Isbjørn

Too obvious? I despise it.

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Frownland

What'd you expect?

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Okay, I'd love to hear of one woeful album Drake has released.
As for Beyonce, she hasn't shown an ounce of artistic integrity her whole career. I'd rather put money on this album being terrible rather than covering 35 of 36 numbers on a Roulette board, because I have more chance of being proven correct.

Rjinn

Gotta love it when someone brings in personal music taste to prove the worth of other music.

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Goofle

Sunn O))) / Ulver - Terrestrials

Completely boring let down. Gimme something more than long aimless sound.

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Alcest - Shelter

I've basically given up on this band. Nothing beats Souvenirs d'un autre monde. Ecailles de Lune wasn't as good but it still had some interesting chord progressions and the black metal actually made it interesting. Les Voyages de l'Ame was crap. This isn't necessarily crap, but it sure is boring as hell.

Plus, Neige kept making a big deal about being purely a "shoegaze" band now. There were no black metal vocals in Souvenirs, wasn't that album purely shoegaze? Did the beats make it black metal? Because if that's what he means, he really needs to throw those back in there. It added a lot of dynamics to the music. Now it's so freaking dull.

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Ninetales

yep I thought maybe this would be the time where Sunn O))) would make actual good music. Turns out not even Ulver can help that

Trollheart

I guess the fact that I had to go six pages back to find this thread is a good sign: obviously people are either all listening to albums they like or don't hate anything enough to post it here.

Which brings me to...


The Genesis suite --- Tolga Kashif

When I saw the advertisement for this album I was really excited, being already a hopeless Genesis nut and having already heard "We know what we like: the music of Genesis" by the LSO, and I hunted it down for some time before I was able to buy a copy. Not full price, of course.

Then, like a lot of things I do, I left it and didn't bother about it. Was never in the right mood. Last night I was looking for something orchestral and relaxing to listen to as I nodded off and was reminded I still had this. That'll do, I thought and put it on.

Big mistake!

I read a review once where someone complained something along the lines of "Why doesn't he (Kashif) just play the damn songs? Why does he have to stretch everything out to infinity?" Now I know what that guy meant. Most of the songs here, though standard Genesis songs, no obscure stuff, I found very very hard to even recognise. I know every artiste wants to put his or her own slant on the music but holy crap! In another thread I spoke about David Garrett's interpretation of some rock classics, and though he jazzed them up I could recognise them ok. Same with the LSO. They did great versions of some Genesis tunes but you'd easily know what they were.

Kashif seems to have had the idea to expand and improvise on every Genesis song he undertakes here. Example: the first track is supposed to be "Land of confusion/Tonight, tonight, tonight". Now many people hate the "Invisible touch" era stuff, but that's not the point. LoC was a big hit single but I couldn't hear it anywhere in there! I got snatches of TTT but again if I hadn't seen the track listing I might have had a hard time sussing what the orchestra were playing. It goes on the same though every song: I only recognised "Ripples" about halfway through, then lost it again.

Also, he uses choirs. I don't like choirs. Well, I have nothing against them but if someone is interpreting the music of a band through the medium of the orchestra I really don't want to hear any singing. VSOP was the same with their "Orchestral Rock" or whatever it's called. If I want to hear singing I'll listen to the original thanks.

After hearing this album I can only use one word to describe it: unnecessary. Impossible as it may seem --- both to those who love them and those who hate them --- Kashif has managed to make Genesis sound even more overblown and pretentious through his frankly ridiculous interpretations of their music here. Self-indulgence taken to new heights. Terrible, just terrible.

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Goofle

Mogwai - Rave Tapes (2014)

Now this is some boring boredom. Not one single interesting thing happened on this album. Was the music bad? Of course not. But ain't nobody wanna hear well played uninteresting music. Gimme badly played interesting music over this any day.

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Wpnfire

Aside from S&D, and the Four Horsemen, I can't find another good song on this album.

Phantom Lord, No Remorse, and Hit the Lights have some redeeming qualities, but the rest of the songs on this album I just can't stand to listen to again, especially Pulling Teeth and Whiplash. I did not care for those.

Seek and Destroy and the Four Horsemen are really really good though, I like those.

This album caused me to rethink if I like thrash metal at all after listening to it. I still may buy more Metallica albums in the future, but eh, I dun know.

Definitely don't understand all the hype about this album that's for sure

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