Enemy. Man Alive I hate that album. It's such a jumbled mess, it sounds like they changed their mind on what they were doing every 2 minutes and as a result it doesn't do anything well but plenty of things very, VERY, badly. There are...3? good tracks on it; Intravenous Agnostic, Ocean Spray and Found that Soul, and I'm not even that keen on Found that Soul. Every now and again I think I'm being too hard on it and give it another listen, but I don't think I've managed to listen to it all the way through in the last 5 years or more. It's just bad.
It used to be, absolutely unequivocally, The Holy Bible but over the last year and a little bit my loyalty has shifted to Journal for Plague Lovers. It is like The Holy Bible in the sense that it sounds unlike everything else in my record collection but it has a couple of things which, in my opinion, push it over the edge into true greatness. Firstly, it is so much fresher than The Holy Bible, this is partly my fault for listening to it too many times but also there is a more sophisticated approach to mixing and actually compiling the songs and I think that results in a freshness that won't fade. Secondly, there is a warmth in that album which The Holy Bible willfully neglects to include - and certainly that does works - but the emotional connection the band have with those lyrics and their drive to create an album as a tribute imbues the whole album with something completely different, and, I think, better.
Day 3: Your least favourite album
Know Your Enemy. Man Alive I hate that album. It's such a jumbled mess, it sounds like they changed their mind on what they were doing every 2 minutes and as a result it doesn't do anything well but plenty of things very, VERY, badly. There are...3? good tracks on it; Intravenous Agnostic, Ocean Spray and Found that Soul, and I'm not even that keen on Found that Soul. Every now and again I think I'm being too hard on it and give it another listen, but I don't think I've managed to listen to it all the way through in the last 5 years or more. It's just bad.
