Mordy's Metal Listening Club - New Albums Every Monday

Like the idea & revisited those 3 albums the last 2 days. Sadly I still dont like any of them. Although the guitar sound on the Entombed is still lovely.

HEY DUDES LETS JUST THROW HORNS AND BE COOL

i gotta figure out some way to listen to these w/o buying 3 albums a week. stupid no us spotify grrr

(ask a certain canadian how he uses spotify)

john i think they're all on lala.com; u can listen once for free and more than that if you stop each song before it ends

thx!

gotta say, imo, the less rules about what albums someone can and can't pick, the better

sorry pfunk

hey that's fine, i just think its fair to give everyone their say. And to stop people moaning later when people pick albums from the same genre all the time.

And do we keep it all in this thread or start a new one so that the 3 albums each week are always at the top? (remember a lot of people will not click read all messages)

Might as well get this all sorted at the beginning IMO.

keep it in one thread imo--ppl should just bookmark it. will be easier to find shit later. if it gets too big we can always start another one later.

agreed.

i mean to me what will make the engine run is making sure we get 3 new albums posted every monday--everything else should take care of itself from there.

some more thoughts:
- Entombeds death n roll thing really doesn't work for a whole album. Not enough killer riffs, not enough variation (where LHP & Clandestine were a nice mix of longer, riff-salad DM and shorter grindcorish bursts). As a 4 song EP it would be much better.
- Can't believe these weak vocals, dude did LHP for fucks sake?
- glenn & call all destroyer totally otm on Kyuss above
- Baroness really, really not my thing. Hate this kind of unfocused, weak-ass, smoke-and-mirrors metal.

Ah fuck Mastodon not Baroness

i was about to say ;)

lol i continue to be amazed at mastodon hate. it's like a foreign language to me.

^^

i should qualify--hate for remission and leviathan

They've become troo metal fans hate-posterboys since they got big and noone cares about Pelican or Isis anymore. Its the voegtlin effect.

i mean that could very well be true but i don't think most of our regular metal posters really operate that way?

like a couple other guys were hating remission upthread, crazy to me!

but you know what? noone can like everything. And at least people on here dislike Mastodon because they dont like the music, not the other bullshit that others do.

a couple of xposts there

yeah i don't mind at all i guess i'm just curious for more from those folks

A lot of people just dont like hip/hype bands. Any whiff of hype or the wrong sort of people liking it and they hate it. This is not restricted to metal by any means. It was also around long before the 1st metal riff was made.

There was probably mentalists who didn't like Miles Davis or John Coltrane as they were too mainstream

see that beethoven...

How are you getting along with that strawman, guys?

lol don't bring me into this.

Hate this kind of unfocused, weak-ass, smoke-and-mirrors metal.

could you elaborate? what do you find unfocused about remission? too... all over the place?

I myself think it's a "riff salad" album. but a pretty great one.

will be listening to it again once I finish another run through the new cathedral. but I'm already v. familiar.

i liked the mastodon album when it came out. haven't listened since. maybe i'll dig out the cd if i still have it. and same with wolverine blues. liked it back then, haven't really listened since. i like the earlier stuff better AND some of the later stuff better. but they are totally a band where you need to know which albums to buy cuz they are spotty later on. the last album was horrible except for one great slayer song on it.

You can say a lot of things about Remission, but "weak-ass" probably wouldnt be the first thing to come to my mind.

I do admit that the drumming is pretty good. But yeah it's all over the place, just tries too hard & lacks any real soul or purpose. To be fair I never liked this whole approach to begin with, even as far back as Souls At Zero.

I listened to the Kyuss album last night. found it a bit trying at first. But by about track 10 I started "getting" it, the whole wall of sound, hard rock, sludginess of it all. Probably needs another listen. second last track was particularly good i think, or maybe thats just when i was getting into it. Not really what I think of when people say metal, although I'm a complete metal novice so I can't really talk.

just listened to most of the Entombed album. I like how its kinda exhilarating with the crazy fast guitar playing and drumming. I like the desperate vocals and the music isn't uneasy on the ear. However I hate the preoccupation with hating christianity and the lack of songs about X-Men characters.

Crazy fast?? That whole album is in a groovy/midtempo rockish tempo!

Structure-wise, I think we'd get more participants if each week was a new thread with the three artists in the title, and maybe even a running number, like "Metal Listening Club #1: Kyuss, Entombed, Mastodon", "Metal Listening Club #2: Hinder, Hanson, Halford", etc. If it's a single rolling thread, there's no draw for people who aren't already following it, and if you miss a couple days it's a pain in the ass to find the actual albums upthread. For continuity we can also dump the link to #2 in the #1 thread, etc. This also allows one week's discussion to go on after another's has begun, without either disrupting the other.

Glenn makes a great point

And if we can agree on it, then perhaps a mod could add to the thread title.

I cant help feeling that a few posters wont join us though because they disagree with filesharing and it is kind of encouraging that since most of you do not have Spotify.

How about records that are in the 2nd hand bins everywhere by the dozens for a buck? I nominate: The Spaghetti Incident.

I wouldn't equate "listening club" with filesharing. We may not have Spotify in the US, but we've got a growing array of ways to sample music easily, either whole albums or :30 clips to decide whether it's something you're into at all.

And, for that matter, I don't have any objection to people chiming in only on albums they already own and have opinions about, if that's what they feel like.

How are you getting along with that strawman, guys?

siegbran otm in a metal thread - in other news the sun came up

I think peeps may be overthinking this is a bit.

I am starting my own metal fiends listening club which is 100% Let Mortal Heroes Sing Your Fame, no other albums allowed

I'm currently watching Fiends on TBS.

They're throwing a baby shower for Rachel.

I cant help feeling that a few posters wont join us though because they disagree with filesharing and it is kind of encouraging that since most of you do not have Spotify.

― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:24 PM (43 minutes ago)

i am totally this guy but thinking that this lala thing might be a great answer