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Favourite Album Poll + Intro to [Sunday Album Club]

The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea with the Adverts (1978)

I always have a hard time with favourites. It depends so much on mood or day of the week, and I could probably come up with at least a couple for every genre and sub-genre. However, the Adverts debut full length has always been near the top, ever since I first heard it in my early teenage years.

Since I'm not going to vote for my own pick for our first Album Club, I'll just throw my thoughts on the release in this first post here. Sort of a preview of the type of thing I'm hoping the album club threads will contain I guess.

1978 was an interesting year. The Sex Pistols abrasive angst kept going strong with bands like X-Ray Spex, Billy Idol was practicing his radio friendly pop in Generation X, and the Clash put out what might be my least favourite of their albums in Give em Enough Rope.

At the time, something about those original 11 tracks on Crossing the Red Sea, just seemed different. Better written, more poetic, deeper or something. Tracks like Safety in Numbers were already getting bored with the state of the current UK punk scene, as it started morphing into something different. Tracks like No Time to be 21, though nothing super original conceptually, just seemed to hit different. And of course they had a few of their previously released standard singles like One Chord Wonders.

Start to finish I think this is a solid album, and it's still in the regular rotation today. I've sadly never owned an original pressing, but finally picked up the 2011 gatefold reissue earlier this spring, which must be my 4 or 5th copy of this album over the years.

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Episodes between IMDB and TheMovieDB do not match

This is not entirely uncommon due to versioning. The network TV version might have aired in a different order from the later released DVD boxset, or the US version aired in a different order than the EU version, etc. Instead of refreshing metadata, try using the Identify option. Under each of the results it will show the source, so pick the one that matches the episode order you want.

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Album Club #2 - The Offspring - Americana (1998) - [Sunday Album Club]

This was the first time I actually sat down and listened to this album. After leaving Epitaph, I found Ixnay On the Hombre to be more miss than hit. After hearing Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) on the radio, I more or less wrote off the Offspring as a band I'd enjoy listening to anymore. I thought The Kids Aren't Alright was a pretty solid song, but it wasn't nearly enough to make me want to pick up the album.

That said, looking at it all these years later, it's not a terrible album. I still wouldn't put it in regular rotation, but it does have a few decent enough tracks. The Kids Aren't Alright is still probably the highlight for me, but the opening track, Have You Ever isn't bad, and No Breaks has a little of that old Offspring sound coming through. Overall, probably a 4/10 for me.

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