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right over there wrote:terraform was more disappointing. latest one was about what i expected.

Terraform did suck; maybe two good songs on the second side? 1000 Hurts, too. People cut that record a lot of slack for that dumb fucking "Prayer to God" song, but for the most part it's totally forgettable.

A lot of No Means No records have let me down.

kickpuncher wrote:

altars of radness wrote:Dumb lyrics

how this even goes into consideration when judging an album is beyond me

when the vocals are very loud and stupid and prominent in the mix

terraform's not terrible it's just boring except for Copper. 1000 Hurts and the last one both have a handful of great songs and a lot of crappy ones.

these are two of their best "not on at action park" songs.




IN MY OPINION

The last three Today is the Day albums. Especially that last one.

Wang Mandu wrote:The last three Today is the Day albums. Especially that last one.

n the eyes of god wuz killer! hav u ever seen them live? r they gud live?

altars of radness wrote:
I didn't realize you lost your cherry to "Unsung" (well, maybe thirty seconds of it); although I probably should have.

You're also better than this. Usually not on this board mind you, but this is something you'd say to someone before you stuffed them in to a locker or something.

Wang Mandu wrote:The last three Today is the Day albums. Especially that last one.

disappointing generally means you were hoping for/expecting something better. i could see being disappointed by sadness will prevail because you expected more, and then being disappointed by kiss the pig because you hoped they would right the ship, but you really can't blame anyone but yourself if you hadn't learned your lesson by axis of eden. and even after all that, yeah i gave pain is a warning a shot but there's no way on earth i'm going to put myself in a position to be disappointed by TitD again...

Sineadrepresent wrote:

altars of radness wrote:
I didn't realize you lost your cherry to "Unsung" (well, maybe thirty seconds of it); although I probably should have.

You're also better than this. Usually not on this board mind you, but this is something you'd say to someone before you stuffed them in to a locker or something.

Maybe, but it's pretty much what that kind of "demos were better" complaint deserves.

I also thought Marquee Moon was Television's best record. Bad Brains' s/t, too. How lame, right?

In my honest opinion Helmet's best material was almost never on the albums...
like this;

riley-o wrote:disappointing generally means you were hoping for/expecting something better. i could see being disappointed by sadness will prevail because you expected more, and then being disappointed by kiss the pig because you hoped they would right the ship, but you really can't blame anyone but yourself if you hadn't learned your lesson by axis of eden. and even after all that, yeah i gave pain is a warning a shot but there's no way on earth i'm going to put myself in a position to be disappointed by TitD again...

I'll never give up hope. Regarding the last one, I foolishly bought into the rock riffs coming back and some of the pre-release hype.

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that last Shellac album...for a good reason...

Also as far as non album tracks how are we forgetting this:

hipster holocaust wrote:Oh yeah, I totally forgot about that last Shellac album...for a good reason...

Also as far as non album tracks how are we forgetting this:

It's a good song, but they were still awesome back then.

since ross bumped that thread

Iron Maiden-Somewhere in Time

actually returned the LP to the store got Peace Sells instead.

copstache wrote:since ross bumped that thread

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

I'll never bump again

HH is one of my favorite albums

bump

Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth
Cage - Hells Winter
Blind Guardian - Twist in the Myth
Dr Dre - Compton..... i don't even consider this to be a real album
Danzig Elvis album......... fuck that could've been good if it had come out in a different time or timeline

I guess Chinese Democracy???

Was expecting zilch from the Burzum comback album but it was still a complete snoozer

I probably typed all those 10 years ago but im not going back to look

Literally all of my friends piled into cars to drive to the mall and buy St Anger. That was a really weird psychological lesson because nobody wanted to be the first to admit to themselves that it was fucking worthless

7.H target's 2023 album

I'll never understand why this album is considered so influential. AtG were one of the few Swedish bands that didn't sound like everyone else (ok, the violin was silly, but otherwise I really liked them), then they broke up, and when they came back, I was super excited only to find out that... they sounded like everyone else now. I basically just went WTF and didn't buy it.

Well, and then it turned into a phenomenon, and I kept thinking, have you guys heard of Dismember?

do you mean that AtG broke up before SotS and then reformed? I've never heard that. I guess that would explain the change in style, I always thought it was because Alf (violin dude?) left and took all of his wonky sounding riffs and arrangements with him.

I didn't hear SotS until '99 so I was aware of its reputation and wasn't surprised by the shift in sound, but occasionally a track will pop up on Spotify or whatever and I don't mind it for what it is: tight and concise melodeath without any experimentation or even any instrumental diversions. basically Tomas screaming at you nonstop for 2-3 minutes over lots of string skippy riffs and an occasional vaguely spooky guitar lead (Andy Larocque's solo in Cold is really fucking good).

I agree its massive influence is weird and somewhat inexplicable. even in that style there are much better/more interesting records. SotS is single-minded in its approach, though maybe that's why it stuck a chord with a big audience.

Spooky Apparition wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 5:13 pm I agree its massive influence is weird and somewhat inexplicable. even in that style there are much better/more interesting records. SotS is single-minded in its approach, though maybe that's why it stuck a chord with a big audience.

i.e. it's the dumbed-down pop version of the albums it stole its riffs from.

Anyway, I don't remember the details and Metal-Archives says SotS came out only a year after the previous album, but I distinctly remember the band saying they'd called it quits and then reforming - I guess that just didn't last very long and I remember it being a longer time than it really was because I was 18 when SotS came out.

The violininst was out after the first album, though, so him leaving wouldn't have had anything to do with it, although the EP and the second album were already drastically different.

spacehamster wrote: ↑Mon Jan 01, 2024 3:47 am

I'll never understand why this album is considered so influential. AtG were one of the few Swedish bands that didn't sound like everyone else (ok, the violin was silly, but otherwise I really liked them), then they broke up, and when they came back, I was super excited only to find out that... they sounded like everyone else now. I basically just went WTF and didn't buy it.

Well, and then it turned into a phenomenon, and I kept thinking, have you guys heard of Dismember?

should have broken up with Alf left.


SotS isn't actually that bad in a vacuum, but compared to the earlier stuff + after two decades of munchkin copycats, it's ruined.