Top Five All-Time Greatest Sophomore Albums

The Wrens – Secaucus
The Cure – Boys Don't Cry
Black Sabbath – Paranoid
Sleater-Kinney – Dig Me Out
Neutral Milk Hotel – In The Aeroplane Over The Sea

Hopefully…

Interpol ~ Antics

Really looking forward to picking this up in a few minutes.

My list goes to 6…

Old 97's: Wreck Your Life
Wilco: Being There
Robbie Fulks: South Mouth
Slobberbone: Barrel Chested
the Shins: Chutes too Narrow
Beulah: When Your Heartstrings Break

I'll do 5

1. Chemical Brothers - Dig Your Own Hole
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bayou Country
3. Muse - Origin Of Symmetry
4. Madonna - Like A Virgin
5. Cypress Hill - Black Sunday (dont ask..i love it)

The Posies - Dear 23
Brendan Benson - Lapalco
Sloan - Twice Removed
Nirvana - Nevermind
Splitsville - Ultrasound

bonus round choice - Supergrass In It for the Money was disappointed with it at first because it wasn't I Should Coco redux but revisited it after the fact a might fine mature album

radiohead - 'the bends'
michael jackson - 'thriller'
the clash - 'london calling'
the bees - 'free the bees'
digable planets - 'blowout comb'

Originally posted by SalParadise:

the clash - 'london calling'

actually their third which of course cues the next topic, or bands which got better with each release…

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Originally posted by SalParadise:

the clash - 'london calling'

actually their third which of course cues the next topic, or bands which got better with each release…

so it's
self-titled
'sandinista'
then 'london calling'?

hmm, didn't know that.

Nope, it's S/T, Give Em Enough Rope, London Calling.

Originally posted by SalParadise:
so it's
self-titled
'sandinista'
then 'london calling'?

hmm, didn't know that.

Originally posted by grotty:
Hopefully…

Interpol ~ Antics

Really looking forward to picking this up in a few minutes.

Same here…about to brave the off/on rain to head over to Olsson's.

dig me out and in an aeroplane aside:
dinosaur jr: you're living all over me
replacements: hootnany
pavement: crooked rain, crooked rain
built to spill: there's nothing wrong with love
public enemy: it takes a nation of millions to hold us back

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
– the ultimate "build off the debut album's ideas" sophomore release

Red House Painters - Red House Painters (rollercoaster)

Originally posted by econo:
Nope, it's S/T, Give Em Enough Rope, London Calling.

Originally posted by SalParadise:
so it's
self-titled
'sandinista'
then 'london calling'?

hmm, didn't know that.

which was a case of the record co bring in the wrong type of producer for the band and thus resulting in poorer record… would like to hear the demos outtakes from these sessions, seeing at there were some good songs on that record just a bit to polished compared to s/t and london calling… safe european home, tommy gun, etc

Agreed, Tommy Gun is a good song but is too cleaned up. If it had the same bite as the song London Calling, it'd be a great song.

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
would like to hear the demos outtakes from these sessions, seeing at there were some good songs on that record just a bit to polished compared to s/t and london calling… safe european home, tommy gun, etc

Garbage, Version 2.0
Dada, American Highway Flower
Dire Straits, Communique
REM, Reckoning
Pearl Jam, Vs.

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

The Cure – Boys Don't Cry

you consider that to be their second?
i'd say that seventeen seconds was.
BDC was more of a compilation of singles and some other stuff that was released after three imaginary boys. there's a lot of overlapping material between the two (with some stuff dropped off) and then the singles (BDC/jumping someone else's train) added.

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Originally posted by grotty:
Hopefully…

Interpol ~ Antics

Really looking forward to picking this up in a few minutes.
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Same here…about to brave the off/on rain to head over to Olsson's.

Sorry…don't think its nearly as fresh and exciting as their debut. Still okay though.

I always thought it was their first, but according to Allmusic, it's second. I guess there's some gray area. I wouldn't object to Seventeen Seconds on my list.

Originally posted by distance:

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:

The Cure – Boys Don't Cry

you consider that to be their second?

Originally posted by ggwâ?¢:
I always thought it was their first, but according to Allmusic, it's second. I guess there's some gray area. I wouldn't object to Seventeen Seconds on my list.

personally i'd say it goes:
three imaginary boys -> seventeen seconds -> faith -> pornography -> who cares

Call it derivative, but:

and you will know us by the trail of dead - Madonna