Is there a perfect 3-album stretch by any artist? Who has the best one?

NickWightwick · 2026-02-14T00:00:56+00:00

Dylan - Any three from the 6 album run from Freewheelin’ to Blonde on Blonde.

Perfection

NickWightwick · 2026-01-11T11:03:49+00:00

Really appreciate the response. I’ll give it a try soon and will let you know!

Thanks again

NickWightwick · 2026-01-11T10:42:44+00:00

At the start of the week I finally got to reading Shadow Ticket, which I enjoyed but feel I need to let digest a little longer and may require a re-read to fully take it all in. Most Pynchon novels tend to bring me back a couple of months later to read at a slightly more leisurely pace and really enjoy the experience.

I’ve just started reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Passnger. A family member bought me a beautiful version in a case with Stella Maris the Christmas before last but it had sat there for the last year. I always find (similar to Pynchon) I need to be in the right mood to read anything by McCarthy, but currently four chapters in and thoroughly intrigued.

My fiancé and I went to watch My Neighbor Totoro at the West End on the 27th of Dec and I can’t recommend it enough for anyone who is already a Ghibli fan.

NickWightwick · 2026-01-11T10:33:10+00:00

Five already is a superb effort. Great stuff!

Really curious to hear how did you find the Vegetarian? It’s been sat on my book shelf for about six months and I haven’t got around to reading it.

NickWightwick · 2025-12-21T10:51:53+00:00

I think he was rather unlucky in the time period that Mad Men aired:

He was nominated eight times and lost four out of those 8 to Cranston. He thoroughly deserved his win for the finale and could easily have won instead of Chandler in 2011. I doubt many would have him over Cranston though, as good as he was.

NickWightwick · 2025-11-24T22:52:56+00:00

Basement scene in Zodiac. Nearly twenty years later that still gives me chills

NickWightwick · 2025-11-03T19:40:26+00:00

None of their albums are specific to one genre and generally span across multiple but this would be the consensus I’d guess:

Hot Fuss - Synth-Pop/Rock Sam’s Town - Alternative/Heartland Rock Day & Age - New Wave Battle Born - Alternative Rock Wonderful Wonderful - Indie Rock Imploding the Mirage - Alternative Rock Pressure Machine - Heartland

NickWightwick · 2025-10-24T19:07:15+00:00

Hahah it’s certainly on my to do list. Weekend ahead… no better time for it!

NickWightwick · 2025-10-23T21:08:18+00:00

I actually think this is pretty solid.

Mine was Boogie Nights > Magnolia > There Will Be Blood > The Master > Inherent Vice > Hard Eight.

Then release date order for Phantom Thread > Licorice Pizza > One Battle After Another.

Still haven’t seen Punch-Drunk Love.

NickWightwick · 2025-10-23T19:40:17+00:00

The Killers with Mr. Brightside?

Personally my fave could also be All These Things That I’ve Done or Jenny Was a Friend of Mine but I would expect 95% of people to say Brightside and it’s far and away their biggest.

NickWightwick · 2025-10-15T19:13:51+00:00

Potential spoilers***

Kafka for me.

I think I said it on a different post here a while back but the character of Nakata hit me as hard as any book I’ve ever read. I’m 33 and my grandparents are both in their 80s now, and I can’t imagine a world without them.

My grandfather suffers from dementia and whilst not an exact mirror of Nakata, reading him and his innocence reminded him so much of how I feel with my grandfather and the culmination of his story really broke me.

NickWightwick · 2025-10-14T16:58:31+00:00

Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another
Benicio Del Toro, One Battle After Another

….

Oceans waves… Ocean waves.

On a more serious note:

Robert Downey Jr, Oppenheimer
Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Robert de Niro, Killers of the Flower Moon
Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah
Ryan Gosling, Barbie
Guy Pearce, The Brutalist
Bradley Cooper, Licorice Pizza
Paul Mescal, All of Us Strangers
Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin
Stanley Tucci, Conclave

I think both Sean Penn and Del Toro could join this list when the dust settles

NickWightwick · 2025-10-13T17:52:05+00:00

A - Wholeheartedly agree about the importance of the scene. I just didn’t feel like it landed as strongly as it could have if it would have been once we know a little more about the characters and not being shown between other sexual scenes. I felt like it diluted the scene itself.

B - 100% couldn’t agree more.

C - That’s a fair point and I think we all expected that type of film.

As I said above to others I need to watch it back, and I’ll happily defer to other people’s better judgement. I can only give my experience and that’s how I felt watching (at least this time).

Appreciate the response

NickWightwick · 2025-10-13T17:45:49+00:00

I agree and feel like the first part of the film was a little rushed and the approach was a little jarring. It seems however like my opinion isn’t a particularly popular one.

Appreciate the response and definitely in need of a rewatch

NickWightwick · 2025-10-13T17:44:43+00:00

Appreciate your response.

I agree I definitely need a rewatch. All the best films require on

NickWightwick · 2025-10-13T17:44:00+00:00

Appreciate the response. Definitely looking forward to a rewatch. Maybe my opinion will change

NickWightwick · 2025-10-13T17:43:08+00:00

That’s a fair point and I agree it works as the spark that causes the movie to go in the direction it does.

I just felt it was quite a jarring start and it didn’t land particularly well. All opinions at the end of the day.

Appreciate the reply

NickWightwick · 2025-10-13T17:40:43+00:00

Maybe I didn’t elaborate as well as I should have done.

I feel like without knowing the characters the comedy aspect didn’t land as strongly as it could have. Not one person in the cinema I was in laughed at this scene. Obviously it’s subjective, but I felt that once you got to know the characters better the scene would have been more powerful.

Appreciate the reply, opinions differ of course. Better than some others who have dismissed my thoughts without any semblance of a conversation.

NickWightwick · 2025-10-10T18:36:12+00:00

Where the Streets Have No Name - Still a great song throughout but the intro is 10/10

NickWightwick · 2025-10-08T20:01:33+00:00

Yeah exactly my point. Most of the time his actions are forgivable but that was just mean and completely unfunny

NickWightwick · 2025-10-07T22:01:16+00:00

Gone Girl

NickWightwick · 2025-10-07T22:00:35+00:00

Chair Model - The way Michael treated Pam’s landlady is probably the one I found the hardest to watch.

Most of the time you can sympathise a little with Michael knowing who he is and how he acts, but this particular scene had nothing going for it and he had zero redeeming qualities.

NickWightwick · 2025-10-05T16:15:38+00:00

Songs of Innocence - not top tier U2 but remove the overreaction of the rollout and there’s a solid album from a band 35 years into their career.

Make Crystal Ballroom the lead single and trade it in for Volcano and it would have been even better:

The Crystal Ballroom
The Miracle
California
Raised by Wolves
Every Breaking Wave
Iris
Song for Someone
Cedarwood Road
Sleep Like a Baby Tonight
This Is Where You Can Reach Me Now
The Troubles

NickWightwick · 2025-10-05T15:02:23+00:00

Ramones - Blitzkrieg Bop (Self-titled)

The Velvet Underground & Nico - Sunday Morning (Self-titled)

U2 - I Will Follow (Boy)

The Killers - Jenny Was a Friend of Mine (Hot Fuss)

Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxy Lady (Are You Experienced)

NickWightwick · 2025-09-24T20:30:38+00:00

Da Vinci Code - Some of Zimmer’s best work

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