Poll: Favorite LB Solo Album

[Nico]

Originally Posted by GoS

Am I really the only one who is feeling the UTS love? That is one of my all time favorite albums!! Why has no one else voted for that? Maybe it is just that that was my first LB experience.

Nope, I love it as well. But OotC is simply my favorite...my favorite album ever, actually. It has some other-worldly quality to it that really lifts me. And I honestly can jog to the whole thing, all the way through- even the gd slow songs for goodness sakes.

But one of my best friends happens to LOVE UTS. I've given her every LB solo album, including GOS and, though she admits that she enjoys many of the songs on them, her favorite still remains to be UTS. She loves the acoustic quality and she thinks his songwriting is extremely strong on it. I think it's strong on all of them...maybe less so L &O but who am I to judge?

[GoS]

Originally Posted by Nico

Nope, I love it as well. But OotC is simply my favorite...my favorite album ever, actually. It has some other-worldly quality to it that really lifts me. And I honestly can jog to the whole thing, all the way through- even the gd slow songs for goodness sakes.

But one of my best friends happens to LOVE UTS. I've given her every LB solo album, including GOS and, though she admits that she enjoys many of the songs on them, her favorite still remains to be UTS. She loves the acoustic quality and she thinks his songwriting is extremely strong on it. I think it's strong on all of them...maybe less so L &O but who am I to judge?

I feel that UtS is really the first time his lyrics were amazing. Before that, he was okay (still better than most) but he hit a series of homeruns with UtS. I could love OOTC more if it had less of that electronic quality to it. It is a close second to UtS though. I love how sincere the music is of UtS. It is the one CD by anyone that I never get sick of (though I might have to include Quadrophenia here).

I was never crazy about Law and Order. I mean, I like Trouble, It was I is chatchy, and how can you not like That's How We Do It It In LA, but the album as a whole never seemed too amazing. But that is just me. No one who reads this board can claim to have any sort of "normal" musical tastes, we all like Lindsey Buckingham .

[macpai]

This is too tough. GoS is too new for me. Love UtS but I picked what the majority did.

[Moz]

Originally Posted by GoS

Am I really the only one who is feeling the UTS love? That is one of my all time favorite albums!! Why has no one else voted for that? Maybe it is just that that was my first LB experience.

I LOVE UTS. The only song I don't really like on it is I Am Waiting. As for picking my favourite LB album, I can't do it. Too many good songs on each album.

[LukeA]

The way I see it, Out of the Cradle is an incredible album... if it was released in 1986.

[aleuzzi]

All of Lindsey's solo albums are interesting and rewarding. He is, to my way of thinking, the most artistically successful of all FM artists gone solo. He may not be the most lucrative or commercially viable, but all of his records have moments of genuine power and energy. I was initially disappointed with UTS and still feel it is his weakest effort, but even then it has exceptional moments.

OOC is flawless...
Law and Order runs it a close second, in my book. But I'll have to give GOS a listen.

Go Insane was so underrated.

[LB Freakazoid]

Don't kick me to hard... I am new to this board...

This is such a hard decision… OOTC was such a breath of fresh air… and some of the songs hit the easy breezy sound that LB is so good at. Soul Drifter is a dream… and only days floating in a boat off the Florida Keys could compare…and it has.... and the guitar open to/and Don’t Look Down… yikes! OOTC WAS the quintessential 90’s breezy sound that he had defined for the 70’s .
It’s always the feeling he does in a song that makes the song so right. And that is what he does. I could care less about the “production” or if a metro dome ( is that what it is??? The rum is getting to me now) was used… it’s what the sound evokes!
And here comes the 2000’s with UTS… Oh my… regardless of what songs made it to which album, albeit FM or solo, they found their way when they needed to be heard. I found UTS to be the most intense, personal album – be it the lyrics or the sparse instrumentation-- or the video on the DVD – and by the way, if you didn’t look down or pull to sheet over your head out of shear compassion or sickened by the current state of the record industry or on some of the latter scenes of him talking on the phone about WHO would actually distribute to album, you’re nuts…. Well… I thought that whole documentary WAS part of the actual album… UTS was cohesive and brilliant… and showed WHO LB is/ was/ is … as should any work of art should. It is whole.
Then there is GOS…. So many songs that I absolutely love! Twist of Fate – sorry, Right Place to Fade, is just too cool… And Great Day will always remain a fabulous memory – ( side note: I got a confirmation on my first Obama gig, literally seconds before I popped in my GOS CD and Great Day blasted out of my car speakers. It was a great day!)
Anyhoo… Of course there is always “a line" and "thought cohesiveness ” that runs thru an LB album – the esoteric meaning always catches my ear, lyrically or otherwise, GOS has some… but not as much as UTS….
So the disagreement of catchy tunes that tap your toe with a grain a linear thought….. or…… the artist’s cohesive vision of pouring out their soul thru lyric and sound…… hmmmmmmmm…. He did say, ”Follow the sound”
Decisions, decisions……
But as the ole’ American Bandstand’s collective tally was… “ It had a good beat and…..”
Oooppsss… time for a refill…

[Sahara]

Originally Posted by Madness Fades

Feck it I voted for Screws, I think its Lindseys Best Album.
I wish though he could have put a few more songs on to the cd though.

Got to Get Away, Given Thing and Wear you Down really would have been a great addition to the existing ten songs.

Amen to that

GoS is my favourite, even though it's a little on the short side. I can hear the best of his other albums in it -- Time Precious Time could have come from Under The Skin, Gift of Screws is a bit Go Insane and songs like Underground represent OOTC. (I can't comment on Law and Order since I don't actually own it ) It's just brilliance from beginning to end, there isn't one track I'd skip.

[billwebster]

For me, GOS wins out over OOTC by quite a stretch, because it's much more consistent, has more strong songs per total album length.

[luciancv]

Personally, I liked Gift of Screws the best, though Out of the Cradle follows up very closely behind.

[marinnette]

Go Insane!!!!!

[LukeA]

Seriously, why does everyone seem to love Out of the Cradle so much? It was one thing when all we had were two "uneven" unpolished experimental albums and OOTC, but now we have two additional albums that also *far* outpace that dated POS. I mean, are there people out there that actually think, for example, that "This Is The Time" is a better song than "Wait For You"?

[chriskisn]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Seriously, why does everyone seem to love Out of the Cradle so much? It was one thing when all we had were two "uneven" unpolished experimental albums and OOTC, but now we have two additional albums that also *far* outpace that dated POS. I mean, are there people out there that actually think, for example, that "This Is The Time" is a better song than "Wait For You"?

Well OOTC is the only Lindsey album I can listen to all the way through without either smashing the stereo or kicking the cat...

[michelej1]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Seriously, why does everyone seem to love Out of the Cradle so much? It was one thing when all we had were two "uneven" unpolished experimental albums and OOTC, but now we have two additional albums that also *far* outpace that dated POS. I mean, are there people out there that actually think, for example, that "This Is The Time" is a better song than "Wait For You"?

Perhaps not, but I think it's hard to find better a better song than Wrong, You Do or You Don't or the other stellar songs on that album.

Right now, I am feeling GOS more, but that is probably because it is new. I feel OOTC is rather timeless.

Michele

[David]

Originally Posted by LukeA

Seriously, why does everyone seem to love Out of the Cradle so much? It was one thing when all we had were two "uneven" unpolished experimental albums and OOTC, but now we have two additional albums that also *far* outpace that dated POS. I mean, are there people out there that actually think, for example, that "This Is The Time" is a better song than "Wait For You"?

I think CRADLE has an immaculate sound -- everything's so clear & balanced & perfectly set. It has some beautiful moments on it -- I can't remember the names of the songs I mean. But I never really warmed to it. I'd rather listen to something else.