Entre_Perpetuo

I can see the case for post BH&R being soulless, but to me all of those first four have loads of it.

I get a lot of soul out of it, but it’s a childlike one. A sense of wonder and amazement that really connects with me.

Muse - Black Holes & Revelations This album always feels like a breath of fresh air to me. A part of me will never fully understand people who don’t get excited over this.

Yesterday: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band Tierra Whack - Whack World Brian Eno - Another Green World The Strokes - Room On Fire

Haven’t heard that one yet

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication The horribly brickwalled mastering will always keep this a pace behind BSSM for me, but in terms of writing and performance it really aught to stand toe to toe. The singles of course are arguably the best songs the band ever wrote.

Same song title, ten years apart. Which will you choose? And why?

White Reaper - The World’s Best American Band Seven years later and they still very nearly prove it in this fly-by 30 minutes! Turnstile - Glow On NOW IT’S A HOLIDAY!

And yet they still feel too relevant to me. They’ve never really gone away in all that time.

Is it weird I don’t think the Foos are that old yet, when all the evidence points to the contrary?

Have I ever done Coldplay? 1. Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends 2. A Rush Of Blood To The Head 3. Mylo Xyloto 4. Ghost Stories 5. Parachutes 6. Everyday Life 7. X&Y 8. A Head Full Of Dreams 9. Music Of The Spheres

Yesterday: Olivia Rodrigo - Guts Passion Pit - Manners Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors Today: Brian Eno - Another Green World Florence + The Machine - Lungs Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow

Not my favorite by far but I do love it.

It’s passing right over my parents’ house, and of course I can’t get home that day to see it, lol.

Yay!

My band has a song about mutinous behavior! Do you think Rob would like that?

I guess I should revisit it. I remember really being floored by it on release.

I just did not love this record. Maybe I’m too young. I thought Mick’s voice sounded weird and the songs just didn’t do much for me.

Well some of the heavy hitters have already been called out for sure. I agree massively on Priest (Firepower and IS), Styx (The Mission and CotC), Springsteen (Western Stars, haven’t actually heard Letter To You), and our beloved Rush (Clockwork Angels). A couple others to toss in off the top of my head: Bowie - Blackstar Black Sabbath - 13 For me I think it’s less about exactly how long the artist has been around, and more about the sense that a record like this has really been a major uptick in quality or reputation from what their average had become over time.

Hm, how can JP be better than 90% of themselves?

Is this real? I dare say it might be perfect. BTROD into VOC??? Closing the main set with hecking PAINKILLER? I’m starting to think Rob isn’t human. I can’t think of any sane singer who would wait to do that song at the end!

You know I don't think I've seen a single post about this record that has anything other than admiration for it. Has any new album been so universally loved on here before?

Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks A lesser songwriter attempting a similar thing would have such severely worse results it wouldn’t be worth a second listen. The record rides almost single-handedly on the power of Dylan’s voice and words, and it’s a masterpiece because of it.

Judas Priest - Invincible Shield I think Firepower was better on first listen, but this is no disappointment at all. A reaffirmation that JP are still incredible. Particularly impressive guitar solos across the board, and somehow Rob sounds younger? Makes you wonder why more bands can’t be this great this late in the game. I imagine this will be a cut above any other new album from a “legacy act” I hear this year. For comparison, I’d spin this ten times before ever bothering with that latest Stones album again.

I’ll probably come back to it once or twice, but more than safe to me it reeked of a lack of new ideas. I’ve heard them do everything on there before better. And worse in places, certainly. None of it was outright bad, but that’s not very interesting either. Shame to see them and Blink not managing to find anything more interesting to do at this age, meanwhile their offspring have found great artistic success recently leaning into unexplored aspects of their sound. Paramore went post punk, FOB got expansive and cinematic, and Panic wrote a love letter to the 70s and 80s.