Albums You've Listened To Today, V.9

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In Flames- Foregone

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In Flames- Clarity

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[TheAccountant]

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

 

The Who - Who's Last

 

A live album from their 1982 tour.  Recorded at multiple location which is normally not a plus with me - I like my live albums recorded at one show (or at least one venue over a couple of nights - think Alive After Death or ATWAS).  But since this is The Who (perhaps the great live rock act of all) it turns out to be a totally kick butt album.  So the multiple locations does not hurt it at all.  Plus excellent crowd reactions to the songs.  Next out of the box

 

Samy Hagar - VOA

 

I remember that at the time I thought side 1 was excellent and side 2 a dog.  You know what?  My memory is correct & my reaction when it came out was correct.  Side 1 with "I Can't Drive 55", " Swept Away", "Rock is in My Blood" & "Two Sides of Love" is very good.  All those songs are excellent.  Side 2 is all filler.  Last out of the box today:

 

Rush  - MP

 

A decent Rush album.  What?  MP decent?  Yes - thats all it is.  Let me explain.  It starts with Tom Sawyer - my 6th favorite Rush song.  Then it gets better.  Red Barchetta which is my 5th favorite Rush song.  Then you get YYZ.  This song always feels like a jackhammer next to my ears.  What worse is that it disrupts the flow of the album.  Rush were masters of making albums that were greater than the sum of the parts.  They have many, many great songs.  But then they put them together on the albums so the albums flowed, one song into the next, thereby making the album greater than it individual songs.  Here YYZ disrupts the flow (which they had going with the first 2 songs).  Then you get Limelight - my 7th favorite Rush song.  Perhaps if you had Limelight after Red Barchetta followed by YYZ things would not be so jarring and the disruption of the flow not so bad.

 

Side 2 has The Camera Eye and Witch Hunt - both of which are very good and fit together.  But somehow they don't flow flow from Limelight.  Perhaps Witch Hunt does (actually I feel it fits together better with Red Barchetta) but you have The Camera Eye in between messing up the flow of the album.  A good song but it just does not fit where it is.  Then you get Vital Signs which is decent but again does not seem to flow well from Witch Hunt (although musically it was a taste or what was to come in latter albums).  I would also note that although this album has themse that go back to Neils earlier themse (think The Trees, Freewill and 2112 and how they link with the themes in Witch Hunt) this album has within it the seeds of what Neil would spend the rest of his career writing about.  In many ways Limelight ties more to Subdivisions, Analog Kid, Middletown Dream, The Pass and other songs he was to write then what he had written.  At least IMO.

 

So where many see a masterpiece I see a disjointed transitional album that has a collection of very good and excellent songs (with a stinker tossed in) that just don't fit well together.  At least not as they are placed on the album.  So that adds up to a decent, middle of the pack, Rush album.  Mind you a decent Rush album is still better than most groups very best work so its still quite enjoyable.  But not all it could be.  

Edited September 25, 2024 by TheAccountant

[Union 5-3992]

Big day of Canadian and Austrailian rock

 

The Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters

Midnight Oils - Diesel and Dust

Men at Work - Business As Usual

The Murlocs - Calm Ya Farm

Ringo Starr - Ringo

The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia

The Tragically Hip - Fully Completely

The Tragically Hip - Day for Night

The Tragically Hip - Trouble at the Henhouse

The Tragically Hip - Phantom Power

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Nightwish- Yesterwynde 

 

Yeah I love this album now. 

 

Nightwish- Human. :II: Nature.

 

Much like Crack The Skye and Emperor Of Sand by Mastodon, I've fully come around to this album YEARS after it's release. I can't get enough of it!

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In Flames- Siren Charms

 

This album gets a lot of hate. So naturally, I love it.

[bluefox4000]

 

Nightwish-Yesterwynde

 

 

Mick

Edited September 24, 2024 by bluefox4000

[bluefox4000]

4 hours ago, Segue Myles said:

Nightwish- Yesterwynde 

 

Yeah I love this album now. 

 

Nightwish- Human. :II: Nature.

 

Much like Crack The Skye and Emperor Of Sand by Mastodon, I've fully come around to this album YEARS after it's release. I can't get enough of it!

 

 

are you sure your not just forcing yourself.  just played it and i still think it just.........AWFUL.

 

uh.....ok enjoy, lol

 

Mick

[Segue Myles]

3 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

 

are you sure your not just forcing yourself.  just played it and i still think it just.........AWFUL.

 

uh.....ok enjoy, lol

 

Mick

I'm really enjoying both, but not in the way i obsessed over EFMB nearly ten years ago.

 

but I have plenty I appreciate. HN has actually super grown on me lately, I think it's quote stunning to be honest.

 

The new one...I really love the album from track 6 on. The first half? It's okay. 

[Super25Smasher]

Thursday through Tuesday:

 

Hot Mulligan - Warmer Weather (EP)

Taking Back Sunday - 152 (Vinyl)

The Offspring - Ixnay On The Hombre (Vinyl)

Arm’s Length - Never Before Seen, Never Again Found (Vinyl)

 

Blue Envy - Shipwreck (EP)

Blue Envy - Hand That Feeds (EP)

Blue Envy - Explain (EP)

Goalkeeper - Guy Feeling (EP)

Goalkeeper - Bad Times Don’t Last (EP)

Goalkeeper - Life In Slow Motion (EP)

Goalkeeper - I Wish I Met You Sooner

Every So Often - Capsize (EP)

Ben Folds Five - Ben Folds Five

 

Loverboy - Loverboy (Vinyl)

Loverboy - Get Lucky (Vinyl)

Loverboy - Keep It Up (Vinyl)

Loverboy - Lovin’ Every Minute Of It (Vinyl)

Loverboy - Wildside (Vinyl)

 

Ben Folds Five - Whatever And Ever Amen

Ben Folds Five - The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner

 

Ben Folds Five - The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind

 

Ben Folds Five - Naked Baby Photos

Edited September 27, 2024 by Super25Smasher

[Tinwoodsman]

some canadiana 

 

Neil Young 

 

chrome dreams II 

 

chrome dreams

 

 

The Tragically Hip 

 

road apples 

 

 

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Paramore - All We Know

Jimmy Eat World - Futures

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans

Copeland - Under Medicine Tree

 

I liked the Copeland album! Very sweet and earnest, and the songs felt easy to sink into. A few interesting arrangements as well. I wouldn’t say they struck me as hard as Jimmy or Death Cab tend to though. The lyrics weren’t quite so poetic as that (that more as in Death Cab but Jimmy also when they want to be). What I definitely did notice is there are a ton of melodic similarities between this Copeland record and coincidentally that exact Paramore album.  Idk if Paramore was listening to Copeland while they wrote their first record, but it wouldn’t shock me to find out they were. It’s not plagiarism, but it’s like they’re speaking the same language.

[Union 5-3992]

The Tragically Hip - World Container

The Tragically Hip - We Are The Same

 

There's little to like about these two, it's the Bob Rock Special!

[Segue Myles]

13 hours ago, Entre_Perpetuo said:

Paramore - All We Know

Jimmy Eat World - Futures

Death Cab For Cutie - Plans

Copeland - Under Medicine Tree

 

I liked the Copeland album! Very sweet and earnest, and the songs felt easy to sink into. A few interesting arrangements as well. I wouldn’t say they struck me as hard as Jimmy or Death Cab tend to though. The lyrics weren’t quite so poetic as that (that more as in Death Cab but Jimmy also when they want to be). What I definitely did notice is there are a ton of melodic similarities between this Copeland record and coincidentally that exact Paramore album.  Idk if Paramore was listening to Copeland while they wrote their first record, but it wouldn’t shock me to find out they were. It’s not plagiarism, but it’s like they’re speaking the same language.

I adore Copeland but I can't quite put them as high as Jimmy or Death Cab. But I feel they deserve more recognition. I love the lyrics on Beneath Medicine Tree, but their strength is the frankness rather than the poetry. I find them more conversational, something I don't feel Jimmy had until Invented seven years later.

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Wintersun- Time II

Nightwish- Yesterwynde 

In Flames- Foregone

 

I love Foregone so damn much! 

[yyz305]

6 hours ago, Union 5-3992 said:

The Tragically Hip - World Container

The Tragically Hip - We Are The Same

 

There's little to like about these two, it's the Bob Rock Special!

I LOVE We Are The Same

[Union 5-3992]

17 minutes ago, yyz305 said:

I LOVE We Are The Same

It just doesn't click with me much. I'm a much bigger fan of Plan A and Man Machine Poem. The band finally seemed a bit more focused with those two records.

[Union 5-3992]

The Tragically Hip - Now For Plan A

The Tragically Hip - Man Machine Poem

Rush - Counterparts

Bob Dylan - Desire

George Harrison - Living in the Material World

George Harrison - Brainwashed

[Entre_Perpetuo]

The Cure - Disintegration

Depeche Mode - Violator

Zedd - Telos

Toro Y Moi - Hole Erth

The Jesus Lizard - Rack

 

[yyz305]

1 hour ago, Union 5-3992 said:

It just doesn't click with me much. I'm a much bigger fan of Plan A and Man Machine Poem. The band finally seemed a bit more focused with those two records.

Fair enough. Plan A has never really clicked for me. I've tried, and tried and tried!

[pjbear05]

Frank Zappa-Jazz From Hell

RFSQ-The Bridge Between

[Union 5-3992]

The Beatles - Revolver

Queens of the Stone Age - ... Like Clockwork