"Either their last good record, or their first bad one"

Gentle Giant - Interview
Gordon Lightfoot - Endless Wire
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe
Can - Saw Delight
Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate
Genesis - s/t

hüsker dü - candy apple grey
the smashing pumpkins - machina/the machines of god

Oh No It's Devo doesn't belong here. Total Devo does.

The Who By Numbers
Some Girls

I don't think I understand the premise

Neither do I to be honest. Maybe Oh No It's Devo does belong here.

metallica - black album

"Tim"
"Bug"
"Goo"

Is it generally recognized that
a mid/late-career self-titled record
is a always a dud?

for can sub "flow motion" for "saw delight"

yeah it's just about the last decent album before the band goes to shit. where most of their prior work is prefered but it's still better than whatever came after. that's why I picked "Oh No" and not "Total Devo", which is total garbage

Stevie Wonder - Hotter than July
Difficult for Prince... Love symbol ?

David Bowie - Let's Dance ?

Weezer - Maladroit

Brighten The Corners

total devo is less terrible than "shout", which is artistically indefensible on nearly every conceivable level.

well I haven't heard Total Devo in a while but the only thing I remotely liked on that disc was "Happy Guy". because it reminded me of "Bombers" by Numan

Shout has some decent sort of digital-60's type music on it which is kinda interesting - "4th Dimension", the "Are U Experienced" cover, "Please Please"...certainly not good by any stretch but it's dinky enough that it's tough to hate

The Who By Numbers

Supposedly, Townshend had originally intended for this to be their final album.

The MACHINA project had some great songs, particularly "Cash Car Star" and "Age of Innocence", but the most godawful production/mixing I have ever heard

Is the Cure's Wish appropriate here?

Druqks

The MACHINA project had some great songs, particularly "Cash Car Star" and "Age of Innocence", but the most godawful production/mixing I have ever heard

― beamish13, Friday, October 30, 2015 9:22 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

agreed. also feels botched because it was supposed to be another double, and the sequence on both is really slapdash

Garage Inc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF1HYHL_-Jc

But their last album of first-release original material I liked all the way through was Master of Puppets. Did kinda like the rehash w generic Halloween orchestration. Still need to hear Loutallica.

California Nights, the latest Best Coast album, seems equally good and bad: on the cusp and played out. Hope the next one is a great leap forward from crisis, or at least a good covers album, like Garage Inc., but meanwhile, BC's set could be sad poster child for this thread.

i thought freedom of choice was the supposed to be the tipping point for devo, stylistically. new traditionalists i hafta swipe into the good column, because of "beautiful world" alone, being the best song ever after "don't change," or third if you remember that "once in a lifetime" exists, or fourth if you include "close to me," and restricting "ever" to mean the post-post-punk or new music era.

i listened to total devo way more than shout or oh no it's devo because it was so frustrating in the way heartbeat city was. i liked the hard POP crunch but it wasn't the same band; at least the predecessors were of the same lineage, if half-assed efforts.

semicolon between "band" and "at"

argh, bad eyes. twas already there.

Gerry Casale has said that Alan Myers was right to quit when he did.

re Total Devo, I think I read somewhere that the bottom of David Kendricks's face was obscured by Bob #2's shirt on the original version of the photo used for the cover, so they photoshopped in the chin from another picture of Kendrick, hence why he looks somewhat odd here

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Tlo6zR0mL.jpg

but this promo photo also has the weird looking divide between his chin and the rest of his face- did they photoshop that photo as well (or do something with makeup to make it looked photoshopped) for a joke?

http://www.devo-obsesso.com/images/photos/promo/total_coverpose-premier.jpg

also, what is going on with these pictures from the album insert? that's David Kendrick's silhouette behind Jerry right?:

http://www.oldhandbills.com/images/060729/Total_Devo-Enigma_Records.jpg

I do kinda like Total Devo, though obv it's a long way from their best. Smooth Noodle Maps is better imo, develops some of that electronic 60s flower power music vibe that frogbs identified in Shout

Does Orbital's The Middle of Nowhere count for this?