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This is great. I feel so silly never having heard this. I almost always start with debut albums when it comes to punk classics. I always thought Walk Among Us released in 1982 is their debut. And it is officially. Still, 1982 always threw me off cuz I thought they were a relatively early punk act. I have also spent a lot of time with their 2 very famous collections. And so I recognize many of these songs from them.
Anyway, this is the best album by the Misfits I've heard. Excellent Ramones style pop punk energy mixed wioth Cramps-ish horror and campiness. Its justr a lot of fun. Danzig is such a great rock vocalist. The riffs are so loud and dirty and heavy and simple and batter me in the best way. Some of these songs are the best punks songs ever or some of the best. And one (Last Caress) is one of my, say, top 40-50 favorite songs of all time. Its perfect. But alss tracks like We Are 138, Static Age, TV Casualty, Some Kinda Hate, Return of the Fly, Hybrid Moments, Teenagers from Mars, Angelfuck, Hollywood Babylon, Attitude, Bullet etc etc are all punk rock classics and gems. If this was really their debut, released in 1978 it would be one of the most iconic punk albums of the era. Its just so much more consistent and intense and well done then their 1980s albums (although I do like them just not nearly as much) and man, just a great punk album, through and through. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
Anyway, this is the best album by the Misfits I've heard. Excellent Ramones style pop punk energy mixed wioth Cramps-ish horror and campiness. Its justr a lot of fun. Danzig is such a great rock vocalist. The riffs are so loud and dirty and heavy and simple and batter me in the best way. Some of these songs are the best punks songs ever or some of the best. And one (Last Caress) is one of my, say, top 40-50 favorite songs of all time. Its perfect. But alss tracks like We Are 138, Static Age, TV Casualty, Some Kinda Hate, Return of the Fly, Hybrid Moments, Teenagers from Mars, Angelfuck, Hollywood Babylon, Attitude, Bullet etc etc are all punk rock classics and gems. If this was really their debut, released in 1978 it would be one of the most iconic punk albums of the era. Its just so much more consistent and intense and well done then their 1980s albums (although I do like them just not nearly as much) and man, just a great punk album, through and through. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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1997
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This was good, solid, consistently beautiful and dreamy, some really cool dub meets dream pop meets psych stuff. I liked it but long stretches were just okay to me. I understand why they have accumulated such a huge fan club post break up and tragic passing of their lead singer. I think this is music I more admire than actually have interest in listening to. I'm not a big Dub fan or Neo psych fan or dream pop fan either. Vocals were okay but sometimes irked me. The album was long and it sounds like quite the special album to be at or to hear on this album if you are an invested fan. The story behind the creation of this album and the situation revolving around the show itself is super interesting and touching and these facts do give me more context for the extra emotional weight this already solid album has.
Also yes I think the extended Long Season as played here is incredible and my favorite part of the album. Maybe I was looking forward to it TOO much because my anticipation for it made the first 75 minutes fall under its looming shadow. Still "Long Season" is already awesome but add in the extra live energy and that incredible emotional guitar solo, chef's kiss.
I'm glad I heard it. Not really my thing or likely to be on my 1990s chart, but it is still a special document of a special band. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
Also yes I think the extended Long Season as played here is incredible and my favorite part of the album. Maybe I was looking forward to it TOO much because my anticipation for it made the first 75 minutes fall under its looming shadow. Still "Long Season" is already awesome but add in the extra live energy and that incredible emotional guitar solo, chef's kiss.
I'm glad I heard it. Not really my thing or likely to be on my 1990s chart, but it is still a special document of a special band. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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1999
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Instantly one of my favorite live albums ever. Its so lively and joyous and its so great hearing this great singer and artist let loose in this setting. I don't have much to say except yeah that was FANTASTIC!
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1985
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Brilliant EP. Both tracks were lovely and touching and emotional. Love the atmosphere of both. The field recorded spoken word in track 2 got a little old but overall its interesting. The first track is indeed masterful, the way that melody ratchets up and up and up is SOOO Post-Rock and SOOO GY!BE and SOOO Great! They do this better than almost anyone. Neurosis I think does similar things with metal (maybe, just maybe, I am finally getting the whole "Post Metal" designation that I used to hate so much). Yeah, its was fabulous and I listened to it 3 times over the last couple days and it was enjoyable each listen and every minute thereof.
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1999
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Sometimes I wish that there was a way to create decade charts with albums recorded in that decade even if released in another decade. That would certainly make for more accurate decade charts and year charts in a way, but it would provide other problems. For sure That Misfits archival album Static Age would go on my 1970s chart, and this would certainly fit nicely on my 1980s chart. Still is good enough to be on 1990s chart. Anyway, yeah. Would also make my 1930s chart look amazing and be basically a repeat of what you can find on my 60 Shades of the Deep Blues Custom chart.
Not sure why I lead with that. I probably should say something about my thoughts on this album. Its great, excellent, fantastic even. It is maybe the greatest movie soundtrack album I've ever heard (never been a fan of listening to soundtracks, so not much competition) and as a distinct work of art it holds its own as one of the most fragile, wonderful, sad and contemplative records I think I've ever heard. This opinion I am sure is due also to having a fondness for the film and loving how the music manages to compound with the brilliance and thought-provoking themes of the film. This is an album easy to get lost in and one that makes me think deeply about uncomfortable and quite daunting things and concepts. That is even true in the middle portions of the album where there is no dialogue taken from the film to push to the forefront of your mind the concepts. The instrumentals are so achingly sad and lost.
Tracks that stick out are here, despite the whole thing flowing beautifully. Namely I consider "Rachel's Song" to be the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long, long while. - such a masterful piece. Other tracks like "Memories of Green", "Tales of the Future", "Wait for me", "Blush Response", "Blade Runner Blues" and the end run where the film's iconic dialogue comes back in is stunning and a perfect way to wrap up this album. One of the greatest Ambient and electronic albums I've heard. Truly adore it and I am glad I have revisited it. Essential listening for sure. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
Not sure why I lead with that. I probably should say something about my thoughts on this album. Its great, excellent, fantastic even. It is maybe the greatest movie soundtrack album I've ever heard (never been a fan of listening to soundtracks, so not much competition) and as a distinct work of art it holds its own as one of the most fragile, wonderful, sad and contemplative records I think I've ever heard. This opinion I am sure is due also to having a fondness for the film and loving how the music manages to compound with the brilliance and thought-provoking themes of the film. This is an album easy to get lost in and one that makes me think deeply about uncomfortable and quite daunting things and concepts. That is even true in the middle portions of the album where there is no dialogue taken from the film to push to the forefront of your mind the concepts. The instrumentals are so achingly sad and lost.
Tracks that stick out are here, despite the whole thing flowing beautifully. Namely I consider "Rachel's Song" to be the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long, long while. - such a masterful piece. Other tracks like "Memories of Green", "Tales of the Future", "Wait for me", "Blush Response", "Blade Runner Blues" and the end run where the film's iconic dialogue comes back in is stunning and a perfect way to wrap up this album. One of the greatest Ambient and electronic albums I've heard. Truly adore it and I am glad I have revisited it. Essential listening for sure. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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1994
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Excellent stuff. As witg most jazz I don't have many words to artfully describe it. Its a really vibrant and groovy jazz album with really great and sometimes subtle and sometimes obvious homages to earlier roots and blues music. Its all tied together so that it always feels like a classic Mingus album and never like a major stylistic detour if that makes sense. Its cool. Loved the bass and the drums and most all the instrumentation. I think I've heard 3 or 4 mingus albums that I can clearly remember now (probably another 3 or 4 others that I paid not enough attention to) and those are Black Saint..., Mingus Ah Um, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, and now this. Of those this is number 3 or 4 I think. I adore Black Saint and its perpetually in my overall or always in contention and consideration. Mingus Ah Um is stunning and one of my fave 50s albums, and MingusX5 and now this are also great and maybe just as great but require TLC. Good stuff.
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1960
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This was excellent. It was so groovy, heavy, melodic, swaggering, confident, and just a rock solid classic in hard rock music. Its got metal elements but gobs of hooks and a certain non-metal-associated coolness that could win over any alt rock or rock fan, but its also heavy and intense and badass enough to win over the metal kids (or a lot of them). Some of these songs are quite famous and I had heard them many many times as a kid, but some of the deeper cuts are equally instantly lovable and hummable and just seemed to be so primal-y natural. This is the kind of album with the perfect balance of groove and simplicity with complexity and artisticness to scratch basically any itch I have for hard rock. Its a shame I never went and bought this CD when I was 13 because this would have, no doubt, become a favorite of mine had I just given it the time. I was a worshipper of NIN and White Stripes and Slayer and Metallica and Sabbath... this would have fit so neatly and nicely into my head canon and I would have had a ball trying to win over my dad about this modern band. Oh well. better late than never.
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2002
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Went ahead and listened to Discipline by KC as well. This 1973 album is as good as I remembered vaguely. It is a cool, equal parts cerebral and physically intense album. The grooves and the quasi-metal parts are so awesome, inspired and intimidating. The more hushed and subdued tracks and the more beautiful melodic bits are also stunning and the band manages to marry these cool sounds excellently here. I may still love Red the most, I mostly feel like Red is just one of the ultimate statement rock records i've ever heard, on this they almost achieve that same level of almost scary intensity while also doing more light stuff beautifully as well. Title track part 1 is one of their best songs that I've heard. Its just so eerie the way it builds and then so awe-inspiring the way it culminates and explodes.
The band here is superb of course. I think Yes of this era is better than KC ever was, but this is about as close as any band I've heard has come to matching the chemistry and brilliance of 1971-1974 Yes.
Discipline which I'm finishing up now as I write this is also great and has a chance to be there at the top tier of King Crimson favorites alongside their debut and Red. Its really a wild departure from their earlier sound. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
The band here is superb of course. I think Yes of this era is better than KC ever was, but this is about as close as any band I've heard has come to matching the chemistry and brilliance of 1971-1974 Yes.
Discipline which I'm finishing up now as I write this is also great and has a chance to be there at the top tier of King Crimson favorites alongside their debut and Red. Its really a wild departure from their earlier sound. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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1973
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(after posting... I saw this cover. I have never seen the above picture... but this is indeed the only "Mount Eerie by The Microphones" on this site. So yeah this is the 2003 microphones album. )
Well okay, so... this is interesting. This brand of folk is so alien to what I look for in folk or expect in folk and its brilliant and it reinvents formulas and that is cool. I am of 2 minds... on one hand I think he is not a technically proficient musician, and sometimes I feel like the droning and the weird skeletal quality of the music is necessary because he can't play technical folk music. I'm not explaining it well, although if I did explain it well it would still sound snobbish and bullshit. On the other hand, 2, is I think the fact that he isn't a great acoustic guitarist BUT a brilliantly imaginative creative person, makes him work out ways around more traditional musical bits to create whole other worlds of music. If he had the technical ability of Kristian Mattson would he still need to reinvent folk and create these strange avant folk creations? Not sure.
But... as for this album... its more focused and atmospheric in a consistent way than the slightly more famous album from a couple years earlier (the one with the elephant, forget the name, nevermind just remembered) The Glow Part 1. I didn't love The Glow Part 1. In that comment I mentioned that this quirky, weird, seemingly unfocused, brittle, undoubtedly creative and unique brand of folk just wasn't for me. I am not a traditionalist or whatever, I just like more structure and hard lines and clear songs in my music generally and The Glow was just too fragmented for me. THIS album has cool tribal drums, and cool long droney bits, and interesting metaphors and narratives and there are just 5 tracks that tell interesting musical stories and that is cool. I think as of now Microphones/Mount Eerie is a massively loved modern musical entity that still has not quite broken through to me. Of the half dozen albums I've now heard from him, I have respected all of them, liked half of them *including this album here) and even the ones I didn't like I respected the creativity. BUT i've still not loved any album of his. 2020 and A Crow Looked At Me were brave and direct statements of where he was when making them and I respect the fuck out of them but almost never felt any inclination to listen again. This album and the Glow are respectable and creative but not really my taste. And as for Dawn... I think I heard it but can't remember anything about it.
Okay, that is all. I've rambled enough. This was good, I liked it more than The Glow and yeah that is all. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
Well okay, so... this is interesting. This brand of folk is so alien to what I look for in folk or expect in folk and its brilliant and it reinvents formulas and that is cool. I am of 2 minds... on one hand I think he is not a technically proficient musician, and sometimes I feel like the droning and the weird skeletal quality of the music is necessary because he can't play technical folk music. I'm not explaining it well, although if I did explain it well it would still sound snobbish and bullshit. On the other hand, 2, is I think the fact that he isn't a great acoustic guitarist BUT a brilliantly imaginative creative person, makes him work out ways around more traditional musical bits to create whole other worlds of music. If he had the technical ability of Kristian Mattson would he still need to reinvent folk and create these strange avant folk creations? Not sure.
But... as for this album... its more focused and atmospheric in a consistent way than the slightly more famous album from a couple years earlier (the one with the elephant, forget the name, nevermind just remembered) The Glow Part 1. I didn't love The Glow Part 1. In that comment I mentioned that this quirky, weird, seemingly unfocused, brittle, undoubtedly creative and unique brand of folk just wasn't for me. I am not a traditionalist or whatever, I just like more structure and hard lines and clear songs in my music generally and The Glow was just too fragmented for me. THIS album has cool tribal drums, and cool long droney bits, and interesting metaphors and narratives and there are just 5 tracks that tell interesting musical stories and that is cool. I think as of now Microphones/Mount Eerie is a massively loved modern musical entity that still has not quite broken through to me. Of the half dozen albums I've now heard from him, I have respected all of them, liked half of them *including this album here) and even the ones I didn't like I respected the creativity. BUT i've still not loved any album of his. 2020 and A Crow Looked At Me were brave and direct statements of where he was when making them and I respect the fuck out of them but almost never felt any inclination to listen again. This album and the Glow are respectable and creative but not really my taste. And as for Dawn... I think I heard it but can't remember anything about it.
Okay, that is all. I've rambled enough. This was good, I liked it more than The Glow and yeah that is all. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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2003
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Okay so this is one I thought was good. Solid. I enjoyed it. Didn’t love it. Not sure what is missing because in theory this should be my jam, art pop, confessional and emotional, consistently well written lyrics, awesome hooks and production, etc. it may come down to her vocals - they are famous and unique and for me really really odd. When she really goes off and gets intense it’s a sound to behold. But sometimes it’s just extremely (intentionally) awkward and strained. Kinda takes me out of it sometimes. Also some times all the cool interesting elements don’t coalesce well and sound again awkward. Anyway, I think it’s Homogenic>Post>Vespertine in my mind. Glad I heard this and absorbed it and i respect her, but yeah I think it’s not some of my fave 90s music.
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1995
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| 1980s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1990s | 35 | 35% | |
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