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.
You really walked into this classic /daily/ meme™ didn't you?
Jacob Powell
xbox is actually kinda pacing themselves i want to play a few of these games this is scary
Xavier Morgan
>warm rodent nay
Brayden Stewart
o dang
Angel Price
not going to be doing huge reviews for all of these unless they're remarkably good or remarkably bad. It'll probably take a good while too
anything i should start with here?
hot rats
Matthew Lewis
hoyl shoot do october language right now
Parker Rivera
well, would you look at that.
Brody Lee
>Hot Rats no
Christian Flores
maybe Jangle will appreciate these hot rats.
Jackson Mitchell
Thot Rats
Owen Nguyen
Hey /daily/, I'm interested in knowing how you guys usually schedule what new albums you listen to. Like do you listen an album from a certain chart, or just go in a random order of sorts or what? I have a massive clutter of artists on my cue that is piling up and I want to know how do you guys sort that out usually.
Samuel Scott
Hot Rats is a 10/10 album though.
Aiden Howard
>Hot Rats no
Alexander Miller
Uncle Meat is superior I suppose
Josiah Cooper
>Uncle Meat no
Xavier Perez
make chart like , big or small, lots of thoughts for each album or none at all
choose wherever you want on it to start
and then listen to Hot Rats
Henry Wilson
*sip*
Lucas Harris
What is my name?
Logan Flores
is he wearing lo borges' shoes????
Alexander Ward
Quick review while I try to write my thoughts on Closing Time for the other chart. Been listening to some records I picked up a bit ago but never got around to. Why I got a few of these is beyond me.
Springsteen - The River
I’ve become a huge Springsteen fan over the past year, diving into his music has been a treat. Dude has an amazing voice and something about his music just works for me. He blends some elements that shouldn’t work well together in a manner that sounds fantastic.
Overall, I really dig this but shit it's long.
What makes it work though is it's relative variety. It’s Springsteen so you basically know the two or three styles of songs he’s gonna throw at you but he mixes it up a fair amount. At first, I was hoping this would be a somber expansion of Darkness but on double albums I think it’s better to shoot for variety. Springsteen has rockier tracks, slow burning ballads and emotional cuts all mashed in. The result is way too scattered but somehow despite this variety, it comes across as consistent. The feel and emotion is basically the same throughout the tracks, he just seems to put a lot of passion into his music.
Biggest downside is this doesn’t seem to have many standouts. Side 1 is infinitely better because of this, with “Jackson Cage”, “Independence Day” and of course “Hungry Heart” as huge standouts. Side 2 seems to have more rock tracks which I think are ok in comparison and a few ballads that just seem to stretch on far too long. None of Side 2 pops out in any way and honestly, around 4 or 5 songs could’ve been cut.
Usually, I’d critique an album this overly long but I appreciate the way Springsteen is able to maintain such a unique feel despite the variety. I barely felt myself getting bored by this (took me until the 9 minute ballad “Drive All Night) which is rare in albums this long. Maybe not as ambitious as I'd hoped but I’ll give him credit because I’m honestly pretty biased.
I kinda just started this heavily Jazz Influenced trio, its very Fusion-Esque and Lounge Directed, you guys might enjoy it!
Has some progressive bits too!
Luke Powell
I need to explore more Tom Waits man.
Tom Waits - Closing Time >Piano Blues
When I first heard about Tom Waits, this is the style I was picturing. It touches on a lot of the lonely, hopeless and sentimental feelings I’ve come to enjoy from Springsteen. Many of the tracks on here are similarly bluesy and dark, with little guitar and piano riffs kind of tying together the emotions. Waits’ voice on here is incredible. I’ll give him credit for his experimental albums like Rain Dogs and Bone Machine but this is a perfect fit for his sound. Waits sounds like he’s about to cry any moment, he’s just on the brink of collapse during some of these tracks.
Subtle instrumental touches help match Waits’ emotions, with muted trumpet (fantastic by the way) popping up on “Virginia Avenue” and “Midnight Lullaby”. It reminds me a lot of Songs of Leonard Cohen in that way, the minimal instrumentation just pushes this to another level. Would’ve been easy to dress up these songs with layers of instrumentals or just lots of “touching” piano but Waits makes all the right decisions. Everything feels understated yet purposeful in that manner, even when strings come in on tracks like “Martha”.
Overall, this manages to capture a mood quite well. Sounds exactly like the album cover, just sullen and sentimental. I feel like half of these songs could be featured at the end of a sappy movie, as the protagonist rolls out of bed in the middle of the night to call their long lost love or a relative they haven’t talked to in 15 years. There’s a layer of that cliche and cheesiness somewhere in here, as Waits plays the “lonesome piano player” stereotype all throughout. But it’s a sound he pulls off damn well and one I really loved.
I could see this growing into a personal favorite.
4.5
Jayden Torres
>I need to explore more Tom Waits man absolutely. The dude has a freakishly consistent discography. Dude made great music for over 30 years, and I wouldn't be surprised if he drops another album in the next few years (I hope).
Jace Fisher
Filtered permanenetly
Aaron Bailey
>kazma-kazma tons of fun! energy and melody and motion and fun. >the umpteens the lyrics are kind of hilarious if they're ironic and sad if they're sincere; either way, the songs are well-written, if a bit samey.
white noise is A+, as expected of delillo
blue velvet was fantastic - great performances and characters
Ian Bennett
holy fuck october language is good
Christian Martin
yeah i'd say ha ha no one else here really cares too much about it except stick i think
Aaron Edwards
How's Ulysses going? Chapter 3 is a mighty large wall isn't it
Asher Barnes
literally about to start as i type this i have no preparation or previous joyce experience should be a great time
Samuel Cooper
o damn when did you bump it to a 5?
Christopher Perez
a good while ago i just had one of those listens where it was like "damn son that's a god damn 5"
Justin Miller
yes i am retarded but you know what i have learned the way i hope this doesnt cause more confusion
rec away
William Evans
this is how you meme here huh
>kazma kazma hai kazma desu
>Kazma Kazma hai kazma desu
>kazma-kazma hai kazma-desu
Wyatt Harris
i really like this post
Brandon Russell
Oh it's a bloody masterpiece, gets every bit of praise that it deserves Seek out the movie The Wind That Shakes the Barley, it's both a good movie and a good primer for the whole deal with Irish Nationalism at the time of Joyce's writings
David Murphy
Well are you gonna give us opinions or scores?
Michael Gomez
>3.5 ...and friends all over again
you should listen to them, you like wacky energetic stuff don't you?
I don't know whether to give this a light 9 or a hard 8
It's so dense, like a pulled pork sandwich I wanna bite a fuckin chunk out of it
Lucas Hill
any restrictions?
if not rec is Uncle Meat
Nolan Scott
light 9's always a great bet it's a real grower too
Alexander Cooper
>hurrdurr look at my snowflake taste for unknown tasteless garbage >I'm l337 patrish >look at my quirky name xD
Andrew Reed
i was gonna say keep it as a rock subgenre also i already heard uncle meat i really liked it
Kevin King
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Julian Jones
>post number ending in 69 >thicc image
Landon Gonzalez
>hurr hurr I like good music fuck off dude
rec is Roxy & Elsewhere
is dat a kitty
Nolan Roberts
thanks?
Jaxson Reed
i'm just fuckin' w/ u
Landon Green
well did you look at it
Leo Garcia
i forgot to ask you if you can make it a rock rec
Jaxson Mitchell
:v
Ayden Evans
>look at my quirky name xD got me there >I'm l337 patrish got me there >hurrdurr look at my snowflake taste for unknown tasteless got me the- >garbage wrong
James Phillips
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - La Nòvia
Thomas Williams
oh fuck yea thanks
Austin Lee
Hot Rats is on the same level as Black Saint and the Sinner Lady.
Jack Walker
you're fuckin welcome mdood
Ethan Sullivan
the same level of overrated rockist jazz lmao
Jaxon Nguyen
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Caleb Cruz
I think you should re-word this because it is ambiguous and/or doesn't make sense.
p.s. Is white jazz a subgenre?
Hunter Flores
What doesn't make sense about it?
Dylan Gomez
>I think you should re-word this no
>because it is ambiguous and/or doesn't make sense exactly it's just a meme
>Is white jazz a subgenre? no
Austin Walker
Putting a lot more time into reading this summer. What should I tackle next (after The Iliad)? Super interested in all 4. Waiting to find a Vol 2 of The Gulag Archipelago before I continue that; I managed to find vol 1 & 3 for a combined total of $0.60.
You're loss.
Should've grabbed this book from the thrift store when I had the chance, though I plan on reading The Odyssey beforehand even if it's barely necessary.
David Anderson
do brave new world i need to do that for summer reading.
Ryan Baker
oh hi im starting to read too :) im reading the republic right now, but after that i'm either reading another saul bellow book i got for my birthday (I highly recommend you read Herzog!) or the book i ordered on Reggaeton if it would arrive already.
i say start ordinary men
hey thanks for the royalties did i really only sell two CDs? :'(
Lucas Scott
for now. it's bandcamp. i'd be scared if it wasn't tis slow to sell.
Anthony Moore
who else has heard this? I think it's amazing
Leo Peterson
this shit is great
Jeremiah Sanders
i did shit's catchy has some soundtrackish quality to it don't it, i don't know, i can't put my finger on it
Isaiah Mitchell
yo i will trll you something about charts and tourneys they are lame like i don't know how some of the lads in here do them since it kind of forces you into listening to stuff. Me personally i listen to whatever i want which cause me to never fucking do tourneys or charts or whatever. If i was you i would just do freeform charts and wht not. Right mow i'm trying my damn hardest to do the toruney but it's gonna take a while.
Ryan Reed
New sufjan has a lot of good "moments" but nothing really substantial that justifies it going on for 75 minutes. The first and last songs were the only ones that really that felt fulfilling. It might technically be a "collaboration" but, like, why? There wasn't anything achieved here that he hasn't done before (and better, I might add) by himself. Idk it just feels super overblown and prog-esque without much substance in between the great moments. I think the live bootleg would actually be much better, had the quality been as good as the studio album. Unless you're a huge sufjan fan I can't say I can highly rec this.
Mercury is legit one of the best pop songs of the year imo though. Definitely a standout moment, though the ending is very lackluster.
5
Landon Cruz
also what the fuck is that similar typeface that everyone uses post-2012? Does it have a name?
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing Awkward surfy post punk. I haven’t listened to The Modern Dance in a while but I think I liked it more than this. 3.5
Exuma - s/t (ok hand emoji) 4.5+
KINO - s/t (Black Album) This is less clammy than other post punk bands, but also more repetitive I’d say. I don’t particularly care for Tsoi’s singing. Songs go on too long. 3
David Bowie - Station to Station Thin White Duke Bowie is one of my least favorite eras. The title track is nice, the rest fails to measure up to his previous and future work and or doesn't stand out from it. 3.5
some scores have been changed because I can't get a grip what next?
Aiden Brown
its called Bifur
Justin Butler
>forgot the chart just end it already senpai
Brody Cook
Hot Rats is one of the very few albums without a noticeable dip in quality in any of the songs. It's a flawless album.
Gabriel Reyes
I don't give a fr*ck
BIH HIT THAT UNCLE MEAT JOINT RN
>hot rats no
Samuel Myers
Index boyyy Can't dip below 0 me
Jaxson Rodriguez
I have to listen to 50 cent soon. Fuck my life.
Austin Robinson
Man 50 Cent is fucking fun though, especially on that album. Also may have said this before but this is a lot of southern hip-hop for someone not into that style. 00s had more of a focus on the south though so it's probably a good representation of the decade
