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I name a record and choose an adjective.

Somebody (Poster 1) who knows it gets in quick with a review of that record - very short, obviously, 10-20 words or so, but it MUST FEATURE THAT ADJECTIVE - and then names another record, and provides an adjective of their own for the next person (Person 2).

Person 2 then reviews Person 1's record using their adjective, names a record, chooses an adjective, and so on.

So, to start off, nice and easy:

Record: MICHAEL JACKSON - Thriller.

Adjective: STICKY

Go for it! (I wonder if this will remotely work....)

― Tom, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Perhaps the greatest record ever made my a man who would immediately apologise for it's supposed approval of the occult.

Sticky record; Scott Walker, 'it's raining today'

Adjective; contained.

― matthew hanes, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Reviewing Michael Jackson's epochal "Thriller" is a bit sticky; on the one hand it's one of the best selling albums of all time, and one of no small amount of studio perfection. On the other, it's crap.

Artist - Miles Davis, Kind of Blue Adj. - Loose

― Jess, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

[ADMIN INTRUDER: Matthew has fallen victim to my changing the rules seconds after posting as I realised it would be cooler this way. Sorry Matthew!]

― Tom, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have only a loose understanding of what is going on on Kind of Blue. The fact is, I have never heard it.

Record: U2, The Unforgettable Fire. Adjective: national.

― the pinefox, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If, as Bono no doubt desires, we ever adopt the well-meant but disastrous "Pride (In The Name of Love)" as the American national anthem, I will emigrate.

Album: Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
adjective: friendly

― Ian White, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A friendly woman of my acquaintance once listened to nothing but Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures for 48 hours straight; she then killed herself.

album: Prince, Sign 'o' the Times

adjective: grainy

― M. Matos, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grainy newspaper reports of a shuttle turned fireball, or Prince's scared funk requiem? I know which I'd choose.

Album: Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

Adjective: Wacky

― Tom, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols has become an album for kids with wacky pink dog collars from Delia's trying to shock someone, anyone.

― Lyra, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oops! I forgot something. Record: Jesus Christ Superstar
album: repressed

― Lyra, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My feelings for _Jesus Christ Superstar_ were repressed soon after I learned that most of the folks I know fucking LOVE Andrew Lloyd Webber.

RECORD: Method Man - _Tical_ / ADJECTIVE: Skunky

― David Raposa, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(Is skunky a word that people actually use, or is it something that was made up for that beer commercial? Nevertheless...)

What the blood clot? Tical is so classic it doesn't need a review, but don't lose your copy because it's woefully out of print due to Russell Simmons and the other skunky execs at Def Jam.

Album--Low Long Division Adj.--Jaunty

― Miranda, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Method man's ucanny flow and spot-on choices for beats makes this one an instant classic. His skunky weed likely played no small part in this.

Radiohead Ok computer word - benign

― scott, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Low's "Long Division": jaunty it ain't.

Otis Redding, "Live at The Whiskey A Go Go."; Adj.: moribund.

― Jess, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The electrifying Otis Redding tears through his hits in powerhouse live versions. Get off your moribund ass and buy this record!

The Doors, "Waiting for the Sun", Modest

― Sean, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Doors' Waiting for the Sun is the biggest influence on Modest Mouse's forthcoming Whining Demos I Discovered Under the Cat Litter Box Last Weekend, their long-awaited 4CD box set.

album: Thelonious Monk, Misterioso
adjective: caucasoid

― M. Matos, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

It's a little known fact that Thelonious Monk's "Mysterioso" was originally to be titled "Caucasoid Steel In The Hour of Chaos," until the NAACP stepped in. He was an odd man.

Tarwater, "Silur", Adj.: acrimonious.

― Jess, Wednesday, 15 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Tarwater, formed after the acrimonious split of key members of Kreidler and To Rococo Rot, are, on their masterpiece 'Silur', the bee's knees. Which is probably why, on their next album, all the ants left Paris.

Record: Takako Minekawa - Maxi On. Adjective: Rococo.

― Momus, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He is too raw and sprawling to be called rococo. Like a mythic and overgrown gardens.
Eliza Mcarthy-Cigaretes and angels Butch

― anthony, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thats Carthy - of course and i think i mispelled cigarettes.

― anthony, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

A mistake to allow Butch Vig to produce Eliza's major-label debut?

Record: David Sylvian's "Secrets of the Beehive" Adjective: Soggy

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Secrets of the Beehive' - Not as 'soggy' as 'Rain Tree Crow' but not as 'snappy' as 'Gentlemen Take Polaroids'

Record:Slayer, 'Reign in Blood'

Adjective - 'neo-realist'

― dave q, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ironically, Slayer's Reign In Blood LP was condemned for its excesses by the very 'neo-realist' critics who had so offended the establishment for their 'amoral' approach to narrative in the 1950s.

Record: The Lilies, 'And David Seaman Will Be Very Disappointed With That'. Adjective: '[absolutely] brilliant'.

― the pinefox, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I have vivid memories of the FA Cup semi-final of 1991 that inspired the record Reynard recalls (wasn't there a Lush connection?). I have, however, never heard it.

Predictably, my favourite record of 1991 is My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless".

Adjective: VAST.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Glad that I am that someone has taken up PF's impossible challenge, you haven't played by the rules Robin, you rebel you. Where is the word 'brilliant'?

I offer my own alternative.

Pinefox, you must be out of your brilliant mind.

And now back to Robin's album and adjective.

― Tom, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Vast clumps of hair obscure most of Kevin's face as he props a sneaker on my hotel room bureau and begins lisping somnambulently about his band's new record, "Loveless".

Soundgarden, "Superunkown", "two-steppy".

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

While hailed as a grunge revival of metal, Soundgarden's "Superunknown" abandoned the two-steppy rhythms of hardcore punk and opted for epic angst-scapes of the stadium rock variety.

Record: "Fill Me In" by Craig David. Adjective: "mellifluous".

― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On "Fill Me In," Craig David's voice has drifted from mellifluous to melisma-bleat, perfect for the pixie stick sweetness of post- swingbeat Amurrican arr n bee.

Omni Trio, "Renegade Snares"; mushy

― Jess, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

You'd have to have pretty mushy brains not to have your synapses smacked around good by Omni Trio's drum & bass masterwork, "Renegade Snares."

album: Basement Jaxx, Rooty
adjective: stainless

― M. Matos, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On Rooty, the Jaxx boys' reputation for whacking out fun songs to dance to remains stainless, tho their identity is still hard to pin down: each song could have come from a different era in a parallel universe where house music ruled the charts since the mid-70s.

At the Drive-In, "Relationship of Command"; "cowardly"

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Getting into a city inside a wooden horse always seemed quite cowardly to me or at least a bit sneaky, that's what appears to be depicted on ATDI's album cover. They don't really sound like Rage Against The Machine. I like the bass.

Weezer "Green album", "dastardly"

― jel, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On the 'Green Album' Rivers Cuomo totally gives up trying to write anything new and exciting that Pinkerton was alluding to and dastardly makes the ol' straight ahead Weezer record all the 16 year olds that just got into emo wanted. What a pud wack.

Fantomas - The Directors Cut Adj - metaphysical

― chaki, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Metal's most lovable sociopath, Mike Patton, makes like a less- metaphysical-Naked-City-on-a-Slayer-binge with Fantomas' excellent "The Director's Cut."

― Jess, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoops.

Gang of Four, "Entertainment"; hereditary.

― Jess, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Is listening to Gang of Four's Entertainment! a hereditary problem or an environmental one? Film at 11.

album: Oi! the Album
adj: slow

― M. Matos, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The shorn slow coaches who populate "Oi! The Album" want you to know they aren't just right-wing ultra-nationalists...they have feelings too.

Debbie Gibson, "Electric Youth"; foggy

― Jess, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My recollection of listening to anything done by Debbie Gibson at the time of release is foggy -- I was much more fond of Tiffany.

Album: Fugazi: 13 Songs

Adj: Rusty.

― JM, Thursday, 16 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'13 Songs' - in which Ian Mackaye, whose brand of punk involves taking 'No Fun' as a mission statement, disproves Neil Young by burning out and being rusty at the same time.

Record:Scorpions, 'Virgin Killer'
Adjective: 'viscous'

― dave q, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

On 'Virgin Killer' the Scorpions finally revealed themselves for the viscous bastards they really are.

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Record: Bruce Willis, The Return of Bruno. Adjective: Solemn.

― the pinefox, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

bruce willis seems to have two major personas, the solemn blank-faced action hero of shit like armageddon and the entertainer who does shit like record an album of songs called 'the return of bruno'. he sure was funny in 'death becomes her' though.

record: nas - illmatic

adjective: worst

― ethan, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Given that Illmatic proved Nas to be a master chronicler of inner city struggle, who would've though that, in Nastradamus, the rapper be responsible for one of the worst albums in hip-hop history?

Album: Derrick May, "Innovator" Adjective: tiring

― JoB, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Derrick May's "Innovator" is tiring.

Album: Duran Duran - Decade

Adjective: Lithe

― Tom, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

(NB sorry for super-rubbish review but it is what I actually think too, so there.)

― Tom, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

litehly skipping across their insipid version of perfect day, duran duran leads me in a strange way to: SOngs about fucking - big black adjective: melifluous

― Geoff, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Being the second time I've had to come up with a use for the word melifluous in as many days, I'm looking forward to spinning "Songs About Fucking" later and jamming a q-tip into my nose repeatedly.

Dr. Octagon, "Dr. Octagonecologyst"; snappy.

― Jess, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Snappy vaginas and elastic penises are abound! Everyone should own Dr. Octagon, "Dr. Octagonecologyst" ! Kool Keith truly is the 'Black Elvis' !

Fishbone 'The Reality of my Surroundings' "White"

― chaki, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I don't know about _Reality of My Surroundings_ at all, but the fact that it was followed by the grunge-happy turd-fest that is _Give a Monkey..._ makes my white hairs give up the ghost and fall out in large clumps.

(Damn, that is a CRAP sentence.)

NEXT: Natalie Merchant - _Carnival_ / CRUNCHY

― David Raposa, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Carnival" was a frequent spin in the pretentious bakery where I worked in college, beloved of urbane scum who enjoyed crunchy snack treats. I suffered a nervous breakdown later that year. Coincidence?

Mouse On Mars, "Autoditacker"; short.

― Jess, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In short, fucking great.

The Telescopes- "Taste". Agricultural.

― emil.y, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Telescopes taste agricultural to me, business school-like to my best friend, and liberal artsy to my younger sisters.

album: Another Side of Bob Dylan
adjective: medieval

― M. Matos, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

'Ballad In Plain D', on a side of Bob Dylan's Another Side Of Bob Dylan, is full of fruity archaisms which seem to strive to give the impression of medieval poetry.

Record: T'Pau, Bridge of Spies. Adjective: Comic.

― the pinefox, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I almost bought T'Pau's Bridge Of Spies for 20p from the Music And Video Exchange. But instead I spent the money on a comic.

Album: Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me

Adjective: Greasy

― Tom, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If T'Pau was supposedly the name of a Vulcan than why have I never seen any mention of him in my Star Trek comic collection - whoops, that's even worse than admitting to owning this record

Record:'Ballads of the Green Berets' by Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler
Adjective: centrifugal

― dave q, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In a hand to hand battle between Roots Manuva and Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler, centrifugal force might decide the outcome. But I'd probably still ask Roots to run come save me from Barry's greasy pomade hair.

― Jess, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Whoops...

The Flaming Lips, "The Soft Bulletin"; dangerous.

― Jess, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

the soft bulletin must posess some dangerous shapechanging abilities because when it came out i heard it at my friend's house and liked it, but when i borrowed it and took it home and listened to it i thought it was terrible. it should be destroyed.

record: deltron 3030

adjective: racial

― ethan, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Deltron 3030 is less about racial overtones of afro-futurism than humanist madness booming out on the subwoofer.

Artist: Ludacris and Nate Dogg. Track: Area Codes.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ludacris is a sterling example of the rapper who can do no wrong. The slower funk groove of "Area Codes" is the sonic equivalent of rolling in soft clover after bushwacking the tangled-thicket jungle of "What's Your Fantasy?"

Song: Patti Smith, "Land"
Adjective: French

― Ian White, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Patti always wanted to be French. Are people named Johnny there? No matter, there are lots of poets there who write about burning. And for now, Patti's on fire.

Track: Elvis Costello, "I Want You". Adjective: ebullient.

― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I wouldn't recognise that song if I heard it, but Costello himself is too ebullient for me.

Record: Saint Etienne, "Foxbase Alpha".

Adjective: welcoming.

― Robin Carmody, Saturday, 18 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

If Sarah Cracknell sounded any more welcoming than the average Railtrack call-centre operative then it wouldn't be Pop, so gauge where this item fits into your listening habits accordingly.

Record: Sammy Hagar, 'Cruisin' and Boozin'
Adjective: gnomic

― dave q, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Cruisin'..." was the record with which Hagar finally attempted to leave behind cruel comparisons with the Viking character from a feeble 80s cartoon-strip in The Sun, but failed - chiefly due to the gnomic title track.

Record: Robin Hall and Jimmy MacGregor - "Two Heids Are Better Than Yin"

Adjective: Queer.

― Michael Jones, Sunday, 19 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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