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Please feel free to rubbish my favorite 3 albums of all time (well at the moment, at least).
1. Van Morrison-Astral Weeks
2. Cocteau Twins-Treasure
3. tricky-Maxinquaye

Dont hold Back.

― Russell Dixon (Skinny), Friday, 7 May 2004 10:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Maxinquaye cannot be faulted. i haven't heard the other two but i'm sure 'Treasure' is fantastic also.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

maxinquaye is one of the best records ever made

i haven't listened to treasure in years

astral weeks is unconscionable

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't heard any of these. Just thought I'd take up space on the board while I'm here at work. Ignore me. Yep.

Yeppers.

Uh-huh.

Bye.

― dog latin (dog latin), Friday, 7 May 2004 11:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I wouldn't even scrape dog feces off my shoe with a copy of Astral Weeks, but the other two are complete keepers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Maxinquaye. My frustration with Tricky today is inversely proportional to how awesome that record is.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Treasure is the weakest of the 3, despite having some of their greatest peaks.

when it was released, as a huge fan of Garlands and Head Over Heels, I gave it a full-attention headphones christening:

"Ivo" started things off great, but then it wasn't until the gorgeous "Pandora" that I felt like they'd kept up the standard. many fans often cite "Persephone" & "Lorelei" (which I reckon gets its scat-a-long end idea from my 2nd fave Scott Walker song "The World's Strongest Man") as faves, but not for me...

Side 2 is more consistent, with only "Donimo" letting the side down (sorry:) - one of their weaker end tracks (nowhere near a match for "Musette & Drums"!). "Aloysius" is sun-blissed delicious and "Otterley" is the best thing they ever did ("Feet-Like Fins" ORIGINAL! comes close).

still, I commend you on your Top 3 !

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never listened to Astral Weeks all the way through, but I figure there's a good reason Van Morrison albums (that one being the exception, apparently) are greeted with global indifference.

I wouldn't listen to Cocteau Twins on a dare.

Maxinquaye is mildly diverting, but the only Tricky album anybody really needs is Pre-Millennium Tension, which is fucking genius from first note to last. (Yes, even "Ghetto Youth." Especially "Ghetto Youth.")

― Phil Freeman (Phil Freeman), Friday, 7 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Maxinquaye cannot be faulted.

it IS one of the greatest records ever but it can be faulted - "you don't" is no good.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

first person i've ever encountered who prefers PMT to Maxinquaye (i like both)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 7 May 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it IS one of the greatest records ever but it can be faulted - "you don't" is no good.

You're absolutely stoned out of your mind. "You Don't" is my favorite track on the album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

you're a mentalist.

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You're a name-caller.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Astral Weeks is very good visionary weirdness made by a guy who was like 21 years old or something, but it's also depressing.

― Tim Ellison, Friday, 7 May 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"You Don't" is a personal fave also

& "Suffocated Love" alone would be enough to justify Maxinquaye
probably the biggest imbalance of tracklove I have on any classic album
that is - "Suffocated Love" is responsible for maybe 60% of my high rating for Maxinquaye
(yet I still find it a more consistent listen than Treasure)

― Paul (scifisoul), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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