I don't know how big this was in the States but growing up in England I had heard and loved most of these before actually deciding to listen to it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Ineffectual.
Manc lads making life affirming effortlessly cool tunes in the UK dance/ecstasy fulled ‘2nd summer of love’ here didn’t translate at all over the pond. They didn’t have a clue.
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Album Rating: 4.0
It’s another case of music is born of culture and circumstance.
It’s all completely incomparable to the blob of ineffectual mass created ‘nothingness’ of today which only succeeds in reinforcing a overbearing cultural emptiness.
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I mean, you are also just older bro. Completely different feelings to when this was first out
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I think it's over for good. Though you never quite know with them - fingers crossed
nah i think it's really over. they're pretty damn old and it'd look a bit silly if they came back again, although they could pull it off if they low-key work on the album and lead with that instead of reunion shows. but theres also the factor of apparent bad blood between ian and john, according to the new interview with john where he confirmed the split
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Album Rating: 4.0
It’s before my time mate. I can remember Happy Monday’s the most from that era they just stuck out from the rest.
This album carried with it a sense of aura and acclaim that still resonated massively into the early to mid ‘90s and therefore encompassed my teen years during which I used to listen to this all the time.
This really is the one album that I don’t know why I haven’t rated higher than I have.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Yea, makes sense. I've always felt John being more of an introvert would struggle with Ian's strong personality, especially now they're older. Less tolerance for others.
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Manc lads making life affirming effortlessly cool tunes in the UK dance/ecstasy fulled ‘2nd summer of love’ here didn’t translate at all over the pond.
im from australia and was not even close to born yet during the band's initial run but i feel a really strong resonance with this group, similar to the sociocultural aspects of my love of oasis. the "lads making life affirming tunes" part of yr statement is the essence of it for me, for both bands. theres an incredible optimism to them that i theorise (without any strong basis, but what the hell) hits hard with ppl who feel bound to social shackles, cuz these guys coulda been yr next door neighbour in the same slog as everyone else but they found a path to freedom thru music. that sounds like imposing meaning onto the music but i think its there in the tunes as well: a distinct sense of personality in the sound of the bands, like even if you knew nothing about their background you could tell it's made by normal dudes with no highbrow art school pretension (some pretension, but not that kind).
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Album Rating: 4.0
I’ve said it before and I'll say it again Brits and Aussies are one and the same ‘people’ in terms of humour, regard for certain things and disregard in others.
Yanks are all round just a bit weird god love ‘em.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Proper album made by proper people
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proper
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Album Rating: 4.0
Living life alone you live in hooe and if there’s a song to be recorded that gives more hope and a realisation that life is to be cherished and lived than I am the Resurrection I’ve yet to hear it.
Proper fucking record with proper magic
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still haven't heard this one whoops [2]
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Album Rating: 5.0
shame !!!!!!!!!!!
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Will probably get flamed for this but this album has always seemed like the kind of thing that was huge and influential at the time but that no one actually really listens to these days. Like it has a very high average here, is in the top 200 on RYM but I never really see this in people’s all time lists. Maybe just because they only have the two albums so they don’t necessarily rank among people’s top overall artists?
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I think that's partially because they were huge with an audience who, broadly speaking, are just slightly too old to be very internet-savvy. Also feels like they were just barely not-big-enough to be canonized the way Oasis or Nirvana have been.
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whoops
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Album Rating: 5.0
Well, I'm 22, and it is on my all-time favorites list. Never gets old for me, it really is a fun and superb album, and one that I listen a lot.
Dude, c'mon, just listen to it.
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No yeah Boney you should check this out, I really enjoyed it and from everything I've seen we have extremely similar taste in alt-rock
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That’s a fair point Kompys. I just find it interesting that this is held in such high esteem but doesn’t have the same internet fame as contemporaries like idk, REM or The Smiths. Like I said, maybe it’s the fact that they were a one-album wonder (I know there’s a second album but it seems few care about that one) that prevented them from being quite as much of a favorite. I guess I just never felt like bumping it to the top of my check-list because it seemed like more of an artifact than something continually relevant.
I will listen someday, maybe even soon following this convo.
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