#albumposting

[jiraiema]

MY ALBUM IS COMINGGGGGGGGG I CANT WAITTTTTTT

EVERYONE GET HYPED WITH MEEEEEEE

[bababooeyeternal]

current album i'm listening to:

All Hell by Los Campesinos!

[im-in-your-mind]

12. A song from the 90's?

(link 2 ask game)

[beyond-a-name]

Top five music albums of the 2010's :3

Oh god I have to actually think about what came out in the 2010s. Uhhhhhhhhhh

1. Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino by The Arctic Monkeys: This is one of the first times I really excitedly bought an album and listened to it as a cohesive artistic piece, rather than just as background music or something I got with family. It is one of the few albums I let take up the very limited storage on my phone, and it is the first album I was interested in enough to research its meaning and concept. 10/10

(Uhhh okay I gotta go look up some other albums I'll be back.) [Exit stage right]

[Some time passes.]

Okay I'm back and I have reviewed albums.

2. Unearthing the Sentience by Beyond Flesh: So first off, I discovered this album this year through a friend of mine, and I absolutely love it. It's a technical death metal producer duo that released this and another album (the other one came out in 2020 and so doesn't count for this :/). It is entirely instrumental, but each song is so distinct. It'll introduce a concept, put a few spins on it, then tie it all together in a beautiful conclusion. The songwriting methodology honestly reminds me of Super Mario level design (as laid out by GMTK on youtube) in its expressive focus. Half of the duo, Juan Carlos Hernández, has genuinely become one of my favourite artists of all time. I have not yet had the pleasure of exploring his whole discography, but what I have thus far listened to has been extraordinary. Every piece is an imaginative journey that I delight in being swept up in. If you want to enrich your musical tastes a little more, you can find more of his work spread out across a few different bandcamps (his dungeon synth/ambience/fantasy works, his doom metal project, and his other works) or check out the occasional work posted to his tumblr at @imsobadatnicknames2. The works are entirely prolific and delightful, and this album in particular has been one of few that's started me getting into more metal. 11/10

3. Transgender Dysphoria Blues by Against Me: I also found this one this year, and it was recommended through another friend. Amazing punk music about being trans (and other topics, of course). I had shown great interest in punk culture and aesthetic approaches, but this was a really good deliberate foray into the music itself that resonated with me personally (I'm a trains). The album was released after the singer and frontwoman came out as a trans woman, and it heavily centres her experience in doing so in a way that is really provocative and heartfelt. Some of the songs seem, I guess the word is insecure? In a way I don't really resonate with, but I guess that's the point, isn't it? The first two songs, Transgender Dysphoria Blues and True Trans Soul Rebel, have been permanently etched into my heart. I also really like Paralytic States. Really good to listen to as a full album. 10/10

4. Morning Coffee Chillhop Lo Fi Electronic Mix by Various Artists: "But wait!" I hear you exclaim. "That's not an album, it's just a youtube lofi mix!" Yes. Anyway, this mix has been my absolute favourite since I first heard it, and it really kickstarted my exploration of lofi. Like before this I was checking it out, but upon hearing this, I was well and truly hooked. The first song overlays audio from a tv scene (I think it's twin peaks?) about rewarding yourself every day, ("Every day, give yourself a present,") and it's a lovely sentiment to begin an album a mix on. the use of additional audio throughout is typical for lofi, but it is used to great effect here to elevate the music it's played over rather than obscure it while rendering each song distinct. It was also the first time (or at least most memorable time) I heard something like that. I do not know the name of a single song on this mix, and if I ever lose access to it, I will kill everyone within a five kilometer radius. 10/10

5. Starbomb's Self-Titled Debut Album: This is a comedy album around video games composed of several Game Grumps members, and I bought it as a teenager and listened to it front to back maybe more times than I got a good night's sleep. I'm not really into Game Grumps anymore, and now I kind of tend to skip NSP (other Game Grumps-adjacent band) when it comes up on older playlists of mine. But like, I couldn't un-memorize this thing even if I wanted to, and it is somehow one of like 6 albums still on my phone (Tranquility Base was unwittingly bought on Google Play Music and did not outlast its end) even since getting a new phone. Even the Caravan Palace album, while it's still on my device, didn't soundtrack my teenagedom nearly as pervasively, and it does not stand out as much as the other entries here (you should still listen though). I can sing along flawlessly to every track, and it is lovingly catalogued by that dorky teenager I carry in me as I keep growing through adulthood. It's my alarms sometimes. I want to rate it lower, but I have loved it too entirely for too long. 10/10

Surprise Bonus Play!!!!!!!! (Woa!) (Honourable Mention)

6. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 by The Flaming Lips: This one is maybe cheating a bit as it's a greatest hits album, but whatever. I initially bought this on impulse as a gift for a friend for his birthday (I bought myself one as well), and I fell in love with how silly the song names and premises were. We all loved it, and had a blast listening to it via his playstation, then later in the car when we went camping together. I genuinely did not realize that it might be a somewhat well-known band before I saw the inclusion of one of their songs in the game Hi-Fi Rush. (Hint: They are very well-known. They have many awards and a long history. Their discography has its own wikipedia article seperate from their main article. I didn't know any of this until I came to wrote this.) I especially like "She Don't Use Jelly," which aside from being very funny, also implies a delicious toast recipe which I wholeheartedly recommend everybody try. 10/10

[thirteens-earring]

I’m four on the floor in the dirt

I’m chewing his face like a hog

oh this is so sweet :(

[lowqualitywillwoodeveryday]

day 4: the low quality album

[driftwoodsix]

big albumposting day for me apparently

[kwaggysshardmindemporium]

So I haven't made an albumposting in a long ass while. It's hit the procrastination event horizon where the catchup is so much work I question if I want to just drop the whole thing to not do it anymore. I do enjoy doing them, so I'm not sure what my answer there us gonna be, but I am very much still doing an album a day. And I have a thought not about the quality of today's album, but more about music history.

Remastered albums that insert additional bullshit between songs on the original track listing make me wanna punch record execs in the fucking dick.

If you've read the albumposting posts at all, you'll quickly realize that albums that are way too long aren't a thing I enjoy. Today's album is George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. The version I can find is the 2014 remaster. After the first dozen-ish songs, it goes into an alternate version of an earlier track, followed by a few more. But below that? Tracks I haven't listened to any version of yet. I go look up the track listing in Wikipedia, and yeah some asshole just put the alternates right in the middle because fuck you.

And the reason I had to look up the track list is because it's infuriatingly common for remastered albums to just have songs that have nothing to do with the original release.

Guys, I'm listening to this album to specifically to get something resembling the experience of the original listeners when it was new. Stop throwing in extra bullshit I don't WANT extra bullshit stop it.

[jaytalksmusic]

i started listening to marvin the album again and holy shit i forgot how much i love it <33

[jiraiema]

Why you should buy my CD:

There is music on it (rock music of the highest quality)

Preserving physical media is important!!!

I have like 100 of these and I'd really like to get rid of them and making them cost me like $500

Please buy one 😭

https://emalynski.bandcamp.com/album/amalgamation

[bababooeyeternal]

current album I'm looping:

Run The Jewels 3 by Run The Jewels

Favorite song: Thursday in the Danger Room (ft. Kamasi Washington)

[im-in-your-mind]

1, 3, 9

A song you liked as a child

3. A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

9. A song in a language you don’t speak

[saintspringsteen]

BONUS: 15. Heaven help us

[fagdykefrank]

Unfortunately i grew up in a jazz household so i dont know anything about guitar species and how theyre different HOWEVER i know every type of brass/woodwind and can tell them apart so. Whos really winning

[lowqualitywillwoodeveryday]

guys you should listen. to the normal album. guys please listen to the normal album. i’m so normal . about the nornal album.

[dkmdesigns]