Recommend me some 2022 albums +1000th album halp

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 37: Louisiana Morning by Benn Jordan (Album Choice: EzExZeRo7497)

I deliberately skipped like 10 random.org choices cause it's 2 AM and I wanna sleep. I'm really only doing this cause I need to charge as much as possible then switch phones before I go to bed since my family currently has access to one charger and we have a flight tomorrow. If you don't know who Benn Jordan is, look him up. It's actually completely understandable if you don't know him but I'm tired. I personally like some of his works under pseudonym The Flashbulb but honestly listen to it very rarely and have explored very little in his rather dense discography. One 20 minute song of what I am assuming is modern classical (here broken up into 4 tracks) let's do this.

Day 30: It's been what most people consider a month!
Day 31: It's been a mode-length month!

I'm still gonna avoid porn anyways though, just to test.*

And, this wasn't really classical, more easy listening than any genre, containing a lot of jazzy/flamenco guitar work as well as synths, field recordings and orchestration here and there.*III starts out with some of the most boring guitar work ever but switches to a Bluish sort of sound then becomes the best track on the EP for the remaining 6 minutes. The song as a whole? Not bad, very smooth overall and the freewheeling guitar rarely feels tedious (impressive for 20 minutes). I'm gonna give this a pretty good score for now, but I'm tired and this was good for presleep so I'll go back TOMORROW and see what I think.

Best Track: III but really now?
Rating: 7.5/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

I'm the last reviewer on this website it seems, just like last summer. Probably because I make these things way too self indulgent to get truly bored of them


Day 38: Let It Be by The Beatles

I relistened to Louisiana Morning and my rating still stands.

When it comes to listening to The Beatles in order, it's somewhat tough as this album was recorded first but Abbey Road was released first. I ultimately decided that I may as well end on a good note, right? So this one is first, I've heard stuff from this album before and the syrupy sound really bugged me. I should review the naked version too but that's for another day.

I'm not doing daily updates on the porn thing anymore. I'll just post if there's ever a breakthrough or relapse. No such thing as too much information right?

And... I guess what I heard was a bad representation of the album. I clearly remember The Long And Winding Road and it's still as sappy as ever, but that's not the sound of most of the album. This is really just a collection of 12 bar honky-tonk country jam throwaways for the most part, with bits of gospel and waltz in here as well to add zero variety. The production doesn't matter, these songs just aren't very good. Even Harrison's songs, which always seem to be my favorites, are pathetic mindless drivel here. These songs are all inoffensively bad. They're so boring I wonder how dated this sounded in 1970. This makes me think The Replacements deliberately gave their album the same title so they could say "Look how much better and not boring our album is!" There is no way anyone should be looking at this album in retrospect and giving it good ratings. This is like a sad bootleg home demo collection since it's clear how unfinished these songs are. The Long And Winding Road is the only song that isn't brain lidocaine here and that's because it's unintentionally hilarious. Someone told me that this album would make me hope to have Kokomo stuck in my head all day. I wish I had believed them, because it would've been funnier when I realized how wrong they were. That song is an abomination, this album is just numb and uninteresting. And that's enough self-indulgence for one night.

On the bright side, the first five seconds of Come Together and Her Majesty are all I've heard from Abbey Road and that's already a much much more captivating album.

Best Track: Seriously it's actually hilarious how fucking boring this album is
Rating: 3.5/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 39: Nightfall by Candlemass (Album Choice: sonicman68)

Short review before yet another flight in another 4 hours. Candlemass is a legendary doom metal band of whom I've only heard their debut, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus. That title would be absolutely perfect if I didn't despise Latin with a passion.

The vocals are slightly more operatic than EDM but I'm not even sure I'd have noticed that if I didn't read about it. Otherwise, this is a pretty fun album, though the melodies aren't nearly as strong as the debut and the album drags a bit at times (the short tracks especially)

Best Track: Dark Are The Veils Of Death
Rating: 7/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 40: Straight Outta Lynwood by "Weird" Al Yankovic (Album Choice: Peter F)

This is an album where I've heard a very good chunk of the songs on the album but I'm reviewing it anyways. I have a high opinion of Weird Al, owing a good deal to 6th grade nostalgia, but also to the fact that I think his songcraft skills have always been underappreciated. His parodies are probably the worst part of his albums if you ask me. The polka medleys are always pure genius, and his originals and style parodies are usually way funnier than his parodies. 12 year old me wasn't nearly pretentious enough to make these comments or distinctions in the first place, but 16 year old me says for every stroke of genius like Smells Like Nirvana or White and Nerdy, there are around seven parodies like Jurassic Park or TMZ which make me think "Who the fuck is the audience for this? Does anyone actually find this funny?" On the other hand, I could listen to The Alternative Polka all day, songs like Happy Birthday , Craigslist and Bob still blow my mind to this day, and most importantly, his ability to make a compelling long song (if you even consider 10 minutes long) is unmatched. All you progressive musicians could take a lesson from Al, it'd make you less boring for sure!

So yeah I'm looking forward to most of this album. Also, midnight marks 40 days of no porno!

The first track I already described as a work of genius, but the second track, Pancreas, is one I had never heard, so imagine my face when I hear a Al version of Our Prayer followed by what sounds like a parody of Heroes and Villains! If you can't imagine that. I'm a short Asian teenager with unkempt hair, and a huge Beach Boys fan. Is it funny? ...No, not at all. But who cares? THAT WAS EFFING AMAZING HE EVEN GOT THE HOOKAH CHAS IN THERE.

The quality drops a bit from there though. Many people say that Al can only be as good as the artist he parodies, and I don't like Green Day or Rage Against The Machine, so nothing is gonna work for me there. Polkarama is far from his best medley, but also far from his worst, Gorillaz and Velvet Revolver are totally superfluous here.

After the Polka Medley, the only real standout song is Close But No Cigar, as almost all of the other songs after that point have a music video that makes the song MUCH more entertaining, and without the video these songs mostly fall flat, though Do I Creep You Out is still pretty entertaining and Weasel Stomping Day is grotesque and unfunny with or without visuals. The only song without a music video is Confessions Part III and it totally sucks. For what it's worth, Close But No Cigar also has a music video, but it's by John Kricfalusi who is one of my least favorite animators ever. Seriously, I'm gonna try avoiding rant status, but why is he highly regarded at all? Ren and Stimpy he was only able to complete 18 episodes of and those were very VERY hit and miss. After that, literally EVERYTHING he made was just a bunch of gross or offensive jokes. I don't wanna watch a cartoon about pee boners or a cartoon who's jokes are almost entirely based on a "laugh at the retarded boy" logic. I'm already in rant mode so I'll finish by saying HIS CHARACTER DESIGNS LOOK LIKE POOPOO.

Uh yeah, the album. It missed way more than it hit, it has Al's worst long song, the parodies mostly suffer from a lack of good source material and the originals generally are a letdown after seeing the videos. Obviously this album review is written from a different perspective than usual but everything I say still stands. There are only 4 or 5 songs I truly like out of 12. On the other hand, there are only 2 really bad songs, and Pancreas is so fucking good it earns this album a bonus point and a half automatically. It takes SKILL to emulate Brian Wilson so perfectly.

I should listen to Mandatory Fun sometime soon.

Best Track: Look, if you read the review it isn't hard to tell which song is my favorite at all.
Rating: 5.5/10

[Nick Skyline]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

A little selection of my own...

* Mirrorthrone - Gangrene
* Mastodon - Crack the Skye
* Venetian Snares - My Love is a Bulldozer
* Any two Monstercat releases, and I'd like to remind you that I have no say in which two albums you choose to review.

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 41: Abbey Road by The Beatles

Man it's been a while. I didn't have any time to do this crap recently due to a two day work trip. I'm only doing this now because I'm begrudgingly starting my summer homework and need some music. I also don't feel like going through random.org right now. After two really bad albums, I'm expecting great things from this album, at least as good as the high points of The Beatles. Time to slave over precalc.

Today marks 46 days since I took that pledge. Still going strong. I was going to make an Elliott Smith reference here but that would've been absolute garbage.

45 years after release, that's still one of the coolest opening 10 seconds of any album. Damn I should've waited 33 days to review this. As cool as those opening 10 seconds are though, the song kinda drags on, though it's definitely not a bad track. The bluesy themes are prevalent here, which is definitely better for The Beatles than the honky-tonk trash of Let It Be but I've gotta say, I'm kinda disappointed with this first side. The only song that really strikes me as truly memorable is Something, and if you don't already know it, guess who writes that song? Hint hint: I've been praising his songs to an obnoxious degree in every Beatles review I've written minus that Let It Be review. Lennon clearly had some creative ideas, and some worked, like the intro to Come Together, but others fell flat like a tire in a sharps bin, like I Want You (She's So Heavy) which needs to be cut at LEAST 4 minutes, and even after that it'd probably still sound directionless. McCartney's songs are exactly what you'd expect from him, except Maxwell's Silver Hammer has dark lyrics that wish they were as witty as they think they are. Ringo still sucks.

Side Two, however, is where the blues mostly get ignored, and we instead get Here Comes The Sun, Harrison's undeservedly most famous song (still good though, just not his best), Because, a cool Lennon harpsichord dirge, and most importantly, the acid-baked free-for-all medley. There are weak spots and strong spots within the 8-track medley but to dwell on those would be a waste of time (and could subjectively be argued as wrong) because the not-so-cohesive whole is more important, and it is GLORIOUS. Her Majesty is also awesome, and probably my personal favorite Paul song.

What to rate, what to rate. The first side was kind of a bore, but it wasn't really BAD like the last two Beatles albums were. The second half however trumps the third side of The Beatles for greatest side of any Beatles album. Generally, I give bottom-heavy albums more generous ratings than top-heavy ones, because that shows the band either somewhat rewards full album listening or likes to save the best for last rather than have a disappointing climax (or they just suck at choosing their good songs and attempt to front-load it anyways). And damnit, I've been pretty rough on these guys due to blatant bias from most reviewers, but it'd be wrong to say that this was a bad album of any sort.

Best Track: The whole damn medley, or if not, Something
Rating: 9/10 (Hey, that second side is really, really good)

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 42: A Healthy Fear by Gifts From Enola (Album Choice: Shikari)

This is the first time I've began listening to an album before starting to write, because this album is now my time limit for this bullshit summer homework. This sounds like math-tinged post-metal based on the first few minutes, and hell if the uninitiated think that genre description sounds pretentious as hell. I need to do this math and history crap within the next 10 days (assuming the worst case scenario of the teachers check everything first day). Man high school sucks, I can't wait for college.

If they give me summer homework in college I will cry myself to sleep.

Well this album is almost over. I enjoy the mellower bits like the surfy intro to Clawmarks and the shimmery intro of Honne/Tatemae more than any of the heavier, screaming sections. Hell, this album has some really great intros. As a whole, this style of post-metal doesn't appeal to me as a whole, though I can appreciate the technicality of the riffs, but those mellow sections are great.

I finished half of my summer math homework. Hells yeah.

Best Track: Honne/Tatemae
Rating: 5/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 43: Doppelganger by Curve (Album Choice: choof)

Shoegaze-dance music. With other album titles like Pubic Fruit and Chinese Burn. And some of the ugliest, cheapest album art ever. This'll be interesting.

49 days, and yesterday on some website some sick fuck was spamming Pokemon porn, which I thankfully did not see because all warnings pointed to "DON'T SCROLL DOWNWARDS". Who creates that shit and why? Don't answer that.

So anyways, the music, right. In spite of reading all the descriptions that pointed the other way, I was expecting something like Sleigh Bells. I don't care that much about Sleigh Bells, so the fact that they don't sound like them doesn't make me care at all. All these songs pretty much sound the same. Industrial-esque electronic drumbeats, layers of guitar noise that are not abrasive at all, and pop hooks in the form of some of the sexiest vocals I've heard these past 43 days. Or really, albums. This is like that Nine Inch Nails side project, minus the suck, plus hotness and a somewhat more legit goth sound (not that NIN is goth), plus some surprisingly subtle shoegaze-y guitar.

Overall, this album? I didn't like it as much as I would hope. They've got some good pop hooks and all, but the guitar needs MORE DISTORTION. I always thought that all the songs on Loveless sounded pretty much the same (despite also thinking that the album is extremely front-loaded) but it's excusable on the account of having some of the most drop dead gorgeous walls of guitar noise out there. The guitar noise here is like, a shitty sandcastle compared to the Great Wall of Loveless, with the same problem of same-y songs, and the I don't really care of using a drum machine instead of a real drummer (it makes it more danceable, but I'm pretty sure it'd be neutral either way).

They do win on the sex appeal factor though, which is surprising, considering how
A. I had previously thought Bilinda Butcher unmatched when it came to mesmerizing female vocals in noise rock (not that there's much competition. What, Kim Gordon?)
B. This is a band that made such juvenile jokes at the expense of rambutan. Insulting such a delicious fruit is something to be ashamed of.

Best Track: Horror Head
Rating: 5.5/10

[noname219]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Lol at you for almost failing your 49 porn-free pledge by accident with Pokemon porn.

Keep the reviews coming.

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 44: Flood by Boris (Album Choice: EzExZeRo7497)

It's about half past one in the morning right now. I originally hoped to get some sleep before 3 AM for the first time in what feels like the whole summer... But screw that. I need to get this APUSH homework done within the next seven days, then the summer reading that nobody actually does. Man, procrastination is a bitch to me.

I didn't actually get this album via random.org, FYI, I got a Dev/Null album. But I saw this and thought "well drone music is probably better for annotating, right?"

And one more thing before I start listening (goddamn this procrastination) does anyone find the format of these reviews to be confusing? It's very stream-of-conscious and very unprofessional, but I don't think it's confusing. That's not what some people tell me though.

And another thing, are grilled cheese sandwiches supposed to be soggy? Had a debate with my brother about the topic, since I'm pretty sure the word soggy has a negative connotation to it and I think of grilled cheese more as having a slightly abrasive mouthfeel at first with not much bite to it, then having a gooey center.

I reviewed another album from these guys earlier, Akuma No Uta. That was a good album, and one of the better ones during that binge of Japanese music. Japanese culture isn't really my thing for the most part, except the food. Man do I love some sushi, just like most other white people.

Wait I'm not white.

But yeah, Japanese culture as I stereotypically view it with my narrow viewpoint (I almost said eyes, but then I realized I would be making a self-racist joke) isn't something that tickles my fancy. Anime isn't usually pleasing to me and I usually connect Japanese music with bad asian pop groups and sickeningly sugary eye sore videos. Weird that I do, I mean, I like these guys for sure, and Boredoms and a ton of Bemani music.

Man I really should start reading this APUSH booklet. Anyone ever read The American Pageant? That's my summer homework. This first quotation seems to put Christopher Columbus in a positive light and I think of him as a genocidal maniac who is basically used as an excuse to give us a day off from school. I like that aspect, but can we rename it, like, Taino Memorial Day instead? I guess I should start reading this booklet, I mean that's why I specifically chose this album instead of Dev/Null.

You know I'm supposed to be taking notes or more specifically an outline on each chapter of the book, but I'm on the first page and an assload of the text is faded out. Why do they give us students these crappy disgusting paper booklets? And then they go ahead and say "if you return it in good condition you get extra credit" well then nobody is gonna get that extra credit. Are you implying we should buy you a new copy because you're too cheap to spend what looks like it costs 14 cents? Well actually I looked this up on the internet and the copies they're giving us don't seem to be in print at the moment, so either these are extremely old or these are bootleg. Either way, that's incredibly cheap of them! This is the school where the headmaster is reported to spend good portions of our budget on renovating her office, and we have the money to spend the money for 50 or 100 iPads in an iPad room that nobody ever goes in. What do we need those for? We can't download apps, they don't let us. Who honestly prefers typing on a goddamn iPad over a keyboard? The least they could do is give us text that doesn't look like it comes from colonial times. And while I'm at it, they could at least BUY SUFFICIENT TOILET PAPER FOR THE BATHROOMS. Man, I'm stressed out for this last week of summer, meanwhile most other kids are either already in school doing some practice shit with band or sports or just wasting away getting drunk. I wonder how many people are gonna just copy notes on the first day of school from someone else. Not that I'm against them personally, because there isn't a single person in my school who has never either BSed or cheated while maintaining any small function of a social life. Damnit I need a drink. I'll get one after I outline at least 4 pages.

I'm about one page into this APUSH booklet and already I'm kinda sensing some white supremacist stuff going on in here. That's my Facebook status, I can't wait for someone to accidentally misinterpret that. And these first few pages are nothing about history, they're about geographical formations. I doubt we're going to be tested on that, and if we are, I'll take the L, it's drink time. Drinking while working will probably help me focus anyways. Flood isn't helping me focus that much.

I would totally brew some coffee right now if I wasn't worried about the boiling water waking my mom up. Until then I'm stuck with seltzer water. Word to the wise, seltzer and ice cream does not make for a good drink. Chances are the majority of you are thinking "Well no duh, you're a fucking moron for thinking that would be even remotely enjoyable" but hear me out. An egg cream is just soda with milk and syrup. An ice cream soda is an egg cream with a couple of scoops of ice cream. And ice cream contains milk, flavoring and high fructose corn syrup as well as liquid qualities after a short period of time in regular temperature. There was no reason for this to fail! Also important to note, avocado makes any sandwich or salad about 100 times better. Don't try to argue that point, if you don't agree with me, your opinion is wrong. Done and done. God gave us a gift when he created a savory fruit that had such buttery rich capacities, and so much versatility (you can make desserts with avocado or a main course). And yet so many ignorant people spit on the name of the avocado like the ignorant pricks they are. Same thing with onions, except in the case of onions those people usually say some stupid bullshit like "I only like onions in my chicken" or "I only like onions in my burgers" or "I only like onions up" no I don't care onions are great and you suck. You know what I don't like? Lettuce. Lettuce is a waste of space anywhere. Except salads, because I understand it's the base of a salad, but that's all I appreciate it for. It has no flavor, very little nutritional content, it's just water and air. There are times when lettuce can be good, like a nice shrimp wrap for example, but that's a rare case. Most of the time it's nothing but filler, and bland filler at that. Bland foods suck. Wheat bread is better than white bread, brown rice is better than white rice, so get out of my face. The BLT is a good sandwich made better by removing the lettuce, and adding avocado, caramelized onions and garlic aioli. Man I need a pick-me-up to get focused.

You know I know quite a few people who experiment with adderall to help them focus on school work. They all do it sparingly because it's supposedly highly addictive. If it's so highly addictive, why is it given to children with ADHD? That sounds like a recipe for disaster. As do most painkillers. It's funny how people are so adamantly against the legalization of medical marijuana, because painkillers are so much healthier. You should be able to pick, but considering tobacco is legal, why not pot? You know what that's a stupid discussion for another time because whenever that gets brought up, the tangents go on and on and on... Wait, nevermind.

This first chapter is garbage, man. It's talking about geographical changes that they're totally not gonna test us on because this is US History. Not geography, not earth science, US History. Watch me be wrong and resent myself so much, but I'm skipping to the good stuff. Or rather, the "I actually think I might get tested on this" stuff. Or better yet, the "This may actually be on the test and it being later in the book makes me think that there will be less white supremacist undertones" stuff. Man this stuff is a chore. Schedules were supposed to be posted today. It's 2:37 AM and they haven't posted them yet. The reason I can't focus is because of this damn schedule scare. Like, if I don't get into the elective classes I want, or if I get really, really shitty teachers. I had to deal with the most heinous teacher ever last year for the worst mandatory subject, LATIN. I do NOT want any shitty teachers this year, but truthfully that's kinda inevitable. I just don't want any slimy, sleazy racist self-loathing assholes who take pleasure in making his or her students squirm with bad grades and making the worst jokes possible instead of teaching. If they put the effort in, I'm happy. If they don't put in effort, but the class is easy, I'm happy. And if I get my electives, I'm happy.

Oh yeah, about 75 minutes passed. Flood was okay. It didn't help me focus at all though considering I'm on page 9 and freaking out about my school schedule now.

Best Track: It's all one big track, but Flood 3
Rating: 6/10

[EzExZeRo7497]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Cute review.

I can't say that I'm too surprised about your rating, I only thought that you'd like one or two out of the four movements at most. I knew you'd really like Flood 3, but I wasn't sure what you'd think of Flood 2. I obviously can't comment much on the "review" because history is literally the worst academic subject.

Flood is actually my first Boris album, it blew my mind on my first listen (I had it as 8/10 at the time, moved it up to 8.5 before I stopped rating altogether). I've listened to part of Akuma no Uta and all of Altar - both I didn't find anywhere as stunning as Flood. I've always seen Flood as one huge story - Flood 1 being a relentless storm represented in a very unorthodox manner, Flood 2 being the sombre aftermath with all the damage done (people killed, destruction as a whole), Flood 3 being a second and more powerful storm, Flood 4 is essentially the last moments of your life, seeing light at the end of the day. There are multiple interpretations, like the one in the last.fm album page, but the stories are generally the same. But I digress, I just think that Flood can only be fully appreciated if you listen to it attentively rather than use it to focus on something else - Flood's more drone doom/drone metal rather than ambient music. Given your situation though, I don't blame you.

I wouldn't say that it's an unfair review, but I do believe that you should give it another listen during your free time and not when you're doing homework.

(my favourite track from that is Flood 2)

On another note, I don't find your reviews that jarring to read - just a stream of consciousness which is ultimately your opinion. Unprofessional yeah, but it gets the point across. I do think that you have a pretty skewed misconception of Japanese music though, but it's fairly easy to think that way given most of the big Japanese artists at the moment, such as Kyary Pamyu Pamyu and Perfume. Given I'm probably a little biased myself, because a good portion of my favourite albums come from Japanese musicians. Give artists like Mono, World's End Girlfriend, Midori (though I'm 80% sure this won't be your cup of tea) and Toe a listen.

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 45: Thereafter by Save Us From The Archon (Album Choice: Gradiant)

I have no idea what type of music this is. I have no idea what I'm getting into. I have 4.5 chapters left of APUSH homework.

On the plus side, this review will be MUCH more concise, much less tangential and probably a little bit more focused on the music than last review. I attribute that to less worries because I got my schedule for the year and it's all the good teachers I could dream of. Turn up.

No seriously, compared to last year where I dealt with tough class after tough class, including that one sleazy slimy racist homophobic republican asshole teacher, I feel like I am being rewarded for suffering so hard last year. Life is good man. Life is good.

So this is some pretty cool instrumental math metal. They throw in some cool noise elements and ambient bits to throw off what would otherwise sound like probably, I'll say, 24 minutes of pure instrumental wankery. They're clearly very skilled and can write some great melodic, catchy riffs, but I'm pretty sure minus those bits this would basically sound like an impromptu jam session. As a matter of fact it still kinda does, especially since these tracks all flow right into each other.

I like the noise and ambient aspects of the music. I like that they keep things concise, in an age where it feels like most artists cram their albums with 60 minutes of filler and 10 minutes of good stuff. I dig the drum and guitar work, at least enough to appreciate a good riff and good skills. And I liked this more than the average progressive metal release, though for me that isn't really saying much since I usually prefer my metal slow, monolithic, fuzzy and crushingly heavy. I need to repeat, they kept things concise, clocking in about a half-hour. Another one of my stupid pre-conceptions is "Oh look, progressive metal. That must mean about 140 minutes of cheesy vocals and Petrucci-esque wankery" so to defeat that with very little cheese and a short runtime impresses me a lot.

Still though, it's not 100 percent my cup of tea. But I do respect these guys enough.

Best Track: N/A
Rating: 6.5/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 46: The Last Caress of Light by Darkest Era (Album Choice: DoctorSatan)

First, and very important, Dopesmoker is absolutely fantastic as reading music, as well as focused listening music. Good qualities of a long song/album right there. I gotta review that new Sleep album.

Second, and not quite as important, I've found that Liquid Swords will enhance ANY video game you play, no matter what it is.

And third, it's been 55 days now, and honestly, I think the only reason this has been possible is that the summer has been rather stress-free. I expect that I'll crack sometime soon, as school starts on the 4th and I'm gonna handling 3 APs (meh) and one more year of Spanish (JESUS WHY YOU DO THIS). Let's keep counting though.

Oh yeah, 4th, I'm 17 in 11 days. And I'm having a 20 percent life crisis now. Even though the first 3 years were spent doing not much. Everyone knows I became a badass the day I turned 4.

Alright let's get this over with. For obvious reasons, expect little writing. Goddamn, this booklet is as dry as bone and white as sour cream. Like a sour cream coated bone, this booklet just SUCKS.

Seriously man, AP US History. Class hasn't even started and I already regret this decision, but oh well, it can't be worse than Latin 4. This music here is folk metal. You'd think it'd make this history book about conquerors more interesting... It really doesn't.

Yeah, for one hour, that felt like it lasted forever. And usually when it's super early in the morning and I have yet to go to bed, music always seems like it's 20 BPM faster so I definitely don't plan to listen to this while wide awake. Mind you, it wasn't atrocious, but it was bland. Considering I love folk and many types of metal, that's disappointing.

Best Track: Get out of my face
Rating: 4/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 47: It Takes a Thief by Thievery Corporation (Album Choice: korny)

Not even the third day of school, and we're already freaking out over precalc and APUSH tests within the next two days.

By we're I mean I'm.

A 70 minute album that I passively critique should help me study. Brief observation, a lot of people, ranging from moron deadbeats to reasonably functional members of society tell me to relish high school as my best years. Other people whom I generally respect more say that college is better. As a loud, lazy person that despises the menial work in high school and feels that 17 is old (6 days man) who do I trust?

This makes for some pretty good study music. Although it's not fair to compare that perceived quality to Flood since I'm studying math instead of history, it's working very well. That includes when the vocals come up, because they're ignorable at best. Songs like Lebanese Blonde are pretty soothing with the vocals, while songs like Amerimacka grate on you after a while. The instrumental tracks fare better for the most part, there are a few standouts here and there but for the most part it's all pleasantly passable.

That's all I have to say. I was busy preparing for my tests.

Best Track: Air Batucada
Rating: 6/10

[rayword45]

Re: Meh, let's do it again, this time for a year

Day 48: A Winged Victory For The Sullen by A Winged Victory For The Sullen (Album Choice: Trogdor!!!)

Before I go to bed I'll get another album killed. Some ambient music should help me focus on homework.

Day 63 of the pledge: Well, I technically broke the pledge today, with some leaked pictures (not of any celebrities, for the record). However, the context in which I saw them, according to my teacher, means that I didn't really break the pledge. So I'm gonna just keep going with this.

For an ambient/orchestral album, that wasn't bad. It wasn't outstanding either. Boobs on the cover don't count as porn.

BeNo. Seriously, no.
Rating: 6/10