Hibees bounce Top albums - The Countdown

[Doc Shrink]

Anyone else getting 502 Bad Gateway message? Or just me.

 

[Two Headed Boy]

5 albums on the trot that I have owned a physical copy of at some point there @Two Headed Boy - we're getting to the good stuff now

The expected classics are becoming more abundant from here on. There are still a few leftfield selections and compilations to come though.

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Anyone else getting 502 Bad Gateway message? Or just me.

With the Spotify links?

They seem to be working fine for me.

 

[1875]

Anyone else getting 502 Bad Gateway message? Or just me.

Me, but only on The Stranger by Billy Joel

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Anyone here go to spiritualists? Just in case i croak it before we reach the top 10.

Can you pass me the result?

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Anyone here go to spiritualists? Just in case i croak it before we reach the top 10.

Can you pass me the result?

155 to go
5 tomorrow
20 per week thereafter
7.5 weeks...

Even if I take the Christmas week off, are you planning on croaking it by mid January?

Condolences if so.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

155 to go
5 tomorrow
20 per week thereafter
7.5 weeks...

Even if I take the Christmas week off, are you planning in croaking it by mid January?

Condolences if so.

Maybe the Hibees will hit a purple patch over the festive season and the excitement might be too much.

Agreed that is a bit like the bucket of shite from China. Far fetched.

But.......

 

[Doc Shrink]

With the Spotify links?

They seem to be working fine for me.

Just on my iphone. Now getting "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers . reset reason: connection termination"

I should have guessed.

 

[EH17 Jimmy]

Just on my iphone. Now getting "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers . reset reason: connection termination"

I should have guessed.

Doc
Goes without saying that was the problem mate.

Ps if anyone lives near the Abbey Buffet the WiFi password is highlandpark)

 

[Purple & Green]

Me, but only on The Stranger by Billy Joel

It’s doing you a favour

 

[HaarlemShuffler]

Anyone else getting 502 Bad Gateway message? Or just me.

I think that's just the address to send complaints to? In LA probably

 

[Braehead Cabbage]

#157 - Toxicity - System of a Down

Toxicity is the second studio album by Armenian-American alternative metal band System of a Down.

Toxicity features elements of multiple genres, including folk, progressive rock, jazz, and Armenian and Greek music, including prominent use of instruments like the sitar, banjo, keyboards, and piano. It contains a wide array of weighty themes, such as mass incarceration, the CIA, the environment, police brutality, drug addiction and scientific reductionism.

Critic Reviews:

"Toxicity, is a perfect balance between gorgeous growling guitars, schizoid bellows and adrenaline-inducing sick beats."

"Toxicity is heavy, making abundant use of the juiciest guitar distortion in its class thanks to the density of Rick Rubin’s production. But more importantly, the album is restless, bounding from one idea to another before the first can sink in."

Chop suey is an absolute classic.

 

[Two Headed Boy]

Chop suey is an absolute classic.

It's is a banger.

So little of that nu-metal stuff has stood the test of time (for me anyway) but SOAD are definitely an exception to that rule.

 

[moathibby]

Anyone else getting 502 Bad Gateway message? Or just me.

I got it also.

 

[moathibby]

Is this the one?

 

[Two Headed Boy]

#155 - Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys

Favourite Worst Nightmare is the second studio album by English indie-rock band Arctic Monkeys.

In comparison to the band's debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, the album is considered more ambitious, with ambient sounds and expanded drum rhythms being introduced. Like Arctic Monkey's debut, Favourite Worst Nightmare was a widespread critical success, with critics highlighting the band's new emotional depth and Turner's matured songwriting.

Critic Reviews:

"Far from crumbling under the pressure, the Arctic Monkeys have turned Growing Up In Public to their advantage."

"Sure, Arctic Monkeys may no longer belong to their old world of kids wearing “knackered Converse,” drinking underage, and getting accosted by bouncers, but they’re still too boldly tuneful not to find yourself rooting for them."

 

[Two Headed Boy]

#154 - S&M 2 - Metallica

S&M2 is a live album by American heavy metal band Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony. It is a follow-up to S&M, a live collaborative album released in 1999. Like S&M, the album was recorded during a live performance.

Critics generally praised the album as a worthy successor of S&M.

Critic Reviews:

"It is a poignant tribute to Burton, but also a “classical” reimagining of Metallica’s music that goes beyond the most obvious possibilities of what such a fusion might mean."

"S&M2 stands as a tribute both to Metallica’s growing confidence as players and composers, and an absolute vindication of their decision to revisit one of their most inspired creative outings. Within our world, they remain utterly fearless and inarguably peerless."

 

[Two Headed Boy]

#153 - Straight Shooter - Bad Co.

Straight Shooter is the second studio album by the English hard rock supergroup Bad Company.

Recorded just three months after their debut, Bad Company's Straight Shooter was another rocking ride through the band’s staple themes of gambling, whiskey and women.

Critic Reviews:

"The entire thing feels bigger and bolder than before."

"Forsaking the constant thunder-thudding drone motif of ’74 in favour of a more textured approach, the group uses subdued acoustic guitar and tight vocal harmonies during most of the verses, saving the harsh electrical shocks for the head-slamming choruses."

 

[Two Headed Boy]

#152 - The Wall - Pink Floyd

The Wall is the eleventh studio album by the English progressive rock band Pink Floyd and is one of the best-known "concept albums".

It initially received mixed reviews from critics, many of whom found it overblown and pretentious, but later received accolades as one of the greatest albums of all time and one of the band's finest works.

Critic Reviews:

"Longtime Pink Floyd fans will find the requisite number of bone-crushing riffs and Saturn-bound guitar screams."

"This album will either be praised or damned. It’s a strong, frightening statement that shows why the Floyd never were – yes, and are still not – redundant, in spite of their wealth and success, because they still question themselves and the world around them."

 

[Two Headed Boy]

#151 - Band on The Run - Wings

Band on the Run is the third studio album by the British–American rock band Paul McCartney and Wings.

Although sales were modest initially, its commercial performance was aided by two hit singles – "Jet" and "Band on the Run" – such that it became the top-selling studio album of 1974 in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Critic Reviews:

"Paul McCartney finally hits on all cylinders in his post-Beatles career with Band on the Run."

"McCartney's penchant for sophisticated, nuanced arrangements and irrepressibly catchy melodic hooks is up to the caliber he displayed in the Beatles, far surpassing the first two Wings releases."