• PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      17 hours ago

      Hell yeah, you just made it an “Exercises in Futility” kinda day. Well, musically anyway. I had the rest covered already

  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 days ago

    I maintain that Cake has never released a bad album, but Race Car Ya-Yas on Fashion Nugget is absolute crap. A festering boil on the face of an otherwise unblemished body of work.

    • Grimm665@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      Really? Interesting. I think the version on Alive 2007 combined with Alive and Prime Time of Your Life is like the pinnacle of that album.

      • Feddinat0r@feddit.org
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        1 day ago

        The alive 2007 version fits in the live set. That was much better than the song on its own on the human after all album

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Not really my ultimate favorite, but it stands out because it’s one song that ruins the album for me: “Drawing The Line” from Porcupine Tree’s concept album “The Incident”. The sudden tonal shift takes me out of the mood when listening to the album in its entirety.

    • DampSquid@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      It’s Permanating by Steven Wilson for me, but possibly only because i skipped most of the albums afterwards.

  • s@piefed.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Genesis - Illegal Alien, overly poppy and tasteless for a variety of reasons. If not for the lyrics and racial insensitivity, it would be musically preferable to Who Dunnit

    Peter Gabriel - The Story of OVO, I love to see Peter experiment and test out different genres but he does not realize how important flow is to rap/hip hop and his lyrical verbosity got the best of him

    Honorable mention: Foreigner - Big Dog, overly repetitive riff, trite and creepy symbolism, and really weird growling by Lou Gramm. The sax solo is good though

  • neidu3@sh.itjust.works
    MEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Dream Theater - Anna Lee

    It’s an alright song, I guess, but it’s so far away from their other stuff that I do like, and it’s really not my cup of tea.

  • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    My favourite singer is Enya, and I still haven’t listened to the album “And Winter Came” all the way through. Her holiday album.

    There’s also a holiday edition of Amarantine and I’ve never heard it.

    I have Apple Music. I have access to all of this. When I added Amarantine, the holiday edition shows by default. I scrolled down to “other versions” and selected the original and added that to my library (I also have the physical CD and I’ve ripped it and the others and many more to the highest m4a/aac fre:ac can do).

    I just don’t do holiday music. Not a grinch or anything, it’s just not for me.

    • kelpie_is_trying@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 day ago

      My favorite band (that has done a winter holiday release), kinda totally aced it, so I can’t relate on that. But Enya’s Day Without Rain is and has long been one of my all-time favorite no-skip albums. Especially Tempus Vernum, lately. My only complaint is that it wraps in under 3 minutes tbh

      Edit: links

      • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 day ago

        If you like Enya in Latin, check out Pax Deorum off The Memory of Trees. Similar energy but almost scary. Name means “peace of the gods”.

        A Day Without Rain, Amarantine, and Dark Sky Island are in my heavy rotation.