Best Ever Albums

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revolver94 — Thu, 13 May 2021 12:26:46 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 05/13/2021 16:26

Mercury wrote:

holy shit 10 years wild! well that is cool.

sucks about the wired up part. you should (and i know for a fact you have not heard this from anyone nor thought of it once yourself) listen to The College Dropout. And once your jaw is doing reasonably well, sing and rap the lyrics of Through The Wire.

it's been playing thru my head nonstop!! especially the "boost for breakfast, ensure for dessert" line bc - it's very true right now lol

Repo wrote:

:love:

<333

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Repo — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:18:26 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 05/11/2021 19:18

revolver94 wrote:

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Mercury — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:15:55 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 05/11/2021 16:15

revolver94 wrote:

it's been 10 years to the day since I joined BEA!!! pretty insane to think about. grateful for the role the site has played in my musical development and hope it can keep doing that for others going forward! 😁

for a musical update: not much. just had jaw surgery so I'm wired shut/doped up and watching tv these days.

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revolver94 — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:04:12 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 05/11/2021 16:04

it's been 10 years to the day since I joined BEA!!! pretty insane to think about. grateful for the role the site has played in my musical development and hope it can keep doing that for others going forward! 😁

for a musical update: not much. just had jaw surgery so I'm wired shut/doped up and watching tv these days.

k-pop pt. 2

revolver94 — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 23:09:48 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 01/29/2021 04:09

some more kpop for ya - give it a chance folks!!

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revolver94 — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 12:12:11 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 11/16/2020 17:12

hello!

i've been less active over the last few months because of my latest (non-album-oriented) obsession: k-pop!

here are some of the highlights of my latest musical journey

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and my favorite...

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for anyone especially interested, here is my spotify playlist of my top 30 k-pop songs (starting at #1)

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revolver94 — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:42:43 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 01/22/2020 23:42

I just finished my top songs of the 2010s list!! It took a while but I'm very happy with it. I limited to one song per artist.

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/petsounds94/top-songs-of-the-2010s/

let me know what you think!!

spotify link:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/58eCfZWG44mUH7SVUI0Lf9?si=-QicMPQ-Qr2pE79JTZkawQ

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Hayden — Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:52:22 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 06/05/2019 15:52

'Tis a groovy jam, 'tis.

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revolver94 — Wed, 5 Jun 2019 11:49:58 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 06/05/2019 15:49

Tilly wrote:

NIce! Now I'll have to check out the album! :D

😁 😁 😁 thanks for reading!!

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Repo — Tue, 4 Jun 2019 21:48:26 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 06/05/2019 01:48

NIce! Now I'll have to check out the album! 😁

Frontier Track Review

revolver94 — Tue, 4 Jun 2019 11:39:34 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 06/04/2019 15:39

hello!!!! so its been just over a year now since I've posted here last but i recently wrote a review of my current favorite song of the year, which i doubt will change, i'm truly obsessed. I'm worked p hard on it so id be very happy happy if anyone reads/has feedback!

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For decades, perhaps even centuries, modern man has felt disconnected from the strife and drive of early humankind. We think of them abstractly, speaking with disconnected ease at the struggles they faced to survive the millennia so that we could live comfortably in the 21st century. While we crave the ease of the current age, many yearn for the passion and unadulterated vigor with which we color the daily lives of those of earlier times. Yet, we also view life as getting harder with each passing day: iPhones run faster, but the job market suffers. Air-conditioned rooms insulate a society burdened with the uneasy sense of doom brought about by climate change, which is coped with most often through an ironic lens. This translates into our art as well. While the past seems to have an unabashed mythic purity in its portrayal of ideals, ours seems soaked in over-analysis of the cruel systems underlying them all. These contradictory and “us vs. them” perspectives, while appealing on a superficial level, serve only to promote a pessimistic view of the history of our species, and ignores the underlying humanity and relative genetic constancy behind all of these changes.

Given how increasingly pervasive these attitudes have become, “Frontier,” Holly Herndon’s second single off of PROTO and its arguable centerpiece, feels timely, with its themes that cross generational, even epochal boundaries. It was created in part with Spawn, an AI program she developed with the help of her partner Mat Dryhurst, to learn from, imitate, and creatively synthesize the human voice. A chorus of these voices introduces the track, swelling in a holy unison to portray the human drive forward - a drive bringing about the real aforementioned changes, which can obscure this common and inherent theme that binds us to those who pressed on before. The artificial origin of these voices is not immediately noticeable, but the realization of their synthetic genesis does not make the message more sterile; in the context of a digitized world, it feels necessary to integrate such a daily part of our lives into the art that sustains us.

These voices are inspired in part by the tradition of Sacred Harp Music, once almost lost, which originated in part to bring together the wide breadth of people moved by music, regardless of their musical background. (Sacred Harp Music originally used a small number of polygons to indicate notes, removing the need for the often-exclusive ability to read traditionally written music.) Singers sit in a square formation based on vocal range and perform without accompaniment, for the sake of the music itself. This results in a truly engulfing and uplifting effect; it is truly a testament to the power we have when united as a group. The themes of this style had religious overtones, and while not always explicitly religious today, the undercurrents of the human desire for truth and God still inform how it feels to perform and to hear Sacred Harp. While a historical lens gives much reason to be skeptical of how inspired organized religion was by an actual deity, the role of the individual yen for something greater than the self have played an equal or greater role in our spiritual development, and Sacred Harp Music is as strong an argument as any for this.

Humanity is not the only constant addressed by Herndon here; nature’s role as eternal backdrop and arbiter is confronted starkly. The choir asserts that “this earth doesn’t care for what we need, what we breathe.” This indifference of our planet stretches back to our even more primordial ancestors; the Great Oxygenation Event, which occurred almost 2.5 billion years ago caused the massive accumulation of oxygen on earth. This change caused the majority of life forms, then anaerobic, to go extinct. The balance of the atmosphere is by no means guaranteed, and shifting balances today dominate headlines (and likely soon our final thoughts). Another cut off of PROTO, “Eternal Love,” frames this shift more optimistically: we were borne out from the hardiness of bacteria, we continue to harbor and spread them as we exist day today, and they will likely inherit the planet from us after our time has passed. “Thriving in extreme conditions, they proved to be more fit, better at taking the next leap. There was no doubt they could travel through space, distributed by meteoroids, asteroids, comets, planetoids, and spacecraft,” the young speaker on the track posits.

About midway through its runtime, “Frontier” shifts from its original choral arrangement into a rhythmic frenzy, led by Herndon’s heavily modulated vocals. She now evokes the universal themes of survival, grit, and the heroic. “Son, it's the right time, never be afraid, the run is tonight,” she commands, which could suggest a prehistoric tribe on the hunt for a woolly mammoth, but also soldiers fighting for a lost romantic cause (or the trials of unconsidered families struggling against their wonton bloodshed). The eternal human ethos of forward-movement cannot be denied and Herndon implores us not to forget this. Her seeming juxtaposition of the primal with the future is prescient. We can and must, as our biology demands, bear ourselves truly into this uncertain future, though even if we fail to persevere, our legacy lives on in the eternal dance of Earth and the cosmos.

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revolver94 — Sat, 6 Jan 2018 01:03:50 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 01/06/2018 06:03

ok wow guess i failed at that but.

main updates:

Feel It Break by Austra

i am OBSESSED with this album its PERFECT especially the opener is a perfect song.

synthpop, cold and warm, goth lite

also--- really into rae morris now, her new album is out in a month and all the singles are baller (synth pop, very fun, belongs-in-a-target-commerical sound)

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yeah honestly those are the big updates. theres more ofc but this is all worth reporting, by which i mean i implore all of you to listen to all of the above

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revolver94 — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 12:15:37 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 07/16/2017 16:15

Tilly wrote:

Will be looking forward to your updates! :D

hahaha ok well i havent been posting here butttttt

so my main jam has been "summer bummer" by lana for sure. it really is the perfect summer jam, like u can feel the oppressive heat as u listen

melodrama has quickly become my fav record of the year. pretty perfect, the title track is the only arguable dud.

scandinavian music has been dominating my listening lately too -- susanne sundfor, jenny hval, and tove styrke are all majorly on rotation.

other noteworthy listening trends include banks and my chemical romance! both of those have some solid melodies but its the aesthetic that im mostly attracted to -- such crazy vibes!

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Repo — Mon, 15 May 2017 15:09:40 GMT

Author: Repo

Posted: 05/15/2017 19:09

revolver94 wrote:

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New View by Eleanor Friedberger

wow! so tilly just recommended this to me, and ive gotta say i liked it much more than i expected! not that i went in w low expectations, ive always just been a bit intimidated by the fiery furnaces. i honestly liked every song on here! the songwriting was killer throughout. i need to get into the fiery furnaces now! like i cant even pick a fav song every one was good.

Awesome! 😁 I thought you'd dig it. Her other two solo albums are equally as good. Her solo stuff is quite different from her stuff with Fiery Furnaces. So, I'll be curious to see what you think.

Psyched you revitalized your diary!!! Will be looking forward to your updates! 😁

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revolver94 — Mon, 15 May 2017 11:58:32 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 05/15/2017 15:58

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craola — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 17:22:19 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 12/29/2016 22:22

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this is the best ever title

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revolver94 — Thu, 29 Dec 2016 15:05:17 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 12/29/2016 20:05

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THIS IS THE ONLY THING I LISTEN TO NOW

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alelsupreme — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:14:29 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 05/29/2016 14:14

revolver94 wrote:

nada im a bea og!

BEAlite.

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revolver94 — Sun, 29 May 2016 10:03:47 GMT

Author: revolver94

Posted: 05/29/2016 14:03

alelsupreme wrote:

this is fucked i coulda swore you came like a good year or so after me.

nada im a bea og!

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alelsupreme — Tue, 24 May 2016 13:28:10 GMT

Author: alelsupreme

Posted: 05/24/2016 17:28

revolver94 wrote:

just realized that 10 days ago was the 5 year anniversary of me joining BEA... damn.

this is fucked i coulda swore you came like a good year or so after me.