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Gish 24 53.33%
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Old 01-14-2019, 10:37 PM   #571
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If bill was anything in the studio he was a wizard of the overdub and pretty much any song that’s a vehicle for stuff like he pulls off on sacred/profane is gonna be worthwhile for me, cause of all the weed and shoegaze when i was a kid trained me to like this horrible stuff

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 10:51 PM   #572
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Default NEWER POLL: SIAMESE DREAM VS THE FRAGILE

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Old 01-14-2019, 10:55 PM   #573
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no memorable melodies or riffs.
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Also it has no hooks.
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agreed. I think it's boring and kind of annoying.
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Old 01-14-2019, 10:59 PM   #574
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You gotta be down to gape at choices like having a track that consists solely of gentle strums on a distant rig of fuzzy sparklin reverb, sounding all alone in a big echoey warehouse or hangar for aeroplanes. And that’s all the track does or is for, the whole song. Just letting those strums ring fully and truly out, decaying dead alone as they began

Meanwhile the grinding traffic of life is up top, wearing your skins of your very noses down to nothingristle

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:01 PM   #575
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I could see Siamese Dream vs TDS, but not the Fragile. The Fragile can be filed under 'disappointing follow up to career milestone' along with Adore.

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:07 PM   #576
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How about the tone of that omfg that glitterstorm guitar begins at 2nd verse? Can’t even begin to figure or imagine how it was even achieved, never heard anything like it before or since

But yeah

Fuck machina i, 6/10 at best

However throw in machina ii and i would be please to give a solid 8/10, some of my fave sp all time on that fucken machina ii

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:10 PM   #577
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fragile was great.

it's just a different kind of great.

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:24 PM   #578
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The Sacred and Profane is magic, have I said that yet. I have similar reasoning as Run To Me, with the stoner shoegaze teenagehood.

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:24 PM   #579
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I could see Siamese Dream vs TDS, but not the Fragile. The Fragile can be filed under 'disappointing follow up to career milestone' along with Adore.
This.

And I do think The Fragile is great. Just not a definitive work a la TDS.

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:26 PM   #580
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I've never really been able to get into NIN

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Old 01-14-2019, 11:26 PM   #581
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/me waits for fuzzy to get flamed for that comment

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:28 PM   #582
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I recently listened to TDS and Fragile all the way through for the first time. TDS is extremely overrated. It sounds very, very dated to the ears of someone who didn't hear it in the 90s. The Fragile sounds like it could have come out last year. I dunno. I really wanted and expected to appreciate TDS based on the context I had, but was just really disappointed by this so called legendary album.

 
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:33 PM   #583
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Songs like Sacred and Profane, Raindrops, and Imploding Voice, for me, are early signs of the decline of his songwriting. Here he has songs which go on for way too long, have no defining guitar parts, no memorable vocal hooks, no arresting lyrical content, nothing interesting or provoking about song structure or sonic atmosphere, and basically just feel like the musical equivalent of a man peddling on a stationary bicycle for 5 minutes 45 seconds.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:03 AM   #584
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woah woah slow down there my favorite serb felon, there isn't one goddamn thing wrong with his vocals on Gish anywhere.
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i dont think window pain is a bad song, but this comparison is unfair
it's WIDOW pain you fuck!!!!!

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:21 AM   #585
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I hated Raindrops on first listen, and have grown to sincerely dislike Imploding Voice, but The Sacred and Profane is synesthesia

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:21 AM   #586
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I can feel the colors, man

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:23 AM   #587
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The worst song on Machina is Glass and the Ghost children. So bloated and nothing the least bit interesting about the melodies.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:23 AM   #588
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I can feel the colors, man


I'm going to try again right now after I smoke this large bowl of green plant life

but I have never in ~15 years of listening to this album heard Sacred and Profane and thought it was anything but filler.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:23 AM   #589
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The worst song on Machina is Glass and the Ghost children. So bloated and nothing the least bit interesting about the melodies.
every time he says shit like this someone should spray him with a water bottle

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:24 AM   #590
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Actually, I haven't listened to the entirety of Machina in like 8 years. My memory is foggy. I just remember that track as really sticking out as being shitty.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:25 AM   #591
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In the day of digital media, I sort of just stick with the tracks I like and discard the rest.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:25 AM   #592
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It's kind of boring, probably their weakest multi-part epic from the original run. But worse than Crying Tree? Worse than Imploding Voice? No way.

honestly I fucking hate Imploding Voice and the more I think about it, the more I feel it's just the worst fuckin song from Machina. Just terrible. And extremely grating and obnoxious

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:27 AM   #593
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The worst song on Machina is Glass and the Ghost children. So bloated and nothing the least bit interesting about the melodies.
helllll nawwww


that song is amazing

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:28 AM   #594
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AS SHE COUNTED THE SPIDERS AS THEY CRAWLED UP INSIDER HER

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:30 AM   #595
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@RBG: Man, I've always really liked Crying Tree. It's one of the few songs on Machina that has the vintage, depressing, grunge vibe of MCIS. Has some great guitar tones too, sorta reminds me of the Love solo.

Imploding Voice isn't great, but it's good enough for a fun pop-song. It's at least kinda catchy.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:33 AM   #596
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helllll nawwww


that song is amazing
man, it just kinda prods along pretentiously. I'm listening right now for the first time in ages. It sounds like Our Lady Peace.

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:33 AM   #597
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BSBT is the worst

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:33 AM   #598
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Imploding Voice is an ear worm in the worst possible way. Like if you listen to it, you'll wake up the next day with a throbbing headache and it will play relentlessly in your head all day

Crying Tree is just utter shit, I really can't even comprehend how you could enjoy the studio version. It actually sounds like Teargarden

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:33 AM   #599
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all versions

and Mercury, too

 
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Old 01-15-2019, 12:37 AM   #600
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Actually, Ghost and glass children isn't that bad. Better than I remembered. I take it back, it's not the worst track on the album... Definitely not. I still won't listen to it again any time soon though.

 
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