The Syndicate

Jethro Tull - A Passion Play

insertnamehere wrote:Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (on Spotify)

Oh fuck yes.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:Scott Walker - Bish Bosch (on Spotify)

Oh man, love me some Scott Walker, but I haven't heard that one somehow. Consider me intrigued.

Pretty much depends which kind of Scott Walker do you love you some.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:There's Rico voting for his own album.

I might as well, since nobody gives a frak.

Wait a minute, since when does A Passion Play have "4 tracks"?

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:

Ricochet wrote:Wait a minute, since when does A Passion Play have "4 tracks"?

RYM reports 4, though only two have a duration. So maybe it's 2 tracks?

Jesus H. @ whoever did that.

2 tracks fam

Walter's so-called axiom was so easy to invalidate, starting with his own amendment to the so-called sacred timeline rule, in that pre-89 artists would not automatically turn to shit once stepping into post-89, but would carry on as legit great artists, due to their "superior intelligence in creating art" or something - nevermind the idea that aging well and wisely is hardly proven in music, given that more than half of the "old timers" have sounded embarrasing in more recent decades. But that would mean that Radiohead (a band technically formed in 1985) would count as good. Which he never allowed. So there goes his "logic". I don't recall how he felt about Porcupine Tree, but if he approved of them - or, even better, if he approves these days of Wilson's reworking of prog recordings - he's even more of a hypocrite.

He was an utter troll who picked a good theme to act obstinate about - a closed loop in which you would only feed him troll food and he would only bait you back. A heartily passionate troll for his 20-year-or-so bubble of prog rock and whatever else he liked - especially when it comes to King Crimson, iirc - but a troll nonetheless.

thellama73 wrote:A troll, but a troll who in this instance was correct.

I was both born in '89 and am a musician. If he is correct, then it would mean my life is meaningless. Much as I'm not generally much of a fan of myself, I still choose to hence not believe him to be correct.

A Person wrote:WHICH
IS
BETTER
YES OR GENESIS?
I NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED
TO KNOW

Genesis k

For your eyes only

juliets wrote:

Ricochet wrote:For your eyes only

Spoiler: show

I'm just a lurker here and don't understand the references to this Fantano person but please-please-please continue to do the reviews this way. Do not get a life. Do not work on your dissertation. Make these little videos instead. In fact, can you do your movie reviews this way too?

Oh hell nah. It takes me hours just to write down those posts. On a Saturday.

As for the references (just a random, short example):

This exists, if anyone is interested:

I've no idea how you look, didn't you have an afro hairdo?

I also don't have a wife.

I can tell the interest in this thread dipped this week, judging by the views of vidya #2. Half of which were me rechecking it. Week 4, at this rate, will be me talking to myself.

Also, I'm a total noob at this, so if anyone has specific technical suggestios how to adjust the colors of my recording, lemme know. I can tell my ugly forehead is glowing. Thing is, if I edit the visual before trimming and such, the previewing in Sony Vegas will start lagging as heck.

Also #2, if this was supposed to be a "behemot of an album", wonder what that makes of the usual ambient juggernauts I listen to.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I know nothing about what is required to put those videos together with all of the soundbites and graphic effects. It seems like you always finish them so quickly though Rico.

It's a more tragic "time consumption" from my angle. The only thing I've gained ground on since week one is that I convert the raw video overnight, and render the final form whilst I'm studying, post-editing. Sort of like leaving the food in the oven for two hours. But I still spend half a day cooking it.

I created this. Currently containing only the members who have rated (or implied a rating for) at least one album. If anyone else wants to add theirs, write it down here and will modify. Ratings with decimals and out of 10 ratings have been approximated to the 5-star scale. If the conversions are not accurate, notify that and will modify.

Click on the pic to open in full in another tab.

whoa boy

insertnamehere wrote:Here's some choice lyrical excerpts for those who don't mind being spoiled.

Spoiler: show

"Shit might pretzel Christ's intestines"

"Nothing clears a room like removing a brain"

"If shit were music
La da da, la da da
You'd be a brass band"

"For a Roman
Who's proof that Greeks fucked bears"

"If brains were rain
You'd surely be a desert"

"Look, don't go to a mind reader
Go to a palmist
I know you've got a palm"

"Sorry, I’m so clumsy,
take that accidentally in the bollocks for a start"

Jeez, I'm gonna end up looking like a dweeb trying to find depths to this album in the review.

Golden wrote:I haven't even listened yet. I have to mentally prepare myself. It's possible that I won't be able to listen at all (just based on the comments so far).

Don't be a _ _ _ _ _ _ .

S~V~S wrote:OK, I know this guy has a reputation for avant garde stuff, and I have never listened to anything of his before. But it really seems to me that he is almost mocking himself and his listeners. I think he is being INTENTIONALLY funny. But I could be way off base as I have not listened to anything else he has ever recorded.

I am at work, with headphones, and the norseman and the pink mint had me laugh out loud, as did the ish kabibbles. I LOVE this album, I think it is hilarious, and not in a laughing *at* it way.

I absolutely love this album. 5/5

As stated in my thoughts, I think "intentionality" is definitely a key aspect of whatever he's building. It's craft over sense. It just happens that what he's crafting might look like it's a statue made out of poo.

A Person wrote: They remind me of Gira's latest output, so cringeworthy that they make me embarrassed for him.

ur le grumpy

But I'd agree, the lyrics are the least I concern myself with on Swans' '10s trilogy - The Glowing Man had especially uber edgy and hard to believe ones, probably in light of accusations against Gira that probably happen to be true.

But com'on, Swans' level of creativity and concept on this trilogy has been Philip Glass on dark ritual steroids level. And I'm saying this liking them.

A Person wrote:

Ricochet wrote:

A Person wrote: They remind me of Gira's latest output, so cringeworthy that they make me embarrassed for him.

ur le grumpy

But I'd agree, the lyrics are the least I concern myself with on Swans' '10s trilogy - The Glowing Man had especially uber edgy and hard to believe ones, probably in light of accusations against Gira that probably happen to be true.

But com'on, Swans' level of creativity and concept on this trilogy has been Philip Glass on dark ritual steroids level. And I'm saying this liking them.

Those accusations that are most likely true are why I haven't listened since. If Gira kicks the bucket i might be persuaded to try again, though.

Always a thorny issue, how an artist's "scuminess" as a human being affects listening to his art. Perhaps easier if you don't like / care much for it.

^I'm inclined to feel the opposite overall, in terms of distancing from the person, but not the art. With exceptions from case to case, of course. In your example, I'm not sure how relevant MJ still *was* at those times of infamy, but I don't think it would be cause to stop me from enjoying, whenever I still hear them, his *(way) prior* catchy classic singles, just like I did back when I was 5 and MTV'ing hard.

It's different when the controversial stuff coincides with a current or past period of time from which you hold his artistic output in high or even relevant regard.

You're not the sole dissenter, no need to distinguish yourself. This album barely has two new converts in this thread, which frankly is a surprising number on its own.

I mean, Epignosis hasn't posted a word yet, lol.

A Person wrote:The sameness of every track, the sameness of the vocal performance of every track, the sameness of basically remaking The Drift, etc is the biggest let down of the album for me too. I quit listening halfway through the long track because it was apparent that he was just going to keep doing the same thing over and over. Still, nice voice I guess.

You must abhore ambient music, then.

Epignosis wrote:

insertnamehere wrote:There's a difference between saying that this album isn't your kind of thing, and Scott Walker has no talent or skill. I'll fight the latter tooth and nail.

Explain to me what talent or skill Scott Walker needed to make this album.

Besides being able to shit, I mean.

Singing, lyrical and compositional skills. I think they're all in there.

I don't think this is a cross in a jar of urine. This is who we worked with to record this album. I don't think they were brought in to place a cross in a jar of urine.

There are a dozen submissions I could consider - for which this long-queue, week-based, skip-a-turn format will prove agonizing - but I suppose I'll stick with A Passion Play. Should be fun.

(click to activate CC in the video, in case it's not automatically on, please and thank you)

A Person wrote:I submit Vanessa Rossetto's Whole Stories, because y'all need some musique concrete in your lives and I want to hear Rico talk about it.

Dunno about Spotify, but Bandcamp has it in full, if it counts, stream-wise (don't see why not).

This is the story of the hare who'll never make it up there.

I did - but like all fine jokes, you have to stick to it afterwards.

I say stick to how the poll will turn out. Right now, he's slotted to be listened two or three weeks from now, anyway.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I didn't realize until just now that this Chuck Berry release is a compilation, which makes for an interesting change of pace along with the shift in era.

I thought it's his third studio album.

S~V~S wrote:I think the anxiety of Rico reviewing my submission would make me sick, lol. I would worry so over being judged by that amazing voice (I could listen to Rico talk forever, so long as he isn't talking about me), lol. I don't know if I could stand the disdain.

I'm not the boogie man k

In fact, rumours are he hasn't been spotted ever since he visited me when I was 13.

juliets wrote:

Quin wrote:I'm torn between obediance and defiance to watch bttf just so I can hear more of Rico's beautiful voice.

Why do you think watching bttf will give you the opportunity to hear Rico some more (also, I haven't seen it either)?

MovingPictures07 wrote:

G-Man wrote:I'm enjoying the wide variety of responses to my pick. Maybe I'll have to throw some more oldies at you with future picks.

Speaking of oldies, I know what I said about Chuck Berry, but I absolutely need to nominate this.

If you go your life without hearing this, you'll never know what you're missing, and you'll be missing what I would say is literally the root of modern music as we know it. And it's absolutely splendid in every way. Those songs put such a huge smile on my face every time I listen unlike nearly anything else.

I thought the root of modern music was The Rite of Spring

One of the most hard-ass and hard-core reviews I follow on RYM (mostly anything besides atonal contemporary music and Morrissey is banished to the Land of Suck) expresses his rating system in philosphers and whisky.

5.0 foucault / laphroaig
4.5 adorno / lagavulin
4.0 levi-strauss / ardbeg
3.5 freud / talisker
3.0 bourdieu / macallan
2.5 zizek / balvenie
2.0 popper / highland park
1.5 bauman / glenmorangie
1.0 habermas / caol ila
0.5 baudrillard / glenfiddich

If y'all poop on APP for a third time, I might just push R.E.M.'s Murmur.

MovingPictures07 wrote:

Ricochet wrote:If y'all poop on APP for a third time, I might just push R.E.M.'s Murmur.

Just nominate Murmur instead.

No! We must find what happened to the hare who lost his spectacles.

You peeps sure like rockarolla.