Originally Posted by Trollheart

You all know what's coming next....

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Title: The Monitor
Artiste: Titus Andronicus
Genre: Punk (thanks man!)
Familiarity: Zero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monitor_(album)

Track 1(Love) Starts off with Lincoln's address and then kicks into a high-energy riff that I have to admit is pretty infectious, even nodding back to Springsteen's classic. Slows down about halfway with a very celtic guitar riff, almost a reel, picks up again then near the end. Yeah, pretty damn good I must say.
Track 2(Love) Kind of like a carryover from the opener. Like this.
Track 3(Love) Yeah, really like this one too.
Track 4(Love) Sort of a mixture of punk, Country and Irish trad!
Track 5(Love) Hmm. Previous track flows right into this one on a humming guitar. Slow, laidback start then turning powerful and punchy, though still slow. Like this a lot. But then, so far I've pretty much loved everything here. Picking up in speed now, still pretty damn good. Great piano. And cello?
Track 6(Love) Another one that starts off slow, with nice guitar and synth
Track 7(Love) Great fiddle on this; love the energy. A real bitter drinking song.
Track 8(Love) Like a Country ballad; piano is great, so is the female vocal. Fantastic song, wonderful instrumental passage.
Track 9(Love) Reprise really of the second track. Still great. Love the sax.
Track 10(Love) Just a great closer; love how he gets angrier as it goes on. Fourteen minutes of this should be hard to pull off. It's not. Hell, even the hated bagpipes can't ruin it for me!

End result: Another surprise. I didn't know what to expect, but I didn't expect this. Props to jtf!

So, Love or Hate? Has to be a Love.

Chances of a full review: 6/10

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Title: This is happening
Artiste: LCD Soundsystem
Genre: Dance-punk?
Familiarity: Zero
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_I...#Track_listing

Track 1(Love) Very low-key start, laidback with a sort of tinny vocal and fairly minimal instrumentation. Okay, just took me by surprise there, blasting out a big drumbeat and thick synth. Yeah, that was pretty ok.
Track 2(Love) This is more what I think of as punk, without too much aggression though.
Track 3(Love) And this is more synthy, new-wave, dancy. Pretty hypnotic. Reminds of the HL. Overlong though at seven minutes, does not need to be that long.
Track 4(Love) Ooh I really like the melody in this one. Very catchy. Mind you, the off-key synth runs near the end are quite annoying, like interference or video game noise. No idea why they have to be there.
Track 5(Love) Another new-wavey tune. Quite nice.
Track 6(Love) Soft little oriental start to this. Lyric is very clever, obviously directed at their label. Very reminiscent of The Cars.
Track 7(Love) Interesting spoken vocal, reminds me of Talking Heads
Track 8(Love) Sort of a slow shuffle, some great piano and horns
Track 9(Love) Nice uptempo synthy/dance pop track

End result: I'm struggling to see the punk element here, other than the rather frenetic second track. Very enjoyable all around, nothing bad to say. Hey! Does this make me a hipster now? Yeah, right...

So, Love or Hate? This is a Love

Chances of a full review: 3/10

Originally Posted by YorkeDaddy

I love how you edited your post to officially out me out of the closet?" It's like you asked yourself if you were a big enough cunt in the post, concluded that you weren't, and added it in to satisfy your postly cunt quota

Originally Posted by OccultHawk

I converted to Islam today.

Allah Supreme.
A Love Supreme.

Originally Posted by Mondo Bungle

saw LeBron James downtown but then I realized I'm just racist

Originally Posted by Frownland

Don't spoil it for him (although I'm certain that he'll like at least one of the songs. You can probably figure out which one).

Originally Posted by Machine

I want to give him some sort of reassurance that he won't completely hate it.

Originally Posted by Frownland

Then I would reconsider using horns as a selling point, it is TH and he doesn't like them for some strange reason.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.