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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 19, 2017 19:37:31 GMT -5
Boredoms - Soul Discharge (1989)Ah the Boredoms, a band no one except 17 to 20 year olds trying to be edgy would ever try to claim is actually good. Like all good try-hards I had a brief flirtation with the Boredoms, purchasing a later album (Chocolate Synthesizer) when I was in college, but eventually I grew up and realized I don't get bonus points in life for "liking" "music" that everyone else in the world thinks is awful and annoying. I think the Boredoms themselves came to this conclusion around the same time that I did and stopped making random noise albums and turned into sun worshiping hippies that did drum circles and shit. I don't know, but that's what I recall reading years after the fact. Pre-Existing PrejudicesI've heard the Boredoms before. I have an idea of what to expect but I have not actually heard any of these songs as far as I know. SongsI'm actually listening to a reissue from 1994 that has some random bonus tracks spread out over the course of the album rather than just dumped at the end of the album as is usually the case. Apparently sequencing means as little to the Boredoms as it did to Queen. "Your Name is Limitless" Keyboard xylophones plinking out an elementary melody. Sci-fi space noise. Random drums. Vocals that sound like a muppet playing a kazoo. Screaming from the depths of hell. We're off to a great fucking start here. "Bubblebop Shot" Grunting and occasional grindcore blast beats before it's time for bargain basement grunge riffs and growling. I have no idea what language these people are speak-singing in. This is grating and unpleasant to listen to. The song keeps stopping and starting back up again. It's bad. Real bad. "52 Boredoms (Club Mix)" We get about 20 seconds of the B-52s song "52 Girls" before noise happens. It's all wah bass and shit. "Sun, Gun, Run" This is almost a real song. There's a discernible melody and kind of a chorus and stuff. The vocals are still just growls, chirps and grunts but it's almost not terrible. "Z & U & T & A" A minute or so of jazz guitar and actual barking before it's time for shrieking and hard rock riffs. This is so dumb. Why won't this song just end? "TV Scorpion" Bass throb and a young man doing an old man voice growling stuff. There are about a million people screaming shit in this song. That's honestly true about most of these songs. "Pow Wow Now" The opening to this song rules. Let's see how they manage to fuck it up! This bass riff is fucking awesome and the dwarves of the deep vocals work with it. Annnnnd here we go. Random acapella scatting for no reason. 80s guitar hero guitar solos and people who sound like cartoons chirping nonsense. It was pretty cool for a minute or so. "J.B. Dick + Tin Turner Pussy" More noise. High pitched guitar shit this time. This is the first time I could actually understand any of the vocals though. They yell the song title over and over. "G.I.L. '77" Feedback! Space noise. Grumbling. Shrieking. This is so fucking annoying. "Jup-Na-Keeeeeel" Fuck you. "Catastro Mix 99" Suck my turd. "Milky Way" Space noise and distorted brass. It's short and not terrible. "Songs Without Electric Guitars" Exactly as it says on the tin. Chirping and acoustic guitar riffs. "Hawaiian Disco Bollocks" Beneath all the noise there's some shitty "Wipe Out" surf riffs and occasional luau ukulele stuff, but mostly it's just bullshit. "Hawaiian Disco Without Bollocks" To the Boredoms "bollocks" equal four minutes and thirty-four seconds of noise with shitty "Wipe Out" surf riffs and occasional luau ukulele stuff since this song is literally the last three seconds of the song that proceeded it played again. Final ThoughtsThe fact that this exists doesn't really make me that angry. Nerds and art kids need stuff that makes them feel superior to their classmates and stuff that pisses off their parents and this kills two birds with one stone. That being said the fact that this is counted among the best albums of the 1980s while there's not a single thrash metal album on the list, no B-52s at all, and like four hip-hop albums total makes me furious. What merits does this album have? How many millions did it sell? How many artists did it influence? What criteria did it meet to be on this list? I know I talked shit about Jane's Addiction and the Mekons but that was because they were doing stuff I, myself, didn't care for. Their importance could I suppose be argued for if not creating than popularizing sounds that influenced other bands and in the case of Jane's Addiction creating the big touring festival thing of the 90s and beyond, but this? This is bullshit. It didn't give rise to a musical genre, it was not commercially successful, and aside from the drummer getting name-checked by The Flaming Lips on one of their albums no one in this band had any major impact on music as a whole. Fuck this album and fuck Pitchfork for including it on this stupid list. Best Song: They're all bad but the first minute or so of "Pow Wow Now" was okay and "Milky Way" wasn't outright awful. Worst Song: All of them are equally bad since all of them are more or less the same. Next time on Nudeviking vs. The 80s we're going to listen to Spacemen 3's album Playing With Fire. I know nothing of this band or this album except for the fact that there were always a million Spacemen 3 albums and singles in the mailorder catalog I used to order records from back before the internet was a place where you could easily order obscure music from and so I'm assuming they are either some sort of punk or early 90s indie/college rock band since that's pretty much all that particular mailorder catalog carried.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Sept 20, 2017 10:26:50 GMT -5
Hey, shit on Boredoms all you want, but don't shit on Boredoms fans. I like Boredoms and I couldn't care less about being edgy. They're also more influential than you think, although I grant you it's a pretty niche influence. As a general rule, I don't think a band or artist can achieve real success just on the back of people pretending to like their music. It's just not possible.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 20, 2017 11:27:18 GMT -5
As a general rule, I don't think a band or artist can achieve real success just on the back of people pretending to like their music. It's just not possible. Death Grips tho
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 11:36:46 GMT -5
As a general rule, I don't think a band or artist can achieve real success just on the back of people pretending to like their music. It's just not possible. Death Grips tho I genuinely like Death Grips but she right
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 20, 2017 11:54:34 GMT -5
I also would like to go to bat for this band, because if this is an accurate description: "52 Boredoms (Club Mix)" We get about 20 seconds of the B-52s song "52 Girls" before noise happens. Then the Boredoms were obviously a major influence on The Human Lobsters
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2017 11:57:29 GMT -5
I also would like to go to bat for this band, because if this is an accurate description: "52 Boredoms (Club Mix)" We get about 20 seconds of the B-52s song "52 Girls" before noise happens. Then the Boredoms were obviously a major influence on The Human Lobsters
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 20, 2017 17:39:00 GMT -5
Hey, shit on Boredoms all you want, but don't shit on Boredoms fans. I like Boredoms and I couldn't care less about being edgy. They're also more influential than you think, although I grant you it's a pretty niche influence. As a general rule, I don't think a band or artist can achieve real success just on the back of people pretending to like their music. It's just not possible. I'm glad someone who claims to be a fan has appeared because I have questions. What about this the Boredoms in general and this album specifically do you enjoy? What do you get out of this album that you can't get from any other album? How does it speak to you?
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 20, 2017 21:31:54 GMT -5
Nudeviking, for the list-makers I'd say The Boredoms' influence shows up in John Zorn's Naked City (entry number 47). They inspired Sonic Youth, whose Daydream Nation is ranked number 1. So there appears to be some coherence within the list's contents. Based on your revulsion to this inaccessible work, I predict you will not enjoy Coil's Horse Rotovator or Nurse With Wound's Homotopy for Marie. I opine that Pitchfork wrote this list to further its aesthetic, "We are curious nerds who want to understand art without making any. Once we've claimed comprehension, we will dictate our sense of right and wrong to other curious nerds like us with supercilious authority. Thereby creating an art." Or some such "down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass" post-modernist sentiment. For this ephemeral record of listening to records that some group of people decided were crucial to the development of culture, I don't like The Boredoms very much, either. There's some stuff in their Super Roots EPs that I like. I made the mistake of buying Pop Tatari some 20 years ago because it was $2. I canvas the earth demanding that $2 back.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 20, 2017 21:41:27 GMT -5
Nudeviking , for the list-makers I'd say The Boredoms' influence shows up in John Zorn's Naked City (entry number 47). They inspired Sonic Youth, whose Daydream Nation is ranked number 1. So there appears to be some coherence within the list's contents. Based on your revulsion to this inaccessible work, I predict you will not enjoy Coil's Horse Rotovator or Nurse With Wound's Homotopy for Marie. I opine that Pitchfork wrote this list to further its aesthetic, "We are curious nerds who want to understand art without making any. Once we've claimed comprehension, we will dictate our sense of right and wrong to other curious nerds like us with supercilious authority. Thereby creating an art." Or some such "down the rabbit hole and through the looking glass" post-modernist sentiment. For this ephemeral record of listening to records that some group of people decided were crucial to the development of culture, I don't like The Boredoms very much, either. There's some stuff in their Super Roots EPs that I like. I made the mistake of buying Pop Tatari some 20 years ago because it was $2. I canvas the earth demanding that $2 back. Don't John Zorn and Sonic Youth both predate the Boredoms though? I know that influence can be reciprocal and stuff but if anything I'd say Boredoms were more influenced by Zorn and Sonic Youth than the other way since they were both doing noisy/difficult music before the Boredoms even existed (though in both cases with a far greater attention to pop sensibilities).
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 21, 2017 1:26:36 GMT -5
Nudeviking, predate yes. Cross-pollination because Naked City contains Boredoms singer, Yamantanka Eye. Thurston Moore recorded with Eye in 1987. Eye is a one-of-a-kind that inspires because of his otherworldly weirdness.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Sept 21, 2017 2:41:05 GMT -5
Hey, shit on Boredoms all you want, but don't shit on Boredoms fans. I like Boredoms and I couldn't care less about being edgy. They're also more influential than you think, although I grant you it's a pretty niche influence. As a general rule, I don't think a band or artist can achieve real success just on the back of people pretending to like their music. It's just not possible. I'm glad someone who claims to be a fan has appeared because I have questions. What about this the Boredoms in general and this album specifically do you enjoy? What do you get out of this album that you can't get from any other album? How does it speak to you? OK let's do this... As a preamble : I don't consider myself a Boredoms fan. As I said, I like their music. A Boredoms album wouldn't crack my personal top 100. But I know many Boredoms fans and there's no doubt in my mind their love is genuine. So, what do I like in them ? In short, it's dumb loud chaotic fun. This is not elitist or refined, it's just dumb. It makes me feel like I'm a 6-year old again. Sure, it's not everyday music. It's not the music you listen to in the car while picking up the kids at school. But, when you're in the mood for some nonsensical anarchic violent music to completely numb your brain, it's perfect. This album's not my favorite. I actually had to relisten to it cause I was not really familiar with it. The later albums are a little less hysterical. But that one's still a lot of fun. What do I get out of this album that I can't get from any other album? Well I don't work that way. No album is an island. When I want to listen to that kind of music, I would actually be more inclined to listen to some Melt-Banana or Lightning Bolt. To finish, I will defend hipster-posturing for a minute. There's a difference between pretending to like a music because it makes you feel superior and actually liking a music because it makes you feel superior. The former is stupid behavior, but I don't think many people do it. The latter is more prominent among hipsters and I'm completely fine with that. There's no wrong way to like music. If it brings you genuine enjoyment then go for it.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Sept 21, 2017 2:47:12 GMT -5
Based on your revulsion to this inaccessible work, I predict you will not enjoy Coil's Horse Rotovator or Nurse With Wound's Homotopy for Marie. Horse Rotorvator is awesome, and way more accessible than any Boredoms album. "Slur" is one of my favorite songs of all time. Yeah, I don't remember if I listened to Homotopy for Marie (NWW's discography is such a giant clusterfuck), but Nurse With Wound can be really rough.
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 21, 2017 8:00:56 GMT -5
I'm glad someone who claims to be a fan has appeared because I have questions. What about this the Boredoms in general and this album specifically do you enjoy? What do you get out of this album that you can't get from any other album? How does it speak to you? OK let's do this... As a preamble : I don't consider myself a Boredoms fan. As I said, I like their music. A Boredoms album wouldn't crack my personal top 100. But I know many Boredoms fans and there's no doubt in my mind their love is genuine. So, what do I like in them ? In short, it's dumb loud chaotic fun. This is not elitist or refined, it's just dumb. It makes me feel like I'm a 6-year old again. Sure, it's not everyday music. It's not the music you listen to in the car while picking up the kids at school. But, when you're in the mood for some nonsensical anarchic violent music to completely numb your brain, it's perfect. This album's not my favorite. I actually had to relisten to it cause I was not really familiar with it. The later albums are a little less hysterical. But that one's still a lot of fun. What do I get out of this album that I can't get from any other album? Well I don't work that way. No album is an island. When I want to listen to that kind of music, I would actually be more inclined to listen to some Melt-Banana or Lightning Bolt. To finish, I will defend hipster-posturing for a minute. There's a difference between pretending to like a music because it makes you feel superior and actually liking a music because it makes you feel superior. The former is stupid behavior, but I don't think many people do it. The latter is more prominent among hipsters and I'm completely fine with that. There's no wrong way to like music. If it brings you genuine enjoyment then go for it. First of all, thank you for answer my questions and giving me a different perspective on something I find to be unpleasant for lack of a better word. I do understand the desire to listen to dumb, loud noise from time to time but like you would be more inclined to listen to something like Melt-Banana or Lightning Bolt or Sonic Youth where there is still some semblance of song structure. Like I said, even the Boredoms stopped doing this sort of stuff a few albums in. Chocolate Synthesizer (the only Boredoms album I own) came out a few years after this and was a lot more straight forward than this while still being loud and dumb. And though I disagree that liking music for making you feel superior is any less stupid than "liking" music because it makes you feel superior I do agree with the idea that if something brings you pleasure and enjoyment than go for it. If I, as you said in your earlier missive, "shit" on Boredoms fans I apologize though I don't really know if denying the existence of such people is the same as shitting on them, but I digress. Again, many thanks for answering my queries.
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Post by repulsionist on Sept 21, 2017 13:17:44 GMT -5
dwarfoscar, TIF toured NWW list almost completely 2015-2016. Might be archived. I noticed some of the links in the entries of the thread have died.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Sept 21, 2017 13:29:01 GMT -5
dwarfoscar , TIF toured NWW list almost completely 2015-2016. Might be archived. I noticed some of the links in the entries of the thread have died. Found itOne hell of an endeavor. I will check it out for sure, thanks !
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Post by Nudeviking on Sept 21, 2017 19:32:40 GMT -5
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire (1989)Spacemen 3. For the second or third time since beginning this deal I'm listening to a band I know absolutely nothing about. I used to see their name in the mail order catalog I used to order albums out of in the mid-90s so I assume they're a 90s indie or punk band since that's what that catalog offered, but other than that I haven't got a clue what they're about. Pre-Existing Prejudices
None at all. Songs
"Honey" There's space keyboards and organs and stuff. It's pretty mellow but not bad. This would be decent music for a Sunday drive. "Come Down Softly to My Soul" This is the second song without drums. I wonder if that's their shtick: drumless indie rock. "How Does it Feel?" There's some weird poem thing and then guitars that sound like a didgeridoo. Another guitar plays a simple melody. The spoken word stuff returns a few times over the course of the song but other than that it doesn't deviate from the course until like five minutes in when drums show up and the singer starts crooning. It's a little long for my liking but otherwise fine. "I Believe It" This sounds like going to church. "Revolution" Oh, I've heard this song before. I heard Mudhoney cover it but had no idea it was a cover. This song is great. I want to fuck some shit up while this is blasting on a boom box. I can't tell if they have a drummer or are using a drum machine. "Let Me Down Gently" More church organs and sci-fi throbbing. This kind of reminds me of Suicide (the band not the act of ending one's life). "So Hot (Wash Away All My Tears)" Mellow guitars. Crystalline keyboards. This is a pretty solid jam. The keyboards sound rad. "Suicide" This is almost 11 minutes long. Solid noise guitar riffs. Almost hypnotic. "Lord, Can You Hear Me?" This is such a downer after the previous track. It's all mellow and acoustic and shit for awhile and then there's distorted power chords. No drums again. Saxophones though. Bonus Tracks
I listened to some sort of rerelease from the 90s which means one thing: BONUS TRACKS! These are my opinions on those bonus tracks. "Suicide (Live)" A live version of "Suicide." Doesn't really do anything different from the album version. They seem like they were probably pretty good live but this is pretty inessential. "Repeater (How Does It Feel?)(Live)" "Repeater" is just "How Does It Feel?" This version is live. This version's a bit tighter than the album version excising the spoken word parts, but otherwise doesn't differ all that greatly from the album version. "Ché" A Suicide cover. It's pretty fine. They did a good job of making it sound like a Spacemen 3 song. "May The Circle Be Unbroken" Kind of blusey. Kind of boring. Final ThoughtsThis was a pretty okay late 80s alterna-rock album. A few of the songs were a bit to long for me but nothing here was offensive and there really weren't any massive failures. Having never heard this band before I'd be willing to listen to more of them off the strength of this album. I'm pretty sure that they show up again on this list so I have that to look forward to now. Best Song: "Revolution" or "Suicide" Worst Song: "May The Circle Be Unbroken" if bonus tracks count. "I Believe It" if they don't. Next up on the docket we get sexual with Prince's 1980 album, Dirty Mind, a Prince album I don't think I've actually heard much (if any) of before.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 6, 2017 21:53:39 GMT -5
Spacemen 3 means a whole lot to me. This album is my favourite. The Perfect Prescription is more of a white knuckle ride, but sometimes that's worth the danger.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 10, 2017 17:50:00 GMT -5
"May The Circle Be Unbroken" is a Carter Family/13th Floor Elevators worship by Jason Pierce. The Carter Family made Hillbilly music of some prominence, as an emulation of the family appears in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and June Carter Cash was a second generation Carter Family participant. The 13th Floor Elevators are usually mentioned as first using the word psychedelic in describing their rock music. Yeah, yeah there's a whole bunch of history behind this track. Twaddle, twaddle.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 18, 2017 23:46:50 GMT -5
Prince - Dirty Mind (1980)It's been awhile since I reviewed an album here, but an extended trip abroad will do that to a person. I'd intended to do some writeups during my flight but ended up watching random superhero movies and thus never did, but I'm back home now without in-flight entertainment to distract me, so here's a review of a Prince album. Pre-Existing Prejudices
I do not think I've ever actually heard any of these songs before. The album came out when my age could easily be counted in days and by the time I was aware of Prince this album had been overshadowed on TV and the radio by songs of Sign o' the Times and Purple Rain. I've always liked Prince well enough, but he was never a guy whose discography I ever felt the need to explore beyond a cursory level. Songs
"Dirty Mind" Prince is doing early 80s synth pop here. It sounds like "What a Feeing" or something but it's about fuckin' someone in a car because it is, after all, a Prince song. It's not a bad song. I kind of like the organ part. "When You Were Mine" Oh, I've heard this before but had no idea it was a Prince song. Cyndi Lauper covered this on She's So Unusual, an album I've listened to hundreds of times in my life. That version is solid, but this one is a bajillion times better. Ho fuck an organ solo! Can this song get any more awesome? "Do It All Night" 80s funk. Slap bass. Weird synths. Possible saxophones. Lyrics about fuckin'. "Gotta Broken Heart Again" This is the R&B slow jam. It's a finely executed R&B slow jam but R&B slow jams are not a thing I ever listen to really so I don't have any desire to hear this again. "Uptown" Funk bass and disco swinets all up in this mug. Prince encounters a lady on the street who inquires whether or not he's gay. Prince says, he's not and tosses the question back to her. He's not angry at her though since she's just a "victim of society." He proceeds to take her uptown where are the freaks and weirdos are having a grand inclusive time. Prince ends up fuckin' the lady and declares it to be the best night he's ever had. Here come the space lasers! All in all this was a solid Prince song about Prince not giving a shit if someone is straight, gay, black or white and also fuckin' a lady in a night club or something. "Head" Prince gets a blowjob from a bored sounding virgin on her way to her wedding. His dick and/or ejaculate is so tremendous that she skips her own wedding. The keyboards are funky as fuck. Of all the songs ever written about blowjobs this is up there with "She Shook Me Cold," by David Bowie as one of the best. "Sister" Um...did Prince fuck his sister? This would be a weird song even if it wasn't about incest. It's almost punk and then randomly just ends. "Partyup" Prince doesn't want to get drafted or something. He declares this over a wild funk jam. Also he seems annoyed that there's ice cream, but a lack of cake. Personally I'd be happy if this were the case. Ice cream's great but cake is just bread. This might be the only song on the album not about fuckin', proving that Prince has some range as a lyricist. Final Thoughts
While not as fully developed or as radio friendly as subsequent Prince albums, Dirty Mind was really good. This really shouldn't come as much of a surprise because it's a Prince album and that dude could write the fuck out of a pop song. This one gets fourteen thumbs up out a possible sixteen and two fifths thumbs up. Best Song: "When You Were Mine" Worst Song: "Gotta Broken Heart Again" (which isn't bad, it's just a style of music I personally don't care for). Next time we get one of my least favorite bands of all times, The Police doing an album I can only assume they named after a Japanimation movie that recently got turned into a whitewashed live action movie that I saw about 15 minutes of on an airplane before saying, "Fuck this, I'm going to try and sleep while sitting bolt upright on a plane." It's Police with Ghost in the Machine next time on Nudeviking vs. The 80s!
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Post by ganews on Oct 19, 2017 13:38:40 GMT -5
Glad you liked it. I was relatively lukewarm on this one, ultimately rating it only a "Burn It".
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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 21, 2017 12:18:06 GMT -5
I have no bone of contention with Prince as either a lyricist or musician, but the idea that anyone can take him as a figure of sexual allure has always seemed utterly laughable to me. He's about as sexy as cold rice pudding, and almost always writes about sex from the twelve-year-old-boy-trying-way-to-hard perspective. He's obviously a massively gifted individual, but... yeah. This album I head a lot when I was a student but i like it much more musically than lyrically - there's some decent funk in there, though funk isn't my favourite genre by any stretch, and some very skilled musicianship. "When You Were Mine" is the easy stand-out, but I really like "Partyup" too.
Good luck with The Police, who suck, Nudie!
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Post by Dellarigg on Oct 21, 2017 15:07:50 GMT -5
Sting is from Newcastle. There's ... not much we can do about that. He's probably - probably - the North East's most famous son, come to think of it, the competition for that title coming from Mark Knopfler, Eric Burdon, Eric Idle, Bryan Ferry, Ridley Scott, Neil Tennant, Brian Johnson of AC/DC, Charlie Hunnam, and Rowan Atkinson. And apparently also the mother of Butch Cassidy. Feel free to vote for who you think is the most famous out of that bunch.
(To be precise, he's from North Tyneside, which is where I'm from, and where I am now typing this. He lived a couple of miles from me.)
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 21, 2017 17:59:54 GMT -5
I have no bone of contention with Prince as either a lyricist or musician, but the idea that anyone can take him as a figure of sexual allure has always seemed utterly laughable to me. He's about as sexy as cold rice pudding, and almost always writes about sex from the twelve-year-old-boy-trying-way-to-hard perspective. He's obviously a massively gifted individual, but... yeah. This album I head a lot when I was a student but i like it much more musically than lyrically - there's some decent funk in there, though funk isn't my favourite genre by any stretch, and some very skilled musicianship. "When You Were Mine" is the easy stand-out, but I really like "Partyup" too. Good luck with The Police, who suck, Nudie! "Partyup" was probably the second best track on the album, and I kind of agree with you about the sexual allure of Prince. I recall Prince from the assless pants era and just laughing at it. I mean good on him for having zero shame but there was nothing sexy about a tiny, elfin man showing off his flat ass.
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Post by Nudeviking on Oct 22, 2017 19:21:38 GMT -5
The Police - Ghost in the Machine (1981)Time for some The Police. I never cared much for The Police or the man called Sting. Will listening to an entire album of their songs cause my dislike for them to fade away or will 40 minutes of Sting cause mild dislike to blossom into full-blown hatred? There's only one way to find out! Pre-Existing PrejudicesOf all the Police songs I've heard in my life the only one on this album I know I've heard before is, "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic." I do not care for it. Songs"Spirits in the Material World" Fuuuuuck...white guy reggae. Oh wait I've heard this song before, but had absolutely no memory of anything about it outside of the chorus. Yeah this is a bad song and a terrible album opener. "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" I kind of like the music during the verses but hate the choruses for the same reason I hate "Shiny Happy People." It's too over the top with good cheer. I guess I prefer downer synth noise to jolly piano plinking. "Invisible Sun" I'm all about the verses on this song, but the choruses almost ruin everything. "Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" I don't want to hear Sting sing in French. I especially don't want to hear Sting sing French over some garbage song with ska guitars and a brass section. "Demolition Man" Ugg...more shitty white guy reggae. I hate this shit so much. Why is this song so long? It just keeps going but never does anything interesting. I would rather watch the Sylvester Stallone/Wesley Snipes movie Demolition Man than listen to this song. "Too Much Information" 70s funk all up is this mug. There are so many saxophones on this album. I kind of hate it. The saxophones in this song caused me to fee the same way people do when they hear fingernails on a chalkboard. "Rehumanize Yourself" This sounds like a Wesley Willis song with bad David Bowie-esque saxophone noise added to it and lyrics about early 80s British political shit instead of lyrics about how many people were at a Stabbing Westward show and whupping a llama's ass with a belt. This is a bad song. "One World (Not Three)" I think I've heard this song before but could be confusing it with some other shitty white guy reggae song. I am so over this album. It's a bunch of shitty cultural appropriation and not even well done cultural appropriation. Like if you're going to appropriate some culture at least do it well so people will want to listen to it. This is just bad. "Omegaman" Holy shit this is great! Police why couldn't you have done an entire album that sounded like this? The shitty white guy reggae is infinitely worse than this. Ho fuck this guitar solo! This song's going on my workout mix. "Secret Journey" Some sinister shit's afoot in the opening and then a Police song. It sounds like pretty much every other Police song. I'm waiting for the man called Sting to scream, "Roxanne," but it never happens. If you like generic Police songs you'd probably like this, but if you don't you probably won't. "Darkness" What the fuck is this bullshit? What a terrible way to end an album. This is a bad slow jam. The man called Sting is at his whiniest here. There are saxophones and shit. I really dislike this and am ready for this album to end. And it's over! WOOO! Final ThoughtsThis was not the worst album I've listened to since starting this project since the songs were not just abstract noise. There were hooks and melodies and stuff, but that being said, this album was by and large pretty bad. I mean if you have a tolerance for white guy reggae or perhaps, god forbid, even enjoy shitty white guy reggae you'd probably not hate this album as much as I did. There were a couple fleeting moments on this album when stuff didn't suck completely, however these moments were few and far between and more often than not exceedingly short lived. Best Song: "Omegaman" Worst Song: "Too Much Information We go from bad to worse next time on Nudeviking vs. The 80s when Paul Simon takes us on a trip to Graceland and I scream fuck a lot and complain about Vampire Weekend and Chevy Chase.
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Post by ganews on Oct 22, 2017 19:36:04 GMT -5
See how you feel about "Invisible Sun" when covered by Aswad featuring Sting, another British reggae band. It was on the soundtrack to the 1999 X-Files Movie.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 23, 2017 20:47:21 GMT -5
Well, I like this album enough. It has memories attached from when I first encountered it as an adult ca. 2003. No respect for the artwork of the band members as seven-segment display? At least you found a new workout song.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 1, 2017 0:43:01 GMT -5
Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)Ug, Graceland. I have a pretty low threshold for Paul Simon shit to begin with and am of the mind that this shitty cultural appropriation that he's attempting to pass off as something new and exciting is probably the worst thing he ever did. I detest this album with the entirety of my being. Let's get angry! Pre-Existing Prejudices
I had a friend in elementary school who was of the mind that this was the greatest album of all time so I have undoubtedly heard these songs dozens of times in my youth. I have not heard the bulk of them since that time and no longer talk to that guy. Songs
"The Boy in the Bubble" Lame zydeco squeeze box shit and 80s gate filtered drumming and too much bass. I don't like the way this sounds. Musically it's too busy and it makes me feel uncomfortable. Paul Simon sounds bored. He's singing about basketball and jungle lasers, which are apparently miracles and or wonders. "Graceland" Fuck this song! To be fair to "Graceland" though I had absolutely no memory of the verses which are slightly less frustrating than choruses. They're still bad and even if they'd been fantastic the choruses alone would be enough for me to complain about this being the worst song of all the times. "I Know What I Know" These drums and guitars are fucking out of control and the lady singers are pretty alright. Paul Simon is an awful singer though and ruins shit. "Gumboots" More zydeco shit and bad Paul Simon talk-singing...and here come the saxophones! Fuck this stupid garbage song. "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" Fuck you Paul Simon. I hate you and wish you nothing but misfortune. Why are you the famous one while Art Garfunkel is basically a joke? God, why is this fucking song so long. I don't care about some guy's "ordinary shoes." "You Can Call Me Al" Ug! Fuck this song. Fuck you Paul Simon. Fuck you Chevy Chase. Fuck penny whistles. Fuck slap bass. Fuck 80s pop rock saxophone licks. The inevitable heat death of the universe cannot come fast enough! "Under African Skies" Linda Ronstadt's pretty good here, as she usually is, and the backwards guitar shit at the ends is kind of cool, but Paul Simon sucks so bad and these lyrics are kind of cringeworthy. "Homeless" AW YE YE! Ladysmith Black Mambazo! This is pretty solid until Paul Simon shows up to fuck everything up. "Crazy Love, Vol. II" Is there a "Crazy Love, Vol. I?" The verses sound like "Under the Sea." The chorus is all stupid sounding gate filtered drums and weirdly timed guitar shit. There are flute-phones all up in this mug...and goddamn saxophones. I don't like this at all. "That Was Your Mother" Paul Simon fucked your mom. That's the song. Shitty zydeco music while Paul Simon brags about fucking your mom. Part of me has to begrudgingly respect Paul Simon for writing what is basically the musical version of a "your mom" joke, but then he turns it around and blames my generation for ruining his generation's wine drinking, zydeco music orgies by being born, so fuck him. "All Around the World or the Myth of Fingerprints" Ah this song. I didn't recall what this song sounded like, but I do remember Los Lobos getting pissed off that Paul Simon basically stole this song from them and then didn't credit them for it or something. It does sound like a Los Lobos song and would probably be better if Los Lobos sang on it instead of that fucking nerd, Paul Simon. Fuck I hate this guy so much. Final Thoughts
Fuck Paul Simon. Fuck Graceland. Fuck penny whistles. Fuck Vampire Weekend. Fuck cultural appropriation. Fuck colonialism. Fuck 1986. Fuck Chevy Chase. Fuck saxophones. Fuck life. Best Song: If I have to pick one I guess, "I Know What I Know," isn't the worst thing I've ever heard and most of the stuff that other people sing on is okay until Paul Simon shows up to shit all over it. Worst Song: "Graceland" or "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" Next time on Nudeviking vs. The 80s we're listening to ESG's album Come Away With ESG. I have never heard of either the band/artist or this album but am already of the mind that whatever it is will be a massive improvement over this piece of shit album. FUCK PAUL SIMON!
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Post by repulsionist on Nov 1, 2017 3:50:26 GMT -5
Nudeviking, virulent and vehement takedown. I enjoyed it. Well done. I recently heard "Diamonds..." on NZ's The Coast. My sentiments exactly.
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Post by monodrone on Nov 1, 2017 9:25:20 GMT -5
"Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" Fuck you Paul Simon. I hate you and wish you nothing but misfortune. Why are you the famous one while Art Garfunkel is basically a joke? God, why is this fucking song so long. I don't care about some guy's "ordinary shoes." It's the hair. That's all it is. The hair. Poor Art. I will never listen to that album so can't comment on it any further.
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Post by Nudeviking on Nov 1, 2017 10:19:19 GMT -5
"Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" Fuck you Paul Simon. I hate you and wish you nothing but misfortune. Why are you the famous one while Art Garfunkel is basically a joke? God, why is this fucking song so long. I don't care about some guy's "ordinary shoes." It's the hair. That's all it is. The hair. Poor Art. I will never listen to that album so can't comment on it any further. You are a smarter man/woman/cactaur than I... More than any other album I've listened to since I started doing this, Graceland was the one that caused me to give pause and ask myself, "Why the hell am I even doing this?" It's really, really, really not a good album. FUCK PAUL SIMON!
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