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Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:38 am
by hipster holocaust
Ghost Dad wrote:Actually, you can. Mythbusters proved it.
Don't tell me I missed the redhead providing a specimen on cable television :confused:

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 8:47 am
by Ghost Dad
Nah, it was from an elephant

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:00 am
by a world of no
hipster holocaust wrote:
Ghost Dad wrote:Actually, you can. Mythbusters proved it.
Don't tell me I missed the redhead providing a specimen on cable television :confused:
he's right. elephant... but now you have me thinking of kari polishing one of her own turds, and i'm uncomfortable with my enticement of the idea.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:02 am
by Necrometer
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I actually didn't give a shit

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:15 am
by Mooretician
Snakes for the Divine was a total disappointment EXCEPT for the title track, that shit is one of the best HOF songs ever.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 10:58 am
by godofdeadlydeath
Mooretician wrote:Snakes for the Divine was a total disappointment EXCEPT for the title track, that shit is one of the best HOF songs ever.
I've come to basically agree. I loved that album when it first came out, but when I want to listen to HoF, I hardly ever grab it, and if I do, I get about halfway through "Frost Hammer" before putting on Blessed Black Wings again. I think "Bastard Samurai" and "How Dark We Pray" are great, but the album as a whole doesn't do much for me.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 11:28 am
by fallbacktostone
everything about snakes for the divine was just compressed to all hell for some reason. and the songs go nowhere.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 12:20 pm
by Mooretician
Yeah, the production on Snakes was pretty shitty. They recorded the new one with Kurt Ballou who seems like a totally inappropriate choice. Fucking Steve Albini and Jack Endino did it right, get back with one of those dudes. Preemptively putting this here for now:

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Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 2:59 pm
by triple clutcher v2.5b
Mooretician wrote:They recorded the new one with Kurt Ballou
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I think I just peed a little.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 3:44 pm
by altars of radness
triple clutcher v2.5b wrote:
Mooretician wrote:They recorded the new one with Kurt Ballou
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I think I just peed a little.
I hope that was pee of dismay. Snakes sounded so fucking bad; why wouldn't they make a conscious decision to record with someone who could help redeem them? Converge's records sound ok because I've grown accustomed to them, but all the other Ballou albums I've heard have sounded awful. They sound big, but they also sound steroid-ed and fake.

It's cool that they work with a different engineer for each record, but why piss around at this point? Who would fault them for making all their records with Albini from now on?

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:20 pm
by triple clutcher v2.5b
altars of radness wrote:
triple clutcher v2.5b wrote:
Mooretician wrote:They recorded the new one with Kurt Ballou
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I think I just peed a little.
I hope that was pee of dismay. Snakes sounded so fucking bad; why wouldn't they make a conscious decision to record with someone who could help redeem them? Converge's records sound ok because I've grown accustomed to them, but all the other Ballou albums I've heard have sounded awful. They sound big, but they also sound steroid-ed and fake.

It's cool that they work with a different engineer for each record, but why piss around at this point? Who would fault them for making all their records with Albini from now on?
I have supremely low hopes for this one, so I'm gonna happily wet myself if I can at least imagine them creating an album that sounds like some brutally ridiculous combination of "Blessed Black Wings" and "Jane Doe".

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:25 pm
by kickpuncher
not to thread hijack, but jesus--a new HoF already? smoke another blunt and let some ideas foment, pike. last one was definitely a stinker

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 4:52 pm
by BUNGVOX
guided by voices 'isolation drills'

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:05 pm
by Blair
kickpuncher wrote:not to thread hijack, but jesus--a new HoF already? smoke another blunt and let some ideas foment, pike. last one was definitely a stinker
"Alcoholic wasteoid needs to tour in order to drink, eat, and get smokes."

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:07 pm
by altars of radness
triple clutcher v2.5b wrote:
altars of radness wrote:
triple clutcher v2.5b wrote:
Mooretician wrote:They recorded the new one with Kurt Ballou
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

I think I just peed a little.
I hope that was pee of dismay. Snakes sounded so fucking bad; why wouldn't they make a conscious decision to record with someone who could help redeem them? Converge's records sound ok because I've grown accustomed to them, but all the other Ballou albums I've heard have sounded awful. They sound big, but they also sound steroid-ed and fake.

It's cool that they work with a different engineer for each record, but why piss around at this point? Who would fault them for making all their records with Albini from now on?
I have supremely low hopes for this one, so I'm gonna happily wet myself if I can at least imagine them creating an album that sounds like some brutally ridiculous combination of "Blessed Black Wings" and "Jane Doe".
Man, I hate the sound on Jane Doe.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:15 pm
by Ghost Dad
The guitar sounded awesome, why the hate?

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 5:35 pm
by altars of radness
Ghost Dad wrote:The guitar sounded awesome, why the hate?
Everything else, I guess.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Thu Feb 23, 2012 9:57 pm
by hipster holocaust
altars of radness wrote:
Ghost Dad wrote:The guitar sounded awesome, why the hate?
Everything else, I guess.
You couldn't be further from the truth my friend. That album's production is fucking stellar.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 12:06 am
by altars of radness
hipster holocaust wrote:
altars of radness wrote:
Ghost Dad wrote:The guitar sounded awesome, why the hate?
Everything else, I guess.
You couldn't be further from the truth my friend. That album's production is fucking stellar.
Whatevs, dude. It sounds pretty average to me. The drums sound totally ordinary, the vocals get boring after about thirty seconds and I don't think their slow parts were very good back then. I liked the next couple records way more.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:39 am
by AskForRaffo
altars of radness wrote:I liked the next couple records way more.
:theylive:

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 4:46 am
by EEEOOOEEEOOOEEEOOO
I think the sound on Jane Doe works for what they were going for, which is basically Today is the Day. In the end, it just makes me want to listen to Temple of the Morning Star, but then again so do most things.

I will now stop talking about music production before I say something really dumb.

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:29 am
by Ghost Dad
altars of radness wrote:
hipster holocaust wrote:
altars of radness wrote:
Ghost Dad wrote:The guitar sounded awesome, why the hate?
Everything else, I guess.
You couldn't be further from the truth my friend. That album's production is fucking stellar.
and I don't think their slow parts were very good back then. I liked the next couple records way more.
Weird, I thought hell to pay and Jane doe were the best tracks on there.

no heroes was worse, imo

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:45 am
by hipster holocaust
EEEOOOEEEOOOEEEOOO wrote:I think the sound on Jane Doe works for what they were going for, which is basically Today is the Day.
:? I can see the similarities but I highly doubt that's what they were "going for," especially when taking into account how Steve Austin completely raped their previous album

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:51 am
by fallbacktostone
i used to absolutely love that retarded and swollen sounding goofball production of when forever comes crashing. :fp:

Re: Albums that were seriously disappointing...

Posted: Fri Feb 24, 2012 7:51 am
by Geeheeb
The Ballou Dropdead stuff from the 7" last year wasn't too heavy handed with the godcity sound. I think he gives that sound to bands who want it (and a lot of them do), but not for everything.