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This might be my favorite album of this year, but I can totally admit that it is faaar from an instant classic.

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this reads more like an over-enthusiastic blog post than a review

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@TMobotron



i guess i'll stick around a little. i haven't really been a very active user on SputnikMusic anyway. it's just annoying to see each pages filled with everyone whining or posting clever quick quips against other people. ad hominem attacks aren't really the best builders of discussion.



and sorry about the weird nature of the review: it appears i was having too much fun. i didn't really intend it to be a super serious review--which i think is obvious. tongue in cheek i guess. it's kind of impossible for any review to be "objective" (that kind of defeats the purpose of "review"), but i admit i went a little overboard, haha.









oh and the album is still a 5 for me. "instant classic" status here.

It's not always like this, but it's gotten much worse in the last 6 months than it ever was before.

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it happens and you know it does.

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it actually never happens with me, because instant classic is an oxymoron.

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why so serious?

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those who use the phrase "instant classic" mean they are confident enough to say they will love the

album in question just as much or more in the future as or than they do now.



when i first heard Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, or Radiohead's Kid A, or Kayo Dot's Dowsing

Anemone with the Copper Tongue, or Coltrane's A Love Supreme, i knew, after one listen, that they

would remain my favorites for times to come. lo and behold, they are still among my favorites. in

many cases, i can tell right away when there is something which i love and which i still have yet to

appreciate fully.



thus my opinion of Patagonian Rats.

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ugh but like back in 2004 I was pretty sure American Idiot was the best album I ever heard, but eventually over the course of that year my tastes progressed quite a bit. to sum up how I feel, I tend to know all the lyrics off an album before I rate it a 5. or shit I mean at least a week or two after first listen, I don't know.



basically my feelings on it are like this; If you think there are ways that this album could possibly grow or astound you more than now, save the rating before it really hits. not trying to convince you, but the whole concept just irks me.

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it already has hit me. the thing is it keeps hitting me, each time as hard or harder as or than the

last. all of which has happened w/ all the albums i call my favorites.



i'd say my tastes have gotten to a point where i'm not "changing" them (as you did with Green Day) so

much as i am simply expanding them.



as for lyrics, they don't really play a role in my love for the music.

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it already has hit me. the thing is it keeps hitting me, each time as hard or harder as or than the

last.

basically my feelings on it are like this; If you think there are ways that this album could possibly grow or astound you

more than now, save the rating before it really hits.

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i don't know that i understand what you're trying to say. but i like this conversation, so i don't

see why we have to end it.



every time i listen to Hot Rats or Freak Out! by Zappa, i love it more than i did an earlier listen,

cz i pick up new things and have new experiences. so i shouldn't maintain my admiration for that

either, even tho i've been listening to it for years upon years? and haven't yet come to the apex in

the pleasure i get from it?



to me, music (and the appreciation i have for it) isn't so mechanical as you (seem to) make it out

to be--unless i'm misunderstanding you. i don't need certain capacities of time or numbers of

listens to decide whether i love an album right off the bat.



since i was hardly fond of Patagonian Rats when i first heard Frozen Zoo and Another Surf out of

context, i don't think my veneration for the album is unfounded or disingenuous--it's certainly not

mere infatuation. i went into the album with not much in the way of expectations, and it ended up

blowing my presuppositions away.

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sheesh mad typin all up in this bitch



i've said everything i care to say

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@ mecca- but haven't you ever thought an album was the shit when you first listened to it then after a few more listens you never listened again?



Also " it's just annoying to see each pages filled with everyone whining or posting clever quick quips against other people. ad hominem attacks aren't really the best builders of discussion."



Yeah this does happen a lot (too often), but usually the comments sections are pretty awesome for music discussion. Lists too, a lot of people on this site are really helpful and cool, but unfortunately a lot are douches as well.

I'm helpful.

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I would agree with that statement

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@TMobotron



yeah that has happened before. but i can usually tell in my first listens whether that initial

excitement is superficial or deeper down. i can tell when there's a sort of flimsiness in the

music, whether it's gaudy or genuine.



plus, that nice FULLNESS i get from Patagonian Rats--the same fullness i get after reading a great

book or seeing a great movie--feels substantial. like in my review: it's something around which i

can't completely wrap my mind. it's just so dense w/ who knows what. i listen to the album, and

i'm just like, Hell yeah all of this is timed and executed just as i would if i could. that

satisfaction, you know.

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yez

"it's just so dense w/ who knows what."

this is far from dense

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especially in comparison to their self-titled.