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The Analog Cub

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  1. The Pineapple Thief Dissolution Your Wilderness Magnolia Versions of the Truth Someone Here is Missing All The Wars Little Man Tightly Unwound What Have We Sown Everything earlier than Little Man I have a really hard time with apart from one or two songs.
  2. Devin Townsend Can't do an ordered ranking because his discography is just too wild. Have to do tiers. I'm excluding his ambient experimental albums and Punky Bruster. Top-tier Ocean Machine Transcendence Addicted Alien Terria Great Ki Empath Lightworker Sky Blue City Deconstruction Ehhh Ghost Epicloud Infinity The New Black Synchestra Ziltoid No Accelerated Evolution Dark Matters Physicist SYL Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
  3. Haken and Porcupine Tree. Fauna is Haken's absolute pinnacle release, I wasn't sure if they'd ever top Affinity. And PT's latest album is also fantastic and it's made me appreciate Barbieri's work more in the back catalog with how front and center his stuff is on the new album. It's like rediscovering all the songs I loved in the past, kinda like how I started paying more attention to Geddy's bass lines over the years
  4. WHOOPS I have it rather low but it's not their worst for me
  5. QOTSA ...Like Clockwork Songs for the Deaf In Times New Roman Lullabies to Paralyze Rated R Era Vulgaris Villains Self-titled
  6. Haken - Fauna Foo Fighters - But Here We Are Riverside - I.D.entity Queens of the Stone Age - In Times New Roman
  7. Couldn't agree more on SW or Devy. Those two can really make anything sound good even if the songs aren't always good.
  8. Snakes I always thought had a great production. The songs themselves seem to have differing opinions around here but the album _sounds_ pretty good. Clockwork is one of my favorites, but it's a little loud.
  9. Yeah I don't care for Villains apart from a couple songs. Like Clockwork is my favorite. That one and Songs for the Deaf are likely their "peaks" by general consensus, but I'm absolutely loving the new album.
  10. An alternative, less daunting journey if you don't want to run through the whole discography might be the album from Them Crooked Vultures. It's basically a more virtuosic Queens record because it's got Grohl and John Paul Jones backing up Homme. https://youtu.be/t7_PQiEIL8c
  11. I think part of it is the artists' fault. The loudness war has been a problem for a while. Rush deep-fried the Vapor Trails original mix, and Rick Rubin has fried so many albums. Death Magnetic is a fantastic Metallica album that rapes your ears because James and Rick Rubin probably have hearing loss and thought "man this sounds quiet let's keep cranking it!"
  12. HYF is the worst of the synth era but the drums are some of Neil's most inventive of the time so I can find lots of "I want to hear more of what they're capable of" even if the songs are mostly mediocre to bad. I find the album very interesting, albeit not good.
  13. This great band deserves its own thread. Been listening to In Times New Roman on repeat. This album kicks some serious ass!
  14. Greg Kurstin is guilty of this everywhere. He thinks clipped/overly-reverbed mixing sounds good. The fantastic Concrete and Gold album has this problem too.
  15. Pre-2112 and the Rupert Hine years don't work for me. The 90s/00s hard prog was my "new Rush" and I go back to all of it pretty regularly (okay maybe not most of T4E).
  16. STP is better...they succeeding in trying a bunch of different rock styles over the years. Core copied the living shit out of Pearl Jam but subsequent albums showed some expansion of their sound. Bush is Nirvana-lite.
  17. Album holds up super well. I can comfortably say one of their absolute best.
  18. Foo's after letting their excellent new album marinate for a week. It's so good. 1. Wasting Light 2. Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace 3. The Colour and the Shape 4. But Here We Are 5. Concrete and Gold 6. There Is Nothing Left To Lose 7. Foo Fighters 8. Medicine at Midnight 9. In Your Honor 10. Sonic Highways 11. One by One
  19. Pearl Jam 1. Vs. 2. Ten 3. Avocado 4. Yield 5. Vitalogy 6. Binaural 7. Gigaton 8. Backspacer 9. No Code 10. Lightning Bolt 11. Riot Act 1-6 I can find plenty to enjoy. 9-11 I can find very little.
  20. Yep that's also fair. I'm absolutely floored by the setlist. Bruce looks like he's having a ton of fun, too.
  21. Nicko sounds absolutely fried. I think he's running out of gas. Bruce on the other hand sounds better than he did on the last tour.
  22. It's so goddamn depressing but that was expected. I need more listens but it's already better than Medicine at Midnight.
  23. Still accurate after Fauna has had plenty of time to bake. Fauna is my absolute favorite from them and I wasn't sure they'd ever top Affinity, even if Virus was awesome. Interestingly enough, Visions (the title track) is a really hard one to dethrone as one of, if not the best, Haken tracks.
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