Gift of Gab is a fantastic and underrated MC. Great flow and a lyric genius. The bastard's still touring with Blackalicious despite having kidney disease and needing dialysis three times a week. A true beast.

Oh yeah and here's my ****:

Seminal metalcore masterpiece from '97 that was hugely influential to the genre in the following years. Definitely one of the best metal and one of the best hardcore albums ever released.

I'm gonna get back to these soon enough, but I'm not home at my apartment this weekend.

I have to listen to anything because I said I would :(

It's not bad, but I don't feel like checking out more either. If there's an outright turnoff, it would be that strategically raspy designer croon. Reminds me of Bryan Adams.

I do like folk music and modern folk as well. But I'd be more partial to something like Warzaw Village Band or Eliza Carthy and the Wayward Band.

It's all about those pretty voices, and she's got that. Actually, this isn't bad at all. More like pretty good. I could maybe actually consider getting the CD. It's a pretty cool song both in terms of composition and the specific way it sounds. Kinda not too far out of my ballpark, considering certain other things that I like.

Pretty sure I've listened to this one before. Aside from those keyboard freakouts, I'm not too interested in this. Fun for maybe a couple minutes, but then I'm done. Put it in a Vietnam movie and it would fit like a glove.

Literally only the first song mentions Vietnam.

I noticed that and thought that it was exactly the sort of thing I'd expect in a Vietnam movie soundtrack.

Did you actually listen to the whole album?

No, but I made sure to find a few songs that seemed different enough from each other and listen to those. I've heard the whole thing before. I'm 90% sure you've made me listen to it way back some time.

The best band:

I could see that. There aren't any records from that time that sound like Black Monk Time, but its sound is more or less tied to that era.

Most of those were blocked in my region. But I've heard the album before, even owned it. That being in past tense would tell you that I didn't love it. Broken English got me interested in her music where this and A Secret Life failed. Coming back to a couple of these songs, I think I might actually be able to change my mind about Before the Poison. A Secret Life, however, just comes off as kinda awkward to me. Angelo Balamenti works better for soundtracks in weird Lynch movies than as a backdrop for serious, mature pop songs. I do kind of find her musical choices in general to be questionable. I think going through her discography is gonna be a bit rough for me.

Not sure I enjoyed the rapping all that much, but the music has some serious vibes. A very pretty, dark cinematic feel that goes perfectly with the video.

This one is gonna take some more digesting. Didn't really click with it on this one listen, but there's seemingly enough interesting stuff going on here that I'd like to come back to it. I think there's some pretty neat things going on with the production. A lot of attention to detail.

Pretty cool! I liked everything about this. It would be great if the whole album isn't necessarily this laid back, but there's not a musical vector along which this didn't strike me as very well done and very charming. Of course that dark, beautifully melancholic atmosphere is a huge part of the appeal here.

Love this ****. Thanks for bringing it back in my memory.

OP, check out this epic!

How about some feedback MicShazam? I want some bang for my buck!

I'll get to them all soon enough. And you'll get plenty of bang for your buck if you send me some.

Sometimes darkly atmospheric, but it kinda ping ponged back and forth between twee melodicism and random bits of noise and wank. Kinda feeling like neither aspect would be anything special on it's own, so I don't know if I feel much better about it in combination. Legit some good spots here and there, but it's a long track. There was some saxophone that I really enjoyed.

****, I'm skipping this for a moment. "Video unavailable".

Pretty good. I seem to be able to like a lot of metalcore from this time period. Charles has shown me several really badass albums from back around then.

There was an especially high standard as far as drumming goes. So much of this stuff has really lively, kinetic drumming.

First reaction: "That explosion is way too yellow. I hate that. It looks stupid."
Second take where I made myself focus on the music: Actually pretty allright, but I'm a tough customer with thrash music. Mostly made me want to listen to Voivod instead. But yeah, I see the appeal as such. It's pretty memorable songwriting.

That was great. Now I know people are gonna roll their eyes because I always like the stuff that's made by the beautiful lady if that's an option, but it isn't my fault that so many contemporary female artists are so damn interesting.

Somewhat annoying. Generally not a fan of very old school rock. I don't know what I would have been listening to if I lived in the 50's. Probably blues and folk music.

You should listen to Invasion of Privacy.

Decided to check out this version instead since it came up first when I searched for it myself:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nyxM23bby8

I like the songwriting and the vocals. Some interesting guitar playing as well. It goes to places that I did not quite expect, based on how it started out. At least in this version, it's not far from some singer/songwriter things that I can be found listening to.

If someone posts a link, I'll feel like I have to listen to it.

Now that cat is out of the bag and I'm in trouble.

Literally doing that right now.

Start you off easy

:love:

That's an excellent version. Houser unfortunately left WP in 2002 but John Bell's still the frontman as far as I know. Panic are one of the better country-oriented jam bands still running in the circuit today, and Space Wrangler (their debut) I still believe to be pretty underrated.

I'm checking out Space Wrangler, then. Could turn out to be my thing.

EDIT: Now that's what I call an album cover!

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putting you on ignore for not liking World's End Girlfriend

Only for a week, right? I mean, I did like it a little bit.

Sorry, I spent all of my money on mail bombs and staging shootings.

World's End Girlfriend is pretty good, but it's not the SUGOOOOIIII NE!!! music weebs make it out to be.

I didn't listen to the whole thing, but just the first few tracks. Track number two was legit good, but my general impression was of something very polished and nice but not terribly engaging. I didn't think his rapping was all that expressive. Would have liked some more nuances or some more explosive production. Overall impression was of something very tasteful and pretty and moody, but in a way that came off too clean and measured.

But I don't know anything about hip hop anyway. Might be Frown and you other rap heads' album of the year for all I know.

I wanna stress the fact that I thought track number two was pretty good though. That one, I could listen to again.

Pretty ok at first. The guitar grooves remind me of PJ Harvey. I guess I didn't really feel like there was something here to make me come back to it, but it sounded good enough as such. The last few minutes were really annoying though.

Will confirm that Atmosphere is lackluster on most fronts.