FogBlueInSanFran
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Boy and War are great records and Unforgettable Fire is quite underrated IMO. Joshua Tree also very good but a little overrated (how could it not be -- most hyped record in the universe then).
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The Bluemoon Song Cup 2023
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RobMCFC
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Until The Stone Roses album came along to claim the “most over-hyped” crown, naturally. :)Joshua Tree also very good but a little overrated (how could it not be -- most hyped record in the universe then).
hilts
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Until The Stone Roses album came along to claim the “most over-hyped” crown, naturally. :)
I'm working my way thru the greatest 100 albums of all time and tbh it's hard work but believe me the Joshua Tree and Stones Roses are nowhere near being the most overhyped albums.
FogBlueInSanFran
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At the TIME -- 1987 -- Joshua Tree was, among white, middle/upper class Americans -- especially men. Everyone breathlessly awaiting it. It was the same for The Police's Synchronicity in 1983 -- again, among a Yank middlebrow teenage/young adult subset. Can't speak for anywhere/anyone else.I'm working my way thru the greatest 100 albums of all time and tbh it's hard work but believe me the Joshua Tree and Stones Roses are nowhere near being the most overhyped albums.
Over here Stone Roses was well-received on alternative radio, but I definitely wouldn't call it especially hyped. I know I enjoyed it and still do though.
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RobMCFC
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You were lucky then! Over here, the press had half the music-listening population believing that The Stone Roses had invented some new form of rock music that - wait for it - you could dance to!Over here Stone Roses was well-received on alternative radio, but I definitely wouldn't call it especially hyped. I know I enjoyed it and still do though.
Like nobody had ever done that before (or much better).
Black&White&BlueMoon Town
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How dare you, um, uh... call it like it was.At the TIME -- 1987 -- Joshua Tree was, among white, middle/upper class Americans -- especially men. Everyone breathlessly awaitng it. It was the same for The Police's Synchronicty in 1983. Again, among a Yank middlebrow teenage/young adult subset. Can't speak for anywhere/anyone else.
Over here Stone Roses was well-received on alternative radio, but I definitely wouldn't call it especially hyped. I know I enjoyed it and still do though.
My college radio station played a track off of Joshua Tree on the hour every hour the day as it was released. Only an obsessed idiot who had all their prior albums and saw them in concert for the Unforgettable Fire tour would cut all his classes just to record each and every track to have on cassette to enjoy (being too poor to afford the CD at that TIME).
Poor obsessed idiot
Mad Eyed Screamer
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Not saying if it is or isn't.I was wondering if that was one of yours.
That James song as well.
Local bands have done well in this fun competition.
Either way, I had about (I think) an 18 point lead. So even if it isn't mine, a large win draws nearer to my total
BlueHammer85
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Did the stone roses have any song in this competition.
Nope.
FogBlueInSanFran
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LOL!How dare you, um, uh... call it like it was.
My college radio station played a track off of Joshua Tree on the hour every hour the day as it was released. Only an obsessed idiot who had all their prior albums and saw them in concert for the Unforgettable Fire tour would cut all his classes just to record each and every track to have on cassette to enjoy (being too poor to afford the CD at that TIME).
Poor obsessed idiot