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I love shangri la dee da. Its easily my most replayed and favorite stp album (I love all of the first 5 really). I see a lot of people not give this one a chance and rank it pretty poorly compared to the other 4. Theres a more recent interview of Robert DeLeo where he says when he listens to the music on shangri la dee da, he's moved emotionally (I cant remember the exact interview), and I strongly agree. Hello its late easily has my favorite guitar solo from dean, and its really incomparible to any other feelings I've felt with music. Listening to Too Cool Queenie, wonderful, and Hollywood bitch on a roadtrip pretty much skyrocketed those to my favorite stp songs. Even the days of the week music video is my favorite stp music video. I get that there were a lot of issues with stp at the time, and scotts issues were taking a really big toll. Additionally, the albums pacing is kinda off, but I think the songs on their own are my favorite in the stp discography. I just think this album needs more love from fans. I read somewhere that it was supposed to be a double album, but theres no deluxe version of this album like the first 3 albums. Even if theyre crap, I would have loved to hear some of that bonus material from this era. It is such a special album.

All in the Suit that You Wear - Thank You

Where the River Goes - Core

Kitchenware and Candybars - Purple

Ride the Cliche - Tiny Music

MC5 - No. 4

Kretz's Acoustic Song - Tiny Music Deluxe

Glide - No. 4

ALL OF SLDD

First Kiss on Mars - 2010

Sunburst - Perdida

And So I Know - Tiny Music

Thoughts?

Since I've already done the appreciation post, let's do the ranking post. For all the other shangri la fans out there, how woukd you ranking the albums songs. Id love to hear people's thoughts on the individual songs too.

My ranking:

1. Too Cool Queenie - has been and always will be the best song on shangri la. This song is just so effortlessly cool its intoxicating. Amazing dean solo too.

2. Hello Its Late - This song captures exactly what the title says. It feels like walking through an empty grocery store parking lot at night. That solo might be the best moment in music for me. Indescribable

3. Bi-Polar Bear - One of the most beautiful final minutes to any song ever. The guitar work as sublime as always. Dean is probably my favorite 90s 2000s guitarist i cant lie.

4. A Song for Sleeping - One of the sweetest and most magical songs ever. Such a nice song for his son. Some really good lyrical content with Scott in general throughout his career.

5. Hollywood Bitch - A really cool underrated banger. What an amazinggggg chorus and prechorus.

6. Black Again - This is also a really underrated deep cut. A cool ballad, it reminds me of 70s pop music.

7. Days of the Week - Such a fun and groovy beatles-esque song. Definitely my favorite stp music video. It just represents the carefree, groovy, and overall fun nature of this album.

8. Wonderful - I feel like this song had the potential to be one of their biggest songs up there with stuff like vasoline. Why was it never released as a single? It wouldve been like hugely popular poser music. Cool song.

9. Transmissions - I love this song. Just because its so low down (haha get what I did there) doesnt mean I dont love it. Its a really cool stp hard rock song.

10. Dumb Love - I think its just a little too rough un the production, but its a great song and has a lot of replayability. I love the "come on out you'll come along" part.

11. Long Way Home - I think this song is better in theory than in execution. I like the idea it represents and the lyrics. It also has a little of replayability and definitely a grower. Another legendary dean solo.

12. Regeneration - I like the choruses and the verses in this song a lot. I really like the solo too. I like all the parts of it the production is just a little iffy and the way the chorus falls out of time kinda annoys me. Still pretty cool overall

13. Coma - I think imma get a lot of hate for this. I think it has one of deans coolest solos. I like the riffs a lot too. Just out of all of the songs it interests me less I suppose. Also the interlude is probably the worst stp interlude pre-solo in that style.

What do you guys think of the 3 albums released more recently. With stp 2010, dare if you dare, first kiss on mars, and macer are three of my favorite stp songs (and then about a fool if that counts), but beyond those tracks the album is beyond souless and lacks cohesion. It comes off as really forced and kinda lame, especially songs like between the lines and fast as you can. Hickory dichotomy is by a mile my least favorite stp song. Stp 2018 is actually pretty enjoyable, I think its underrated. Theres some decent granger and more authentic sounding rock songs on here. Roll me unders probably my favorite, it sounds like show me how to live by audioslave. It sucks to see Scott replaced by someone so similar sounding to him, but i think Gutt does a pretty good job all things considered, his voice is just mixed weird which is annoying. Perdida is actually a really good album. I think I enjoy it more than no. 4, my least favorite of the original 5 (dont kill me). Gutts voice is mixed kinda odd but it works better for me on this album. The slow and melodic bossa, Blues, and ballad guitar stuff is really cool. The different instrumentation is cool and reminds me of the parisian french jazz band san lyon (look them up theyre amazing). Its hard to match those original 5 albums, but I think perdida id the closest they've gotten, and 2018 isn't bad. 2010 is a rough flail out in my opinion though.

Props to Google for including the man Scott is singing about in Creep 👊

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I walked into a record store the other day and saw this poster of purple hanging on a wall. Im not really a huge purple fan, and from what I've seen of people on this subreddit, they really are. I love like half the songs a lot and interstate love song is a song I remember my dad listening to when I was a little kid. But the other half of the album is incredibly cliche and a little boring. This is my all tike stp hot take but I just cant stand Vasoline. Its too poppy and it sounds like stp doing everything they can to please people. The sound of the album is overall fairly generic, even the best songs are nothing crazy. It just feels like a midpoint between core and tiny music, both albums that I love very much. In general, purple feels like on of their less interesting albums, and this is coming from someone whos listened to all of their albums fromt to back. I understand that interstate love song was a really big deal for stp and 90s rock in general when it came out, legitimizing the band and so on, but does that make all of purple really that good? Im kinda just interested to hear what purple fans love about purple and if theres other people like me who aren't huge purple fans, what do they think?