Author Topic: What are you litsening to? Ver.2009 (Read 125740 times)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #800 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:17:12 AM »

Quote from: El Cideon on September 09, 2009, 12:15:06 AM

You could, but that would take effort.

Simon & Garfunkel: My Little Town

"Nothin' but the deaaad of night back in my little town~"

Nostalgia this isn't.

It would be less effort for you than it'd be for me, in fairness. I'd have to upload the albums and shit while you just click and - why am I offering to do this again?

Björk - Venus As A Boy

Sierra · « **Reply #801 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:21:16 AM »

I dunno, honestly.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Karn Evil 9

Departure from Snow fanservice was required. This has to be rock at its most bloated.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #802 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:29:13 AM »

Quote from: El Cideon on September 09, 2009, 12:21:16 AM

I dunno, honestly.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Karn Evil 9

Departure from Snow fanservice was required. This has to be rock at its most bloated.

Every step you take away in fact brings you closer to listening to '80s Madonna. *Ukelele twang.*

Björk - Big Time Sensuality

Sierra · « **Reply #803 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:37:40 AM »

You keep telling yourself that.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Still Karn Evil 9

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #804 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:46:15 AM »

Is that one of those fourty-seven hour songs?

Björk - Come To Me

Sierra · « **Reply #805 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:53:31 AM »

No way. It's only thirty minutes!

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #806 on:** September 09, 2009, 12:59:49 AM »

Still at it?

Simon & Garfunkel - You Don't Know Where Your Interest Lies

Okay, this is just funny.

Sierra · « **Reply #807 on:** September 09, 2009, 01:11:26 AM »

Not by this point, no.

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: C'est la Vie

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #808 on:** September 09, 2009, 01:15:05 AM »

Ah well.

Simon & Garfunkel - Fakin' It

EDIT:

Steely Dan - King Of The World

Sierra · « **Reply #809 on:** September 09, 2009, 03:52:15 AM »

Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Lucky Man

You can really tell Greg Lake wrote this when he was fourteen. It smacks of someone just discovering irony.

Grefter · « **Reply #810 on:** September 09, 2009, 09:33:27 AM »

Dream Theater - Octavarium.

24 Minutes. Not quite EL&P but they are no slouches.

Edit - Worth noting that it is the eighth song on the album, shortest song is 4:29 and the next shortest is 5:33.

Sierra · « **Reply #811 on:** September 09, 2009, 04:44:06 PM »

King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man

Inevitable after listening to all that ELP yesterday.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #812 on:** September 09, 2009, 08:53:14 PM »

Aimee Mann - I Could've Hurt You Now

This song is even more entertaining when you interpret it as a song about someone stealing a kid's lunch money.

EDIT:

Everything But The Girl - Take Me

The Language Of Life is probably my favorite EBTG album.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #813 on:** September 10, 2009, 12:04:34 AM »

Roxette - Secrets That She Keeps

aw yeah

EDIT:

'Til Tuesday - Love In A Vacuum

I picked this up just because of Aimee Mann.

Grefter · « **Reply #814 on:** September 10, 2009, 02:55:12 PM »

Parliament - What Comes Funky.

VySaika · « **Reply #815 on:** September 10, 2009, 05:33:01 PM »

R.E.M. - Hollow Man

And pretty much the rest of Accelerate while I'm at it. This CD...I dunno. Nothing on it's bad at all. Just nothing stands out either, even after 3 full listens.

Sierra · « **Reply #816 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:15:35 PM »

R.E.M.: E-Bow the Letter

New Adventures in Hi-Fi is so...boring.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #817 on:** September 10, 2009, 09:33:41 PM »

And that's one of the best songs in the album, if nothing else because Patti Smith's haunting vocals actually help with the melody's haunt.

10,000 Maniacs - The Colonial Wing

This album, unlike NAiH-F, is not boring~

EDIT:

R.E.M. -Sing For The Submarine

Hm, I think I'm beginning to see Gate's issue with Accelerate. I've noticed that a lot of the impressions I get from this album stem from direct comparison to Monster and NAiH-F, and to a far lesser extent, Up and Reveal. It's mainly a refresher on how they actually remember how to do their music, rather than an album that overwhelms on its own. Still find it very solid, though.

Sierra · « **Reply #818 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:41:18 PM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on September 10, 2009, 09:33:41 PM

Accelerate summary.

Exactly.

R.E.M.: Let Me In

Because even Monster has a couple good tracks. (Okay, so it's just this and You.)

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #819 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:50:00 PM »

Patti Smith - Frederick

Fucking awesome. Wave may be the best rock album-turned-ode to motherhood I've ever heard, if I'm reading those lyrics right.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #820 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:54:40 PM »

(edit: reply to Cid)

Unusual choices for that album. I can't comment since I don't even remember either, but I do like one or two other songs from it. My memory of Monster is that a friend got it for me because I liked the singles released from it (particularly Bang and Blame) but then I was disappointed with most of the rest.

Sierra · « **Reply #821 on:** September 10, 2009, 10:56:22 PM »

They're not radio songs, so that doesn't surprise me much. I like them because they're at least moody; whatever the rest of the album was aiming for just wasn't for me. EDIT:

R.E.M.: The Great Beyond

Yeah, I'm pretty much just cycling through the 90's/00's stuff I usually don't listen to much. I like this track a lot, at least.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #822 on:** September 10, 2009, 11:02:41 PM »

To be fair, reading the track list a few of the non-radio songs spring to mind immediately and I can hum them; the two you picked out just made no impact on me, it seems. I do vaguely recall them being of the style you said, though.

The album was fairly all over the place in general.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #823 on:** September 10, 2009, 11:06:02 PM »

The Great Beyond is probably the best thing they did in the '90s after AfTP, so yeah.

And mmyeah, Monster has issues, particularly for the people who enjoy the moody/evocative verve in R.E.M. more than the rock. I'm in that field, and given the Ciddy's comments, I'd be surprised if he wasn't within that field as well. And Monster, while trying to aim for the rock part heavily, just didn't deliver (because they do very good rock - hell, look at Life's Rich Pageant and Document. Just tossing away the mood and atmosphere entirely doesn't work for them).

EDIT:

A fun trivia, though: I bought and first listened to Fables of the Reconstruction and Monster in the same day. The dissonance was pretty fierce.

VySaika · « **Reply #824 on:** September 10, 2009, 11:16:57 PM »

R.E.M. - I'm Gonna DJ

This is the only song that stands out for me at all. And I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Every other song on the album just kinda blends into the next one to the point where it's hard for me to tell which song it's on without checking. DJ is just...different.

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