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General Category => New Model Army => Topic started by: wrbones on November 27, 2013, 11:21:44 PM
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Which NMA albums don't work for you? I have a few:
Love of Hopeless Causes - it's not terrible, it just doesn't grab me the way the previous three albums do
Carnival - I try and try to get into this but it just doesn't work for me
Eight - I've not had this album long but again, I really can't get into it at all There is not one song on it that grabs me
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Ha! Probably 3 of my all-time favourites right there.
Just goes to show.
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I go through phases with all my music.
I did struggle with Love of Hopeless Causes I think it's the one I listen to the least.
Here Comes The War is the stand out track on the album in my opinion.
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The first 4 songs on LOHC is possibly my favourite sequence of songs on any NMA album.
My only complaint would be that the album would have benefitted from the inclusion of the original versions of Knife and Drummy B.
Strange Brotherhood was my least favourite for a ages but I've really warmed to it in recent years.
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dare i say the first two albums!
although i do still really like the songs - the price, vengeance, the attack & better than them
i did like them a long while ago, but for the last 5-10 years these ones just get left of the play list apart from the 4 songs above, these were the only songs i ripped into mp3's
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The album I play least is No Rest. It has some great great songs, Better than them, No greater Love and the title track being stand outs, but as a whole I find it patchy. When LOHC came out, I didn't warm to it for years either. I thought it didn't have the variety of sonic texture of the previous two albums. I was expecting something different. love it now though.
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love of hopeless causes is a work of absolute perfection with eight being very close too, i agree about carnival but its still in my top 50 albums of all time! ...nice thread i like the passion!
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No Rest is probably my least favourite as well, despite a few classics on there...
I've posted before on other threads about how TLOHC isn't a fave of mine... IMO, if they'd put Modern Times, Drummy B and Ghost Of Your Father on there, it would have been so much better, but we could argue about that until the end of time... ;)
Carnival is also not one of my favourites although, ironically, it has two of my very favourite NMA songs ever in Fireworks Night and Too Close To The Sun...
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To me it's so difficult to put it in a mode "which is the least"... And I won't. On the other hand the albums that I think deserves the most honourable seats there are possibly:
No Rest
WC ep
T&C
B-Sides
All of This (the Live Rarities)
High
No Rest for example: unbelievably ultimate hits here, containing unbreakable, authentic and raw passion. Same with The Live Rarities songs from No Rest where it's possible to get a clear hint about what it was in the days then. Love it! Hell, just check at the -85 Marquee gig from the 30th anniversary DVD and watch at JS on Better than Them or No Greater Love. I often wonder is it the same world where I was living as a young boy.
I've listened a lot of Vengeance era back in the days. Maybe even too much because I can remember most of its lyrics. I'd also like to enjoy about things they do right now - to feel it, understand it - and not just try to remember the old times only. It wouldn't be nice to wake too late how old we are and where did everything go.
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mmm......... difficult to say which albums are least favourite. I tend to chuck them all in one big pot and kinda have a NMA jukebox if you see what I mean. Diving in and out of albums (except when a new one is out and it goes on heavy rotation for a while) and often I end up in a "mood" themed playlist that zig zags all over the 30 odd years catalogue. Maybe I should revisit that sometime and listen through albums from start to finish.
On balance though I guess like Toronto the first 2 are the least listened to. For me it's that there's less songs on those records that regularly crop up in a playlist. Maybe thats not really surprising because a lot of the time I listen to songs to hear an expression of emotion, feeling or whatever that matches where I'm at in that moment (mind you alot of the time I listen just so I can have a dance and sing at loud volume as my poor neighbours would doubtless testify :-[) and those albums were a long time ago, perhaps a bit more "youthful" in feel? And I'm many things - but Youthful ain't one of 'em! I wonder if listening to them would make me feel young again? ;D
Well it's friday evening, work's done for the week, bit of bassist's inspiration and it appears the waffle switch has been turned on.
Good weekend y'all.
:-*
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T&C, High and TIAGD would be the ones I listen to least often. Does that make them my least favourite? It's pretty hard to say.
Carnival & LOHC get the most listens. Does that make them my favourites? Yep, I think it does.
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My only complaint would be that the album would have benefitted from the inclusion of the original versions of Knife and Drummy B.
In 1991 when we did 2 successive nights at the Queen's Hall in Bradford, the band played Knife. We were lucky enough to share a cuppa with Ed in a hotel. He asked us which of the 'new' songs we'd like to see on the forthcoming album. I said 'Knife' and he nodded approvingly......just goes to show what little sway I had ;) ;) I was made up when it resurfaced on Lost Songs. It's still one of my fave tracks.
Back on topic, the album I play least is Strange Brotherhood but I still love it to bits and had it on this morning, much to the irritation of the lady sat next to me on the bus ;D ;D
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Which NMA albums don't work for you? I have a few:
Love of Hopeless Causes - it's not terrible, it just doesn't grab me the way the previous three albums do
Carnival - I try and try to get into this but it just doesn't work for me
Eight - I've not had this album long but again, I really can't get into it at all There is not one song on it that grabs me
No song on EIGHT that grabs you???
"you weren't there"
"Orange tree trails"
"snelsmore wood"
"someone like Jesus"
All grab me by the throat great stuff
Each to his own I suppose 👍
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What an odd thread
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What an odd thread
I agree. May have been better if it were balanced out with, your three least favourite, and your three most favourite :o
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What an odd thread
I agree. May have been better if it were balanced out with, your three least favourite, and your three most favourite :o
i think this is interesting, there are endless posts about favourite albums. song, gigs & on and on. so i personally think this thread just balances out the forum. also, in order to get to know people fully you need to find out their dislikes as well as their likes.
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I agree - if it was worded "worst album" I think it'd be a different matter. "Least favourite" implies just that - it's still amongst yer faves. I doubt any of us like all NMA albums exactly the same. Doesn't mean we don't love 'em all with a passion. 8)
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For me it's Strange Brotherhood, I just can't get into it and have a problem with NMA + brass thing...
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Carnival, at least is the album I hardly never hear.
so it should be the "least favourite" one......
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I guess it's Strange Brotherhood for me. The best thing about your "least favorite" NMA album is that more than likely there are tracks on that album that are among your favorites. WWTG, Over The Wire, Killing and Long Goodbye are never, ever skipped, and honestly, the other ones are also excellent. As a whole though, it's my least listened to.
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I agree - if it was worded "worst album" I think it'd be a different matter. "Least favourite" implies just that - it's still amongst yer faves. I doubt any of us like all NMA albums exactly the same. Doesn't mean we don't love 'em all with a passion. 8)
OK, fair point. I could only really pick two based on I play the two the least, and on both, tend to skip a song or two. They are,,, - Love of Hopeless Causes, and ,, Carnival.
Both still have some great songs on that I like.
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Compared to other bands we are blessed and spoiled in equal measure, there are no bad NMA albums, period, I prefer ring now to focus on the ones I like the most - but at the moment, as that may change by next week. Let's face it you turned up to see the band play anywhere and they playedthe most obscure of the 220 odd tracks would you be unhaopy? I'd be ecstatic they played some unusual stuff... My least face NMA album is the one I just played to death for the umpteenth time and have just swapped for another of the old treasures
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At the risk of committing heresy, the album I listen to the least these days is Thunder & Consolation....
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As far as I am concerned and as I stated in another post ALL new model army s albums grew in me listening after listening. even those I did not like that much in the beginning I ended up loving them. Love of Hopeless causes was one of those for ex or Lost songs (some songs). Carnival on the contrary was su amazing from the beginning. I think anyway this has been true for me for almost all the albums but NOT the recennt ones may be because they were more kinda rock band in a room with choruses and lyrics one can shout at gigs going crazy like Water, High, Today is a good day etc. This last one for ex really rocks. Nothing to do with Eight for example really something different. And sure the last one which is very diferent from the last 2 (fortunately) but asbolutely stunning.
Simon
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No song on EIGHT that grabs you???
"you weren't there"
"Orange tree trails"
"snelsmore wood"
"someone like Jesus"
All grab me by the throat great stuff
Each to his own I suppose
I agree that all these songs are awesome, i also add "leeds road 3am", beautiful, and overall beautiful album.
My least favorite NMA albums are "Carnival", "Strange brotherhood" and "Today is a good day", even if i think they are uneven albums there are still very good songs on them ( "BD3", "Red earth", "another imperial day", "fireworks night", "WWTG", "Aimless desire", "Headlights", "Long goodbye", "Peace is only", "States radio", "Disappeared", "North star"..)
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This will not be popular but "No Rest for the Wicked" but i don't dislike it. it just does the least out of any NMA album for me. Certain tracks like "No Greater Love" and "The attack" are an exception.
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"Carnival" is the NMA album I play the least, but that could change. It's funny to read the various posts on how certain albums grow on people, but that happened with me on "Eight". I didn't really play it much untill my wife and I were at a volleyball tournement and had long drives to and from the school. I decided(why? I don't know) to bring it in the car and we both loved it. Played it over and over that weekend and now I love it, except for the frist song.
carnival is next up for a fresh listen.
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There are plenty of "favourite" threads, that's why I thought this might be an interesting topic of discussion. As an aside, I've just realised that every time I feel motivated to come here and talk about NMA, I have TIAGD on the stereo.
mmm......... difficult to say which albums are least favourite. I tend to chuck them all in one big pot and kinda have a NMA jukebox if you see what I mean.
I just can't do that. I listen to albums, or full releases, exclusively because I know first-hand how much effort goes into choosing tracks and song orders. To me the album is the art, the songs are just components. That's why I could spend endless hours creating lists of favourite albums but couldn't list any of my favourite songs to save my life.
All that makes it easy to pick favourites because I have to want to listen to it from beginning to end or I won't listen to it at all.
No song on EIGHT that grabs you???
"you weren't there"
"Orange tree trails"
"snelsmore wood"
"someone like Jesus"
All grab me by the throat great stuff
Each to his own I suppose 👍
No, they do nothing for me. After sifting through these forum I have made an effort to listen to those songs in particular but they just wash over me.
It is interesting, though, because there definitely seem to be two kinds of fans because, here and elsewhere, I notice that their are fans like you, who like all the stuff I don't, and those that tend to like the same things I do. It is very different to, say, the Killing Joke forum where the range of opinions seems far more diverse. Maybe that's because KJ have gone through a lot of phases - they are definitely my favourite band of all-time but they have made some terrible records, whereas NMA have been amazingly consistent over a great span of years.
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There really is such a diversity of feeling on this subject. Just the same a there is on "favourite album"
As I said before I go through phases and even the albums that I know I don't "love" I will listen to and enjoy them. Someone else said that even though you may not love a whole album there are always a few brilliant songs on there.
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I'm not keen on the first 53 seconds of the song "Brother". the rest of it however, is fuckin magic :D ;)
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The first 4 songs on LOHC is possibly my favourite sequence of songs on any NMA album.
Strange Brotherhood was my least favourite for a ages but I've really warmed to it in recent years.
I agree with this opinion 80%!! :)
The first 4 songs on LOHC are a great first half of album, for sure...i very often listened to this album these last months.
Also "Strange brotherhood"...didn't like it too much twenty years ago but now it has also a bit grown on me, at least i really like some songs of it (the underrated "Headlights", "Wonderful way to go" of course, "Aimless desire", "No pain", "Killing", "Lullaby"..)
The album i like the least, maybe "Winter" despite a few songs i like ("Born feral", "Strogoula", "burn the castle", "Winter"..) , it has an air of déjà vu at times, a B Sides feel...even if Justin is still the King!