Sorry, but imma focus on the hip-hop tourney for a bit and my palate cleanser feels more like going back to my library, but be back soon/before end of month/once I'm done with these 8 hip-hop albums.
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
I had never heard of Jellyfish until very recently (probably here on this cannon thread). I don't think I had heard anything from them before, and knew nothing about them. So I had no idea what to expect when I pressed play on this album. What I got from the first track was some good pop/rock with some interesting musical flourishes and some nice impassioned vocals. As the album continued I wondered if I was getting some prog pop (I got some The Who vibes from The King is Half-Undressed). Nope, not really. Then I started to hear some The Beatles influences, but I wasn't going to mention that. It's a too lazy and common influence too mention. But once I heard the lyric from All I Want Is Everything "I think I'd like to play guitar and be a Beatle and be so swell" I thought if he is going to outright state it then I can too. After that though I actually started to hear more of an influence from the solo careers of the various Beatles. I don't know maybe it's just me. Anyway I really enjoyed the song writing, the vocals, the musical flourishes, the variety while maintaining consistency, and most importantly, all the individual songs themselves. I'm already listening to this album again, which I don't usually repeat listen so soon after a first listen. 8/10 for now, and 25/56 for 1990.
The Pink Lavalamp sounds interesting Baystate.
Top 50 Music Albums of 1990 by Mercury (2 picks left)
5. Steppin' On The Blues by Lonnie Johnson
9. Ragtime Guitar's Foremost Fingerpicker by Blind Blake
10. 1990 by Daniel Johnston
14. Shooting Straight In The Dark by Mary Chapin Carpenter
16. Goodbye Jumbo by World Party
20. The Victor Recordings In Chronological Order (1928-1929) by Frank Stokes
21. A Cast Of Aspersions by Louis Tillett
22. Son House And The Great Delta Blues Singers - Complete Recorded Works 1928-1930 by Various Artists
23. Still Got The Blues by Gary Moore
26. No Depression by Uncle Tupelo
Sorry for being gone for a bit. Got some things occurring. We will see what happens later on.
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So I was a bit shocked that this was a new age record. And while I do enjoy it and think this is good to even great, it isn't my usual cup for new age music. More of the electronic side of the genre like Ciani and Laraaji. Or in a contemporary from the 1990's Enigma's debut album. But I could see someone liking this more.
Grade:75
(2) Pash listen to Uncle Tupelo.
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BEA's Top 100 Albums of 1993
(35) James-Laid
38 Sting-Ten Summoner's Tales
(62) Mariah Carey-Music Box
(64) Meat Loaf-Back Out Of Hell II (would have to listen to the first Back Out Of Hell album)
(65) The Auteurs-New Wave
(66) Sepultura-Chaos A.D.
(67) Buffalo Tom-Big Red Letter Day
68 Death-Individual Thought Process
(70) Urge Overkill-Saturation
(71) Midnight Oil-Earth And Sun And Moon
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
Honestly, I tried listening to this a week ago and didn't vibe with it. But I wanted to get back into this game. So today listened again. I dislike it now.
The vocals are all so fake, mumbled, melodramatic in a sad depressive way. This may be a new sound in R&B and maybe I should just get with it. But jesus christ I felt like an old guy as I listened just shouting (not out loud) "sing, my man! SING! Sing like every fucking great R&B singer of the past! Go listen to a Badu, D'Angelo, Vandrose, Gaye, Wonder album, and then try actually singing stop fucking being sad and mumbly and processing your vocals through some fucking machine!"
When I wasn't irrationally annoyed by the way the vocals sounded, I was annoyed by the incessant dreamy woozy production. Was intrigued by the first 2 songs with that dreamy oppressively gauzy sound. Then about track 6 I was like, "my god man can you do something else?"
Anyway, I liked some songs with The Weeknd. Hell his feature on that first track of Caracol was really cool and I was thinking maybe I'd have something clear and beautiful vocally here (I knew the production would be different). But no, I didn't hear it.
Anyway, the lyrics are consistently evocative. So that's cool.
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Top 10 albums of 2020 per RYM that I have not heard (excluding some stuff I just know i don't want right now)
1. Un canto por México vol. 1 by Natalia Lafourcade (#14)
2. Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira (#17)
3. Shore by The Fleet Foxes (#24)
4. We Will Always Love You by The Avalanches (#30)
5. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius (#32)
6. Ohms by Deftones (#34)
7. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs by Klô Pelgag (#49)
8. Dwellers of the Deep by Wobbler (#58)
9. Song Machine, Season One by Gorillaz (#59)
10. We Are Sent Here by History by Shabaka and the Ancestors (#81) _________________ -Ryan
Now this is what I am talking about. While I still think Earth 2 as the best album from the Metal genre, this is a high runner up. Not only did this keep a fiery presence, the songs structurally felt varied and knew how to keep me occupied. As well as other things that I wouldn't expect from a Metal album. Kaiowas being a prime example where while this came before what I am referencing, somewhat Pirates of The Caribbean eques. That might be the only track I might have a bit of ire since it feels a bit out of place. And I feel there are a couple tracks that incorporated ideas that aren't Metal staples more organically. But this is a highlight for me.
Grade:95
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Mercury, listen to Song Machine. Also your write up for After Hours, while I somewhat disagree was pretty hilarious. Also his feature on Caracal might be my favorite thing The Weeknd ever did. And he has a lot of dope tracks.
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BEA's Top 100 Albums of 1993
(35) James-Laid
38 Sting-Ten Summoner's Tales
(62) Mariah Carey-Music Box
(64) Meat Loaf-Back Out Of Hell II (would have to listen to the first Back Out Of Hell album)
(65) The Auteurs-New Wave
(67) Buffalo Tom-Big Red Letter Day
68 Death-Individual Thought Process
(70) Urge Overkill-Saturation
(71) Midnight Oil-Earth And Sun And Moon
(72) Polvo-Today's Active Lifestyle
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
I certainly liked this more than the weeknd's album. But I didn't love it. It was consistently ... fine. I liked a lot of the features, but most details I have already forgotten. I like the idea and I think the whole adding tracks throughout the year like some kind of tv series is dope. tallest man on earth did a somewhat similar thing and i thought then that there was a lot of potential there. and i'm glad a more major artist expanded on it (and its been done by others probably that i'm not aware of.).
anyway, i guess gorillaz outside of their 2010 album Plastic beach and a lot of demon days and their big hit clint eastwood, has been a band that never really intrigued me as much as i think they should. idk. It was good.
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Top 10 albums of 2020 per RYM that I have not heard (excluding some stuff I just know i don't want right now)
1. Un canto por México vol. 1 by Natalia Lafourcade (#14) (i listened to this as well yesterday and i love it.)
1. Purple Moonlight Pages by R.A.P. Ferreira (#17)
2. Shore by The Fleet Foxes (#24)
3. NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock (#31)
4. We Will Always Love You by The Avalanches (#30)
5. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius (#32)
6. Ohms by Deftones (#34)
7. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs by Klô Pelgag (#49)
8. Dwellers of the Deep by Wobbler (#58)
9. Vice Versa in Such Things by Avenade (#68)
10. Untitled (Rise) by Sault (#72)
11. We Are Sent Here by History by Shabaka and the Ancestors (#81) (I'm a dick and I saw a new album not included before and so I still wanna include this in my list as an option so I'm breaking the rule lol. feel free to ignore.) _________________ -Ryan
I was busy for a bit with the hip hop tourney, 2021 and life but now I'm ready for more listening to whatever yall choose.
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Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik by OutKast
Well after Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik, Idlewild remains the only Outkast album I've not heard. Although I admit that I remember very little of Speakerboxxx / The Love Below apart from the most famous songs, it's over 2h and I've heard it some time ago. And I did not like that one much. This one though, it's probably better than Stankonia. Less varied and adventurous, but much more consistently hard hitting and enjoyable. It knows what it is, it doesn't have many dull moments and the highlights are very good. Hootie Hoo could've been cut, Funky Ride has those annoying moans and I'm not sure if Git Up, Git Out and especially Call of the Wild needed to be that long. And that's about it. The rest is good to great. I'm not sure if anything here touches B.O.B or So Fresh, So Clean though. The title track and Player's Ball are great singles, Claimin' True is a real streets anthem, Funky Ride has some fantastic guitar work, Crumblin' Erb and Ain't No Thang are fun and catchy. Dre and Big Boi are consistently dope, although their style is not as refined as on the later releases. Same thing applies to the production department: dope beats, but not as interesting as their later work. It's all good though. 8/10
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There's several great picks there. RAP Ferreira is the best though, go with that one. Deftones and the others will wait.
Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic
Boubacar Traoré - Mariama
Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - Divine Music From A Jail
Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï
Soungalo Coulibaly - Dengo
Various Artists - The Roots Of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru
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The Magnetic Fields - The Wayward Bus
Kanye West - The College Dropout
Belle And Sebastian - The Life Pursuit
The Magnetic Fields - The Charm Of The Highway Strip _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
This was a very interesting album. It flowed like a random assortment of short jazzy motifs kinda melded together into this patchwork piece of hip hop jazz, with Ferreira maintaining a constant stream of beat poetry, chilled out rapping, philosophical ramblings, and sketches of rhyme schemes and metaphors he thought of throughout the weeks and months leading up the record being recorded. The result is a unique album and one that for better or worse never completely breaks through and demands my attention. Instead as the album ended I was struck by how fast the 52 minutes went by. Its really good. Very beautiful.
75-80/100 and going on the 2020 chart at idk like spot #9 to 14 or so.
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@LedZep, thanks for the nomination of that. I'll return the favor by picking from the second half, less abstract or at least obscure albums... let's see...
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Top 10 albums of 2020 per RYM that I have not heard (excluding some stuff I just know i don't want right now namely long hip hop albums or death/black/extreme metal. I will eventually delve into these, but for now I am being a bit choosy)
1. Shore by The Fleet Foxes (#24)
2. NO DREAM by Jeff Rosenstock (#31)
3. We Will Always Love You by The Avalanches (#30)
4. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately by Perfume Genius (#32)
5. Ohms by Deftones (#34)
6. Notre-Dame-des-Sept-Douleurs by Klô Pelgag (#49)
7. Dwellers of the Deep by Wobbler (#58)
8. Vice Versa in Such Things by Avenade (#68)
9. Untitled (Rise) by Sault (#72)
10. We Are Sent Here by History by Shabaka and the Ancestors (#81) _________________ -Ryan
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