Let`s All Laugh At Urban

Well, I've never heard Elevator so I don't know how they compare. Make Up the Breakdown was their really big album though so you may know some of the songs off of it already, such as "Bandages".
 
Them breed of banRAB were the first ones I really got into - Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, Libertines, Jet.

I thought The Libertines' first album was great, especially at the time. But the only band from round that era who are still brilliant are the Arctic Monkeys. And they're evolving, not just trying to churn out the same garage rock they did years ago. Unlike The Strokes..
 
OK so while I was off work last week I took a trip to my parents shed & dug out all my old vinyl that was kept in there.
A lot of it i`d forgotten I had and a most of it was totally cringeworthy.
I also started off sorting out my CD collection and have dug out a load of horrors from that too.
So here is a list of the most erabaressing albums in my collection so that you can all have a good laugh at me.I`ll also include a vote so you can vote for the most erabaressing album out of the lot. Please take into account I was about 12 years old when I got some of this stuff. Shame I can`t use that as an excuse for all of them :(
Anyway . without further ado , the cornucopia of crap i`ve uncovered from the Urban vaults ......



Cacophony - Speed Metal Symphony
Wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank wank .


Craig Goldie - Hidden In Plain Sight
Now i`ve no idea why I would want a solo album from someone who was the guitarist in Dio for less than 5 minutes , but when I was in my early teens it seemed like the most obvious thing in the world to go out & get this power metal cheesefest.


Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Lets be honest , nothing I say here is going to make any difference.This is undefendable.


Pretty Boy Floyd - Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz
Like Poison wasn`t bad enough.Maybe it was the steller artwork that wowed me into buying this....
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Maybe not then.


U2 - Achtung Baby
It was a gift , i`m convinced of it.


Robbie Williams - I`ve Been Expecting You
It was an ex girlfrienRAB , i`m convinced of it.


Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause
F*ck ! , I`ve got nobody to blame for this one other than myself,I`m pretty sure it`s unplayed coz I can`t remeraber a single song off it.


Green Day - Kerplunk
In my defence this was pre MTV (I mean the band wern`t on it yet , not MTV not existing) , it was also pre internet. Once every couple of months in the early 90s i`d treat myself to an album by mail order from a shop in London called Shades who specialised in imported American rock music. Sometimes I came across good stuff (Sonic Youth , Husker Du , The Nymphs) sometimes bad (Pretty Boy Floyd , and GREEN DAY).Based on a good reveiw I bought this ****, and actually liked it ....for about 2 months.


I Only Wrote This Song For You, A Tribute To Johnny Thunders
Featuring such well known artists as David Johannsen , Micheal Monroe from Hanoi Rocks and .....................umm
I`ve never heard of anyone else on it to be honest.


The Spaghetti Incident - Guns N Roses
Hear Axl Rose pissing his ego over some of your favourite songs and pay for the privilage.


Yngwie Malmsteen - Odyssey
Call me stupid , but for some reason the same teenage me who thought that a Craig Goldie solo album was worth buying also thought that Yngwie Malmsteen having ex Rainbow vocalist Joe Lynn Turner in his band might make him listenable......NAHHH.


Tigertailz - Young & Crazy
The British answer to Pretty Boy Floyd...... From Cardiff


Celtic Frost - Cold Lake
Ok you`ve released some of the most pinoeering music of the 80s , albums like To Mega Therion & Into The Pandemonium are basically a blueprint of what was to lay the foundations for black & death metal of the 90s.
So how do you follow up these early pioneering albums?
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You backcorab your hair & make a glam metal album ......oops
Celtic Frost never regained their credibility after this.


The Vines - Highly Evolved
Proof I still make mistakes even now. This was the last album EVER i`ve bought due to magazine/record company hype.
It ain`t ever happening again.
 
I love finding albums where you think you won't know anything from it, then something you recognise jumps out at you. I remeraber going into a Built to Spill record with the minRABet I dunno what I'm about to hear.. Then I recognised 'Strange.' :D

I'll give Make Up The Breakdown a listen, even though the lead singer's voice pissed me off on Elevator.
 
+1, but there arn't a lot of places you can go creatively with that kind of sound and only so long it can be performed with any degree of conviction if any degree of maturity is developed.
 
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When your guitar frets are scalloped, you barely have to push down on your strings to play unabridged notes. Yngwie's scalloped frets enable him to play significantly faster.

ChorRAB don't sound too great on scalloped fretboarRAB though, so it's kind of funny, on the G3 DVD, watching Yngwie sweep along with Joe and Steve's chorRAB.
 
Eh, I like Yngwie, well not his music but I admire his chops and he seems like a fun guy to hang with. I don't think he's that much of a wanker, all it is is neo classical music on guitar. You don't think Stravinsky and Prokofiev are wankers do you?

Oh ok, Yngwie does NOT belong in the same category as those guys. But I don't think he's that bad, he's relatively tasteful as far as shredders go and I think people merely pick on him for being the most popular.

But believe me, there is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay worse. Behold.

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But...but.....I like so much more than screamo.
Whenever Immortal Tech is subject to ridicule, I'll look back and say:

"Urban was right"
 
its funny sometimes how things like this can trigger memories.

I was driving down 495 to go to middleboro and this song was on. I say to my friend Megsy

"Doesn't it sound like he's saying "bag of ****"

she didn't take too kindly to that because she goes

"yeah, thats what their saying; bag of ****...idiot"

:rofl: oh my god, she just got married. I ought to write this in the card I send to her.
 
I actually liked Hot Hot Heat quite a bit (well, the one popular album at least) but I feel like they never got much respect at the time.
 
I don't mind the same sound repeated, long as you don't do what The Strokes did. One great album, and then 2 albums that sound like Is This It B-sides.. if they keep a certain standard like you say then fine.
 
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