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[mtthwibrahim]

Perfect From Now On-Built To Spill

Perhaps the greatest statement in indie rock. The album is composed of 8 lengthy pieces, each one a classic in it's own right. The lyrical subject matters may not be all that different from what's common in genre, but they have somewhat of a cathartic quality to them. Musically, it's shickinly good. The songs all emplore some of the finest guitar playing I've ever heard. So yeah, check this one out, it's really good.

[SteveO]

Discovered an awesome cover of Radiohead's song Creep by Chrissie Hynde and Pretenders !!!!! It really shows me that Creep is a beautiful haunting song !!!

So the video prompted me to listen to the Pretenders s/t album ( from way back in 1980 !) with Brass in Pocket, Stop Your Sobbing (Kink's cover), Precious, etc.

Interesting that AllMusic and Rolling Stone Magazine rated this as 5/5 ...you don't see that too often let alone one 5/5 !!!!

[CRAZY-HORSE]

that Pretenders debut album is absolutely briliiant from memory, havent played it for a few years now though....guess i'll have to revisit it soon.....
obviously, the Kinks version of "stop your sobbing" is superior to their version, but Chrissie and Co still do a bloody good one of it!...

as for the five stars thing...on paper, i would give all my "love" rating albums 5/5, but it doesnt equate to that on the MHRS, so anything over 2.3 is worthy of 5/5.
incidently, the only album i have rated on the site that gets a perfect 3.0 on the MHRS(music head ratings system) is Neil Young's "tonights the night"...i just cant pick any fault with that one at all,yet back in the day it was crucified by the music media experts!???!!???!!....as far as studio albums go, the Dire Straits trilogy of "making movies","love over gold" and "brothers in arms" each came in at 2.8/2.9 from memory...and justifably so IMO.

[CRAZY-HORSE]

Crazy, recommend you try Throwing Copper album first !!!!

Dani has the "Throwing Copper" album so i will hear it and rate it over the weekend...cant guarentee a "love" rating as i have never heard it before, but i know enough tracks off it to say that i would definately like it!.....guessing we'll all have to wait and see.

[Music Head]

Dani has the "Throwing Copper" album so i will hear it and rate it over the weekend...cant guarentee a "love" rating as i have never heard it before, but i know enough tracks off it to say that i would definately like it!.....guessing we'll all have to wait and see.

That's the only one I have
a fine album, if I recall

[Music Head]

from my library (cd)



Fell in love with these North Carolina guys for about 5 minutes, back in the day. Think it was the Boylan Heights
album. Never followed up except for this ep. Unusual for me to even have an ep. Don't like them as a rule. Only 5 tracks on here plus 1 duplicate of the live title track. Nothing great here. I'll pass on the version of the Tull classic Living In The Past. Shouldn't have touched that one. He just don't have that Ian Anderson snarl. Once you throw that out plus the duplicate, you're not left with much. Barely passes, but not necessarily because of the content, but the lack thereof.

I LIKE THIS ALBUM

Worst Track - Living In The Past

Best Track - Fun & Games

Let me tear down into your heart
Let me take a seat and stay awhile
Let me tear down into your heart
Ah, fun and games.

Let me steal a glimpse from your eyes
Let me pin it up and stare awhile
Let me steal a glimpse from your eyes
Ah, fun and games.

Let me have a half of your whole
Let me keep it for myself awhile
Let me have a half of your whole
Ah, fun and games.

Let me take the words from your mouth
Let me swallow them and speak awhile
Let me take the words from your mouth
Ah, fun and games.

Didn't I offer less than I lost?
Didn't I mean to find it all?
Look, don't let me size it up.
Hey, right.

1) New Boy **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWoYkwbs2mY
2) Logan Street **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S4jUCuFbgc
3) Wonder Why **
4) Living In The Past *
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cPGCCfJ5Ig
5) Fun & Games **
audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxSzJYsaqAE
6) New Boy (live) *

3's - 0
2's - 4
1's - 2

Grade - 1.7

so many albums, so little time

[SteveO]

I revisited Throwing Copper a little while ago this morning and I know why I love it so much ! In 1994 I thought music was in a bit of a funk so I started watching Music Television more to try to pick up something new and fresh ! White Discussion song came on by Live and I was immediately hooked !

The album was a compositon of fresh new sounding music...melodic tracks with a different sounding vocalist !!!! This album has to rate up there with one of my favorites !



The album cover is a replica of a painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson - Sisters of Mercy....did it influence Leonard Cohen's song title and the band Sisters of Mercy ?

Album was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and peaked at number one in Canada, Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand ! Surprisingly it only reached #37 in the UK(maybe it's hard to crack the UK market if you're not a Brit ???).

US Billboard had it at number 60 on their 1990-1999 best album list.

All Music rates it at 4.5/5.

Dani has the "Throwing Copper" album so i will hear it and rate it over the weekend...cant guarentee a "love" rating as i have never heard it before, but i know enough tracks off it to say that i would definately like it!.....guessing we'll all have to wait and see.

[mtthwibrahim]

Terror Twilight-Pavement

My favorite band of all time, but their worst album. It' still quite good actually, a real testament to this band's greatness. Even when their on the verge of falling apart, they still deliver

[CRAZY-HORSE]

I revisited Throwing Copper a little while ago this morning and I know why I love it so much ! In 1994 I thought music was in a bit of a funk so I started watching Music Television more to try to pick up something new and fresh ! White Discussion song came on by Live and I was immediately hooked !

The album was a compositon of fresh new sounding music...melodic tracks with a different sounding vocalist !!!! This album has to rate up there with one of my favorites !



The album cover is a replica of a painting by Scottish artist Peter Howson - Sisters of Mercy....did it influence Leonard Cohen's song title and the band Sisters of Mercy ?

Album was produced by Jerry Harrison of Talking Heads and peaked at number one in Canada, Australia, the U.S. and New Zealand ! Surprisingly it only reached #37 in the UK(maybe it's hard to crack the UK market if you're not a Brit ???).

US Billboard had it at number 60 on their 1990-1999 best album list.

All Music rates it at 4.5/5.

just a couple of responses to comments you have made SteveO...

the years between 1987-1994 were pretty lean for me...didnt like anything new that i heard(probably why i missed the whole 'birth of grunge' thing), i only brought cds by artists i knew and trusted over that period.

i dont think the UK is a hard market to crack...always thought that the American market was the hardest for foriegners to make it in.
i guess the reason that the Throwing Copper thing didnt do too well in the UK at the time was probably because in 1994 the whole Britpop thing was happeining in the UK, bands like Blur,OCS,Radiohead,Stone roses,Suede,Weller and the emergance of a little band from Manchester(oasis) were hitting their straps and dominating the charts/airwaves...so little else had any chance of making it

...well, thats my two cents worth,anyway!

[SteveO]

Right on the mark, Crazy ! I should have said at the time in 1994 it was hard to crack the UK market....not now !

just a couple of responses to comments you have made SteveO...

the years between 1987-1994 were pretty lean for me...didnt like anything new that i heard(probably why i missed the whole 'birth of grunge' thing), i only brought cds by artists i knew and trusted over that period.

i dont think the UK is a hard market to crack...always thought that the American market was the hardest for foriegners to make it in.
i guess the reason that the Throwing Copper thing didnt do too well in the UK at the time was probably because in 1994 the whole Britpop thing was happeining in the UK, bands like Blur,OCS,Radiohead,Stone roses,Suede,Weller and the emergance of a little band from Manchester(oasis) were hitting their straps and dominating the charts/airwaves...so little else had any chance of making it

...well, thats my two cents worth,anyway!