Dedes
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09.11.24 Pet thread07.29.24 A DEDES CLASSIC REC COMP
07.10.24 It's hot.05.08.24 what it means to me
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03.18.24 DEDES TOP 50 BM-this time, with passion ♦03.04.24 DEDES TOP 50 DM ALBUM EVAH
01.14.24 The Year of Dedes ♦10.01.23 Whiskey and Music
08.24.23 Lookit07.31.23 One Piece and good jams
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A DEDES CLASSIC REC COMP

Of the monstrous multitude of rec comps I used to whip out me arse in my younger days on this site (am I progressing into a site dinosaur???) I don't believe I ever did one with just peoples favorite record, that which makes their souls elated with glees or their hips move or their bowels groove with the motion of shitting bricks to something that riffs -that- fucking hard. I still have my preferences of sound/aesthetic but i've grown to be appreciative of most genres finally. ANYWAYS there are no rules. Rec me your favorite album. I'll take 50, all else i'll bookmark. Winner gets a pleasant smooch. Runner-up gets an awkward messy inexperienced first time makeout sesh. See yall in tha list
1State Faults
Children of the Moon

It can skramz
2Fit for an Autopsy
The Great Collapse

It can chugs
3Denzel Curry
Melt My Eyez See Your Future

It can has beats
4Trophywife
Hold Onto Your Luck

It can go proggers
5Respire
Hiraeth

It can be anything!!
6Alkaline Trio
Goddamnit

Drifter rec, pop punk.
I actually jammed this mannnny a moon ago and it sort of...passed me over. It's weird because even now it presses the buttons of nostalgic skaterboi-era pop punk with less whine and more actual imbibements of a sad reality that I should enjoy a bit more than I do BUT I do still quite like it! While the riffs don't engage me the drum fills are tight as hell and there's actually an immaculate sense of groove in the lil bass flourishes. Also "Clavicle" is the most anti-romantic term to romanticize but the song itself slaps harder than the whole album. 3.5/5.
7Dirty
The Pimp & Da Gangsta

Hawks-hip hop.
My only complaint here is the album feels a -bit- bloated but otherwise this is thugged out smoked out hella smooth and raunchy Southern style hip hop, which is beyond the shadow of a fucking doubt tha best scene. The flow here is impressively sharp and fast in a way that isn't tacky, even if the album itself is almost as beautifully gimmicky as other greats (i.e Big Moe's City of Syrup). Rollin Vogue and 6 Deep Creepin are ez favorites with the latter giving mega fun Halloween film soundtrack vibes. 4/5.
8Continuance
Carry Ourselves

Efp123-metalcore/post-hardcore
Members of Saints Never Surrender??? More Than Life adjacent??? Hell. Fucking. Yes. I like how this strikes a perfect match between the two, containing within it some pleasantly jarring tempo shifts without going off the wall like SNS did. This is impressively joyous and high-energy stuff with melodic guitar leads that make you wanna shed a tear while you piledrive a fellow camo-shorted mosh friend into a wall. 4/5.
9John Frusciante
Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt

Buddha
Ok this is ummm, probably not my things. The guitar work is excellent, brings to mind something akin to a slightly less mythical and more rustic twangy In Gowan Ring. The warbling pitch of vocals, while also not something i'm terribly fond of, are also not the problem. It's his propensity to make eccentric sounds for no fucking reason that disrupt a lot of lovely flows that just absolutely get my goat. There are so many bits and pieces to love that it just feels disgraceful to pepper random shrill...somethings to create some sense of experimentation? It's simply something i've never been fond of, and on this album goddamn does it frustrate me. 2/5.
10Bloodywood
Rakshak

Arthropod
I liked this! More than anticipated in fact. Fun, rambunctious, riled up indian folk heavy/nu-metal with low-midrange growls incorporated throughout and a surprisingly fun knack for goofy but kind of wholesome raps. It reminds me of (hyper niche reference incoming) the weirdly poetic lyricism the rap group in "Devilman Crybaby" would spout with a -complete- disregard for rhyme or rhythm or anything sounding actually good, but it was just so wholesome and earnest and fuckin' real that it always made me smile and tis the same here. I've also come to conclude all is improved with flutes. Gonna go full staff decimal point rating mode and say 3.7/5.
11Drexciya
Grava 4

Hyperion
My experience with ambient techno/dub (is that was this is? My understanding of the genre is all but null and void haha) to two albums-this and biokinetics, and of the two i'd say I do vastly prefer this. It's vast and spacious and dark in a way that is a bit weird/alien. However for me it's this abstractness, this sense of complete inorganicness that is just not something I much enjoy in ambient. This is just a personal taste matter for sure and I respect the album, but as it is I am much more gruff bushy-bearded bard with a lute at the tavern kind of a guy than a dub techno fan. 2.5/5 ig??
12Gorod
Leading Vision

Nex Celeris
Lol fuck YEAH this is fun. I'm a big Gorod fan but never jammed this of all their records and while they're merging of technicality and chunky hooks has always been prevalent, this is definitely the most impressively groove-oriented/hard rock vibin' album i've heard of theirs. As usual, snazzy jazzy drumming, wicked shreds and punchy riffs and the perfect blend of serious and casual in tech death. 4/5.
13Gonin-ish
Naishikyo-Sekai

Pyroflare77
Huh wow this is uhhh quite zany and impressively sprawling and theatrical. I'm a fanatic for goofball vocals and the gnarled EXTREMELY phlegmy harsh vox here paired with some often harrowing, often lovely operatic vocals are just friggin excellent. Dizzying piano work, choppy-off time chords and loads of cathartic buildups into stage-burning meltdowns? Thank you Japan for being the kingpins of fun theater flair. 4.2/5 ftw
14Maurizio
MCD

Ryus
And I understand more and less in the same stroke. This is functionable as a lulling white noise, like ceiling fans whirring or TV static or the sputtering of an air conditioner-which means that I understand the enjoyability context even more, but still, in my eyes, feels ultimately less enjoyable than something that I can personally distinguish pieces of things happening. That is to say, I listen to this, or rather feel this due to low wub wubs and thomp thomps, and then it is over and I somehow felt like I heard nothing. But it is something. 2.5/5 I stray farther from the light each time lmao
15Boris
Pink

SomeCallMeTim
Big fuzz and big riffs. I had jammed Boris sometime back (Feedbacker) and the droning dirges just didn't quite satisfy my high octane craving brain but this sure as shit does. It's grungy, it's raw, and gives me a semi-wholesome vibe of a couple of bros stoned out their skull in their friend's parents garage just spitting out whatever jams come to mind. It exudes a -moderate- dose of punkishness to it as well which gives it some bite which, being a core kid who got into punk before even touching metal or other genres on the whole, I can dig. 4/5.
16Dir En Grey
Uroboros (Remastered & Expanded)

Uzumaki (FTR I have jammed this but it's been a few years so uhhh ill take it)
And my thoughts have seemingly not changed much! I do indeed still love this album, as something of a disparaged and deranged theatrical show moreso than a typical musical piece. The warbles, unhinged shrieks, meandering atmospheres that are almost always dredged in an almost operatic intensity, the album as a whole piece rules. The only thing that's a touch unfortunate is, for me personally, it's a bit hard to distinguish tracks from each other (aside from my personal fav riff city "Bugaboo") but I think this album is meant to come together as a singular piece. Japanese prog owns whereas other prog flounders about, and that alone is 4/5 to me
17Rx Bandits
Mandala

Rowboat
Sublime-esque vocals with drunken ska chords and chaotic guitar leads and keys that sound like a fuckin mellotron??? Is it a mellotron?? I don't know but I know this is so damn SPICY and SMOOTH like chili flakes in peanut butter or um, something a bit tastier? For this jam is tasty. It is eclectic but not too much so, always knowing how to toe the line between punks snarkiness and an almost r&b penchant for soul ala D'Angelo goes ska. 4/5 but jammin ...And the Battle Begun rn and that one could be a 4.5 tbh
18Dear and the Headlights
Small Steps Heavy Hooves

Futures
This was lovely! A bit of a homogenous blob for me and I definitely actually preferred "Drunk Like Bible Times" (albeit both i've only given a cursory listen thus far) but it fits rather nicely into "passive country road driving jams". Swirling crisp autumn leaves, sprawling pumpkin patches, the petrichor of a small lake teeming with minnow and cattails, just pleasant outdoor fall vibes all around. Only song I genuinely don't dig is uhhh Sweet Talk which gives me jealous simp energy, but i've never been fond of the whole "I'm sad cause you got a boyfriend and he's better than me " trope. 3.5/5 good stuff otherwise.
19Moon Tooth
Chromaparagon

HEAVY PROGGERS. Oddly the vocalist reminds me of Greg Puciato with a little less nasal tone, and this is absolutely a good thing. It's kind of Jazzy and snazzy and full of weird time signatures and INSANELY complex guitar bits but it's not overly indulgent, rather just whimsical and fun in more of a early Protest the Hero kind of way (not to same they are similar ofc). As much as I want to throw out comparisons like, "oh they're progressive Mutoid Man!!" I feel it would be a disservice to the band beings its own chaotic, crunchy, mystical and hazy unique sort of creature. Progger tones/5 (4/5)
20This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You

budgie
This is post-rock with a lot of anti post-rock moments while decidedly embodying the very trope of post-rock. Does this make sense? Hell no! It's beautiful, lush, ethereal, filled with soft-loud dynamics and especially in its best moments does capture those rapturous crescendos that I uhhh really dig in music as a whole. However oftentimes the songs feel like floating clouds that drift by and away, no direction from which they came or will go. "A Three-Legged Workhorse" allowed me to live in a really uncomfortable moment for a bit, when I left my old apartment to live with a girl I hardly fucking knew who led a ghetto lifestyle that was a world apart from my own. That ironic isolation, that emptiness, the dull gray of daily life becoming an automated process, is something that song brought to me, but the rest of the album somehow feels a bit warmer. Thank fucking god things change. Somewhere between 4 and 4.5 idk
21Venom
Welcome to Hell

Smok
Leather jackets and stale cigarettes and ultimately less hellfire-spewing black metal than it is just a vaguely fun classic thrash metal take. Little in the ways of memorability or even uh, good songwriting but FUCK it Sodom has a sick bass line and I do dig overall sludgy bar rock energy 3/5
22Flying Lotus
Cosmogramma

jrlikestodance
I've actually heard this before and remember being distinctly bored as fuck, I thought it was stuffy with ideas that simply didn't mesh, what with the chaotic EDM and off time jazziness and thing I was simply thinking too much about. I'm happy I decided not to shelf it entirely because I was treating it in the wrong sense, as if everything was a vehicle towards some greater working piece. It isn't. Cosmogramma to me feels more like an extremely technical approach to what, ironically, mends together into something that feels peaceful and like it -could- be minimalist. Think super smooth cooking jams, the best version of what you might hear on an Alvin Zhou ASMR cooking video. I know this sounds like it should be almost a backhanded insult but I am a man who is a particularly apt foodie and loves to cook up a fucking STORM (most recently made chicken piccata which ruled!!!) prolly 3.5/5 for now idk
23Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

slothcoresam
My desire for old school punk is certainly not what it once was, if only because it has a -much- more extreme counterpart that while not always as snarky, lays the heavies on THICK. However Fresh Fruit kind of subverts if only for Jello himself and his chaotic, bratty and almost demented dare I say warble??? That in conjunction with these sort of hellish take on surf rock riffs make for something that feels like a dark, dreary, and decidedly sweaty slab of ANGRY punk rawk. Jell-o owns. So does Jello. 4/5.
24Billy Woods and Kenny Segal
Maps

Jash
And now for something on a -much- different spectrum than the dirty gun-toting coke-dealing pimp hip hop of Dirty. This is so infectiously witty and teeters a line between goofy one-liners and almost-too-indulgent metaphors, somewhere between hip hop lyricists Danny Brown and Aesop (both of whom ironically pop up on this record). Moreso than anything I love the tone here, which is equal parts soft/elegant and brooding/full of swagger, which is absolutely fucking NAILED especially on tracks like "Hangman" (maybe personal favorite???) and "Waiting Around". I digs it 4/5.
25Public Image Ltd.
Metal Box

widowslaugh
This is certainly not my cup of tea but I can respect this! Let's first get out of the way that I am simply put off by the British accent in general, perhaps as a part of my anti-British propaganda sentiments. There are for sure bands where I do actually love the way it inflects the music i.e Gallows and Idles, but there seems to be instances where to me it exudes poshness which is probably an unfair reason to detract from something because...well it's an accent lmao. That aside I also found this to be kind of droning, like this amorphous sludge of post-punk that tries -sometimes- to give old school goth nightclub dance vibes while simply not having the energy to do so. HOWEVER I do appreciate the overlay of dingy, grungy atmosphere this thing has. So uh, it's fine I think?? 2.5/5.
26Anthony Braxton
12 Duets (DCWM) 2012

Havey
So.
When encountering sounds like this the first curiosity I have is do people listen to this for enjoyment or as a one-off to be entrenched in, to admire, and never listen to again? Because I would say that here there is nothing enjoyable, and it's so deeply mired in disorganization and cacophony that it seems like a statement of "music not needing to be music", of which the value can change greatly depending on what side of the spectrum you're on. For me I almost find this to be ironically less creative then musicians that can accomplish their own unique sound while still being somewhat streamlined, but I understand why people respect the lack of restraint that creates this sort of dystopic mess. The tldr, this sounds like background noises to Insidious. 4/5 horror movie context 1/5 anything else.
27Marvin Gaye
In the Groove

FowlKrietzche

Marvin is smooth and he is fuckin SUAVE. I don't know much of uh, Soul/Blues/whichever combination of these this is but I do know I like anything with raw emotional outpours that is tranquil like a cloudless sunny, like the soft pitter patter of a pleasant rain shower. This is probably gonna be shelved as another classic cooking jam for me, when I want something simple but therapeutic. 4/5.
28Akercocke
Words That Go Unspoken...

Egarran

Holy FUCK. This is everything. Fierce, frightening, grandiose, melodic, atonal. The riffs crunch, they gallop, they SWEEP, there's even a sick finger tap section in (probably my favorite song???) "Eyes of the Dawn". The vocals range from a more frenzied Bloodbath in their prime to a sort of Leviathan-esque sort of incomprehensible shrieking to these soft but rather unsettling clean vocals. Then there's the rhythm section, with a thumping rumbling drum tone and a THICK bass tone with just as much complexity and nuance, maybe even more than the guitar work. The interplay between the two is like a frenzied fleeting dance in which they sometimes separate and coalesce. Honestly probably my favorite album thus far 4.5/5
29BOaT (JPN)
Listening Suicidal

JOHNNY

This is not like Akercocke!! Maybe the opposite! This is super light and airy and jubilant, and has just the proper amount of zaniness injected into what is otherwise a more streamlined high octane hard rock/maybe jazz rock infusion. There's loads of tight percussive fills (is there a Japanese drum tone? They sure do love their snares lmao), funky riffs and a kind of pleasant blend of fuzzy bedroom jam sesh vocals, unhinged screams and wholesome schoolgirl rock band vocal vibes. Only downside is it's a bit bloated (i.e 16 songs is a lot for most given albums) but the only track I actively don't much like is "Listening 40" strictly for the freakishly high pitched guitar wails. Otherwise this is ownage back to back 4/5.
30Corrupted
El Mundo Frio

Deez (Went with this over Choirs cause I have actually heard that a few times)

Whew boy, yeah this is a monolithic SLAB of droning fearful heaviness to absorb. It's a middle ground, a network connecting ethereal/beautiful and harrowing self-collapse. It's patient in this too, and I mean realllllly goddamn slow and patient. It makes the first 10 minutes or so initially feel like a bit of a slog to toil through, but ultimately this especially static nothingness becomes part of a much greater set of movements that play out in an almost cinematic fashion, but not in a way ever becomes bombastic. When the catharsis does come it's all torture and sadness (i.e when those insanely filthy caveman growls enter the fray, only harsh vocals in a LONG time that actually freaked me out lmao), until death brings back the nothingness and a hollow emptiness remains. Probably not a heavy repeat kinda deal since, well it's one 80 minute song (ty proto Bell Witch) but it's unique and kinda rules. 4/5.
31The Books
Thought For Food

Sleepy boy

This is odd but rather lovely altogether. It occupies this almost, but not quite, psychedelic territory of folk/glitch (?) that -should- make it a little harder to actually digest, but it manages this eccentricity in a rather calm, subdued manner even if it delves a bit into total nonsense on some tracks (i.e "A Dead Fish"). It's for sure these moments in the latter part of the records that start to elude me, but the first few tracks for sure are onto a unique misty morning autumnal drive kinda vibe that just ~hit~ right. 3-3.5/5.
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