The Bold Statements Thread
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The Bold Statements Thread
The first B-52's album is better than anything R.E.M. ever did.
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Re: The Bold Statements Thread
Agreed.Dr. Medulla wrote:The first B-52's album is better than anything R.E.M. ever did.
Re: The Bold Statements Thread
That's not a bold statement. That's just common sense.Dr. Medulla wrote:The first B-52's album is better than anything R.E.M. ever did.
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Re: The Bold Statements Thread
I find Patti Smith to be completely overrated and annoying.
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Re: The Bold Statements Thread
I have never understood her appeal. She's a female Springsteen in terms of her reputation and my enjoyment/interest.JennyB wrote:I find Patti Smith to be completely overrated and annoying.
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Great way to put it.Dr. Medulla wrote:I have never understood her appeal. She's a female Springsteen in terms of her reputation and my enjoyment/interest.JennyB wrote:I find Patti Smith to be completely overrated and annoying.
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I like about an album or so's worth of her stuff quite a bit, but I'm not about to pull out the whole discography.
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duhDr. Medulla wrote:The first B-52's album is better than anything R.E.M. ever did.
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like many artists, first record is great and pick and choose tracks form the rest of thier decades long careersJennyB wrote:Great way to put it.Dr. Medulla wrote:I have never understood her appeal. She's a female Springsteen in terms of her reputation and my enjoyment/interest.JennyB wrote:I find Patti Smith to be completely overrated and annoying.
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Yep.tepista wrote:like many artists, first record is great and pick and choose tracks form the rest of thier decades long careersJennyB wrote:Great way to put it.Dr. Medulla wrote:I have never understood her appeal. She's a female Springsteen in terms of her reputation and my enjoyment/interest.JennyB wrote:I find Patti Smith to be completely overrated and annoying.
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Yeah no argument there.Dr. Medulla wrote:The first B-52's album is better than anything R.E.M. ever did.
How about BAD was just as awful as BAD II.
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Re: The Bold Statements Thread
I don't know if I'm as anti-BAD as revbob, but I love the aggressiveness.
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Re: The Bold Statements Thread
I said bold, not absurd.revbob wrote:How about BAD was just as awful as BAD II.
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Word.Flex wrote:I don't know if I'm as anti-BAD as revbob, but I love the aggressiveness.
I am willing to sign on to a platform of "BAD were not nearly as good as this message board wants to pretend they were."
Also: "Fugazi has better melodies than BAD."
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Oh man. Especially towards the end of their run. They would use a melody for a single verse that could have served as the main hook for a song--and never revisit it.Wolter wrote:Also: "Fugazi has better melodies than BAD."
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