Love or Hate?

Justthefacts · 11-24-2015, 11:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

I don't hate you, but you have to be able to take rejection of your recs the same as anyone would. Frownland will argue with me, Batty will sneer at me, Machine will scratch his head, but nobody else has cursed me out and called my thread a piece of ****.

So as long as you're prepared to be civil and accept that I might not like your rec and that that does not then give you the right to insult me (I don't care about humourous insults, obviously, such as "what the **** do you know? You listen to Genesis! Yeah. G-E-N-E-S-I-S!", but nothing serious) then I'll put this in the queue. But remember, I'm (allegedly) human too, and I have feelings. No more temper tantrums, and we'll forget the past. Deal?

Deal.

TechnicLePanther · 11-24-2015, 12:34 PM

Oh man, missed it.

Sorry!

Machine · 11-24-2015, 01:49 PM

Alright I waited for a while as you asked TH, and now here's my next rec.

Ulver - Bergtatt

grindy · 11-24-2015, 01:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Machine

Alright I waited for a while as you asked TH, and now here's my next rec.

Ulver - Bergtatt

I'm pretty sure he listened to it for Metal Month or something like that.

The Batlord · 11-24-2015, 01:55 PM

Yup.

Machine · 11-24-2015, 02:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by grindy

I'm pretty sure he listened to it for Metal Month or something like that.

Dammit, well alright I'll find something else.

nouns - still bummed

https://nounss.bandcamp.com/album/still-bummed

TechnicLePanther · 11-24-2015, 07:39 PM

Jack White - Blunderbuss

TechnicLePanther · 11-25-2015, 01:13 PM

Come on, Troll. I know you have this review in you. (I'm really excited.)

Trollheart · 11-25-2015, 01:19 PM

Cool yer jets, hot shot! Here ya go!

Title: California
Artiste: Mr. Bungle
Genre: Experimental/Avant-Garde
Familiarity: I've heard Disco Volante and was not very impressed, though that was for Metal Month III...

1. Sweet charity: Well this is nice. Birdsong, Hawaiian guitar, whistling, slow ballad, very relaxed. Really nice. Sort of a dreampop idea to it, while retaining a rock swagger. Good start.
2. None of them knew they were robots: Bit more frenetic; kind of a rockabilly idea in this. Pretty amusing though. Organ is great. Bit overlong maybe.
3. Retrovertigo: Gorgeous little acoustic ballad. Oh, okay: it ramped up there but it's still lovely. Really like this one.
4. The air-conditioned nightmare: Kind of a weird sense of The Beach Boys about this. This is a track Frownland wanted me to listen to but then changed his mind when he saw I'd been recced the entire album. Kicking up now with a melange of surf rock and what may approximate to death metal? Weird indeed. But good weird. Now it's gone into a kind of bluesy, West Coast thing. Idea of The Eagles, sort of thing.
5. Ars moriendi: Russian folk music? Mad violin and accordion. Bit of Mexican guitar, Mariachi, dart of metal thrown in. Kind of all over the place. Now there's an acoustic piano for a moment, then it goes back to the accordion. Kind of. I can't keep up. It's a little too overwhelming, hard to pin anything down.
6. Pink cigarette: Seems to be a slow blues song with a kind of Arabian melody underpinning it. Definite sense of Elvis's slower stuff here. Nice backing vocals. At least it stays the same, doesn't genre-jump every three seconds. Flatline at the end is hilarious. Yeah, you're going blue.
7. Golem II: The bionic vapour boy: Don't quite know what to make of this. Waits/Beefheart meets boyband with a bit of funk. Weird.
8. The holy filament: This one's nice, kind of chant over a piano. Elements of progressive rock/ ELO. Nice.
9. Vanity Fair: Bit of doo-wop/soul now. Cool.
10. Goodbye sober day: Yeah, this is too out there for me. Ends badly really, which is a pity.

End result: Overall though, a lot better than I had expected and not as hard to get into as Disco Volante. Some very good tracks. I still wouldn't be seeing myself becoming a fan or anything.

So, Love or Hate? I think it would have to be a Love, really.

The Batlord · 11-25-2015, 01:52 PM

Just noticed that you actually did import the recs from that alphabetical rec thread. Lol. Not changing my rec though. Take it, bitch.

11-24-2015, 12:34 PM	#2152 (permalink)
TechnicLePanther and the livin' is easy... Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: New York Posts: 1,997	Oh man, missed it. Sorry! __________________ Many have tried to destroy it... but... true evil never dies. It is only... REBORN *SUGGEST ME AN ALBUM* - I'm probably not going to listen to it but I will if you bother me enough.

11-24-2015, 01:49 PM	#2153 (permalink)
Machine moon lake inc. Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Detroit Posts: 2,125	Alright I waited for a while as you asked TH, and now here's my next rec. Ulver - Bergtatt __________________ boost my ego listen to me stroke my delay pedal ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

11-24-2015, 07:39 PM	#2157 (permalink)
TechnicLePanther and the livin' is easy... Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: New York Posts: 1,997	Jack White - Blunderbuss __________________ Many have tried to destroy it... but... true evil never dies. It is only... REBORN *SUGGEST ME AN ALBUM* - I'm probably not going to listen to it but I will if you bother me enough.

11-25-2015, 01:13 PM	#2158 (permalink)
TechnicLePanther and the livin' is easy... Join Date: Jun 2015 Location: New York Posts: 1,997	Come on, Troll. I know you have this review in you. (I'm really excited.) __________________ Many have tried to destroy it... but... true evil never dies. It is only... REBORN *SUGGEST ME AN ALBUM* - I'm probably not going to listen to it but I will if you bother me enough.

11-25-2015, 01:19 PM	#2159 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,970	Cool yer jets, hot shot! Here ya go! Title: California Artiste: Mr. Bungle Genre: Experimental/Avant-Garde Familiarity: I've heard Disco Volante and was not very impressed, though that was for Metal Month III... 1. Sweet charity: Well this is nice. Birdsong, Hawaiian guitar, whistling, slow ballad, very relaxed. Really nice. Sort of a dreampop idea to it, while retaining a rock swagger. Good start. 2. None of them knew they were robots: Bit more frenetic; kind of a rockabilly idea in this. Pretty amusing though. Organ is great. Bit overlong maybe. 3. Retrovertigo: Gorgeous little acoustic ballad. Oh, okay: it ramped up there but it's still lovely. Really like this one. 4. The air-conditioned nightmare: Kind of a weird sense of The Beach Boys about this. This is a track Frownland wanted me to listen to but then changed his mind when he saw I'd been recced the entire album. Kicking up now with a melange of surf rock and what may approximate to death metal? Weird indeed. But good weird. Now it's gone into a kind of bluesy, West Coast thing. Idea of The Eagles, sort of thing. 5. Ars moriendi: Russian folk music? Mad violin and accordion. Bit of Mexican guitar, Mariachi, dart of metal thrown in. Kind of all over the place. Now there's an acoustic piano for a moment, then it goes back to the accordion. Kind of. I can't keep up. It's a little too overwhelming, hard to pin anything down. 6. Pink cigarette: Seems to be a slow blues song with a kind of Arabian melody underpinning it. Definite sense of Elvis's slower stuff here. Nice backing vocals. At least it stays the same, doesn't genre-jump every three seconds. Flatline at the end is hilarious. Yeah, you're going blue. 7. Golem II: The bionic vapour boy: Don't quite know what to make of this. Waits/Beefheart meets boyband with a bit of funk. Weird. 8. The holy filament: This one's nice, kind of chant over a piano. Elements of progressive rock/ ELO. Nice. 9. Vanity Fair: Bit of doo-wop/soul now. Cool. 10. Goodbye sober day: Yeah, this is too out there for me. Ends badly really, which is a pity. End result: Overall though, a lot better than I had expected and not as hard to get into as Disco Volante. Some very good tracks. I still wouldn't be seeing myself becoming a fan or anything. So, Love or Hate? I think it would have to be a Love, really. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018