The Album Review Club - Week #128 - (page 1587) - Pretty Vicious - The Struts

[southamptonblue]

Not missing out on scoring this one, as it will be a first for me....The Master Plan, is my second favourite album of theirs, the rest I find 'mid' as my kids would say.
However, this (wonderwall aside, only due to being overplayed everywhere) blows me away everytime I listen to it, Colombia, closely followed by Supersonic, I will never tire of hearing.
10.

 

[Onholiday(somemightsay)]

OT (sorry I know there was a thread about this, but so what), I saw this today:



Personally I would say Eddie VH is the greatest ever, and it's nice to see some love for Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and this list is missing Bob Mould, and Pete Townshend should be higher up . . . but my most visceral reaction was HOW THE FUCKING FUCK DOES THE EDGE MAKE THIS LIST????

Not sure who she is or what qualifies the list but I have skimmed this twice now;

Where is Rory..............!?!

 

[threespires]

Be really interesting to look at the ages of the high and low scorers on this one. Obviously they really rode and to some degree defined the zeitgeist at that moment. I suspect I was simply a bit too old and had heard a bit too much to buy into it. I don't know if I'd have been in my teens or early twenties whether they'd have resonated more.

My dad died a couple of months before this was released and in a sense that had aged me a little bit further by the time this arrived. Anyway I'm drifting into context I said I would ignore.

 

[Saddleworth2]

I think I’m going to be very unpopular, this round.
I’m on first listen and I’m struggling.
I’ll try my best to get through this as objectively as possible and put some coherent thoughts together, but listening to Liam Gallagher is not my idea of fun.

As you were.

 

[Saddleworth2]

Not sure who she is or what qualifies the list but I have skimmed this twice now;

Where is Rory..............!?!

No Rory, Steve Hackett or Steve Howe.
What imbecile put this together.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Not sure who she is or what qualifies the list but I have skimmed this twice now;

Where is Rory..............!?!

Thank You.
For that matter, where’s Gary and how the fook does the Hedge get considered ahead of both of them.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

No Rory, Steve Hackett or Steve Howe.
What imbecile put this together.

As you were.

 

[bernard o'silver]

Thank You.
For that matter, where’s Gary and how the fook does the Hedge get considered ahead of both of them.

Johnny Ramone 1-2-3... 4 chords(at best) , now I don't mind the Ramones, but come on !!

 

[youngbob]

Their best album. Sounds like their label mates My Bloody Valentine but where Loveless sounded like a mermaid falling into a black hole, Definitely Maybe sounded like fag ends swirling around in a pint glass that's been shook up - in the best way. A proper rock and roll record made by (at the time) a sensitive young songwriter with a football fan in his heart and his loutish brother who hides nothing of his yobbish nature. This is as good as it got.

8/10.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Their best album. Sounds like their label mates My Bloody Valentine but where Loveless sounded like a mermaid falling into a black hole, Definitely Maybe sounded like fag ends swirling around in a pint glass that's been shook up - in the best way. A proper rock and roll record made by (at the time) a sensitive young songwriter with a football fan in his heart and his loutish brother who hides nothing of his yobbish nature. This is as good as it got.

8/10.

Grace, out the same year.
Just saying.