'Bluish' is one of my favorites. :)

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Or really any QOTSA album for that matter.

^

Riffs drilled into you, Josh Homme is also a very underrated lyricist IMO.

One that's always puzzled me:

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All I heard of this album was bland and boring.. Can anyone shed any light on why people think this is a great album?

R.E.M. is one of those bands I decided I'd never like (and how wrong I was). I'll spare you the spiel about Murmur's influence and its classic status, and simply say that it really requires repeated listening. I thought the same thing as you when I approached it for the first time... compared to other music of the time and all its bells and whistles, Murmur seemed a little tame, flat, plain and certainly out of place. But having listened to it many times since, it's an album I now adore for its ingenuous bittersweet sound. It's the kind of album that makes you feel nostalgic even though it was around long before you were born... at the very least it puts me in a reflective mood.

Repeated listens do pay off with a lot of albums, I've only listened to this about 4 times. Maybe it needs a few more, what's the lyric content of it? Why's it got such a classy status? It's pretty much cited as a perfect album, 10/10 - and I just don't hear it. Then again not many of R.E.M's albums really do it for me. Bittersweet sound? All I really heard was boring and repetitive :(

Actually Animals has grown on me a lot, though I never disliked it at any point in time. It's indeed a great album.

I rank the work of Floyd like so.

Top tier/genius:
DSOTM
WYWH
Meddle
The Wall
Piper
Animals

High tier/very good:
Obscured by Clouds
Saucerful of Secrets
Division Bell

Mid tier/decent, some moments of glory:
More
Atom Heart Mother
Momentary Lapse of Reason

Low tier/meh:
The Final Cut

Bottom tier/terrible:
Ummagumma (studio half)

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This. I don't hear what everyone else hears. I just don't get the big deal, though I haven't heard it in a couple of months or so. I may listen again tomorrow to give it a fairer chance.

I love that album, I've checked out other stuff from the band that was good but nothing touched this, it's just great, proggy pop rock. The production is great and the only song I don't really like is Chupacabras. IMO one of the best rock albums of the 90s.

I dig a few choice songs (Chupacabras, the welsh tune), but that's about it really.

I have another one, it's alright but I don't get how people rate it so highly :confused:

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:love::love::love:

It's just great rock and roll, IMO. Crank it up in your car and headbang away

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After 5 complete listens over a period of 4 months, I've decided that this is an extremely average album, if even that.

Also, I try not to let religious themes and lyrics interfere with my enjoyment of music, and I usually succeed, but this album..... I feel like I'm sitting around a campfire at Catholic camp in the woods, listening to my group leader aimlessly strum away at his guitar while praising Jesus. Ugh.

:mad:

you dissed hella.
it's a known fact that Biblical Violence is a math rock anthem.
i grew up on this album, man!

I LOVE UUUUU JESUS AH CERIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSST JESUS CHRIAAAASSST I LOVE U YES I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Well that about sums it up, it's a great album but not without it's short comings as demonstrated, and it is indeed pretty overrated but so is pretty much anything popular with hipster c*nts these days.

Stop picking on IAAOTS! :(

That's what you get for picking on Radiator muthaf*cka.

2deep4them.


SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAIN TOPS
SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAIN TOPS
SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAIN TOPS
SEMEN STAINS THE MOUNTAIN TOPS

Heh. And indie fans call Doors lyrics pretentious.

Though I actually love the lyrical absurdity of Aeroplane. Still indie f*gs have stange idea of what constitutes a lyrical genius.

I was just listening to a Bright Eyes album, I'd put money on them being one of your most hated bands. Amirite?

I LOVE YOU!
(i'm listening to Don Cab right now :D)

DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :soapbox:

This is the first day of my life, I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.

I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but whatever.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...-eyes-2009.jpg

GROSS. TOO HAPPY. SUICIDE INDUCING. EMOOOOO! OVERRATED. UNCOOL. LAME.
i'm running out of adjectives.


it's just that annoying.

Terrible album, hope it dies.

Lol what? Everybody hates this record. Why would you get hate for disliking an awful album?

I don't think the album is overwhelmingly religious-themed. I think that songs like King of Carrot Flowers pt. 2-3 are meant to be ironic. I'd say that the album casts a negative light on religion overall.

oh, it's just that the last time i said ocean eyes was awful, a lot of people hated me.

http://www.musicbanter.com/members-j...tml#post896551

:(

Owl City makes me want to stab kittens and eat their eyeballs.

I find any religious themes on ITAOTS are presented in a negative light.


What Burns Never Returns was my first foray into math-rock (2 months ago now) and I found it to be tremendous. Since then I haven't listened to anything of the sort, though I've been meaning to listen to some Killing Joke I downloaded. Any recommendations?

Oh man, that's so lame! But if you like that, you should check out the Postal Service I guess. They were doing that sort of thing years before, and much better.

I need to check out that Owl City album now, I usually really like things that are heavily hated. :D

Me explaining why I like the album "Homesick" by A Day To Remember;

First off; one of the best albums in it's genre... probably because they are more or less alone in their genre post-punk-hardcore-pop. The catchiness of pop, the energy of punk and hardcore and the moodchanges and breakdowns from post-core and metalcore all combined with well put together lyrics and melodies to create an album which in its holeness is freaking awesome - basically. The opening track "The Downfall of us All" is a fantastic track, which grows on you - certainly has the pop element in it. My Life for Hire has one of the sickest breakdowns ever, and is in all a great track aswell. I could go on and one, but I choose to summarize to; Homesick is a great album with all kinds of different versions of the genre Hardcore in it.

Hope you check it out ;)

i like this album/band too. i think they blend their stuff together in a tight way where it doesn't get old or really cliche. i'm not calling this a masterpiece myself, but it's a pretty solid listen from a pretty solid band.

oh, if you like math rock then it's a no-brainer that you'd like it's sister genre post rock. i'd reccomend these post rock bands:
Battles (they have the same guitarist as don cab) (check out atlas)
Explosions in the Sky (check out their album Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place)
and of course, And So I Watch You From Afar. (check out their song Don't Waste Time doing things you hate)

also, the math rock (too bad it's not instrumental, though) band this town needs guns is pretty cool, and i highly enjoy them.

and if you like math rock, go download slint's album "spiderland"
it pretty much created both math rock and post rock.

but let me warn you that not much of this stuff is as awesome as "what burns never returns". it's one of the best math rock records ever recorded.

the only thing that comes close is battles, but they're not quite the same.

I considered that NMH might be questioning or even satirizing religion somewhere around my 3rd listen of the album, then decided against it.

I really want to delete the album from my collection but then I won't score mad points with any indie hipsters I might meet in the future.

Linkin' Park will still score you some points.

Yeah I can show off my Reanimation and Collision Course albums

Hehehe, I'm already covered in that department. :p

In my mind, there's no way "IIIIII LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU JESUS CUH-RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIST" isn't sarcastic.

hmm....
Have you heard of maserati? their album "inventions for the new season" is wonderful.

Anything by Joanna Newsom, though more specifically:

http://www.lib.washington.edu/media/.../images/ys.jpg

i hear he is really religious, so i'm not so sure.