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saintlaurentproblems · 13 days

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TTPD 1st impressions:

Fortnight; The Tortured Poets Department; My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys; Down Bad - Midnights rejects. Not bad but not great. I think Fortnight might be my favorite here

So Long, London - loved it! I'm a sucker for gorgeous sad songs

But Daddy I Love Him - low-key sounds like something out of Speak Now?? Cute!

Fresh Out the Slammer - it's ok.

Florida!!! - It's cool I dig it!

I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) - I thought they were building to a super intense bridge and I was waiting for that "woah" moment but it didn't come

Loml - I love a ballad! Beautiful song

I Can Do It With a Broken Heart - I see the vision but I can't get with some of the sonic choices made here. Idk it might grow on me. Definitely don't hate it. Sounds like something out of the 1989 vault

The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived - Gorgeous! Love it! Jack I'll give you your 10s on this one

The Alchemy - Oh look another Midnights reject. Don't dislike it though it's cute

Clara Bow - Pretty I guess

Didn't have access to tracks 9 and 10 btw

Overall much better than Midnights but I think it's pretty telling that the weakest songs are the ones Jack is heavily involved on. I think it would do wonders for her creativity if she started working with different producers.

The standouts are So Long, London; Florida!!!; Loml and The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived

It’s time to go Jack. Pack it Up

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void-magician · 1 year

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RUSH! - Måneskin album review

pretty fresh drop here, fellas! i will say that personally i've been looking forward to this album since the first single dropped wayyyy back in october 2021, and it absolutely does not disappoint. since being introduced to these guys by their eurovision win, i've come to love their hard-hitting instrumentation, cutting lyricism, and generally hard-rock-angry-horny vibe, and this record delivers all of that without missing a beat! overall, i'm ranking this one a 9/10, because it is a FANTASTIC record, and i think you all should listen to it. track-by-track review under the cut.

Track by Track review:

OWN MY MIND - strong opener. love the crunchy guitars and the drumline, and putting the lo-fi effect on damiano's already gravelly vocals is a beautiful sonic touch on the rest of the track. the bars in this track cut deeper than i was originally expecting, given that this track is in english, but you won't hear me complaining.

GOSSIP feat. Tom Morello - lord already knows i'm gonna love something that known That Guy Tom Morello puts his guitars on, but this track is TRULY something else. as usual, damiano's fast-paced vocals make this a high-octane banger with a sweet message to boot - i really love the note of cutting out all the instrumentation in the first two lines of the chorus before everything comes crashing back together.

TIMEZONE - the tonal whiplash of the previous track into this one hit me like a truck, so already i'm partial to it. the slow, dragging bassline helps carry damiano's swooning vocals to that place of distant longing that he's clearly in. i love how his voice loses its grittiness in this track, because. he's sad, and longing. no need for those rough edges. definitely a fav from this record.

BLA BLA BLA - this one's silly, and i do like it for that. the opening verse with just the drums behind it is a great starter, followed in by this mildly crunchy bassline to lay the foundation of a brain-off, hands-in-the-air banger. it's not my favorite off the record, but it's definitely fun as just a noisy song.

BABY SAID - this one's FUN you guys. this one definitely hit for me, telling this story about wanting even a slightly involved connection and only running into someone who wants something raw and physical and not much more. the swimmy guitars in the bridge really help take us to this place of unfulfillment before grounding us back between this lover's legs. definite fav.

GASOLINE - ngl, kinda shocked this track wasn't the tom morello feature, because it feels like it's following in RAtM's footsteps. bold, cutting commentary about the world state of affairs over these crunchy guitars and aggressive drums makes for a fantastic expression of rage at totalitarian regimes and selfish dictators. another definite fav.

FEEL - ooooooo baby when i say i like horny rock this is what i'm TALKIN about! every part of the instrumentation on this feels like it's lifting damiano's vocals as he sweet-talks the listener into his bed. or the nearest closed door. i'm getting distracted. solid banger, very fun.

DON'T WANNA SLEEP - another fantastic high-energy, quick lyrics-focused banger, and i love the drive on this one. the sentiment of not wanting to sleep is particularly relatable to me, as is the drive to do irresponsible shit just to feel something.

KOOL KIDS - as a fan of the mountain goats, "white boy mad as hell screaming into the mic" is a favorite niche category of songs, and this one is no exception. love this on-top-of-the-world vibe with damiano just screaming down the mic. according to artist interviews, he was near-blackout drunk recording this one, and i think that just makes the vibe so much better.

IF NOT FOR YOU - i'm always a sucker for a good power ballad, and this one checks all the boxes. extremely yearny lyrics, pithy but cutting chorus, and smooth, weepy guitars.

READ YOUR DIARY - evocative imagery about a fucked up kind of person really send this track home. you can feel the obsessiveness rolling off of damiano's delivery of these lyrics, repeating those key phrases and slurring some of the chorus. loved this one a lot

MARK CHAPMAN - fast-paced banger in their native italian means this one was an immediate fav. lyric translation really locked this one in as a fav, and the chorus is a complete earworm. definitely top fav from this record.

LA FINE - hands down, without question, my favorite track off this album. another earworm, but of a much more righteous and angry bent. everything hits the gas on this track, and doesn't let off till the end, and i LOVE it. imo, best track on this record, and one of their best songs in a while.

IL DONO DELLA VITA - this one slows down the flow of the album, a welcome respite after three hard-driving tracks back to back. the vocals start on this one sounding kind of tired, but it picks up into a robust exaltation of life and joy. fantastic message for the times we find ourselves in, and an all around fantastic track.

MAMMAMIA - gotta be honest, i didn't listen to this one when it dropped as a single, but i LOVE it. another real horny song and this one definitely feels like it was written for the kind of guy that i am. it's a little crazy, a little bit fast, and a whole lotta hot. another big fav.

SUPERMODEL - the sound and the single cover of this song are obviously meant to evoke thoughts of Nirvana, and that's never gonna go wrong. i like the slightly peppier, slightly cleaner sound of this song in contrast to the rest of the grunge and the crunch on this album, but don't take that to mean this song isn't grungy itself. it knows its inspirations and pays beautiful homage to them.

THE LONELIEST - holy mother of god. early 2000s sad rock ass song and boy does it hit you like a truck. this one's a really fantastic endcap to this whole album, even if it did nearly make me cry.

#felix listens #maneskin #rush maneskin #album review

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bubblesandgutz · 11 months

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Every Record I Own - Day 768: Lungfish Rainbows From Atoms

I tend to view Lungfish as having three stages in their discography (well, four if you count their debut Necklace of Heads, which always felt like an outlier in their catalog). The first stage encompasses the albums with John Chriest on bass---Talking Songs For Walking, Rainbows From Atoms, and Pass & Stow. This era of the band still bears a strong sonic connection to the DC post-hardcore sound, even though Lungfish toyed with the template from the get-go. But in this first era, they hadn't quite ascended to the strange and mystic power that became synonymous with the band.

But hints of that hypnotic, mantra-like power are already apparent on their third album, Rainbows From Atoms. First off, I'm a sucker for any album that opens with a one-or-two chord rocker like "Instrument" (see also: Constantines Tournament of Hearts, Rocket From The Crypt Scream Dracula Scream, Helms Alee Keep This Be the Way, etc), and the band's decision to kick off the record with a driving, minimalist anthem with cryptic riddle-laden lyrics would likely have been equal parts perplexing and invigorating if I'd initially picked up this record in 1993.

As I mentioned earlier, I was late to the Lungfish game, and taking in their entire discography over the course of months rather than years meant that some of the magic of watching the gradual development of the band was lost on me. But there's the latecomer advantage of taking in their output as a whole, as opposed to weighing each new release against their earlier works. Perhaps this is why Lungfish got less and less attention over the course of their active years while seemingly increasing in popularity after they slipped into an indefinite hiatus. In real time, their evolution was gradual, and it's reasonable to assume that feisty, angsty teenagers in the '90s got their fill of Lungfish's esoteric drone-rock after one or two records. But for folks like me, coming into a whole catalog of this stuff after the fact rendered their degree of tinkering with the formula moot. I could take in the trajectory of the band in one fell swoop instead of patiently waiting a decade-and-a-half to see where the road led.

And for me, Rainbows From Atoms is a snapshot of a band from the Dischord world taking further steps away from the post-hardcore trappings of the era. "Mother Made Me" shows the band exploring the druggy, hypnotic territories that would later be at the forefront of their sound. The song also captures a developing approach of their guitarist Asa Osborne, who would gradually eschew the big roaring power chords and palm-muted chugs heard elsewhere on the album in favor of arpeggiated chords, a style that reminds me of the Southern gothic-era of early R.E.M., as heard on albums like Fables of the Reconstruction.

You can also hear echoes of Annapolis neighbors Moss Icon on the cryptic spoken word ballad "Creation Story." And you can pick up on the influence of Fugazi's rhythm section savvy on songs like "Fresh Air Cure" and "Axiomatic." But the album highlights are ultimately the songs that sound like a band in the throes of self-discovery---tracks like "Abraham Lincoln" and "Seek Sound Shelter" where Lungfish lean into their singular magic-eye impulses.

In my experiences, Rainbows From Atoms isn't one of the more lauded albums in the Lungfish canon, likely because it straddles the line between their more bombastic origins and more meditative future. But the band were in a constant state of reevaluation and refinement, and taken in as a whole, Rainbows From Atoms remains and invigorating document of a band in a volatile state of creative calibration.

#everyrecordiown #lungfish

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mytastessuck · 3 years

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Ween: 12 Golden Country Greats

Yup. Not skipping this one. Wait, come back! There's some good stuff here...if you like country. WAIT, COME BACK! Okay, so country is one of the niche genres that just seem to get worse as the modern era goes on but the thing about Ween is that they're not intimidated by genres most people don't get into. We've seen them do prog, reggae, gospel, funk, whatever the hell The Pod was...they aren't going to let a little thing like unpopularity stop them from paying respect to a genre that genuinely has some gems in it. Alright, most of ya'll have left anyway so let's just get to it.

1. I'm Holding You

Good starter. Great romantic song...hell of a lot better than singing about how poor you would like to be with your wife when you're rich as hell anyway. Just a random comparison.

8/10

2. Japanese Cowboy

Oh, using Japanese Cowboys as an example of something unlikely to happen, huh? Well, guess what album? CANCELLED. So what if it's historically inaccurate to have them? The Japanese can be anything they want to be! Plus, if the Japanese can't be cowboys, where did I find this:

Looking pretty stupid right now, huh?

8/10

3. Piss Up A Rope

Ah, another romantic ballad. And one that Dean wrote for his wife no less. Sometimes, the one thing you need to tell your big-booty partner is to get on their knees and start sucking. The only song that surpasses this one on the romantic scale is a song Dean recorded with Moistboyz...but that's a story for another day.

25/10

4. I Don't Wanna Leave You On The Farm

A lot of love on this album. Appreciate it. Probably the most normal Ween has ever put out in their entire career. Hey, sing this to a farm girl and see if it'll get you laid. Let me know if it works. I need the information for a project.

8/10

5. Pretty Girl

Aw sweet, a hoedown! Grab a partner and swing around to this awesome sound and this bitching fiddle! Woo! Get ready to knock boots about this song about fucking strangers!

9/10

6. Powder Blue

A nice song, more impressive for the instrumentation than for the lyrics. Then again, that could be said about 90% of good songs out there. Anyway, bonus point for including Muhammad Ali in the song at the end. Kept out of the studio release but you can find it on the demo version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-hjgUkIDmU

Never had there been such a historical team-up of an African American icon and a great musician(s) since that time Malcom X teamed up with Hideki Naganuma for the Sonic Rush soundtrack.

9/10

7. Mister Richard Smoker

A nice little ditty about a total assmuncher named Richard Smoker. Nice to sing anywhere, especially in front of the man himself. What? You think he's going to do something? He pokes poop. Fuck him.

11/10

8. Help Me Scrape The Mucus Off My Brain

Another PSA from Ween in the form of a parable: when you see a fellow cowboy/gal on the side of the road, it don't matter which side of the line you from. It is your duty to scalp that sucker and scrape the mucus from their best organ. The Lord will reward you for it later.

9/10

9. You Were The Fool

Another good fuck-you song that you can sing to an enemy. Telling them to wash their arm in a pit of mud? There ain't no coming back from that.

8/10

10. Fluffy

A nice love (platonic) for a dog. Peaceful, beautiful and a nice way to close out an album.

9/10

Album Score: 11/10

Next week, we will be tackling one of my favorite Ween albums, The Mollusk. Finally swimming into more familiar territory. See you then.

#ween #12 golden country greats #music #review

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pointthefingerblametheother · 3 years

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After an entire year and a half, since October 2019 I have been hating myself for leaving my job. I was leaving it to get better and I had a huge spike of happiness and being free while Valleyfair was open and going to plays, movies, and and comedy with my love. I miss going to the mall without being covid scared and paranoid the entire time. I'm so glad vaccination rates and cases are going down and places are FINALLY opening up!!!💜💜💜

Happiness never comes in hard, it's the little things that happen over time. Pain on the other side, pain does hit hard. It takes MANY little things to make up for a single pain in our lives. We didn't have the little things we love sharing together this past year+ that drew us together in the first place; the things that the roots of our love grew into and held onto. Without those things in our life we fell apart... Our roots had nothing to hold onto. We need those happy little things in our lives to counteract the pain everyone experiences in life.

We were able to go to Mean Girls, Rent, and go out to movies like "Jumanji Jumanji" lol.. Sonic the Hedgehog (for Valentine's Day), and Frozen 2... No matter how corny Kristoff's song sounded "Lost in the Woods" when we first saw it together. We were LAUGHING OUR ASSES OFF in the theater... But it sure is a powerful heart touching 80's power ballad. to revisit now that it applies stronger than any other song out there right now. I'm a SUCKER for power ballads usually. But I couldn't see the lyrics clearly hearing it for the first time. I know I have hearing problems due to working at OMax... Now that I've had time to reflect on these songs, I finally can hear that this one's finally a Disney song about me; I certainly never expected that I'd be singing it all this time later for comfort. I feel it hard now harder than ever... This is the second time you've left me on my own... I only ever wanted to be good enough to make you truly happy. I'm left direction less, but I know the path you're on and wonder if I should follow.. I know the direction you're headed but that could branch paths on any day. I could catch up with you if it's the right thing for me to do. But I understand your need to leave. It's hard to keep chasing, even when you love someone this much. The last thing I would want is for you to feel anchored down by me instead of feeling free or raised up.

It was ALWAYS about the HOW to me; NEVER questioning WHETHER; up until May 8th when you said you were leaving... And ever since I've been trying to find my True North again; I've become directionless and can't go to the store anymore without getting lost. I used to be great at directions and helped guide your way at stores. Crazy how this affects sense of direction.. I've always been able to tell North with you by my side. I SWEAR, if Leo hadn't been meddling and playing your heart strings like a violin to get you as a trophy, we WOULD HAVE MADE IT. He took advantage of your pandemic depression, a year and a half is way too long to be isolated from theatre, and other live performances (I consider movie theaters live performances, only due to the nature of sitting with other people and hearing the gasps, laughs and screams[depending on the movie]).. But now that we're apart, I hope we can at least take the time for ourselves to get better as individuals. We need time to heal from this pandemic and get back to ourselves. Who we were before isolation. We never used to be so feral. We have 6 other years full of culture to show us otherwise if she'd let me show her, and remind her how strong our love for each other truly is, and that it's not something to just write off. I feel for her leaving... She didn't mean to, she was coaxed and I have to learn to be more gentile about it. People can't see their own physical and mental disorders in a positive light to actually go in and get help with them... Well. I know I couldn't see my own problems before she left, at least.

Now I can figure out what path is for me to get the help I need and hope you can find yours, too. Who knows, our paths may end up lining up again, with us both learning from this and becoming better versions of ourselves; making our love that much stronger. Time only knows.

The "Again" at the beginning hits so fucking hard. You've left me out of the blue twice now... Not explaining to me specifically what I'd done wrong. And now I have no idea if it was for the same reason. Do I chase the person I love or let them find their own direction? What if I really am not your guy? Do you even care anymore? So many questions unanswered. I am truly lost in the woods.

Reindeers are better than people... Sven, why is love so haaard?

'Cause you feel what you feel, and those feelings are real...

C'Mon Brian... Let down your guard..

https://youtu.be/_8jNbZIsBQU

Again, you're gone, off on a different path than mine

I'm left behind, wondering if I should follow

You had to go, and of course it's always fine

I probably could catch up with you tomorrow

But is this what it feels like to be growing apart?

When did I become the one who's always chasing your heart?

Now I turn around and find I am lost in the woods

North is south, right is left, when you're gone

I'm the one who sees you home, but now I'm lost in the woods

And I don't know what path you are on

I'm lost in the woods

Up till now the next step was a question of how

I never thought it was a question of whether

Who am I, if I'm not your guy?

Where am I, if we're not together forever?

Now I know you're my true north, 'cause I am lost in the woods

Up is down, day is night, when you're not there

Oh, you're my only landmark, so I'm lost in the woods

Wondering if you still care

But I'll wait for a sign that I'm on your path

'Cause you are mine

Until then, I'm lost in the woods

I'm lost in the woods

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