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12-30-2017, 12:11 PM
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My Top Twenty for Jan-March 2017
1. Conor Oberst – Salutations 2. Tim Bowness – Lost in the Ghost Light 3. Sean Danielson – Product of Isolation 4. Craig Finn – We All Want the Same Things 5. Grandaddy – Last Place 6. Katie Noonan and Karin Schaupp – Songs of the Latin Skies 7. Blackfield – Blackfield V 8. Nina Rodriguez – Heroina 9. Residente – Residente 10. Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes – Modern Ruin 11. Aaron Watson – Vaquero 12. Massive Ego – Beautiful Suicide 13. Oleta Adams – Third Set 14. Ruthie Foster – Joy Comes Back 15. Kasey Chambers – Dragonfly 16. Jennifer Paige – Starflower 17. Body Count – Bloodlust 18. Greg Graffin – Millport 19. Hiroya Ozaki – Let Freedom Ring 20. Dropkick Murphys – 11 Short Stories of Pain and Glory My Bottom Twenty for Jan-March 2017 1. Sleaford Mods – English Tapas 2. G-Eazy and Carnage – Step Brothers 3. Jacob Sartorius – The Last Text 4. Sun Kil Moon – Common as Light and Love are Red Valleys of Blood 5. Pink Guy – Pink Season 6. Julie Byrne – Not Even Happiness 7. James Blunt – The Afterlove 8. Priests – Nothing Feels Natural 9. Brett Young – Brett Young 10. Bob Dylan – Triplicate 11. Michael Bolton – Songs of Cinema 12. Train – A Girl, a Bottle, a Boat 13. Jessi James Decker – Gold 14. Trace Adkins – Something's Going on 15. Quelle Chris – Being You Is Great, I Wish I Could Be You More Often 16. Hyperbubble – Western Ware 17. Sumo Cyco – Opus Mar 18. CupcaKKE – Queen Elizabitch 19. Dams of the West – Youngish American 20. Code Orange – Forever
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12-30-2017, 12:21 PM
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I had Conor Oberst at number two. So far I like Grandaddy's Last Place. I have to listen to a few more 2017 albums if I want to do a tentative top five in Blank's thread. Still reviewing for my own ambitious project (only in 1970 as I write this). Anyway for me it's Grandaddy and Oberst.
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01-01-2018, 09:18 AM
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Jonathan Coulton – Solid State
Kontra K – Gute Nacht Lea Michele – Places Levina – Unexpected Marie Miller – Letterbox Mark Lanegan Band – Gargoyle Mary J Blige – Strength of a Woman New – Visuals New Found Glory – Makes Me Sick Sylvan Esso – What Now Terror – The Walls Will Fall Wale - Shine Willie Nelson - God's Problem Child Foster the People - III Kool A.D - Sky Ladder
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01-01-2018, 09:21 AM
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 Album title: Bulletproof Artist: Young Dolph Genre: Hip-hop/Trap Nationality: American Release date: April 1 Position in Discography: Second Estimated Rating:  Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 2.70 First up for April then is this, the second effort from American rapper Young Dolph, and all I can say is that at least it's not K-pop! Pretty decent start to be fair, like the dark atmosphere woven by the music and his rapping is good. Clever too: I see if you read the track list downwards, he's “done a [MERIT]”, ie the track titles form a sentence about what happened to him, apparently. I can kind of see the story running through the songs, though while it's okay I'm not totally blown away (no pun intended) – first song to really stand out is “That's How I Feel”; great rhythm to it and I love the melody and the rhyme of the lyric too. I'll definitely give YD (no, not YorkeDaddy!  ) points for resisting the urge most rappers seem to have, to throw fifteen, twenty or more tracks on their album. There are only ten here, which is grand, as anything over sixteen/seventeen can often be a real slog for me, especially if there's a lot of filler. Kudos to him for not annoying me or stretching my patience. “All Of Them” is another good song, but I will say that one thing I'm not that happy about is the way Young Dolph sings (all right, all right: raps then!): there's a kind of sulky, morose way he has of rapping that gives you the impression of an angsty teenager, and he's over thirty years old. I'd prefer a bit more animation, personality, maybe even anger rather than sullenness, but he is a good rapper, from the tiny bit that I know of it. Backing music is good, sparse at times, but kind of when it needs to be, and then laying down a nice backdrop when it's required, as in the piano that underpins “I'm Everything You Wanna Be”, and then there's the closer, which has no music at all but still rocks like ****. As I'm reliably informed the kids say these days, dope. Check out more from this artist? Yeah Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating: 
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01-01-2018, 10:08 AM
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 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:
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 Album title: Love Live Nut Artist: YFN Lucci Genre: Hip-hop Nationality: American Release date: April 4 Position in Discography: Debut EP Estimated Rating: Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 2.15 Another relatively short album – or rather, a long EP – with just nine tracks. It's also this guy's debut it would seem, and it certainly kicks off nicely. He's got a good way of almost singing the rap which I haven't heard, I don't think, before this. Very impressive. “Ammunition” has some dark menace about it, while there's reflection and maybe a sense of hopelessness in “Been Broke Before”, though I could do without “10AM” to be honest. The overall theme of this record seems to be YFN appreciating the fortune he's had, the way he's made a career in music, and this follows through in “Everyday We Lit”, and generally I think he has a right to be proud: this is a pretty damn fine album. EP. Yeah. Check out more from this artist? Yes Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Yes Actual Rating:
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 Album title: Belladonna of Sadness Artist: Alexandra Savior Genre: Indie Pop/Art Pop Nationality: American Release date: April 6 Position in Discography: Debut Estimated Rating: Familiar with this artist? No Familiar with the genre or subgenre? No Average RYM Score: 3.16 Well her voice kind of grates of me from the off, but we'll see. Yeah, I don't know about belladonna of sadness, but it's pretty depressing. Someone has dubbed her a poor man's Lana del Rey. I think that about fits here. Doubt I'll make it through this. It's a real struggle. Yeah; halfway through now and I'm feeling it no more than I was when she first opened her mouth. Pass.  Check out more from this artist? No Check out more from this genre or subgenre? Maybe
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