[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;31822233]I respect metallica but I hate their music
[editline]19th August 2011[/editline]
especially hetfield's voice, jesus[/QUOTE]
GIMME FUE' GIMME FIYAH
And it isn't "DABAJABAZA", it's "THAT WIT' CHINESE EYE"
The Evolution Of Chaos - Heathen Such an amazing thrash album. Probably one of the better Metal releases of 2010..
[QUOTE=vagrant;31758649]too lazy to find pictures but had a very musical day:
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs 100000/10
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks 8/10
Bob Dylan - Desire 8/10
Joni Mitchell - Hissing of the Summer Lawns 7/10[/QUOTE]
I've got all of Dylan's albums but for some weird reason I can't dig Desire as much as I'm supposed to. :(
And I'm the guy that liked his funny stuff...
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[b]Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
A[/b]
Really beautiful. I love the way the style changes over the course of the album, building from the droning ambient opening track to the loud and brash first couple of tracks from the second disc, then fading back to calm by the end.
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[b]Crushing Sun - TAO
B[/b]
Sounds kind of like a heavier, less prog-influenced Gojira. Pretty good, but nothing particularly impressive.
heavier gojira
impossible
I should work for Pitchfork or something because I can be harsh as fuck. These are the last three I listened too:
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Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
[b]8.6/10[/b]
[b]Tracks:[/b]
4: A nice start. It's like a really good normal song with an evil drum beat trying to attack it, sometimes gainng the upperhand. Fits really well together to me. 9/10
Cornish Acid: Song reminds me of a game I used to play as a kid, Micro Maniacs. If you ever played it too, you know what I'm talking about. 8/10
Peek 824545201: Oh shit is that a car alarm? No, it's just some acid techno about to begin. Feels like creepy bleeps and bloops watching me in my sleep. I really like the last minute of it though. 7/10
Fingerbib: 53 seconds and I'm in love already. This is fucking brilliant. Favorite song so far. It's a lot more catchy and memorable than the last three, like a diamond in the rough. I get that feeling that this will be a song I'll be playing a lot. 10/10
Carn Marth: Not corn mouth. Like the music to the Matrix with less action, more running. A lot more running. Around 1:30 it changes and feels more like a montage of someone on their route to work. Then they start running again, and it's over. 7/10
To Cure A Weakling Child: I get that Fingerbib feeling again. I enjoy how it gives me the feel of some sort of innocence that isn't innocence. It's like a lullaby sung to a baby microwave. 10/10
Goon Gumpas: A song that an Oompa Loompa goes to sleep to. 9/10
Yellow Calx: Feels like a blend of everything mediocre in the other tracks thrown into one. Meh. 6/10
Girl/Boy Song: Feels like the climax of the album, it's really great. Fantastic piece. 10/10
Logon Rock Witch: I was scared at first because I thought I was listening to an Animal Collective song. I wasn't. The organ in the background and progressing rhythm temporarily defeats the strange samples and side whistle, and once it returns, it's been drowned out.
10/10
[b]Art:[/b] It's Aphex Twin. That face. It contrasts and applies to the main feels of the album very well. But it's Aphex Twin... that face... 8/10
[b]Last Words:[/b] This album sounds like what you dream of when in that weird-ass liquid chamber in the Matrix. It's a nice dream.
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Radiohead - Kid A
[b]9.4/10[/b]
[b]Tracks:[/b]
Everything In It's Right Place: Those first five notes will always make me forget where I am in the world, and make me remember that I should be listening to Radiohead at this exact second. Thank god, I am. It does set the idea that everything about this album is in it's right place, but it won't be for long. 10/10
Kid A: Gives me a Once-Upon-A-Time feeling at first, but leads into a more accessable song with a drumbeat... and hardly inteligble vocal track. 8/10
The National Anthem: Fantastic song. Things aren't looking good. Then they get worse. Then things calm down. Then it goes to shit again, permanently. Everything isn't in it's right place anymore. 10/10
How To Disappear Completely: Thom Yorke manages to write simple lyrics like "I'm not here/This isn't happening" that mean so much regardless of their minimalism. It's denial, and also, in my opinion, the most depressing song of all time.10/10
Treefingers: I don't like ambient music. Treefingers is borderline ambient music. I love Treefingers. I think I like ambient music now. 8/10
Optimistic: One of the few songs with a normal song structure, albeit still being fucked up. I feel like this is the song I'd listen to if I was looting after a riot or something. 9/10
In Limbo: Wasn't I listening to Optimistic a second ago? Nope. Fucking phenomenal lyrics here, with a fitting but not mind-blowing musical arrangement. Living in a fantasy world. 10/10
Idioteque: "This is really happening" I guess he got over the fourth track by now. The instrumentals are good, but Thom's voice is where the meat of the song is. This is where I think "Didn't Radiohead have guitar solos in the last album?" and then realize "Yeah. So...?" 10/10
Morning Bell: If I were to listen to this song in the morning, I'd realize that today will suck, but tomorrow can't possibly be as bad as today, so I'll have to look forward to it. 9/10
Motion Picture Soundtrack: A fitting ending to an excellent album. It's like the first half of the song is someone dying, the silence in the center is death, and that one burst of music is the afterlife. 10/10
[b]Art:[/b] Perfection. All of the art in the vinyl perfectly fits the music and ideals. 10/10
[b]Last Words:[/b] The "Kid A Predicted 9/11" stuff is stupid, but if you've ever read the story about it, it's quite fitting actually. This album tells, to me, a story of something that you never expect will happen, but can happen at any day of your life. A beautiful disaster. Oh, and Morning Bell's much better on this than Amnesiac.
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Panic! At the Disco - Vices & Virtues
[b]3.4/10[/b]
[b]Tracks[/b]
The Ballad of Mona Lisa: This song was written for the radio. There is no doubt in my mind about that. Not a good song, too. Highlights include the one-note guitar breakdown. 2/10
Let's Kill Tonight: This sounds like they tried to do a cover of a song by a band that is influenced by nothing but Panic at the Disco's first album, and this cover sucks. The chorus just screams "IT'S LOUD AND IT SOUNDS COOL" but it's just the drums of a metalcore breakdown and whining synthesizers. 2/10
Hurricane: Oh look, another song from their first album. Except the chorus sounds like a 3OH!3 song. The best one so far simply because I can imagine partying to this song. Unfortunately, I hate partying. 3/10
Memories: It sounds like a U2 song with the Edge's sex offender cousin mixing it all together and throwing in some synthesizer. Contains such fantastic, deep lyricism as "It was beautifully depressing/Like a Steetcar Named Desire" and "Oh oh oh-oh oh ah oh oh ah oh" 4/10
Trade Mistakes: Finally, something that sounds even a BIT like Pretty. Odd. 7/10
Ready To Go (Get Me Out Of My Mind) Another song made for the radio. Another chorus revolving around "Oh's". A hell of a lot more catchy than Mona Lisa though. 6/10
Always: The "soft" song. Tries to sounds like Pretty. Odd., but fails. 3/10.
The Caldendar: Urie is writing lyrics like Pretty. Odd. but unfortunately the songs all sound the same. The effect near the end attempts to sound climactic. Nice try. And nice job stopping the song completely and adding in a slow instrumental piece. For the second time. 2/10
Sarah Smiles: There is nothing about this song I like. I can't even think of one thing. That's really not good. Oh wait, I love the sounds of the kids shouting "bang bang bang". That was great. 0/10
Nearly Witches (Ever Since We Met...): I feel like this is the guilty pleasure song that they had seconds thoughts of releasing. Strange, because it's better than the rest of the shit on this album. 8/10
[b]Art:[/b] Two guys sitting on a couch. Are they in Panic at the Disco? You bet your sweet ass. 3/10
[b]Last Words:[/b] I loved A Fever You Can't Sweat Out. I fucking adored Pretty. Odd. Why do I hate this album? I just looked up the Wikipedia article and learned that the only good song on the album was co-written by Ryan Ross before he left. Does that, or anything else in this review help anyone realize that Ryan Ross made the band not fucking awful?
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[b]Have a Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
A[/b]
Really beautiful. I love the way the style changes over the course of the album, building from the droning ambient opening track to the loud and brash first couple of tracks from the second disc, then fading back to calm by the end.[/QUOTE]
I listened to this album too
It was one of the not quite as good shoegaze albums I've heard, the other two being Slowdive's Soulaki and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, but I'd give it a B- or a C+, maybe in the middle from being a high C to a low B
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Dream Theater - Images And Words 1992
shit/shit
sdihaoehgioahclhwvuigxhakjawxkles shit
its shit
boy am I a pretentious asshole
Spoiler: [sp]it sucks[/sp]
DT try way to hard to be ~deep~
[QUOTE=Checkers;31873578]
You could call it meaningful but that word doesn't really mean anything anymore.
[/QUOTE]
Why do you sound so depressed here?
And someone saying an album is "pointless" is like someone saying a movie has no action.
I get the point but it's not clever.
[QUOTE=Checkers;31873578]Dream Theater - Images And Words 1992
3/10[/QUOTE]
3/10? Really? I would understand maybe a 5 at least but 3/10 I wouldnt even give to Yellow Trash Bazooka.
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Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
7/10, maybe 8/10. Dig the shoegaze sound
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8/10
One of the best film soundtracks I've heard, definition of 80s sci fi mixed with 21st
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Paramore - Riot
7/10
liked it way more than I should've
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[B]The Weeknd - Thursday[/B]
7/10
After House of Baloons it's understandable that there would be massive expectations places on the two and I think to a point they've met them; however the mixtape just didn't feel as varied as the last one and thus loses some points IMO. There is also the fact that many (including me) feel that Abel is using his "oohs and ahhs" as a crutch instead of writing more lyrics.
I must admit as soon as I finished listening to it I thought it was better than House of Baloons but after some thought i've decided to give it a 7/10. As a mixtape in itself it's absolutely brilliant but compared to [I]HoB[/I] I think the former mixtape outshines this one.
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Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle
7/10
Yellow trash bazooka is at least interesting
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Judas Priest - Jugulator (1997)
No, I did not choose a bad picture, the album art actually is a 200x200-ish picture like that, if you don't believe me, look at the text.
6/10, it's a good "dark" album as long as you don't expect it to be the classic Halford Judas Priest.
I really like the songs Jugulator and Cathedral Spires.
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;31856258]I listened to this album too
It was one of the not quite as good shoegaze albums I've heard, the other two being Slowdive's Soulaki and My Bloody Valentine's Loveless, but I'd give it a B- or a C+, maybe in the middle from being a high C to a low B[/QUOTE]
It's not really a shoegaze album, it just uses shorgaze in really cool ways. It's a really hard album to give a genre though.
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[B]Cursed - II[/B] (9/10)
Not sure exactly what to call these guys. Crust punk, metallic hardcore maybe... I don't know, all I know is that they're hardcore and they're heavy as fuck and II is their best offering.
With their other two albums (creatively named I and III) they attempted a controlled chaos sound but missed their mark at some points. With II, Cursed hit their mark creating the perfect mix of chaos and melody. Its hard to describe the music on here, but despite a few weak points, the album is the near perfect essence of "controlled chaos" from the first notes of the Intro to the last haunting notes of the Outro. Highly recommended.
[QUOTE=Checkers;31873578]The singing and instruments are [b]generically good[/b]. I guess they're all "talented"[/QUOTE]
there isn't anything generic about dream theater...
[QUOTE=Take_Opal;31891057]It's not really a shoegaze album, it just uses shorgaze in really cool ways. It's a really hard album to give a genre though.[/QUOTE]
well it was a good listen and I will undoubtedly listen to it again
[QUOTE=ThatCrazyGmanV2;31894471]there isn't anything generic about dream theater...[/QUOTE]
I don't see how they're generic at all...
Generic doesn't mean bad. :>
But when the band isn't generic...
generic means stale
stale means done before
done before means uninteresting
uninteresting means bad
[QUOTE=En-Guage V2;31895952]generic means stale
stale means done before
done before means uninteresting
uninteresting means bad[/QUOTE]
Yeah but you had to leap to 4 different viewpoints to get there.
Good means happy.
Happy means gay.
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