Album Rating: 4.5
The band has remastered and rereleased this amazing debut on 2XLP colored vinyl. My copy just arrived and I am currently listening to it and holy hell is it amazing. This version breathes new life into this classic release
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gutted i missed out on the press
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Album Rating: 3.0
Seeing this album bumped is the most direct way of making me think of budgie. It's the most budgie place on Sput.
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Album Rating: 5.0
ya so in memoriam to budgie u better raise that rating
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Actually dropped mine from a 4 last night. This thing is an amazing and important piece of art but as a music experience in think it’s overrated
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Album Rating: 4.0
Wut
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I would be amazed if most of you could listen to this front to back nowadays without wondering if your rating is overly influenced by nostalgia or some sense of duty to rate it based on its accolades rather than how it actually sounds. Album is an important piece of rock music but a slog to get through
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Album Rating: 4.0
Thanks for the inspiration, jamming now kehehe
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Album Rating: 5.0
a slog? it’s sludgy metal what the heck do you think
For me it’s not overinflated and definitely not overrated. I don’t see people talk about this record enough to make it overrated
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Album Rating: 4.2
fwiw I agree that this isn't overinflated or overrated (especially in a world where The Fire In Our Throats... exists), but most of the best experiences I've had with it have come from obsessive fixation on individual tracks rather than whole spins
don't really feel that detracts - NightEndDay, t/t and Angel Tears are all phenomenal pieces and the two shorter tracks are always a good time. curious to give this a first-in-a-while full pass sometime but I'm not gonna place much onus on this to flow together perfectly when it's full of classics to begin with?
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Don’t mean to sound harsh in my estimation above. But i do think its underground cult status/placement in the lineage of post metal has a lot to do with how it’s received. I love letting riffs wash over me but find myself incredibly bored after just a couple of songs on this. There’s something about how they move between ideas that is so clunky to me, and done so much better on future releases, that it’s hard to believe that anyone could 5 this without being attached to a sentiment about its importance to the sludge movement
I let these sorts of sentiments influence my ratings sometimes for sure,, but this is a case where i find myself pretty confused by the widespread acclaim. I can accept that a cohesive whole spin might not be as important to others as it is to me when it comes to rating something, but at the same time I wonder what it is about these songs that really constitutes them as “classics” especially when, as you said, albums like Fire exist… I can hardly remember a single moment on this album after I’ve finished playing it, aside from Drought and maybe Angel Tears. If I actually felt engulfed by the sound throughout the album that would be okay, but the boredom that sets in is making me fight with my feelings for this band, which was really quite formative for me as a teen
Anyway thanks for coming to my Ted talk sorry for yucking y’all’s yum. I sincerely dig how challenging this album is but i just don’t get it anymore, and I’ve only gotten deeper and deeper into heavy black hole sounds like this so im having some ~cognitive dissonance~
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Album Rating: 3.0
I've always had this inexplicable problem with instrumental rock, for some reason it doesn't ever sound right to me. And I'm not a post-person in general.
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Album Rating: 3.5
“Post-person”
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Album Rating: 4.5
This is like, proto-post-metal
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is there a letter in your bag for me?
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Album Rating: 4.5
Bamd was pretty good, this and the fire in our throats were super good
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Album Rating: 4.5
Tehee!
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Album Rating: 3.5
Fire in Our Throats is fucking excellllent, yes
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Album Rating: 4.5
I do think I prefer this but it's been years since I've heard either lol
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Album Rating: 4.2
Defs prefer this by a considerable margin tbh - never disliked anything I've heard from these guys, but this is easily my fav
And I wanna jam it again soon
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