No Shape by Perfume Genius
Usually when I hear a whiny indie voice, the whole album turns out to be a derivative and very unoffensive snorefest to me. It's how this one started, but it progressively got better on the first listen. So I thought that I warmed up to it, but obviously not, since it was a similar experience on the second listen. The second side is superior, and that run from Every Night to Sides was pretty good. I still don't really like Mike Hadreas' voice (and lyrics most of the time), but the instrumental part of the album was pretty cool. The album's best trait is that a random organ, woodwinds or Guitarrón can suddenly hit you out of nowhere. And a Weyes Blood feature is always very welcome. Overall a decent effort, better than I initially thought, although I still think some parts were boring. 6.5 or 7/10
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Jack Elliott is cool old school country/folk, try that one
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VanillaBean 2010s chart
Nothing - Tired of Tomorrow
Run the Jewels - Run the Jewels 2
NieR: Automata - 岡部啓一 [Keiichi Okabe], 帆足圭吾 [Keigo Hoashi], 高橋邦幸 [Kuniyuki Takahashi] & 瀬尾祥太郎 [Syotarou Seo]
Various Artists - Sinogaze Vol. 1
Eldamar - The Force Of The Ancient Land
My Bloody Valentine - mbv
Drake - If You're Reading This It's Too Late
Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?
Lower Dens - Escape From Evil
Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
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Drake - Nothing Was The Same
Tokyo Shoegazer - Crystallize
Ghost (SE) - Meliora
Ambersmoke - Lay My Bones Beneath The Valley Oak
Moodymann - DJ-Kicks
Disclosure - Settle
PUP - The Dream Is Over _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. The three ballads were my favorites because I liked that sound the most, with the best of them of course being "Free Bird." Some of the hard rockers didn't do much for me but there were nice mixes of country, blues, and rock all across this album. "Mississippi Kid" wasn't my favorite song here but it was probably the most interesting musically. I was kind of worried this would be some forgettable blues rock like you'd hear some local band playing at 4:00 PM at a state fair, but this wasn't that at all.
Give My Bloody Valentine's big comeback a shot. It's nowhere near the level of Loveless, but there are still a lot of interesting sounds on it.
BEA's top 1000 albums:
399. Breakfast in America by Supertramp
409. 98.12.28 男達の別れ [98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare] by Fishmans
429. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) by Car Seat Headrest (I've heard the original)
479. Out of the Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
531. Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
542. Hysteria by Def Leppard
544. Hand. Cannot. Erase by Steven Wilson
552. The Kick Inside by Kate Bush
569. Here's Little Richard by Little Richard
570. 2 by Mac Demarco _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
RockyRaccoonIs it solipsistic in here or is it just me?ModeratorProfile Maryland
You know, it's funny, I've always liked Cloud Nothings but never loved them. But I love this album, this is easily their best one I've heard. I love the sound, the loud kind of wall of sound feeling to the guitars (and speaking of which, the guitar-work is great), it's very hyper and frenetic and I really dig it. The lyrics are a little odd, but I love the sound. I kinda get why everyone has gotten psyched about their follow-ups since, though I don't think any of them compare to this one.
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BBS, this is one of my favorites, hopefully it'll be one of yours too
Here's what I've got for the overall's best of the 2010s:
Hand. Cannot. Erase - Steven Wilson
Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
Pure Comedy - Father John Misty
Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar
Joy As An Act Of Resistance - Idles
Saturation III - Brockhampton
Exmilitary - Death Grips
Saturation II - Brockhampton
Alvvays - Alvvays
The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) - Steven Wilson _________________ Progressive Rock
Definitely of its time & place, this is a slab of late 60s psychedelia kookiness that I'm sure the Manson family would have dug. But now it just mostly sounds pretty hokey. An interesting artifact of late 60s hippy dippy culture but certainly not the lost classic some would make you believe. Perhaps give it a spin just to see how off course hippy culture had gone. 🤔
Of the three 1970 releases I've checked out so far, this falls far, far below Lucifer's Friend's - s/t and Grand Funk Railroad's - Live, both of which I HIGHLY recommend unlike this.
Well that's one strike for Steppenwolf666's 1970 chart especially since he had that placed number 1. Hopefully the next one is a bit better....
Steppenwolf666's Best Albums of 1970
Black Widow - Sacrifice (Grade: C. RIYL: Moody Blues)
Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
Nosferatu - Nosferatu
T2 - It’ll All Work Out In Boomland
Man - Man
Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
Soft Machine - Third
Mandrake Memorial - Puzzle
Bob Smith - The Visit
Dogfeet - Dogfeet
Review: Sometimes cheesy New Age/Downtempo/Ambient that is fine for one listen, but probably not worth revisiting. Half good tracks, half stagnant tracks, but an overall average affair.
Source: I basically found this one when I got into a black hole on discogs. I think I'm one of maybe 1,000 people that's even listened to this now.
Rec: I thought Black Widow had some interesting moment, but I more or less agree with you on it. I'd probably give it a little higher score.
Go for T2 next.
Marble Sky- The Sad Return
Velehentor - Перевал Дятлова
Kenneth Gaburo- Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds
Pale Cocoon - Cocoon (繭）
Papa M- Live From a Shark Cage
Prince Douglas - Dub roots
Vanilla - Sweet Talk
Cardiacs - The Obvious Identity
Dave Burrell - Echo
Inspired School Of Astral Music - Celestrial Stairway
RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
Jack Takes The Floor by Ramblin' Jack Elliott
Yeah - I do dig this. I just am not sure how much. When I was in that phase where I thought the soundtrack to O Brother Where Art Thou was the shit, I think I would have liked this even more. To say this reminds me of that soundtrack, says a lot.
2. Celestrial Stairway - acutally sounds pretty cool. With a name like that I had to check a little out myself on BC.
3. Robert Dimery's 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die (530/1001)
At Mister Kelly's Sarah Vaughan 1950s 1957
Night Life Ray Price 1960s 1963
Olympia '64 Jacques Brel 1960s 1964
Blues Breakers John Mayall with Eric Clapton 1960s 1966
Midnight Ride Paul Revere and the Raiders 1960s 1966
Roger the Engineer The Yardbirds 1960s 1966
Beach Samba Astrud Gilberto 1960s 1967
Electric Music for the Mind and Body Country Joe & the Fish 1960s 1967
Gris-Gris Dr. John 1960s 1967
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim 1960s 1967
Fred Neil Fred Neil 1960s 1967Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) Loretta Lynn 1960s 1967I'm A Lonesome Fugitive Merle Haggard 1960s 1967Moby Grape Moby Grape 1960s 1967 Call of the Valley Shivkumar Sharma 1960s 1967 Triangle The Beau Brummels 1960s 1967 The Electric Prunes The Electric Prunes 1960s 1967 Headquarters The Monkees 1960s 1967 Groovin' The Young Rascals 1960s 1967Vincebus Eruptum Blue Cheer 1960s 1968 Caetano Veloso Caetano Veloso 1960s 1968Truth Jeff Beck 1960s 1968Eli and the Thirteenth Confession Laura Nyro 1960s 1968The Sounds of India Ravi Shankar 1960s 1968 Scott 2 Scott Walker 1960s 1968Ogden's Nut Gone Flake Small Face 1960s 1968The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter The Incredible String Band 1960s 1968Traffic Traffic 1960s 1968United States of America United States of America 1960s 1968Oar Alexandar Spence 1960s 1969 Odessa Bee Gees 1960s 1969Unhalfbricking Fairport Convention 1960s 1969Songs from a Room Leonard Cohen 1960s 1969Basket of Light Pentangle 1960s 1969The Gilded Palace of Sin The Flying Burrito Bros 1960s 1969Cloud Nine The Temptations 1960s 1969Elephant Mountain The Youngbloods 1960s 1969Happy Sad Tim Buckley 1960s 1969Mott the Hoople Mott the Hoople 1960s 1969
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
Thanks Rocky for choosing this for me to listen to. It's been an option a few times and would have been one of the first I would have chosen for myself. I've wanted to listen to this album for a long time. It was a bit of a unique experience to listen to an album where I knew half of the songs probably better than I know the back of my own hands, and not heard the other half at all. Probably half of my favourite Metallica songs are from this album. I hammered Metallica guitar hero back in the day. A couple of months ago I had a great night out at a karaoke bar and Enter Sandman was one of the highlights of the night. I probably butchered it but in my mind I nailed it. 😁 I'm giving this a 9.5/10 and 8/41 in my 1991 chart for now but I am going to listen again a few more times soon to work out exactly where it belongs in my 90's chart, and even to see if it deserves to be in my all time chart - I expect it will.
Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s by RoundTheBend (2 picks left)
16. Hush by Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin
20. Original Soundtracks 1 by Passengers
21. Greatest Hits by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
24. Pop by U2
29. Mutations by Beck
30. The Globe by Big Audio Dynamite II
33. Adore by The Smashing Pumpkins
44. There Is Nothing Left To Lose by Foo Fighters
46. Sublime by Sublime
48. Roseland NYC Live by Portishead
RockyRaccoonIs it solipsistic in here or is it just me?ModeratorProfile Maryland
It's funny, I've never been totally blown away by Porcupine Tree. I've always liked them, but never really went crazy for them, but after this, I kinda want to give their stuff another shot. This is a really excellent album. I wasn't sure how it'd be at the start but the highlights of the album are fantastic. I absolutely love Guthrie Govan's guitar playing on this, and while a couple of the songs might fall a little more into generic prog territory, most of it is quite good. I think I need to give Porcupine Tree another go.
Here's what I've got for the overall's 2010s list:
Strange Mercy - St. Vincent
Pure Comedy - Father John Misty
Section.80 - Kendrick Lamar
Joy As An Act Of Resistance - Idles
Saturation III - Brockhampton
Exmilitary - Death Grips
Saturation II - Brockhampton
Alvvays - Alvvays
The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories) - Steven Wilson
Father, Son, Holy Ghost - Girls _________________ Progressive Rock
This was a good pop album. I knew The Logical Song and the title track, which I didn't realize was on this album (I thought it was called The Girlfriend Song, I guess I confused it with The Logical Song). Other than those two nothing much stood out, but that's not a bad thing. It's well-written and quirky.
I would say you should start with the first album in the Saturation trilogy Rocky, but this is the best of the three so starting here is fine too.
BEA's top 1000 albums:
409. 98.12.28 男達の別れ [98.12.28 Otokotachi No Wakare] by Fishmans
429. Twin Fantasy (Face to Face) by Car Seat Headrest (I've heard the original)
479. Out of the Blue by Electric Light Orchestra
531. Tusk by Fleetwood Mac
542. Hysteria by Def Leppard
544. Hand. Cannot. Erase by Steven Wilson
552. The Kick Inside by Kate Bush
569. Here's Little Richard by Little Richard
570. 2 by Mac Demarco
572. Lungs by Florence and the Machine _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
I am absolutely baffled. This is a mysterious release indeed. Everything about the music down to the worn out cover art work and the synth textures would indicate that this is another new-agey album from the early 80s. But everything I can find online about this artist and album indicate that it was released in 2012. I don't know if this was some kind of private press that was released 30 years later, or maybe this dude just has an incredible synth collection, because, if it was recorded in 2012, then this is one of the best facsimiles of this sound that I've heard, because it totally fooled me.
Anyways, I also love when I can find a bandcamp with some fun stuff to read on it. Especially crazy New Age ramblings.
"There are various shrouded Stairways surrounding us.
The Celestrial Stairway is a visionary access point to a higher state of mental consciousness. This Celestrial Stairway leads up out of Forced Reality Consciousness (FRC) toward the calm of your own personal Lucid Realm (LR). The Forced Reality Consciousness is mostly controlled by destructive outside influences and dictated by the demands that daily life incur on our hearts, minds and bodies. Through accessing and ascending the Celestrial Stairway to the Lucid Realm, you can have complete control of your reality situation and the expressed desires of your world. You can find conclusions to obstacles you face in the FRC and can come to decisive and clear decisions. You will find that you can relax your overactive mind and focus on the things you truly want in your life.
The Celestrial Stairway is hidden from most and can be acessed through acts of meditation, astral projection, the various dream states and through the consumption of psychoactive substances.
If you are not happy, you can make your Life very different from what it is.
The one thing that can distinguish a new idea from a hallucination is if several people also believe in its total existance."
OK, Babyblue since Rocky just listened to Steven Wilson, how about you give us your take on it.
Marble Sky- The Sad Return
Velehentor - Перевал Дятлова
Kenneth Gaburo- Music for Voices, Instruments & Electronic Sounds
Pale Cocoon - Cocoon (繭）
Papa M- Live From a Shark Cage
Prince Douglas - Dub roots
Vanilla - Sweet Talk
Cardiacs - The Obvious Identity
Dave Burrell - Echo
Circus - Movin' On
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