LogFAQs > #967453430

1. Bennie and the Jets
2. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding
3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. Candle in the Wind
5. Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)
6. Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock'n'Roll)
7. Sweet Painted Lady
8. Social Disease
9. Harmony
10. I've Seen That Movie Too
11. Grey Seal
12. Jamaica Jerk-Off
13. All the Girls Love Alice
14. The Ballad of Danny Bailey (1909-1934)
15. This Song Has No Title
16. Dirty Little Girl
17. Roy Rogers

For an album that's too long, there's still an impressively long list of good to great songs. It's really only the last 2 songs that I'm kind of "eh" on. And yes, I agree that Jamaica Jerk-Off is stupid catchy. With that said, I'm not sure I'll be playing this album in full too much in the future; I could listen to the first 4 songs and feel pretty satisfied.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Happy to see you're becoming a Sunspot fan! The themes definitely feel more mature than half of Singularity - Weirdest Hits has many good songs, including two fan favorites, "Arthuriana" and "Saturday Night Gospel." It's probably their "most definitive" album, in terms of how many songs they still play from it.

If you're really liking Weirdest Hits, also check out Wonders of the Invisible World and The Strangest Frequency (which just came out),which were also produced by Eric LaBrosse. He definitely evolved their sound from something raw to the mid-80s cusp of classic arena rock and glam metal. Since you liked "Uncanny Valley" quite a bit, I'll also recommend The Slingshot Effect, since that album's in the same vein as that song.

Also, I'm sure you understand why I didn't nominate Weirdest Hits, which is very similar in length to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Too intimidating to rank, let alone listen to more than twice. But I'm prattling so I'll stop.

I only got to the first half of Weirdest Hits on my drive, so yeah, especially with an unknown artist it's better to keep it short and sweet. I did listen to those 2 particular songs after the fact though after you mentioned them. Saturday Night Gospel didn't grab me but Arthuriana was pretty great. I went back to listen to my top 2 from Singularity after that and the difference in production/sound quality is shocking!

At some point I'll need to find the time to listen to all those post-Singularity albums at least once. I've heard enough from them at this point that it's probably worth the deep dive.

I have to ask, is Sunspot a full time band? That is to say, is it their career or just a weekend/moonlighting kind of thing? They've got a ridiculously low Spotify playrate, and yet they've put out quite a few albums.