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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. [First added to this chart: 08/26/2021]
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2002
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On a technical level, everything about this is as good as you will find in hard rock/alternative rock of this century. The production is really REALLY great and clear and immersive. The musicianship is varied and executed greatly. The songwriting with these hooks and these undeniable melodic parts are absolutely great. The flow of the album has a momentum and there is nothing out of place. It's just a super well rounded rock album.

And I did enjoy this. I think this requires more than just these 2 listens I gave it. There was nothing here that blew my mind. Part sof their 2002 album did blow my mind especially in its heavier moments, but here they had toned down the heaviness to a large degree and there is a lot more swaggering rock and at times quite melodic art rock type stuff on display here by and large. There are some seriously killer rock songs here of course and I get why this is so adored and more so by the day this seems to be becoming a bit of a classic. I think "I Sat By The Ocean", "The Vampyre of Time and Memory", "If I Had tail", "My God is the Sun", "Fairweather Friends" and ESPECIALLY that 1-2 punch to close the album, "I Appear Missing" and "...Like Clockwork" are all damn fine and at times gorgeous and dark and excellently written and performed songs.

Yeah I think this is one that I really need to give a little space and then come back to because I can't find any critiques outside of it just not having anything that absolutely grabs me and blows my mind. It's hard to describe. Sometimes those types of albums are the ones that, when I return after a bit of time to ruminate, become truly important and special to me.

"I Appear Missing" is a damn masterpiece. So there is at least one touchstone that I look forward to coming back to here and that will probably increase as I come to more of that conclusion with other songs here over the next little while as I return to this.
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2013
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1980s 6 6%
1990s 35 35%
2000s 24 24%
2010s 14 14%
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United States 55 55%
United Kingdom 17 17%
Japan 5 5%
Canada 5 5%
Sweden 3 3%
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No 97 97%
Yes 3 3%
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