[Music] Albums you thought were legendary but no longer think so....

[herecomesaregular]

I used to love The Police when they first came out, especially Regatta De Blanc, but they are a band that have not aged well for me.
Dire Straits ‘Brothers in Arms’ is another album that sounds dated.

Never loved The Police much but Brothers in Arms, while agreed is dated, is still a non guilty pleasure reminding me of being a terrified passenger speeding down Rocky Road (?) with my mate who was a teenage banger racer. Music always links with memories.

 

[studio150]

Pink Floyd The Wall in retrospect was crap except for one song which we all know!

Goodbye Blue Sky
Hey You
Comfortably Numb
or
Run Like Hell

 

[GT49er]

I used to agree until i picked up a cheap a copy of the ltd edition of Unforgettable Fire, the versions on the bonus disc are much better.

There's legions of stuff in my record collection that haven't aged well (in fact, the idea of sitting and listening to an LP all the way through hasn't aged well either!) - or perhaps it's us that have done the ageing (and maybe not so well either)!
I think that's just a pretty natural progression, rather than a dramatic fall of a legend into rubbishness.

 

[studio150]

I used to love The Police when they first came out, especially Regatta De Blanc, but they are a band that have not aged well for me.
Dire Straits ‘Brothers in Arms’ is another album that sounds dated.

I'm the same with the Police, can't recall the last time I listened to one of their albums.
On Dire Straits, I didn't like Brothers In Arms when it came out, and still don't, I much prefer Love Over Gold which I still listen to regularly now.

 

[herecomesaregular]

There's legions of stuff in my record collection that haven't aged well (in fact, the idea of sitting and listening to an LP all the way through hasn't aged well either!) - or perhaps it's us that have done the ageing (and maybe bnot so well either)!
I think that's just a pretty natural progression, rather than a dramatic fall of a legend into rubbishness.

Fair enough, although I'm not saying Ok Computer is rubbish!
However, now I'm older I really prefer to listen even more so to an album in it's entirety.

 

[jakarta]

Goodbye Blue Sky
Hey You
Comfortably Numb
or
Run Like Hell

Only Comfortably Numb for me.

 

[Nitram]

I'm the same with the Police, can't recall the last time I listened to one of their albums.
On Dire Straits, I didn't like Brothers In Arms when it came out, and still don't, I much prefer Love Over Gold which I still listen to regularly now.

Saw that tour at Brighton Centre. I still listen to that album every now and then. The first is my favourite and very listenable even now.

 

[Nitram]

Never loved The Police much but Brothers in Arms, while agreed is dated, is still a non guilty pleasure reminding me of being a terrified passenger speeding down Rocky Road (?) with my mate who was a teenage banger racer. Music always links with memories.

I took a cassette recording of it on a holiday to a Greek Island. The small hotel played it almost every night in the bar. I let them have the cassette at the end of the holiday.
Yes it does evoke good memories.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Rattus norvegicus

Loved it in 77.

Now I cringe at some of the lyrics..

 

[METALMICKY]

Rattus norvegicus

Loved it in 77.

Now I cringe at some of he lyrics..

That's a bit harsh and surely you're just referring to Bring on the Nubiles? Hugh Cornwall even now admits that that it was a less than subtle attempt to shock.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

That's a bit harsh and surely you're just referring to Bring on the Nubiles? Hugh Cornwall even now admits that that it was a less than subtle attempt to shock.

Someday I'm going to smack your face...
You're way past your station
Beat you honey till you drop

And of course the one that had my two female black friends feeling quite uncomfortable when they did it at the Buccanneer, so one of them told me 30 years later.

 

[TugWilson]

Someday I'm going to smack your face...
You're way past your station
Beat you honey till you drop

And of course the one that had my two female black friends feeling quite uncomfortable when they did it at the Buccanneer, so one of them told me 30 years later.

So wrong ,it`s` typical of this site , your cherry picking from 2 verses that don`t mention ( F *** this world SUCKS) "gender" , it`s a great album , i actually have a tattoo of it .
A very good friend of mine use to "hang" with them in Hove where they lived ( Brunswick square ) and he said they NEVER took themselves seriously ? .

Rattus was and still is a classic , regardless of lefty woke shit .

 

[Icy Gull]

I used to love The Police when they first came out, especially Regatta De Blanc, but they are a band that have not aged well for me.
Dire Straits ‘Brothers in Arms’ is another album that sounds dated.

Agree re Brothers in Arms, Making Movies and Alchemy have aged much better imo

 

[Pogue Mahone]

That's a bit harsh and surely you're just referring to Bring on the Nubiles? Hugh Cornwall even now admits that that it was a less than subtle attempt to shock.

I doubt he’s referring to that as it’s on a different album - No More Heroes.

 

[Peacehaven Wild Kids]

.... and prefer another in their catalogue.

For me, Ok Computer by Radiohead.

Had it for years, saw Radiohead '96? @Wertcher (with Bowie, Neil Young, Foos and Pulp, my that was fun) and with Beck in Oxford and then Glastonbury. Bought Ok Computer on cssette tape in Bangkok on release date, loved The Bends before it, and listened to it to death while backpacking, loved it. After many years of not paying much attention to Radiohead, listening again, find it rather drab and not the classic I felt at the time.

Much prefer In Rainbows.

You?

Radiohead just got better with every album IMO
peaking at In Rainbows, although Moon Shaped Pool is a mighty fine album

 

[BBassic]

I don't know if this counts but I've long thought that 'The Masterplan' by Oasis is a better album than 'What's The Story Morning Glory'

I think WTSMG has some belting singles but as an album 'Masterplan' flows better and is more interesting.

 

[Sorrel]

Second song please?

Another Brick in the Wall (Part Two) and Comfortably Numb. I've only got those two from the album these days. I have tried to listen to the whole thing occasionally, but the rest of it is awful. Those two are not....

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

So wrong ,it`s` typical of this site , your cherry picking from 2 verses that don`t mention ( F *** this world SUCKS) "gender" , it`s a great album , i actually have a tattoo of it .
A very good friend of mine use to "hang" with them in Hove where they lived ( Brunswick square ) and he said they NEVER took themselves seriously ? .

Rattus was and still is a classic , regardless of lefty woke shit .

Typical of this site. Windy gammon calling someone who no longer likes the lyrics of some tracks on a record made 45 years ago, 'woke'.

A mate of mine used to drink mild and bitter with Bernard Manning when he lived in Barnsley, and he never took himself seriously.

I saw the Stranglers 3 times in the 70s, and a revamped version at the Canterbury Festival in the noughties and absolutely loved it.

Incidentally did you see Cornwall play in Brighton around 10 years ago in a little venue near the pier? He was good but when he did 'Feel like a wog' it sounded quite incongruous. Times change. Innit. And it is what it is. No need to get exercised about it

 

[Guinness Boy]

The point about lyrics is interesting. Not an album but a track, “Girl, you’ll be a woman soon” by Urge Overkill was always associated in my brain with deep cool because of Una Thurman dancing to it in Pulp Fiction. Then the same song gets unpacked as a lounge crooner special by Biddu Orchestra on Norman Cook’s ‘Back to Mine’ and you just go “f**k me, this is creepy”

 

[Pevenseagull]

Last time I listened to The Clash 'London Calling' I found it too sprawling and thought it would benefit from losing a song from each side.

Husker Du, 'Zen Arcade' is another much feted album that I find too long

Whether this means they are no longer 'legendary' is a different matter but I reckon a bit of judicious pruning wouldn't have gone a miss and resulted in better albums.