Dinko wrote:FormerLurker wrote:drew wrote:Thinking about this weird topic today.
ALL/Descendents- Live, One Plus One- Never bought it, never heard it. Is it good? Just an album that went past my radar.
ALL- Problematic. Diminishing returns made me give up on them, went back later for “Mass Nerder” which I love. Maybe I’ll check this out one day.
Don't bother. Save your $ and time.
No, bother! Personally, I think Problematic sounds much better than Mass Nerder, the guitars are grittier, it has a much nicer stereo width and a lot of good songs. I never understood the bad rep the album received when it was released (well, I guess MN benefitted a lot from coming out after Everything sucks...). And check out the live album, if only to listen to Chad and Karl trading/blending vocals on 'Cause, and how Educated Idiot seamlessly turns into Life on the Road and back.
I once made a combination CD/playlist of the best songs from
Mass Nerder and
Problematic that is way better than either album alone....
Nerdlematic.The
Live + 1 is okay, mostly interesting for the live versions of the
Sucks-era material on the Descendents disc... but honestly, I almost always just reach for
Liveage! ... can't remember the last time I listened to either disc, so I guess Randie is kinda right.
I guess my own contribution here is the Jesus and Mary Chain records after
Automatic as I mentioned on the thread i started about a week ago... been digging into the later records on the 'tubes and enjoying them a lot. I remember thinking back then that they were just too stagnant and one-dimensional, three-chord 60s Velvet Underground wannabe retreads... and there is still a lot of truth to that, but I appreciate their minimalist approach much more now than I did back in the 90s.