Album Rating: 5.0

just wow, i love it.

Album Rating: 4.5

this sounds really interesting. the description kind of paints an image of Modest Mouse's debut . or burzum.

Demigod it rules check it out man. Just don't go into it expecting anything like Shadows Collide with People!

Album Rating: 3.0

used to love this



listened to it today, and it kinda just pissed me off

Yeah that can happen, I only listen to it in certain moods, not the sort of thing that you put on just to chill out to. In the right settings with headphones it is absolutely mind-blowing though

Album Rating: 3.5

I give it a 3.5.

here are my thoughts on this album.



-this album is just filled with absolutely beautiful riffs and melodies...but they are all /incomplete/. the best examples of incompleteness are untitled #2 and untitled #6. Both of them have riffs that just absolutely blow me away. however, in untitled #2, it sounds to me like 3 incomplete songs stuffed into one track. If he had the conciencness to take untitled 2, and break it into 3 /completed/ songs, then wow. those 3 songs would be godly. and with untitled #6, it feels like the riff is supposed to be leading up to something, but it never does. so to sum up this bullet: amazing riffs and melodies that are sadly, very uncomplete.



-here is something that majorly brought the rating down as well: the vocals. Honestly, I just can't stand them. their so off pitch and screechy and just...ugh. I'm sorry :/ The only songs I like on this album are the ones without vocals. I also find that a lot of tracks on this album /could/ be amazing if only the he put more care into the vocals.

Untitled #6 is perfect

Album Rating: 4.0

I just wanted to say something a lot of people seem to be oblivious to. The first part of the album (Niandra Lades) was recorded by John when he was on the road with the Peppers for the Blood Sugar Sex Magik tour. The songs were recorded for a movie John's girlfriend was making at the time (in the movie John plays a character called Niandra Lades, hence the name of the album) and John was at this stage not into heavy narcotics. The second part (Usually Just a T-shirt) was recorded when John had already left the band and was using a lot of heroin. This is the reason why the songs on the first part of the album make a lot more sense (and are in my oppinion much better) than the songs on the second part.

I got this information from an old website which I sadly can't seem to find anymore, however this site also gives a lot of information: http://invisible-movement.net/release/niandra-lades-and-usually-just-a-t-shirt

Album Rating: 4.0

fucking love running away into you and mascara

The lyrics to Your Pussy's Glued To A Building On Fire are absolutely perfect.

Hell, since YB reveals that most people can't even begin to know what to make of them, I'm gonna go ahead and paste this:

"I paint my mind just cause I'm alive" is likely about how being alive means having experiences and feelings on them, thus one is always painting his own psyche.

Third line is about wanting people to be with him in his (mental) roamings and so.

"You paint your eyes, mine are in the sky" --relates with the other line, other artists are creating art, thus "painting" (literally sometimes) their outlook on life, whilst he's at this point to busy experiencing life--getting lost in the sky and in the beauty of the world, etc.

"No wordly word I could say could be golden" --His greatest experiences (spiritual and/or drug-induced) are beyond words. Language is meant to be a description of this world, but he knows of things "otherworldy" or at least beyond common human consciousness. (Borges has an excellent tale about this called The Mirror and the Mask)

"The smile on my face... but the way you make me feel, that's really real" Sometimes we smile whilst sad. And all we know to be real is inside our brain--the way the world makes your brain react to it is all that we know to be real.

And the pussy thing: pleasure receptors (pussy) tied to pain (fire) without escape (glue). Which is to say: yes! Heroin (maybe being tied to pain as an artist too?).

I wouldn't analyse the lyrics too hard dude

pretty sure it's just stream of consciousness mumbo jumbo

Still can't get into this. I mean some songs are amazing but yeah...

dude that makes me :[

I'll stick with it don't worry! :D

haha nah if the love ain't there don't force it

I got into it by just jamming the first half (the ones with names)

cos they're actual songs not just insanity

then I grew to love the rest

Album Rating: 4.0

I don't jam this nearly enough because the album I DL'd is messed up.

I can't wait for my record player, gonna be hard to find Jf's records I think though. They are expensive off his website...

just a heads up conor I don't think his first two were ever released on vinyl

I know, but I've seen videos where he talks pretty naturally of string theory, even when he doesn't call it that (I study physics.) So many things make a lot of sense from that viewpoint and what it implies, at least to me. So it's hard for me not to relate to his weird lyrics maybe? I mean, Moments Have You is like, the best song title since Sweet Love for Planet Earth.

Album Rating: 4.0

Thanks Tommy, saved me some time.

Finally some love for Moments have you, that's my fav. song off of to record water, barely edging going inside.