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The Flashbulb - Our Simulacra - 4/10

 

Man I use to be such a huge Benn Jordan fan. No album he put out could disappoint and to be fair I think around the time that I was introduced to his music was his greatest stretch of music. 07's release with Sountrack to a Vacant Life up until 12' with Hardscrabble. I've been really hoping that something would absolutely blow me away like the first time I heard "Undiscovered Colors". Thats not to say that his new stuff isn't good, Piety of Ashes feels just like one of the albums released between those years. Dormant (Movement 1-7) is a great album to sit and relax to. They just didn't have the same impact on me when they came out, but I grew to appreciate them. 

 

Our Simulacra though, is probably the first album where I've actually felt let down. The album just doesn't dig as deep as his older stuff and feels like he was disinterested in even making it. Lyrically Benn has never been amazing, his music doesn't even really call for vocals most of the time and when its been implemented its one of his standout song, Like "I Saw the Sky" off Hardscrabble, its fit really well. The albums opening track "Monthly Colors" is just a voice spouting out months with pretty a rather uneventful song. The actual song "Your Simulacra" shares the same problem with a repeating voice for 4 minutes, at least the song is much more varied and interesting though. Fbox is just a repetitive 1.5 second loop deformed over and over again. He does get pretty interesting with it, but I can only sit through it for a minute before it gets old. 

 

Drama Function and Portal are the highlights of the album for me. The have that classic touch with strings and pianos playing over a relaxed glitch/breakcore beat. You seem to find a few of there songs littered throughout his discography and are some of my favorite songs that I can continue to go back and listen to again and again. Unfortunately these two songs alone can't hold up the rest of the album that ranges between uninteresting and annoying.  

 

 

 

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Does it have to be a new album? Because I just listened to Judas Priest's Hellbent For Leather for the first time in a while and it's a 10/10

 

Problem with listening to a track like Delivering The Goods while on lockdown is that I immediately want to get a beer at the bar.

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On 4/2/2020 at 2:30 PM, Bloodporne said:

Does it have to be a new album? Because I just listened to Judas Priest's Hellbent For Leather for the first time in a while and it's a 10/10

 

Problem with listening to a track like Delivering The Goods while on lockdown is that I immediately want to get a beer at the bar.

No real rules here, hell Iam just starting down the rabbit hole of Prince. By God the man has more Funk and Soul then 3/4 of the planet combined. 

 

 

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57 minutes ago, SimpleG said:

No real rules here, hell Iam just starting down the rabbit hole of Prince. By God the man has more Funk and Soul then 3/4 of the planet combined. 

 

 

Prince is killer, one of the staples of my childhood. Last time I was...well...out, they played Pussy Control and the place went wild.

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Had a friend growing up who's mom bought a Prince DVD from a concert. She legit had that thing on repeat for YEARS. There was never a time that I went to his house and it wasn't playing. Even if I slept over, it would play during the night too. Can't say I was ever really fond of Prince outside of a few songs, but good memories.

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14 hours ago, SimpleG said:

Got to chill with Pete Steele one night at a bar. Dude was super cool. 

In NY or on tour? I've had a few beers here and there with Kenny Hickey around town and met Peter a few times back at the old Duff's in Brooklyn. Nothing very personal or anything but I was pretty active in the metal scene here at one point so we'd cross paths.

 

There can't possibly be a band with cooler, and ironically funnier, members.

 

@SimpleG I'm a YouTube "old live video" fiend, so not sure if you share the same enthusiasm but this is fantastic footage sound-wise if so:

 

 

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Going all in on the misery here and thought maybe some of the people into Metal here would be into this, an old favorite of mine:

 

 

A later album for them that saw the original singer return. Worth it for the guitar tone and vocals alone.

 

8/10 for me as some tracks have obnoxious vocal lines.

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I tend to not check out new Metal release but I really liked this band's last album and this one is even better. Just great, great shit.

 

9/10 easily for me. Sort of like Venom, Prog Rock, King Diamond, Black Metal in general and East European folk tales had a really well-crafted love child.

 

 

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11 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

My continued ventures into music I've always kinda-sorta known but never actually really listened to due to some preconceived notion:

 

Portishead's first and second albums

 

Boy, this shit is fucking fantastic. Her voice especially is so great.

 

Curious as to what you thought they sounded like enough for you to avoid them your whole life. :p

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6 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Curious as to what you thought they sounded like enough for you to avoid them your whole life. :p

I'm not even that sure to be honest. You know how sometimes a band name, its fans or maybe even some snippet caught at the wrong time gives you some preconceived notion? Portishead was that band for me. Then again, my musical tastes have broadened vastly in the last decade anyway and I'm getting around to all kinds of things I missed in the 90's.

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14 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I'm not even that sure to be honest. You know how sometimes a band name, its fans or maybe even some snippet caught at the wrong time gives you some preconceived notion? Portishead was that band for me. Then again, my musical tastes have broadened vastly in the last decade anyway and I'm getting around to all kinds of things I missed in the 90's.

 

In 30 years maybe you'll visit the best of the year threads that are around here. :]

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Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering

 

So I'm going to pull a @Bloodporne here but let me preface it with a story (because people love stories)

 

My friend started making a "most financial albums" list for himself personally. Rage Against The Machine made like #3 or something. Which got me to thinking, I haven't listened to them (other when they get played on the radio) since probably high school or before. That being said I did have both of their CDs but after a while they annoyed me and I never listened to them since. So I looked on RYM and their self titled album is ranked #2 for the year 1992. So I checked the list out of curiosity to see what else was on there (Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is #1) and I kept going down the list, I went down 400 ranks or so and decided I'm going to listen to a bunch of these albums from 1992.

 

Eyehategod was on the list, this album in particular is 194 ranked for 1992. Eyehategod is a band I remember from when I was young and had a good laugh at the name but never ended up listening to. Not because of any preconceived notions just back in the day there wasn't much access for that type of stuff in the late 90s for a high school kid, and then I forgot about them. So my first time listening just now I gotta say not instantly appealing, but not bad. They're like a sludge band with more of a punk sound. Something I would have to revisit again to get more enjoyment out of now that I know what to expect.

 

As a side note I was considering maybe making a thread for this, where I go down the list and comment on all these albums from 1992, but then again no one cares what I have to say so maybe I'll hold off. :p

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9 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

Eyehategod - In the Name of Suffering

 

So I'm going to pull a @Bloodporne here but let me preface it with a story (because people love stories)

 

My friend started making a "most financial albums" list for himself personally. Rage Against The Machine made like #3 or something. Which got me to thinking, I haven't listened to them (other when they get played on the radio) since probably high school or before. That being said I did have both of their CDs but after a while they annoyed me and I never listened to them since. So I looked on RYM and their self titled album is ranked #2 for the year 1992. So I checked the list out of curiosity to see what else was on there (Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works 85-92 is #1) and I kept going down the list, I went down 400 ranks or so and decided I'm going to listen to a bunch of these albums from 1992.

 

Eyehategod was on the list, this album in particular is 194 ranked for 1992. Eyehategod is a band I remember from when I was young and had a good laugh at the name but never ended up listening to. Not because of any preconceived notions just back in the day there wasn't much access for that type of stuff in the late 90s for a high school kid, and then I forgot about them. So my first time listening just now I gotta say not instantly appealing, but not bad. They're like a sludge band with more of a punk sound. Something I would have to revisit again to get more enjoyment out of now that I know what to expect.

 

As a side note I was considering maybe making a thread for this, where I go down the list and comment on all these albums from 1992, but then again no one cares what I have to say so maybe I'll hold off. :p

As in...listen to old albums you're discovering?

 

I've actually always really disliked Eyehategod. I don't like their music, especially the vocals, and their gutter punk junkie thing is something I've always found unappealing in any band.

 

Make that thread, I'll definitely think it's interesting especially considering I can't get together with my music nerd friends at the bar right now. I love bullshitting about music.

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20 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

As in...listen to old albums you're discovering?

 

Not necessarily discovering but just going down the 1992 list and discussing what I think of the albums on it. Some I've heard of course and some I haven't heard.  I'm at Nick Cave and the Bad seeds which is 19 on the list so it wouldn't be difficult to swing back around and put my thoughts on what I've heard since.

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Man EyeHateGod is the epitome of dirty southern sludge.

34 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

their gutter punk junkie thing is something I've always found unappealing in any band.

For me it I love when an environment leaks so far into music that you can taste and smell it and EHG encapsulates poor dirty Louisiana in it so well.

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18 minutes ago, SimpleG said:

Man EyeHateGod is the epitome of dirty southern sludge.

For me it I love when an environment leaks so far into music that you can taste and smell it and EHG encapsulates poor dirty Louisiana in it so well.

I honestly do as well and I like a lot of really down and out and dirty bands/musicians but somehow Sludge in general just irritates me with the levels of wallowing.

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