silverchair diorama

may check this out tomorrow! is it at all along similar lines to the dissociatives' 'somewhere down the barrel'? because that is a modern bad-taste psychedelic masterpiece imo

you know i have never heard the dissociatives record but i strongly instinctually feel you will dig this record lj

instinctively* long day

Knew this was going to be a Brad poll. Without a relisten and not having heard this for probably well over a decade, I think it'd would be "Tuna in the Brine".

dissociatives record is actually really cool but it's the only johns thing i've ever heard! will def remedy tomorrow

it’s embarrassing to like a song called “tuna in the brine” this much

lol i haven't heard it in abt 20 years, but I did love this record when I was 17 - a good age to be introduced to Van Dyke Parks imo

toss up between "I hugged a man's arthritic shoulder" and "you brighten my life like a polystyrene hat"

Lmao this has melodies coming out of its sweat glands

probably 'the greatest view'

that said I am now listening to the Dissociatives album and frankly Brad you have got to try this

i’m so overdue. you also have to hear young modern like right away, i’m one of the few perverts who think it’s the best silverchair album

lol i will, that is magnificently vmic tho. i wonder what it is about later albums that draws you to them so much? maybe something to do with the idea of having to come to terms with an existing body of work and thus create something that is a reaction against oneself as much as anything, which produces art that you in particular might be drawn to. just spitballing here sorry if this seems off

ok this thieving birds suite

with this band it’s a lot simpler, i got into them with neon ballroom and i far far prefer orchestral silverchair to alt rock also-ran silverchair, and young modern is the album that leaves the latter furthest in the rear view

that's fair! tbf they did start out as a teenager band that accidentally got huge

ok this thieving birds suite

― imago, Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:52 AM (thirty-nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

starting this poll was worth it

and i far far prefer orchestral silverchair to alt rock also-ran silverchair,

Oh yeah, definitely. It's kind of shame that much of their reputation in the States, at least at the time, was for the Nirvana biting grunge also-ran first album, so no one was really paying attention when they became a far more interesting band. The student run alt-rock station where I went to school played the absolute shit out of all the singles from Frogstomp and from the follow-up, but I don't recall them every playing anything from Neon Ballroom, save for the one airing of "Anthem for the the Year 2000" on their weekly new music show and never again.

i think i caught “anthem” on mtv at the time and i thought it sounded. so. cool. (what a ridiculous song) plus there was a brief package about the album on mtv news i think that went into what “ana’s song” is about, so i put neon ballroom on my birthday wishlist and my parents got it for me. it took me a while to realize how good it was as a whole (“spawn again” was almost too scary and antimusical for 12yo me) but once i started dwelling on the prettier songs on the second side, partic “black tangled heart” and “paint pastel princess,” i was fully obsessed

feel like i’ve told that story here before but whatever

solid doc on the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCSQcPHRKA

i wonder what it is about later albums that draws you to them so much? maybe something to do with the idea of having to come to terms with an existing body of work and thus create something that is a reaction against oneself as much as anything, which produces art that you in particular might be drawn to. just spitballing here sorry if this seems off

― imago, Thursday, February 3, 2022 6:28 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

to answer this more directly, that's a good theory! probably true to some extent, explained by my root album in this mode, smashing pumpkins adore

unless proven otherwise i also tend to reflexively believe artists get better at making art as they go

unfortunately johns' regrettable collab with the empire of the sun guy proved me otherwise. new daniel johns solo album april 1 supposedly

he's still only 42, which is kind of amazing

as expected, not sure why i haven't been listening to this dissociatives record for the past 15 years. real funhouse mirror tour of britpop that also accounts for the existence of kid a

yessss

also otm, it really is britpop psychedelia plus radiohead

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ended up going with "without you," final riff in that song is just as good as rock music gets

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lol

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runoff poll time!

lol i forgot about these dismal results

was just listening to this peerless masterpiece today. "world upon your shoulders" is the best song ever

also "too much of not enough"