Metallica revisited part 9/12
The legendary metal failure. Metallica's St. Anger is THE album you think of when you think of great artists really losing all semblence of what they once were and making one of the most painful things you could ever possibly hear. With bad production, James' voice cracking all throughout the album, drums that sound like trash cans, mediocre riffs and, to top it all off, absolutly no guitar solos, this is, objectively speaking, Metallica's worst release to date, ... read more
David Bowie revisited part 10/27
No other album best shows Bowie's versatility than this one. Bowie was always an artist who never let one genre define him, and would always change up his sound every few years, from psychedelic to folk to hard rock to glam, and now to blue-eyed soul. And Young Americans, his only attempt at making such a wildly different album, ends up being much better than anyone could have expected.
I'm not going to sit here and tell you that this is another amazing ... read more
The Beatles revisited part 9/16
The most commercially successful Beatles album, and up there with Abbey Road as probably their most famous work, Sgt. Pepper is definitely one of the popular choices for best Beatles album. I myself initially saw this as their best album when I first got into their discography. Now, I think it's pretty obvious that this isn't as good as a few other works of theirs, but anyone who tells you that this is weak or that it doesn't even come close to being a contender ... read more
Metallica revisited part 8/12
Who would have thought that a bloated beyond belief two-disc compilation of covers would be better than most of Metallica's post-1991 output?
Garage Inc. is far and away the most inessential and least interesting release in Metallica's entire discography. It's just a really messy covers album that goes on for over two hours. Nobody, not even diehard Metallica fans, have time for an album like this. An album that has one hell of a mess of a track listing and ... read more
David Bowie revisited part 9/27
Bowie's first officially released live album, released at arguably the worst point in his career when it came to live performances. Yeah, this has become one of the most controversial live albums he's ever released, but honestly, I see it as being quite overhated.
Now, when it comes to David Live, I do think it's the least interesting of the live albums that I've heard from him. It just doesn't have all that much to talk about when compared to something like ... read more
The Beatles revisited part 8/16
Pinpointing the single most important album in all of music is downright impossible, what with all the hugely influential albums, all of which had their own influences leading us to believe that they wouldn't have even been made if not for another hugely important album. But there is one album that I will always see as one of the few that you really could make a case for it being THE most important of all time, that being The Beatles' Revolver.
Seemingly over ... read more
Swans revisited part 7/22
Allow me to sell you on Holy Money with just one sentence: Imagine Greed, but it actually works as a whole project.
You can't talk about one of these albums without the other. Something that I think a lot of people forget is that this is a double album. These aren't supposed to be seen as two separate projects entirely. No, these two albums were intended to be listened one-after-the-other. And I do think that that leads to some people saying that it should have been ... read more
Metallica revisited part 7/12
Load but with much more promising songs and a hell of a lot more filler.
Yeah, it hurts me to give an album with such bangers as Fuel, Devil's Dance, and Fixxxer a score as low as this, but the fact that there's only four or five tracks on here that I genuinely see as worthwhile additions to their discography is what ultimately kills it.
You thought that Load was bloated beyond belief? Well, don't even think of touching Reload. If anything, just listen to the ... read more
David Bowie revisited part 8/27
After the disbandment of his backing band, the Spiders From Mars, Bowie moves on to his next concept album, and his last glam rock album. The reception towards Diamond Dogs is quite mixed, with it being a bit of a mess to say the least, but it's impossible to deny the quality of the content presented here.
In a lot of ways, Diamond Dogs can come off as an absolute mess. Despite it having a very clear concept, the actual material here is so messy that it really ... read more
The Beatles revisited part 7/16
We've finally reached it. The point where The Beatles went from being your average '60s boy band of pop rockers singing generic songs about love, to the experimenting, groundbreaking innovators that they would be for the remainder of their career together.
I'll just say this now; the scores for The Beatles from now on are likely going to be really messy. They're going to be really uncharacteristically high from me, and it's simply just because The Beatles from ... read more
Swans revisited part 6/22
How I've tried to love Greed. I really wish I could love this as much as the casuals who can't stand industrial, but frankly, I just see Greed as the closest Swans ever got to making a genuinely bad album. Granted, this is still far away from being anything remotely bad, and if this is the worst album Swans ever made then that should only go to show the quality of the rest of their output, but as it stands, Greed is just a very uninteresting record.
Now, credit where ... read more
Metallica revisited part 6/12
The point in which Metallica went from being one of the most consistent artists to ever come out of metal and by far the most impressive thrash band around, to one of the most increasingly disappointing and frustrating bands to ever walk the earth. Load marks a period where things start to get rocky for them. They would manage to make multiple albums that have enough quality content within them to make a whole album on its own that would have been really good, but ... read more
David Bowie revisited part 7/27
Man, screw AllMusic! This is a really good live performance, and a great ending to the Ziggy Stardust era of Bowie's career.
Released a full decade after its recording, Ziggy Stardust: The Motion Picture is the soundtrack to the concert film of the same name. The album documents the final show of the Ziggy Stardust tour, and is honestly what you'd expect from Ziggy era David Bowie; a ton of glam rock jams and tons of lovable classics.
With it being a pretty ... read more
The Beatles revisited part 6/16
Help is easily the best pre-Rubber Soul album, and the first album they released that I can confidently say is great. This is the album that, if you ignore the greatness of their psychedelic and experimental output, would easily go down as one of their best efforts, and even though it doesn't reach the same heights many of their future albums do, it is still seen fondly as one of the biggest turning points in their music, with all of the songwriters improving an ... read more
Metallica revisited part 5/12
The most overhated classic metal album, hated solely by metal elitists who refuse to believe that metal can be good even if it isn't either fast-paced, sounds like it was recorded with a potato, or it's Black Sabbath. As far as everyone else is concerned, this is one good-ass album. And as far as I'm concerned, it's great, and easily one of Metallica's best. And no, I don't mean that as in "Their first five album are easily their best, but this one is the ... read more
David Bowie revisited part 6/27
What do you know? The Americanized Ziggy Stardust is still a great fucking album. Leave it to David Bowie to make an album with very little in terms of actual evolution in sound and still make it a stand out album.
I've had a pretty rocky relationship with Aladdin Sane. At first, I thought it was one of Bowie's absolute best, being pretty fucking close to par with Ziggy Stardust and just being a near-perfect album in its own right. I then started to find it to ... read more
The Beatles revisited part 5/16
Beatles For Sale is far from the most respected Beatles album, and honestly, even though I do like this more than any of its predecessors, I completely understand why.
Personally, I see Beatles For Sale as the true turning point. Everyone may point to Hard Day's Night as the album where they became worthwhile musicians, and everyone may also point to Help as being the album where they really matured in terms of their songwriting, but honestly it's Beatles For ... read more
Swans revisited part 4/22
The Young God EP, I feel, doesn't get the credit it deserves. Even though I understand why this isn't the most talked about album released during this period, with it not changing anything too drastically and it having the disadvantage of being just an EP and not a full-length album, I really think it's a shame that this one is so quickly dismissed even though this is hands down the best album they released until Children Of God.
Being an EP, there's obviously not ... read more
Metallica revisited part 4/12
Definitely the most divisive album of Metallica's classic thrash output. It's definitely one of those commonly hated albums by some fans but still commonly adored by other fans. So what's my stance on it? Is it overrated or overhated? Actually, it's a bit of both.
After Cliff Burton's tragic death in 1986, them rushing to get a new bassist in so they could finish the tour and eventually record this album together, in a lot of ways, Justice feels like Metallica ... read more
David Bowie revisited part 5/27
Here it is; Bowie's most famous release. The album that defines his entire career and is always the album that you think of when you think of David Bowie, whether it's your favourite album of his or not. This album is just simply wonderful.
The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (shortened to "Ziggy Stardust" for the rest of the review) is a loose concept album, telling the story of an androgynous bisexual alien who comes to ... read more
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Demons is still my pick for best Dostoevsky btw"
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"@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."
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"@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."
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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.)"
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"state what you consider the obvious, get likes and peace out" - fat load of good that did me. 4 likes in 5 years!
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She's an extraordinary girl in an ordinary world ♫"
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