Album Rating: 2.0

Eh sure

"Damn is John Zorn’s entire catalogue of 100+ albums really all 2.9 and above?"
certainly not but i wanna know people's picks for the WORST

Johnny how tf did u go from 0.5 to basically a 3 lol

oops, back we go again lol. my score defaults to 2.8 every time i edit the review, and this happened not long ago because jots/cyg made me realise that there was (and still is, ugh) some rly awkward phrasing at the start of the third para
also i got the frontman's first name wrong the first time around but no-one called it out lol joke's on u!

Album Rating: 4.0

This kinda sounds like King Crimson covering Mr Bungle songs. Pretty cool but the singer needs to be replaced. Musically it's a fuckin treat.

Album Rating: 4.0

also for the recommended by reviewer section, change the King Crimson album Lizard to Larks' Tongues in Aspic. Or Starless and Bible Black. Or Red. It's clearly the early-mid 70s period of KC sound.

the singer is also one of the guitarists so don't think he should be replaced no?

"Don't you fools know you have to suffer for your art. If you aren't constantly on the verge of dying while making it the I'm sorry your album is shit. That's why Slipknot's Iowa is the only good album that's ever been made"

1. Slipknot's Iowa slaps.

2. If we take BM as ostensibly experimental music, a lot of that has been driven by a desire to disrupt or deconstruct the status quo. A lot of of the most interesting experimental music has that quality to it. A lot of the musical technology we have now has been driven by people experimenting or happy accidents. A lot of that is to do with personal ideology over whether they are rich or not *but* being rich does tend to lead you to not really having to develop a personal ideology because you are doing very well thanks from the status quo.

If you make 'experimental' music without an ideology to disrupt it just becomes self indulgent boring Prog rock bullshit. Where you're not really experimenting but just trying to make the most canonically perfect music you can, which is absolutely fucking dull. (technically brilliant but creatively empty)

I guess that's the danger of Black Midi having all gone to music school in that it can turn out a load of boring session players, but they seem to have one foot firmly rooted in pop, which is grand to my ears.

Album Rating: 4.0

"the singer is also one of the guitarists so don't think he should be replaced no?"



just get someone that can sing and let that dude keep playing guitar, his voice is the weak link for the band for sure.

Album Rating: 5.0

Literally none of them can sing who cares

Album Rating: 2.0

Literally everyone cares

do you think these guys have heard of pet sounds or captain beefcake

For me this is one of those cases where the band either very obviously sucks ass, or I'm super not the intended audience. So far I'm leaning towards the former.

i couldn't care less about how well any of these fucks can sing i just want it to not sound like they're smugly wobbling tristram shandy quotations across each others' diaphragms over enough port to kill multiple goldfish. and they say rock is dead.

Johnny u are always based but on this thread u are particularly based

Album Rating: 2.5

honestly the vocals are the least of this album's concerns

Album Rating: 3.0

I don't see how vocals enhance ANY of these tracks. Just make it all instrumentals. But they are cowards

Album Rating: 3.5

Okay I'm convinced. AotY.

you are giving me the ick

Album Rating: 3.5

i couldn't care less about how well any of these fucks can sing i just want it to not sound like they're smugly wobbling tristram shandy quotations across each others' diaphragms over enough port to kill multiple goldfish. and they say rock is dead.





FUCKING YES JOHN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Thank Christ.