Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

[Coolboyrulez0]

yo dec 1st is my birthday so you should do one of my recommendations

[noname219]

Cool idea. I'll probably do the same with everyone else that gave me recommendations, somehow.

The first album has been chosen with random.org already.

[Fission]

no you should do my recommendations first since i was the second post in this threaderic pls

[AlexDest]

Bonobo - Black Sands
Bvdub & Loscil - Erebus
Gridlock - Formless
Loscil - Plume
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Secede - Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
Serph - Vent

[choof]

LMFAO did I really recc 42 albums

sick

[L.B.D.D]

bonobo yess

[noname219]

Originally Posted by AlexDest

Bonobo - Black Sands
Bvdub & Loscil - Erebus
Gridlock - Formless
Loscil - Plume
Modeselektor - Happy Birthday!
Prefuse 73 - One Word Extinguisher
Secede - Bye Bye Gridlock Traffic
Serph - Vent

Added.

Also found almost all of your birthdays, tell me of yours is wrong :

25thhour : no idea
AlexDest : February 23rd
blindreper1179 : March 19th
choof : August 11th
Coolboyrulez0 : December 1st
Crazyjayde : October 5th
EzExZeRo7497 : July 4th
Fission : March 25th
GammaBlaster : January 14th
Gradiant : July 2nd
Kekeb : no idea
L.B.D.D : no idea
omega_grunt666 : May 2nd
Poison- : July 8th
rushyrulz : July 23rd
Tibbers : no idea
Wineandbread : May 16th

(that means I will review one of your recs on that date, in case you missed my previous post)

[noname219]

Happy birthday CBR!

Day One - December 1st, 2013
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Certified Air Raid Material by edIT (recommended by Coolboyrulez0)

1. Questions
2. Battling Go-Go Yubari in Downtown L.A.
3. Artsy Remix (feat. The Grouch)
4. Certified Air Raid Material
5. Night Shift (feat. Abstract Rude)
6. Straight Heat
7. The Sirens
8. Back Up Off the Floor Pt. 2 (feat. The Grouch)
9. Fire Riddim
10. If You Crump Stand Up
11. Crunk de Gaulle (feat. TTC, Busdriver & D-Styles)
12. Parting Shot

This is edIT's (aka Edward Ma) second album; his first solo album, Crying Over Pros for No Reason was warmly received by critics and listeners. Three years later, in 2007, Certified Air Raid Material came out with relatively less approval, but let's not spoil everything already. I really wished I could love this album, being that it's the first I'm listening doing this project, but I had mixed feelings. I really have the impression there's something hidden in this album that I'm missing. Maybe because I'm not a huge Glitch Hop fan, I don't know.

One new thing in comparison with his first output are the feats. They work quite well as edIT does his best to adapt his style based on the singer, notably in Crunk de Gaulle where the contrast, between the rappers, is at its maximum. The beats are really nasty and to some extent, a bit repetitive. They do vary when he incorporates different glitch effects but the structure of those beats does not change very much. At slow tempos, and for such long periods of time (often over 5 minutes), it becomes fast exhausting for the listener. Talking about glitches, I enjoy much more when he experiments and go out-of-the-box.

Night Shift might be my favourite song of the album. The chorus is particularly catchy and Abstract Rude rapping is very enjoyable and flows well. Fire Riddim is another highlight, particularly the second half, just after the spacey-bridge, where it becomes more intense. Other than those songs I've noted in bold (see above), I found the other songs average at best. With a second listen, I could probably add Battling Go-Go Yubari in Downtown L.A.

Overall, it was a correct, well-rounded album by a musician who know well how to create an urban landscape. However, it did not click with me as much as some other reviews I read online due to the overly long songs and repetitive beats.

My rating : ★★★★★☆☆☆☆☆

edit: this was longer than I expected

[EzExZeRo7497]

L.B.D.D's birthday is on November 8, 25thhour's birthday is on February 18.

Not sure about the rest though.

EDIT: Tibbers' birthday is on January 5.

[noname219]

Thanks Eze, I'm just missing Kekeb, I might ask him directly.

[rayword45]

Oh shit, I missed this thread? Is it too late to recommend some stuff?

I seperated these by genre in my head but didn't specifically list them because I'm tedious like that

Dopesmoker - Sleep (First because DO THIS ONE)
Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version - Earth
Forest of Equilibrium - Cathedral
When The Kite String Pops - Acid Bath
Houdini - Melvins
Disco Volante - Mr. Bungle
California - Mr. Bungle (Same band for a genre transition)
Third/Sister Lovers - Big Star (do the whole discography if you can for this one, in order (#1 Record - Radio City - Third - fuck the reunion album)
69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields (Too long?)
You're Living All Over Me - Dinosaur Jr
Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine
Hypermagic Mountain - Lightning Bolt
Goat - The Jesus Lizard
Songs About Fucking - Big Black
The Pod - Ween (DO THIS ONE TOO)
Here Comes The Indian - Animal Collective (I swear I'm not a /mu/tard)
ITAOTS - Neutral Milk Hotel (Really I swear, this is just for genre transitions)
All Hail West Texas - The Mountain Goats
Pink Moon - Nick Drake
Knife Man - Andrew Jackson Jihad

[EzExZeRo7497]

all that /mu/ though

[noname219]

Never too late for recommendations, I'm taking them until the project is finished, that is, probably in December next year.

[rayword45]

Originally Posted by EzExZeRo7497

all that /mu/ though

Animal Collective (I hated these guys at first, lol)
Neutral Milk Hotel
My Bloody Valentine
Probably Earth

What else is /mu/?

[EzExZeRo7497]

Anything in the first page of this basically lol: http://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/all-time

[rayword45]

*sees Sonic Youth, Hendrix and Nirvana*

/mu/tard at age 12 woooooooooo

[noname219]

Day Two - December 2nd, 2013
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The Black Parade by My Chemical Romance (recommended by rushyrulz)

1. The End
2. Dead!
3. This Is How I Disappear
4. The Sharpest Lives
5. Welcome to the Black Parade
6. I Don't Love You
7. House of Wolves
8. Cancer
9. Mama
10. Sleep
11. Teenagers
12. Disenchanted
13. Famous Last Words
14. Blood

Today's random number gave me this album to review. I wasn't sure how to approach it because I have heard some My Chemical Romance songs when I was younger and I liked them without being an obsessive fan. Their catchiness was appealing for me and they were a contender for the next band I could really love. I never made the effort to listen any of their albums in their entirety until today.

No need to make an introduction about them, I'm pretty sure everyone knows their name. About the album, the story is about a dying character with cancer and his experiences in the afterlife (thanks wikipedia) which, I have to say, a quite ambitious thematic for a band rooted in pop punk sound. For that reason, they were compared to American Idiot by Green Day, but I prefer a comparison with Streetlight Manifesto's Somewhere in the Between instead, which shares similar themes around death.

Their guitarist did a very good job but he sadly got lost in the mix, notably in the solos of House of Wolves or in Disenchanted. It gets better in Famous Last Words or in Dead! where he's thrown in the front. The emotional delivery of the vocals works well with the music, but they are nothing exceptional. Welcome to the Black Parade is their most known single, and is often regarded as the definitive song of the album. For me, it may be the backbone of the album, but I regard Dead! as being way more engaging and well-crafted than its counterpart.

Thing is, this type of music isn't much my thing anymore, except for the occasional Dead! listen for nostalgia purpose. I find the recipe behind their sound to be too simple and, without the conceptual and theatrical passages, it doesn't bring a lot new ideas to the pop punk genre. Still, I was pleasantly surprised, but I'm not sure if I will listen to it anytime soon.

My rating : ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

[L.B.D.D]

a whole neutral milk hotel album at once

[yo man im awesome]

Guess I'll throw some in here too.

A Day To Remember: Common Courtesy
The Flashbulb: Opus at the End of Everything
August Burns Red: Rescue & Restore
Dream Theater: Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Dream Theater: A Dramatic Turn of Events
Dream Theater: Scenes From a Memory
My Chemical Romance: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge
Rage Against The Machine: Rage Against The Machine
System of a Down: Toxicity
Three Days Grace: Transit of Venus

[noname219]

Day Three - December 3rd, 2013
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Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy by Mindless Self Indulgence (recommended by blindreper1179)

1. Backmask
2. Bitches
3. Boomin'
4. Clarissa
5. Cocaine and Toupees
6. Dicks Are for My Friends
7. F
8. ******
9. Futures
10. Golden I
11. Harry Truman
12. Holy Shit
13. I Hate Jimmy Page
14. I'm Your Problem Now
15. J
16. Keepin' Up With the Kids
17. Kick the Bucket
18. Kill the Rock
19. Last Time I Tried to Rock Your World
20. London Bridge
21. M
22. Masturbates
23. Planet of the Apes
24. Played
25. Ready for Love
26. Royally Fucked
27. Seven-Eleven
28. Step Up, Ghetto Blaster
29. Whipstickagostop
30. Z

Mindless Self Indulgence. You might know them from "Straight Up to Video" which is honestly, a very good industrial rock song. They have produced a couple of albums over the years and are still active today. Frankenstein Girls Will Seem Strangely Sexy is their third full-length LP and is a unique mixture of industrial/electronic/rock.

From the start, it is way, waaay more experimental than I was expecting. The short lengths of the songs sure gave me a hint about this, but it still took me by surprise... The vocalist has a very nasal voice, often irritating, and only a few times I found it pleasant. Thinking of it, I don't think the singing parts were necessarily meant to be enjoyable. Instead, I have the impression the vocalist was trying to follow the electronic sounds of the songs. Problem is, his vocal range doesn't compare to a Mike Patton and so, his voice is stuck in the highs constantly.

This album features some of the dumbest lyrics I've heard in my life. The sexual references aren't funny, they're juvenile in a very bad way. Some of my "favourites" lines were :

Originally Posted by I'm Your Problem Now

I love my mommy cause she fucked the shit out of my dad

Originally Posted by Kill the Rock

Yo yo yo yo yo yo - I kill the rock rock rock rock rock yo

Originally Posted by M

Yo yo muthafuckas is ******s yo
I say y'all be sucking dick man
Bitches be eating pussy - know what i'm sayin?
Bitch

Originally Posted by F

Who you calling a ******?
Yo yo - yo yo - When you out gay-bashing
I'm gonna be at your house fucking your girlfriend
In the ass

At this point, I gave up about the lyrical content of the album.

With an instrumental version, it would make the listen less tedious, but that's not saying much. The beats are nothing extraordinary as they would probably be meaningless without the vocals. About the songs, Ready for Love has some slower, more ambient parts that gave me time to breathe. Step Up, Ghetto Blaster has a really nice part (around 1:15) that I actually liked. Gasp! Backmask might be the best song on the album, it holds well as a composition and has a recurring catchy chorus.

I felt this album is a bag of mixed ideas that didn't made the cut on other releases. The alphabetical track order doesn't give any progression over the CD. It's completely direction-less. I don't buy the sarcastic humorous tone too. Sure, I enjoy when an artist doesn't take itself seriously, although it needs to be done intelligently. Also, if you really want to make dick jokes, don't have a cocky attitude. ba dum tsss

But hey, at least they have a unique sound.

My rating : ★★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆