Dragon
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Kansas, United States
Posts: 2,744
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Alright, I'll post some condensed thoughts here for this album:
Aggregate club rating: 28%
Ruling: Distasteful
Takeaways: With an astounding seventeen tracks, Contact! has considerable problems with providing enough variety for each of its songs to be dissimilar from the next.
Our members could not decide which song was the worst or best from the album, but this is probably due to members not remembering which song they liked or disliked the most because those songs were lost among the incredible length and lack of variety present on this album (or in many cases members could not bare to finish listening to the album).
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Originally Posted by Goofle11
Goofle11's overall album rating: 2/10
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Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy
YorkeDaddy's overall album rating: 3/10
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Originally Posted by Janszoon
Jaszoon's overall album rating: 4/10
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Originally Posted by Frownland
Oh man, that was really bad. I couldn't even finish the album tbh. I pretty much agree with what Goofle and YD said: too plastic, too simple, too cheesy, not catchy or creative. That's all I really have to say about the first five tracks I listened to besides 1/10.
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Originally Posted by Wpnfire
Wpnfire's overall album rating: 4/10
Spoiler for EDITED REVIEW:
- Your overall album rating on a scale of 1-10 (whole numbers please. Also, please BOLD or otherwise make this rating easy to see)?
4/10.
- Did your first impressions change, i.e., did the album get better or worse as you listened to it (first time)?
YES my impressions changed, this album has NO VARIETY!
- Which was stronger in your opinion, the opening tracks (first 2-3 songs), or the ending tracks (last 2-3 songs)?
I'm sure if I actually listened to the last two-three songs I would find that there's not much difference between the last or opening tracks, but I'll say the opening tracks only because at the beginning you find the songs to be entertaining untill you realize there's no variety.
- How would you describe the variety of tracks available on this album? Feel free to be very detailed if you like.
After the fourth song, I no longer remembered what the previous songs sounded like save for the first song. The variety was not enough for me to distinguish between songs.
For the last 5 songs except World in the World, I listened to maybe the first minute of them and then skipped them because there was nothing new.
There were some interesting downtempo or breakdown sections in some of the songs on the album, but there really was not that much variety that lasted enough to make the entire album bearable.
I'm sure I could pick out maybe four songs that had enough variety between them, but if you include the other thirteen songs, those four songs are lost among the ****storm of blandness.
- What is the overall mood on this album?
Happy, I'd say. There's some slower songs like I Don't Wanna Lose that sound more sorrowful, but overall the album mood is happy.
- Is this an album you would listen to again all the way through (for personal, recreational use, outside of listening to it for this club), or are there just a few songs that you would listen to?
Definitely just a few songs. I may consider buying Lucky, I Don't Wanna Lose, World in the World, and maybe I DJ With the Fire, but I can't see myself listening to any of the other songs.
- Do you see any way the album could have been improved?
Once I got to Far Away the album really got stale because only a few songs were truly different than the rest, and the album was too long. They should have focused on making a 10 song album and trying to make all the songs sound different.
Something like an instrumental track or something thrown in would have added some much needed variety, but instead, it was all the same song structures over and over again.
Quantity over quality describes this album pretty well.
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- Did you like the vocalist? Hate him/her? Any impressions?
I didn't hate him, but there was seriously no variety in his voice. He either sung normally, or there was some distortions in his voice. No difference between songs other than that.
- What did you think of the lyrical content?
Ugh, the vocals were so bland I tried to ignore them as best I could and focus on the instrumentation.
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Last edited by Wpnfire; 04-09-2014 at 05:43 PM.
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