Album Rating: 5.0
it’s just the wasted years so close behind
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Album Rating: 5.0
and what costume shall
the poor girl wear
to all tomorrows parties
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Album Rating: 2.0
Good question
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Album Rating: 5.0
for thursdays child is sundays clown
for whom none will go mourning
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Album Rating: 2.0
Is this what hipster granddads considered cool in 1967
Did hipsters even exist back then
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Album Rating: 2.5
perhaps
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Album Rating: 4.0
I totally agree Pika, why cant everything sound like Dance Gavin Dance. if that was the case music would be just so awesome
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Album Rating: 2.0
Weird pick, especially when taking into account my 40% bm chart lmao
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One can only hope
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Album Rating: 2.0
Okay gramps
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This album looks fairly overrated and is actually pretty boring, save for a few withstanding tracks, when viewed apart from its historical context and legacy and all that.
Their eponymous (non-Nico) release is far, far superior, and even Loaded has aged more gracefully than this imo.
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Album Rating: 2.0
Always look outside historical context. That's the way to roll.
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Actually pretty boring is better than boring. So that's good!
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"Loaded has aged more gracefully than this imo"
Now that's something more blasphemous than your opinion on Birth of a Nation ;)
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Album Rating: 2.5
Pika only has 40% BM because he refuses to rate prog, the phony.
Yeah this is an interesting historical document, I just don’t find it to be a remotely enjoyable listening experience, which is kind of important.
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"which is kind of important"
It's the whole point, yup.
I don't get how one could find nothing to enjoy here though. Most of the songs in the first half are accessible.
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Now that's something more blasphemous than your opinion on Birth of a Nation ;)
*gasp* I have tried to justify my case for that film, though I understand why 99% of people think it's a despicable piece of shit. (Because it is a despicable piece of shit, to be sure, but one so technically and thematically powerful that we're still living among its ripple effect today, both from a cinematic standpoint as well as a cultural one, which is fascinating and terrifying in equal part.)
As far as this goes, you're right - Side A is pretty accessible. I love 'Sunday Morning' and (to a lesser extent) 'Venus in Furs'. 'Femme Fatale' is a step down but still pretty great. The other three tracks aren't particularly noteworthy imo, but also totally inoffensive. Side B is basically that same inoffensiveness stretched in its entirely. Even 'Heroin' does very little for me from a sonic perspective. Maybe I've yet to listen to it in the proper headspace but I've given it a fair number of shakes. I like it, I just wouldn't call it one of the greatest things ever (inc. everything on Side B).
Loaded never peaks as high as 'Sunday Morning' or 'Venus in Furs', but overall it's a more consistently enjoyable listen for me, and one that feels like a product of its time without necessarily sounding "outdated" (I realize how little sense that probably makes...but it's more of an intangible gut feeling, I guess.) I still jam 'Who Loves the Sun', 'Sweet Jane', 'Rock & Roll', 'New Age', 'I Found a Reason', and 'Oh Sweet Nothin' on a regular basis.
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"it is a despicable piece of shit, but one so technically and thematically powerful that we're still living among its ripple effect today"
So.. do you like.. enjoy watching it?
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Yes. I don't have to condone the thematicism of something to find it enjoyable, and in a sense, its totally uncompromising amorality is part of what I find enjoyable - that's not to say agreeable - about it.
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Album Rating: 4.0
If I got a shirt with this artwork on it would I be cool? Also, Sunday Morning is the best song ever.
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