Dronevil on Spotify AND a peak live performance of Pink? It's a good day to be a Boris fan.
Do NOT let that bald melon come within 50 yards of this
Shoutout Paysage d'Hiver continuing to drop the best metal that's ever been recorded. Only Tobias Möckl could get me emerging from my cave of endless Les Rallizes Denudes archives, Fushitsusha box sets and unorganized playlists covering everyone from Bob Dylan to Pharoah Sanders to Tommy Heavenly6 to Boris, and actually listen to NEW music. What a goat.
If you've heard Paysage d'Hiver before, you know the drill: ... read more
Shout out Ramin Djawadi consistently making some of the greatest scores for television. An actual master of his craft. But...
How the fuck did these writers fuck up COMPLETED MATERIAL quicker than Dumb & Dumber were able to fuck up unfinished material? Actually incredible. Right from episode 1 I could feel the massive drop in quality of overall writing. Just like the later seasons of GOT, this was a season of a few brilliant hype moments executed successfully enough to spike interest ... read more
PSA: Despite having the exact same cover and being just as long, this album is NOT - I repeat, is NOT - Secret Black Box. Don't make the same mistake as me. It's understandable why some of us have been confused with this, but you can tell if you listen closely to the music; Secret Black Box has much better quality songwriting and musicianship.
P.S. This album was better with the Globglogabgolab
Man, even the BEATLES dropped before The Winds of Winter!
Hurry up, George! This is getting ridiculous.
Eh, the song's alright. Knowing the backstory doesn't really help none; it's a pretty mediocre '70s Lennon song with a lot of overblown production. Feels a lot more manufactured than other Beatles songs, which is understandable considering they only had a demo to work with, but doesn't make for a thrilling listen. I could've gone the rest of my life happily without hearing this song... but I ... read more
The US reissue cut out four tracks to make room for the mega hit and all-time classic (as well as my vote for absolute best Rolling Stone song), Paint It, Black.
Stupid Girl was not one of these songs.
They also could've kept most of the original track list intact, if they so wished, if they just cut out Going Home. 11 and a half minutes of aimless, meandering jamming that feels like some A-side filler. I think one bad song in favor for one great song makes more sense than cutting the only ... read more
I don't dislike this.
I don't like it when artists re-record older material in the studio without reason. It's one of the most creatively bankrupt ideas there is. Almost like they're admitting "Yep, I'm all out of ideas. Here's this one thing you guys liked at one point; send more money!" Can you imagine if Paul McCartney re-recorded Abbey Road under the guise of it being "Paul's Version", even though he wrote most of the album? Or Taylor Swift re-recording the albums that ... read more
My new favourite GY!BE record, and it isn't even officially released. The absolute intensity of these performances, the pure energy, elevate these tracks so much, and make for a remarkable, wholly engaging listen. This is some of the best post-rock I've ever heard. Really deserving of my first GY!BE 10 (granted, LYSF and Slow Riot are long overdue an updated rating, but I digress). Excited to dive deeper into their bootlegs. If any others are even a fraction as good as this, then I'll be elated.
Oh no! It's Yoko! Part IV
The one where JSG forgets his words for 2 months and doesn't know how to review the goddamn album
I've really been struggling to get the words right for this album. There's a few ideas I want to get across, but for two months, I've had no idea how to actually tackle them. Well, I'm just tearing the damn plaster off so I can push forward in her discography.
Simply put, Plastic Ono Band is Yoko's first classic, and arguably her best release. It shows her ... read more
This one's for those who post nerd emojis whenever someone talks about the mixing...
The raw, ferocious, hold-no-prisoners Iggy mix | VS. | The limp-dick, personalityless Bowie mix
This just goes to prove that the mix is very much important to the end result of the music. Some of y'all may want to block your ears and scream at the top of your lungs, "Stop being a nerd and enjoy the music!" but that doesn't change the facts. Bowie was undoubtedly a master of his craft. He was ... read more
Y'all wanna talk about scaring the hoes?
You listen to Brainbombs - Obey to cringe and complain about edgelord lyrics.
I listen to Brainbombs - Obey to laugh, and appreciate the hard, repetitive, noisy punk riffs.
We are not the same.
When the high school metal band discover Mike Patton for the first time and decide that THAT'S that best music of all time.
This album is terrible. If it wasn't so goddamn entertaining, I'd rate it a 1.
You see, Sleep Token; THIS is how you make a bad album. You can't even do THAT right.
Listened for the PC.
Metal for retail stores.
I will not be the slightest bit phased if the next time I go to the shops I hear Granite jammed between Yellow and Sucker for Pain.
The Creator Has a Master Plan is a lot shorter than I remember.
+20 points because Ice Spice feature. She really brought the artistry to an otherwise generic Taylor song.
Yes. Yes I am biased.
No. No I do not give a flying fuck.
Just got done rewatching this show for the umpteenth time in ten years. Still a top 10 show of all time. No, not just "top 10 anime," but top 10 OF ALL TIME. As in, up there with Breaking Bad, The Wire, Better Call Saul, The Sopranos, the good seasons of Game of Thrones... I know I'm preaching to the choir as everyone with an internet access has at least seen an episode or two of Cowboy Bebop, but seriously, if you are one of ... read more
![파란노을 [Parannoul] - After the Night](https://cdn2.albumoftheyear.org/100x0/album/634123-after-the-night_0552.jpg)
Ok, ok, I'll admit it; After the Night is a great album. Exceptional live performance, great material all round. But let's be real here...
This is NOT Otokotachi no Watare by Fishmans.
This is NOT MTV Unplugged in New York by Nirvana.
This is NOT Olatunji Concert by John Coltrane.
This is NOT Elevation by Pharoah Sanders.
This is NOT Dark Magus by Miles Davis.
This is NOT Swans are Dead by Swans.
This is NOT Public Castration is a Good Idea by Swans.
This is NOT Rust Never Sleeps by Neil ... read more
Oh no! It's Yoko! Part III
The one where JOHN the one where YOKO the one JOOOOHN the YOKOOOOOO JOOOOHN YOOOKOOOO the one JOOOOHHN YOOOOKOOO the one where JOOOOOOOHN YOOOOKOOOOO JOOOHN YOKOO JOHN YOKO JOOOHN YOKO JOHN YOKO JOHN JOHN John John Yoko Yoko Yoko john yoko john john yoko john
The more things change, the more they stay the same. As much as my taste has evolved over the years, I can't say that John and Yoko screaming and whispering and panting and moaning and talking their names is ... read more
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On Doja Cat - Demons
"Damn, forgot about this certified banger of a review.
Demons is still my pick for best Dostoevsky btw"
On Boris - Performing "PINK" in Its Entirety - Live at Shindaita Fever 20160924
"@DevGPluto I heard. It really is the best time to be a Boris fan"
On Boris - Performing "PINK" in Its Entirety - Live at Shindaita Fever 20160924
"@roundcircle unlikely to happen unfortunately. there's just too many recced songs for me to sift through at this point"
On Les Rallizes Dénudés - Wilderness of false flowers_1976
"@Eomann it is a certified banger for sure"
On Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell
"@FeendishlyJam I believe I meant that Meat Loaf is grating and that people who dislike Queen generally make the argument that Freddie is grating"
On System of a Down - Hypnotize
"@ClayDJs03 "hate" was waaay too strong a word for me to have used back then. Honestly quite surprised I did lol. The only SOAD song I ever really "hated" was Old School Hollywood. But anyway, as far as some of the tracks I used to dislike, I guess I sorta just lightened up. She's Like Heroin is still probably bottom 5 SOAD, and Kill Rock 'n Roll is a bop even if it's silly. The others I listed as least favs I honestly don't really know why I did. Two of them are some of the most memorable on the album, and Stealing Society, though one of the most forgettable in their discog, is a banger.
The album itself is still my least fav SOAD. Too many tracks that are just blatantly forgettable or simply filler, and it's such a drop from Mezmerize."
On Whitehouse - Quality Time.
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On Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop
"@BMS unfortunately Samurai Champloo is one of the classic anime I haven't yet seen, but I hope it's as good as I've heard"
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"And Helaena being a dreamer was one of the worst decisions in this show so far lol. It's blatantly them making an "out" so they can do whatever with her character and have it make sense, i.e. her not grieving her son, and eventually killing herself, "because I saw it in a dream.""
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"@ClayDJs03 I think (unfortunately) you hit the nail on the head with the writers wanting to double down on the misogyny, which is a shame considering George generally does a great job of tackling the subject in his books, even in the Dance of Dragons. All this whitewashing has ironically done the opposite of their intention; removing the agency of literal Queens, having the men in their lives make the hard decisions that come with war and having the women fight against it and act like they had no say in the matter, to me, that's way more misogynistic than, y'know, having your women characters actually make impulsive, emotional, even catastrophic decisions. Rhaenyra especially is so pathetic this season after that final shot in S1."
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"And yeah, that was the very moment in the finale I noped out lmao. Them meeting not once, but TWICE is such a tumblr fanfic moment that I can't believe made it past LITERAL PROFESSIONAL SCREENWRITERS. "Yeah, just have disputing Queens sail across the sea during wartime, not face any troubles along the way, and safely face their adversary and make their way back home in the span of a single day. That makes perfect sense." And Alicent selling out her son... Jesus fuck, idk how they managed to butcher such incredible characters in such a short time. They did NOT care and it shows."
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"@ClayDJs03 Yeah, liking it as a book fan is sheer lunacy lmao. Of course the brutality is toned down, but also distancing Rhaenyra's participation. It gets hard to view her as the grief-stricken mother and LITERAL QUEEN that she's supposed to be when the impulsive decisions that make her so compelling in the books are trivialized down to "actually it was the men in her life who made those decisions. She's rational actually." And like you mention, the horrors inflicted on Helaena are so minimalized, but then after the fact they don't even give her a storyline dealing with the grief. I legitimately believe B&C was handled awfully, not just the event itself, but the entire lead-up and stream of consequences afterwards no longer making sense."
On Ramin Djawadi - House of the Dragon: Season 2
"@ClayDJs03 That blog was so vindicating, the contents and HBO's response so bemusing. Helaena killing herself for the lols will certainly be a choice. (I was also so glad he spent the whole post trashing Blood & Cheese. I felt crazy, being the only person I know (even fellow book fans) legitimately thinking that was executed well and not a bastardization on the level of GOT's S5 and 6 portrayal of Dorne and the Iron Islands.)"
On Andrei's review of Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
"it's moments like these that make me wonder if Andrei has ever drank Powerade Zero"
On XXXTENTACION - Bad Vibes Forever
"@Archerycraft18 i don't really have any sort of justification. a 0.5/10 is still a 0 to me"
On Eomann's review of Les Rallizes Dénudés - Double Heads: Legendary Live Yaneura Shibuya, Tokyo 1980-1981
"Beautiful review! A banger of a write-up for a banger of a record"
On Dead Kennedys - Bedtime for Democracy
"@molochthagod lol. lmao even."
On XXXTENTACION - The Fall
"@zzile "point out that its your opinion" - you're on a music reviewing site. Any takes had pertaining music is implied to be the opinion of the take haver. If you need every single criticism to be prefaced with "this is just MY opinion," that says more about your insecurity of your own takes than it does the reviewer.
"state what you consider the obvious, get likes and peace out" - fat load of good that did me. 4 likes in 5 years!
"your ass knows nothing about the way i review albums" - the irony. Let me point out once more; this is a 5 year old review you're seething on. If you wanna give constructive criticism, at least look at what else the reviewer has posted since (never mind the fact you should learn to be a bit more respectful)"
On XXXTENTACION - The Fall
"@zzile I know next to nothing about X the person, all I know is he made dogshit music. This is one of the most straightforward reviews I've ever written, and I still get Mr. Armchair Psychoanalyst out here trying to find some deep rooted bias I have to explain why I dislike the album"
On XXXTENTACION - The Fall
"@zzile bro's seething over a 5 year old review"
On 파란노을 [Parannoul] - After the Night
"@Eomann bro needs to get on those Swans lives and Dark Magus ASAP"
On Eminem - Music to Be Murdered By
"every time i get a comment on this review, i'm reminded by how sensitive the average nemnem fan is"
On Opeth - Blackwater Park
"@ScottShelby I return to Still Life more often nowadays so there's that; Death's later albums are a no brainer, some of my fav metal records of all time; I'm also a sucker for Atheist's Unquestionable Presence. I've been slacking on metal a lot recently tho, so there's prob a few more that just haven't sprung to mind atm."
On Green Day - American Idiot
"oooooooh, I see. It completely flew over my head that this is a concept album. This changes everything! So THAT'S why half the songs are mediocre! OK, now I can enjoy these outstanding concept album lyrics!
She's an extraordinary girl in an ordinary world ♫"
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