The Album Club 2017

Trollheart · 02-26-2017, 02:51 PM

Sorry about that, man. Despite what everyone here thinks, I'm not actually perfect and I do make mistakes. Thanks for pointing it out. The adjustment has now been made in the OP. I've also moved Electrophonic Tonic down below Anteater, as he joined after him.

Puppy-dogs and rainbows, everyone!

djchameleon · 02-26-2017, 04:18 PM

The Black Ryder - Buy The Ticket, Take A Ride

I don't have too much experience in this genre of music but maybe it just wasn't the right time for me to hear this. I appreciated the first half of the album but those last two tracks definitely got to me. I kept checking to see if it went to a different song but it was still the same song for 6 mins at a pop. I have no commentary on the lyrics because I was multi-tasking at the time so I wasn't listening intently to the lyrical content. I will definitely give this album another listen instead of completely writing it off based off of this first listen.

If I was rating it, I would give it a 3/5.

bob. · 02-26-2017, 04:25 PM

personally i think their second album is much better

Trollheart · 02-26-2017, 05:37 PM

I concur.
Also, thanks DJ for getting that review in.

Trollheart · 02-27-2017, 06:13 AM

Okay, the best way I can do this is to use my "Love or Hate?" rating system, as some people didn't give ratings out of 5 or 10, so the first album scores thus:

Love: 4
Like: 9
Meh: 6

Which gives it a sold Like rating, which I'll post in the OP later.

DwnWthVwls · 02-27-2017, 09:33 AM

Sorry ive been crazy busy finishing my senior project. Is a rating part of the rules? Id give the first album a 7.

Trollheart · 02-27-2017, 09:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Sorry ive been crazy busy finishing my senior project. Is a rating part of the rules? Id give the first album a 7.

No it isn't. People can do what they like. Some gave ratings, some didn't, but I just needed a way to eventually see whether we liked, hated or loved or mehed the album, so that's the way I did it. As long as everyone gives a clear indication of what they thought of the album, then this will work fine.

The Batlord · 02-27-2017, 10:25 AM

Good, cause I find quantifying an opinion with a number to be tedious. Fine for other people I guess, but I just don't care to do it.

Trollheart · 02-27-2017, 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by The Batlord

Good, cause I find quantifying an opinion with a number to be tedious. Fine for other people I guess, but I just don't care to do it.

I honestly don't care how or if people rate the albums, whatever they feel most comfortable with. I just want a basic overall verdict so that when I go to rate the album overall, I can say whether it was a hit or a miss, or a meh. I also don't care if people rate an album one week and don't the next, or change their rating system if they have one. It's all good.

**Frownland** · 02-27-2017, 09:21 PM

OLD - Old Lady Drivers

I’ve heard Lo Flux Tube, which is great, but I guess this is a totally different animal. It starts off with some formless noisy guitar and a chant from what I suppose are the Old Lady Drivers before hitting us with some OTT grindcore fun. Cool acoustic and funkier interludes between the grind and I’m loving this so far. “Corpse Full of Gunk” is full on grind and would be great live and is hilarious. Supermarket Monstrosity is grind with a kid or someone doing a kid-like performance. Meh, a little too gimmicky. “Lepers Without Feet” is some more kind of over the top grind, I guess they’re being tongue in cheek with it or something. “Tracheotomy Peashooter” gives us another pummeling grind track and has a really great interlude in it. Noisy and **** and over the top fun. The vocals are getting a little bit one dimensional at this point, but I don’t mind them. “Wisdom Lost” is a little more poppy with its intros and synths, with the vocals lamenting the loss of dentures. These sure are are some punny guys. Pretty catchy for a grindcore track. There’s a jammy part in the middle with clean guitars that’s cool but goes on a little too long for the sake of comedy. “Cocaine” is cheesy as **** arena rock with grind vocals. While slome of the other tracks have their flaws, this is the only one I’d say was bad. It might as well be Def Leppard and if you don’t think that’s a bad thing, you’re part of the problem. The double time psych freak out ending was a little neat though. “Die In Your Beauty Sleep”, a sentiment that we can all agree with, is goofy and fun as ****. Nice guitar outro too. These guys do a good parody of the rhythmic grindcore screaming. “Special Olympics” (lulz) is more of the same, not good, not bad, a little silly. It has an especially bull****ty early Slayer-esque guitar solo. “I Laugh As I Chew” has another more poppy intro before devolving into visceral aggression. As far as the grindcore elements go, this is probably the best track on the album so far, but I’m not a huge fan of the intro or the out of place glam metal outro. Let’s cut it out with the glam metal guys. “Colostomy Grab-Bag” does just that, with a groove metal riff intertwined with some Alice In Chains-esque guitar rhythms before going back to the grind. The acoustic elements of this song are done really well. “Feeling the Worms” is another solid grind track, not many novelty elements besides for 2 seconds of dub at the end. “Old Ladies Always Break Their Hips” (lulz) is another track a little too heavy on the glam instrumentally, but is actually pretty hilarious with the shrieks over it. Of course there are passages of pure grind fun on this track too, as is to be expected. “Bathrooms Rule” starts off like a college rock comedy song that makes me roll my eyes. The heavy element’s cool and all, but someone not into grind probably wouldn’t dig it. Some thrashy guitar soloing at the end, neat. “Screaming Geezer” is not that notable beyond the somewhat black metal element of it with the high pitched shrieking.

Final thoughts: Well that was a goofy, fun, occasionally badass album. Sort of like Ween meets Anal C[color=”black”]unt[/color]. I like Lo Flux Tube a lot better because the novelty elements sort of overshadowed a lot of this album, but it was still a fun record that I might return to. Some of the different sounds that they tried to be kind of grating (mainly the glam metal ****), some were more interesting (like “Colostomy Grab-Bag”). Overall I’d give it a 6.5/10

02-26-2017, 02:51 PM	#201 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Sorry about that, man. Despite what everyone here thinks, I'm not actually perfect and I do make mistakes. Thanks for pointing it out. The adjustment has now been made in the OP. I've also moved Electrophonic Tonic down below Anteater, as he joined after him. Puppy-dogs and rainbows, everyone! __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-26-2017, 04:25 PM	#203 (permalink)
bob. Still sends his reguards. Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Trying to get out of the cat town.... Posts: 5,039	personally i think their second album is much better __________________ A kiss is the beginning of cannibalism. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

02-26-2017, 05:37 PM	#204 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	I concur. Also, thanks DJ for getting that review in. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-27-2017, 06:13 AM	#205 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,992	Okay, the best way I can do this is to use my "Love or Hate?" rating system, as some people didn't give ratings out of 5 or 10, so the first album scores thus: Love: 4 Like: 9 Meh: 6 Which gives it a sold Like rating, which I'll post in the OP later. __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

02-27-2017, 09:21 PM	#210 (permalink)
Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	OLD - Old Lady Drivers I’ve heard Lo Flux Tube, which is great, but I guess this is a totally different animal. It starts off with some formless noisy guitar and a chant from what I suppose are the Old Lady Drivers before hitting us with some OTT grindcore fun. Cool acoustic and funkier interludes between the grind and I’m loving this so far. “Corpse Full of Gunk” is full on grind and would be great live and is hilarious. Supermarket Monstrosity is grind with a kid or someone doing a kid-like performance. Meh, a little too gimmicky. “Lepers Without Feet” is some more kind of over the top grind, I guess they’re being tongue in cheek with it or something. “Tracheotomy Peashooter” gives us another pummeling grind track and has a really great interlude in it. Noisy and ** and over the top fun. The vocals are getting a little bit one dimensional at this point, but I don’t mind them. “Wisdom Lost” is a little more poppy with its intros and synths, with the vocals lamenting the loss of dentures. These sure are are some punny guys. Pretty catchy for a grindcore track. There’s a jammy part in the middle with clean guitars that’s cool but goes on a little too long for the sake of comedy. “Cocaine” is cheesy as arena rock with grind vocals. While slome of the other tracks have their flaws, this is the only one I’d say was bad. It might as well be Def Leppard and if you don’t think that’s a bad thing, you’re part of the problem. The double time psych freak out ending was a little neat though. “Die In Your Beauty Sleep”, a sentiment that we can all agree with, is goofy and fun as . Nice guitar outro too. These guys do a good parody of the rhythmic grindcore screaming. “Special Olympics” (lulz) is more of the same, not good, not bad, a little silly. It has an especially bullty early Slayer-esque guitar solo. “I Laugh As I Chew” has another more poppy intro before devolving into visceral aggression. As far as the grindcore elements go, this is probably the best track on the album so far, but I’m not a huge fan of the intro or the out of place glam metal outro. Let’s cut it out with the glam metal guys. “Colostomy Grab-Bag” does just that, with a groove metal riff intertwined with some Alice In Chains-esque guitar rhythms before going back to the grind. The acoustic elements of this song are done really well. “Feeling the Worms” is another solid grind track, not many novelty elements besides for 2 seconds of dub at the end. “Old Ladies Always Break Their Hips” (lulz) is another track a little too heavy on the glam instrumentally, but is actually pretty hilarious with the shrieks over it. Of course there are passages of pure grind fun on this track too, as is to be expected. “Bathrooms Rule” starts off like a college rock comedy song that makes me roll my eyes. The heavy element’s cool and all, but someone not into grind probably wouldn’t dig it. Some thrashy guitar soloing at the end, neat. “Screaming Geezer” is not that notable beyond the somewhat black metal element of it with the high pitched shrieking. Final thoughts: Well that was a goofy, fun, occasionally badass album. Sort of like Ween meets Anal C[color=”black”]unt[/color]. I like Lo Flux Tube a lot better because the novelty elements sort of overshadowed a lot of this album, but it was still a fun record that I might return to. Some of the different sounds that they tried to be kind of grating (mainly the glam metal *), some were more interesting (like “Colostomy Grab-Bag”). Overall I’d give it a 6.5/10 __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.* d e a f b o x