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Mercury
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- Posted: 05/29/2018 22:25
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None So Vile by Cryptopsy
Well this is a 1996 album I've been meaning to check out. I liked it. It was weird and all over the place at times, the musicianship is stunning, and again, there are parts that go off in very unexpected musical directions which I love. Some of the most intense brutal death matal I've heard (not saying much...i'm still purty new to this stuff). But yeah.
The vocals I suppose are an acquired taste. This is the most deep growly of all deep growly vocals I've ever heard. Barking and low and can't understand a word. But that's al;right. After 10 minutes I was used to it. Still, not a strength.
Overall I would say this was pretty cool. 2 thumbs up and all that shit.
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Mercury
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- #592
- Posted: 05/29/2018 23:16
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Soundtracks For The Blind by Swans
Man, holy shit, this album... Its so powerful, so mysterious, and dark. Its 2 hours and 22 minutes, it holds true to no genre. It creates this absolutely terrifyingly beautiful monstrous wall of meaning and text and feeling. When this album shimmers it really really shimmers, when it drops you into a sonic well the well goes on for miles and miles and miles and you find yourself in a new world of darkness and desolation, when the album wants to get pretty, it gets stunning, it gets transcendant.
The album is taxing in its length. As a result I have heard this 1 time in full before doing this project and now I am listening again and I will update this as I go if I feel like adding more thoughts. But yeah, it tests you and it doesn't baby you, it's 2 and a half hours of new frontiers, of musical inventiveness, of new vistas and its a real trip. If you go into it ready to take it in, its nearly life-changing.
I'll be back for more later. This may be an album I do in parts, halfs or quarters. But yeah I'll be back I think.
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Mercury
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- #593
- Posted: 05/30/2018 00:03
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Okay, so I am now finished with the first half of Soundtracks for the blind. It really is a stunning piece of work. The thing is 70 minutes plus, and it just flies by. I suppose its all so grey and black, with creepy vocal snippets which put Godspeed's similar vocal parts in context. The droning parts are really interesting by and large cuz they're very immersive...it feels like you are staring at something, idk. Its very impressionistic, and thus the descriptions which I dredge up are half-baked impressions. The music and the heavy parts in particular are bone crushing, scary, disorienting. The "pretty parts" with keyboards and shimmering sounds are tinged with helpless, hopeless, futile sadness. The whole album so far is a massive monolithic ode to the dreary and absolutely overpowering force which weighs down upon every living thing... this inescapable kjnowledge of the impending doom which will come to us all and swallow us up. Its not usually something I like when an album is so utterly depressing. And even in this case, despite how amazing this album is in every way, the fact that is weighs so heavilky upon my psyche will probably lead to it never being regarded by me as a favorite.
I suppose there are some utterly dark and depressing albums I adore. I See A Darkness, for example. But those are rare exceptions. In general if an album makes me feel lost and hopeless, no matter how brilliant it is, there is a cap to how high I will regard it. That's just me.
I'm trying to think if there is a positive, life-affirming epic which counterbalances this? Songs In The Key of Life Maybe...? Its only like 70 or 80 minutes though whereas this record is 140. 69 Love Songs? All Things Must Pass? I can't think of one.
Anyway, this is great. I look forward to a break and then re-submerging myself again into part 2.
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EDIT: I'm back. Just finished it. The second half was just as incredible as the first. Not much else to add. I will move this up to top 12 of 1996 at least.
And whilst listening I made a GARGANTUAN list of albums for 96-00 and its a freaking mopnster. Where do I begin?
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Tha1ChiefRocka
Yeah, well hey, I'm really sorry.
Location: Kansas
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- Posted: 05/30/2018 04:01
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Saying as though this is probably my favorite period of music I'll give a couple recs for each year that I didn't see on your current lists. Some you have probably heard already.
1996
Cul de Sac- China Gate
Alex Chilton, Alan Vega & Ben Vaughn- Cubist Blues
Heltah Skeltah- Nocturnal
Roy Montgomerey- Temple IV
Flat Duo Jets- Red Tango
1997
Three Mile Pilot- Another Desert, Another Sea
Smart Went Crazy- Con Art
Palace Music- Lost Blues and Other Songs
The Van Pelt- Sultans of Sentiment
Jim White- Wrong-Eyed Jesus
1998
Aceyalone- A Book of Human Language
Quasi- 'Featuring' Birds
Buffalo Daughter- New Rock
The Halo Benders- The Rebels Not In
Fridge- Semaphore
1999
Richard Thompson- Mock Tudor
East River Pipe- The Gasoline Age
Windir- Arntor
Steve Bernstein- Diaspora Soul
Sam Prekop- Sam Prekop
2000
Compulsive Gamblers- Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing
Cursive- Domestica
Trans Am- The Red Line
Pram- The Museum of Imaginary Animals
Faraquet- The View From This Tower
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Mercury
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- #595
- Posted: 05/30/2018 04:50
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| Tha1ChiefRocka wrote: |
Saying as though this is probably my favorite period of music I'll give a couple recs for each year that I didn't see on your current lists. Some you have probably heard already.
1996
Cul de Sac- China Gate
Alex Chilton, Alan Vega & Ben Vaughn- Cubist Blues
Heltah Skeltah- Nocturnal
Roy Montgomerey- Temple IV
Flat Duo Jets- Red Tango
1997
Three Mile Pilot- Another Desert, Another Sea
Smart Went Crazy- Con Art
Palace Music- Lost Blues and Other Songs
The Van Pelt- Sultans of Sentiment
Jim White- Wrong-Eyed Jesus
1998
Aceyalone- A Book of Human Language
Quasi- 'Featuring' Birds
Buffalo Daughter- New Rock
The Halo Benders- The Rebels Not In
Fridge- Semaphore
1999
Richard Thompson- Mock Tudor
East River Pipe- The Gasoline Age
Windir- Arntor
Steve Bernstein- Diaspora Soul
Sam Prekop- Sam Prekop
2000
Compulsive Gamblers- Crystal Gazing Luck Amazing
Cursive- Domestica
Trans Am- The Red Line
Pram- The Museum of Imaginary Animals
Faraquet- The View From This Tower |
wow. AWESOME! Appreciated. I think I've heard 1 or 2 of those :oops:
I'll see if I can get to some of them.
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I went and by hand culled the data on what are the top albums on RYM from 1996-2000. I have always wished I could customize lists more, rather than just top albums of a decade or a year. But a set of 3 or 5 years that span more than one decade (such as 96-00).
Anyway, here is a list of the 100 albums in the top 1000 (+1) which were apparently released 96-2000 per RYM.
the "1998/667" for example is the year of release and where it ranks amongst all albums on RYM.
1996-2000
RYM rank all time
1. OK Computer (1997/1)
2. Kid A (2000/4)
3. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (1998/15)
4. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven (2000/18)
5. Agaetis Byrjun (1999/48)
6. F♯A♯∞ (1997/51)
7. Endtroducing..... (1996/52)
8. Homogenic (1997/75)
9. Either/Or (1997/99)
10. 98.12.28 男達の別れ (1999/104)
11. Mezzanine (1998/111)
12. If You're Feeling Sinister (1996/113)
13. The Bootleg Series Vol. 4 (1998/119)
14. Music Has the Right to Children (1998/121)
15. Soundtracks for the Blind (1996/126)
16. The Lonesome Crowded West (1997/128)
17. Aquemini (1998/142)
18. The Moon & Antarctica (2000/158)
19. Aenema (1996/166)
20. Since I Left You (2000/188)
21. Perefct From Now On (1997/194)
22. Long Season (1996/215)
23. ATLiens (1996/224)
24. Relationship of Command (2000/238)
25. Filosofem (1996/241)
26. Swans Are Dead (1998/245)
27. Still Life (1999/276)
28. Dopethrone (2000/289)
29. Pinkerton (1996/295)
30. I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One (1997/296)
31. XO (1998/303)
32. Roseland NYC Live (1998/318)
33. Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space (1997/364)
34. Black On Both Sides (1999/373)
35. Static Age (1997/377)
36. The Sound of Perseverence (1998/390)
37. 69 Love Songs (1999/404)
38. Moment Of Truth (1998/427)
39. Through Silver In Blood (1996/447)
40. Richard D. James Album (1996/450)
41. Keep It Like A Secret (1999/454)
42. Odelay (1996/476)
43. California (1999/492)
44. Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (1997/499)
45. Deltron 3030 (2000/507)
46. The Shape of Punk To Come (1998/517)
47. Vision Creation Newsun (1999/520)
48. flood (2000/535)
49. American Football (1999/547)
50. Portishead (1997/554)
51. Voodoo (2000/560)
52. Alice In Chains - MTV Unplugged (1996/561)
53. Emergency & I (1999/562)
54. Things Fall Apart (1999/569)
55. Reasonable Doubt (1996/599)
56. White Pony (2000/611)
57. Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star (1998/617)
58. The Mollusk (1997/620)
59. Moon Safari (1998/623)
60. Music for 18 Musicians (1998/627)
61. I See a Darkness (1999/633)
62. The Fragile (1999/645)
63. Crimson (1996/649)
64. Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000/662)
65. Musick to Play in the Dark (1999/694)
65. Rated R (2000/667)
66. Obscura (1998/671)
67. And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out (2000/681)
68. Close to a World Below (2000/693)
69. Musick to Play in the Dark (1999/694)
70. The 6 String Quartets (1997/700)
71. Mule Variations (1999/706)
72. Final Fantasy VII Original Sound Track (1997/712)
73. My Arms/Your Hearse (1998/713)
74. Tigermilk (1996/715)
75. At The Heart of Winter (1999/716)
76. Ridin' Dirty (1996/718)
77. Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished (2000/738)
78. Royal Albert Hall October 10 1997 Live (1998/755)
79. The Boatman's Call (1997/762)
80. Stankonia (2000/770)
81. None So Vile (1996/779)
82. Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996/786)
83. Mogwai Young Team (1997/787)
84. Coma Divine: Recorded Live in Rome (1997/789)
85. Sackcloth & Ashes (1996/792)
86. Chrono Cross: Original Soundtrack (1999/794)
87. Another Lesson in Violence (1997/805)
88. Times of Grace (1999/826)
89. Ironman (1996/838)
90. Murder Ballads (1996/842)
91. Supreme Clientele (2000/852)
92. Pop (2000/910)
93. もののけ姫 (Mononoke-hime) (1997/913)
94. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Original Soundtrack (1998/935)
95. Koyaanisqatsi (1998/937)
96. Buena Vista Social Club (1997/942)
97. Cowboy Bebop (1998/956)
98. Legend of Zelda (Majora's Mask Original Soundtrack) (2000/977)
99. Morningrise (1996/997)
100. American III: Solitary Man (2000/1003)
-The names of the artist not included obviously.
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Update
I have recently been working way way too much. 65-80 hours a week. 3 jobs, and it’s been looooong hours and this has lead to me having close to 0 attention in BEA. I have been missing calls, not responding, not really handling interpersonal relations well at alll. This is likely to continue, as I have so little extra time to talk or chat or dissect music, or catch up etc that it just likely won’t happen.
I hope this dies down soon. Until then, I’ll see ya later.
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dihansse
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Age: 60
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- Posted: 08/22/2018 19:53
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| Mercury wrote: | Update
I have recently been working way way too much. 65-80 hours a week. 3 jobs, and it’s been looooong hours and this has lead to me having close to 0 attention in BEA. I have been missing calls, not responding, not really handling interpersonal relations well at alll. This is likely to continue, as I have so little extra time to talk or chat or dissect music, or catch up etc that it just likely won’t happen.
I hope this dies down soon. Until then, I’ll see ya later. |
We all hope to see you back soon Merc!
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baystateoftheart
Neil Young as a butternut squash
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- Posted: 11/20/2018 17:05
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You can get them back by copy-pasting them from a past version of your chart, which only you can see.
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