Was thinking that music artists tend to venerated more when they don’t have any terrible releases in their catalog- which might sound a bit obvious but I think it might also create a tendency for them to play it safe a bit more (I.E so even their bad album gets a three out of five star review) - whereas, some others out there have been more experimental, playful, trying new things but they end up with a combination of turkeys and gold dust - this thread is for them - who’s in the inconsistent but brilliant canon?
Inconsistency as a virtue
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shakahislop
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Wiley!
Corpsey
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Always cursed to bring up the Beatles on here cos inevitably ppl will come sliding in, studs up, claiming their songs were ALL shit but those fine folks aside I actually think the Beatles were pretty inconsistent within the space of their own albums.
I don't think they had a common consensus "weak" record other than "Let It Be", but personally I find some of "The White Album" sublime but quite a lot of it terrible. That reflects their playfulness, their experimental tendencies, their drug use etc. As well as their personal (sometimes lamentable) idiosyncrasies.
I don't think they had a common consensus "weak" record other than "Let It Be", but personally I find some of "The White Album" sublime but quite a lot of it terrible. That reflects their playfulness, their experimental tendencies, their drug use etc. As well as their personal (sometimes lamentable) idiosyncrasies.
Benny Bunter
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People who like slagging off the Beatles thinking it's some sort of cool position to take are boring as fuck
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Benny Bunter
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Agree about the white album though.
The really good songs are:
Dear prudence
Glass onion
Bungalow bill
While my guitar gently weeps
Happiness is a warm gun
I'm so tired
Julia
Yer blues
Sexy sadie
Long, long, long
Cry baby cry
Basically all the Lennon ones and a couple of Harrison's then.
The really good songs are:
Dear prudence
Glass onion
Bungalow bill
While my guitar gently weeps
Happiness is a warm gun
I'm so tired
Julia
Yer blues
Sexy sadie
Long, long, long
Cry baby cry
Basically all the Lennon ones and a couple of Harrison's then.
Benny Bunter
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I'd say the only really inconsistent Beatles albums are Help, Magical Mystery Tour, White album and obviously Let it be is trash, the rest are pretty solid. Sgt pepper haters can fuck off as well
Benny Bunter
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You'd be wrong there. I don't think slagging them off is cool, globally they are not as relevant as they are in the anglosphere. But I slag them off to cultivate craners musical tastes.
Was one of the ones I had in mind
The Fall have to go in there too - though nobody dared slagging off their albums. Actually it was more their live output from the 90s. It was like going to see a lower league football team, not knowing if they were going to be shit or surprisingly good (and checking out their new young left back on bass)
Benny Bunter
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No one can agree on the fall but I think the first 8 years or so until around Bend Sinister was really consistently good, which is amazing really considering all the lineup changes. After that I only really care for the odd song
Corpsey
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Blackbird! (The only issue being the recording of a literal blackbird that breaks in at the end)
As a producer I have suffered from being overly perfectionist. At the end, it does more harm than good. Those bad and mediocre tunes from experimentation and playfulness will develop you as a producer.
I think Dissensus doesn't forgive much hardcore continuum producers' inconsistency. Although anything good hasn't made after '94 or whatever lol.