Big Wreck had two albums prior to their ten year hiatus, 1997’s In Loving Memory Of… and 2001’s The Pleasure And The Greed, while both said albums are amazing The Pleasure And The Greed stands out to me as just a neck ahead of their debut. Ian Thornley leans into his Cornell-esque vocals on this album and provides one of the best vocal performances I’ve heard through an album in a while, the rest of the band does a great job backing Thornley as well with their ... read more
Wow, I can't believe people don't like this album. Blind Melon was phenomenal and Soup is their best work (For two pre death albums at least), St Andrew's Fall, Dumptruck, Skinned, Tones Of Home, Galaxie/Hello Goodbye. It's just simply one of the must listen 90s albums, despite No Rain they were actually very talented and Shannon was a great all around front man. Soup is possibly the best album to end a band other than Alice In Chains selftitled, when talking about the 90s ... read more
Really my favourite Incubus album, they haven't really hit this level of quality since and with how good the album is I don't think future projects (If we get any) can really surpass it. A Crow Left Of The Murder could have had more hits, but after the consecutive successes of Make Yourself and Morning View it's a great end to the trilogy. With songs like Agoraphobia and Talk Shows On Mute the band strays from the romantic tone for a more depressing one (Obviously a few songs ... read more
It's a really great album and one I really believe surpasses expectations. People love to say King Crimson topped out on their debut, but that doesn't give them near enough credit for their outstanding musicianship. King Crimson far surpasses their second album on this project and while not as good as Lizard it is certainly an amazing album not to be understated in their discography