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Edited Feb 22, 2010, 15:24

Re: Maligned albums: which do you rate?

Feb 21, 2010, 16:42

I've thought of two more. There's "The Burning World" by Swans - which seems to be regarded by most fans, and by Michael Gira, as their fatally compromised major label debut (he and producer Bill Laswell didn't click, apparently) but I think it's still a damned sight better than most bands' career highs. The songs are good enough to withstand the sometimes over-lush arrangements, and it shows that Swans could hold their own as a song-based band just as well as they could their longstanding position as bludgeoning noise-merchants. So there...!

Also Love's "Four Sail" has a dfamned signt more subtance than some fans give it credit for - the decline in Arthur Lee's songwriting talent was clearly a gradual process rather than an overnight development. There are several songs here which equal "Foerever Changes", even if they're sometimes obscured by the uber-virtuoso soloing of the new line-up. "August", "Singing Cowboy" and "Nothing" are as good as anything on their first three LPs.

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