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PiL:

Metal Box
Public Image: First Issue
The Flowers of Romance
This is PiL
Album
What the World Needs Now…
Happy?
9
This Is What You Want…
That What Is Not
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Metal Box
First Issue
Album
Flowers of Romance
TIWYWTIWYG
all the rest in any mish mosh order except
That What is Not
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Cause I just remembered they exist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
Fever to Tell
It's Blitz
"Master" EP
Show Your Bones
IS IS
Machine EP
Mosquito
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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Flowers of Romance
Metal Box
First Issue
This Is What You Want…
Album
Happy?
9
This is PiL
What the World Needs Now…
That What Is Not
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The Smiths (Rough Trade only - I'm not bothering with the compilations after that)

Strangeways Here We Come
The Queen is Dead
Meat is Murder
Hatful of Hollow
Louder than Bombs
The Smiths
The World Won't Listen
Rank

Absolutely nothing between the first three and on any given day a strong (or even weak) argument will sway me.
I have to put The Smiths fairly low because I think I prefer the radio session version of a couple of the songs and definitely the Troy Tate version of Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Rank is last because I don't think I would choose the live version over the studio version of any of the songs.
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oliver wrote:
01 Jun 2022, 6:22pm
The Smiths (Rough Trade only - I'm not bothering with the compilations after that)

Strangeways Here We Come
The Queen is Dead
Meat is Murder
Hatful of Hollow
Louder than Bombs
The Smiths
The World Won't Listen
Rank

Absolutely nothing between the first three and on any given day a strong (or even weak) argument will sway me.
I have to put The Smiths fairly low because I think I prefer the radio session version of a couple of the songs and definitely the Troy Tate version of Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Rank is last because I don't think I would choose the live version over the studio version of any of the songs.
Meat is Murder
The Queen is Dead
Louder than Bombs
Strangeways Here We Come
The Smiths
Rank

I left out Hatful and WWL because they're basically accounted for on LTB with a few minor differences so I never listen to them.
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The Pretenders

Pretenders
Learning to Crawl
Pretenders II
Break Up the Concrete
Hate for Sale
Alone
Last of the Independents
Viva el Amor
Get Close
Loose Screw
Packed!
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Take the ranking of The Smiths discography a step further, I added in Morrissey and Marr's solo work. I did include Louder than Bombs and Bona Drag, but left off Hatful of Hallow.

The Queen is Dead
Louder than Bombs
Bona Drag
Strangeways, Here We Come
The Smiths
Vauxhall and I
You Are the Quarry
Viva Hate
Your Arsenal
Meat Is Murder
Years of Refusal
Ringleader of the Tormentors
Call the Comet
Fever Dream Pts 1-4
The Messenger
Playland
World Peace Is None…
I Am Not a Dog on a Chain
Southpaw Grammar
Maladjusted
Kill Uncle
Low in High School
Boomslang
California Son
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Kory wrote:
01 Jun 2022, 6:47pm
oliver wrote:
01 Jun 2022, 6:22pm
The Smiths (Rough Trade only - I'm not bothering with the compilations after that)

Strangeways Here We Come
The Queen is Dead
Meat is Murder
Hatful of Hollow
Louder than Bombs
The Smiths
The World Won't Listen
Rank

Absolutely nothing between the first three and on any given day a strong (or even weak) argument will sway me.
I have to put The Smiths fairly low because I think I prefer the radio session version of a couple of the songs and definitely the Troy Tate version of Pretty Girls Make Graves.
Rank is last because I don't think I would choose the live version over the studio version of any of the songs.
Meat is Murder
The Queen is Dead
Louder than Bombs
Strangeways Here We Come
The Smiths
Rank

I left out Hatful and WWL because they're basically accounted for on LTB with a few minor differences so I never listen to them.
Louder Than Bombs (because the Smiths were a superior singles band)
Strangeways
Meat
Queen
The Smiths

… but the gap between the middle three is almost nil.
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In honor of Kate Bush's return to the charts:

Hounds of Love
The Sensual World
The Kick Inside
The Dreaming
Aerial
Never for Ever
50 Words for Snow
Lionheart
Director's Cut
The Red Shoes
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Okay, due to popular demand I give you the Elvis Hollywood movie soundtracks:

King Creole
Jailhouse Rock
Change of Habit
Follow That Dream
Kid Galahad
The Trouble With Girls
Frankie & Johnny
Wild in the Country
Loving You
G.I. Blues
Spinout
Live A Little, Love A Little
Clambake
Viva Las Vegas
Love Me Tender
Flaming Star
Blue Hawaii
Girls! Girls! Girls!
It Happened At the World‘s Fair
Roustabout
Harum Scarum
Stay Away, Joe
Speedway
Paradise Hawaiian Style
Easy Come, Easy Go
Girl Happy
Charro!
Kissin‘ Cousins
Tickle Me
Double Trouble
Fun in Acapulco
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?

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Olaf wrote:
18 Jun 2022, 6:50am
Okay, due to popular demand I give you the Elvis Hollywood movie soundtracks:

King Creole
Jailhouse Rock
Change of Habit
Follow That Dream
Kid Galahad
The Trouble With Girls
Frankie & Johnny
Wild in the Country
Loving You
G.I. Blues
Spinout
Live A Little, Love A Little
Clambake
Viva Las Vegas
Love Me Tender
Flaming Star
Blue Hawaii
Girls! Girls! Girls!
It Happened At the World‘s Fair
Roustabout
Harum Scarum
Stay Away, Joe
Speedway
Paradise Hawaiian Style
Easy Come, Easy Go
Girl Happy
Charro!
Kissin‘ Cousins
Tickle Me
Double Trouble
Fun in Acapulco
Okay, but where's the dividing line between those that are genuinely good and those that are … flawed in some minor way?
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
18 Jun 2022, 7:02am
Olaf wrote:
18 Jun 2022, 6:50am
Okay, due to popular demand I give you the Elvis Hollywood movie soundtracks:

King Creole
Jailhouse Rock
Change of Habit
Follow That Dream
Kid Galahad
The Trouble With Girls
Frankie & Johnny
Wild in the Country
Loving You
G.I. Blues
Spinout
Live A Little, Love A Little
Clambake
Viva Las Vegas
Love Me Tender
Flaming Star
Blue Hawaii
Girls! Girls! Girls!
It Happened At the World‘s Fair
Roustabout
Harum Scarum
Stay Away, Joe
Speedway
Paradise Hawaiian Style
Easy Come, Easy Go
Girl Happy
Charro!
Kissin‘ Cousins
Tickle Me
Double Trouble
Fun in Acapulco
Okay, but where's the dividing line between those that are genuinely good and those that are … flawed in some minor way?
Hm. I guess that would be between Loving You and G.I Blues for me. But charmingly flawed, not cringingly flawed.
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The cringing starts at around Easy Come, Easy Go.
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Olaf wrote:
18 Jun 2022, 7:25am
The cringing starts at around Easy Come, Easy Go.
Surely you jest!
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