Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

Vote for your least favourite album

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I can't believe Sabotage only has five votes in this strong group. Apart from Symptom of the Universe, it's an album I don't particularly care about.
 
mckindog said:
Fair enough, I like the jazzy settings and emotional guitar flourishes on the softer songs.
My take:
Overall a great mix of light and heavy, lots of variation from song-to-song, unique original sound, awesome lyrics and some of my favourite guitar playing on record.
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I also felt some of these songs were very repetitive as well (especially the ending of one particular song (not sure anymore which ; the chorus just kept going).
 
mckindog said:
And no disrespect to Sabotage, but it's hardly Sabbath's best work. When it beats Born To Run or Abbey Road, I chalk it up to a genre thing, but equal to stylistic peers like Agents of Fortune, Physical Graffiti, 2112 and especially Jailbreak?
I just don't see it. I'd take Emerald alone over the entire Sabotage album.
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I have read a number of critics who regard Sabotage as Sabbath's best album. I think it's definitely up there. It doesn't have the legendary, well-known songs like some of the other albums, but when I'm looking for an Ozzy-era Sabbath fix, I more often turn to this album or Master of Reality than the others. I would not put it on the same level as Physical Graffiti, but I do think it surpasses 2112 (which is legendary for its first six minutes and forty-five seconds, but then drops off), Agents of Fortune (not BOC's strongest) and Jailbreak (Emerald is awesome, though). Sabotage has a lot of surprising and smile-inducing moments: the abrupt end to Hole in the Sky; the way that Symptom of the Universe morphs from heavy Paranoid-like riff to a jazzy acoustic piece that sounds like Santana; Megalomania and The Writ are greatly underrated Sabbath tracks; and the sort-of instrumental Supertzar, which sounds like a soundtrack to a movie about the end of the world. Even the album's weakest track, Am I Going Insane, is charming in its way. Plus, Bill Ward's red leotard on the cover is perhaps the funniest and most ill-advised sartorial choice in the history of album covers, which is saying something.
 
Damn, but you are right about the pants. And Ozzy's clogs and muumuu are um, interesting as well.
That must be what's putting me off.
 
I have just wrestled through the BOC, the Queen albums and also through Physical Graffiti. While I thought The Rover had mighty grabbing guitar hooks, the whole album was the most boring of them all.
 
Symptom of The Universe was so ahead of its time, hard to believe we're talking 1975 here...

I like Sabotage because everything they try and do on that album works to perfection. Everyone has grown as musicians and it really shows.
 
mckindog said:
Simon? Now there's a surprise.
But a good one.
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He is probably not gonna get very far if he gets in (most likely he'll be slaughtered) but if the nominations will make some people here check him out for the first time that's a bonus. Even if people are metal fans, Paul Simon has a lot to say and does it with real talent.
 
Mckindog, you should be nice and eliminate only albums with 10+ votes. :p

Sorry. Still mourning the loss of Born To Run. Let's take a moment and appreciate the fallen masterpiece.

 
SixesAlltheway said:
He is probably not gonna get very far if he gets in (most likely he'll be slaughtered) but if the nominations will make some people here check him out for the first time that's a bonus. Even if people are metal fans, Paul Simon has a lot to say and does it with real talent.
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Terrific songwriter. The Boxer is one of my all time favourites, but it's hardly alone.
And @ KDH, Springsteen is even better.
 
The Flash said:
albums with 7 votes get eliminated,
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Exactly my thoughts. If not mistaken, from certain eras every round the same albums get the most votes. I guess it'd be logical to get rid of this status quo.

By the way, no Status Quo fans here, anyone? :) My wife hates them.
 
Status Quo, I've always associated them with bad television commercials...Then I heard "Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon" at a friends and couldn't believe my ears, this was not the Quo i knew, fun bluesy hard rock. So I'm not sure they deserve the bad image they have and if I went back and tried some of those older albums I could probably find a lot to like....
 
I don't know that one but I should check it out. I do know the next five from the period 1971-1975:
Dog of Two Head (1971), Piledriver (1972), Hello! (1973), Quo (1974) & On the Level (1975) make for a fine string of hard rocking albums. After that: more polished and commercial sound. :down:
 
Yeah and I think the "Whatever You Want" Que is the one most people know.

I enjoy a lot of heavy blues rock of the 60s so I should enjoy the style of their first albums since they basically play a sort of 60s inspired boogie/blues rock.
 
I think Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run" went out because not enough people know it well enough...Or don't care about classic rock??
 
Yeah or Rockin' All Over the World. :/

The first two albums are different from what you (3rd album) and I (4th-8th album) described. More psychedelic. I haven't heard full pre-1971 albums yet, but I do know the singles Pictures of Matchstick Men and Ice in the Sun. Quite nice but I guess I prefer the harder stuff.

@Springsteen: dunno, I find most of his older work that I heard uberdramatic, almost gospel like material. The closed eyes during performances, it's all too hallelujah (and too American?) for me. I am saying this while I played a Springsteen cover last year with the band from my work (The River). :innocent:

I prefer Streets of Philadelphia or Dancing in the Dark. And as a teenager I also liked Born in the USA.
 
Forostar said:
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@Springsteen: dunno, I find most of his older work that I heard uberdramatic, almost gospel like material. The closed eyes during performances, it's all too hallelujah (and too American?) for me. I am saying this while I played a Springsteen cover last year with the band from my work (The River). :innocent:

I prefer Streets of Philadelphia or Dancing in the Dark. And as a teenager I also liked Born in the USA.
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I get what you mean about the over-the-top sound of Born to Run. I like it, but I prefer the more stripped down version of Thunder Road off the triple live album. Atlantic City off the acoustic Nebraska album is another one like that - it might be my favourite Springsteen track. Whatever the arrangements, it's the visceral connection of the melodies, stories and heartfelt delivery that does it for me.

Actually it's something I really like about Phil Lynott of Thin Lizzy as well, even if it is in a more metallicized setting - there's a real working class romantic poetry to the words and the delivery. I think a lot of the time when I love a song that you don't, this is a factor that plays into it.
 
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