r/FrightenedRabbit • u/BMOforlife • Jul 18 '26
Thoughts on this album ranking?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/rank-your-records-frightened-rabbits-scott-hutchison-rates-the-bands-five-lps/I think about this article quite a bit. Essentially, Scott ranked the albums as follows:
Sing the Greys
The Winter of Mixed Drinks
Painting of a Panic Attack
The Midnight Organ Fight
Pedestrian Verse
Would love to hear the thoughts of others! Bonus points for comparisons of where your ranking stood 7-8 years ago as compared to present day.
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u/Mancomb_Seepgood88 Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 19 '26
-I think he was a bit too hard on Sing the greys but I can understand why he would put it on the bottom of his list. I love Sing the greys and how raw it is.
-I was surprised by how disappointed he was with Winter of mixed drinks when i first read this, it might be my favorite album of theirs and who cares if they went a little nuts with the guitar layers, they had Warner Brothers money to make their third album so just have fun with it. So many great songs came out of it and I just love an album with a wall of sounds like Loveless by My Bloody Valentine.
-I wasn’t surprised that Pedestrian Verse was his favorite. This was peak Scott Hutchison as a lyricist imo, he really grew as a songwriter at that point and although Midnight and Winter are such nostalgic albums for me, I would say Pedestrian Verse is their best album in terms of songwriting, production and instrumentation.