Album Rating: 4.5

Send Away has never been my favorite but it's got some songs on it I absolutely love, like "Indian Summer" and "Second Great Depression"

But then it also has "Your Love Alone," can't win 'em all I guess!

Album Rating: 4.5

i love most of what they did from Gold Against the Soul to Lifeblood, and I do think Journal is a really strong record, but I haven't really listened to anything after that at all

Album Rating: 4.5

Actually I did try a little bit of Futurology a little after that came out but was put off by the production at the time. May try one of their post-Journal albums again sometime soon, it's really quite astounding that they're still around & have stayed as prolific as they have been

Album Rating: 2.0

Didn't the lead singer of this band go missing or die? Good riddance.

Album Rating: 5.0

slow down

Album Rating: 4.0

that bass on Archives of Pain is so gross, i love it.

It was the guitarist, not the singer.

Album Rating: 2.0

"Good riddance" hahahahagshhahahaa jesus christ

Album Rating: 5.0

"It was the guitarist, not the singer."



"Guitarist" is overstating it a bit. He didn't really play much of anything on their records (hell, not even in live shows most of the time either). I always just called him their lyricist... but it just so happens that those lyrics were incredibly crucial in developing the band's style and fanbase

Yeah, fair enough.

Album Rating: 5.0

In fact, I believe No Surface All Feeling and Scream to a Sigh are the only tracks he ever recorded guitar parts for

Album Rating: 5.0

Ye those are indeed the only studio performances of Richey

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah his role in the band was kind of odd, sort of a James/D'arcy of Smashing Pumpkins things where he didn't have much of a presence on the records but was a big part of their actual image & persona. A lyrical Bez or something

Album Rating: 4.0

lol.



Richey is the living embodiment of everything they stood for, the ethic that drove the band in the direction they went in. To be fair a bit like Bez.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, but to be fair, James and D'arcy had a much larger presence on the last few SP records they were on before the initial breakup. Sure, they had little to no presence on Gish or Siamese Dream (gotta love how much of a control freak Billy is), but starting with Mellon Collie, things became a lot more egalitarian as far as instrumental contributions go. Songwriting? Mostly still Billy of course... lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Whatever he did the Manics turned into the very ripest musical turd the minute he vamooshed

Album Rating: 5.0

Have you ever listened to a James Iha solo album



There’s a reason he was bitch owned by Billy in his day job

Album Rating: 4.0

That could be argued but was is irrefutable fact is American alt rock birds who play bass are the coolest people on the planet.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm picturing the metal chick bass player from White Zombie right now for some reason :D

Album Rating: 4.0

Are you getting a boner?