Day 20

PINK GUY - Anal Beads

So this song I can't really explain all that well besides that it's a very pretty song played on a ukulele with a bunch a beautiful vocal harmonies. It's about getting anal beads getting shoved up your ass too hard and thus start bleeding intensely. Anyone who knows who PINK GUY is should know TVFilthyFrank and his brand of comedy. If you don't I suggest watching a few of his videos to see if his brand of ultra low budget crude offensive humor is your style.

Day 21

Stereolab - Ping Pong

I'm not doing a description for this one I just wrote my weekly review I'm just about worn out. :laughing: Anyways this is an awesome song so listen to it!

Day 22

Shellac - House Of Garbage

Shellac is one of famed producer Steve Albini's many side projects. Shellac is known for its minimalistic sound and repetitive nature some even calling them anti-music. House Of Garbage comes from their second album Terraform, and comes near the end of the album. It's sludgy, dirty, grimy bassline creates an atmosphere dark and disturbing that fits the odd narrative near perfectly. The only real change in the song are the numerous guitar bursts and the punkish chourus. A really oddball track and one totally deserving the 8 minute run time.

Day 23

Elliott Smith - Either/Or

So I was going to choose a song from this today to share with everyone, but listening to it multiple times made me realize, there is not a bad song on this album. No really at first glance there are clear highlights, but digging down a little deeper revealed that every song has a certain magic to it that Elliott brings into nearly all of his songs on every album, this is just my personal favorite. Songs like The Ballad Of Big Nothing with that very uplifting chorus of "You can do what you want to, whenever you want to" always get me singing and the album is filled with these very uplifting moments, even when the song itself might be depressing or sad, which happens often on this album. Either/Or do sent really have the lush orchestrations of his later albums like Figure 8, but it encapsulated him Mr. Smith in all of his beautiful fractured songwriting that didn't need the strings and extra instrumentation to get across what it needed.

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Day 24

Opeth - Heritage

Ah Opeth one of my first bands in a foray into more extreme metal and along the way got sidetracked and my favorite album by them ended up being Heritage. Today I'm not talking about the full album, but rather the short piano intro that starts off the album. It's a beautifully played piece that mixes classical, gothic, and jazz into one. The main melody is something I could listen to a million times over, and the slight improvisation of the melody is something that really drew me in. He even throws in some slight changes to the melody to give it more of a jazzy flair to it. Anyways its one of the first songs that I learned on piano trying to learn jazz on it (I've now added a few Tyler beats that are surprisingly easy to improv over, and Christmas Time Is Here to that repitóire). The song just means a lot to me and I don't know why I haven't shared it earlier.

That intro is pretty cool. Glad you've started this again! :thumb:

Day 25

Death Grips - Inanimate Sensation

So for all who haven't heard yet Death Grips released a new single. Yeah so we're finally getting Jenny Death he second part of The Powers That B with this year's Niggas On The Moon being the first part. So stylistically this release feels like a mixture of everything that they have released in the past mixing sounds nearing the intensity of Exmilitary yet the glitch factor of Govt Plates and NOTM. Lyrically it works like the fractured spastic lyricism from The Money Store and No Love Deep Web. And by God it makes one hell of a track. I'm mean it's noisy chaotic, we have MC Ride screaming again, getting live drums from Zach Hill and ooo it makes me shiver. It's honestly the most immediate I have ever gotten this into something from Death Grips, and while maybe not for everyone, it's definitely worth a listen.

It'd be a great track, if not for that ****ing vocal reprise. It sounds like what someone would make if they were trying to make fun of Death Grips.

I love this album so much.

Day 26

System Of A Down - Mind

So yes they are included in the nü-metal scene, and yes they play into some of those clichés. Do I care? Nope... SOAD is the very popular 90's and early 00 's alt. metal, expiremental rock, outfit featuring Serj Tankian (vocals), Daron Malikian ( guitar, whiny vocals), Shavo (bass) , and John Doloman (drums). Now my favorite of theirs is the s/t debut which captures them at their most raw and most creative, and a song like Mind perfectly captures this. Starting with the very creepy/unsettling bassline before guitars and drums pop in with a near Latin jazz style to them which is awesome. And whispered vocals really bring out this unsettling tone. After it all fades away and you think the song is over everything moves into overdrive. Serj is screaming "GO AWAY!!!" over a speedy riff, this moves into the sludge paced riff that moves into the verse. After a few more twists and turns the next part worth mentioning is the very end or what I like to call Act III of the song. It all ends with another slow moving bassline with Serj whispering "look at eachother..." so I'm not sure what the song was supposed to convey, but it initially comes of as a song about rape, and while I think it's partially true it's about rape of the senses from the media. It's a perfectly unsettling song, and amazingly well put together. So if you're in the mood for politically charged, aggressive, near-jazzy rock music check this out.