Finally someone qualified to do so publishes an accurate review of GGB. (With obvious exception to the album notes from the good folks on this thread.) Well done! I like on FB.
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That was a great review Jack Flash! makes me not wanna publish my amateurish shit
not to be that guy though, but how did you come to 11 studio albums? it's their ninth studio album, not counting the fine print, right? and that still only makes it ten...including the bettye lavette and booker t. jones would make it eleven I suppose... or am I just missing something terribly obvious?
shuffle wrote:not to be that guy though, but how did you come to 11 studio albums? it's their ninth studio album, not counting the fine print, right? and that still only makes it ten...including the bettye lavette and booker t. jones would make it eleven I suppose... or am I just missing something terribly obvious?
Hmm... good catch! Not quite sure why I put that in there to be honest. I suppose if you fudge the numbers to include The Fine Print, the two live albums and the Booker T. and Bettye Lavette records you can make anything between 9 and 14 work!
As for my pecking order, I honestly still think it's still to early to tell. Ask me in a year. Right now it's jostling with BTCD for the 4th spot behind the Big 3, but I have a feeling it will be surging ahead in the coming months/years/decades. Just how far it will go is the question. I've got a good feeling about it.
shuffle wrote:not to be that guy though, but how did you come to 11 studio albums? it's their ninth studio album, not counting the fine print, right? and that still only makes it ten...including the bettye lavette and booker t. jones would make it eleven I suppose... or am I just missing something terribly obvious?
Hmm... good catch! Not quite sure why I put that in there to be honest. I suppose if you fudge the numbers to include The Fine Print, the two live albums and the Booker T. and Bettye Lavette records you can make anything between 9 and 14 work!
I guess if you include Alabama Ass Whuppin and The Fine Print that makes GGB #11. But I don't know why you'd include one live album and not the other (Live from ACL). My guess is whoever's scanning their discography to come up with the number isn't aware that AAW is a live album.*
*present company excluded, of course. i've seen that number in a few other places, too.
Duke Silver wrote:I guess if you include Alabama Ass Whuppin and The Fine Print that makes GGB #11. But I don't know why you'd include one live album and not the other (Live from ACL). My guess is whoever's scanning their discography to come up with the number isn't aware that AAW is a live album.*
*present company excluded, of course. i've seen that number in a few other places, too.
I think you've got it, duke.
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Iowan wrote:That BTCD higher than DD belongs in a blasphemy thread.
Nah, it's only .2 higher and I think BTCD is right there with DD. Until GGB it was a solid # 2 on my favorite DBT record list.
I know I'm the exception on BTCD around here, but it's definitely near the bottom of DBT albums for me. DD is my favorite (it's probably my favorite album of all time). BTCD is still a great album that I enjoy, but you gotta rank 'em somehow.
Siiiigh. Wasted opportunity. I don't see how anyone unfamiliar w/ the band could read that review and be interested enough to check out the album or the band.
What used to be is gone and what ought to be ought not to be so hard
Siiiigh. Wasted opportunity. I don't see how anyone unfamiliar w/ the band could read that review and be interested enough to check out the album or the band.
Yup, I agree 100%. You can add this trend toward one-paragraph reviews to the long list of reasons why DBT isn't going to "take it to the next level" anytime soon.
They gave Lady GaGa four stars for "Born This Way."
Jim DeRogatis was fired by Rolling Stone for panning a Hootie and the Blowfish album back in the nineties. It is all about how much a record company spends on advertising.
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Siiiigh. Wasted opportunity. I don't see how anyone unfamiliar w/ the band could read that review and be interested enough to check out the album or the band.
Yup, I agree 100%. You can add this trend toward one-paragraph reviews to the long list of reasons why DBT isn't going to "take it to the next level" anytime soon.
I don't see how one could call himself/herself a journalist when all you're doing is writing one paragraph reviews. it's like that in every major newspaper around here, and in most music magazines too.
beantownbubba wrote: Siiiigh. Wasted opportunity. I don't see how anyone unfamiliar w/ the band could read that review and be interested enough to check out the album or the band.
Yup, I agree 100%. You can add this trend toward one-paragraph reviews to the long list of reasons why DBT isn't going to "take it to the next level" anytime soon.
I don't see how one could call himself/herself a journalist when all you're doing is writing one paragraph reviews. it's like that in every major newspaper around here, and in most music magazines too.
It's because they're unwilling to devote more than 5 or 6 pages of the magazine to reviews anymore, so they are trying to cram 25 reviews in that space (plus advertising)
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