Albums You've Listened To Today, V.9

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[bluefox4000]

Spinners-Spinners

Opeth-Blackwater Park

 

 

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4 hours ago, bluefox4000 said:

Spinners-Spinners

Opeth-Blackwater Park

 

 

Ever been to a blackwater park after midnight?

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[TheAccountant]

Worked from home today so it was back to listening to any vinyl that came out of the moving box.  Turned out to be a good day for music.  First out:

 

Queensryche - Empire

 

An album I never skip a song on and I enjoy every song on it.  Like really enjoy.  Jet City Woman and Silent Lucidity were the 2 biggest hits but I always enjoy the title track more.  Resistance (appropriately right after the title track) is excellent as well.  But like I said I really like everything and never skip a song.  Rare I will say that about an album.  Normally an album will have at least 1 or 2 songs I may skip.  Next out of the box:

 

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

 

Side 1 (Where Eagles Dare, Revelations, Flight of Icarus, Die With You Boots On) is amazing.  Esp the last 3 songs.  Side 2 starts with the equally amazing "The Trooper".  But after that the album does not do much for me.  I guess its ok but I normally skip those songs.  Next out of the box:

 

Judas Priest - Point of Entry

 

Very underrated album (IMO).  Title track is excellent as is "Desert Plains", "Hot Rockin" and "Solar Angels".  The other songs are decent but I may skip some of them from time to time.  Still, a good album.  Next out of the box:

 

Winger - Winger

 

I saw this group live in the late 1980's with Slaughter opening for KISS and all 3 bands were very good live.  Fun show.  The album is decent with a cover of "Puple Haze", "Headed For a Heartbreak" and esp. the very strong "17" and the equally strong "Madalaine".  The other songs don't thill me though.  But clearly a good album to keep.  Next out of the box:

 

Journey - Infinity

 

First of all, excellent cover art.  Journey albums always had excellent cover art (until Steve Perry took controll of that creative direction with Frontiers - that and Raised on Radio have poor art).  Side 1 is very good with "Lights", "Feeling That Way", "Anytime" and "Patiently" (all very good) plus 1 song that is filler.  Side 2 starts with the excellent "Wheel in the Sky".  Most of the rest of side 2 does not do much for me however.  Journey albums tend to be like this.  A few killer songs, some excellent songs and then some filler.  The albums also never seem to fit together where one song flows into the next - they were not that skilled in their aspect of their music (as Rush was).  But still a very good album.  Last out of the box for the day:

 

Journey - Departure

 

More excellent cover art.  A bunch of strong songs ("Someday Soon", "Where were You", "Line of Fire", "Stay Awhile" & "Good Morning Girl") 1 killer song ("Any Way You Want It") and a few filler songs.  Another excellent album.  

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Yesterday:

 

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Husker Du - Zen Arcade

 

Today:

Sonic Youth - Goo

Fugazi - Red Medicine

Coldplay - Moon Music (special premier at a movie theater)

 

SY are really cool. Kim’s the best vocalist tho and I don’t think it’s close. Gotta spend more time with Zen Arcade, but initial thought that was a bold final few seconds and I liked it. Fugazi might have had the single greatest rhythm section of any “punk” band of the 20th century. Minutemen would probably be their main competition.

 

Oh Coldplay. I love Coldplay. They’re near and dear to my heart. But this new album. Look I like it, but we have officially reached final form Coldplay. The most repeated lyric is either “love” or “la,” as in “la la la la la la la lay.” No joke. Are there any electric guitars in here? Probably, but they’re bound so tightly to the orchestral arrangement and synths and piano that they’re pretty much invisible. Live drums? Eh, probably more often than you think, but you’ll remember the programmed beats moreso. The production is worthy of being played in a movie theater yes, but that’s because half of this thing already sounds like Chris Martin should just move into scoring films and step back from writing pop songs. Honestly a good chunk of it isn’t really pop songs. It’s affirmations set to a mood board of strings and sound effects. And lyrics that aren’t just “love” or “la?” Jupiter is probably the only song really worth much analysis on that front. It’s not poetry, but it’s a nice sentiment that’s pretty obviously about queer pride. Good on you Coldplay. Doesn’t hurt that it’s about the most old school Coldplay sounding song here either, in that I think I can actually hear the band playing in the mix. I could go on, but I should repeat what I said earlier. I do like this. It’s just not really the same band anymore, if it’s a band at all. And I do have to admit I liked the old band better, but I’m not dying for Viva La Vida part II or anything. There’s plenty of old Coldplay out there to be enjoyed, and I don’t mind them chasing some new psych electro radio pop hippie fever dream vision in their waning years, at least as long as they still play the songs I actually care about live (they do, btw). Interesting side note, Chris Martin recently said there will only be two more Coldplay albums after this one, then they’re stopping. He claims this is to keep the quality control as high as possible and not add anything to the discography that doesn’t deserve to be there. If you ask me, they kinda already passed that mark with 2022’s Music Of The Spheres (really it’s probably 2015’s A Head Full Of Dreams, but I give that a pass cuz it had at least a handful of songs I do still care about, and 2019’s Everyday Life was a really fantastic menagerie of sounds I didn’t think they could still make). But sure, two more albums after this one. By then it will probably be 2030 and Coldplay will officially be a legacy act anyway, so that’s as fine a place to stop as any. I just hope whatever those last two albums are, that they feel more vital than the past few.

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8 hours ago, TheAccountant said:

Worked from home today so it was back to listening to any vinyl that came out of the moving box.  Turned out to be a good day for music.  First out:

 

Queensryche - Empire

 

An album I never skip a song on and I enjoy every song on it.  Like really enjoy.  Jet City Woman and Silent Lucidity were the 2 biggest hits but I always enjoy the title track more.  Resistance (appropriately right after the title track) is excellent as well.  But like I said I really like everything and never skip a song.  Rare I will say that about an album.  Normally an album will have at least 1 or 2 songs I may skip.  Next out of the box:

 

Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind

 

Side 1 (Where Eagles Dare, Revelations, Flight of Icarus, Die With You Boots On) is amazing.  Esp the last 3 songs.  Side 2 starts with the equally amazing "The Trooper".  But after that the album does not do much for me.  I guess its ok but I normally skip those songs.  Next out of the box:

 

Judas Priest - Point of Entry

 

Very underrated album (IMO).  Title track is excellent as is "Desert Plains", "Hot Rockin" and "Solar Angels".  The other songs are decent but I may skip some of them from time to time.  Still, a good album.  Next out of the box:

 

Winger - Winger

 

I saw this group live in the late 1980's with Slaughter opening for KISS and all 3 bands were very good live.  Fun show.  The album is decent with a cover of "Puple Haze", "Headed For a Heartbreak" and esp. the very strong "17" and the equally strong "Madalaine".  The other songs don't thill me though.  But clearly a good album to keep.  Next out of the box:

 

Journey - Infinity

 

First of all, excellent cover art.  Journey albums always had excellent cover art (until Steve Perry took controll of that creative direction with Frontiers - that and Raised on Radio have poor art).  Side 1 is very good with "Lights", "Feeling That Way", "Anytime" and "Patiently" (all very good) plus 1 song that is filler.  Side 2 starts with the excellent "Wheel in the Sky".  Most of the rest of side 2 does not do much for me however.  Journey albums tend to be like this.  A few killer songs, some excellent songs and then some filler.  The albums also never seem to fit together where one song flows into the next - they were not that skilled in their aspect of their music (as Rush was).  But still a very good album.  Last out of the box for the day:

 

Journey - Departure

 

More excellent cover art.  A bunch of strong songs ("Someday Soon", "Where were You", "Line of Fire", "Stay Awhile" & "Good Morning Girl") 1 killer song ("Any Way You Want It") and a few filler songs.  Another excellent album.  

Piece Of Mind is my least fave of the classic era for this very reason! 

[yyz305]

 

Favourite track? - Wreckage? Got To Give? Setting Sun?  ???

[yyz305]

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2 minutes ago, yyz305 said:

 

Favourite track? - Wreckage? Got To Give? Setting Sun?  ???

I have no idea...the whole damn album!

 

Pretty sure my fave is Wreckage though.

 

Between this, Nightwish, Priest and Saxon, I am having a great year for new albums!

[yyz305]

Edited Thursday at 10:15 AM by yyz305

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[bluefox4000]

Opeth

 

Ghost Reveries

Deliverance

 

Mick

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1 hour ago, bluefox4000 said:

Opeth

 

Ghost Reveries

Deliverance

 

Mick

Two masterpieces.

 

From Orchid (honestly a tremendous debut considering how early it came out) through to Watershed, no major flaws for me.

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44 minutes ago, Segue Myles said:

Two masterpieces.

 

From Orchid (honestly a tremendous debut considering how early it came out) through to Watershed, no major flaws for me.

 

i think the first 3 albums are really good but they don't get SPECIAL for me till Still Life.  then it's like a switch flipped.

 

My fav album has become Ghost Reveries though.  That's got it all i love about Opeth on it.

 

Mick

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12 minutes ago, bluefox4000 said:

 

i think the first 3 albums are really good but they don't get SPECIAL for me till Still Life.  then it's like a switch flipped.

 

My fav album has become Ghost Reveries though.  That's got it all i love about Opeth on it.

 

Mick

GR is masterful. They got given a bigger budget and used it tremendously well

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Pearl Jam- Vitalogy

Mastodon- Crack The Skye 

Lacuna Coil- Black Anima

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Toto- Fahrenheit 

 

Still a sublime scrummy slice of SEXY SAUCE

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Leaves' Eyes- Lovelorn

 

Underrated band. A pretty spotless debut.

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