3/23/2023 0 Comments Rolling stone flood album reviewFor the record, from my point of view, I wasn’t trying to say that I had written my Wall … what I meant was that we were trying to reach for something expansive like Pink Floyd achieved with The Wall, as opposed to making a double album like The White Album by the Beatles, which was basically a wider collection of great songs by a group.” A change is as good as a rest “And, of course, jerks in the media still take me to task for saying that. “I went around saying I was inspired by Pink Floyd‘s The Wall to try to create that kind of big, ambitious thing,” Corgan told David Wild in the liner notes for Mellon Collie’s 2012 reissue. Split across two CDs that represented day and night, Mellon Collie’s sprawl was startling by comparison: 28 songs (totalling two hours) made the cut, and three times as many were written in a spree that recalled Bruce Springsteen’s feverish hot streak in the build up to Darkness On The Edge Of Town. But it’s easy to forget that both Gish and Siamese Dream were defined in part by their succinctness – shoegaze-literate hit after shoegaze-literate hit. The Shape I'm In: The Very best of.Lacking the slash and burn punk streak of Nirvana and the cinematic dourness of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and the wider Seattle set, Corgan’s music always felt more classic, more florid, less deliberately of the moment. Significantly for both royalties and for general public awareness, the Diana Ross and The Supremes With The Temptations' album from which the single was taken reached US #2 and the Aretha Franklin album, Soul 69, reached US #15.Ĭhannel 4/ HMV Music of The Millenium Top 100, 1998 Poll: #60 Versions by Jackie DeShannon (1968), Aretha Franklin (US #19, April 1969, and featuring Duane Allman on guitar), The Supremes with The Temptations (US #46, September 1969) all charted. Other artists had more sucess with covering The Weight. It got to #30 in the US charts while the single, The Weight reached #63. The album's initial success was, in retrospect, surprisingly modest for an album which frequently appears in lists of the Top 100 Rock Albums of All Time. PV RATING: Is my own assessment on a scale of E- to A +. GUINNESS LIVE 50: The best 50 live albums from the above book. GUINNESS ROCK 250: The best 250 rock and pop albums from the above book GUINNESS 1000 1994: From a critic's poll by Colin Larkin for Guinness 'All Time Top 1000 Albums'. This presents a composite critics' choice in the same way as the Gambacinni books. TOP 100: From the Rolling Stone 25th Anniversary Issue, August 27th 1987. GAMBACINNI 100 1987: From the 1987 revision of the above book. The number indicates the albums position in the Top 100. A panel of rock critics and journalists were asked to choose their own Top 10s. GAMBACINNI 100 1977: From Paul Gambacinni presents the Top 100 Record Albums, 1977 edition. VOX: From Vox magazine which gives a 0-10 rating. Q: From Q magazine, which uses a star rating as in Rolling Stone. It cheats by adding half stars (making a ten point scale).ĬHRISTGAU: From Robert Christgau's Rock Albums of the Seventies, or Rock Albums of the Eighties where albums are rated on a scale ranging from E- to A +. ROLLING STONE 1992: From the completely rewritten 1992 Rolling Stone Album Guide. ROLLING STONE: From The New Rolling Stone Record Guide which uses a star rating from * to *****. Ratings are taken from a number of review sources: The Band: Album Ratings and Chart Placings
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