Music: Last Album You Listened to and Rate It II

[The Gongshow]

Real Friends - Maybe This Place Is The Same And We're Just Changing 7/10

Some really catchy songs and then some filler stuff. Decent album.

 

[Know Your Enemy]

David Bowie (aka Space Oddity) (1969). 2.5/5
Absolutely Free by The Mothers of Invention (1967). 2.5+/5
Meat is Murder by The Smiths (1985). 3-/5
The Wonderful World of Antonio Carlos Jobim (1966). 2-/5
Outsideinside by Blue Cheer (1968). Leigh Stephens is one of my favorite guitarists 3.5+/5

 

[crump]

If I had to pick two it would be their first two, which you already rated. As albums, IMO everything up to Avalon, except maybe Manifesto (haven't heard Viva! or anything more recent than Avalon). You probably already know this but Brian Eno does keyboards on those first two albums. Stranded, Country Life, and Siren are IMO good. I think they were one of the original glam rock bands, along with David Bowie.

Echo this. Flesh and blood is an excellent pre-Avalon album (1980) that I would add to the must have list of Roxy Music.

My favs are..

For Your Pleasure 4.5/5
Avalon 4/5
Flesh and Blood 4/5
Stranded 3.5/5
Roxy Music 3.5/5
Siren 3.5/5
Country Life 3.5/5

Live version of Like a Hurricane is great. Phil_Manzanera once said he wanted his guitar to sound like Mike Ratledge's organ on the early Soft Machine albums. The man is awesome.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Bloated, messy and oddly paced album with a ridiculous title. I know a lot of people hate Matt Healy and he's an easy target, but I want to emphasize how much I want to falcon punch the guy off his stage one day. While I am piling on, the album can feel derivative at far too many intervals.

7/10

 

[Shareefruck]

Basically albums that I already loved either shot up another notch or I came back around to them after turning on them for a while:

Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt - 5.0 (Masterpiece)
After Bathing at Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane - 5.0 (Masterpiece)
Neu! by Neu! - 5.0 (Masterpiece)
Second Edition by Public Image Ltd. - 5.0 (Masterpiece)

Masterpieces:
1. The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel by Miles Davis
2. Bootleg 4: Live 1966 by Bob Dylan
3. White Light White Heat (Mono) by Velvet Underground
4. Highway 61 Revisited by Bob Dylan
5. A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
6. ******es Brew by Miles Davis
7. Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
8. The Velvet Underground and Nico (Mono) by The Velvet Underground
9. Revolver (Mono) by The Beatles
10. Live at the It Club by Thelonious Monk
11. Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
12. Tago Mago by Can
13. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by John Coltrane
14. The Goldberg Variations (1981) by Glenn Gould
15. Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart
16. Unit Structures by Cecil Taylor
17. In A Silent Way by Miles Davis
18. Closer by Joy Division
19. Plastic Ono Band by Plastic Ono Band
20. Confusion/Gentlemen by Fela Kuti
21. The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings by The Bill Evans Trio
22. The Ascension by Glenn Branca
23. The Velvet Underground (Closet Mix) by The Velvet Underground
24. The Clash UK by The Clash
25. Free Jazz by Ornette Coleman
26. Faust by Faust
27. Freak Out! by The Mothers of Invention
28. After Bathing At Baxter's by Jefferson Airplane
29. The Black Saint and Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
30. Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dylan
31. Marquee Moon by Television
32. Three Ragas by Ravi Shankar
33. Debussy: Preludes by Arturo Bendetti Michelangeli
34. Fun House by The Stooges
35. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
36. Neu! by Neu!
37. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
38. Faust IV by Faust
39. Rubber Soul (Mono) by The Beatles
40. Neu!75 by Neu!
41. Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen
42. Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
43. Ambient 3: Days of Radiance by Brian Eno
44. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band (Mono) by The Beatles
45. Spiritual Unity by Albert Ayler
46. Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd
47. Second Edition by Public Image Ltd.
48. The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
49. Entertainment! by Gang of Four
50. Loveless (Alternate Version) by My Bloody Valentine

Tracks recently labelled "Brilliant":
1. Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
2. Meditation 1 by Brian Eno
3. Moon in June by Soft Machine
4. Spare Chaynge by Jefferson Airplane
5. Wild Tyme by Jefferson Airplane
6. Love Minus Zero, No Limit by Bob Dylan
7. Deny by The Clash
8. Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands by Bob Dylan
9. Blank Frank by Brian Eno

 

[Trap Jesus]

Lemon Demon - Spirit Phone

Saw this on a review and checked it out just based on the name/album cover without even hearing the review, and I'm really glad I did. Legitimately one of the catchiest pieces of music I've ever listened to. Almost all of the songs on here are stuck in my head.

This is packed with throbbing synths and other sounds straight out of the 80s. While that plays a big part in the catchiness of the songs, the main draw here is the hooks. The melodies in here are ****ing awesome, and extremely memorable.

Also, his voice goes along very well with it (a lot of his vocal work sounds reminiscent of Elvis Costello to me), and he completely carries most of the hooks with it. I don't think this is any more apparent than on the track "Sweet Bod". Not the necessarily the best beat (although still catchy), but he kills it with the vocals, tying it all together.

Overall, it loses some steam in the last handful of songs, but ends very strongly with "Spiral of Ants", probably my favorite on the album (really nice melancholic end to a very upbeat album). Tracks 2-8/9 of this thing I could listen to over and over and over again straight.

If you're a fan of 80s New Wave or newer electropop like Kavinsky/Com Truise, I think this is an absolute must listen. If not, I still think most people will find it at least catchy. Really campy and nerdy stuff, but it really works, and not in an ironic way either. It's legitimately good music.




Spiral of Ants

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Bloated, messy and oddly paced album with a ridiculous title. I know a lot of people hate Matt Healy and he's an easy target, but I want to emphasize how much I want to falcon punch the guy off his stage one day. While I am piling on, the album can feel derivative at far too many intervals.

7/10

This seems like a high rating for an album you evidently dislike.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

This seems like a high rating for an album you evidently dislike.

I actually like a good number of the songs on the album and I think some of them will be permanent staples on my ipod. The lyricism is actually better than it has any right to be on most songs and I can see what they were trying to do with the narrative.

The aforementioned flaws are what knocks it down for me, some of them being nitpicks while others being instrumental in preventing me from fully recommending the album, i.e. bloat.

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

I actually like a good number of the songs on the album and I think some of them will be permanent staples on my ipod. The lyricism is actually better than it has any right to be on most songs and I can see what they were trying to do with the narrative.

The aforementioned flaws are what knocks it down for me, some of them being nitpicks while others being instrumental in preventing me from fully recommending the album, i.e. bloat.

OK, gotcha.

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Metallica - Ride The Lightning

9/10

 

[Know Your Enemy]

I'm starting to get bored going through the same 53 artists so I'm going to rate a few artists whole discographies so I can move onto others.

Pretty Lights
Passing By Behind Your Eyes - 5/5
Filling Up the City Skies 1 - 5/5
Filling Up the City Skies 2 - 4/5
Glowing in the Darkest Night EP - 4/5
Taking Up Your Precious Time - 4-/5
Making Up Your Changing Mind EP - 4-/5
A Color Map of the Sun - 3.5+/5
Spilling Over Every Side EP - 3.5/5
Electro City EP (Unreleased) - 3.5-/5
Defocused on the Bright Diamonds (Unreleased) - 3+/5
The Hidden Shades EP - 3/5
Unreleased 2010 Remixes – 3-/5

I think the only artists/bands that can match Pretty Lights’ consistency are The Beatles or maybe Opeth IMO.

Radiohead
In Rainbows – 4.5+/5
OK Computer – 4.5-/5. This album was a 5/5 for a long time before I got tired of it
Amnesiac – 4+/5
Kid A – 4/5
The King if Limbs – 3.5/5
The Bends – 3/5
Hail to the Thief – 2.5+/5
My Iron Lung – 2-/5
Pablo Honey – 1.5/5

Bonobo
Days to Come - 4-/5
The North Borders - 4-/5
Blacks Sands - 3.5-/5
Animal Magic - 3/5
Dial M For Monkey - 2.5/5

Beats Antique
Collide - 4.5-/5
Blind Threshold - 3.5/5
The Trunk Archives EP - 3/5
Tribal Derivations - 3/5
Contraption Vol1 - 2.5/5
Elektrafone - 2.5/5
Contraption Vol2 - 2/5
A Thousand Faces Act2 - 2-/5
A Thousand Faces Act1 - 1.5/5

 

[Hippasus]

Rock:

T. Rex - Electric Warrior 425 (not twice)
T. Rex - The Slider 425 (not twice)
Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance 300 (not twice)

200: distasteful and pathetic
300: mediocre or subpar
400: average, but decent
500: very good
600: superb
700: transcendental

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Emancipator
Soon it Will Be Cold Enough - 4/5
Safe in the Steep Cliffs - 3.5-/5
Dusk to Dawn - 3-/5
Seven Seas - 2.5+/5

 

[Thucydides]

Love her voice. Love this album.

8.6/10

 

[Philly85*]

Love her voice. Love this album.

8.6/10

Does she do all the production and vocal arrangements? Just checked it out, different but interesting.

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Pink Floyd pre TDSotM
Meddle - 3.5/5
Piper at the Gates of Dawn - 3/5
A Saucerful of Secrets - 2.5+/5
Ummagumma - 2.5/5
More - 2.5-/5
Obscured by Clouds - 2/5
Atom Heart Mother - 1.5+/5

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Moby
Play - 3.5-/5
Innocents - 2.5/5
18 - 2.5-/5
Moby - 2+/5
Last Night - 2/5
Ambient - 2/5
Wait for Me - 2/5
Destroyed - 1.5+/5
Everything Is Wrong - 1/5
Animal Rights - 0.5/5
Hotel - 0.5-/5. This is the worst album I've ever heard.


Moby is certainly one of the most overrated musicians out there IMO.

 

[Shareefruck]

Is Moby even rated highly in the first place by anyone who isn't a teenager?

I'm starting to get bored going through the same 53 artists so I'm going to rate a few artists whole discographies so I can move onto others.

Yeah, your original approach of going chronologically across the board but alternating artists each time really left me scratching my head.

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Is Moby even rated highly in the first place by anyone who isn't a teenager?

Out of all the electronic acts around today, I would expect Moby's audience to be one of older ones considering how long he's been around. I really don't know though.

Yeah, your original approach of going chronologically across the board but alternating artists each time really left me scratching my head.

I switch my approach around from time to time to keep it from getting tedious. I'll probably go back to my first approach again. Or I'll abandon this all together and go back to digging up old Jazz music like what I did with the early Country Blues.

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Thievery Corporation
Sounds From the Thievery Hi-Fi - 3/5
Saudade - 3-/5
The Mirror Conspiracy - 2.5+/5
The Richest Man in Babylon - 2.5/5
Radio Retaliation - 2.5-/5
Culture of Fear - 2/5
The Cosmic Game - 2/5

 

[TNCHL]

Death Cab For Cutie:
We have the facts and we're voting yes (8.8/10)
Fav song: company calls epilogue

 

[Shareefruck]

Out of all the electronic acts around today, I would expect Moby's audience to be one of older ones considering how long he's been around. I really don't know though.




I switch my approach around from time to time to keep it from getting tedious. I'll probably go back to my first approach again. Or I'll abandon this all together and go back to digging up old Jazz music like what I did with the early Country Blues.

Crap, I forgot all about that spreadsheet

I'll get around to it eventually.

 

[Know Your Enemy]

Simon & Garfunkel
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme - 3.5+/5
Bookends - 3.5+/5
Bridge Over Troubled Water - 3.5+/5
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M. - 3.5-/5
Sounds of Silence - 2.5+/5

Although I didn't give any of their albums a 4, if I was to rate them as musicians by their body of work, I'd give them a 4 or better given the strength of my favorite songs by them.

Crap, I forgot all about that spreadsheet

I'll get around to it eventually.

Haha, no pressure.

 

[Shareefruck]

Country Life by Roxy Music - 2.5 (Good)
Stranded by Roxy Music - 2.5 (Good)

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Vulfpeck -- Thrill Of The Arts

7.5/10