Author Topic: What album are you listening to? v.6 (Read 479131 times)

NoseofNicko · « **Reply #6265 on:** July 22, 2020, 11:41:50 AM »

Edit: Posted in the wrong thread. Derp.

mike099 · « **Reply #6266 on:** July 22, 2020, 12:23:17 PM »

Sacul · « **Reply #6267 on:** July 22, 2020, 12:43:06 PM »

Quote from: NoseofNicko on July 22, 2020, 11:18:10 AM

Tough record

SystematicThought · « **Reply #6268 on:** July 22, 2020, 04:40:36 PM »

Quote from: mike099 on July 22, 2020, 12:23:17 PM

Love this one! And I really enjoyed Black Brick compared to a lot of other people

TAC · « **Reply #6269 on:** July 22, 2020, 06:58:18 PM »

2020 music

faizoff · « **Reply #6270 on:** July 22, 2020, 07:22:04 PM »

Currently in soundtrack mode esp scores of TV shows and been listening to the entire Mr. Robot's score on repeat. Great stuff which is very inspired by Trent Reznor- Atticus Ross and even some M83 plus I'm sure there's a few I'm missing.
On Volume 3.

Revenge319 · « **Reply #6271 on:** July 22, 2020, 10:47:32 PM »

Tonight, I will be listening to four albums back-to-back. I've never heard any of these before, and two of the bands are ones I've never listened to before in my life.

Transatlantic's Bridge Across Forever is a masterpiece, so I know I've gotta get to their other albums. So I'll start with SMPT:e, which apparently has what a lot of people consider to be their best song
I was originally going to do Porcupine Tree's The Incident, but decided to go with Lightbulb Sun since I'm listening to four albums in a row and this is the shorter album of the two.
I'm interested in Leprous mainly because people have compared them to Haken, so I picked Coal as that seems to be the fan-favorite.
And as for TesseracT... I mainly just decided to go with them now because I think the album art for Polaris looks cool.

Big Hath · « **Reply #6272 on:** July 22, 2020, 11:26:35 PM »

Lowdz · « **Reply #6273 on:** July 23, 2020, 02:23:23 AM »

Quote from: TAC on July 22, 2020, 06:58:18 PM

2020 music

I enjoyed the Lightbringer.

Revenge319 · « **Reply #6274 on:** July 23, 2020, 07:29:07 AM »

Transatlantic - SMPT:e - Pretty good album, as I expected, though I'd say Bridge Across Forever is significantly better. I'm not sure I'm a fan of We All Need Some Light, but everything else was great. The lyrics aren't the best, though...
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun - Out of the four albums I listened to today, I think I enjoyed this one the most. I like the atmosphere of Porcupine Tree's later albums better, but this one's still really good. I think my favorites off the album are Hatesong and Feel So Low.
Leprous - Coal - Honestly, I didn't care much for this album. It felt way too repetitive at times and I do not like the harsh vocals. I did like a couple songs on this album (The Valley and Salt), but aside from those two, I don't think I'd want to return to this album. Furthermore, I'm unsure if I'd want to listen to anything else by Leprous, provided it's anything similar to this album. That being said, I don't think this is a bad album or anything, it's just not something I really enjoyed.
TesseracT - Polaris - I'm a bit confused here. It feels like I shouldn't like this album -- it reminds me of a lot of bands that I find annoying -- but yet I do like this album. It's nothing fantastic, but I like it enough that I'd listen to it again. My only complaint is that it felt like all the songs kind of sounded the same, but at least it sounded good. Going in, I was expecting the album to be heavy and aggressive, but I'm surprised at how melodic it tended to be. I've heard their previous album, Altered State, was really good, so I might check that out in the near future.

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #6275 on:** July 23, 2020, 07:29:49 AM »

Quote from: Revenge319 on July 22, 2020, 10:47:32 PM

Best Leprous album.

One of the best Porcupine Tree albums, but pretty inconsistent (the three that came afterwards are better)

(Debatably) worst Tesseract album. Listen to Altered State or Sonder instead.

No opinion on Transatlantic.

The Walrus · « **Reply #6276 on:** July 23, 2020, 01:01:42 PM »

On today's agenda, playing a bit of catch-up with a band I haven't paid attention to for 10 years:

Nachtmerrie · « **Reply #6277 on:** July 23, 2020, 01:02:11 PM »

Quote from: Revenge319 on July 23, 2020, 07:29:07 AM

Transatlantic - SMPT:e - Pretty good album, as I expected, though I'd say Bridge Across Forever is significantly better. I'm not sure I'm a fan of We All Need Some Light, but everything else was great. The lyrics aren't the best, though...
Porcupine Tree - Lightbulb Sun - Out of the four albums I listened to today, I think I enjoyed this one the most. I like the atmosphere of Porcupine Tree's later albums better, but this one's still really good. I think my favorites off the album are Hatesong and Feel So Low.
Leprous - Coal - Honestly, I didn't care much for this album. It felt way too repetitive at times and I do not like the harsh vocals. I did like a couple songs on this album (The Valley and Salt), but aside from those two, I don't think I'd want to return to this album. Furthermore, I'm unsure if I'd want to listen to anything else by Leprous, provided it's anything similar to this album. That being said, I don't think this is a bad album or anything, it's just not something I really enjoyed.
TesseracT - Polaris - I'm a bit confused here. It feels like I shouldn't like this album -- it reminds me of a lot of bands that I find annoying -- but yet I do like this album. It's nothing fantastic, but I like it enough that I'd listen to it again. My only complaint is that it felt like all the songs kind of sounded the same, but at least it sounded good. Going in, I was expecting the album to be heavy and aggressive, but I'm surprised at how melodic it tended to be. I've heard their previous album, Altered State, was really good, so I might check that out in the near future.

Leprous is a completely different band right now. You might want to try Pitfalls.

Polaris is indeed considerd TesseracT's weakest album. If you like it you will probably like Altered State and Sonder. Their debut One is also great but contains some harsh vocals which might put you off.

The Walrus · « **Reply #6278 on:** July 23, 2020, 01:24:04 PM »

I really, really dislike Sonder and Polaris, I don't enjoy them at all, but Altered State is really good imo.

Sacul · « **Reply #6279 on:** July 23, 2020, 01:46:57 PM »

Yeah Altered State has some bangers

Lowdz · « **Reply #6280 on:** July 23, 2020, 04:15:00 PM »

Heaven - Knocking On Heavens Door

Marillion- Marbles, Seasons End

Ruch - Test For Echo - I was challenged by a colleague as he loves it and I don’t. It was better than I remember but still not great.

NoseofNicko · « **Reply #6281 on:** July 23, 2020, 04:19:01 PM »

jjrock88 · « **Reply #6282 on:** July 23, 2020, 05:18:52 PM »

AC/DC- For Those About to Rock

Saxon- Rock the Nations

Kiss- Rock and Roll Over

Twisted Sister- You Can't Stop Rock n Roll

Rock

jjrock88 · « **Reply #6283 on:** July 23, 2020, 07:07:02 PM »

Fifth Angel- s/t

Accept- Breaker

Def Leppard- Hysteria

King Puppies and the Acid Guppies · « **Reply #6284 on:** July 23, 2020, 10:12:38 PM »

It's been a while since I've listened to this album, but wow, this has got to be the absolute worst Maiden album ever. The music feels lazy and the the songwriting is terrible. How did they go from Seventh Son to this?

Big Hath · « **Reply #6285 on:** July 23, 2020, 11:44:17 PM »

Bentower · « **Reply #6286 on:** July 24, 2020, 12:28:36 AM »

Höyry-kone - Hyönteisiä voi rakastaa
Höyry-kone - Huono parturi
Luciferion - The Apostate
Morbid Angel - Covenant
Morbid Angel - Domination
Carcass - Heartwork
Haken - Virus

NoseofNicko · « **Reply #6287 on:** July 24, 2020, 09:56:32 AM »

Taylor Swift - Folklore

Buddyhunter1 · « **Reply #6288 on:** July 24, 2020, 09:59:14 AM »

Nice atmospheric black metal album cover.

NoseofNicko · « **Reply #6289 on:** July 24, 2020, 10:00:49 AM »

Indeed lol.

Zantera · « **Reply #6290 on:** July 24, 2020, 11:42:47 AM »

Quote from: Puppies_On_Acid on July 23, 2020, 10:12:38 PM

It's been a while since I've listened to this album, but wow, this has got to be the absolute worst Maiden album ever. The music feels lazy and the the songwriting is terrible. How did they go from Seventh Son to this?

I get why Adrian Smith jumped ship based on the direction they took. Powerslave, Somewhere in Time and Seventh Son (especially) were more ambitious & epic albums that went for a bigger scope and tried to do big things and to go from that to the simple 'lets do some gritty street sound rockers' just seemed so reductive in retrospect.

As someone who used to listen to loads of Maiden and Bruce in my teen years and have now come back around to re-discover the discographies ~10 years later, Maiden's 90s is just really weak. I have a mild soft spot for X Factor but generally I would say even if you took the best ~3 songs from each of the 4 Maiden albums in the 90s, you'd still get an album that wasn't among their best overall. I don't know if it's controversial or not but Bruce definitely had a stronger output in that decade than Maiden did. (though Sign of the Cross and the Clansman are both among my favorite Maiden tunes)

Lowdz · « **Reply #6291 on:** July 24, 2020, 04:17:31 PM »

twosuitsluke · « **Reply #6292 on:** July 24, 2020, 04:25:36 PM »

Evermind · « **Reply #6293 on:** July 25, 2020, 03:07:58 AM »

(Messenger - Illusory Blues)

This is fairly nice, mild progressive rock I guess? Will definitely get more spins from me.

Train of Naught · « **Reply #6294 on:** July 25, 2020, 03:32:46 AM »

Have been sleeping on this album for way too long. What an absolutely immersive and hypnotic (in the best way possible) ride

Crow · « **Reply #6295 on:** July 25, 2020, 02:13:16 PM »

the curious case of an album that's one kinda bog-standard slower black metal track surrounded by two excellent blackened drone tracks that make up almost three-quarters of the total runtime

i don't know what to make of that

jjrock88 · « **Reply #6296 on:** July 25, 2020, 02:46:29 PM »

Van Halen- Women and Children First

Rush- Grace Under Pressure

Saxon- Power and the Glory

Queensryche- Greatest Hits

TAC · « **Reply #6297 on:** July 25, 2020, 02:51:11 PM »

Quote from: jjrock88 on July 25, 2020, 02:46:29 PM

Van Halen- Women and Children First

Saxon- Power and the Glory

2 GREAT albums!

Lowdz · « **Reply #6298 on:** July 25, 2020, 02:55:49 PM »

Love Power and Glory.

jjrock88 · « **Reply #6299 on:** July 25, 2020, 04:32:26 PM »

I could listen to the first six Van Halen albums over and over and over and never get tired of them. The quintessential hard rock.

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Author Topic: What album are you listening to? v.6 (Read 479131 times)