Albums You've Listened To Today, V.9

[treeduck]

[custom55]

it the top 10 albums of 1973, for me. 

 

 

Todd - A Wizard, A True Star

 

 

 

Edited July 4, 2024 by custom55

[Super25Smasher]

5 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

Early Used and MCR have similarities and I love them both! MCR however had the better third album, not even slightly close. 

I love Lies For The Liars, but it could never top The Black Parade

[Segue Myles]

8 hours ago, Super25Smasher said:

I love Lies For The Liars, but it could never top The Black Parade

I like it, I don't love it. I remember loving it when it came out but unlike the first two, it didn't stick. How would rank their albums by the way? I've been considering doing a deep dive

[bluefox4000]

13 hours ago, custom55 said:

it the top 10 albums of 1973, for me. 

 

 

Todd - A Wizard, A True Star

 

 

 

 

Todd Rundgren's one of my all time fav artists and this album's awesome.

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

Bastille- All This Bad Blood

Bastille- Wild World

 

ATBB is one of my all time fave albums, and now I am finally digging into their following albums. In 2016 I wasn't ready for the follow up, nothing could come close. And now I'm ready and I LOVE WILD WORLD!

[bluefox4000]

John Denver-Take Me to Tomorrow (9/10)

 

Mick

[Super25Smasher]

6 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

I like it, I don't love it. I remember loving it when it came out but unlike the first two, it didn't stick. How would rank their albums by the way? I've been considering doing a deep dive

Off the top of my head

In Love And Death

The Used

Lies For The Liars

The Canyon

Heartwork

MEDZ

Imaginary Enemy

Toxic Positivity

Artwork

Vulnerable

[goose]

Iron Maiden - Killers 

 

Alice In Chains - Dirt 

 

A personal RUSH mix of fav tracks Vital Signs and later 

[treeduck]

 

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us

 

Not my favorite thing they’ve done, but enjoyable.

[Super25Smasher]

Over the past week:

 

Stay Inside - The Sea Engulfs Us And The Light Goes Out (EP)

The Wonder Years - The Hum Goes On Forever (Vinyl)

 

Stay Inside - Viewing

Stay Inside - Ferried Away

 

Side-B - The Low Budget Romance EP

 

Goalkeeper - Gut Feeling (EP)

Goalkeeper - Bad Times Don’t Last (EP)

Goalkeeper - Life In Slow Motion (EP)

Goalkeeper - I Wish I Met You Sooner

Sunday Morning - Nothing Matters (EP)

Sunday Morning - Forget Me Nots (EP)

What Makes Sense & Sunday Morning - Adjacent (Split EP)

Daisy Grenade - Cult Classic

 

Van Halen - 5150

Mayday Parade - A Lesson In Romantics (Vinyl)

Scene Queen - Hot Singles In Your Area

 

Knuckle Puck - Don't Come Home (EP)

Knuckle Puck - The Weight That You Buried (EP)

[treeduck]

 

[treeduck]

[TheAccountant]

Worked from home again today so back to whatever vinyl came out of the moving box.  First out:

 

Mozart - The Magic Flute

 

A 3 LP box Set.  Classical is almost always good and this was ok - but, for some reason, not my favorite classical.  But ok.  Next out of the box:

 

Gilbert & Sullivan - H.M.S. Pinafore

 

Its ok but again, not really a favorite with me.  Next out of the box:

 

Styx - Caught in the Act

 

Live Styx -  a band I have seen a number of time live and generally enjoy live.  So I should like this but for me its nothing special.  I can't tell where it was recorded or if it was recorded at several locations.  I prefer my live albums to be recorded at one show and this feels like it might have been recorded at multiple shows.  Not a plus for me.  Its really feel kind of like a greatest hits live album - not a plus.  So its not terrible but nothing special.  Last out of the box:

 

Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy

 

This may shock some but this album does not do much for me.  "Over the Hills & Far Away" & "No Quarter" are ok.  But nothing more.  When I say ok let me put it this way, when I listened the other day to Iron Maidens "No Prayer for the Dying" I mentioned their were a number of decent songs on that album.  I would take any of them over the 2 Zep songs I just mentioned.  The rest of this album is just filler for me.  Just does not do much for me.  

 

Sort of a dud of a day musically.

[treeduck]

 

[treeduck]

 

[Turbine Freight]

2 hours ago, treeduck said:

 

 

 

Classic. My wife was at this gig.

[Turbine Freight]

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon 

 

Joni Mitchell - Blue

[TheAccountant]

4 hours ago, treeduck said:

 

That was some show.  Dang.  I never saw Sammy but he is still touring and actually is playing near me this summer - I was going to go and after seeing this (even though it was more than 40 years ago) I am defiantly going to try to go.  Loved his tribute to The Who - including smashing his guitar.

[goose]

12 hours ago, treeduck said:

 

I've seen Hagar twice, once in 1984-85 on the I Can't Drive 55 tour (VOA) and later in the 2000s at Lake Tahoe (Montrose opened the show!).  Both shows were great.  I'd never been a fan till I saw him live, but his energy and commitment to entertaining the crowd made me a convert.

[Segue Myles]

Pearl Jam- Yield

Testament- The New Order

Death- The Sound Of Perseverance

In Flames- The Jester Race 

[bluefox4000]

Taylor Swift-Tortured Poets Department (7/10)

 

I've had months with this to settle.  i know i rated very high but it's kinda settled into mid pack for me. i'm just talking the main album.  i literally couldn't care less about disc 2.......sorry not sorry.

 

Don't get me wrong at all there are great songs on here.

 

Title track

Down Bad

But Daddy I love Him

Guilty As Sin

Who's Afraid.

I can Do It with A Broken Heart

 

However at it's core it's the same old Production Choices and the same old chord changes and the same old topics and the same old 20 album editions and the same old bonus discs........and honestly.......i'm just........swifted out and done with The taylor/antanoff experiment.  She's had THIS SOUND for a decade now in a couple years time.  and i may just move on.

 

Mick  

[custom55]

Hot and humid here in NJ today so I'm hanging in with the A/C blasting.

 

This album is cooling me down.

 

 

[Segue Myles]

2 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

Taylor Swift-Tortured Poets Department (7/10)

 

I've had months with this to settle.  i know i rated very high but it's kinda settled into mid pack for me. i'm just talking the main album.  i literally couldn't care less about disc 2.......sorry not sorry.

 

Don't get me wrong at all there are great songs on here.

 

Title track

Down Bad

But Daddy I love Him

Guilty As Sin

Who's Afraid.

I can Do It with A Broken Heart

 

However at it's core it's the same old Production Choices and the same old chord changes and the same old topics and the same old 20 album editions and the same old bonus discs........and honestly.......i'm just........swifted out and done with The taylor/antanoff experiment.  She's had THIS SOUND for a decade now in a couple years time.  and i may just move on.

 

Mick  

Nothing wrong in any of that. Hearing the songs live last week made me realise...she could do better. Her live sound is exceptional and the way Antanoff produces is...quote muted. 

 

I would love her to move along. I actually think TTPD sounds like it's being restrained at times.