The Identity Matrix Domain

The Identity Matrix · 11-29-2015, 10:58 AM

The Beginnings of a Wonderful Relationship…

Welcome everyone to The Identity Matrix’ Music Journal. A place where I will be constantly giving out album reviews, track reviews, music based rants, non-music based rants, and other little surprise projects that I am working on. This is a place where I am able to get my writings out into the public so that I can get feedback and get people to listen (or not listen) to some albums that I review. There will be discussion topics thrown in here once in awhile so I can keep all of those under one thread for now. Anyway I hope you enjoy your stay in this domain, as well as find something new.

Spoiler for Projects: Completed or in Progress:

Spoiler for Album/Track Reviews not related to projects:

Spoiler for Current Top 100:

A few rules that only pertain to me…

1. I will be color coding the titles of each main post of this journal. Red means album reviews or track reviews, Blue means rant regarding music, Purple means rant not regarding music, Green means announcement of a project (i.e discography reviews, focus on certain time periods or genres), and finally Black means standard discussion topic.

2. I am very accepting of any positive or negative feedback to help improve the journal and my writing skills. So please critique away!

3. Finally, I am certainly not expecting this to take off considering I am fairly new to this forum. This was the major reason I wanted to join. To create a journal to allow me to write down my musical opinions, with a few non-musical, and share them with others. Thus I will be spending a lot of time and effort on here so I won’t be just quitting if I don’t get a single response on this thread in a week. I promise to keep at it no matter what.

4. I will be following a set guideline for the way I score albums. I will be running a 100 point system in the case of each Point being worth .1 of the final score for each album reviewed. Track reviews will be done without a score only a like, dislike, and why the case is.

A quick breakdown for scoring purposes
9.1-10 A fantastic record that I would recommend to anyone regardless of preference for genres
8.1-9.0 A great record that has few to quite a few nit picky details that turn me off but otherwise a rec to anyone into the genre or band
7.1-8.0 a good record that has something glaring at me and saying "I'm not perfect" it may be a specific song or two or an overarching issue that hurts all the songs just a little bit
6.1-7.0 an ok record that failed to hit a home run. Very few standout tracks but filled with passable to mediocre ones. A skip for most people but not a waste of time.
5.1-6.0 an average record that feels like it had some potential but wasted it on a few bad tracks. Maybe deserves a listen if you are curious but other than that I wouldn't recommend it.
4.1-5.0 a bad record that is a waste of time. It might have one or two good tracks to pick out but otherwise leave it where it lies.
3.1-4.0 a terrible record that may have one to two passable tracks but that's it. Not worth a full listen ever.
2.1-3.0 a horrible record that makes my ears bleed or causes me to throw up. Take your pick. It won't matter because this album is just bad.
1.1-2.0 just no. Don't even bother asking me why I didn't like it because I'll be too busy trying to forget about the whole thing.
0.0-1.0 I don't think I will ever reach rock bottom, but if I do, this is it. Lock it in a box and throw it into a volcano.

grindy · 11-29-2015, 11:32 AM

Looking forward to reading your journal. Good luck!

Tristan_Geoff · 11-29-2015, 01:07 PM

Welcome to music banter! Excited to see where this goes... didn't you say something about reviewing the Coheed and Cambria discography? You should do the complete discog then, like even singles, DVD releases, and EPs, as well as reading Armory Wars and giving a review per chapter. That'd be sweet.

The Identity Matrix · 11-29-2015, 03:08 PM

Coheed and Cambria Complete Discography Review

Image taken from Twitter

I present my first project, the complete review of the band Coheed and Cambria. I talked about this yesterday in CoNtrivedNiHilism's review of the Color Before the Sun. When I say complete review I mean I will be looking at the band's studio albums, live albums, any singles and EPs that have come out thus far. I will also be discussing the Amory Wars story that is told through the studio records as well as the books, comics, and website. I will start with the studio albums and then branch off into the other items. I am excited to share this project with everyone. I will be giving brief overviews of how each album is incorporated into the story, and after all of the albums are finished I will give a full reviews on each part of the story. Hope everyone is willing to jump aboard this ambitious voyage of mine. First review should be up tomorrow.

A checklist of the items to review (Red denotes incomplete)

Studio Records: I will be posting Singles, and Music Video reviews after their respective albums' review has been finished.

-The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002)
-In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003)
-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005)
-Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007)
-Year of the Black Rainbow (2010)
-The Afterman: Ascension (2012)
-The Afterman: Descension (2013)
-The Color Before the Sun (2015)

Live Albums

-Live at La Zona Rosa (2004)
-Live at the Avalon (2005)
-Live at the Starland Ballroom (2005)
-Kerrang!/XFM UK Acoustic Sessions (2006)
-The Afterman (Live Edition) (2013)

EPs (the first three were released under the bands prior name Shabutie)

-Plan to Take Over the World (1999)
-The Penelope EP (1999)
-Delirium Trigger (2000)
-Neverender 12% (2009)

Video Albums

-Live at the Starland Ballroom (2005)
-The Last Supper: Live at Hammerstein Ballroom (2006)
-Neverender: Children of The Fence Edition (2009)

I am super excited to get started with this, and I hope everyone else enjoys my first journal project. Oh and feel free to throw out your own opinions of the band and their music as well.

The Batlord · 11-29-2015, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by The Identity Matrix

Thus I will be spending a lot of time and effort on here so I won’t be just quitting if I don’t get a single response on this thread in a week. I promise to keep at it no matter what.

I think that's the biggest thing people need to keep in mind about journals. Even aside from all the work involved in keeping one up regularly and with quality entries, it can be kind of discouraging when you pour your heart and soul into a post, only to get zero responses. You'll be lucky to get one response for every five entries, and this applies to just about everyone's journals, no matter how established the member or how good the journal.

Just stick with it and assume that with quality of posts comes quantity of readers.

Black Francis · 12-01-2015, 07:32 PM

Not really digging C & C but im digging your presentation. you look like you came prepared.

I'll keep an eye on this journal in case you decide to cover some alternative stuff.. will you?

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I think that's the biggest thing people need to keep in mind about journals. Even aside from all the work involved in keeping one up regularly and with quality entries, it can be kind of discouraging when you pour your heart and soul into a post, only to get zero responses. You'll be lucky to get one response for every five entries, and this applies to just about everyone's journals, no matter how established the member or how good the journal.

Just stick with it and assume that with quality of posts comes quantity of readers.

So what you're saying is, i should bring my wildly unpopular music journal and give it another shot?

The Identity Matrix · 12-01-2015, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

Not really digging C & C but im digging your presentation. you look like you came prepared.

I'll keep an eye on this journal in case you decide to cover some alternative stuff.. will you?

So what you're saying is, i should bring my wildly unpopular music journal and give it another shot?

I can see that you are pixies fan if I am not mistaken. Trust me when I say alternative will get the spotlight later down the road. Like you already said I came prepared.

However I would like to know what kind of alternative you are thinking about when asking that question.

Also I would love to see a journal from you. I would assume I missed it when going through the less active journals.

The Batlord · 12-02-2015, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

So what you're saying is, i should bring my wildly unpopular music journal and give it another shot?

No. You're a piece of ****.

Black Francis · 12-02-2015, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by The Identity Matrix

I can see that you are pixies fan if I am not mistaken. Trust me when I say alternative will get the spotlight later down the road. Like you already said I came prepared.

However I would like to know what kind of alternative you are thinking about when asking that question.

Also I would love to see a journal from you. I would assume I missed it when going through the less active journals.

idk just bands in the alternative genre. whichever bands you like.
You'll see my journal pop up soon, Batlord's little speech motivated me to get it going again.

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

No. You're a piece of ****.

You're a piece of cake too.

The Batlord · 12-02-2015, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

You'll see my journal pop up soon, Batlord's little speech motivated me to get it going again.

*considers leaving this forum and joining Urban in Bumfuck Island*

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grindy . Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: . Posts: 7,201	Looking forward to reading your journal. Good luck! __________________ *A smell of petroleum prevails throughout.*