A few albums recently listened.

808 State's Ex El. It's a go to of mine and have been playing it on my way to and from work for the last few days. Such an awesome journey as is every 808 State release. Really love the chilly exotic world vibes and light plastic quirkiness of it. And the features of Bjork and Bernard Sumner are sublime. A+

Listened to ex WATMM user Ragnar's album, it's pretty nice. For some drunk reason I didn't use his album art when uploading it to YouTube, might change that. Pretty cool music

  On 6/24/2018 at 12:37 AM, Candiru said:

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted / Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

 

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So I tried again after a few years and still can’t comprehend why this shit band is so well liked.

Slanted and Enchanted is a stone cold classic. Shrooms might help. It's a very very psyche informed album. If you listen when ur tripping you're aware of just how much sideways slippage there is, in both the music and the vox

Steal This Album! by SOAD

Hahah so fucking great, so miss this band. Pretty sure the drummer told a story when Chris Cornell committed suicide that he felt a deep regret SOAD had wasted so many years in the wilderness doing fuck all (though I know there were a few solo albums released). Wasted talent. The last few albums were iffy, no doubt. These four individuals need to get back in the studio.

Maybe they lost it? Gay ego nonsense? Shame. Nobody like them.

I picked this album up on a whim today after reading the description sticker and having the album art catch my eye... Pleasantly surprised, it's pretty damn good darker synth-pop/coldwave.

RTJ3

JJ Doom - Keys To The Kuffs

Company Flow - Little Johnny From The Hospital

Did you enjoy listening to any of them?

How can one enjoy music when there's poverty in the world

Give it a rest twat bags. Go wank over your favourite corporations.

  On 7/12/2018 at 12:07 AM, Gocab said:

Did you enjoy listening to any of them?

I've been known to hip hop.

  On 7/12/2018 at 3:12 PM, Gocab said:

I've been known to hip hop.

Jim O'Rourke's Eureka & Insignificance.

Excellent combo to walk to work to in the morning.

i'm listening to his new ambient record. it's alright, nothing spectacular.

also been listening to the first manic street preachers record. i don't get why this band was so hyped in the 90s. other than motorcycle emptiness, which is a great song, they just sound like a very generic rock band from the late eighties with leftist lyrics. maybe it gets better. 

The Holy Bible is decent

i checked out a the eps by Dont DJ that i hadnt heard, and liked them so much that i hit dat repeat button

Hyperspace Is The Place / Hyperspace Is No Place ‎

The Essence Of Our Being Is To Overcome It ‎

and especially this one

All Love Affairs Fail But They Never End 

Going on a Malkmus/Pavement kick after the show yesterday. Between this, My Bloody Valentine last month, and the Sonic Youth thread, I might as well be in high school again. 

Dorian Concept - the nature of imitation

Pretty good album you guys, sad to see no buzz on here

nirvana - nevermind

haven't heard this one for a very long while, and oh man, it is truly embarrassing. that overly affected cobain singing comes off very fake. i always thought nirvana was supposed to be punk and not give a shit but this is very far from it. the lyrics are plain juvenile, chock full of teenage sarcasm and cynicism, the cover art too. very dull and repetitive song structure with this quiet-loud-quiet/verse-chorus-verse butt rock progression and fast snare rolls before the loud parts. retrospectively i'm kinda glad i didn't really like it back in school days when everyone was supposed to.

I wonder what Kurt Cobain would be doing now in the music world. He might’ve had a Neil Young thing going on

  On 8/6/2018 at 6:27 AM, Gocab said:

Dorian Concept - the nature of imitation

Pretty good album you guys, sad to see no buzz on here

That also happened with Joined Ends and I really like that album, not huge love here though.

Sad

I never noticed this thread until just now lol

  On 7/25/2018 at 10:58 AM, hello spiral said:

Jim O'Rourke's Eureka & Insignificance.

 

Excellent combo to walk to work to in the morning.

Fuck yeah.  Gave all my O'Rourke CDs another listen to 2 just last month.  Everything about his delivery is so understated, while the music itself is deceptively complex.  I also like the sweet sound/disturbing lyric combo he tends to gravitate towards.  All those things together create something pretty unique.  Also a big fan of his very dry but well balanced production.  Everything just sounds like it actually sounds.  I think that worked really well especially for the stuff he did with Sonic Youth (even though everyone hates NYC Ghosts and Flowers for some odd reason).

Just got into Fu Manchu.  Man, their second album Daredevil is killer.  Fuzzed out to hell sabbath riffs, drums constantly on the verge of falling apart, and practically every song is about how awesome and fast his car is.  Gave it one listen before bed, and another with my coffee.  No disappointment whatsoever.  I could listen to those fuzz tones forever.  Makes me want to have a project soley devoted to riffs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-hQmO7Syic

  On 8/11/2018 at 7:47 PM, spratters said:

 

  On 8/6/2018 at 6:27 AM, Gocab said:

Dorian Concept - the nature of imitation

Pretty good album you guys, sad to see no buzz on here

 

That also happened with Joined Ends and I really like that album, not huge love here though.

 

Sad

 

Thanks for the heads up, love me some Dorian.

He was actually a pretty accomplished lyricist, in so far as he had his own very distinctive poetic style, which was at the same time very direct and relatable to a lot of people.  Nevermind was produced in a way that I don't think was best suited for Nirvana's sound on an artistic level, though obviously from a commercial standpoint it was the right choice.  In Utero does a much better job of capturing their whole vibe.   Cobain's innate sense of songcraft was always remarkable - he was an expert pop tunesmith regardless of whether he wanted to be.  But it's really his vocal delivery that makes him so iconic.  No one else has a voice like that.  You can hear a lot of obvious influences in his songwriting, but as a vocalist he was one of a kind.

in utero is a much, much better album indeed. it still has some dull, grungy butt rockers like "rape me" and "hear shaped box", but then there a lot of songs where they get both very inventive and unhinged at the same time turning the formula on its head. scentless apprentice's verse is that uncharacteristically heavy and boomy riff that lifts off by the end but turns into chorus that's basically cobain tearing his throat screeching. it's awesome, it's almost a complete opposite of those edgy, sarcastic songs for teens to learn the chords of and sing along to for which they got popular.