Ranking the Discographies
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
Blue
Pinkerton
Green
Please stop making music now
Pinkerton
Green
Please stop making music now
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
People seem to think that album is good. Same for Green. Both are pretty bad.Kory wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:22pmYour ranking of Maladroit is maladroit.matedog wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 12:19pmSince Rev and Doc asked for it, here's the Weezer Discography ranked:
Blue
Pinkerton
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
White Album
Red Album (including bonus tracks, it would be much lower without them)
OK Human
Pacific Daydream
Raditude
Make Believe
Hurley
SZNZ: Spring
Green
Van Weezer
Maladroit
Black Album
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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I always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
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That was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
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Green is then doing their fratbro pop rock shtick at it's freshest, a d thus most tolerable. Everything after that gets incrementally worse and worse.matedog wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:59pmPeople seem to think that album is good. Same for Green. Both are pretty bad.Kory wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:22pmYour ranking of Maladroit is maladroit.matedog wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 12:19pmSince Rev and Doc asked for it, here's the Weezer Discography ranked:
Blue
Pinkerton
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
White Album
Red Album (including bonus tracks, it would be much lower without them)
OK Human
Pacific Daydream
Raditude
Make Believe
Hurley
SZNZ: Spring
Green
Van Weezer
Maladroit
Black Album
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
Pretty good one if so, i gotta say. Everyone I knew, none of them big Bruce fans, seemed to have that album, i just never got its appeal.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
Re: Ranking the Discographies
That's how I feel about the entire Bruce catalogLow Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 6:37pmPretty good one if so, i gotta say. Everyone I knew, none of them big Bruce fans, seemed to have that album, i just never got its appeal.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
A friend of mine was a big Bruce fan and would play stuff that "you'll like for sure." I'd ask him, "What's wrong with his voice?" and he'd get angry.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 6:58pmThat's how I feel about the entire Bruce catalogLow Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 6:37pmPretty good one if so, i gotta say. Everyone I knew, none of them big Bruce fans, seemed to have that album, i just never got its appeal.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
I think its a bit for insecure contrarians that are afraid to like popular things. It’s the stark, lo fi counterpart to the big, obnoxious Born in the USA, so it’s inherently cooler.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 6:37pmPretty good one if so, i gotta say. Everyone I knew, none of them big Bruce fans, seemed to have that album, i just never got its appeal.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Re: Ranking the Discographies
It’s just so bland, unimaginative, and uninspired. The songwriting tricks he employs on later albums are the periodic highlights for me. Also, he really loosened up his vocal delivery closer to his Pinkerton rawness on more recent albums to the point that his Green voice is just so bored and neutered, it really gets to me.Flex wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 6:25pmGreen is then doing their fratbro pop rock shtick at it's freshest, a d thus most tolerable. Everything after that gets incrementally worse and worse.matedog wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:59pmPeople seem to think that album is good. Same for Green. Both are pretty bad.Kory wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:22pmYour ranking of Maladroit is maladroit.matedog wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 12:19pmSince Rev and Doc asked for it, here's the Weezer Discography ranked:
Blue
Pinkerton
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
White Album
Red Album (including bonus tracks, it would be much lower without them)
OK Human
Pacific Daydream
Raditude
Make Believe
Hurley
SZNZ: Spring
Green
Van Weezer
Maladroit
Black Album
There are some decent melodies here and there but nothing else on the album matches the pep of Hash Pipe except maybe the outro of Simple Pages. And the trick he employs at the end of Simple Pages and only that is something he does not hesitate to do on other later albums.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
Yeah that makes a bit of sense alright, definitely got a bit of that vibe off it. Ry Cooder Paris Texas was another in that vein.matedog wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 7:19pmI think its a bit for insecure contrarians that are afraid to like popular things. It’s the stark, lo fi counterpart to the big, obnoxious Born in the USA, so it’s inherently cooler.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 6:37pmPretty good one if so, i gotta say. Everyone I knew, none of them big Bruce fans, seemed to have that album, i just never got its appeal.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.
Re: Ranking the Discographies
It's not good but it's definitely better than Green.matedog wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:59pmPeople seem to think that album is good. Same for Green. Both are pretty bad.Kory wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:22pmYour ranking of Maladroit is maladroit.matedog wrote: ↑12 May 2022, 12:19pmSince Rev and Doc asked for it, here's the Weezer Discography ranked:
Blue
Pinkerton
Everything Will Be Alright in the End
White Album
Red Album (including bonus tracks, it would be much lower without them)
OK Human
Pacific Daydream
Raditude
Make Believe
Hurley
SZNZ: Spring
Green
Van Weezer
Maladroit
Black Album
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
I think the tribute album is the more interesting listen. Johnny Cash did some decent covers too.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
I think the real marketing ploy was turning a bitter and sarcastic song about a Vietnam vet into a jingoistic anthem.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?
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Re: Ranking the Discographies
I read that as Jungleistic.Olaf wrote: ↑14 May 2022, 1:31amI think the real marketing ploy was turning a bitter and sarcastic song about a Vietnam vet into a jingoistic anthem.revbob wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:44pmThat was a marketing ploy.Low Down Low wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 5:09pmI always remember Nebraska as being the one Bruce album everyone was supposed to like but it totally bored me anytime I tried it. Willing to give it another go now my palate is at least a tad more refined.Olaf wrote: ↑13 May 2022, 4:12pmRivermatedog wrote: ↑11 May 2022, 5:49pmBest of Bruce:
Wild, Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
Born to Run
Nebraska
Darkness on the Edge of Town
The River
Tunnel of Love
Born in the USA
Magic
The Rising
Seeger Sessions
Ghost of Tom Joad
Western Stars
Devils and Dust
Wrecking Ball
Letter to You
Human Touch
Lucky Town
High Hopes
Working on a Dream
Darkness
Tunnel
Born to Run
Greetings
Human Touch
Western Stars
Nebraska
Wild, Innocent etc.
Born in the USA
Lucky Town
Tom Joad
Rising
Working on a Dream
I don't know the rest.
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