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Your favourite, more than the most popular?

cronker

cronker

Feb 13, 2007
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#1
What albums, by which band, do you like more than the most popular ones?

Example: I think Houses of the Holy is better than Zep IV
I think Permanent Waves is better than Moving Pictures
I think Wish You Were Here is better than Dark Side

Your thoughts?
 
#5
cronker said:
What albums, by which band, do you like more than the most popular ones?

Example: I think Houses of the Holy is better than Zep IV
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...that would be a very, close call in my book.

I'll take Alice Cooper's School's Out over (the supposed magnus opus) Billion Dollar Babies (Hit #1) every time.

Revolver over Pepper's/Abbey Road...

Michael Jackson's Off The Wall over Thriller.

For later period Doobie Brothers-
I prefer One Step Closer over Minute By Minute (Hit #1).

Another close one for me-
I prefer AWB's Cut The Cake over AWB (AKA "The White Album").

...one that I cannot call (like The Zeppelin choice above).-
Steely Dan's The Royal Scam & Aja.
 
#7
JimK said:
Michael Jackson's Off The Wall over Thriller.
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Absolutely. Actually, while I rushed to buy my copy of "Off The Wall" when it was released back in 1979, I've never had "Thriller" in my collection.

Something similar happens with Pink Floyd's "The Wall": I have both live albums ("Berlin" and "Is There Anybody Out There?") but I've never liked the original, studio version.
 
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Alvaro Martín Gómez A.;13392204 said:
Absolutely. Actually, while I rushed to buy my copy of "Off The Wall" when it was released back in 1979, I've never had "Thriller" in my collection.
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...so you're the one! Nice to know you!
Then again, for some reason, I have not bought Thriller on cd.

Here's an easy one-
Fleetwood Mac's Mystery To Me over Rumours.
 
#12
The Doors - Morrison Hotel
Metallical - Kill 'em all
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Led Zeppelin - II
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4
SoundGarden - Badmotorfinger
Rush - 2112
Rush - Fly by night
Pennywise - About Time
Pantera - The Great Southern Trend Kill
Kiss - Revenge
Journey - Journey
Journey - Look into the future
White Zombie - La Sexorcisto-Devil music vol. 1
Joe Satriani - Flying in a blue dream
Grand Funk Railroad - Grand Funk
Deep Purple - In Rock
 
#15
I'm not really into that many popular bands, but here I go:

Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, and I even think I prefer the discarded Syd Barrett tracks (Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream) over that, as well as his solo album The Madcap Laughs.

I don't know about Tool... Ænima seems to get as much love as Lateralus.
But I think there's consensus about Lateralus being their grand opus, I disagree, I think Ænima is even better.

I don't know what Jefferson Airplanes most popular record is, proberly Psyrealistic Pillow or Voulenteres, but I prefer Crown Of Creation
 
#19
IMO, Captain Beefheart's "Doc At The Radar Station" was better than "Trout Mask Replica".

Peter Gabriel's 3rd solo album (1980) was better than "So".

"Ramones" bested "Rocket To Russia".

Ted Nugent's 1st post-Amboy Dukes record was his best.

"Rocks" was better than "Toys In The Attic" for Aerosmith.

And "Garage Days" is the only Metallica release I like at all. :hiding:
 

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