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I don't have quite as much to say about this one as some earlier or more recent write ups. This albums rocks hard and there are some really interesting things going on here. The band kicks ass and on some songs (starting with "Collagen Rock", with its cartoonishly bouncy sharp melodic guitar lick) have some really prominently, strangely biting and high pitched guitar riffs that dominate the songs which are otherwise crunchy and intense post hardcore things. I thought that was awesome.
The vocal took some getting used to and really the first song turned me off and I thought the whole vibe of the band was not my thing especially vocally. But that song on 3rd listened grew a little on me and, more importantly, the rest of the album I feel gets better going forward. Some really stand out tracks that just got me riled up in a youthful, punk rock way, were the aforementioned "Collagen Rock", "What We've Learned", "Day of the Dead Ringers", "No New Wave No Fun", "To Hell With Good Intentions", and the closing track "whoyouknow." Also came to like the slowed downness and moodiness of ""Fuck This Band" and one other I am forgetting.
Overall, this sound is my jam. Really dig the innate hardcore energy mixed with other hard rock and punk and more arty side routes and sonic details. Very glad I FINALLY got to this. Can understand the hype. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2022]
The vocal took some getting used to and really the first song turned me off and I thought the whole vibe of the band was not my thing especially vocally. But that song on 3rd listened grew a little on me and, more importantly, the rest of the album I feel gets better going forward. Some really stand out tracks that just got me riled up in a youthful, punk rock way, were the aforementioned "Collagen Rock", "What We've Learned", "Day of the Dead Ringers", "No New Wave No Fun", "To Hell With Good Intentions", and the closing track "whoyouknow." Also came to like the slowed downness and moodiness of ""Fuck This Band" and one other I am forgetting.
Overall, this sound is my jam. Really dig the innate hardcore energy mixed with other hard rock and punk and more arty side routes and sonic details. Very glad I FINALLY got to this. Can understand the hype. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2022]
Year of Release:
2002
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Rank Score:
556
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Okay so I listened to this several times in a row a few days ago and I didn't fully know what to make of it. It wasn't what I was expecting. I had previously heard (and been weirded out by and quite liked) their album Chocolate and Cheese, as well as The Pod (which I mostly don't remember). So when I pushed play on this I guess I expected a very strange and very scattered and funny and quirky listen. And, while I did get that, I can say that I hear a lot of genuinely moving music here that is pretty indescribable and gorgeous.
The opening track, "It's Gonna Be A Long Night", I heard many many times when I was a lad because it was on a sampler CD iirc. I remember thinking it was a fucking kickass Motorhead tribute with some hilarious lyrics and I honestly have been satying for years (randomly and to varying response) "You bring the razor blade and I'll bring the speed!". Bt I didn't know that song was from this album so when I heard that I got super excited and it sounds as good as ever. Then... every track after proceeds to not sound at all, not even a little, like it. Which cracks me up. This whole album basically doesn't ever repeat itself. Each track is recorded and produced immaculately and each track and sound is fleshed out and embodied beautifully and there are just gobs and gobs and gobs of ear-candy parts to this album. And what is also really cool as that the second half of the album actually manages to get stronger (to my ears) than the first half. It has a whimsical, soft, melodic vibe especially in the second half (as well as much of side A so to speak) that just makes me happy. The solo on "I Don't Want It" is stunning as is the entire track. Other songs like "Among His Tribe", "Captain", "Chocolate Town", "Tried and True" etc are allll executed beautifully.
Honestly I don't generally like my music to be too quirky or funny and part of me was worried when I went into this album that it would be goofy and silly and stupid - I recently had a bad experience trying to listen to and enjoy They Might Be Giants and so I was ready to just think this was not my thing. BUT somehow this album when it gets quirky and funny I find myself buying in somewhat and I really don't know why. "So Many People In The Neighborhood" in almost any other hands would annoy me. As would the ridiculous and quite funny "The F****d Jam", but on here they just work and they are strange and surreal enough and muiscally creative enough to not JUST make me laugh but also kind of just fascinate me as well. Super cool.
And it must be said again that the second half and really the last 30-40% of this album is just 1 amazing and incredible track after another. Just awesome. As I listened I found myself getting more and more familiar (duh) and more and more just kind of in love with this album. Now I listen again as I write this and after 2 or 3 days to marinate I already can see that coming back to this album is like coming back to have a chat with old dear friends. This was the first LP I listened to in this new year and after 4 listens its safe to say that I picked a great and almost instantly a favorite to start the year off with. Easily an 8-9/10. Likely to increase in love as the months and years go on. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2022]
The opening track, "It's Gonna Be A Long Night", I heard many many times when I was a lad because it was on a sampler CD iirc. I remember thinking it was a fucking kickass Motorhead tribute with some hilarious lyrics and I honestly have been satying for years (randomly and to varying response) "You bring the razor blade and I'll bring the speed!". Bt I didn't know that song was from this album so when I heard that I got super excited and it sounds as good as ever. Then... every track after proceeds to not sound at all, not even a little, like it. Which cracks me up. This whole album basically doesn't ever repeat itself. Each track is recorded and produced immaculately and each track and sound is fleshed out and embodied beautifully and there are just gobs and gobs and gobs of ear-candy parts to this album. And what is also really cool as that the second half of the album actually manages to get stronger (to my ears) than the first half. It has a whimsical, soft, melodic vibe especially in the second half (as well as much of side A so to speak) that just makes me happy. The solo on "I Don't Want It" is stunning as is the entire track. Other songs like "Among His Tribe", "Captain", "Chocolate Town", "Tried and True" etc are allll executed beautifully.
Honestly I don't generally like my music to be too quirky or funny and part of me was worried when I went into this album that it would be goofy and silly and stupid - I recently had a bad experience trying to listen to and enjoy They Might Be Giants and so I was ready to just think this was not my thing. BUT somehow this album when it gets quirky and funny I find myself buying in somewhat and I really don't know why. "So Many People In The Neighborhood" in almost any other hands would annoy me. As would the ridiculous and quite funny "The F****d Jam", but on here they just work and they are strange and surreal enough and muiscally creative enough to not JUST make me laugh but also kind of just fascinate me as well. Super cool.
And it must be said again that the second half and really the last 30-40% of this album is just 1 amazing and incredible track after another. Just awesome. As I listened I found myself getting more and more familiar (duh) and more and more just kind of in love with this album. Now I listen again as I write this and after 2 or 3 days to marinate I already can see that coming back to this album is like coming back to have a chat with old dear friends. This was the first LP I listened to in this new year and after 4 listens its safe to say that I picked a great and almost instantly a favorite to start the year off with. Easily an 8-9/10. Likely to increase in love as the months and years go on. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2022]
Year of Release:
2003
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I am impressed by the clarity and crispness and punch of the production here as EyeKanFly mentioned. I had my ears open to this element as a result of your comment, EKF, so appreciate that. I also appreciate these players, they are good rock musicians. I like (well enough) the sound and style. In my mind I always thought of them growing up as the mass-market radiohead. Now, after listening to this and for the first time hearing a full album by them, I think this isn’t accurate. The vocals and some of the melodies are reminiscent of Radiohead, sure, but generally this is a somewhat artsy, very conceptual, HARD alt rock album at its core. Radiohead is… different. Very. So listening has helped me separate out the gauzy and indistinct concepts I have had of Muse and at least have a clear concept of what they are.
Okay, so did I like this album? Yes, I thought it was pretty good. Not sure if I ever loved it. But generally it was fine. Some of the over-the-top theatrics and things were BOTH the big turn offs and the selling points. They really get into it with full bodied vigor at times, and these are some HUGE moments, massive guitar parts, big soaring vocals and screams while always being quite melodic, massive drum sound, it all comes to a head and kicks ass and I can hear the appeal and at times even old curmudgeon/sad sack like me was getting a bit into it. But also about 60% or so of the time when these songs and concepts would crescendo I would feel like I was distant and unmoved and kind of “meh” about it.
The flow of the album is pretty fine I think. There are enough high points throughout mixed with the more low key building, “artsy” parts ( I think I like the more low key moments slightly more, as a side point), so almost always 5 minutes in any direction there is bound to be something new and dramatic or pretty.
More specifics and so forth are hard to dredge up. The most “popular” I guess - the ones with the little star beside them on apple music, - were the most clearly the BIG ballsy dramatic rock songs and those were the ones I was least interested in and the ones that I was most expecting to some degree. It was the low key stuff that I enjoyed the most.
I had a hard time making myself listen to this in full in one sitting. That is due to my musical preferences to some degree of course, but also that is a reflection of m,y mood the last few weeks. I haven’t been drawn as much to music for a little while. A Bit of a musical obsession lull is where I’m at. More work and audiobooks lately. And the albums that have been the ones that have been on consistent rotation lately have NOT been rock records, but more re-re-re-re-re listens of Reign In Blood and Adrianne Lenker’s songs album, as well as some Big Thief albums. Haven’t been in the mood for rock (anthemic and big rock stuff - big thief is rock of a kind), which is making this BEA, rock-loving, list a little tough to get excited about. Oh and my top 100 chart and the inclusion of songs and reign in blood in my personal top 3 is indication of my adoration that has developed or newly developed the last year for those albums. (that was a major random factoid disrelated utterly from Origin of Symmetry, apologies. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2022]
Okay, so did I like this album? Yes, I thought it was pretty good. Not sure if I ever loved it. But generally it was fine. Some of the over-the-top theatrics and things were BOTH the big turn offs and the selling points. They really get into it with full bodied vigor at times, and these are some HUGE moments, massive guitar parts, big soaring vocals and screams while always being quite melodic, massive drum sound, it all comes to a head and kicks ass and I can hear the appeal and at times even old curmudgeon/sad sack like me was getting a bit into it. But also about 60% or so of the time when these songs and concepts would crescendo I would feel like I was distant and unmoved and kind of “meh” about it.
The flow of the album is pretty fine I think. There are enough high points throughout mixed with the more low key building, “artsy” parts ( I think I like the more low key moments slightly more, as a side point), so almost always 5 minutes in any direction there is bound to be something new and dramatic or pretty.
More specifics and so forth are hard to dredge up. The most “popular” I guess - the ones with the little star beside them on apple music, - were the most clearly the BIG ballsy dramatic rock songs and those were the ones I was least interested in and the ones that I was most expecting to some degree. It was the low key stuff that I enjoyed the most.
I had a hard time making myself listen to this in full in one sitting. That is due to my musical preferences to some degree of course, but also that is a reflection of m,y mood the last few weeks. I haven’t been drawn as much to music for a little while. A Bit of a musical obsession lull is where I’m at. More work and audiobooks lately. And the albums that have been the ones that have been on consistent rotation lately have NOT been rock records, but more re-re-re-re-re listens of Reign In Blood and Adrianne Lenker’s songs album, as well as some Big Thief albums. Haven’t been in the mood for rock (anthemic and big rock stuff - big thief is rock of a kind), which is making this BEA, rock-loving, list a little tough to get excited about. Oh and my top 100 chart and the inclusion of songs and reign in blood in my personal top 3 is indication of my adoration that has developed or newly developed the last year for those albums. (that was a major random factoid disrelated utterly from Origin of Symmetry, apologies. [First added to this chart: 03/15/2022]
Year of Release:
2001
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| 1. Radiohead | |
| 2. Arcade Fire | |
| 3. The Strokes | |
| 4. Coldplay | |
| 5. Sufjan Stevens | |
| 6. Arctic Monkeys | |
| 7. Wilco | |
| 8. Animal Collective | |
| 9. Muse | |
| 10. The White Stripes | |
| 11. Kanye West | |
| 12. Phil Elverum | |
| 13. Interpol | |
| 14. Modest Mouse | |
| 15. Queens Of The Stone Age | |
| 16. Madvillain | |
| 17. Godspeed You! Black Emperor | |
| 18. LCD Soundsystem | |
| 19. The National | |
| 20. The Flaming Lips |