Agent Orange

@Lord0fDiamonds I have listened to plenty thank you very much. Everyone goes on their own individual journey through music and develop their own individual tastes that continues to evolve. My taste is doing that to this day. I am a lot softer and less dismissive of thrash than how I was even a few months ago since I have listened to a lot of it and is more familiar with it. I still generally fail to connect with it, but there may be a day that I do click with it and I see albums like this in a new light.

@Lord0fDiamonds Also, I don't let anyone else's views influence my taste. I only curiously listen to acclaimed albums and form my personal perspective on it that with it being an acclaimed album, generally is very similar to many others. I do listen to and enjoy music past the generic top internet picks. It may be surprising, but I am not the NPC you may think me as.

@Batz Well, I never said I had the most profound taste in the world. I literally consumed pop radio for like a decade and thought cringe FNAF songs were bangers not too many moons ago. I'm only still basically dipping my toes into the endless offerings of the music world with me doing this for not even two years so far. So yeah I may like basic baby shit now comparatively, but I'm sure I will grow into enjoying more crazy stuff in time. My taste is still developing, and I will grow. I have listened to a bunch of metal and I learned that I am just mostly indifferent to it despite my continuous consumption.

@Batz I'm not proud of my low effort reviews either, but I have zero control over how many people like them. Sometimes I just don't have much to say, shit out a sentence or two saying I didn't connect or whatever, and move on to the next album. IDK, it just feels like a waste to elaborate any further. I'm not the proudest looking back at these shitty reviews that I still make to this day, but in the end they are just my honest basic first impressions. I do this for fun more than anything so whatever.

@OldTask Hey man we all gotta start somewhere so I'm not gonna knock you too hard, I just have an agenda I like to push whenever I can because i'm extremely passionate about music, specifically musical exploration and I feel like this site incentivizes people to keep listening to the same handful of albums and artist so I like to some peoples actual connect with the music into question. But hey we all gotta walk our own paths musically and I'll always have respect for someone who's newer to the scene and wants to share their opinions.

@OldTask your top 5 is plucked straight from the top 30 chart on this site. so you're telling me you just "happened" to click with something that the numbers are telling you from all angles is The Greatest? we do have to start somewhere, but this site does kinda put you in the same circle jerk of albums - so forgive me for assuming you don't branch out much or have your own tastes.

also, you say you've listened to a lot more metal lately and grown to appreciate it, but you literally just said that Death - possibly the most influential and important death metal band to ever exist - is "generic death metal". That's like saying that Jimi Hendrix (an artist you seem to like) is generic 60s rock. it's not just an opinion at that point, it's ignorance. you clearly don't like metal (except for what the RYM charts have sanctioned for you to enjoy), you don't know metal, and therefore you are not mentally equipped to talk about metal, so maybe keep all those garbage takes to yourself, hmm? It really is annoying when people like you become the biggest voices on classic albums like this

@Lord0fDiamonds it's okay for you to trash highly rated albums for being "hipster trash" but when someone else trashes a highly rated album, it's suddenly bad. Funny how that works. Especially coming from such a proponent of "thinking for yourself"

@Alkmatt00 The difference here is the ignorance. I already explained this. Albums such as Agent Orange and Human are beloved and influential within the metal world BECAUSE they sound distinct, not "generic" as this user is saying. It's fine to not like it, but when your critiques are this surface level and ignorant, it either reads like you don't know metal and therefore shouldn't be talking about it, or you're just being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian

@Lord0fDiamonds jesus pleaseeee go get mad at something that actually matters instead of yapping extensively sounding like a prick

@Lord0fDiamonds Here's the thing. At the core of all of my reviews, they are first impressions that I lazily type out cause in general I don't treat music all that seriously. It's just a fun hobby. Yeah I am indifferent to a whole lot of important influential stuff. But if my ears don't care about it I will be honest and say something like "generic" or whatever and move along cause there's so much more music to listen to. Some people are just mostly indifferent to metal. If you fuck with it, cool. If not, you are not alone. That's it. So what do you think of the metal that I actually DO
enjoy? ( There's actually some that my ears agree with.)

@OldTask I mean... you've got a pretty good taste in the classics (Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and the like... I was surprised to see that you know Satan. They're kind of a "best kept open secret" of metal). You seem to dislike most extreme metal (thrash/death/black) but bizarrely have Entombed and Bathory at very high ratings. Why those two in particular? It's a unique taste, I'll give you that, but I still don't think it's a very good one. But if you don't like all this metal... then why listen to it and review it?? You're not really adding anything to the conversation and instead just drowning out the voices that have more experienced and nuanced perspectives

@Lord0fDiamonds Great question my dude! I am an explorer at heart and all of this is part of a long term project of mine where I listen to a lot of the top 100 user rated albums from 1965 to today. All that is needed to get me a listen is familiarity or curiosity. (And it being available on streaming) I am kind patient man and I will always give artists a tenth chance even though I may be indifferent to their previous 9 releases cause you never know if this is the one that clicks.

@Lord0fDiamonds As for you evaluation of my taste I do like the classic sound of metal yes. ( I am listening to a power metal record right now and with its softer more approachable sound I am enjoying myself pretty well with it.) As for Bathory and Entombed those records clicked HARD for me for whatever reason I just got sucked in IDK. They may be diamonds in the rough for my taste or a precursor for me developing into enjoying more of that kind of music. We will see.

@Lord0fDiamonds And lastly I totally understand your complaints of me not adding anything to the discussion. I put these reviews mostly for my future self to look back upon and see how my tastes has shifted over the years. Like I remember hating on jazz and ambient music as much as I do a lot of metal these day. And today those two genres are amongst my absolute favorite. It's just that I have an audience that hearts anything and everything I put out whether it's shit or a whole essay. So I apologize for adding to the problem of unnecessary bloat on this site but I have to record my thoughts or lack of them somewhere.