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Bands who you only really need to own a Best Of for...
E. Spaceman:
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Also, how come people in foreign lands jerk off over Oasis so hard? Did we never manage to export Pulp?
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No, Pulp was mostly a miserable failure overseas. A real shame, they are my favourite of the lot, with Blur a close second
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Still better than all of their other stuff, and since the compilation would be "Best Of" and not "Good Songs By" I' say I'm right.
KharBevNor:
I am the Walrus is my favourite Beatles song, and has been since I was four, which is when I learned to sing along to it.
I do not, in fact, particularly enjoy Rubber Soul. I do not, in fact enjoy pop music. I do not, in fact, think creating good pop music is laudible. The artistic equivalent of pop music is creating a pretty picture for a postcard. Yeah, occasionally someone who can paint a relatively pleasing or amusing postcard comes around, but even the best saucy postcard isn't fucking Oscar Wilde, or even a Giles cartoon. Sometimes, someone comes along who can make a pretty decent conventional pop song. But 'pretty decent' is all its ever going to be. Saying the Beatles were best at creating pop music is like saying you like Andy Warhol for his advertising work.
Actually, Pulp didn't do nearly well enough in their native land either. Only one big hit, a few minor ones, one or two very well-selling albums...they deserved more out of brit-pop when you looked at what WAS selling.
Kid Modernist:
BEACH BOYS
Van Halen
Thrillho:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---I am the Walrus is my favourite Beatles song, and has been since I was four, which is when I learned to sing along to it.
I do not, in fact, particularly enjoy Rubber Soul. I do not, in fact enjoy pop music. I do not, in fact, think creating good pop music is laudible. The artistic equivalent of pop music is creating a pretty picture for a postcard. Yeah, occasionally someone who can paint a relatively pleasing or amusing postcard comes around, but even the best saucy postcard isn't fucking Oscar Wilde, or even a Giles cartoon. Sometimes, someone comes along who can make a pretty decent conventional pop song. But 'pretty decent' is all its ever going to be. Saying the Beatles were best at creating pop music is like saying you like Andy Warhol for his advertising work.
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I completely disagree. All of the Beatles pop songs would have to be fucking brilliant postcard illustrations, whereas modern pop is one of those jaunty 'Wish You Were Here!' postcards.
It bemuses me that 'I Am The Walrus' is so lauded, when it really is just three half finished songs and an acid trip put in a blender.
--- Quote ---Actually, Pulp didn't do nearly well enough in their native land either. Only one big hit, a few minor ones, one or two very well-selling albums...they deserved more out of brit-pop when you looked at what WAS selling.
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To be fair, 'This Is Hardcore' felt like a deliberate effort to kill their fame on the part of Jarvis Cocker.
Different Class is still shifting lots of copies, I think.
karl gambolputty...:
They probably sold a bunch after that Shatner cover got popular.
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