hoooray!!Dog Man Star Interpol - Antics

yeah definitely interpol antics and rufus wainwright poses

Radiohead - The Bends

Bona Fide Classics: Joy Division - Closer New Order - Power Corruption and Lies (Well, the first was understandably a slightly shaky start) The Breeders - Last Splash Orbital - Orbital 2 (The Brown Album) Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Great 2nd albums that live in the shadow of the first Television - Adventure Saint Etienne - So Tough Roxy Music - For your Pleasure The Chemical Brothers - Dig your own hole (heavier and more exciting than the first, though not quite as good) Second albums that aren't universally recognised as classics, but I reckon are fantastic anyway Adult. - Anxiety Always Lali Puna - Scary World Theory Schneider TM - Zoomer (second solo album) Luscious Jackson - Fever in, Fever Out Ladytron - Light & Magic

Kings of Leon- Aha shake heartbreak Elbow- Cast of Thousands

Wilco - Being There

Radiohead - The Bends Beck - Odelay (if the indie label ones like One Foot In The Grave are counted as sideprojects) dEUS - In A Bar Under The Sea SFA - Radiator Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith to name but a few

The Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow The Beta Band - Hot Shots Part 2 (assuming the 3 EPs dont count) Bob Dylan - The Freewhelin' Bob Dylan

A few off the top of my head: Snow Patrol - when its all over we still have to clear up Ryan Adams - Gold Cream - Disraeli Gears Red House Painters - RHP (Rollercoaster) Pearl Jam - Vs

Glaring omission! Nevermind by Nirvana

Slowdive - Souvlaki And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Source Tags & Codes Belle & Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister British Sea Power - Open Season Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream Sigur Ros - () .......

oooh i dont agree with ya there indiecater - I 100% think that 'The Decline of British Sea Power' whoops Open Season in spectacular style!! I mean I really like it but not nearly as much as 'The Decline of..' Not tryin to start a rift or nowt - personal opinion n all - but just wondering why you think Open Seaon is better?

Stone Temple Pilots - Purple Whipping Boy - Heartworm That's all I can think of right now.

off the top of me head: ...the wedding present - bizarro ...palace brothers - days in the wake ...slint - spiderland ...joy division - closer ...nirvana - nevermind ...pixies - surfer rosa (or doolittle if you call 'come on pilgrim' an ep) ...waiting room - catering for headphones ...leftfield - leftism ...could say going blank again by ride but i prefer 'nowhere' ...disagree strongly with ryan adams' gold (as mentioned above) - heartbreaker's the one for me

i suppose you're right there, binokular... ...i think they had a debut album called backlog but it was a compilation of different mixes

Cool, thats what I was kind of wondering. I absolutely love the two "proper" (whatever that means) Leftfield albums but didn't realise that they had any releases before that besides singles/promos so was just trying to find out if you knew anything about stuff before that! Will be looking out on amazon/play for a copy of that now. I've got "Original" as a cassette single somewhere.. :D

Muse - Origin of Symmetry springs to mind.

Broken Social Scene - You Forgot It In People

weezer - pinkerton, all of norman schwarzkopf's picks, the band - the band, kings of convenience - riot on an empty street

It didn't get much acclaim but one of my favourite second albums is '10,000Hz' by Air. 'Burnin' by the Wailers is a gem and one of the classic reggae albums. Also; A Quick One - The Who Meat is Murder - The Smiths Transformer - Lou Reed Quality Control - Jurassic 5 Magic & Medicine - The Coral

The Bees - Free The Bees The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow Ocean Colour Scene - Moasley Shoals Jack Johnson - On And On Kings Of Leon - Aha Shake Heartbreak Radiohead - The Bends Ryan Adams - Gold Mundy - 24 Star Hotel Hold Steady - Separation Sunday Death Cab For Cutie - We Have The Facts And We're Voting Yes The Frames - Fitzcarraldo Van Morrison - Astral Weeks Robbie Robertson - Storyville Damien Dempsey - Seize The Day The Decemerbists - Her Majesty Kings Of Convenience - Riot On An Empty Street

Agree with most of Gar's long list (the ones I have anyway - The Shins, Jack Johnson, Kings Of Leon, Radiohead, Ryan Adams, Death Cab For Cutie, The Frames, The Decemerbists - all great albums) Eels - ElectroShock Blues is pretty great as is Tift Merritt's Tamborine and Bruce Springsteen's The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle. Read a few days ago how people rated music at either extreme - really bad or really good - there was very little "centrism". Can't find article but I suppose most of the albums that we like we can call great.

Here's another few; The Rapture - Echoes Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique KMD - Black Bastards De la Soul - De la Soul Is Dead Edan - Beauty and The Beat PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory Death In Vegas - The Contino Sessions The Prodigy - Music for the Jilted Generation David Holmes - Let's Get Killed My Bloddy Valentine - Isn't Anything Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain Oh and Gar those albums by Mundy, Damien Dempsey and OCS are all stinkers.

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