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The best album of the 90's - Fat of the Land vs Definitely Maybe

Which album is better?

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milo

milo

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Our last game of the second round sees the giants of 90's Brit dance take on some Beatles wannabees from Burnage. Both bands contain a Liam who married an Appleton but which is of their albums is better?

The Prodigy - Fat of the Land

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The Fat of the Land is the third studio album by English electronic dance music group The Prodigy. The album was released by XL Recordings on 30 June 1997 and on 1 July 1997 in the United States by Maverick Records.

The album has received critical acclaim and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide as of 2012.

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Oasis - Definitely Maybe

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Definitely Maybe is the debut studio album by the English rock band Oasis, released on 29 August 1994 by Creation Records. It was an immediate commercial and critical success in the UK, having followed on the heels of singles "Supersonic", "Shakermaker" and "Live Forever". It is the only full album to feature original drummer Tony McCarroll.

Definitely Maybe went straight to number one in the UK Albums Chart on initial release. It was the fastest selling debut album of all time in the UK when it was released and went on to be certified 7× Platinum (2.1 million+ sales) by the BPI.[2] Definitely Maybe marked the beginning of Oasis' success in America, selling over one million copies there, despite only peaking at 58 on the Billboard 200. The album went on to sell over 15 million copies worldwide and brought widespread critical acclaim.

The album, along with Blur's Parklife, helped to spur a revitalisation in British pop music in the nineties and was embraced by critics for its optimistic themes and supposed rebuttal of the downtrodden fatalism evident in the dominant grunge music of the time.[3] Today,Definitely Maybe is regarded as a seminal record of the Britpop scene, and has appeared in many publications' 'best of' lists. The album is also popular among audiences: in June 2006, NME magazine conducted a readers' poll in which it was voted the greatest album of all time.[4]
 
I like both albums and I like The Prodigy more. But, imo, Definitely Maybe is the best album from Oasis whereas I think Music for The Jilted Generation is the best album from The Prodigy.

I'd give the nod to Definitely Maybe.
 
scaramanga said:
Definitely Maybe is the significantly better album, although at the rate of the last couple of votes, it would probably lose to Moby because Moby uses computers instead of instruments.
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I haven't heard any of the REM techno albums but I'm looking forward to checking them out
 
milo said:
I haven't heard any of the REM techno albums but I'm looking forward to checking them out
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Hmmmm. I seem to have counted the In Utero loss twice - I voted for REM.

Was there a good band that went out to an electronic one earlier I'm getting confused with?
 
scaramanga said:
Definitely Maybe is the significantly better album, although at the rate of the last couple of votes, it would probably lose to Moby because Moby uses computers instead of instruments.
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To be fair, most albums do to tune and mix the separate tracks - very few bands actually record "live" and most "dance" acts rely on more than just computers.
Any decent ones incorporate real instruments - the Prodigy being a good example
 
monkeybarry said:
To be fair, most albums do to tune and mix the separate tracks - very few bands actually record "live" and most "dance" acts rely on more than just computers.
Any decent ones incorporate real instruments - the Prodigy being a good example
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I used to know someone who was working at the studio where Definitely Maybe recorded when it was recorded. It definitely wasn't recorded live because Noel played Guigsy's bass parts.
 
milo said:
I used to know someone who was working at the studio where Definitely Maybe recorded when it was recorded. It definitely wasn't recorded live because Noel played Guigsy's bass parts.
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he did a fair bit of drumming too according to a couple of things I've read, for Inspiral Carpets as well as Oasis
 
galeforce said:
he did a fair bit of drumming too according to a couple of things I've read, for Inspiral Carpets as well as Oasis
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I didn't know of him playing on any Inspiral's tracks, obviously I knew that he roadied for them.
 
monkeybarry said:
To be fair, most albums do to tune and mix the separate tracks - very few bands actually record "live" and most "dance" acts rely on more than just computers.
Any decent ones incorporate real instruments - the Prodigy being a good example
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I get that bands lay down their tracks separately, even as far back as when I was in bands that was fairly normal.

There's a difference between that and most of what you record being either sampled or played by session musicians though.

milo said:
I used to know someone who was working at the studio where Definitely Maybe recorded when it was recorded. It definitely wasn't recorded live because Noel played Guigsy's bass parts.
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That's fairly standard isn't it? I could probably count on one hand the number of genuinely good bassists I've met, guitarists are ten a penny though.

Back when I was a kid and we did weddings to pay for our studio time, I used to swap live with our bassist every time we played something even half way complicated on bass.

I'm sure someone famous once described bassists as guitarists that can only play one string at a time.
 
scaramanga said:
There's a difference between that and most of what you record being either sampled or played by session musicians though.
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To be honest, I don't really care who plays what, it is the quality of the end result that I care about. By your measure, the Beach Boys fall up short, when in reality they are one of the greatest bands ever.
 
milo said:
To be honest, I don't really care who plays what, it is the quality of the end result that I care about. By your measure, the Beach Boys fall up short, when in reality they are one of the greatest bands ever.
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I've had a lot of people tell me that - I just cannot get on with their music.
 
scaramanga said:
I get that bands lay down their tracks separately, even as far back as when I was in bands that was fairly normal.

There's a difference between that and most of what you record being either sampled or played by session musicians though.
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That applies to most solo artists too
 
Definitely Maybe gets this for me.

It was a breath of fresh air and I'd go so far to say FoTL wouldn't have been made without the impact DM had. FoTL was the dance music contribution to "BritPop"
 
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