Album Of The Month Thread

[Desensitized]

My threat to try something different has finally come to pass. I think I'll start making a monthly post on an album in my collection to hopefully spark some discussion as most music discussion sites are full of elitist pricks…

So July album of the month is…

Tracklist:

1. Tiny Town
2. Beach Song
3. Plum Dumb
4. Swordfish
5. V.F.W.
6. Rastabilly
7. Serrated Edge
8. Lucky
9. Big Lizard
10. Gorilla Girl
11. Bitchin' Camaro
12. Filet of Sole
13. Spit Sink
14. Violent School
15. Takin' Retards to the Zoo
16. Junkie
17. Right Wing Pigeons
18. Dean's Dream
19. Laundromat Song
20. Nutrition
21. Tugena

If you've never heard the album in the discussion and wish to join in, send me an e-mail at j.desensitized@gmail.com and I'll send it to you.

If no one replies (I don't expect many), I'll just post my thoughts and move on. :p

[Sonic Libido]

that lizard IS big…..

i'd help out but I currently have no fucking Idea what or who they are…

[MAX!]

I listened to that a little at Barnes and Noble yesterday and thought it was ok, not that amazing though.

[Desensitized]

It's a very surreal album. Like a strange combination of punk, folk, psychedelia, garage, and Weird Al. Every song sounds completely different from the last, you never know where the album is headed from the punk classic 'Tiny Town', the Jazz-punk of 'Bitchin Camaro', the slight psychadelic tinge on 'Serrated Edge' (a former username of mine), the ska of 'Gorilla girl', the hilarity of 'Takin Retards To The Zoo', the total oddball 'Rastabilly' (credited to Bob Marley. lol), and the lucid vision of 'Dean's Dream'. The subjects of these songs are quite varied with rants against punks, jocks, rich kids, poor kids, the government, extremists, the beach, school, everyday life, and even Big Lizards ('We gotta blow up the things we don't understand') and Swordfish ('He believes in Swordfish')… This album has it all. It culminates in the instrumental 'Tugena' which somehow manages to sum up the proceedings with a simple noise freakout and voice samplings.

The production adds to the flavor, making it sound like a missing radio transmission from some kid's room that was lost to time and forgotten by everyone involved. It all comes off as effortless. The ramshackle performances from the band makes it feel like if one member felt like it, they could turn the whole song into another direction entirely with a single different note. There's no jamming. There's no solos. There's nothing but 4 guys, a bunch of junk instruments, and a killer sense of humor and strange observations.

It's not immediately accessible, it took me a few listens to come around to it, but when I finally did… Life made sense. Well, not really, but they made it seem that way for about 21 songs.

The band went on to make other albums, some of which on par with this album even, but this one… This one sticks out. This is their only album that doesn't just sound like a Dead Milkmen album, it sounds like a statement. Nobody knows what that statement is, (not even the band) but one listen to this album and for a split second, you'll understand.

[Rock it With I]

I'm still going pretty listen-nuts with the new Weezer Red Album.

That's my Album Of The Month

[Bear78]

I have still been listening to The Slip by NIN… great album which you can download for free… if thats your sort of thing.

http://dl.nin.com/theslip/signup

[Desensitized]

The Red Album was my album of the month last month. It's nice that I'm listening and liking a new Weezer album MORE as time goes by instead of the other way around.

[Desensitized]

So, which one of you guys is Bryce? I just sent you the stuff.

[jrock241]

I was supposed to go see The Low Budgets one time but I had other plans, I wish I would have gone.

[madamadam]

It's shocking given the amount of coverage they got on the old board that I still haven't checked TDM out…

[Desensitized]

x)

[Sonic Libido]

[quote1215901472=Desensitized]
So, which one of you guys is Bryce? I just sent you the stuff.
[/quote1215901472]

that's my… middle name…

that I go by in person because art is short for arthur and "Arthur" coupled with my last name is the same fuckin' name as that aardvark ftom that TV show…..

[Desensitized]

Ah, no problem.

[Reel Big Chris]

i'm still huge on "here we stand" by the fratellis. at first, i was expecting "costello music v.2", and it wasn't. so i was a little bummed and didn't give it much attention after the initial listen-through. but then i woke up with a beat stuck in my head, realized it was "my friend john", and i had to listen to it again. it's been my favorite album since then.

[MAX!]

[quote1216214410=Sonic Libido]
[quote1215901472=Desensitized]
So, which one of you guys is Bryce? I just sent you the stuff.
[/quote1215901472]

that's my… middle name…

that I go by in person because art is short for arthur and "Arthur" coupled with my last name is the same fuckin' name as that aardvark ftom that TV show…..

[/quote1216214410]

lol, that's hilarious (in a laughing AT you, not with you, way)

[MAX!]

I finally got the new Less Than Jake album and I'm listening to it now, it's pretty good.
Also, I finally got the Red Album. I like it.

[Rock it With I]

awesome and awesomer!

[Desensitized]

Good albums.

My AOTM is still Big Lizard, though. 🙂

[Blood-Hawk]

mines, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by The Dead Kennedys because it kicks ass, or possibly The Sufferer and The Witness by Rise Against. Gotta go with DK though.

[Sonic Libido]

My July Pick Is:

If you don't own or haven't heard this album, go and fuckin' buy it right now… it's high octane blow-your-balls-off Rock 'N' Roll with lyrics your mind just isn't ready for and may prove to be one of the best things ever created by mankind….. if the aliens find an undamaged copy after the apocalypse, they'll be awfully disheartened they couldn't save us before we destroyed ourselves……

… it was only $10 bucks when I bought it … like 3 years ago…. you can probably find it for $0.01 on ebay

[Reel Big Chris]

what's tenacious d?

[Desensitized]

JB and KG.

[MAX!]

[quote1216508606=Reel Big Chris]
what's tenacious d?
[/quote1216508606]

You're joking, right?

[Sonic Libido]

yeah, he is, this is from "top five bands" thread:

[quote1216509470=Reel Big Chris]
[quote1215903003=Taylor]
[quote1198273674=The Wind]
The Gorillaz
[/quote1198273674]
So I'm not the only one that likes these guys!

rbf
[b]Paramore[/b]
Mad Caddies
Streetlight
Skapara
[/quote1215903003]

roflcoper.

andrew wk
fratellis
cake
rbf
tenacious d

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[MAX!]

ok, good.

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