Album Rating: 5.0
Yeah. It’s flawless.
|
| |
Album Rating: 5.0
The guitar wrangling on this beast is absolutely fucked up and I'm here for it. The end of The Great Curve? That shit is being tortured.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
the wind in my heart
the dust in my head
|
| |
are the first four tracks here the best four-track run in rock music history?
|
| |
No not even close
|
| |
name a better one.
i don't even think this is a goat album but that four-track run is impeccable.
|
| |
like i *personally* prefer e.g. some four-track runs from LOW or DECEIT or VESPERTINE but i think the one here is more... i dunno, ubiquitous? like, great but also remarkable accessible.
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
its COOL and INTERESTING to TYPE like this for NO fucking reason WHATSOEVER agreed
|
| |
ALBUMS
BANANA comes to mind, and REPEATER but there are hundreds more
|
| |
This is probably the best talking heads opening 4 songs
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
i'm waiting for the night to fall
i know that it will save us all
when everythings dark
keeps us from the stark
reality...
|
| |
Typing album titles in all-caps is an old habit that refuses to die from way back on the IMDb forums when I'd discuss movies (and occasionally music) but the antiquated technology did not allow for formatting text, so using all-caps was an easy way of clearly identifying movie and album titles.
@ghandi: Fair enough, I do agree that both of those would be among the top. But I also stand by my original point that "most people" would find TVU and Fugazi less palatable than the Talking Heads, making this run more impressive in its combination of quality + ubiquity. I'm trying to avoid using the word 'objective', but you can see where I'm going with this.
The last four tracks of STARSAILOR; "A Means to an End" --> "The Eternal" from CLOSER; "S.P.Q.R." --> "Makeshift Swahili" from DECEIT; "Society Is a Hole" --> "I'm Insane" from BAD MOON RISING; "Soap Shop Rock" --> "Cerberus" from YETI; etc... all would probably rank higher for me, personally, but most people would probably not agree.
|
| |
Unsurprisingly, I'm not a fan of the idea that accessible music should be more or less commendable.
I think the last two songs on starsailor are the weakest tbh.
|
| |
I'm not directly saying that accessibility should beget praise in and of itself, as generally I agree too that "less accessible" music tends to be the more interesting stuff that pushes and redefines the boundaries. I guess my point is that the Venn Diagram of "accessible music" and "interesting music" has a small overlap and so anything that resides there is quite a feat in and of itself. Plus it's good music to bridge the gap between the conventional and the avant-garde in many ways.
Counterpoint: The best four-track run on BANANA is also the last four. "European Son" is the unsung hero of that album.
|
| |
I'm not so sure that the overlap for inaccessible music is much larger. Intuitively I'd say it is.
I get what you mean though. Accessible music is rarely as interesting as TH.
|
| |
neither banana nor repeater have a standout four-track run between them lmao
|
| |
Their worst songs dwarf Thrice's entire discography
|
| |
Album Rating: 4.5
not a high bar to clear
|
| |
Also that skin graft weeb bait banana band
|
| |
fruit so low-hanging it grazes the ninth circle of hell
yet still a good comment
|
| |
|
|
