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[MissMaceo]

just wondering if one exists or if all old blood is of the mindset that the old stuff is better

[Pilot-of-the-dune]

Do I count as an old boardie?

[Cha]

I always think of ST as the best album. But every album has it's own character and style. My opinion is that Josh is using his voice better and better (wich shows good on LTP)

Pretty much my opinion too. Well said.

[totallybaked]

i gotta say that Rated R is still my favorite, but LTP really grew on me after several spins....
i would place it second ...

[Don and the Goodtimes]

I'm stuck between rated R and S/T.

R shows how much talent the group has

S/T is just awesome

[Mother Superior]

Well I can`t really count as old school as far as the board is concerned, but I LOVE it just as much as the old stuff.

But I think each one has sounded remarkably different from the last anyway.

[Sweet Thing]

SFTD is still my all time fav

But I'm not an old board member

[samantha]

I've only listened two times to the complete LTP.

Au contraire with their s.t., which i try to nervously break down every week at least one time..

But if it's any consolation, I still think they're funny guys.

[MissMaceo]

Do I count as an old boardie?

No.

[lifer]

I always think of ST as the best album. But every album has it's own character and style. My opinion is that Josh is using his voice better and better (wich shows good on LTP)

What Cha said.

[superjoint45]

I still love LTP. It fits well into the order of the older records. Who the fuck wants to make the same record over and over again. Ya gotta make some progress and if you leave some fans behind, then fuck em.

[Kickstand27]

R will always be my favorite album

[MissMaceo]

I think that as the older boardies get disillusioned with the band's new efforts, the board starts to show it - the disrespect and sense of entitlement get the best of people and they bring it to the board because where else can it go...

just my theory for the day

[brixton bruxelles]

i'm not an old boardie, but i loved most of LTP when it came out, but i got bored of most of it pretty quickly.

a bit hit and miss, really.

[Der Atomsmasher]

Yeah, it's pretty boring

Might've made a great EP

there needs to be a shake-up in the line-up if you ask me

[lifer]

I think that as the older boardies get disillusioned with the band's new efforts, the board starts to show it - the disrespect and sense of entitlement get the best of people and they bring it to the board because where else can it go...

just my theory for the day

That's fair to a degree, but it's also not entirely true either. I don't believe that I show disrespect or entitlement over anyone. I may have opinions, but so does everyone, including yourself. I--in fact--am replying to one of yours right here.

[Der Atomsmasher]

how much old blood is left, anyhow

[Cha]

That's fair to a degree, but it's also not entirely true either. I don't believe that I show disrespect or entitlement over anyone. I may have opinions, but so does everyone, including yourself. I--in fact--am replying to one of yours right here.

My opinion of Lifer is that he is a big gaybo bastard who secretly wears leather underwear. It's just an opinion, mind but it comes from a guy who has a walrus tache and handcarved ebony pipe. He's pretty masculine and buff.

[lifer]

how much old blood is left, anyhow

Good point. We're dying out.

@ Resa: You better post that pic, honey!

[a$$kicker]

i do... because its just more of the Queens.

i.e. -... I've got all the Morphine I will ever ever get, cus Mark Sandman died. No more...      

so, i like all their albums for different reasons/feelings moods. and I really like that  I can look forward to more and different stuff.

When they go rock ballad or "love song" album - they might lose me tho.

[CJ]

S/T for me.
L2P blew me away when I listened to it first, but got more and more boring with time.
Can't remember when I listened to it last.

[The Dude]

no

[Mr SpaceFlunky]

What Cha said.

yea what lifer and cha said.

[defdan]

It all depends on when I'm in the right mood.

I love it man.  It's different.

[KingShamus]

I dunno if I count as an old-head boardie, but I've been a secret decoder ring carrying QOTSA fan since 2000.

For what it's worth, my relationship wth LTP started off as a torrid love affair, but has since soured.  I was super into "Tangled Up in Plaid" and "Someone's in the Wolf".  I really dug "I Never Came", "In My Head" and I could appreciate "Long Slow Goodbye".  But I got bored with it after a few months.  I understand that bands have to go into different directions or they die creatively, but there was a lot of filler tracks on LTP that just went nowhere.  There were lots of ideas that were obviously cobbled together that didn't exactly mesh.  The edgy, unpredictable feel from previous albums was conspicuously absent.  And, dare I say it, I thought Josh leaned on his falsetto voice an awful lot, which I thought got tedious as the album progressed.  This was especially disappointing because on earlier tracks he paired his high pitched singing with heavy-ish music, which was a cool contrast.  On LTP, the track would be mellow and his voice would be prettied up, and that ended up being too much sameness.  

I still think QOTSA is the most musically interesting mainstream rock band out there right now.  I will always have faith in Josh's talent until he croaks.  I also think that Sir Lemming was right when he said that LTP was the album QOTSA had to put out at the time, considering the unstable circumstances that surrounded the band in 2004-2005.  LTP was still better than 90 percent of the crap put out in 2005.  I'm still a big QOTSA fan and I'm more than ready to hear where they go next.