I’ll keep my eeeeyes just take these teaaars awaaaaay
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lock, stawk end berrel, all the dawgs wer goin’ feril an’ the car ran like a broken percolaterrrrrrrr
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First album and Preemptive Strike are all I can listen to from him these days.
Same. I think some heads are still trapped in that mindset, I don’t think he’s made anything good in almost thirty years.
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Not true.
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Def Surrounds Us from 2010 is great, better than anything from the album that followed
The Mountain Will Fall is unexpectedly good
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Yea, there’s some really good stuff on that.
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I’d say the bulk of my DJ Shadow listening days were mostly behind me, though by god I rinsed Endtroducing and its singles back in the 90s. I did, however, find a copy of The Private Press in a chazza a couple of years ago and figured “Eh it can’t be that bad” and that maybe a couple of decades of time would have leant it some relevance or something.
I’ve listened to it once.
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Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle (1992)
I was thinking about this one, and Pitchfork have just gone ahead and reviewed it so I gave it a go.
Last Time You Listened To It: Besides Bruise Violet, I’m sure not since 1993 or so.
What You Guess You’ll Rate It: 7/10.
Your Actual Rating: 7.5/10.The highs are great, especially when Kat bellows out “You’re dead meat, motherfucker” on Bluebell. Drums are really good too. But it sounds a bit stodgy and there are a few forgettable tracks among the 15.
Best Track: Bluebell
Any Thoughts: I don’t think there’s anyone putting out such angry vocals these days, despite there being so much to be angry about.
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The Private Press is excellent. Obviously not as good as Entroducing, but still a great fucking album.
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Incubus - Make Yourself
Got into this when I was 14. Even then I found their fans to be grating in a similar way to Tool fans (serves me right for using forums though) in how serious they took the band and how overanalysed the big words they used are.
When I went into it my general impression of the band was that they are better than they’re credited as being by musos whilst still being naff in places. The quieter moments (other than Drive) really didn’t stand up for me - I Miss You in particular, but some of the heavier stuff did more than I expected.
Like RHCP it feels like the band is less than the sum of its parts. There are some really good bass lines and even the scratching sounds inventive.
7/10.
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For me the joy of The Private Press is in the million things layered in behind the repetitive foreground elements. It’s my favorite Shadow album and I find it super rewarding but I don’t put it on unless I’m in a place to give it real attention.
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I Miss You might be my fav song on that. Love the little bleepy bloops
I completely randomly listened to this and Spanking Machine last week for the first time in what must be 30 years. Thought they were going to be a case of best left to nostalgia but turned out to be great.
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Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Last Time You Listened To It: 2002ish
What You Guess You’ll Rate It: 7
Your Actual Rating: 6
Best Track: Fight Fire With Fire
Any Thoughts:
When I was growing up, the “Big Four” in metal were Slayer, Metallica, Megadeth and Anthrax, but mine was always Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura and Metallica a bit of a way off the other three. The Napster stuff was all happening when I was getting properly into metal and Metallica taking a major role in that along with their more recent albums being sneered at by the older metal heads I looked up to back then gradually turned me off the band.
These days I don’t often listen to Metallica and when I do, it’s Kill 'Em All, And Justice for All or Lulu. Looking at my Last.fm, I realised I’ve never listened to Ride The Lightning since I first joined in 2007, I reckon it’s actually a lot longer than that.
Fight Fire With Fire has me reaching for the volume knob straight away, crank it! Some great riffing here. Great album opener. My head’s nodding along involuntarily
Ride The Lightning brings me straight back to headbanging in the grotty little metal club that used to let us all in underage. I can almost taste the smoke machine.
For Whom The Bell Tolls slows the blistering pace of the first two tracks right down but replaces it with some superb CHUG. Lars’s drums are really grating here, so basic and plodding. Fuck me, the outro goes on a bit.
Fade To Black is the first track I wouldn’t have been able to identify by name alone, but it comes back when the tune starts. I’m not a massive fan of the twinkly effect to the acoustic guitars but there are some massive slabs of riff when the electric comes in. It’s the second most played track on the album according to Spotify, but it’s not doing much for me.
I don’t remember Trapped Under Ice but this is pretty good. It’s got a real Kill 'Em All feel to it, absolutely rattles along. A bit classic metal mixed with some punk influence too. This one’s surprised me
Escape. Urgh. Hate it. Pointless, uninspired chugging guitars, awful vocals. No thanks. What is this even slower chug just over half way? This is terrible. Skipped once it got to the solo.
Creeping Death is another one that instantly becomes familiar once I hear the opening riffs. Good track but could have probably been cut by two minutes or so and would have been much better.
The Call of Ktulu more plodding, feels like it’s just there to put another eight minutes on the run time.
Half a good album here I reckon, although I’m not sure how close to general opinion I am on this judging by the listening figures. I hated almost all of the solos on this. I wonder if that’s an age thing or if I was more interested in them when I was a teenager? I’m pretty sure I was all about the riffs back then too but who’s to know. If the tracks I liked came up on a playlist, I’d be loving it but I don’t think I’ll be hurrying back to listen to the full album. Definitely adding Trapped Under Ice to my metal playlist though.
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Best Metallica album imo. 7 seems right.
Madness.
Madness.
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my go-to Kyuss. hyuuuuuuge
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ahhh, I had a craving for ‘Privilege’ the other day, left it to play after. forgot that the two tunes after are really moreish and all
‘The Warmth’ killed the vibe for me. reckon it probs always did, because I’m pretty sure I never really listened beyond that, apart from that one tune… I’ll jump back in
I rate their playing (bass in particular is really pretty cool), think the production is dynamic and vibrant (although I think the loud guitars might have a bit of unwelcome digital clipping?), and Brandon Boyd took that ubiquitous Mike Patton influence in his own pretty likable direction imo
baffling