Are any of these albums good?

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Drive by Truckers - Dirty South
Libertines - Libertines
Bjork - Medulla
Unrest - Fuck Pussy Galore
Devendra Banhart - Oh Me Oh My
Black Dice - Cold Hands
Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear
Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic

― Mike Copeland, Monday, 6 September 2004 03:10 (twenty-one years ago)

lazyass

― g--ff (gcannon), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

the unrest album has approx. 6 good-to-great songs on it, and a lot of mess.

― purple patch (electricsound), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Automatic is amazing -- the best JAMC album in my opinion.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Automatic is amazing -- the best JAMC album in my opinion.

-- Barry Bruner (brune...), September 6th, 2004.

nah. its average at best..sounds tired..

― chris andrews (fraew), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah 'automatic' is a dud, two good songs.
bjork album is great.
unrest sucked except for 'imperial ffrr' so that one sucks.
davendra banhart is dreadful.
black dice, never heard it.
libertines, never heard it.
i don't much like marvin gaye.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Black Dice is good, but pretty nasty/stuck between the assaultive and gentle sides of what they do, as I recall. Don't remember side two too much, tho. Pres you've already got "Beaches and Canyons" and the new one?

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

bjork album is great.

all of a sudden everything becomes clear

― purple patch (electricsound), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

the unrest album has approx. 6 good-to-great songs on it, and a lot of mess.
true. lots of unaccomplished noizy instrumentals.

unrest sucked except for 'imperial ffrr' so that one sucks.
LIES

Not really my thing, but Dirty South was pretty good if too long.

― artdamages (artdamages), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:01 (twenty-one years ago)

all of a sudden everything becomes clear

My thoughts exactly.

i don't much like marvin gaye

I knew there was one of you out there.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:07 (twenty-one years ago)

nah i wouldn't get that black dice. get "creature comforts", "beaches and canyons", or maybe "lost valley". but stay away from that one.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

great marvin gaye record.

― djdee2005, Monday, 6 September 2004 04:12 (twenty-one years ago)

the bjork album is not good?

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bjork album is also great.

― djdee2005, Monday, 6 September 2004 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

it is good.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Is the Bjork album signifcantly different than her recent output? Like Vespertine, which I bought and listened to twice.

― supercub, Monday, 6 September 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The single's quite horrible. Maybe I'm being unfair, but I'm completely sick of her insistence on wacky production "advances".

― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:27 (twenty-one years ago)

More Matmos, less a capella "exploration," please. okthxbye!

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i find the entire album really very pretty. but then i don't ever actually think about production.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I think about production a lot, but I love the album quite a bit too. I don't care that it's "expiremental" or whatever for using all voices, all I know is I like the end product, it works, its quite pretty.

― djdee2005, Monday, 6 September 2004 04:36 (twenty-one years ago)

It uses all voices?

― supercub, Monday, 6 September 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

not entirely. there is a long thread about the album on the new answers page still.

― keith m (keithmcl), Monday, 6 September 2004 04:49 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i'm pretty sure everything in the album is a voice. maybe manipulated, but it's a voice.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Monday, 6 September 2004 05:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Like, er, Rundgren's 'A Cappella.'

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Monday, 6 September 2004 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There is one track credited with a piano. I think everything else is voices, some of them programmed beyond recognition.

― Jimmybommy JimmyK'KANG (Nick Southall), Monday, 6 September 2004 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Marvin Gaye album is one of his very best. Libertines is entertaining if you like that sort of thing, new Björk only if you're really heavily into Björk, the others I don't know.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 6 September 2004 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I do know the Banhart album. Liked two or three songs on it. Something about his grandad's boat or something. Lovely. Wouldn't want to listen to it for more than a few minutes.

― JoB (JoB), Monday, 6 September 2004 10:50 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, shit, that Marvin Gaye record is a total classic...what, you're going to sit around listening to "Let's Get It On" when you could be listening to "Anger" or "A Funky Space Reincarnation" instead?

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 6 September 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Automatic is fine, entertaining stuff, Billy Idol with acne, but you really want to check out Pyschocandy.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

As much as I like "Can't Stand Me Now," I'm sort've underwhelmed by the rest of the Libertines record.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 6 September 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

in order of how they're listed up top:

they sound ok from the couple of songs i've heard. not familiar with the record
good. used to play it a fair bit when it came out. amongst the best of the genre
good, if for the 4 tracks on there that aren't balls
haven't heard unrest
ghastly, quite unlistenable for me
not one of the better offerings from a solid band
a bit dull. but recognised as good, i think
middling

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 31 August 2007 05:01 (eighteen years ago)

listen to Unrest!

― sleeve, Friday, 31 August 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

as for my opinions -- Medulla and Automatic are not really either of those guys' strong suits, but both have their enjoyable moments. Medulla is more of a love-it-or-hate-it record, a definite grower. Automatic is easy to catch onto, and below average, but still JAMC which counts for something. Libertines s/t album isn't my cup o tea but for what it's worth, i like it more than the first Libertines record (gasp!) and don't see the big fuss about the band in the first place as Britain has a bad current habit of making better-than-average garage rock bands blow the fuck up (see Arctic Monkeys). I would imagine the Marvin Gaye album's not too bad. Don't care for Black Dice or Devendra in general, haven't heard those albums though.

― stephen, Friday, 31 August 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

"Here My Dear" is certainly great.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 31 August 2007 09:18 (eighteen years ago)

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