The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
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The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
Well?
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Re: The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
Fearless, byTaylor Swift.
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C. forgot to mention: it has to be before 1974
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Re: The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
A couple of contenders?
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What they don't mention is that it's tremendously varied, including this tribute to Les Paul
This:
..and my favorite Duane Eddy track of all, which started as a jam on St. James' Infirmary:
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...not to mention "With the Beatles," which has a few good tunes.
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This Years Model
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Things that a fella can't forget...
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Marvellous album, my second favourite of all time behind Marquee Moon.
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I had always thought his first was a snoozer but this one ...
Question authority.
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Some nice choices!
Good lads
What about this one:
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Good lads
What about this one:
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Re: The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
Their debut was fine and incendiary in its own right, but it feels decidedly small when stacked against this record, which sounds and feels like an atom bomb due to go off at any moment. The debut was the template, the sophomore effort showed exactly how far you could get away with it.
It's before my time but I've been told, he never came back from Karangahape Road.
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Re: The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
Nation of Millions is clearly the best answer so far. My personal favourite would be:
Like fast-moving clouds casting shadows against a hillside, the melody-loop shuddered with a sense of the sublime, the awful unknowable majesty of the world.
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slightbreeze wrote:
i'll take this one.
not that i'm done.
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C wrote:A couple of contenders?
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excellent choices.
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Re: The most seminally robust sophomore album of all time...?
a few additions...
james gang rides again
reckoning
queen II
idlewild south
regatta de blanc
in the wake of poseidon
pretenders II
a saucerful of secrets
... for now.
james gang rides again
reckoning
queen II
idlewild south
regatta de blanc
in the wake of poseidon
pretenders II
a saucerful of secrets
... for now.
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Not exactly obscure I'll grant you, but hard to ignore.