Trollheart Listens to Every Album on Wiki's List for 2017

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

Why though? Metalcore isn't the most diverse genre but it does at least have diversity. Just tell me if this song does anything for you and I can guess if you don't like the more direct, non-complex ****.

And if you just so happen to want to hear some of the metalcore that defined the early genre while being more offbeat and interesting.... srsly though any fan of metal who hasn't heard this basically has an incomplete knowledge of metal. This is one of the albums to not hear if you want to be a mindless twat who hates 2000s metalcore with no knowledge of what it can be when it's done right.

Yeah.. if I care for either (which I really don't) then it's the Unbroken one. The other I have no interest in. In fact, I really doubt I can be interested into this genre at all. It just says nothing to me and does nothing for me.

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 03:22 PM

Okay then, before we move on to February, as promised here are some stats for the albums reviewed so far:

Out of a total of 111 albums reviewed:

Albums I considered excellent: 31
Albums I considered good: 32
Albums I considered meh: 14
Albums I considered bad: 10
Albums I considered terrible: 11

Albums I did not complete

Ones on which I used the "Oh Hell No!" clause: 0
Ones on which I used the "Three Strikes" clause: 4
Ones on which I used the "Bailout" clause: 9

My Top Twenty for January

1. Sean Danielsen – Product of Isolation
2. Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hong Quang featuring Paolo Fresu - Hà Nội Duo
3. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes – Modern Ruin
4. Morten Schantz – Godspeed
5. John Mayer – The Search for Everything: Wave One
6. Japandroids – Near to the Wild Heart of Life
7. The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody
8. Dropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory
9. Kasey Chambers – Dragonfly
10. Sepultura – Machine Messiah
11. Foxygen- Hang
12. Aquilo – Silhouette
13. William Basinski – A Shadow in Time
14. Loyle Carner – Yesterday's Gone
15. Bonobo – Migration
16. Riff Raff – Aquaberry Aquarius
17. Barry Zito - No Secrets
18. Lucy Spraggan – I Hope You Don't Mind Me Writing
19. AFI – AFI
20. POS – Chill, Dummy

Honourable mentions:
Dumal - The Lesser God
Lights and Motion - Dear Avalanche
Michael Chapman - 50
Suzy - Yes? No?
David Bowie - No Plan
Rick Wakeman - Piano Portraits

My Bottom Twenty for January

1. Jacob Sartorius – The Last Text
2. Pink Guy – Pink Season
3. Code Orange – Forever
4. Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness
5. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural
6. Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick
7. One OK Rock – Ambitions
8. Whitney Rose – South Texas Suite
9. Train – A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat
10. Wiley – Godfather
11. Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White – Gentlewoman, Ruby Man
12. Xandria – Theater of Dimensions
13. SOHN – Rennen
14. Brantley Gilbert – The Devil Don't Sleep
15. Dot Hacker – No 3
16. Jessie James Decker – Gold
17. Colony House – Only the Lonely
18. Ellie Holcomb – Red Sea Road
19. Stephen Pearcy – Smash
20. Chasing Safety – Nomad

Dishonourable Mentions:

Shinee - Five
Chief Keef - Two Zero One Seven
Austra Future Politics

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-07-2017, 04:43 PM

damn, i’m pretty indifferent on the new Code Orange but i definitely didnt expect that. it’s a lot more accessible than their previous work so I figured you might actually like it.

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

damn, i’m pretty indifferent on the new Code Orange but i definitely didnt expect that. it’s a lot more accessible than their previous work so I figured you might actually like it.

You figured wrong. What in the name of Satan made you think I would like that? As Occult would say, to me, it's hot garbage. I'd rather listen to the long drawn-out death rattle of a man suffering from terminal flatulence.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard · 10-07-2017, 05:14 PM

hey, 2/3 isn’t too bad now is it?

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 05:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Qwertyy

hey, 2/3 isn’t too bad now is it?

No. I'll let you away with that one. And in fairness, I should have reviewed it as part of the list anyway so it's kind of not really your fault my ears were assaulted by that ... um ... um ... what shall I call it? Noise?

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 05:35 PM

FEBRUARY

As already mentioned in the newly-updated OP, I'll be keeping an index of each month at the beginning of the month, and linking that to the OP. With that in mind, I'm keeping this and the next two posts free for the index for February. I probably won't need it all, but I'd rather have too much space than not enough.
First album for February will be reviewed tomorrow.

Red Velvet - Rookie
Zion T - OO
Big Sean - I Decided.
Big Wreck - Grace Street
Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire
Dave Hause - Bury Me in Philly
Dune Rats - The Kids Will Know It's Bull****
Elbow - Little Fictions
G4 - G4 Love Songs
Homeshake - Fresh Air
Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry
Kari Jobe - The Garden
Kevin Garrett - False Hope
The Knocks - Testify
Lower Than Atlantis - Safe in Sound
The Mezingers - After the Party
Ocean Grove - The Rhapsody Tapes
Reba McEntire - Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope
Ru Paul - Remember Me: Essential, Vol 1
Sampha - Process
Sofia Reyes - Louder!
Snowdonia - Surfer Blood
D12 Presents: Swifty McVay - Grey Blood
Syd - Fin
Wyclef Jean - J'ouvert
Kyuhyun - One Voice
Two-9 - FRVR
Aaron Carter - Love
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway
Blackfield - Blackfield V
Brett Young - Brett Young
Carousel Kings - Charm City
Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins
Ermal Meta - Vietato morire
Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now
Jess and Matt - Belmont Street
Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light
Michael Bolton - Songs of Cinema
Mother Mother - No Culture
Nicolas Kummert -La Diversité
Nines - One Foot Out
Oleta Adams - Third Set
Overkill - The Grinding Wheel
Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often
Rag'n'Bone Man - Human
Save Ferris - Checkered Past
Steamchicken - Look Both Ways
Thievery Corporation - The Temple of I&I
Thunder - Rip It Up
Thundamentals - Everyone We Know
Una Healey - The Waiting Game
Uppermost - Origins (2011-2016)
Various Artists - Fifty Shades Darker OST
Young Bleed – Livin'
Bohemia – Skull and Bones: the Final Chapter
Anupam Roy – Ebar Morle Gachh Hawbo
Keke Wyatt – Keke Covers
Gokay – El Chamaquito de Ahora
Jovi – 16 Wives
Alison Krauss – Windy City
Amy MacDonald – Under Stars
Animal Collective – The Painters
Battle Beast – Bringer of Pain
Bebe Rexha – All Your Fault
Blutengel – Leitbild
Charlie Wilson – In It To Win It
Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon
Edenbridge – The Great Momentum
Eisley – I'm Only Dreaming
Fat Joe and Remy Ma – Plata o Plomo
Flume – Skin Companion EP 2
Frontier Ruckus – Enter the Kingdom
Future – Future
Ithilien – Shaping the Soul
Jens Lenkman – Life Will See You Now
Jidenna – The Chief
Jonwayne – Rap Album Two
Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp – Songs of the Latin Skies
Massive Ego – Beautiful Suicide
Nikki Lane – Highway Queen
Once Human – Evolution
The Orwells – Terrible Human Beings
The Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized
Ryan Adams – Prisoner
Strand of Oaks – Hard Love
Sun Kil Moon – Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood
Tim Bowness – Lost in the Ghost Light
Vant – Dumb Blood
Visible Cloaks – Reassemblage
William Control – The Black
Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors
Roc Marciano – Rosebudd's Revenge
BiS – Re: StupId
Aaron Watson – Vaquero
Bea Miller – Chapter One: Blue
Born of Osiris – The Eternal Reign
Chiara – Nessun Posto e Casa Mia
Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy
Dams of the West – Youngish American
Daniel Herskedal – The Roc
Emel Mathlouki – Ensen
Ex Deo – The Immortal Wars
The Feelies – In Between
Future – Hndrxx
The Golden Filter – Still//Alone
Hippo Campus – Landmark
John Mayer – The Search for Everything: Wave Two
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Micotonal Banana
Little Big Town – The Breaker
Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes
Michele Bravi – Anime di carta
Mike Tramp – Maybe Tomorrow
Moya Brennan – Canvas
The Mute Gods – Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth
Nav – Nav
Oddisee – The Iceberg

Trollheart · 10-07-2017, 05:36 PM

Old 97's – Graveyard Whistling
Persefone – Aathma
Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now
Place Vendome – Close to the Sun
Prince Royce – Five
Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway
Sanctuary – Inception
Sofia Ellar – Seis peniques
Steel Panther – Lower the Bar
Stormzy – Gang Signs and Prayer
Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence
Taylor Bennett – Restoration of an American Idol
Thundercat – ”Drunk”
Xiu Xiu – Forget
Lil Uzi Vert – Luv is Rage 1.5
Lovelyz – R U Ready?
Gugudan – Act 2: Narcissus
Taeyeon – My Voice

NOT ON THE LIST
Froth - Outside, Briefly
Meat Wave - The Incessant
Strange U - LP#4080
The Underground Youth - What Kind of Dystopian Hellhole Is This?
Peter Silberman - Impermanence
The Courtneys - II
Palehorse/Palerider - Burial Songs
Suiyouba no Campanella - Superman
Pouy a& Fat Nick - Drop Out of School

Trollheart · 01-01-2018, 10:08 AM

Album title: Coloring Book
Artist: Oh My Girl
Genre: K-pop
Nationality: Korean, duh
Release date: April 3
Position in Discography: Fourth EP
Estimated Rating:

Familiar with this artist? No
Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No but having to listen to a lot of it!
Average RYM Score: 2.59
Ah, K-pop! Where would I be without ya? Every single goddamn month so far, K-pop groups seem to release a slew of albums in the first few days, so here we are again. At least it's pleasant and upbeat, cheerful and fun, being a girl band, which is something I can't say for the boybands, who always seem to take themselves too seriously for me. Anyway, this is yet another EP (EPs seem to be big in Korea) so it's only five tracks and just over a quarter of an hour long in total. Decent mix of music on it, to be fair; nothing earth-shattering, but who's expecting that? “Agit” (a git?)

has a nice sort of semi-balladic feel to it, while there's a proper ballad in the whimsical “In My Dreams”. Very nice. A fun album, for sure. Yeah, ok: EP. Whatever.

Check out more from this artist? No
Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Only for this thread

Actual Rating:

**Frownland** · 10-07-2017, 05:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Trollheart

You figured wrong. What in the name of Satan made you think I would like that? As Occult would say, to me, it's hot garbage. I'd rather listen to the long drawn-out death rattle of a man suffering from terminal flatulence.

Spoiler for tiddies:

10-07-2017, 03:22 PM	#2 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Okay then, before we move on to February, as promised here are some stats for the albums reviewed so far: Out of a total of 111 albums reviewed: Albums I considered excellent: 31 Albums I considered good: 32 Albums I considered meh: 14 Albums I considered bad: 10 Albums I considered terrible: 11 Albums I did not complete Ones on which I used the "Oh Hell No!" clause: 0 Ones on which I used the "Three Strikes" clause: 4 Ones on which I used the "Bailout" clause: 9 My Top Twenty for January 1. Sean Danielsen – Product of Isolation 2. Nguyên Lê & Ngô Hong Quang featuring Paolo Fresu - Hà Nội Duo 3. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes – Modern Ruin 4. Morten Schantz – Godspeed 5. John Mayer – The Search for Everything: Wave One 6. Japandroids – Near to the Wild Heart of Life 7. The Flaming Lips – Oczy Mlody 8. Dropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory 9. Kasey Chambers – Dragonfly 10. Sepultura – Machine Messiah 11. Foxygen- Hang 12. Aquilo – Silhouette 13. William Basinski – A Shadow in Time 14. Loyle Carner – Yesterday's Gone 15. Bonobo – Migration 16. Riff Raff – Aquaberry Aquarius 17. Barry Zito - No Secrets 18. Lucy Spraggan – I Hope You Don't Mind Me Writing 19. AFI – AFI 20. POS – Chill, Dummy Honourable mentions: Dumal - The Lesser God Lights and Motion - Dear Avalanche Michael Chapman - 50 Suzy - Yes? No? David Bowie - No Plan Rick Wakeman - Piano Portraits My Bottom Twenty for January 1. Jacob Sartorius – The Last Text 2. Pink Guy – Pink Season 3. Code Orange – Forever 4. Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness 5. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural 6. Cherry Glazerr – Apocalipstick 7. One OK Rock – Ambitions 8. Whitney Rose – South Texas Suite 9. Train – A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat 10. Wiley – Godfather 11. Flo Morrissey and Matthew E. White – Gentlewoman, Ruby Man 12. Xandria – Theater of Dimensions 13. SOHN – Rennen 14. Brantley Gilbert – The Devil Don't Sleep 15. Dot Hacker – No 3 16. Jessie James Decker – Gold 17. Colony House – Only the Lonely 18. Ellie Holcomb – Red Sea Road 19. Stephen Pearcy – Smash 20. Chasing Safety – Nomad Dishonourable Mentions: Shinee - Five Chief Keef - Two Zero One Seven Austra Future Politics __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018

10-07-2017, 05:35 PM	#7 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	FEBRUARY As already mentioned in the newly-updated OP, I'll be keeping an index of each month at the beginning of the month, and linking that to the OP. With that in mind, I'm keeping this and the next two posts free for the index for February. I probably won't need it all, but I'd rather have too much space than not enough. First album for February will be reviewed tomorrow. Red Velvet - Rookie Zion T - OO Big Sean - I Decided. Big Wreck - Grace Street Black Star Riders - Heavy Fire Dave Hause - Bury Me in Philly Dune Rats - The Kids Will Know It's Bull**** Elbow - Little Fictions G4 - G4 Love Songs Homeshake - Fresh Air Iron Reagan - Crossover Ministry Kari Jobe - The Garden Kevin Garrett - False Hope The Knocks - Testify Lower Than Atlantis - Safe in Sound The Mezingers - After the Party Ocean Grove - The Rhapsody Tapes Reba McEntire - Sing It Now: Songs of Faith and Hope Ru Paul - Remember Me: Essential, Vol 1 Sampha - Process Sofia Reyes - Louder! Snowdonia - Surfer Blood D12 Presents: Swifty McVay - Grey Blood Syd - Fin Wyclef Jean - J'ouvert Kyuhyun - One Voice Two-9 - FRVR Aaron Carter - Love Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Zombies on Broadway Blackfield - Blackfield V Brett Young - Brett Young Carousel Kings - Charm City Chuck Prophet - Bobby Fuller Died For Your Sins Ermal Meta - Vietato morire Jesca Hoop - Memories Are Now Jess and Matt - Belmont Street Lupe Fiasco - DROGAS Light Michael Bolton - Songs of Cinema Mother Mother - No Culture Nicolas Kummert -La Diversité Nines - One Foot Out Oleta Adams - Third Set Overkill - The Grinding Wheel Quelle Chris - Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often Rag'n'Bone Man - Human Save Ferris - Checkered Past Steamchicken - Look Both Ways Thievery Corporation - The Temple of I&I Thunder - Rip It Up Thundamentals - Everyone We Know Una Healey - The Waiting Game Uppermost - Origins (2011-2016) Various Artists - Fifty Shades Darker OST Young Bleed – Livin' Bohemia – Skull and Bones: the Final Chapter Anupam Roy – Ebar Morle Gachh Hawbo Keke Wyatt – Keke Covers Gokay – El Chamaquito de Ahora Jovi – 16 Wives Alison Krauss – Windy City Amy MacDonald – Under Stars Animal Collective – The Painters Battle Beast – Bringer of Pain Bebe Rexha – All Your Fault Blutengel – Leitbild Charlie Wilson – In It To Win It Dutch Uncles – Big Balloon Edenbridge – The Great Momentum Eisley – I'm Only Dreaming Fat Joe and Remy Ma – Plata o Plomo Flume – Skin Companion EP 2 Frontier Ruckus – Enter the Kingdom Future – Future Ithilien – Shaping the Soul Jens Lenkman – Life Will See You Now Jidenna – The Chief Jonwayne – Rap Album Two Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp – Songs of the Latin Skies Massive Ego – Beautiful Suicide Nikki Lane – Highway Queen Once Human – Evolution The Orwells – Terrible Human Beings The Raveonettes – 2016 Atomized Ryan Adams – Prisoner Strand of Oaks – Hard Love Sun Kil Moon – Common as Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood Tim Bowness – Lost in the Ghost Light Vant – Dumb Blood Visible Cloaks – Reassemblage William Control – The Black Dirty Projectors – Dirty Projectors Roc Marciano – Rosebudd's Revenge BiS – Re: StupId Aaron Watson – Vaquero Bea Miller – Chapter One: Blue Born of Osiris – The Eternal Reign Chiara – Nessun Posto e Casa Mia Crystal Fairy – Crystal Fairy Dams of the West – Youngish American Daniel Herskedal – The Roc Emel Mathlouki – Ensen Ex Deo – The Immortal Wars The Feelies – In Between Future – Hndrxx The Golden Filter – Still//Alone Hippo Campus – Landmark John Mayer – The Search for Everything: Wave Two King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard – Flying Micotonal Banana Little Big Town – The Breaker Los Campesinos! - Sick Scenes Michele Bravi – Anime di carta Mike Tramp – Maybe Tomorrow Moya Brennan – Canvas The Mute Gods – Tardigrades Will Inherit the Earth Nav – Nav Oddisee – The Iceberg __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 11-03-2017 at 06:37 PM.

10-07-2017, 05:36 PM	#8 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Old 97's – Graveyard Whistling Persefone – Aathma Pissed Jeans – Why Love Now Place Vendome – Close to the Sun Prince Royce – Five Rhiannon Giddens – Freedom Highway Sanctuary – Inception Sofia Ellar – Seis peniques Steel Panther – Lower the Bar Stormzy – Gang Signs and Prayer Suicide Silence – Suicide Silence Taylor Bennett – Restoration of an American Idol Thundercat – ”Drunk” Xiu Xiu – Forget Lil Uzi Vert – Luv is Rage 1.5 Lovelyz – R U Ready? Gugudan – Act 2: Narcissus Taeyeon – My Voice NOT ON THE LIST Froth - Outside, Briefly Meat Wave - The Incessant Strange U - LP#4080 The Underground Youth - What Kind of Dystopian Hellhole Is This? Peter Silberman - Impermanence The Courtneys - II Palehorse/Palerider - Burial Songs Suiyouba no Campanella - Superman Pouy a& Fat Nick - Drop Out of School __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018 Last edited by Trollheart; 12-28-2017 at 03:32 PM.

01-01-2018, 10:08 AM	#9 (permalink)
Trollheart Born to be mild Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: 404 Not Found Posts: 26,996	Album title: Coloring Book Artist: Oh My Girl Genre: K-pop Nationality: Korean, duh Release date: April 3 Position in Discography: Fourth EP Estimated Rating: Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No but having to listen to a lot of it! Average RYM Score: 2.59 Ah, K-pop! Where would I be without ya? Every single goddamn month so far, K-pop groups seem to release a slew of albums in the first few days, so here we are again. At least it's pleasant and upbeat, cheerful and fun, being a girl band, which is something I can't say for the boybands, who always seem to take themselves too seriously for me. Anyway, this is yet another EP (EPs seem to be big in Korea) so it's only five tracks and just over a quarter of an hour long in total. Decent mix of music on it, to be fair; nothing earth-shattering, but who's expecting that? “Agit” (a git?) has a nice sort of semi-balladic feel to it, while there's a proper ballad in the whimsical “In My Dreams”. Very nice. A fun album, for sure. Yeah, ok: EP. Whatever. Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Only for this thread Actual Rating: __________________ Trollheart: Signature-free since April 2018