Repeat plays are (mostly) accounted for by my weekly gym schedule. I rarely (if ever) listen to "new" stuff at the gym since I'm obviously not very focused on it. And I'm not the type to get "pumped up" by hip hop or metal or any specific kind of music for that matter, so you know I be bumpin' Sun Kil Moon and The National while deadlifting.

Album Rating: 4.8

If we’re talking music to exercise to I recommend going for a run with Young Team on yer headphones, peaks and troughs perfectly

Album Rating: 2.5

I'm with tec except I am very focused on music at the gym usually. don't need a specific genre to get pumped up though, always found that kinda weird

Album Rating: 5.0

Ok this is a 5

Every listen it gets better

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Join the club!

Although I'm close to dropping this back to a 4.5 because it hasn't really hit me the same way since that one super impactful listen I had and I've hardly listened to it since...

Album Rating: 5.0

The first half of this is a low 4.5 but the second half is a 6

Album Rating: 5.0

Idk man the whole thing hits

Album Rating: 5.0

I wish the intro was longer

Album Rating: 5.0

Same, on both albums

Album Rating: 5.0

Like I want 8-10 mins

Album Rating: 4.5

The fuckfest of drums at the end of Snow Globes in pretty swell

Album Rating: 5.0

very close to 5-ing this, but i'm just not that fond of the sillier tracks here

4.5 is the correct rating, don't worry

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah I wouldn't say this is an absolute classic but these are all really special songs. What an effort

The midsection is its Achilles' heel.
I see/treat "Intro" as an extended opening/prologue of "Chaos Space Marine". That opening 1-2-3 combo is insane and just gets better - "Concorde" is excellent, of course, and "Bread Song" is the pièce de résistance, not merely the best song on this album but one of the best songs of the decade hitherto.
Then it dips a bit. "Good Will Hunting" has wonderful verses, but the chorus(es) are perhaps my least favorite segments of the record, and easily the most ill-fitted moments therein. "Haldern" picks things up a bit, great song, but not quite as great as anything before (and including) "Bread Song". And then by that point "Mark's Theme" just seems like unnecessary filler. Nothing 'wrong' with it, per se, but nowadays when it gets to that point, I just find myself skipping it, saying "okay let's get to the good stuff."
And then the final three-track run is absolutely legendary, so it ends on a remarkably powerful note.

Haldern is a secret highlight tbh, would almost have it in my top 3
Snow Globes still has the most unsatisfying peak of any track here and Basketball Shoes is a classic good-but-you've-heard-it-all-before number. Midsection definitely has its issues (Good Will Hunting chorus is a bummer), but this thing peaks early in Concorde/Bread Song

'Bread Song' is peak agreed.
Cannot cosign the 'Snow Globes' criticism, as the blue balling at least feels intentional and has massive gy!be-crescendocore energy, to which I'm inexplicably a slave.
Wouldn't fault anyone for championing 'Haldern' tho.

Album Rating: 5.0

Good Will Hunting is so good

Album Rating: 5.0

the place where he inserted the blade is the highlight for me here. such a great "sad sack sing-a-long" tune



I end up dreeeeeaming of you and you come to me!

Album Rating: 3.5

That and bread song are what stand out to me the rest falls away ( The place where he inserted the blade)