Baroness - Yellow And Green (2012)

ftr I didn't buy it because I hated the cover

man disc 2 is a slog! first thing i'm really feeling is the 2nd half of song SIX

omg I wish I hadn't read the word "Nickelback" on this thread because that's basically all I can think of now that track 2 has started

i woke up around track 8

stretchmarker is kind of a nice quiet little instrumental so far....totally The New Year/Bedhead/cadane bros vibe

this is pleasant and all but I don't think I need to own this

disc 1 is definitely the stronger of the two

so far "Green Theme" is my favorite track

am I gonna end up being the weirdo who likes disc 2 more than disc 1?

entirely possible.

I agree wholeheartedly with your prior comment:

this is pleasant and all but I don't think I need to own this

am I gonna end up being the weirdo who likes disc 2 more than disc 1?

― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:37 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes, if you like falling asleep

i already pre-ordered the vinyl but its not worth $40 + $26 shipping from relapse that its cost me. Certainly not top 10 album of year material, but the good tracks are really good.

for whatever reason, I am digging the moody atmospheric stuff much, much more than the "Nickelback covers Alice In Chains" stuff on disc 1

When you realize it's a bit "Nickelback covers The Decembrists" you might not dig it as much.

i already pre-ordered the vinyl but its not worth $40 + $26 shipping from relapse that its cost me. Certainly not top 10 album of year material, but the good tracks are really good.

― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:47 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's obviously worth that to you, because that's what you paid for it.

hey are the ppl who like this really fucking w/disc 2?
--call all destroyer

o/

Green > Yellow > Red > Blue

When you realize it's a bit "Nickelback covers The Decembrists" you might not dig it as much.

u suck

When you realize it's a bit "Nickelback covers The Decembrists" you might not dig it as much.

this the best sickest burn

holy shit 66 dollars for a baroness. you could buy like 33 saxon records for that money.

eddie trunk from that metal show really likes saxon but not as much as UFO...don't get him started about UFO!

also one time there was a stump the trunk question about rush's fear trilogy (witch hunt, the weapon, and the enemy within) and he didn't know it and the guy was like "you know, like witch hunt from moving pictures" and eddie got sort of offended that anyone would think he liked rush after they got into synthesizers!

i wonder if the guy who owns relapse rolls around nude on $20s or $50s

not really. it would still cost $20 to ship an lp to the uk
xp

I'm sure it's just offsetting the cost of RUMPLESTILTSKIN GRINDER or w/e

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder are on Candlelight now. BURN.

listening to Free Hand by Gentle Giant man what a great record when mastodon make a record as good as this one lemme know. plus, its only 36 minutes long.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRVq80EfoRY

set you back like five quid or something in the u.k. five bob even! ten pence at a car boot sale at a summer shed festival!

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder are on Candlelight now. BURN.

― Hamster of Legend (J3ff T.), Wednesday, July 18, 2012 4:15 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haaaaaah

This thread is kind of all time, by the way, even if the Nickelback comparisons have forever killed the record for me.

I can't hear Nickelback in it! Is everyone just accepting that that's for sure?

I heard Nickelback at first but it's fading after three or four listens. Second disc is growing too, but I'm still skipping a couple of tracks on it.

Just listened to this today. I heard no Nickelback but the vocals got a little Scott Stapp-ish there in some spots IMO...

This is probably my favorite Baroness record yet but yeah, its got like 5 songs too many...

i'm thinking a lot of you are maybe hearing more your idea of what chad kroeger's vocals sound like than his actual voice? cause if this is what nickelback sounded like i'd enjoy them a lot more.

i really like it, tho i'm wondering whether the 5 best tracks from this and the 5 best from the christian mistress album would make a one-disc to rock the world

^^^

otm. I thought at first you guys were just using "Nickelback" as some sort of shorthand for arena ready alt-rock, because this sounds absolutely nothing like Nickelback to my ears.

oops otm to Mordy's first post

yeah i think ppl are using "nickelback" as shorthand for "5th-generation grungy radio rock"

more in a theory of a deadman style

it was just the voice for me. though i did keep replaying their songs into my head just to make sure there was some qualitative difference and i wasn't being fooled.

I never see Gentle Giant rekkids for cheap, if I did I'd have probably made an effort to get into them

also $66 holy moly, I'm sure the vinyl for this looks pretty but I can't imagine ever caring about format enough to spend, what, four times as much as the same thing would cost on CD?

There's definitely a spectrum on this from alt-rock to whiny indie, with Little Things & Psalms Alive at the whiny end, vocally + lyrically + musically.

if you've got your headphones up too loud, that snare hit on 'green theme' is like, holy shit

"Eula" really reminds me of Cave In ca. the Jupiter LP.

yeah, that seems like a good comparison point overall.

just barely beginning to listen to this, but yellow is fantastic, holy shit. if green even half measures up, i'm a fan. don't hear nickelback in the least, btw. it's gruff, post-grunge rock-as-pop, but beyond sharing space in that theme park, the two have nothing in common. plus, it's not like i hate nickelback as the product of a generic objection to their sound palette. i hate them because they are fucking nickelback, because i am offended by their songs, musical personality and the living human presence of chad kroeger. i seems plausible that someone might make great music that happened to sound roughly similar. someone else, i mean...

"little things" is the only song i even half half want to dislike, just not a fan of angsty accusations in this kind of music. but i love the feel of the chorus and especially the bassline, almost postpunk, or like something rush might have done circa signals. and that guitar solo! also, i don't see why people are saying this isn't a metal album. it is. it's not a particularly aggressive one. i like the relative gentleness and accessibility, fwiw. and they do stomp some from time to time, like at the end of "cocanium".

love the combination of baroque, proggy psychedelia and dark, angsty 90s-style rock, like on "back where i belong" and "twinkler". shouldn't work, but does.

"fuck the purists" becomes a funnier line with every description of this I read. Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata is the best rap album of the year, fuck the purists!

In an ILM-world where we discuss Alestorm, Nightwish, Mastodon, Alcest etc on Rolling Metal idk what makes Baroness not metal. (ok maybe not Alestorm so much but insert generic troll metal band here)

Baroness is certainly not less metal than Eluviete

yellow does get a little shlocky towards the end with "sea lungs" and "eula"

Baroness is less metal than Avril Levigne </sinker>

green is mostly a drag, sadly. maybe it'll grow on me, but i got bored on the first pass. and i genuinely hate "board up the house". it's definitely got moments ("MTNS." is great, second half of "psalms alive" perks things up for a couple minutes), but this probably should have been a single album.