Album Rating: 4.3

i'm still not convinced by that use of "ideal"

and that's not even to start on album re-issues that integrate previously unreleased songs into the main tracklist or region-specific alternative tracklists of the same album

Those would ideally be played as they are presented as well

Here is the use of the word in a sentence for you

“Ideally, you would listen to my new album in full from front to back”

It’s like you think I’m using this as a pejorative against listening to songs on their own or making playlists, which I’m not. I hardly listen to any albums in full anymore, but my first listens are in the context they were intended so I could experience it as intended at least once and experience what the artist ideally wanted me to experience.

Album Rating: 4.5

You both remind me of a younger me.

That’s the most insulting thing anyone has ever said to me in my entire life

Album Rating: 2.0

lmao

Album Rating: 4.5

Storm’s greatest moment 😂

Album Rating: 4.5

😏😏😏

PotsyTeacup

Album Rating: 4.3

"I hardly listen to any albums in full anymore, but my first listens are in the context they were intended so I could experience it as intended at least once and experience what the artist ideally wanted me to experience."

that scans, but i don't get why you'd automatically credit the artist's intensions with producing the ideal listening experience? it's obvs ideal for anyone to have a sense of how the artist meant the album to be arranged (and to be on the same page as everyone else who's heard it), but beyond that there are all manner of conversations you could have about 1) how you could tailor it into a form ideal for your personal preferences and 2) how the tracklist might have better articulated what you understand as what the artist was going for, in a manner that the rest of its target audience would have appreciated. you see debates about (esp) openers and closers in that vein, often with loose consensuses being reached

tl;dr i don't get why the artist's intent would shield their sequencing from substantive criticism any more than any other aspect of their craft, which is something the framing of this discussion has continually implied to me. my bad for overemphasising it if this is not the focus, but is still seemed a strange insistence on phrasing

We both just got obliterated, will Johnny take an L with me for once or is it time for paragraphs of a whole new beast

god i cant be fucked to read all that

“PotsyTeacup”

If we have to do this it’s gotta be StormInATeaPot let’s be real

Album Rating: 4.3

it's friday can we get one more pint of paragraphs in here plz

Yes but it needs to be about how we are nothing like younger storm

Album Rating: 4.3

this is a tough one what are things that storm has famously not done in his younger years

Album Rating: 2.0

are u setting us up johnny

“this is a tough one what are things that storm has famously not done in his younger years “

Well he may be stormin but he ain’t known for brain stormin’

Album Rating: 5.0

On second listen of Atta and initial assessment was too harsh. Definitively something quite captivating and arresting in this record.

Can’t wait to hate listen to the first 30 seconds and then 1 the fuck out of it