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SerenadeinLead
looking at the length of the tracklist u can expect it's a long ride already but after listening to it and seeing that it was 63 minutes long i thought dang that's a long ass album (especially for alternative rock with straightfoward songs)
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Cassandra-Leo
I can see a case that it's not as cohesive as their earlier albums - as the Allmusic review contends, Hart and Mould don't even sound like they're writing for the same band on this one. I don't agree that it's too long, though. I'd place this one in the same category as The White Album, Exile on Main St., and other similar rock double albums where the astounding stylistic diversity of the album is one of its greatest strengths. How many alternative rock albums have a sea shanty and a rockabilly song? Not enough, I'll contend. After Flip Your Wig, this is probably my favourite of their post-Zen Arcade work. And for the people criticising Hart's songs here, "She Floated Away" and "You Can Live at Home" in particular are two of the best songs he ever wrote.
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MisterJunior
I've come around to this one in the time since I posted my comment below. My thoughts about it are more in line with yours, in that the diversity is a plus rather than a weakness. I'm not sure why I was so hung up on/obsessed with Hüsker Dü only being a Punk band, either. The albums where they began to slow down a bit and incorporate other elements are great and prove conclusively that they were simply a great band regardless of the genre/style they were playing. I still gravitate toward Zen Arcade and consider it their best (and one of the best albums of the 80s/all time), but this one, Candy Apple Grey and especially Flip Your Wig are all excellent as well.
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Coolbutlame
This album functions on a track by track basis. No real cohesiveness like their best stuff. Still, the good stuff on here is good.
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MisterJunior
Too long. I ate to be that "could've made a great single album with some editing" guy, but it's the truth in this case. Plus I just much preferred these guys when they were a badass Punk band as opposed to being a college radio friendly guitar rock band.
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mattmacneil
No I totally understand what you mean now. Grant's songs do not stand up to Bob's.
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mattmacneil
@billswansea no way. back from somewhere? you're a soldier? those are fine tunes.
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Lind_L_Tailor
This was a great album, but it really should have been cut down to a single disk. Not that there are any BAD tracks on it, but there are about 6 total classics that spice up a 20-song album, and it could have just been 4 songs that were just really good carrying along an album otherwise full of them. Also, while Grant is in general the better songwriter, Bob definitely outstripped him here. Kind of ironic considering how many more songs than usual Grant got.
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chundermeister
The Last Will and Testament of the greatest band of the Eighties. The second LP(Bed of Nails through You Can Live at Home Now) shreds.
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YankeeShambles
While sonically mostly awesome, I always thought this album cover looked like an 80s glamour shots studio that caters to high school students for senior photos. (Kinda like the one in Napoleon Dynamite)...
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mattmacneil
weird. I had only heard NDR/ZA and was always confused why these guys were compared to the Replacements and R.E.M., but after listening to this album I know. It's so poppy in a way, but I still love it.
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BillSwansea
Yeah I agree. Though Grant essentially rushed a lot of these songs just to catch up with the ten or eleven Bob had already written didn't he?
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Rick_Dangerous
Listening to this the other day made me realize how much better Bob's songs are on this than Grant's. Usually I think they're pretty much even, but Bob's were definitely better on Warehouse.
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