The Opposite Thread

Black Flag Damaged
The Beloved Happiness

Damaged is a raging, burning, hurtling ball of anguished self-loathing, xenophobia and disdain. Sharp, heavy, ragged, brutal, bloody, inconsolable.

Happiness, meanwhile, is a relentlessly giddy, sweet spoonfull of optimistic euphoria and contentment. Light, sunny, peppy, mellow, happy.

Released the same year.
Where the former is playful, innovative & funky.
The last is the archetypic bandwagon record.

"Turn around" while not being groundbreaking, will certainly in some 20 years time be considered a classic (even by hipsters).
The rest of the album, however, is just pure pants.
The most offensive thing about the album is that it sounds like they don't even enjoy the songs themselves, it's just filterhouse by the numbers.

Remedy - of course, is the complete opposite.
Enough have been written about that album already so I won't comment on it.

Radiohead - "In Rainbows"
Radiohead - "Pablo Honey"

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gigabytepicnic, which track do you prefer (and why)?: "Nude" or "Reckoner"

I think my reason for starting this was thinking that <i>Tilt</i> was a fast descent into hell whereas <i>Spirit Of Eden</i> was a slow ascent into heaven.

Geir Hongro
Someone who isn't racist

Deicide--Deicide
DC Talk--DC Talk

While both are self-titled, Deicide's debut existed to bring the power of Satan's might to our ears and bring down Christianity forever.

DC Talk's debut existed to bring the power of God to our ears and bring down Satan forever.

Deicide won.

Out of stuff I like:

GY!BE - Yanqui U.X.O.
Half Man Half Biscuit - any album

because although both contain songs despairing about the state of the modern world, the actual songs couldn't be much different. in the red corner, we have long, diffusive, progressive suites of instrumental guitar noise, and in the blue, we have lyrical, crunchy, concise post-punk snippets.

Joanna Newsome - Ys
AC - I Like it when you die