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Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1
i always felt like MCIS was intended to be the band's White Album, kind of a display of power in a dizzying array of genres and excelling at all of them. and while it partially succeeds at that, and has some of the band's top work, my personal opinion is that there are simply too many sub-par songs on MCIS to truly allow it a Classic Album trophy. it's still very good, but just too flawed.
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It's better than the White Album. The White Album is overrated. It has
Why Don't We Do It In The Road on it; a horrendous song, in my opinion.
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if you condensed all the best songs into one CD it would result in an enormous album,
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Indeed. And I think this would have been better for Billy's reputation and status as a songwriter. He wouldn't be moaning about not being appreciated in this culture if he had condensed it into 14 songs or so. People would talk about it like they talk about OK Computer and Nevermind in my opinion. But he had too many songs to choose from, and when he's got choices to make, he usually plumps for the wrong one. And he had to be grandiose and go for a double-album. He couldn't restrain his ego from going all out. He had to self-indulge. I think it was a mistake.
"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
"Tonight, Tonight"
"Jellybelly"
"Zero"
"Here Is No Why"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Thirty-Three"
"1979"
"Thru the Eyes of Ruby"
"Muzzle"
"Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
"X.Y.U."
"Beautiful"
"The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
Something like the above would have cemented Billy's place in the upper echelons of ROCK N ROLL!