In their defense, standards were lower back then
August 9, 2015 7:16 PM Subscribe
I wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though. Or the Creedence.
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 7:32 PM on August 9, 2015 [29 favorites]
posted by Insert Clever Name Here at 7:32 PM on August 9, 2015 [29 favorites]
When CDs were new, there was a period where there seemed to be only about 10 of them in stock at any record store. One of those CDs was The Doors "Anthem Of The Sun". Why that one? Who knows.
"The Soft Parade", I think, has a lot of personality. Even if that personality comes from trying to sound like a Love album but ending up sounding like a Vegas big band. It's not so bad.
posted by thelonius at 7:36 PM on August 9, 2015
"The Soft Parade", I think, has a lot of personality. Even if that personality comes from trying to sound like a Love album but ending up sounding like a Vegas big band. It's not so bad.
posted by thelonius at 7:36 PM on August 9, 2015
Toni Braxton is the odd one out of these 4 cds. You can be fooled into forming a very precise picture of this person based on The Doors, The Eagles, and Creed. This is an aging wastoid, maybe he used to be a roadie for some fading hair rock band, or claims to be. There's empty bud light bottles scattered all over his shag carpet, a joints' worth of weed in his unkempt beard. But then Toni Braxton blows that image apart. This is a person with sensitivity, emotion. A secret pain. Now I'm not sure what to think.
posted by naju at 7:36 PM on August 9, 2015 [23 favorites]
posted by naju at 7:36 PM on August 9, 2015 [23 favorites]
This person has thought about "Hotel California" more than you have
posted by thelonius at 7:40 PM on August 9, 2015 [6 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 7:40 PM on August 9, 2015 [6 favorites]
I appreciate the level of precision in these ratings.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 7:43 PM on August 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by paper chromatographologist at 7:43 PM on August 9, 2015 [4 favorites]
Hotel California was forever ruined for me when I realized it told the backstory to Manos: The Hands of Fate.
posted by JHarris at 7:49 PM on August 9, 2015 [35 favorites]
posted by JHarris at 7:49 PM on August 9, 2015 [35 favorites]
The Soft Parade is a great album. Fuck this snarky list.
posted by saul wright at 7:54 PM on August 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by saul wright at 7:54 PM on August 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
Toni Braxton is the odd one out of these 4 cds.
My cousin is about as redneck as it gets. Huge pickup truck, guns out the wazoo, half his wardrobe is camo, not-great views about race.
He hates country music and loves early 90s rap and R&B. I bet he has a Toni Braxton CD.
posted by dirigibleman at 8:00 PM on August 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
My cousin is about as redneck as it gets. Huge pickup truck, guns out the wazoo, half his wardrobe is camo, not-great views about race.
He hates country music and loves early 90s rap and R&B. I bet he has a Toni Braxton CD.
posted by dirigibleman at 8:00 PM on August 9, 2015 [3 favorites]
He gets so close to figuring out what's wrong with Stapp's diction...Stapp is like the jesus christ of yarling. He yarls so hard that every word sounds like it's coming straight out of his sinuses.
This is a brutally soul-crushing collection of crap cds. And yet the reviewer still gets the order completely backwards.
posted by Existential Dread at 8:02 PM on August 9, 2015 [5 favorites]
This is a brutally soul-crushing collection of crap cds. And yet the reviewer still gets the order completely backwards.
posted by Existential Dread at 8:02 PM on August 9, 2015 [5 favorites]
Pros: I don't have to read this article!
Cons: ...I did anyway.
posted by not_on_display at 8:02 PM on August 9, 2015 [7 favorites]
Cons: ...I did anyway.
posted by not_on_display at 8:02 PM on August 9, 2015 [7 favorites]
Toni Braxton is the odd one out of these 4 cds.
Even Creed fans have girlfriends.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:14 PM on August 9, 2015 [19 favorites]
Even Creed fans have girlfriends.
posted by Thorzdad at 8:14 PM on August 9, 2015 [19 favorites]
Back in 1995, I got into a friend's car for a long drive to a ski area.
Once we got to the freeway, she handed me her CD case and asked me to choose. The first CD I found was Nelson.
Without a word, I rolled down the window and tossed it out.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:15 PM on August 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
Once we got to the freeway, she handed me her CD case and asked me to choose. The first CD I found was Nelson.
Without a word, I rolled down the window and tossed it out.
posted by Cool Papa Bell at 8:15 PM on August 9, 2015 [10 favorites]
Oh God. I get so embarrassed every time Im reminded of Creed. For a while I was really into them...
posted by jpdoane at 8:18 PM on August 9, 2015
posted by jpdoane at 8:18 PM on August 9, 2015
Cool Papa Bell, you are my hero tonight for that comment...
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 8:45 PM on August 9, 2015
posted by ivanthenotsoterrible at 8:45 PM on August 9, 2015
I have been to two concerts in my life, both at the Universal Ampitheatre: David Bowie circa Earthling, and Creed a year later. I blame my sister for choosing Creed, but I blame myself for going along.
posted by blnkfrnk at 9:04 PM on August 9, 2015
posted by blnkfrnk at 9:04 PM on August 9, 2015
When CDs were new, there was a period where there seemed to be only about 10 of them in stock at any record store. One of those CDs was The Doors "Anthem Of The Sun". Why that one? Who knows.
Perhaps this is a joke that is sailing past me, but "Anthem of the Sun" is a Grateful Dead album. So who knows, indeed.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:06 PM on August 9, 2015
Perhaps this is a joke that is sailing past me, but "Anthem of the Sun" is a Grateful Dead album. So who knows, indeed.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:06 PM on August 9, 2015
blnkfrnk: "I have been to two concerts in my life, both at the Universal Ampitheatre: David Bowie circa Earthling, and Creed a year later. I blame my sister for choosing Creed, but I blame myself for going along."
I was going to ask why you'd never been to another concert again, but then I realized that I probably would've given up after that too.
posted by koeselitz at 9:20 PM on August 9, 2015 [8 favorites]
I was going to ask why you'd never been to another concert again, but then I realized that I probably would've given up after that too.
posted by koeselitz at 9:20 PM on August 9, 2015 [8 favorites]
If Ronnie James Dio is the "original criminal" of "yarling", then... first of all, I'm not sure we're still speaking English, but in any case, "yarling" must be awesome.
posted by smcameron at 10:13 PM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by smcameron at 10:13 PM on August 9, 2015 [1 favorite]
What, no Queen's Greatest Hits? Is the morphic field weakening?
posted by pseudocode at 12:05 AM on August 10, 2015 [11 favorites]
posted by pseudocode at 12:05 AM on August 10, 2015 [11 favorites]
Perhaps this is a joke that is sailing past me, but "Anthem of the Sun" is a Grateful Dead album. So who knows, indeed.
Is not joke. Really? checks It was "Waiting For The Sun", and I really don't know why they'd pick that one.
Seriously, there weren't a lot of CDs in retail for a while. Everyone had the same 10 or 20 CDs.
posted by thelonius at 2:01 AM on August 10, 2015
Is not joke. Really? checks It was "Waiting For The Sun", and I really don't know why they'd pick that one.
Seriously, there weren't a lot of CDs in retail for a while. Everyone had the same 10 or 20 CDs.
posted by thelonius at 2:01 AM on August 10, 2015
She sounds like she’s not in emotional pain, but physical pain - what happened, Toni? What shape was the LEGO you stepped on? Those 2x4s are the worst. I remember I had a blue one that matched almost exactly with the color of my carpet and I grazed it with my heel and nearly peed on myself
Worth the read for this.
posted by billiebee at 2:22 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
Worth the read for this.
posted by billiebee at 2:22 AM on August 10, 2015 [2 favorites]
My 13 year old daughter heard The Doors the other day. Her face was exactly like when Beavis and Butthead saw Morrissey on MTV.
posted by colie at 2:45 AM on August 10, 2015 [5 favorites]
posted by colie at 2:45 AM on August 10, 2015 [5 favorites]
My dad's car was stolen in the early 90s. The police found it a few days later, abandoned near some woods. The thieves had taken everything of value - child seat, his briefcase, mints, even the pennies in the ashtray. Everything except the Gloria Estefan tapes.
posted by terretu at 3:15 AM on August 10, 2015 [10 favorites]
posted by terretu at 3:15 AM on August 10, 2015 [10 favorites]
Before I sold my car earlier this year, the 6-disc in the trunk had (off of the top of my head) contained: Wolf Parade's entire discography, a Lady Gaga/Ke$ha mix CD, The Suburbs, and Zonoscope by Cut Copy.
In the end, I decided to not let my music collection convey with the car, just because I doubt that anybody shares my completely insane taste in music.
posted by schmod at 4:32 AM on August 10, 2015
In the end, I decided to not let my music collection convey with the car, just because I doubt that anybody shares my completely insane taste in music.
posted by schmod at 4:32 AM on August 10, 2015
Seriously, there weren't a lot of CDs in retail for a while. Everyone had the same 10 or 20 CDs.
My recollection of the early eighties is that Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" was the unavoidable CD.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:59 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
My recollection of the early eighties is that Dire Straits' "Brothers in Arms" was the unavoidable CD.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 5:59 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
But The Doors' "Waiting for the Sun" is a weird album as well. Considering this was a band made up of artsy types, it is surprising that the concept here is so nebulous that the title track does not turn up for two more albums.
Its character is so low-key as to be indistinct. I spent a couple of my teenage years listening to a lot of Doors music, and WftS is the album I can never remember. Even the two post-Morrison albums, as indifferent as they were, come to mind more readily.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:18 AM on August 10, 2015
Its character is so low-key as to be indistinct. I spent a couple of my teenage years listening to a lot of Doors music, and WftS is the album I can never remember. Even the two post-Morrison albums, as indifferent as they were, come to mind more readily.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 6:18 AM on August 10, 2015
> My dad's car was stolen in the early 90s. The police found it a few days later, abandoned near some woods. The thieves had taken everything of value - child seat, his briefcase, mints, even the pennies in the ashtray. Everything except the Gloria Estefan tapes.
So, like you said...everything of value.
posted by The Card Cheat at 6:24 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
So, like you said...everything of value.
posted by The Card Cheat at 6:24 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
The Soft Parade is a great album.
a quick Google of Worst Doors Album seems to contradict this sentiment.
posted by philip-random at 7:59 AM on August 10, 2015
a quick Google of Worst Doors Album seems to contradict this sentiment.
posted by philip-random at 7:59 AM on August 10, 2015
the one with the poetry is the worst one
posted by thelonius at 8:09 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 8:09 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
WHEN THE STILL SEA CONSPIRES IN ARMOR
The man was no Graeme Edge
posted by thelonius at 8:15 AM on August 10, 2015
The man was no Graeme Edge
posted by thelonius at 8:15 AM on August 10, 2015
I recently sold a car that had a copy of "Green" by R.E.M. stuck in the tape deck. I tried to market it as a feature.
posted by 256 at 8:28 AM on August 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
posted by 256 at 8:28 AM on August 10, 2015 [4 favorites]
I think one of the million production runs of Hell Freezes Over was bad. Everyone knows someone that has a copy that skips in exactly the same place on The Good Song.
To be fair, it is a really good version of the song.
posted by clvrmnky at 9:18 AM on August 10, 2015
To be fair, it is a really good version of the song.
posted by clvrmnky at 9:18 AM on August 10, 2015
My car was totaled about 6 weeks ago (I was unhurt and it was no my fault but also, never get your car totaled right before you're moving). I borrowed my ex-boyfriend's car and he had three tapes -- The Beat's I Just Can't Stop It, Brian Eno and John Cale's Wrong Way Up and Steve Moore's Primitive Neural Pathways. Due to his radio only functioning on occasion, I spent about 2 days listening to these tapes.
Then he ended up selling me this car. Sadly, he kept the tapes.
posted by darksong at 10:34 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Then he ended up selling me this car. Sadly, he kept the tapes.
posted by darksong at 10:34 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
I've also had the 'car totally cleaned out by thieves apart from a few CDs' experience. In my case it was Eric Clapton's solo career that could not find a new audience.
posted by colie at 11:01 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by colie at 11:01 AM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
I wish he had started the article with the bit about Creed's With Arms Wide Open being "not a bad song", so I could have just stopped right there.
posted by rocket88 at 11:47 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by rocket88 at 11:47 AM on August 10, 2015 [3 favorites]
The music in my car is on a USB thumb drive plugged into a socket buried deep in the center console. But it would confuse the shit out of this guy.
Times change, technology changes, music changes. This guy never changes.
posted by Naberius at 12:31 PM on August 10, 2015
Times change, technology changes, music changes. This guy never changes.
posted by Naberius at 12:31 PM on August 10, 2015
>To be fair, it is a really good version of the song.<
Because of or in spite of the skips?
(hey, inquiring minds want to know)
((not inquiring enough to go listen))
posted by twidget at 12:36 PM on August 10, 2015
Because of or in spite of the skips?
(hey, inquiring minds want to know)
((not inquiring enough to go listen))
posted by twidget at 12:36 PM on August 10, 2015
Aww, Nelson was a 1990 guilty pleasure. Plus I had a crush on Tracy Nelson.
posted by djeo at 1:22 PM on August 10, 2015
posted by djeo at 1:22 PM on August 10, 2015
The Soft Parade is a great album.
no, it's easily the most forgettable one they did - it was a failed attempt to reinvent themselves as a pop group for the most part and it didn't really work. partially because they didn't come up with many hooks
posted by pyramid termite at 3:54 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
no, it's easily the most forgettable one they did - it was a failed attempt to reinvent themselves as a pop group for the most part and it didn't really work. partially because they didn't come up with many hooks
posted by pyramid termite at 3:54 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh God. I get so embarrassed every time Im reminded of Creed. For a while I was really into them...
posted by jpdoane at 11:18 PM
This is one of the reasons why you are a valuable asset to the Cambridge MeFi pub trivia teams. Creed happened right after I started being apathetic to popular music. I got the 50's-80's somewhat covered. You and maryr handle everything afterward, and in doing so, you have spared me from ever having to care about Creed, amongst many other bands. For these things, I thank you.
posted by not_on_display at 8:40 PM on August 10, 2015
posted by jpdoane at 11:18 PM
This is one of the reasons why you are a valuable asset to the Cambridge MeFi pub trivia teams. Creed happened right after I started being apathetic to popular music. I got the 50's-80's somewhat covered. You and maryr handle everything afterward, and in doing so, you have spared me from ever having to care about Creed, amongst many other bands. For these things, I thank you.
posted by not_on_display at 8:40 PM on August 10, 2015
Also, TRUE SAILING IS DEAD!!!!!!
posted by not_on_display at 8:42 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by not_on_display at 8:42 PM on August 10, 2015 [1 favorite]
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In my defense, I bought it in High School, when I was still super into classic rock. I won't defend The Doors much, but for all you haters, do give L.A. Woman a spin. Skip the songs that get a lot of classic rock radio play, and it's actually a pretty decent white boy blues-rock album.
Though, really, if this guy's gonna defend Creed, I can't take a word he says seriously.
posted by SansPoint at 7:21 PM on August 9, 2015 [6 favorites]