borneoman
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Post by borneoman on Feb 3, 2013 21:46:05 GMT 1
not my list  but thought it was interesting. 1 Lady Gaga - Born this Way 2 Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh 3 Metallica & Lou Reed - Lulu 4 Lou Reed - Metal machine music 5 Passenger - Original Soundtrack 6 Mansun . Six 7 KISS - Music from The Elder 8 Transvision Vamp - Little Magnets vs the Bubble of Babble 9 Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God 10 Pete Townshead - Psychoderelict No clue about the old ones but I have to agree on Gaga, TTD'Arby, T. Vamp and Smashing Pumpkins. Any other you'd add? |
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Post by suedehead on Feb 3, 2013 21:49:02 GMT 1
I'm surprised there's no pompous nonsense from Rick Wakeman.
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Post by vya on Feb 3, 2013 22:25:49 GMT 1
"Neither Fish Nor Flesh (A Soundtrack of Love, Faith, Hope & Destruction)", to give it its full name, is certainly, well, even, hyper-pretentious: but that isn't necessarily entirely a bad thing. Mike Oldfield surely warrants a place on the list, too....
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Post by Roo. on Feb 5, 2013 1:55:33 GMT 1
I don't think Born This Way is more pretentious than the likes of Lulu etc.
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 5, 2013 1:59:10 GMT 1
Mansun shouldnt be in that list. Im struggling to see why
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 9:27:34 GMT 1
I don't think Born This Way is more pretentious than the likes of Lulu etc. The fact that the videos for the singles off the album were horrendously pretentious probably swayed it for Born This Way |
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Post by borneoman on Feb 5, 2013 9:36:16 GMT 1
was also surprised to see Mansun on the list, is that some kind of concept album?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2013 9:37:00 GMT 1
was also surprised to see Mansun on the list, is that some kind of concept album? I always found them more pompous than pretentious tbh |
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Post by wonderwall on Feb 5, 2013 10:47:00 GMT 1
Mansun six fantastic album always loved it so different to every thing else around T the time
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 5, 2013 11:00:05 GMT 1
I love Kuala shaker but peasants pigs and astronauts is one of the all time pretentious albums in good way if your a fan. Sound of drums was released on hitlers birthday and had a hammond organ solo, mystical machine gun was just a mental song about wizards in blizards of mystical machine guns and SOS has the lyrics "sometimes i feel like the world isn't ready for me" and the whole album is an end of the world millennium concept album. Nme despised them and the album had layers of eastern musical instruments running through it as they were big on Indian themes. And they were even more prompts than mansun. I always thought 6 was mansun most underated album
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Post by wonderwall on Feb 5, 2013 11:27:04 GMT 1
You got good taste daz love six and kula shakers albums play them alot still today
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Post by greendemon on Feb 5, 2013 12:46:33 GMT 1
always thought coldplay's X&Y was an incredibly pretentious album, but then again, 'every teardrop...' is without a doubt their most pretentious song...
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 5, 2013 13:33:36 GMT 1
nme can't nock coldplay. They are the only UK rock band that sell records. Listing them as pretentious would be detrimental to the nme hence why they are not in the list
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Post by greendemon on Feb 5, 2013 14:04:59 GMT 1
ah, that would explain it  i haven't heard their newest album, but i would say pretty much everything since X&Y has been outrageously pretentious. they just about got away with it on the 'viva la vida' album, though. |
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but thought it was interesting. 
