Trollheart Listens to Every Album on Wiki's List for 2017

Trollheart · 02-02-2018, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

He's mocking how common self-aggrandizement is in hip hop by tacking it onto every song on the mixtape. So when you say something like "I've heard plenty of rappers who go on about themselves but not as much as this guy does," it really does sound like you're entirely missing out on the joke because you don't understand irony. You think that's annoying? Kool AD is only being so in your face with it because he thinks it's annoying too. He mocks a lot of elements of hip hop culture on this record. Why the **** else would someone like Kool AD use the Migos flow?

I have no idea what that is.
It may be a joke, and I certainly didn't get it; not being anything like into hip-hop as much as you guys, how could I? However, even if it is a joke it's flogged to death and it just gets annoying to hear it all the time.

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

There's not really anything I'm into on the entire April list, but I have a slight bit of history with the band Ulver, so I'm curious what you think of their new album when you get that far.

Uh, I've done April, moving on to May on Monday. The Ulver album has already been reviewed; check the index.

**Frownland** · 02-02-2018, 04:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I have no idea what that is.

A rapping style made popular by Migos. Didn't you review Culture?

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It may be a joke, and I certainly didn't get it; not being anything like into hip-hop as much as you guys, how could I?

The repetition and jokey presentation maybe?

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However, even if it is a joke it's flogged to death and it just gets annoying to hear it all the time.

Alright I'm just gonna chalk this up as you being unable to understand irony.

02-02-2018, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I have no idea what that is.
It may be a joke, and I certainly didn't get it; not being anything like into hip-hop as much as you guys, how could I? However, even if it is a joke it's flogged to death and it just gets annoying to hear it all the time.

Uh, I've done April, moving on to May on Monday. The Ulver album has already been reviewed; check the index.

I admittedly haven't been following this too closely of late. Hey, you're further than I thought! It's still going to take forever to get through all the way, but good job regardless.

The main thing in May is that I'm curious to see if you think Diana Krall is as disappointingly boring an artist as I think she is. Oh and Oceano is on the list somewhere. That should be fun, if you don't dodge it somehow.

Trollheart · 02-02-2018, 05:27 PM

My Top Twenty for April

1. The Comet is Coming – Death to the Planet
2. Dayna Stephens – Gratitude
3. Willie Nelson – God's Problem Child
4. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy
5. Karen Elson – Double Roses
6. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens
7. Rachel Leahcar – Shadows
8. Vancouver Sleep Clinic – Revival
9. Planning for Burial – Below the House
10. Eddie Palmiere – Subidaria
11. Imelda May – Life Love Flesh Blood
12. Texas – Jump on Board
13. Gentleman's Dub Club – Dubtopia
14. Falls of Rauros – Vigilance Perennial
15. Mostly Autumn – Sight of Day
16. Wear Your Wounds – WYW
17. Fen – Winter
18. Angaleena Presley – Wrangled
19. Big Big Train – Grimspound
20. Jonathan Coulton – Solid State

Honourable Mentions:

Bleanevon – That's Your Lot
The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions
Novembers Doom – Hamartia
Antiphon – Alfa Mist
Brad Paisley – Love and War
Gas- Narkopop
JMSN – Whatever Makes U Happy
Lea Michele – Places
Terror – The Walls Will Fall

My Bottom Twenty for April

1. Remo Drive – Greatest Hits
2. Pentatonix – PTX Volume IV: The Classics
3. Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Thunder of the Gods
4. Alee – Bad Habit
5. Idles – Brutalism
6. Ray Davies – Americana
7. Animal Collective – Meeting of the Waters
8. Gorillaz – Humanz
9. Greta Van Fleet – Black Smoke Rising
10. Barenaked Ladies and the Persuasions – Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and the Persuasions
11. Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness
12. Guided by Voices – August by Cake
13. Playboi Carti – Playboi Carti
14. Charly Bliss – Guppy
15. John Mellencamp – Sad Clowns and Hillbillies
16. American Standards – Amti-Melody
17. Betty Buckley – Story Songs
18. Mary J Blige – Strength of a Woman
19. Kool AD – Sky Ladder
20. Incubus – 8

Dishonourable Mentions:

ATB – neXt
CDB – Tailored for Now

Trollheart · 02-02-2018, 05:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland

A rapping style made popular by Migos. Didn't you review Culture?

One album, yeah. I should totally understand a rapper's "style" or "flow" from one listen to one album, you're right. How could I not?

You know, what really bugs me is that you, as usual, focus on the negative reception for one album and completely ignore the positive reaction I gave to, say, Antiphon. Not a squeak from you on that. You'd rather fight with me over something I don't like and you think I should like and therefore decide to insult me. But hey, that's you; I shouldn't expect anything else really, should I?

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

I admittedly haven't been following this too closely of late. Hey, you're further than I thought! It's still going to take forever to get through all the way, but good job regardless.

The main thing in May is that I'm curious to see if you think Diana Krall is as disappointingly boring an artist as I think she is. Oh and Oceano is on the list somewhere. That should be fun, if you don't dodge it somehow.

Oceano I think I already heard - are they something in the nu-metal line? Didn't like it, but unless there's a valid reason for me to skip the album (or I can't find it) then chances are I'll be doing it. I don't try to avoid things, but there are certain criteria I use, as posted in the OP.

**Frownland** · 02-02-2018, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

One album, yeah. I should totally understand a rapper's "style" or "flow" from one listen to one album, you're right. How could I not?

Actually, yes. You could've also googled it and understood it in 2 seconds instead of getting pissy at me for referencing it.

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You know, what really bugs me is that you, as usual, focus on the negative reception for one album and completely ignore the positive reaction I gave to, say, Antiphon. Not a squeak from you on that. You'd rather fight with me over something I don't like and you think I should like and therefore decide to insult me. But hey, that's you; I shouldn't expect anything else really, should I?

I actually do not even care that you don't like the album (even though the beginning of the review is all praise...), I just think you bailed on it for a shortsighted reason. And I didn't mean to be insulting when I said you don't seem to understand the irony of it. I said it because you're demonstrating a total lack of understanding and have now married yourself to it out of stubbornness since I brought it up. Would you like me lie to you?

Sorry for not replying to your Antiphon review. I'll do it now. Yayy you like Antiphon too! Good job, TH!

02-02-2018, 06:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Oceano I think I already heard - are they something in the nu-metal line? Didn't like it, but unless there's a valid reason for me to skip the album (or I can't find it) then chances are I'll be doing it. I don't try to avoid things, but there are certain criteria I use, as posted in the OP.

Modern deathcore band from France. Can't say I'm a fan, but I like them more than most very similar acts.

The Batlord · 02-02-2018, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by MicShazam

Modern deathcore band from France. Can't say I'm a fan, but I like them more than most very similar acts.

Pretty sure they're one of any number of other bands who are embarrassed to be deathcore but aren't really capable of being anything else so they just chuck some other **** in there and pretend to be progressive.

02-02-2018, 06:41 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Pretty sure they're one of any number of other bands who are embarrassed to be deathcore but aren't really capable of being anything else so they just chuck some other **** in there and pretend to be progressive.

I haven't actually listened to any of their music for more than a year, but I remember liking the sound of some of their tracks. They're not anything special. If they were, I wouldn't so easily forget that they exist.

Trollheart · 02-05-2018, 10:44 AM

MAY
I'll put this in the OP too but just so you know: in future, from this month onwards, I'm going to include a reaction image at the start of the review ONLY in cases where I was very surprised by my reaction to an album, positive or negative. Good reactions that weren't expected will get this one

and ones where I thought the album would be great and it let me down will be denoted by

Why? Well it will give you a quick idea, if you don't fancy reading the whole thing or skipping to the rating, as to the impression the album made on me. Also, it's fun for me. I like fun.

Albums that a) I wasn't sure about b) had no clue about or c) didn't vary that much from what I expected (good or bad) won't get the image, just the ones that fulfil either of the above criteria. I'm only doing this from now on, as I have no intention of going back and checking all the albums I did for the last four months. But from this point on, if you see either image you'll know what to expect.

Triple H – 199x
Nana Kitade – Violet Blaze
The Afghan Whigs – In Spades
Andrew Rayel – Moments
Anja – Where I Am
Arve Henriksen – Towards Language
At the Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a
Big Walnuts Yonder – Big Walnuts Yonder
Blondie – Pollinator
Brother Ali – All the Beauty in This Whole Life
Café Tacvba – Jei Beibi
Carl Craig – Versus
Chris Stapleton – From a Room, Volume 1
Colt Ford – Love Hope Faith
Day Wave – The Days We Had
Diana Krall – Turn Up the Quiet
Faust – Fresh Air
Forest Swords – Compassion
Johannes Oerding – Kreise
Juana Molina – Halo
Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud
Kid Ink – 7 Series
Logic – Everybody
Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog
Mary Lambert – Bold
Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos – Musas
Ozomatli – Non-stop: Mexico to Jamaica
Perfume Genius – No Shape
Pond – The Weather
Robin Trower – Time and Emotion
Russ – There's Really a Wolf
Slowdive – Slowdive
Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' – Tajmo
Cassper Nyovest – Thuto
Psy – 4x2=8
Varg – Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3 – Gore-Tex City
Weed – Born Wrong Love
Here Lies Man – Here Lies Man
Siti Nurhaliza – SimetriSiti
B.o.B – Ether
Dean Lewis – Same Kind of Different
Dreamcar – Dreamcar
Elf Power – Twitching in Time
FO&O – FO&O
Powerplant – Girlpool
You Should Be Happy[/i]
Harry Styles – Harry Styles
Ingrid Michaelson – Alter Egos
J. Hus – Common Sense
LeToya Luckett – Back2Life
Machine Gun Kelly – Bloom
New Kids on the Block – Thankful
Olga Tañón Olga Tañón y Punto!
Paramore – After Laughter
Paul Weller – A Kind Revolution
PWR BTTM – Pageant
R5 – New Addictions
Sarah P. - Who Am I?
Seether – Poison the Parish
Todd Rundgren – White Knight
Warrant – Louder Harder Faster
Zac Brown Band – Welcome Home
Maliq & D'Essentials – Senandung Senandinka
Twice – Signal
VIXX – Shangri-La
Sayuri – Mikazuki No Kuokai
XXXTentacion – Revenge
T-Pain/Lil Wayne – T-Wayne
!!! - Shake the Shudder
Aldous Harding – Party
The Basics – In the Rude! The Basics Live
Chris Price – Stop Talking
Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Ilusions
Dragonforce – Reaching into Infinity
Erasure – World Be Gone
Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G – The King and I
Fastball – Step Into Light
The I.L.Y's – Bodyguard
Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology
Jin – Black Origami
The Kolors – You
Lee Burridge – Loopyness
Linkin Park – One More Light
Misterwives – Connect the Dots
The Mountain Goats – Goths
The Night Flight Orchestra – Amber Galactic
Oceano – Revelation
Papa Roach – Crooked Teeth
BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Burials in Several Earths
Rascal Flatts – Back to Us
Rawsrvnt – Shut it Down
Scale the Summit – In a World of Fear
Snoop Dogg – Neva Left
The Underachievers – Renaissance
Wear Your Wounds – Dunedevil
Axwell Λ Ingrosso – More Than You Know
Yowie – Synchromysticism
Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async
EXO-CBX – Girls
Nogizaka46 - Umarete Kara Hajimete Mita Yume
Alestorm – No Grave But the Sea
Bryson Tiller – True to Self
Caitlin Shadbolt – Songs On My Sleeve
The Charlatans – Different Days
Danzig – Black Laden Crown

02-02-2018, 05:27 PM	#1744 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	My Top Twenty for April 1. The Comet is Coming – Death to the Planet 2. Dayna Stephens – Gratitude 3. Willie Nelson – God's Problem Child 4. Father John Misty – Pure Comedy 5. Karen Elson – Double Roses 6. Kelly Lee Owens – Kelly Lee Owens 7. Rachel Leahcar – Shadows 8. Vancouver Sleep Clinic – Revival 9. Planning for Burial – Below the House 10. Eddie Palmiere – Subidaria 11. Imelda May – Life Love Flesh Blood 12. Texas – Jump on Board 13. Gentleman's Dub Club – Dubtopia 14. Falls of Rauros – Vigilance Perennial 15. Mostly Autumn – Sight of Day 16. Wear Your Wounds – WYW 17. Fen – Winter 18. Angaleena Presley – Wrangled 19. Big Big Train – Grimspound 20. Jonathan Coulton – Solid State Honourable Mentions: Bleanevon – That's Your Lot The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions Novembers Doom – Hamartia Antiphon – Alfa Mist Brad Paisley – Love and War Gas- Narkopop JMSN – Whatever Makes U Happy Lea Michele – Places Terror – The Walls Will Fall My Bottom Twenty for April 1. Remo Drive – Greatest Hits 2. Pentatonix – PTX Volume IV: The Classics 3. Sun Ra and his Arkestra – Thunder of the Gods 4. Alee – Bad Habit 5. Idles – Brutalism 6. Ray Davies – Americana 7. Animal Collective – Meeting of the Waters 8. Gorillaz – Humanz 9. Greta Van Fleet – Black Smoke Rising 10. Barenaked Ladies and the Persuasions – Ladies and Gentlemen: Barenaked Ladies and the Persuasions 11. Alexandra Savior – Belladonna of Sadness 12. Guided by Voices – August by Cake 13. Playboi Carti – Playboi Carti 14. Charly Bliss – Guppy 15. John Mellencamp – Sad Clowns and Hillbillies 16. American Standards – Amti-Melody 17. Betty Buckley – Story Songs 18. Mary J Blige – Strength of a Woman 19. Kool AD – Sky Ladder 20. Incubus – 8 Dishonourable Mentions: ATB – neXt CDB – Tailored for Now __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-05-2018, 10:44 AM	#1750 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	MAY I'll put this in the OP too but just so you know: in future, from this month onwards, I'm going to include a reaction image at the start of the review ONLY in cases where I was very surprised by my reaction to an album, positive or negative. Good reactions that weren't expected will get this one and ones where I thought the album would be great and it let me down will be denoted by Why? Well it will give you a quick idea, if you don't fancy reading the whole thing or skipping to the rating, as to the impression the album made on me. Also, it's fun for me. I like fun. Albums that a) I wasn't sure about b) had no clue about or c) didn't vary that much from what I expected (good or bad) won't get the image, just the ones that fulfil either of the above criteria. I'm only doing this from now on, as I have no intention of going back and checking all the albums I did for the last four months. But from this point on, if you see either image you'll know what to expect. Triple H – 199x Nana Kitade – Violet Blaze The Afghan Whigs – In Spades Andrew Rayel – Moments Anja – Where I Am Arve Henriksen – Towards Language At the Drive-In - in•ter a•li•a Big Walnuts Yonder – Big Walnuts Yonder Blondie – Pollinator Brother Ali – All the Beauty in This Whole Life Café Tacvba – Jei Beibi Carl Craig – Versus Chris Stapleton – From a Room, Volume 1 Colt Ford – Love Hope Faith Day Wave – The Days We Had Diana Krall – Turn Up the Quiet Faust – Fresh Air Forest Swords – Compassion Johannes Oerding – Kreise Juana Molina – Halo Kasabian – For Crying Out Loud Kid Ink – 7 Series Logic – Everybody Mac DeMarco – This Old Dog Mary Lambert – Bold Natalia Lafourcade and Los Macorinos – Musas Ozomatli – Non-stop: Mexico to Jamaica Perfume Genius – No Shape Pond – The Weather Robin Trower – Time and Emotion Russ – There's Really a Wolf Slowdive – Slowdive Taj Mahal and Keb' Mo' – Tajmo Cassper Nyovest – Thuto Psy – 4x2=8 Varg – Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3 – Gore-Tex City Weed – Born Wrong Love Here Lies Man – Here Lies Man Siti Nurhaliza – SimetriSiti B.o.B – Ether Dean Lewis – Same Kind of Different Dreamcar – Dreamcar Elf Power – Twitching in Time FO&O – FO&O Powerplant – Girlpool You Should Be Happy[/i] Harry Styles – Harry Styles Ingrid Michaelson – Alter Egos J. Hus – Common Sense LeToya Luckett – Back2Life Machine Gun Kelly – Bloom New Kids on the Block – Thankful Olga Tañón Olga Tañón y Punto! Paramore – After Laughter Paul Weller – A Kind Revolution PWR BTTM – Pageant R5 – New Addictions Sarah P. - Who Am I? Seether – Poison the Parish Todd Rundgren – White Knight Warrant – Louder Harder Faster Zac Brown Band – Welcome Home Maliq & D'Essentials – Senandung Senandinka Twice – Signal VIXX – Shangri-La Sayuri – Mikazuki No Kuokai XXXTentacion – Revenge T-Pain/Lil Wayne – T-Wayne !!! - Shake the Shudder Aldous Harding – Party The Basics – In the Rude! The Basics Live Chris Price – Stop Talking Do Make Say Think – Stubborn Persistent Ilusions Dragonforce – Reaching into Infinity Erasure – World Be Gone Faith Evans and The Notorious B.I.G – The King and I Fastball – Step Into Light The I.L.Y's – Bodyguard Jane Weaver – Modern Kosmology Jin – Black Origami The Kolors – You Lee Burridge – Loopyness Linkin Park – One More Light Misterwives – Connect the Dots The Mountain Goats – Goths The Night Flight Orchestra – Amber Galactic Oceano – Revelation Papa Roach – Crooked Teeth BBC Radiophonic Workshop - Burials in Several Earths Rascal Flatts – Back to Us Rawsrvnt – Shut it Down Scale the Summit – In a World of Fear Snoop Dogg – Neva Left The Underachievers – Renaissance Wear Your Wounds – Dunedevil Axwell Λ Ingrosso – More Than You Know Yowie – Synchromysticism Ryuichi Sakamoto – Async EXO-CBX – Girls Nogizaka46 - Umarete Kara Hajimete Mita Yume Alestorm – No Grave But the Sea Bryson Tiller – True to Self Caitlin Shadbolt – Songs On My Sleeve The Charlatans – Different Days Danzig – Black Laden Crown __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 03-02-2018 at 10:02 AM.