Need music recommendations | 1 year challenge

[noname219]

Done. I've already listened to it a few years ago, a bit underwhelming but there was some goods songs (Godspeed, The White Flash, Sucker Pin).

[rayword45]

If you don't mind telling, which of my recommendations have you heard?

[noname219]

You're probably the one that I recognized the most of your choices. (trumaestro, rushyrulz and ymia also)

Heard it all :
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (yep)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Heard some of it :
Big Star - #1 Record
Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium

Know who they are :
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Knife Man
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian
Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Big Star - 3rd
Big Star - Radio City
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version
Melvins - Houdini
Mr. Bungle - California
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Sleep - Dopesmoker
The Jesus Lizard - Goat
The Magnetic Fields - 69 Love Songs
The Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas
Ween - The Pod

Don't know anything about them :
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain

Even for Lightning Bolt, I think I've heard their name somewhere. edit : oh that's right, I've added them on one of my lists (#1282)

[noname219]

Day Twelve - December 12th, 2013
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Lumière Obscure by Lemongrass (recommended by L.B.D.D.)

1. Dreams Are Real
2. Comme Toujours
3. Take a While
4. Underwater
5. The Bell
6. Flying Objects
7. Fine Time
8. La Fille Avec Cheveux Oranges
9. What a Night
10. Dream Your Dream Awake
11. Once Along the Way (Goodbye Mr. Grimmenstein)

Lemongrass (also known as Roland Voss) is a German music producer, having worked under the label Mole Listening Pearls before creating Lemongrassmusic, his own label. His music can be describe as downtempo with trip hop, nu jazz and dnb influences. Lumière Obscure was his second album, released in 1999.

It's soft, smooth and spacey. There's a good amount of diversity on this record, starting slowly with Dreams Are Real and Comme Toujours. Incorporating more complex drum beats on Take a While and tribal elements on Underwater. A bit of spoken words on The Bell with some touches of piano. Flying Objects and Fine Time are too long even if they have some interesting moments, they could be better shortened. La Fille Avec Cheveux Oranges gets progressively better and evolves into a jazzy-lounge song. Once Along the Way and Dream Your Dream Awake have a slower bpm, they drag a bit but are mostly very nice.

The beats are what makes the music substantial. They are complex, but non-agressive. They have a good balance and they blend well with everything else. You don't feel submerged so you can't really lost track of what's going on. I found nothing to hate on this album, it's solid, too long at times, but I didn't fell in love with it.

My rating : ★★★★★★★☆☆☆

[EzExZeRo7497]

The Bell is top-notch, glad you bolded it

[rayword45]

man fuck the randomizer, it takes too long for it to get to me XP

[noname219]

Haha, choof has 42 and Crazyjayde has 22 recommendations each, and I reviewed nothing from them yet. Maybe tomorrow I will, who knows ?

[EzExZeRo7497]

I'm scared what you would rate the albums I recommended lmao, I'm only expecting one album to get 8 or more

EDIT: Checked your ratings on RYM, yeah we have somewhat different tastes so rip

[rayword45]

Originally Posted by EzExZeRo7497

I'm scared what you would rate the albums I recommended lmao, I'm only expecting one album to get 8 or more

I'm expecting some pretty bizarre reviews for some. If someone takes consistency into account, the magic of 69 Love Songs is lost.

Then there are the actual weird albums like The Pod and Here Comes The Indian.

EDIT: Also checked RYM.

wtf man where's all the lo-fi avant-garde stoner noise pop? That's like 8 of my SHORTLIST recommendations gone.

Based on your ratings for folk music, I predict a 6 for All Hail West Texas if you get past the heady voice/lo-fi cassette tape quality.

[noname219]

Originally Posted by EzExZeRo7497

I'm scared what you would rate the albums I recommended lmao, I'm only expecting one album to get 8 or more

EDIT: Checked your ratings on RYM, yeah we have somewhat different tastes so rip

I like most ambient music. If it's quality stuff, has a good atmosphere, you shouldn't worry about that.

Had to remove a lot of my past ratings on RYM btw (went from 2500 to about 500), so most of my remaining ratings are what I have left in my iTunes pratically.

Originally Posted by rayword45

EDIT: Also checked RYM.

wtf man where's all the lo-fi avant-garde stoner noise pop? That's like 8 of my recommendations gone.

Based on your ratings for folk music, I predict a 6 for All Hail West Texas if you get past the heady voice/lo-fi cassette tape quality.

Yeah, I haven't listen to a lot of lo-fi stuff besides early Elliott Smith, very few of Guided by Voices, early Modest Mouse, The Microphones or Natural Snow Buildings (that counts). I can handle crappy black metal recordings, so it shouldn't be a problem for me. ^^

[blindreper1179]

The delicious bread collection- Tales from the yeast side.

[t-rogdor]

Originally Posted by noname219

Natural Snow Buildings (that counts)

respect

nsb are good

[Jonlovesddr]

John Coltrane - Giant Steps
Freddie Hubbard - Backslash
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Art Pepper - Living Legend
Cannonball Adderley - African Waltz
Mike Richmond - Blue in Green
Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins with the Modern Jazz Quartet
Vince Guaraldi - Cast Your Fate to the Wind: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
enjoy these jams

[XelNya]

To-Mera / Transcendental
Manic Bloom / Manic Bloom
Nevermore / This Godless Endeavor
Trivium / Shogun
無力P / Eschatology

If I had to pick one, it'd be a tie between the bolded ones.

[noname219]

Won't be able to review anything tonight on time, I need sleep more than anything else atm and I won't wake up until tomorrow morning. This means two reviews tomorrow.

@ XelNya : not sure about your birthday, is it July 30th ?

[noname219]

Day Thirteen - December 13th, 2013
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Greatest Hits by Eilert Pilarm (recommended by omega_grunt666)

1. Jailhouse Rock
2. Are You Lonesome Tonight
3. Love Me Tender
4. Blue Suede Shoes
5. It's Now or Never
6. If You Love Me (Let Me Know)
7. Teddy Bear (Let Me Be Your)
8. There Goes My Everything
9. A Fool Such as I
10. Release Me
11. One Night
12. Farther Along
13. She's Not You
14. Blue Christmas
15. Take My Hand Precious Lord
16. Long Tall Sally
17. All Shook Up
18. Love Me
19. Heartbreak Hotel
20. I Love You Because
21. Little Cabin Home on the Hill
22. Kiss Me Quick
23. Jailhouse Rock (E-Funk Mix)
24. Mega Mix

Eilert Pilarm is a Swedish Elvis impersonator. He made over 600 live shows over 10 years, starting around 1992 and stopping in 2003. He's notably featured in Songs in the Key of Z, a book about outsider music from Irwin Chusid. You can read a little more about him from this blog entry.

If I was rating albums based on how much they made me laugh, this would be 5 stars easily. It's painful and terrible in every possible way. The guy can't sing a note. He's out of tune and out of time. No sense of rhythm whatsoever. His accent doesn't help either (I really thought he was singing in Swedish in the beginning), so it makes thing funnier. The instruments are completely unprocessed and sound extremely cheep. There's literally nothing "good" on this record.

He's damn funny though. I'll give him that. But 24 songs ? Yes I went through all and after the first 5-6, it isn't funny anymore, it becomes just mediocre and painful. Yet, what I like about this kind of music is how it doesn't take itself seriously. Eilert Pilarm knew damn well that he wasn't a great singer, he just had fun doing this.

My rating : ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

(2 stars because it made me laugh)

[omega_grunt666]

I was hoping that would show up around christmas,

A bit of a troll pick yeah, most of the stuff I probably would have listed in my top 10 has already been posted by other people so I chose something slightly different. I think I have a higher tolerance for bad/parody than you though, too much time browsing /r/crappymusic I guess. Glad you got a laugh out of it though.

[freakysnots]

Originally Posted by noname219

Day Eleven - December 11th, 2013

Sonic Temple by The Cult

Hey thanks for the review. It was done wayy faster than I thought you would get to it. Bonus points for that!

You pretty much summed up The Cult's albums when you said they were repetitive. Listening to a whole album may be much, but put a few of these songs in a rock playlist and they are great.

They have many albums, but I picked this one for you to review as they had the most songs I like in there. I also like "She Sells Sanctuary", but too bad it's in another album.

As for a whole album working together, I feel that Pink Floyd (off the top of my head) pulled it off better. The Cult works best when playing their songs separately.

[DarkProdigy]

THYX - The Way Home
Dead When I Found Her - Rag Doll Blues
Seabound - Double-Crosser
Serebro - Mama Lover
Toy-Box - Fantastic
Trash80 - Icarus

[yo man im awesome]

Originally Posted by noname219

Won't be able to review anything tonight on time, I need sleep more than anything else atm and I won't wake up until tomorrow morning. This means two reviews tomorrow.

@ XelNya : not sure about your birthday, is it July 30th ?

still eagerly awaiting #2