The Album Club 2017

Trollheart · 02-25-2018, 05:04 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I'm leaving the album club.
I might still listen to an album and chip in here and there, just with no regularity.
It's been fun, but I don't think I actually got any new music added to my collection from participating here.
Also, honestly, when is the last time I put any effort into an album club review?
It's been coming for a while.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sorry to lose you, MicShaz. I know sometimes criticism here can be harsh, bordering on savage, but you just have to learn not to care. Virtually every one of the albums I have suggested here have been trashed, torn to pieces, and my own musical taste universally shat upon, but does Zoidberg worry? Oh, you wish!

Still, it's your decision of course and I'll respect that. I'll remove you from the list now, but if you ever feel you want to join back up there'll be a place held for you.

~~MicShazam~~ · 02-25-2018, 05:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Sorry to lose you, MicShaz. I know sometimes criticism here can be harsh, bordering on savage, but you just have to learn not to care. Virtually every one of the albums I have suggested here have been trashed, torn to pieces, and my own musical taste universally shat upon, but does Zoidberg worry? Oh, you wish!

Still, it's your decision of course and I'll respect that. I'll remove you from the list now, but if you ever feel you want to join back up there'll be a place held for you.

It's not really about what happened in this week's album club. You could call it the final straw, but the straw hut has been under construction for a while. And now it's on fire!

I forgot what the analogy was about.

I'll be plenty active elsewhere on MB though.

OccultHawk · 02-25-2018, 05:36 AM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

It's not really about what happened in this week's album club. You could call it the final straw, but the straw hut has been under construction for a while. And now it's on fire!

I forgot what the analogy was about.

I'll be plenty active elsewhere on MB though.

lol

Butthurt much?

~~MicShazam~~ · 02-25-2018, 05:44 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

lol

Butthurt much?

Am I on Youtube right now? I thought this was MB. The forum I joined to get away from Youtube comment thread culture.

Trollheart · 02-25-2018, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

lol

Butthurt much?

You're a dyed-in-the-wall ****, aren't ya?

Neapolitan · 03-17-2018, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Sorry to lose you, MicShaz. I know sometimes criticism here can be harsh, bordering on savage, but you just have to learn not to care. Virtually every one of the albums I have suggested here have been trashed, torn to pieces, and my own musical taste universally shat upon, but does Zoidberg worry? Oh, you wish!

Still, it's your decision of course and I'll respect that. I'll remove you from the list now, but if you ever feel you want to join back up there'll be a place held for you.

That is a total lie. I liked the William Shatner pick, and I suspect others did too.

I also like Nadia Oh! which people either hated or thought Goofle11 was trolling. Outside of Goofle11 as far as I remember I was the lone member who liked (loved) it and I didn't think it was a troll and took it as a serious pick because it wasn't a serious album.

I don't know why MicShazam lost his McShizzle over any critism that came his way. I found him one of the most critical in the Album Club and for while I respect for his brutal honesty, well at least when his criticism was directed at someone else. I think now I lost respect because his honesty is gone and is replaced by being contankerous. Or perhaps he didn't change, maybe it was my perception of him changed because I never quite figured him out at first. And I can't figure why while he doesn't like a lot of things on one hand and then be bothered by Frown or Hawk -- cause he isn't too unlike either of them.

Both rubbersoul and I mentioned that we liked Laura Nyro and I figured that should mean something like "cheers, we both like the same thing."

well at least that's how I felt about rubber soul liking stuff I liked. Also me and Psy-Tech-Ant (one of them, they are like one giant almagated member to me) liked Alison Krauss and the slide dobro part, that should count for something. So at the end of the day there was both positive and negative things said about the album, so (unless I am missing something underhanded and devious going on in that thread) there was no reason to throw the rattle out of the pram and relinquish one's Album Club membership.

@MicShazam, If you fall off your bike, you get back up and start riding again. Look what I had to go through to join the Album Club: last year my computer crashed, I couldn't listen to albums. I had to wait for a new computer before joining. I was black listed even before I ever got green listed. Even now I'm the low man on the totem pole, the last in line. If falling off a bike was an Olympic sport I would be the Michael Phelps of falling off of bikes. Don't treat the Album Club like it's the Tour de France where you always have to win. Don't try to be the Lance Armstrong of the Album Club.

~~MicShazam~~ · 03-17-2018, 03:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I don't know why MicShazam lost his McShizzle over any critism that came his way. I found him one of the most critical in the Album Club and for while I respect for his brutal honesty, well at least when his criticism was directed at someone else. I think now I lost respect because his honesty is gone and is replaced by being contankerous. Or perhaps he didn't change, maybe it was my perception of him changed because I never quite figured him out at first. And I can't figure why while he doesn't like a lot of things on one hand and then be bothered by Frown or Hawk -- cause he isn't too unlike either of them.

But I didn't lose my **** over people not liking the album. All the harsh words I had in the last album club entry I participated in were specifically about a certain snobbish attitude that really rubs me the wrong way.

The only things I said about people not liking my pick were that they made me realize I'm rarely ever agreeing with anyone about music on here. Which is true, btw. I dislike almost every single album club entry and most people dislike mine, so I'm never getting any new music out of the album club, plus I'm never showing anyone else anything they want to hear. Add to that the 7 day deadline, week after week and you have something that I didn't really enjoy anymore.

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Originally Posted by Neapolitan

@MicShazam, If you fall off your bike, you get back up and start riding again. Look what I had to go through to join the Album Club: last year my computer crashed, I couldn't listen to albums. I had to wait for a new computer before joining. I was black listed even before I ever got green listed. Even now I'm the low man on the totem pole, the last in line. If falling off a bike was an Olympic sport I would be the Michael Phelps of falling off of bikes. Don't treat the Album Club like it's the Tour de France where you always have to win. Don't try to be the Lance Armstrong of the Album Club.

People piss all over music I like everywhere else on MB and it doesn't bother me at all. That simply wasn't what me quitting was about. It was just a question of me realizing the album club was more of a monkey on my back by now than something I looked forward to. I'm very active elsewhere on the forum and I'm not going to quit.

I just don't want to do the album club and it's 7 day mandatory participation format anymore. I'd say that's pretty reasonable.

Trollheart · 03-10-2018, 12:55 PM

Jesus Christ, guys. Looks like round six begins week after next! That was quick. I guess, get your picks in for that then. If there's anyone left on the Greenlist who wants to submit an album for round five who has not yet done so, let me know, but I think just about everyone has at this point.

OccultHawk · 03-10-2018, 01:51 PM

My next pick is Blood Guts & Pussy by the Dwarves.

Trollheart · 03-10-2018, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

My next pick is Blood Guts & Pussy by the Dwarves.

Okay, I'll add it. That makes you second again; you have regained your rightful place.

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