kettering is pretty much perfect, but i'm enjoying songs like two, atrophy, wake, and sylvia as much
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Album Rating: 5.0
thirteen is really underrated
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Album Rating: 4.5
shiva is easily the most underrated here
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Album Rating: 5.0
I stop hearing songs as separate things after Bear starts
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i haven't connected with shiva as much yet, but i do love thirteen as well. been really enjoying this album a whole lot lately. sat down with a lyrics page and went through the whole thing a few times. very emotionally draining, but quite an experience
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Album Rating: 4.0
Shiva is amazing, especially the swelling horns in the background
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At what point does a sad story become manipulative or exploitative?
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what are you on about? how is this exploitative?
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Album Rating: 4.5
AStableReference's question is always an important one to ask, but, I don't think this album in particular is either of these things though.
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Album Rating: 4.5
That said, I hate this album outside of Kettering.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Thirteen suggest that this was hardly either of those things
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Isn't it true that the hospice story is just symbolic for an abusive relationship? That doesn't necessarily make it either of the things I suggested, but it changes things a bit.
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Album Rating: 4.0
Out of curiosity, where did you get that impression from? I'm struggling to find parallels with that
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I've seen a lot of people make the claim before, but I also heard that the metaphor angle came from Silberman himself.
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I guess it deserves marks for being so effective on an emotional level though, because it fucks me up whichever angle I look at it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
I don't think it's perfect as songs like atrophy are a little meh but the good ideas embedded in this make it difficult to not enjoy, particularly the shift from Bear to Thirteen
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Album Rating: 5.0
aw i love atrophy, it has some of the strongest melodies on here, and I find it to be one of the most intimate songs on the album.
I'd happily take all those bullets inside you and put them inside of myself
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Album Rating: 4.5
I wish that I had known in that first minute we met
The unpayable debt that I oooowed you...
*tears flow*
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Album Rating: 5.0
i'm (pretty) sure that silberman said it was an allegory of (a) abusive relationship(s)
(fuck)
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Album Rating: 4.0
This doesn't exploit anything, it's not like The Antlers expect to make millions off their music. Look at My Chemical Romance with The Black Parade's theme - that's exploitation. Hell they even had a song called Cancer. Even if it was just part of a concept album that I admittedly still enjoy to this day, that's way more exploitative than this.
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