― Hengro, Saturday, 19 November 2005 11:46 (twenty years ago)
Not awful, but disappointing. I liked it first time I heard it but in no way does it have the depth and atmosphere of their previous releases and since my first couple of listens I've been unaboe to put it on again.
― dog latin (dog latin), Saturday, 19 November 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Saturday, 19 November 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)
Uh, because it's really really really bad? There has been a lot of disappointments (British Sea Power, Blackalicious, Broken Social Scene) but I wouldn't necessarily say they're bad albums. Gemstones starts with the forced sub-Beck lyrics and continues with that annoying crooner delivery. There is absolutely no reason for this album's existence.
― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Saturday, 19 November 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)
― Josh Love (screamapillar), Saturday, 19 November 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)
Why?
― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Saturday, 19 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)
― Jon Benet Taxidermy (piratestyle), Saturday, 19 November 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)
A rap group on emo-simp label Fueled By Ramen.
Nothing has been more cringeworthy for me this year. And I've heard the new Nickelback. Check out this "clever" song that namechecks 100 bands that I hate.
I took cutie for a ride in my deathcabShe tipped me with a kiss I dropped her off at the meth labBefore she left she made a dashboard confessionalAnd spilled her guts in cursive but whats worse isI could still see her bright eyes like sunny day real estateOh my and in a funny way it irritatesSo high but no chanceMy little chemical romance left a bad taste in my mouthBut I imposed her like hey mercedes why the long faceWhy you cryin? theres no needJust put on this coheed and falloutBoy meets girl jimmy eat worldBut Schlep eats pills till hes all outNot once not twice she was thrice times a ladyMackin on brand new, but I had toBounce over to the postal service toPick up these pills that take care of my nervousness
And all the way I saw planes that were mistooken for starsShe played games but she took em too farAt the drive inWatching soft porn and you can tellBy the trail of the dead, that there was somethin in the popcornI hop in my cab destination midtownJust to get up with some kids that like to get downI'd made my rounds and that was thatIn between the frowns and scraps and heart attacksAnd I remember I seen her ass in early novemberOn a thursday takein back sunday for a refundShe shot a wink like no hard feelingsThen she jetted to brazil man them pills had me spun
This is the story of the year right hereThis is hot water musicPut ya ramen into it
Whiney: (OK, I like Thrice and the Fallout Boy/My Chem singles are pretty hot. But I never liked Trail Of Fucking Dead!)
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)
I really haven't heard too many awful records. The Daft Punk, though, was fairly bad -- not simply because it was repetitive, but because the stuff it repeated was often really irritating ("One More Time" worked because it was catchy and euphoric) and they didn't bother to build on what good ideas they had. I have listened to "Robot Rock" about once in the last eight months and Breakwater's "Release the Beast" about 15.
― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:43 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)
― disco violence (disco violence), Saturday, 19 November 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Saturday, 19 November 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)
― Don Rowlando (Sam Rowlands), Saturday, 19 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
Whiney voice, crappy lyrics and predictable formula staid stadium rock sound.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 19 November 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Saturday, 19 November 2005 17:02 (twenty years ago)
Hey!
― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Saturday, 19 November 2005 18:15 (twenty years ago)
― BeeOK (boo radley), Saturday, 19 November 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)
― JoB (JoB), Saturday, 19 November 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)
The only good music seems to be dark folk and industrial nowadays.
Maybe I'm just pissed off from listening to the radio today.
― [euchrid] (euchrid), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)
― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)
It's an absolutely unlistenable mess. So is the new Broken Social Scene album, but at least that has a few redeemable/great tunes. Oh and that Billy Corgan solo album is pretty shite. 2005 was pretty shitty albums wise...
― ohyeah, Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:28 (twenty years ago)
it definately was not
but i nominate
HARD-Fi - Stars of CCTVMinus the Bear - Menus El Oso [who listens to this?]both Bright Eyes albums
― Rizz (Rizz), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)
― ohyeah, Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)
― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Saturday, 19 November 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)
Seconded from above: Tori Amos, Daft Punk, and Broken Social Scene--all sound entirely phoned-in.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)
where to start
― Rizz (Rizz), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 19 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Saturday, 19 November 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)
ive listened to it 3 or 4 times and i'm gonna leave it at that i think ;-)
― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)
― Rizz (Rizz), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)
― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)
Or listen to music much.
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)
― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)
Blasphemer!!!
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)
― Bryan (Bryan), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)
― BeeOK (boo radley), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)
― The Cheese (johnny fever), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:41 (twenty years ago)
― Ned T.Rifle (nedtrifle), Sunday, 20 November 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)
― adam (adam), Sunday, 20 November 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)
― coolrockboy, Sunday, 20 November 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 20 November 2005 08:36 (twenty years ago)
xp
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Sunday, 20 November 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)
Who said it was?
Dom, I see where you're coming from there, but I reckon you're way off beam with The Rakes - they're 1000x more imaginative and interesting than the rest of your sorry bunch, and the album's ace imho.
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 20 November 2005 10:10 (twenty years ago)
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Sunday, 20 November 2005 10:11 (twenty years ago)
in the past few weeks on talksport i have heard adverts from the best of Dire Straits, also Bryan Adams and in today's Observer Music Monthly: "Alanis Morissette The Collection" advert.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Sunday, 20 November 2005 17:39 (twenty years ago)
Yeah, the Rakes album is one of those things that makes a virtue out of genre necessities. I don't wholeheartedly endorse it, but there's more good than bad on there.
― THIS IS THE SOUND OF ALTERN 8 !!! (noodle vague), Sunday, 20 November 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
http://villagevoice.com/music/0547,christgau,70199,22.html
― xhuxk, Monday, 21 November 2005 01:15 (twenty years ago)
Human After All was pretty bad, too, but at least that had "Technologic".
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 21 November 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 21 November 2005 02:44 (twenty years ago)
― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:51 (twenty years ago)
― Abbadabba Berman (Hurting), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)
Goldcrapp - Supernature (not bad alone, but a big disappointing turd)
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Monday, 21 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 21 November 2005 04:04 (twenty years ago)
― Sym Sym (sym), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:37 (twenty years ago)
How about not expecting random internet people to read your mind, thanks in advance!
― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 21 November 2005 05:40 (twenty years ago)
Well at least something thats in stock at boomkat, thanks in advance jackass!
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)
― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)
― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)
I've heard or at least heard about every album mentioned in this entire thread. So it is possible, crybaby.
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:15 (twenty years ago)
not crying, not mistaken. I just know your taste stinks. so I'm looking to do capitalize on this.
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:18 (twenty years ago)
is that irony? that track was probebly the most awful thing on there.
― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:26 (twenty years ago)
― 'Twan (miccio), Monday, 21 November 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)
― disco violence (disco violence), Monday, 21 November 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 21 November 2005 10:22 (twenty years ago)
― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 21 November 2005 11:29 (twenty years ago)
― retroboy, Monday, 21 November 2005 12:12 (twenty years ago)
― aaron d.g. (aaron d.g.), Monday, 21 November 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)
Alex in Montreal did:
There has been a lot of disappointments (British Sea Power, Blackalicious, Broken Social Scene)
I'm presuming he meant Open Season, anyway...
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)
It has been months though, so maybe I'll give it a spin now.
― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 21 November 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)
I found that I was initially a bit perplexed about Open Season--I found myself thinking of it as a step back rather than forward, but after repeated listens (over about a month) it really started to grow on me, in the beautiful way where you find yourself humming along even though you wouldn't say you really knew the songs...
― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:33 (twenty years ago)
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)
― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)
agreed that days of mars is fucking boring though. the whole thing seems disingenuous.
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 21 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)
Because you are a "music sections editor" means your tastes are better than anothers?
Another man's trash.
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)
Because you are a "music sections editor" means your tastes are better than anothers? Oh and BSS album was not a dud, it was one of the best.
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)
― 'Twan (miccio), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)
Sony copy-protected cds install rootkit on your computer
― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)
― gear (gear), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 02:05 (twenty years ago)
― qualler, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)
― telephone thing, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 18:08 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)
― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:40 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)
Has anyone heard the new Tom Green?
― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)
How does this make A Bigger Bang any different from their last five albums?
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 12 December 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:22 (twenty years ago)
― retrogurl, Monday, 12 December 2005 17:50 (twenty years ago)
Tori undersells herself by making music suitable for grocery stores. Lazy melodies, embarrasingly trite arrangements. And the unintentionally self-parodic lyrics and bad production values aren't helping much, either.
― Turangalila (Salvador), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― Turangalila (Salvador), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)