Right. I got "top ten" confused with "top ten of his overall list." Shit, whatever. I changed it to Operation Mindcrime, is that alright? _________________ Do it yourself and let me play my music: https://www.besteveralbums.com/thechart.php?c=61802
An album that's been on my wishlist for some time. Its the bass that stands out to me on this album. An album full of short songs that mostly contain some excellent basslines and good guitar solos. I am sure this album must have been an influence on a lot of bass players, Flea and Les Claypool immediately come to mind. To be honest, even though I still enjoyed each song on an individual level, after about 30 songs I was starting to feel as if I had had enough, so the length of the album is a negative for me. I am unlikely to listen to it again as a whole piece of work, whereas if it was half the length, or two albums I probably would. Still an important piece of work, and i give it 8/10, and place it 17/28 in my 1984 chart.
Rocka you have a rare album I've heard to choose. I was a big fan of Loop in the early '90s and although it's been a long time since I've listened to it, and I don't recall Heaven's End as being my favourite of theirs, it will be good to listen to it again.
20. Moving Pictures by Rush
23. Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
32. So by Peter Gabriel
37. The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
38. Nebraska by Bruce Springsteen
40. Synchronicity by The Police
41. The Dreaming by Kate Bush
43. War by U2
48. Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
51. The River by Bruce Springsteen
baystateoftheartNeil Young as a butternut squashProfile Massachusetts
I didn't like this. Her vocal phrasing and affectation are very similar to Alanis Morissette, which is not a positive in my book. To make matters worse, the catchy rock instrumentals that make Jagged Little Pill work have been replaced by nondescript folk. The lyrics are worse too, and at times cringeworthy. There are a couple solid songs, and this isn't exactly bad, just disappointingly middling. 2.5/5.
198. AM - Arctic Monkeys
202. An Awesome Wave - ∆ (alt-J)
222. Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
231. Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs - Derek & The Dominos
232. Favourite Worst Nightmare - Arctic Monkeys
233. Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
238. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
256. Thick As A Brick - Jethro Tull
263. Machine Head - Deep Purple
269. So - Peter Gabriel _________________ Join us in the canon game :) / Add me on RYM
Rock on. If you like Spacemen 3 or Brian Jonestown Massacre, then you'll certainly like Loop. Surprised it took me this long to get on it. Great psych-rock/space-rock thing going on here.
OH YEAH, Baystate you should listen to Peter Gabriel.
GÉRARD GRISEY : "Les Espaces Acoustiques"
Message - From Books and Dreams
The Northern Hymn - Kammarheit
Javiera Mena - Mena
Nine Days' Wonder - Nine Days' Wonder
Mathias Grassow - Rest in Emptiness
Byron Stingily- The Purist
Giddy Motors- Make It Pop
Picchio dal Pozzo- Picchio dal Pozzo
Itoiz - Ezekiel
Times Of Grace by Neurosis
This sounds huge. Like most of Neurosis' later music it was produced by Albini, so it shouldn't be a surprise that production-wise Times Of Grace is pretty much perfect. Both this detailed and immaculately produced music and the rawer sound of Through The Silver In Blood fit the band imo. Songs were just a bit less refined than on their previous effort, but I liked the interludes and intro/outro more here. Overall I think both are equally great. Another cool thing: this one has a companion album called Grace, a dark ambient piece by Tribes of Neurot, a band which has all of the same members as Neurosis. Basically they said that the two should be listened in the same time, and of course YT did its magic and we have this. I don't know what to think of that one, it's interesting but at times the ambient background is barely there. Other times it complements the music well. Anyways The Last You'll Know is probably the best Neurosis song I've heard, and the album deserves 8.5/10
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deepcuts top 50 of the decade & RYM metal top 100
15/ The Armed - Untitled
49/ Greg Ward - Touch my Beloved's Thought
50/ Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Immolation - Close To The World Below
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Demilich - Nespithe
Diamond Head - Lightning To The Nations
Coroner - Mental Vortex
Godflesh - Streetcleaner _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
"Symphonic Prog" and "Progressive Folk" aren't usually the sub-genres I want to see on a Prog album, but this Spanish album was consistently engaging and varied over it's short 37 minute runtime. You all already know that shorter is better for me generally, and the songs on this album had it going by pretty quick. The instrumentation is varied with acoustic guitar, saxophone, flute, keyboard, male and female vocals; the saxophone is pretty 80s sounding, but it works here for whatever reason. Track 4 brings a lot of these elements together, and I'm surprised that it works well. On paper those elements sound like a disaster.
GÉRARD GRISEY : "Les Espaces Acoustiques"
Message - From Books and Dreams
The Northern Hymn - Kammarheit
Javiera Mena - Mena
Nine Days' Wonder - Nine Days' Wonder
Mathias Grassow - Rest in Emptiness
Byron Stingily- The Purist
Giddy Motors- Make It Pop
Picchio dal Pozzo- Picchio dal Pozzo
World Standard- World Standard
babyBlueSedanUsed to be sort of blind, now can sort of seeProfile
Welcome Spyglass! Hope you enjoy Fantastic Planet.
Tha1ChiefRocka wrote:
The singer was unfortunately compared to Kurt Cobain too much, and that might have caused some to write them off as just another grunge band
I've never gotten this criticism, because to me the vocals don't sound anything like Cobain. I guess they kind of have Cobain's vocal style, but I think Cobain was a lot more unrestrained. And anyway it's kind of a moot point because sonically the bands are nothing alike.
I've talked a lot about my thoughts on prog rock in this thread, but now I get to talk about its fraternal twin: the rock opera. Operation: Mindcrime (more like punctuation crime amirite) opens with a spoken word piece about how the world is decaying. This is something I was worried about - that the album would take a bunch of time expanding on its story that it would get in the way of the music. For the most part, outside of the intro, that's not really a problem. This feels a lot like a typical metal album. A typical, very unsubtle, metal album.
Now, I'm not sure there's such a thing as a subtle metal album. Subtlety is kind of the antithesis of the genre. But man, the chorus of every one of these songs is basically the cliff notes version of what the song is about. "I no longer believe in love." "The needle holds only lies." Again, this is probably something I shouldn't be nitpicking, but it's especially noticeable given that the album is a story about a distopian society, the downsides of which are all helpfully outlined in the first real song. Why do these rock operas / concept albums always have to be about distopian societies? Rush did it, Deltron 3030 did it, Styx did it (probably, I haven't listened to Kilroy was here). Can there really be any conflict in a story where we're told from the start that the government is 100% in the wrong and the remaining songs are just layers on top of that?
I think I might have enjoyed this album more, even if I still wouldn't care for the story, if it was a bit better musically. It's not bad, but the songs are all fairly similar sonically and structurally for an album called progressive metal.
Listen to World Standard Chief.
BEA's top 1,000 albums:
577. Making Movies by Dire Straits
580. Pure Heroine by Lorde
624. A New World Record by Electric Light Orchestra
653. Nursery Crime by Genesis
655. Love Over Gold by Dire Straits
660. The Battle of Los Angeles by Rage Against the Machine
664. Waiting for the Sun by The Doors
677. Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday
689. Song For Swingin' Lovers by Frank Sinatra
698. Rum Sodomy & The Lash by The Pogues _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
There's a reason there were three Bruce Springsteen albums on my list of albums I haven't heard. I know he is beloved amongst music lovers, so at the risk of pissing everyone off, he bores me a bit. Although I am aware that he is a huge inspiration on a lot of modern day artists I really like. Go figure! Anyway this is the fourth album of his I've listened to now. It started off slowly for me, and it wasn't until the fourth song, Johnny 99, that I started to get into his story telling a bit. I did really like State Trooper - strangely it reminded me of Suicide a bit - and I got into the old time rock 'n' roll vibe of Open All Night. Look he's obviously a talented singer/songwriter and I respect the hell out of him, but his music is not exactly for me. My 1982 chart is full of hardcore punk and early post-punk. 6.5/10, and 23/23 for 1982.
An album from my all time chart next Blue, although I know it's not for everyone.
20. Moving Pictures by Rush
23. Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen
32. So by Peter Gabriel
37. The Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden
40. Synchronicity by The Police
41. The Dreaming by Kate Bush
43. War by U2
48. Swordfishtrombones by Tom Waits
51. The River by Bruce Springsteen
54. Bad by Michael Jackson
But man, the chorus of every one of these songs is basically the cliff notes version of what the song is about. "I no longer believe in love." "The needle holds only lies."
I mean I understand the criticism, but that's like 80% of all songs ever? Not trying to pressure you to like the album, you don't like prog rock and metal and that's fine. But this struck me as a bit of a silly comment. That's probably because I love Operation Mindcrime though. 😄 _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
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