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Self-explanatory

Got to some stuff I've been meaning to check out for a while now:

Ma$e - Harlem World
how is the most celebrated album of only member of CotC who can go toe-to-toe with Big L on tracks... so banal? seriously boring, the tracks with Busta and Jay-Z were ok. whatever. i'm pretty disappointed in this. also late 90s rap albums really need fewer skits, this is just a science

Dowsing - It's Still Pretty Terrible
this is pretty great, and i definitely need to listen to more 4th wave emo. Littoral and Midwest Living are stand-out tracks, and i love when two bangers like that hit back-to-back essentially creating one ultra carmenic (tbh just making up that word rn) experience. but the whole album is incredibly listenable, if maybe a bit more indebted to pop melodies than i like in my emo. very fun

Camping in Alaska - Please Be Nice
i don't know why i listened to this, it's pretty minor but i really liked the one track i'd heard (Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4). however after listening to the whole record that is still the only track i really like. whatever. can't really go wrong with this genre, i find emo often very valuable on first listen even if u don't think it'll have staying power in your rotation

I rarely listen through albums these days but I found myself relistening to the classic Chinoiseries by Onra in it's entirety the other day for the first time in years.

How come I cannot put youtube videos in a spoiler, B?

i listened to tony allen the source from 2017 yesterday

and money jungle w/duke ellington, max roach and mingus the day before

greennui wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 6:23 pm How come I cannot put youtube videos in a spoiler, B?

greennui wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 6:22 pm I rarely listen through albums these days but I found myself relistening to the classic Chinoiseries by Onra in it's entirety the other day for the first time in years.

Spoiler!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYgD_D_sT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKC9kh2y-EI

Fixed! Thanks for the reminder! This had been broken since people were getting locked out, and I completely forgotten about it

More midwest emo revival

Moose Blood - "I'll Keep You In Mind from Time to TIme"
I'd already heard Gum, and that is the best part. Bukowsski would be great if not boringly dude-ish in its literary references. Bukowski and Hemingway? What colour are your bedsheets bro? Red? Get out of town kid.

Modern Baseball
- "Sports" 2012
- "You're Gonna Miss It All" 2014
- "Holy Ghost" 2016

Like pretty much any emo act it gets less interesting as it goes along. Sports is actually really listenable cover to cover, and I'd already heard The Weekend but not @chl03k, which is the perfect second act to that shit, very millenial

Second one started off great but I've listened twice now and it's sort of just a blur after that. No real fluctuation in the notes it hits. But the drop from track one to track two is pretty great. This showed potential. Then the 2016 one was just like the 2014 one minus the first two excellent tunes on the 2014 one. Disappointing showing boys

And finally some more
Dowsing - I Don't Even Care Anymore
Only listened to this once and I'm gonna listen to it again because I generally liked but wanna see if anything sticks to more on a second listen.

Comus - First Utterance (1971)
don't know much about this sort of stuff but i love emerson lake and palmer, anyway, this is amazing. not sure if it's intended as such but one of the realest depictions of mental illness i've ever seen expressed in art. i think it's probably a little more universal than that, but maybe that's actually just pretty universal. something for me to think about. anyway, i love this and it's in my t40 albums i reckon

bure wrote: ↑Sun May 03, 2020 8:33 pm

greennui wrote: ↑Fri May 01, 2020 6:22 pm I rarely listen through albums these days but I found myself relistening to the classic Chinoiseries by Onra in it's entirety the other day for the first time in years.

Spoiler!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYgD_D_sT4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKC9kh2y-EI

Fixed! Thanks for the reminder! This had been broken since people were getting locked out, and I completely forgotten about it

Neato!

don't know why this has been hitting for me a lot these days but i've been listening to coil's last full album the ape of naples, both in full and songs individually. it's a kind of hodge-podge of late recordings, when singer jhon balance was alive and assembled after his death, but there is a real continuity to it, even more so when you think of it as someone who loved him putting it all together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjhGXjSK4Ik

Ape of Naples is my 3rd favourite album and their icon is the first tattoo I got.

Pretentious Hipster wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 8:30 pm Ape of Naples is my 3rd favourite album and their icon is the first tattoo I got.

do you like the live albums recorded around that time?

nrh wrote: ↑Fri May 15, 2020 5:34 am

Pretentious Hipster wrote: ↑Wed May 13, 2020 8:30 pm Ape of Naples is my 3rd favourite album and their icon is the first tattoo I got.

do you like the live albums recorded around that time?

Selvaggina, Go Back Into the Woods was interesting, but I feel like it's just a slightly worse version of the deluxe edition of Black Antlers. Jhonn's performance in ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms is so emotional.

CHARLI XCX

https://open.spotify.com/album/3a9qH2VE ... _CAu5G3tLA

rischka wrote: ↑Sat May 16, 2020 11:20 pm CHARLI XCX

https://open.spotify.com/album/3a9qH2VE ... _CAu5G3tLA

oh shit! that and the magnetic fields in the same day, excellent

big thief albums from last year and kota the friend (dropped yesterday)

Madonna - Rebel Heart

Loved it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1flq8LKkzk

video has it's own letterboxd entry:
https://letterboxd.com/film/memory-vague/

80s babies

first album by Choo-ja Kim. It's one of my favorites, and one I love to return to again and again:


Before It's Too Late (1969) - Shin Jung Hyun Composition Collection/Kim Choo Ja


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ye5ijR ... NGcqtqqrKY

relaxing chill-out music:

Through the Looking Glass (1983) - Midori Takada

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

also yesterday and today I've been extensively and repeatedly listening to this one again. Very relaxing as well.

Utakata no Hibi (1983) - Mariah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss41Oed ... Y7EhKYovr7

one of my favorite composers:

Hana-bi [score] (1998) - Joe Hisaishi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLOAl2T ... OgKRnLtplk

♥♥

The Legend Of The Dragon (1990) - Hong-jun Lyu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhnPqoo0giA

public enemy classics fear of a black planet and it takes a nation of millions ofc

new freddie gibbs is good too

New Freddie Gibbs is indeed great. I've been listening to this a lot ever since COVID hit England.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5PI6YZLIvs

thx greennui this person's channel is helping me to live right now can't concentrate on films or anything else