11,111 Ratings! What a wonderful number. It's probably the highest number you can portray on one hand!
Uhh, I really like the word "lights" in songs. The concept of lights as this ephemeral quality. A light is as dim as a candle and as bright as the sun yet when pared together and far away it loses all of its tangible qualities and becomes a mass of incandescence.
You can't reach lights. You can reach A light. Get real close to a spotlight, burn your face off a bit. But ... read more
11,000 Ratings.
Before there was Taylor. Before there was Lynden covering Taylor. Before the ZNMK collective made bleep boops or Berg Corey or Amity Pax or Jackson Supreme or Prince Charming. EVEN before Keith Thompson. EVEN BEFORE DUSTY SPRINGFIELD! We had the Brian Spence Reptutation. With all the Reputation's around nowadays it can be hard to remember the drout of albums called Reputation we had before the 90s. People forget the famous Reputation famines throughout the mid-60s. But in ... read more
Somehow feels significantly dirtier and romantic than any kind of sex jam in any kind of genre. Maybe because you know they meant it. Sweaty as shit crammed into some shack in Mississippi. No AC, No Refrigerator, No Fan, No Nothing. Just deciding to have the most disgusting sex known to man and they think it'd be fun to put on a record except it's one of those hand crank ones. So they slam that dinner plate Shellac down on the Gramaphone and some poor fool has to stand their cranking ... read more
Designed the cover art for this single. You would be AMAZED at how many different types of phones there are!
This sound has become dated enough for me to enjoy it in some half ironic half not capacity. This disgusting faux-edm iPod era stuff. The main song that'll exemplify this movement will be/is probably No Hands. As more time passes from any point in time hatred will subside and be replaced by raw nostalgia.
The most hated time in anything is always 11 years ago. That'd be 2014, putting this album just in the range of reverse nostalgia. I'd agree with that, Pop music from ... read more
I listen to this with my little notepad and pen and little cup of coffee and I pretend I'm Diane taking down Coop's notes.
"Yes Agent Cooper I will mix the Canadian Geese to your nature recordings/musique concrète album. You made $6 from Bandcamp last month Agent Cooper and trust me you really got something going here. "
An Ode to the Baha Men:
Oh Baha Men. How saintly your branches are. How towering your trunk stands unimposed by the skyscrapers that dote your vision. How your roots unfurl underneath the many offices and conservatories, blending itself into the world of man, as if nature had to justify its own existence!
Would we know comfort without you Baha Men? For it was you who brought us shade. It was you who brought beauty to the tip every artist's brush. It was you who gave us the material to ... read more
Insane how much better the EPCOT side is than the Disneyland side.
Just wanted to make a lil PS to this review: https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/toasterqueen12/album/289450-the-official-album-of-walt-disney-world-epcot-center/ as this album has a few tracks not on the 83' album.
Tomorrow's Child by Ron Ovadia & Peter Stougaard. This one was on Spaceship Earth but removed years before I was born. A nice bit of soft rock but honestly the new age score on the current ride fits ... read more
Possibly the greatest argument for the power of music as propaganda.
I never want to admit that I'm somewhat of a Disney adult, but when you're born in Orlando, it kinda comes with the territory. If anything, I'm more of a Disney historian or a generic theme park adult, but that's just cope. I am deeply fascinated with the work it takes to construct a theme park, especially at Disney's level. The amount of artists who have to work together to curate a perfect ... read more
Well lookie here.
Back in 2020 Ryan Benis gave us all COVID by blasting his subvermin kiwi spit all over Lady Libertine's many microphones. After the tragedy we experienced 4 years of calm and I thought, just maybe, he finally fell down the Punji Pit I set up outside his house.
BUT SLYDOG RELEASES A POSTHUMOUS RELEASE FOR MR. CORPSE?
This is sickening. What happened to music. Why does he keep giving me a verbal saltlick with all this fuzzy wuzzy on the headphones? Just gobstompering ... read more
Thank you Nardwuar.
I would give anything in this world to find out what Haida thought of this album. I need to know if he likes the flute. Did he think it was pleasing, transcendental, pedestrian? Would he call it smooth but abrasive, electric but soft? Would he criticize the mixing vaguely without saying how it was bad? Is Paul Horn style over substance? Would he say something like "GODDAMN! I've never heard of Paul Horn before this but he really rocks! I'm too uneducated to ... read more
This is one of the most overstimulating songs ever made. The Tiny Tim 23 minute "Rebel Yell" of gangsta rap.
One of the most harrowing looks at sex addiction ever created. Every song where he talks about his addiction to pussy he stresses how much despises that this is his life. He is deeply ashamed at the fact that he can't deny sex from anyone and he cries in vain about how he wishes he could stop rapping about pussy but he realizes he has nothing else in his life to rap about. Through masculine posturing about how hot the women he fucks are and how much money he has but he seems to be engaged ... read more
10,000 RATINGS! YEAH! WOOP! REPUTATION! REPUTATION! REPUTATION!
This is a long running joke that isn't funny anymore unfortunately. Except it is. It is funny it's hilarious. This joke is 4 years old and 7000 ratings ago and started because someone told me to review Taylor Swift's Reputation for 3k ratings so like a lil shit I reviewed Dusty Springfield's Reputation. Then I just kept ignoring Taylor! I jumped from Berg Corey's Background Music Reputation to Keith ... read more
Quite literally maybe possibly the most insane single ever put out by like a pretty typical normie-ish singer. I don't know how this isn't like more widely known. Jimmy Buffett doing a Hunter S Thompson rant over a generic Calypso beat where he talks about how movie theaters are scamming him and the population and the population is only half baked in the mind and need to rise up against Religion, relationships, and NASA?? Fucking CRAZY ass song. The music video is him driving around ... read more
I wish there was a camera recording my reaction when the song "Corona Virus is a Scam" came on. My mouth agape and in shock. I wish the camera was still on when I realize Daddy Derek accidentally put the same song on the album twice.
At first I was like "how the fuck did he get a tony and Grammy award winner to participate in something this conspiratorial. Then I looked it up and realized Linda Hopkins died in 2017. So then it clicked. Daddy Derek wanted an album where all ... read more
I can't really explain it to you. Usually when confronted with bad music it slides off my brain like butter. What's the point of lingering on the negative right? But Possible Space here has always burrowed itself into my brain. Just something about their hypnotic voice and their general atmosphere. How they were affected by the January 1st curse and dogpilled on and her music chewed up and spit out. I mean it's not like they were asking for it. They were just in the wrong place ... read more
Genuinely I respect someone who attempts a garbage concept and puts their soul into it. A bad pop album is a bad pop album but a bad concept album is a STATEMENT!
Talking about how because of evil filthy AI Robots you need to go hide in your doomsday shelter with as many concubines as you can muster and then realize by being a prepper you can reconnect to your cou-n'n'-try roots where you're a dumb bug-eating hick. Fucking HILARIOUS! SO GOOD! Witness sounds as bad as MOTW but I ... read more
https://youtu.be/PHraqgf4GCQ?si=1YWwwVGioe7_5zGg
Another music video I edited/co-directed this time for central-floridian screamers SHINEMACHINE. Again, not going to hide my bias I was literally paid to work on the project. But this is some damn good Black Dresses style Electro Industrial.
People could argue it's a bit derivative but I think weird ass decisions like making a fake anime intro for the band or weird spoken word rants about the best place to die is really set it apart. I also ... read more