The point of these threads is to encourage people to look for new and interesting music. We do this by listening to and ideally discussing albums we've never heard before. Many of us already listen to new music daily, these people are in it to venture "out of their comfort zone" by listening to albums they otherwise wouldn't have, or just to have a good time.
>jandek - dallas thursday a whole buncha copies of the same not-good song. eerie keyboard chords, trumpet noodling, and weird near-spoken female vocals. not my cup o tea.
Luke Allen
Just noticed you guys have two different rating systems on the same chart. C'mon bro...
Michael Gray
yeah contributes to the DIY charm tho
Bentley Jones
this kills the dog
btw theres a cool new format called .png you should try it
Hudson Clark
I'm sad I've never panned dogwander-core before
also if fish wants to convert I'm down it is getting a bit jay pegged
Nathaniel Baker
this novcon is a real problem child
Jonathan Kelly
there should have been a semicolon
I'm sad; I've never panned dogwander-core before
Mason Adams
can i replace him
Matthew Cruz
yes
Eli Walker
nice nice i'll think up a rec in a sec
Carter Edwards
wait co
can you post the updated dailycore chart with the user you added a few days ago
also have fun with life my dude
Ryan Robinson
suzy solar - ocean of love
Juan Wright
do i need a trip or name to post here?
Kevin White
*users kinda
Angel Rogers
you just posted without would you look at that
Easton Cook
you don't need shit usually just avatarfagging works
Nathaniel Price
imposter
Jeremiah Bennett
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Brody Cox
2.5/5
Comfy album, will be nice during warm summer days, though mostly it's pretty forgettable Wish the sound quality would be a BIT better too
Nicholas Price
Oh yeah, best track: the first [untitled]
Isaiah Nelson
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Ryan Rivera
this kills the fish
Oliver Nguyen
:o
Juan Gonzalez
If you want to read the most hilarious bullshit written by a pseudo-intellectual to explain why he can't get into experimental and avant-garde art, check this out: rateyourmusic.com/~JLR
Kevin Nelson
please stop posting my rym
Connor Baker
>that curve
Blake Gray
Lmao why even listen to music?
Gavin Robinson
It looks like a side profile of my body
Blake Collins
>aesthetic qualities are the only thing that matters in regards to if music is good i'm not even this jaded wtf
Henry Roberts
About my ratings.
A highly complex work is aesthetically worthless without (at least somewhat) commensurate depth; i.e. coherent and meaningful structuring of the material, which is required of all forms of expression to be of any real value. The magnitude of the depth is dependent on the complexity of a work; with zero complexity there can be no material at all, but complexity without depth, that is to say without meaning, is just boring, or even nonsensical (or as in the case of negative depth--material made with the dickless ambition to sound 'challenging', because the composer is a pretentious hipster, and this is how subhumans compete socially with one another--which by all healthy accounts sounds just fucking atrocious).
Listening to 'progressive' (a term which in modern times has come to designate almost its antonym) music that amounts to mere technical demonstration is comparable to reading a thesaurus, which can be relatively instructive, but when these masturbators take themselves so seriously that they elevate their aesthetically useless shred above all other--or actual--artforms, they are more akin to the pseudo-intellectual, spewing meaningless hard-word drivel in order to appear as something they are not. While there undoubtedly is some power in spouting difficult nonsense, it does not make it aesthetically meaningful.
"...every new artistic means that is evolved (instrument, technique, mechanic) expands an artform's possibility space, thereby increasing — not only the potential for a higher, more complicated and more aesthetically pleasing work, but at the same time the potential for a more wretched work than has hitherto been possible." -- Alex Kierkegaard (On the Genealogy of "Art Games": A Polemic*)
>mfw he's a metalfag lol
Camden Morales
that guy is an icycalm follower
you might want to look further into who that is
Adrian Barnes
sounds like pseud version of Qwerty
Anthony Ramirez
>Four Autechre albums 0.5 >Basinski, Dirty Projectors, Miles Davis, Stars of the Lid, 0.5 >Jonsi - Go >5.0
Logan Morales
It's seriously the most pretentious shit I've ever read and the fact he almost only likes metal is fucking hilarious
Also apparently he lives closeby
Angel Diaz
>interrobang laughing at someone not liking autechre hmmm
Liam Lopez
this is some crazy ass shit
Blake Rogers
oh my god
Jacob Howard
>with zero complexity there can be no material at all, but complexity without depth, that is to say without meaning, is just boring, or even nonsensical (or as in the case of negative depth--material made with the dickless ambition to sound 'challenging', because the composer is a pretentious hipster, and this is how subhumans compete socially with one another--which by all healthy accounts sounds just fucking atrocious).
Maybe the most pretentious sentence I've ever heard good lord
Fucking triggered
Justin Price
Coltrane pales in comparison to the depth and complexity of true technical genius like Dream Theater
Jason Davis
you can meme me like that once I listen to the rest of their discography
Aiden Campbell
>makes his own game forum because gets banned from most of them >icy got the idea to compile some of his articles in book format, and incensed with the number of "idiots" signing up to his forum, decided to make it so that to register, you have to pay a $50 fee, and thereafter you're at icy's mercy not to get banned (which, as it turns out, it became nearly impossible not to). haha oh wow
>As part of this spiralling off the deep end, icy decided it would be a good idea to branch out of 'just' videogame journalism into dedicated pseudo-philosophy. greatest character development of all time
>699. Sup Forums is without a doubt the worst website in the history of the internet. I have never seen such an agglomeration of stupidity and wretchedness anywhere else, nor would have imagined that so much ugliness — mental, and no doubt also physical — could be possible in this world if I had never come across it. And they are all fully aware of this, which is why they prefer to remain anonymous, and almost immediately trash everything that they write, since they know it's rubbish. We are talking about individuals so weak and fearful that even the nicknames used by forum users feel too restrictive and oppressive to them. Individuals so slow and incoherent that they don't want others to be able to connect even as much as two of their posts together and hold them accountable for some measure of logic between them. This is the true bottom of the barrel of (sub)humanity. And that's why I keep an eye on it from time to time. You couldn't even meet such idiots in the street, since people in the street possess at least the minimum amount of strength required to leave their rooms and walk around. So if my site is the greatest site that exists and that will ever be made (and it is), Sup Forums is the lowest one, and will remain so for as long as it remains the internet's bastion for all those who are attracted by anonymity (which is to say for nobodies). >And now sit back and watch the torrent of threads confounding anonymity with pseudonymity that will be popping up on there.
That seems so out of place in the rest of his rankings wtf
Jaxon Powell
I mean, this person is just a liar that's butthurt about not being able to get into Coltrane. Nobody in their right mind bother continuing. He does that thing where he listens to part of the first track and then decides to rate it.
Parker Scott
Like, he's listened to over 12,000 albums and less than 1,000 of them are at least "somewhat appealing"
Nathaniel Davis
I hope no one in the world ever has to interact with this person, this is batshit crazy
Nathan Turner
If I didn't already listen to Jonsi - Go, trans may have actually won. Eric VS Trans = biggest meme fight
>Nobuko Hori - Xtoyourmilkyhair >Glitch Pop, Sound Collage
Lots of reversed, distorted, choppy, and amped up sampling from all kinds of media, with female samples placed behind the mess. Think Arca, if he were asian and didn't care as much about sample quality. what is it with japanese electronic music artists and their bizarre album composition choices
Mindless warbling and a piercing chime introduces the album in Kulk, and expands on itself in Talk To You-- it's like conversing with a broken automata. GGGGR follows by constructing an actual rhythm backbone that the song notes for maybe a minute.
Sukinan uses a robotic string section to feel a bit more human, somehow. Humummm builds off of the vocals rather than the glitch, and it's one of the more unnerving tracks. ITE is a slight bit of relief as an interlude. Soi is probably the most focused and enjoyable track on the record, cutting the vocals into an actual groove, but sadly lasts only 2 minutes. Dashyou is another snippet that uses the distorted sampling to actually be catchy, but not before a harmonica (ugh) is used on XEXE.
OOO is the longest track on the Xtoyourmilkyhair, and we already hear the singer playing along on a musical toy to begin.
It's a unique product, and much more interesting than your average noise album, but a bit directionless and one-note to rate any higher.
7/10
Charles Nelson
>Royksopp - Melody A.M. >Downtempo, Ambient
Apparently Moby - Play 's nephew. Not surprising to see why it's rated so high on rym-- it's super accessible for any music listener, and the first few tracks are easy to please with. Royksopp have absolutely no trouble in assembling groovy and catchy tracks; calm vocal features, the firm bass guitar, the timeworn synth textures, the shimmers of piano, and the drums play a huge/hidden role in supporting each track.
Royksopp's Night Out is the funkiest of the tracks on here, and a personal favorite for how winding and deceptively straightforward it is. And that two note orchestra hit that comes in during the chorus: fuckin tasty.
She's So is like watching a city get enveloped by a night sky, and 40 Years Back / Come offers two quiet electronic soliloquies.
The aforementioned tracks are what keeps the album fresh after the catchy pop influences of the first side of the album, using house and funk to mix things up. This most certainly could have been a mediocre album if Royksopp tried to make more radio hits after the first few tracks.
At the end of the album, I can't help thinking that these guys are truly one of the forefathers of at least 40% of all Soundcloud artists. But unlike Moby, it's hard not to like them.
8/10
Joseph Gonzalez
Oh damn that's Trans? Kinda looks like elton johnson
Nicholas Perry
No, transgod is a German twink
Zachary Morris
AND NOW WE HAVE TWO
Eric and Wool, I'll keep things simple and ask for one album, best shit you can recc
Aiden Gomez
I was at least right in one of my bets
Ryder James
>I stumbled my way into the finals with my shitty electronic memes
Oh jeez. Any prize for second place? I'll send you a rec in a little btw
Matthew Cruz
i promise this has nothing to do with the fact that ? made me lose to jangle >dusk at cubist castle vs only one of these records is a compilation of some amazing psych pop songs, some ok psych pop songs, and some pretty good weird noisy shit.
the other is jarring and lacking melody, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but i just didn't enjoy it at all. I'm pretty sure i understood what they were going for (collagey soulful purposefully weird stuff) but it didn't do anything for me. also i couldn't stand the female vocals.
exactly its okay. i mean it wasn't awful and I'm usually sort of on board with rod's whole aesthetic or whatever. there's always next tourney ;;;)
Grayson Jackson
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Noah Campbell
Also can you post a fullsized version of that sky simplified meme i wanna save it
Zachary Gray
hold up I'm gonna make it nicer since it was pretty grainy before
Saw this floating around on here but now i have to do it oh boy AND its against a glitch pop album wew
Jayden Price
I REFUSE to make this a lossless format. This image will be converted from a Jay Peg over my dead body.
With that said...
>Jandek - Dallas Thursday Holy hell I HATED this. I accept that Jandek is a very interesting, self-made, DIY musician. I like a lot of his stuff and it's amazing how much of a consistent output he has. Stuff like this really turns me off from exploring his catalog though. It's basically 75 minutes of the SAME sort of Jazz improv. However, it feels extremely composed, repetitive, and mind-numbingly same-y. If it weren't for the lyrics, I would really have trouble distinguishing one track from the next. The performances by all musicians are very good, but this shit is too much.
darn heck
not really lol. It's not something I expect most people to like I just think it's good and unique.
Eric is cool but I'm rooting for my man Woolite let's gooo
>tfw when Green Typewriters 9 hits I'm cum
I'll getchya a rec in a sec buddy ;))
Andrew Myers
no recs yet pls specific restrictions once again
Ryan Foster
this is too much wew
Christopher Taylor
>It's not something I expect most people to like I just think it's good and unique
Yeah I liked it as an out-there relase and will definitely try it again. I really like the review on RYM too, really made me think
>i wanted to find out more about Naang Naang so i searched around and i found the guy that found this cassette at a record shop one day and he ripped it and uploaded it to his blog and that's how it emerged on the internet and i find that very obtusely cool. this album is pure joy, like wow. the lo-fi, crackly guitars, the beautiful melodies, godly vocals, it's all just so perfect.
>so what this made me realise. is how hidden the beauties of life are. how hidden certain treasures can be. imagine, this cassette in a box labelled "tapes: $1" amongst some other secondhand tapes that have been played once and thrown in a box. now imagine hundreds of cassettes in this box at a record fair.
>there's hours upon hours of the best music you'll ever hear collecting dust in someone's attic. your potential favourite ever song could be a limited pressing single out there somewhere with a couple scratches piled under thousands of other singles in someone's cupboard, to never be played again. i feel it's something like this -- life's treasures are deep and hidden, yes, but it takes only one person to uncover and share this beauty to bring thousands of smiles.
Michael Mitchell
okay thanks love you
Oliver Reed
...
Kevin Morgan
do me and pig next or else
Aaron Brown
I'm doing trans and nyar right now
pretty sure nat is gonna be resurrected
Jacob Garcia
Anyone want to give me recs for the years that are missing
1992: Tom Waits - Bone Machine 1991: Slint - Spiderland 1982: Nurse With wound - Homotopy To Marie 1980: Talking Heads - Remain In Light 1979: Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats 1967: Nico - Chelsea Girl 1965: John Coltrane - A Love Supreme 1964: Jan Johansson - Jazz På Svenska
Have you not listened to these?
Isaiah Jackson
Nice, I hope you like it! Looks like it's gonna be a solid matchup
>I'm rooting for my man Woolite let's gooo
:')
Sebastian Campbell
I heard a couple of those, didn't really fall in love with them enough to make the list. Any recs based on what's already there?
David Morales
That shit is really crazy to me. I would probably pay like $50 for a Nang Nang or Pale Cocoon tape, yet somewhere they're probably sitting in some bargain-bin for a dollar or less.
Ever since I've heard that 78 RPM compilation by Dust-to-Digital from South East Asia, I've really been infatuated with the area. I want to learn decent Burmese and visit Myanmar someday.
>attack attack vs infest this attack attack album /might/ be the worst thing i've ever heard, but i totally understand (from a distance) why transgod likes it.
infest's record was better, but not good. screamy bangy hardcore punk that's just not my style. certainly not minor threat.
nat is revived, trans and nyar are out!
Ryan Martinez
Yer shleepin' on 90-93 my guy. I think you'd really dig early Ween, the first two Mercury Rev albums, Heaven or Las Vegas, the first two "Bare Nuckle" soundtracks, Bone Machine, and Laughing Stock.
Also, sorry I recced so much post-punk lol but I'm biased + it was most of the best stuff released in the 80s.
Just drone this label for every year you need because it is the best label of all time
Adrian Green
You don't need to know Burmese to go there. Definitely go if you get the chance. I wad there a few months ago and it's an incredible country.
Levi Campbell
Yeah I get you. Since I started getting more into music from all over the world, all I want to do is travel and crate dig lol. Imagine the music you can find at tiny thrift stores in rural asia
Jose Russell
>I wad there a few months ago and it's an incredible country. Really? That's awesome! Do many of the people speak English? What exactly did you visit/see? What you recommend seeing there? SE Asia is a really fascinating area of the world to me just because I really know so little about it.
Yeah I really do wonder what the music culture is like there. I wonder if shops that sell tapes would even be easy to find.
Camden Mitchell
>No early 90s hip-hop >No 60s jazz
Blasphemous. But really, you made some solid choices in there
Kevin Edwards
>I wonder if shops that sell tapes would even be easy to find.
If not, maybe befriending people there could turn up some nice finds. I've found lots of strange stuff from people's parents etc. and listening to old cassette mixtapes I've found
Jordan Myers
>They made the ass album noice.
Carter Gray
Oh fuck I completely forgot about pure guava, that'll do. Not really the other two though
