| Author | Message | ||
     Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 151 Registered: 04-2005 |
This was inevitable, wasn't it? But a few artists didn't get it right the first time, or just improved massively by the time of the second album--the subject of this board being a classic example. Here's my starter list of greatest second albums: Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings & Food Public Image - Metal Box/Second Edition Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure Elvis Costello - This Year's Model My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Pixies - Doolittle Also: I'm not sure if "Submarine Bells" is the Chills' second official full-length--if so, it's high up on the list. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 53 Registered: 12-2004 |
Nick Drake - Bryter Later The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood The Trifids - Born Sandy Devotional | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 21 Registered: 01-2006 |
My Bloody Valentine: Loveless | ||
| Eke Member Username: Ekewebb Post Number: 40 Registered: 05-2005 |
Brilliant call on Born Sandy Devotional. Treeless Plain was a good debut but the Triffids couldn't have got it righter on their second. I can't improve on the suggestions above although honourable mention to the Shins for Chutes Too Narrow. | ||
| abigail law Member Username: Abigail Post Number: 46 Registered: 06-2005 |
a pedant writes: Loveless wasn't MBV's second album, it was third after ecstasy and wine and isn't anything. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 22 Registered: 01-2006 |
Well called Abigail, and would I be incorrect to suggest it was actually their fourth, their first being 'This is Your Bloody Valentine' or was that an EP? I don't have either of those just Isn't Anything, Loveless and the Loveless EPs... | ||
| jerry hann Member Username: Jerry_h Post Number: 67 Registered: 07-2005 |
The Band-The Band I think that was the second after Music for Big Pink, but i could be wrong! Brewing Up with Billy Bragg. Any takers on Easy Pieces-By Lloyd Cole (a bit of a let down after the near perfect Rattlesnakes) These don't really fit in but some artists continued to get stronger. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 195 Registered: 03-2005 |
"Volume 2"--The Beau Brummels. And it would be even better yet if they'd included the outtakes. "Buffalo Springfield Again" "The Sweet Keeper"--Tanita Tikaram "White Light"--Gene Clark. If we don't consider the Dillard & Clark albums to be in the sequence. "Odyssey & Oracle"--Zombies "Back Door Men"--Shadows of Knight "Kinda Kinks" "West of Rome"--Vic Chesnutt I've had someone recommend Billy Bragg to me. What should I expect? Any comparisons? | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 188 Registered: 10-2004 |
go-betweens - before hollywood micrdisney - clock comes down the stairs nick drake - bryter layter cocteau twins - head over heels smiths - meat is murder style council - our favorite shop (internationalists in the US) bauhaus - mask joy division - closer new order - power, corruption, and lies wire - chairs missing blue oyster cult - tyranny and mutation durutti column - LC modern english - after the snow pil - metal box teardrop explodes - wilder | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 135 Registered: 05-2005 |
wire - chairs missing pil - metal box rem - reckoning stooges - funhouse culture - harder than the rest white stripes- de stiijl MBV - Loveless Another pedant writes: Abigail - Ecstacy and Wine was a comp, so imo doesnt count. "At the time of this early compilation's release in February '89 MBV were none too pleased, branding it a cash-in by their former label Lazy Records as they enjoyed their new-found high profile with Creation" | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 184 Registered: 05-2005 |
The Stranglers - Black and White Whilst I am on, I signed to Lazy Records at the time of Birdland with my group Elizabeth Jane (we were abit like Document period REM crossed with Televisison and The Soft Boys!). Lazy were an absolute joke at the time. The best thing we did on that label was touring with The Primitives, and every night we used to go into the dressing room afetr we'd played and knock all the guitars over that were all lovingly tuned to perfection by their wee cockney roadie, we used to hug them whilst reaking of alcahol trying to make up with them, but Tracey Tracey was never having any of it! | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 140 Registered: 05-2005 |
Forgot The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 180 Registered: 08-2004 |
Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions... Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique Fluke - 6 Wheels On My Wagon R.E.M. - Reckoning | ||
| Roger Griffin Member Username: Roger Post Number: 31 Registered: 11-2004 |
The The - Soul Mining | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 196 Registered: 05-2005 |
for the jools holland solo alone... (I know Uncertain Smile orihginal 12'' was masterful!) | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 197 Registered: 05-2005 |
Oh, Duncan Dhu - Canciones (They sound like some dreadful old fsahioned Euro Song Contest entry from '79 on first listen,) but believe me they grow on you, given half the chance you can sample them on itunes. Paul Haig - The Warp of pure fun. (not counting the Paul Haig sings Sinatra or whatever it was called) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 37 Registered: 01-2005 |
Slowdive - Souvlaki Pale Saints - In Ribbons Julia Fordham - Porcelain Richard Thompson - I Want To See The Bright Lights Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking Bob Dylan - Freewheeling Cream - Disraeli Gears Jefferson Airplane - Suralastic Pillow Lou Reed - Berlin I can't believe 2 people put Reckoning over Murmur. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 198 Registered: 05-2005 |
Nor me, Murmur was a Murmer, Reckoning, well Stipe reckoned didn't he!? Pale Saints In Ribbons, nice choice, was that the one with the free 7'' with brass band version of two of the songs, they were really billiant. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 26 Registered: 01-2006 |
Michael, sorry to be pedantic but wasn't 'Berlin' Lou Reed's 3rd solo album after 'Lou Reed' and 'Transformer'? I think i'd also pick those two over Berlin as well. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 201 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY765, are you related to R2D2? | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 183 Registered: 08-2004 |
Berlin is a bit of a downer. White Light White Heat Paris 1919 The Man Who Sold The World I can't remember, is Forever Changes Love's 2nd LP? If so it's gotta go in. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 141 Registered: 05-2005 |
Pedants corner again Im afraid Berlin was Lou Reeds 3rd album, after the self titled debut came Transformer. | ||
| Wilson Davey Member Username: Wilson Post Number: 43 Registered: 05-2005 |
Jeff, I overplayed Rattlesnakes and it began to grate so much that I haven't listened to it in over 15 years. I thought Easy Pieces was very lacking and I did agree with the Cole backlash that followed it. Brand New friend was good but it was all to knowing and smug and safe. He delivered with Jennifer she said, great song, but I did fall out of love with Lloyd I'm afraid..We needed the Stone Roses to come along and shake things up a bit. My second LP choice would be "Other Songs" by Ron Sexsmith. Mitchel Froom's production really suited those songs. "Strawberry Blonde" could be covered by either Robert or Grant. | ||
| Roger Griffin Member Username: Roger Post Number: 33 Registered: 11-2004 |
Spence - yes Jools is the master! I love that solo too. Reminds me of Mike Garson's incredible solo on Aladdin Sane. Jerry, The Man Who Sold The World was 3rd after Davd Bowie (Deram) and David Bowie aka Space Oddity (Philips). Nice choice, though - way ahead of the pack, he was. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 27 Registered: 01-2006 |
Spence, R2D2 huh? heh heh good one, I've been called worse...keeping the scientific line going, are there any Magnetic Fields fans out there? | ||
| Andrew Kerr Member Username: Andrew_k Post Number: 47 Registered: 04-2005 |
Jerry 'Forever Changes' was Love's 3rd, after self titled debut and 'Da Capo'. In those days before everything was reissued on CD, the only way of getting hold of a lot of obscure 60s stuff was to buy Greek. No idea why, but there was a lot of deleted vinyl still available in Greece: they were not manufactured from the original masters and frequently the covers looked liked someone had taken a photo of an original cover. But it was a good way to hear Love's first or Tim Buckley's 'Blue Afternoon'... Rambling over | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 156 Registered: 04-2005 |
XY765, I like Magnetic Fields and Stephin Merritt too, but with reservations. "69 Love Songs" is a masterpiece--a desert island disc for sure--and "Charm of the Highway Strip" is pretty good too. The others I haven't liked as much (I thought "i" was a complete dud--sounded like "69" outtakes), although the first 6ths album he made with guest singers, "Wasp's Nest," is great synth-pop. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 38 Registered: 01-2005 |
Sorry, I forgot about Transformer, so yeah, Berlin was the 3rd Lou. >Pale Saints In Ribbons, nice choice, was that >the one with the free 7'' with brass band >version of two of the songs, they were really >billiant. Don't know about the free 7". I bought my import CD back in 1992 or so and it was pretty expensive as I recall. I am a huge shoegazer/dreampop fan as you can guess by my first two choices. The first two Slowdive albums are now available in remastered double disc versions and are a must get for any shoegazer fan. | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 55 Registered: 05-2005 |
Don't forget.... The Blurred Crusade - The Church With the Beatles Can't believe, along with others, that people don't rate "Murmer". I LOVE "Reckoning" probably slightly better than "Murmer" but it was the start. Similarly Wilder over Kilimanjaro!!! Similarly with White light over the 1st one. What about the real slow coaches, like the Jam who took until their 3rd to really hit home. |