Album Rating: 5.0
@Poly,
Yeah, the Patton version of Chinese Arithmetic is dope as fuck. I think that's the only Patton cover I'd rank equal with Chuck's original.
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Album Rating: 5.0
As The Worm Turns and Mark Bowen rule w/ Patton too
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Album Rating: 5.0
AOTY fucking rules
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Album Rating: 5.0
some good tracks for sure, but most are ruined by shitty songwriting.
It just seemed like they ran out of things to say and do.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Agreed once, then I saw the light
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Album Rating: 5.0
There is a sense of fatigue and abandon to the songwriting that use to irk me, some would call it grey/lazy, but I now find that to *totally* work with the whole doomy vibe of the album
Patton sounds old and paranoid on most of the tracks like he knows his days are numbered, like he's falling apart, especially on tracks like "Helpless". It feels like he's staring something inevitable in the face, like ageing or death, and the lethargy of the album ties in immaculately with those lyrics/the pictures of graves in the booklet etc. etc.
Tl;dr by far their most personal and emotive album
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Album Rating: 5.0
the finest in his entire catalogue or just FNM?
No, in FNM. But tbh, AOTY was more like one of his solo projects anyway imo. But it's still a great album.
I need to try and get into KFAD more. The incubus style vocal work in the first track put me off a little. haha
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Album Rating: 4.0
A great album and a milestone in the band's history for sure, but I never was a big fan of Jim Martin (although his style fits this album perfectly...). I always had the impression he restrained the band somehow. KFAD finally shows what they were capable of creating without him.
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Album Rating: 4.5
KFAD being the worst is fucking lol.
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Album Rating: 4.7
agreed Pleb, KFAD > life
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Album Rating: 5.0
@ Polyethylene: those are certainly some valid points, and having listened to the album hard, I agree with you on several.
As far as Mike's parts go, it's 4.5 or a 5, but the rest of the band is spotty. To my ear, only Collision, Stripsearch, LCOS, Helpless, AtA, and Paths of Glory along with Pristina feel like full songs. The rest have great ideas, but never really build them to any sort of fruition.
If you want to argue that this is an intentional motif that the band sought to use as a symbol of its imminent demise, you might have a case. However I think it's more likely that the well documented inner tensions present in the band post-KFADFFAL were the main culprit.
This album doesn't sully the FNM name, and undoubtedly belongs in their canon, but it will always lack execution in my mind, something the band never had in short supply at any other time during their career.
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Album Rating: 5.0
Whether the lethargy and abandon on several of the tracks was an intentional creative choice, or simply the result of inner tensions in the band, I am not sure. Most likely a bit of both. Regardless of the cause, it ties in very well with the overall theme of the album and gives AOTY a very unique sound/personality, even if I hold the sounds/personalities of Angel Dust and KFAD in higher regard
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Album Rating: 5.0
indeed, well said.
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Album Rating: 4.5
Midlife crisis is one of my all time favorite songs
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Album Rating: 4.7
Nice bump but woah dat 3.5 man
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Album Rating: 4.7
Only RV and Smaller/Smaller bore me on this one the rest is gold
But yeah KFAD is a 5 and one of my favourite albums of all time so agreed there
Jizzlobber tho man
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Album Rating: 5.0
Everything's Ruined gets nowhere near enough love.
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Album Rating: 4.7
Agreed one of the best on here
Crack Hitler and Malpractice too, those two are just pure insanity
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same
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Album Rating: 4.7
Damn it's a great song but better than Jizzlobber? DAMN
SMIIIILES
BRUISES
SMIIIILES
BRUISES
BARS
IN THE WOOOOOOOMB
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