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albummaster
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- #1
- Posted: 05/30/2014 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#1284): The Glow Pt. 2 by The Microphones
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Today's album of the day
The Glow Pt. 2 by The Microphones (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2001.
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Overall rank: 409
Average rating: 82/100 (from 177 votes).
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Tracks:
1. I Want Wind To Blow
2. Glow Pt.2
3. Moon
4. Headless Horseman
5. My Roots Are Strong And Deep
6. Instrumental
7. Mansion
8. (Something)
9. (Something)
10. I'll Not Contain You
11. Gleam Pt.2
12. Map
13. You'll Be In The Air
14. I Want To Be Cold
15. I Am Bored
16. I Felt My Size
17. Instrumental
18. I Felt Your Shape
19. Samurai Sword
20. My Warm Blood
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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WindowAbove
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- #2
- Posted: 05/30/2014 20:31
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Great album, love "I Want Wind to Blow"
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HoldenM
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pearljammer13
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- #4
- Posted: 05/30/2014 20:47
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Used to think it was off the wall weird, now I quite enjoy it.
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SuedeSwede
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Age: 26
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- #5
- Posted: 05/30/2014 20:57
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This album has resonate with me very suddenly. It entered my top 100 a few months ago, but very low, and in the past month it has risen from around 90 to being in my top 10.
This album is like winter to me. The album highlights Elvrum's dark thoughts throughout, keeping to this cohesive theme of life & death, and the coldness of being in his own body. Yet each song has its own theme, and though generally keeps to this concept, the album never feels like the songs piggy-back each other, but they are their own lyrical pieces. Throughout in the lyrics, Elvrum is full of self-doubt and low self-esteem, and he wants things to change, and there are many songs which seem like a glimpse of hope, the light at the end of the tunnel, but it all boils down to a cycle, moving back to a lower, fractured 'reprise' of I Want Wind to Blow, which shows Elvrum's constant and circular hope for change. I don't know what I'm saying anymore. This is all pretentious as fuck.
TL;DR: Listen to it y'all, it's sad. _________________
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HazeyTwilight
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- #6
- Posted: 05/30/2014 21:10
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Initially, this album didn't seem like much to me. Just a load of missed opportunities. But as I got more and more in tune with it, the more I began to like it. Now I love the hell out of it. _________________
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MrFrogger
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Location: Oakland
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- #7
- Posted: 05/30/2014 22:26
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This used to me my favorite album, and on some days it still is. It certainly is the most personal album for me, which makes a couple of the tracks hard to listen to on some days(in particular, the title track, I Felt Your Shape and The Moon). I don't really know what I could say, that could do justice to how much this album has meant to me over the years, so I'll just quit while I'm ahead.
Also Phil's a really nice guy if you ever get the chance to talk to him.
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Precedent
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- #8
- Posted: 05/30/2014 22:50
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WindowAbove wrote: | Great album, love "I Want Wind to Blow" |
This, though it's currently not much more than great.
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newbands1
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- Posted: 05/31/2014 01:48
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There's an indie aesthetic i can't quite pin down present on here that is also present on Funeral and In The Aeroplane Over The Sea.
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rayword45
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Age: 26
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- #10
- Posted: 05/31/2014 02:44
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This is better than NMH #HipsterStatement
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