Clem SnideBest Clem Snide Albums Ranked
5.7
Avg Score
6
Opinions
6
Albums
1
Reviewer
Summary from 6 ratings
On Wavelength, fans have rated Clem Snide's catalog across 6 albums from 6 opinions, with an overall average of 5.7/10. The top-rated Clem Snide album is You Were a Diamond (1998) with a 7.9/10 average from 1 rating, followed by Forever Just Beyond and The Ghost Of Fashion. The discography on Wavelength spans 1998 to 2020.
You Were a Diamond
“When I first checked out Clem Snide, it was on the recommendations of a gig flier from a favorite, underrecorded Boston band, the Pee Wee Fist. Fist leader Pete Fitzpatrick had a longtime friendship with the band-- he's now their full-time guitarist-- and listening to their debut, *You Were a Diamond*, it was easy to hear the similarities. Stylistically, both bands remained just outside any standa”
Forever Just Beyond
“This comeback album, assisted by Scott Avett, feels both charmingly at ease and refreshingly ambitious, grappling with life’s big questions over understated, easygoing production.”
The Ghost Of Fashion
“I have this theory about how music criticism is supposed to work. Critics listen and write, readers read and consider. Over time, a regular reader of a publication finds a commonality of opinion with one or two reviewers; their notions of what's good or bad converge more often than the other hacks. Trust is formed-- they bond. It's interactive and symbiotic. We're the parasites; you're the hosts. ”
The Meat Of Life
“After almost breaking up during the recording of 2009's The Hungry Bird, Clem Snide are back, if not exactly re-energized.”
Hungry Bird
“Originally slated as the final album from Eef Barzelay's Clem Snide, which may or may not be defunct, Hungry Bird substitutes the band's erstwhile lighthearted alt-country with more sober, standard folk fare.”
Your Favorite Music
“True, Clem Snide's music shares similar funhouse-mirrored folk/bizarro-country concepts with the likes of veterans Lambchop and Palace. Unlike the great Lambchop, however, Clem Snide's contribution to the Snore-core movement features little but silly, oblique wordplay with music as mere afterthought: lethargic bass lines, barely-strummed C, G and F chords, maybe some morbid violin accompaniment. I”
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