😲 Damn. At least Soulja Boy was a fun rec, but this choice is just plain cruel.
Admittedly yes. Applerill has a unique and somewhat meme-able chart and surely RtB knew that and so I want him to have the full experience. Brokencyde included. _________________ -Ryan
I'm Not A Fan, But The Kids Like It! by brokeNCYDE
I now need to search no further for the greatest lyrics ever written... hehe. "You make my pepe" hard was indeed the cream of the crop. Anyway, it was an interesting trip. Uh... Charli's takes on these albums are even more interesting (to me) than the albums themselves, so luckily I asked what she liked about it.
10 seconds in I started feelin like: (I keep quoting this... i don't know why)
2. I'm going to just keep choosing the German ones: AGeM- Sekunda
3. LedZep's 2010 list since the overall ist verboten: (10 picks)
3. Marrow of the Spirit by Agalloch
4. Tunes 2011-2019 by Burial
7. Dead Magic by Anna von Hausswolff
10. Autumn Bells by Gidge
11. Queen of Time by Amorphis
13. All Bitches Die by Lingua Ignota
20. New Bermuda by Deafheaven
21. Everywhere At The End Of Time by The Caretaker
22. There Is Love In You by Four Tet
25. Lost by Trentemøller
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RoundTheBendI miss the comfort in being sadProfile Ground Control
😲 Damn. At least Soulja Boy was a fun rec, but this choice is just plain cruel.
Admittedly yes. Applerill has a unique and somewhat meme-able chart and surely RtB knew that and so I want him to have the full experience. Brokencyde included.
Indeed knew and indeed was hoping for the stretch (minus those two I bolded as they indeed intrigued me).
MercuryTurn your back on the pay-you-back last callProfile St. Louis
This was great and indeed quite eye-opening. Now I won't go on a pseudo-intellectual ramble post nor try to make this comment deep or overly gushing. Will be down to earth as possible and not go off on one of those absolutely ( i think we can agree) stupid and pointless RYM-esque "reviews" where its someone just pontificating about their fucking lives. Nor will I do one of those Pitchfork-style reviews where I am very careful to talk about the album as little as possible while talking about almost anything but the music, such as controversies (whether directly related to the artist or not), world events, or forced reference(s) to philosophical texts and cinema and painters (the more obscure the better.) Okay, here goes.
Basically, this album asks the question: what does it mean to be human in this post-industrial age?
What is the flaw in this human construct called society and civilization? Based off the the intrinsic--
As I ate my bowl of oats this morning, I got a text from my ex and she simply said "how have you been?" and I lost it. To fully understand why, you need to be taken back to when me and, we'll just call her, satan first met. It was the 3rd period of our first day of school in 2004. satan had on a smiths t-shirt and i vaguely remember her sneezing. I quietly whispered, from her left, "bless you". She looked over at me and smiled. Before she could even mouth "thank you" I was being called to the carpet by Mrs. Butterworth (that is what we called her)...
Chuck Schuldiner always felt like some modern Johann Gottfried Herder even before the release of this magnum opus... damn it
What a cool album. I didn't end up doing what I said I very well may do and go and listen to Symbolic as well as this album. Instead I listened to this final Death LP a couple times. It was enough to kind of make me realize what made this band and I assume their previous album so special. Although I had never ventured to listen to this album it still felt a bit like hearing an old familiar master when Chuck's vocals come in on track 1 of this. I didn't realize how unique his vocal delivery is, but holy shit, his vocals are absolutely legendary and very much his own (from what I've heard). They aren't deep and dreadful barks like so much Death Metal, nor are they even shrieaking or hard to understand. His vocals are raspy, ugly, passionate and real. Stunning in many ways. Loved them and I suppose when I soon listen to all Death albums (which I'm planning on starting soon) it will be interesting to see how he develops over time because the one Death album I am very very familiar with is 1988's Leprosy and I don't recall the vocals sounding like this but its been awhile and i may have something loose. we shall see.
Otherwise the guitars and the riffing and solos are so absurdly clean and technically complex and perfect its a little gobsmacking. That is one thing that I had a hard time understanding or wrapping my head around on Symbolic that is still just as prevalent here on the follow up. And tbh I haven't fully worked out my feelings on the arrangements and the utter complexity of the guitar parts. Like I like technicality but sometimes it can become so wild and breathetaking that I stop feeling any empathy with the songs themselves. Thankfully the vocals, lyrics and the more hard-charging and classic riffage keep me consistently connected to the soul of this album. And it seems like this aspect of complex patterns is something that as I listen and listen I will become more familiar with the tunes and messages underneath the technicality.
The drumming is always brilliant, and the production in general and especially the cool drum sound are stunning. So mercurial and constantly shifting yet, the fills and the breakdowns are so fucking rad.
The songs are consistently cool, but easily my favorite after 2 lessons is "Bite The Pain" - that solo mid way through is maybe the best ever? idk, its up there and the break down and the main riff and the drum fills and the way the venomous vocals are worked in, - every part of that track is stunning. Other awesome tracks are "Story to Tell", "Spirit Crusher", the unexpected and almost-as-good-as-the-original cover of "Painkiller", and "To Forgive Is To Suffer". The album as a whole has no bad song or song that seems unnecessary or filler. There's a lot of deeply felt emotional weight back of this album. It doesn't just feel aggressive or intense or shor-offy, or angry, it feels like a full statement of struggle and pain and that very human experience of persevering in this painful time and world. Excellent songs on their own, but the album a s whole statement is absolutely brilliant.
Lets see, well, yeah, that's basically it. The band Death is so legendary and revered in modern metal it sometimes feels a little overwhelming trying to get into them. I was just trying to think of what bands so thoroughly dominate or represent a genre or sub-genre as much as Death does Death Metal? I couldn't think of anything. Is it just because of the happy accident of their name? I don't think its just that but maybe that is a contributing factor. Maybe it is really simply that I spend too much of my last decade of life looking at genre charts on RYM and if you look up all time best death metal albums your #1, #2, #3, #6 and #15 will be a Death album. Or maybe its just that despite having their own sound that helped define OSDM they managed to re-invent both themselves and the genre in 1991 while still making unquestionably death metal (but with a lot of technical aspects added in as well as Proggy elements). I don't fully know. As of now, and from my not very familiar vantage point, it seems Death is by far the most famous and essential Death Metal band of all time. Probably hardcore fans of the genre will say "wtf are you on about? you're oversimplifying the matter!" much like if some young basketball fan comes in and says "Michael Jordan is the best of all time and that is clear and there is no one else even in the conversation one bit for that discussion!" I would respond with a knowing smirk and start yapping about Kareem and Russell. Idk. All I know for sure is I am going on a pointless tangent when I said I wouldn't and I am sorry.
The point is this is great and is a 4/5 album as of now with I suspect a future increase as I wrap my little brain around the fullness of this album. There's enough prog to blow my mind and enough balls to the wall death intensity to keep me rocking and to keep my eyes from rolling. Its dope. And I look forward to going back to the beginning of their discog and coming forward and seeing how they managed to go from Scream Bloody Gore to this within just 11 years.
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@RoundTheBend, to make up the annoyance caused and trolling done earlier I will pick a cool album...all are cool of those 10 or all look cool (haven't heard 'em all) but here ya go. Sorry I put you through Brokencyde, buddy.
1. Still Life by Opeth/1999/#6 metal album since '96 (Yes Opeth's Time out has ended --yay! I have grown a little on Blackwater Park and this is same era and just a little earlier in their discog. Note: there are another 2 after this one waiting on the list excluded only due to one album rule lol. the love for this band is wild.)
2. None So Vile by Cryptopsy/1996/#11 metal album since '96 (listened once and remember being mildly disgusted. But those were earlier and simpler times and maybe i'll like this brand of brutal death metal now)
3. Panopticon by Isis/2004/#17 metal album since '96 (Atmospheric sludge and post-metal designation tend to scare me off due to not yet finding an album I really liked in or loved in that mix. Remember listening to this and being a bit bored. Will try again.)
4. Close to a World Below by Immolation/2000/#18 metal album since '96 (okay, now that a spot has freed up, this brand new listen of this classic DM album is now a possible Nom)
5. Crack the Skye by Mastodon/2009/#19 metal album since '96 (for the love of fucking god don't make me confront this album again! 😉 )
6. Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower/2005/#20 metal album since '96 (really like to near-love their early stuff, never heard this latter-career peak album)
7. At the Heart of Winter by Immortal/1999/#24 metal album since '96 (lets see if this classic of classic black metal album hits different now with my new self.)
8. Times of Grace by Neurosis/1999/#25 metal album since '96 (atmospheric and straight up sludge --- maybe earlier than silver in blood neurosis will be more to my liking.)
9. Verisäkeet by Moonsorrow/2005/#31 metal album since '96 (Pagan Black Metal, Black Metal, Folk Metal - these are the genres attached. Never heard it, but based off my recent love and adoration of that Weakling album and that Emperor album, I am always up for a new taste and style and side of Black Metal.)
10. Paracletus by Deathspell Omega/2010/#32 metal album since '96 (Finally, the first album included from 2010 onward. This is a very respected name, this band, and a band I have never pushed play on. Black metal of a modern sort? sign me up!)
i find it funny my obsessive need to add comments and factoids to my lists until they look like that ^ lol _________________ -Ryan
3. LedZep's 2010 list since the overall ist verboten: (10 picks)
3. Marrow of the Spirit by Agalloch
4. Tunes 2011-2019 by Burial
7. Dead Magic by Anna von Hausswolff
10. Autumn Bells by Gidge
11. Queen of Time by Amorphis
13. All Bitches Die by Lingua Ignota
20. New Bermuda by Deafheaven
21. Everywhere At The End Of Time by The Caretaker
22. There Is Love In You by Four Tet
25. Lost by Trentemøller
Nice! From this excerpt it seems like my chart is dominated by electronic music lol. Maybe it is. Not sure if you'll like some of them, but I'm really glad you gave it a go. And Anna Von Hausswolff is the first one I'd suggest, so good job Mercury.
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Innervisions by Stevie Wonder
So Stevie Wonder is not exactly a blind spot, but I've never vibed with his music that much. Similar to Marvin Gaye. It's competent, enjoyable while on, but I don't get the urge to play it often. Or that was the situation until now. Thinking back, maybe Songs in the Key of Life wasn't a good entry point for me since it's a huge, even clumsy project. With Innervisions, I've been proven wrong. His songs are thoroughly enjoyable and I believe they have replay value as well. I can see why he's one of the most celebrated American songwriters of all time, (almost) every song here has that "classic" feel. You just know you're listening to a timeless masterpiece. And that's a feeling I get with Curtis Mayfield, who's my favourite soul musician (with my admittedly limited knowledge of soul music). The basslines on this whole thing were out of this world, I loved the drums and percussion as well, which is the key to me enjoying a soul album along with good songwriting. When the bass and drums interact so well, pop out of the headphones and make me look like this
you know the album's great. The whole thing is so immaculately produced. Literally every sound is wonderful, and there's lots of cool sounds and instruments which is another thing I like in soul. George Marino and the crew deserve every bit of praise they get. I've known Higher Ground before (both the RHCP cover and the original are excellent), so that was the biggest highlight for me, but I'd say Living for the City is the "objectively best" song here. Which one is the centrepiece according to Eyekanfly gospel? 9/10
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Verisäkeet is not as good as Kivenkantaja, mainly because the last song is mostly whatever field recordings, but it's a great album in its own right.
Edit: I'm just listening to Verisäkeet again and it's much better than I remember
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RYM overall albums I haven't rated (FL - first time listen, probably)
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Can - Tago Mago
Elliott Smith - Either/Or
Prince - Purple Rain
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina (FL)
Can - Ege Bamyası
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory (FL)
Prince - Sign "☮︎" the Times (FL)
Kate Bush - The Dreaming _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
:lol: It’s a meme image. So I doubt it, but that would be pretty cool.
After asking him and as I started my Moonsorrow post, I looked again and I recognized that face and image and I was like “yeah, stupid fucking question, Ryan.” _________________ -Ryan
Man, the hit rate on these varying styles of black metal is insane so far. This is another good one. Unlike with the one-two punch of Blackwater Park/Crimson, I actually really loved the folk bits here. I thought they actually achieved that added atmosphere with their inclusion. The mammoth riffs and the dreary black metal synth parts draped over the sound of this album adds yet another layer of atmosphere. Really cool. The nature recordings are even well done generally and I can't find a fault in this album.
It felt like a band of viking warriors at points, just sailing with some nervousness down a thickly foggy river, on their way to pillage and plunder but with some creeping thought that something may go wrong at any moment.
At other times it just sounded like badass black metal, with massive riffs and a folky and catchy ear for folk melodies, and a drum sound that pops and sounds excellent and makes you want to bob your head and stomp your feet.
The vocalist is pretty good as well, not over the top and annoying, but still with enough venom in his blackened vocals to get across that heart and soul of the sound the band is going for. The back up vocals on "Pimea" were stellar as well. And "Jotunheim" is also fantastic - 20 minutes of viking war anthem - makes me wanna play God Of War 2018 again or play Wicther 3 for the 6th time and skip to the Skellige map and story or y'know like read about Vikings and wear a plastic prop horned helm and buy one of those cartoonish massive drinking horns or like big as cups and put dr. pepper in it and pretend its some really strong ale or something - , yeah track 4 is great, along with really track 1 and 2 and 3. I didn't notice the name of the song when I wrote that viking image thing, but now it all makes sense. They do indeed paint pictures with their sound these wild finnish!
The nature sounds at the end of Jotunheim and throughout the final track "Kaiku" are pretty good. Can't say I find the last 3 minutes of Jotunheim particularly engaging , but who am I to tell these moonsorrow folks how to construct their pagan black metal soundscapes. And as for the final track, and those final few minutes of the wood burning and popping and the birds right after the folk song - perfect and loved it.
Anyway, in closing this album is great and really speaks to my ancestry. Not that I really have an ounce of norse blood, but I have a whole lot of irish and english and so that probably accounts for my sweaty palms and weak knees as I listened, almost genetically recalling that these mothjerfuckers are about to kill me and burn and raze and rape my whole village.
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@LedZep, I'm going to nominate one of the blackest and at times bleakest non-black metal albums around lol
1. Still Life by Opeth/1999/#6 metal album since '96 (Yes Opeth's Time out has ended --yay! I have grown a little on Blackwater Park and this is same era and just a little earlier in their discog. Note: there are another 2 after this one waiting on the list excluded only due to one album rule lol. the love for this band is wild.)
2. None So Vile by Cryptopsy/1996/#11 metal album since '96 (listened once and remember being mildly disgusted. But those were earlier and simpler times and maybe i'll like this brand of brutal death metal now)
3. Panopticon by Isis/2004/#17 metal album since '96 (Atmospheric sludge and post-metal designation tend to scare me off due to not yet finding an album I really liked in or loved in that mix. Remember listening to this and being a bit bored. Will try again.)
4. Close to a World Below by Immolation/2000/#18 metal album since '96 (okay, now that a spot has freed up, this brand new listen of this classic DM album is now a possible Nom)
5. Crack the Skye by Mastodon/2009/#19 metal album since '96 (for the love of fucking god don't make me confront this album again! 😉 )
6. Those Once Loyal by Bolt Thrower/2005/#20 metal album since '96 (really like to near-love their early stuff, never heard this latter-career peak album)
7. At the Heart of Winter by Immortal/1999/#24 metal album since '96 (lets see if this classic of classic black metal album hits different now with my new self.)
8. Times of Grace by Neurosis/1999/#25 metal album since '96 (atmospheric and straight up sludge --- maybe earlier than silver in blood neurosis will be more to my liking.)
9. Paracletus by Deathspell Omega/2010/#32 metal album since '96 (Finally, the first album included from 2010 onward. This is a very respected name, this band, and a band I have never pushed play on. Black metal of a modern sort? sign me up!)
10. Pink by Boris/2005/#33 metal album since '96 (This is another Boris. Apparently its stoner metal which is a first for this fame/list of options and also some noise rock. Boris is cool.)
i find it funny my obsessive need to add comments and factoids to my lists until they look like that ^ lol _________________ -Ryan
Okay, I think I'm gonna try this with kitchensink's overall.
Top 100 Albums of All Time By Kitchensink (10 remaining)
4. Milford Graves-Percussion Ensemble
5. Blind Lemon Jefferson-Complete Recorded Works In Chronological Order, Volume 3
7. Freestyle Fellowship-To Whom It May Concern... (I still haven't heard Innercity Griots 🙁 )
8. Geto Boys-We Can't Be Stopped
9. Sun Ra- Live From Soundscape
16. Francis Bebey-Pygmy Love Song
18. Larry Heard-Parrains de la house
19. Prince Far I-Under Heavy Manners
21. José Alfredo Jiménez-Lo Mejor de José Alfredo Jiménez
23. Bahamadia-Kollage
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