chaosclown17
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Very rarely do I find an album that has more than one or two song I enjoy on it. In honor of that, I create this thread in dedication to the albums that were excellent all around, and I invite you to share the albums that you felt were the same.
(I won't have any albums that were before my time. Out of the Blue and Cosmo's Factory come to mind immediately, but I wasn't there to experience them.)
La La Land - Wax Fang - The songs have kind of the simple complexity that stick with you even when they aren't playing.
This album opens with Majestic, and closes with Wake Up, Sleepyhead. Those two songs alone could have carried the album.
However, with Cannibal Summer, The Doctor Will See You Now, Avant Guardian Angel Dust, and Oh Recklessness smack dab in the middle force this album to greatness in my mind.
World War II and Can You See the Light are the weak points of this album in my opinion. Though if it was anybody other than Wax Fang I would have thought it was pretty damn good.
I also had an issue with the instrumental only At Sea. Which was excellent, but I just felt like all that beautiful music was wasted without some lyrical enhancement.
I would also like to give an honorable mention to Black & Endless Nights. That song could have easily closed this album, but instead it served as lube for the wonderful climax that was Wake Up, Sleepyhead.
Undun - The Roots - I only recently discovered this album. The UFC 167 promo's use of the song Sleep drew me in, but let me tell you, I am hooked.
They have some of the most amazing choruses in any music I've heard. The lyrics are quite enjoyable in their own right, but The Roots do with the choruses what very few bands are capable of doing anymore.
Most of the songs on this album didn't convince me. They just sounded like general rap to me. A little better than what seems to be shat out in the mainstream these days, but nothing gripping. However, once that chorus hit it was like a light in the dark. It brought the song together in ways I could not imagine.
They lead with Dun, which is one of those weird intros I am not very fond of.
However, they immediately lit a fire under my ass with Sleep. Make My tended the flames, and One Time and Kool On added gasoline. The way One Time and Kool On blend into one another was magical.
Stomp was a bit of a letdown. It lacked that magical chorus that seemed to bring most the others together.
The chorus of Lighthouse was a little too Pop for my tastes, but it wasn't terrible.
I Remember had a similar chorus, but it fit with the tone of the song, and improved it immensely.
Tip the Scale was the grand finale in my opinion. It rivaled if not surpassed the excellence of the first part of the album, and did it mostly through the lyrics. The chorus was good, but a bit weak by the albums standards.
The Redford Suite instrumentals were of varying degrees of quality. Redford was absolute excellence, and possibly broke away from how I felt about At Sea in a way that I feel that it might not have improved with lyrics.
Possibility was decent. Will to Power was a mess; though deliberately so. I still didn't feel that made it any better.
Finality wasn't as bad as Will to Power, but wasn't as good as Possibility. Had it not been so short before it drifted off into this rolling thunder type sound it might have been between Possibility and Redford.
(In the interest of keeping my initial post from turning into a wall of text I'll leave it at two. Though there were several more right off the top of my head.)
(I won't have any albums that were before my time. Out of the Blue and Cosmo's Factory come to mind immediately, but I wasn't there to experience them.)
La La Land - Wax Fang - The songs have kind of the simple complexity that stick with you even when they aren't playing.
This album opens with Majestic, and closes with Wake Up, Sleepyhead. Those two songs alone could have carried the album.
However, with Cannibal Summer, The Doctor Will See You Now, Avant Guardian Angel Dust, and Oh Recklessness smack dab in the middle force this album to greatness in my mind.
World War II and Can You See the Light are the weak points of this album in my opinion. Though if it was anybody other than Wax Fang I would have thought it was pretty damn good.
I also had an issue with the instrumental only At Sea. Which was excellent, but I just felt like all that beautiful music was wasted without some lyrical enhancement.
I would also like to give an honorable mention to Black & Endless Nights. That song could have easily closed this album, but instead it served as lube for the wonderful climax that was Wake Up, Sleepyhead.
Undun - The Roots - I only recently discovered this album. The UFC 167 promo's use of the song Sleep drew me in, but let me tell you, I am hooked.
They have some of the most amazing choruses in any music I've heard. The lyrics are quite enjoyable in their own right, but The Roots do with the choruses what very few bands are capable of doing anymore.
Most of the songs on this album didn't convince me. They just sounded like general rap to me. A little better than what seems to be shat out in the mainstream these days, but nothing gripping. However, once that chorus hit it was like a light in the dark. It brought the song together in ways I could not imagine.
They lead with Dun, which is one of those weird intros I am not very fond of.
However, they immediately lit a fire under my ass with Sleep. Make My tended the flames, and One Time and Kool On added gasoline. The way One Time and Kool On blend into one another was magical.
Stomp was a bit of a letdown. It lacked that magical chorus that seemed to bring most the others together.
The chorus of Lighthouse was a little too Pop for my tastes, but it wasn't terrible.
I Remember had a similar chorus, but it fit with the tone of the song, and improved it immensely.
Tip the Scale was the grand finale in my opinion. It rivaled if not surpassed the excellence of the first part of the album, and did it mostly through the lyrics. The chorus was good, but a bit weak by the albums standards.
The Redford Suite instrumentals were of varying degrees of quality. Redford was absolute excellence, and possibly broke away from how I felt about At Sea in a way that I feel that it might not have improved with lyrics.
Possibility was decent. Will to Power was a mess; though deliberately so. I still didn't feel that made it any better.
Finality wasn't as bad as Will to Power, but wasn't as good as Possibility. Had it not been so short before it drifted off into this rolling thunder type sound it might have been between Possibility and Redford.
(In the interest of keeping my initial post from turning into a wall of text I'll leave it at two. Though there were several more right off the top of my head.)
