Journal For Plague Lovers - Retrospective

[Rasgard]

I still love it the same way...

[Son of Stopped]

It's grown better yada yada, but Bag Lady is not worth waiting for and This Joke Sport Severed and Doors Closing Slowly still do nothing for me.

[Deets]

well, few tracks have grown on me, but few are not as good as I thought they were in May. and I'm still preferring the demos

[mrsmanics]

I still love it as much as I did. Interestingly, the first time I heard it, I wasn't completely blown away by it. I liked it. In fact, I liked it a lot. But there was no sense of "OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST THING THEY'VE EVER DONE!" or anything like that. After a couple of listens, however, I fell totally and utterly in love with it and it became an album I listened to almost constantly when driving anywhere in the car.

Now, I listen to it a bit less, which is what I expected, but I still feel exactly the same about it. I love it.

[UEF]

Best modern MSP-like album since The Great Western.

[Mary Chain]

I absolutely adore it still, nothing about my opinion has changed. It's almost perfect as rock albums go, for me.

I did listen to it on repeat for about 6 months though so now I'm having some crucial 'away time'.

[sculptureofabloke]

I still love it as much as I did first few listens, although I've had about 6 favourite tracks so far...

[gabo86]

Since the first time I listened to it, I loved it. The only thing that changed in these four months is my rating of each song.
For example, TJSS, SBHIABOB and VSEP have been a grower. PA, JFPL and WLW have always been my favourites the beginning. MASH and AIV...well, I used to love them in the beginning, now I just like them.

And the only certainty is my feeling for DCS: I really hate it.

Great album tho. Maybe too unfocused (but I opened another thread for discuting that), but great.

[Guernica]

There really isn't a poll option for me; I'd be somewhere around "I like it but not as much as I did on first listen."

I don't see this record staying permanently on my playlist the way KYE, GT, and THB do. It'll wander on and off it like SATT.

[corporatetom]

I started off really liking it, but now absolutely love it.

I was very sceptical at first when people were putting it as one of their top 2 or 3 Manics albums before it had even come out (granted they'd heard a leak, but still, slow down!), but now I feel it does belong up there.

I think I've listened to JFPL more regularly for a more sustained period than any other album. I don't know if anyone else feels the same, but aren't Richey's lyrics just better for singing along to? I'm worried what that might say about me, but I am (generally) much happier singing his words, and find them more memorable, than Nicky's.

Best songs for me are All Is Vanity, JFPL, This Joke Sport Severed. Doors Closing Slowly is pretty wet though, and WLW is sweet, but not much more.

[Bobafettish]

I see it as 'my' manics album. Seems to musically resonate with me so much at the time.
I prefer it to all of the manics albums, except the holy bible, and it's such a privilege to have heard it all live

[mad-as-burnt-toast]

Loved it and still do!

Especially Peeled Apples and Marlon JD

[RegionFreeKB]

It holds up man, it really does, I stand by my initial assessment

[Ken Korda]

I loved it when it came out and I still absolutely love it now.

The 'YEAH LETS REPEAT IT A MILLION TIMES. I NEVER WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING ELSE.' novelty has worn off but JFPL still secures a 2nd place in my personal Manics albums chart.

[Clarence Pistoldinner]

I still love it. I was really ready for them to muck it up, but they got it spot on!
Luuuuuuuuurve it!!!