Some people like to mix different songs together, or find the experience of live performance unparalleled; but my ultimate pursuit in music is the appreciation of the album as a piece of artwork in the medium of recorded sound.
They never get old, yet you can never hear them all.
But we can try.
How it works:
Album suggestions are submitted in this Google Form. Most people submit two or three to begin, then add another when they are chosen.
Every second Friday (UTC +11), I will use the form submission spreadsheet to randomly select one, post it in this thread, and tag you.
Listen to the album and then report back here with honest impressions.
If you want to keep up to date, you can select ‘Watching’ at the bottom of the thread to be notified of new posts.
Here are some tips for choosing an album to suggest:
Choose one that you are somewhat passionate about.
Choose one you suspect has less chance of being familiar to other members of the club.
There are no restrictions for age, length, genre, or format (if you feel compilations, live releases, or soundtracks are worth it).
Most participants use Spotify. Please choose something that is available on YouTube at the very least.
Everyone’s opinion is valid. In the spirit of sharing taste and musical discovery, please attempt to keep discussion constructive.
Further from King Gizzard the better I think. We already have a few great looking suggestions, so I’m thinking we ready to start maybe once the next wave of the users rolls in and we’re getting consistent daily posts.
Yeah as many as you like really. No repeat selectors per 4 weeks should balance it, but if one person submits a lot more than anyone else to the point that they consistently come up every month I will probably just extend that timeframe.
I’ll be selecting them randomly, so you may have to explain yourself sooner than you think!
We have a great looking pool going, so the coming Friday (the 21st) is probably a good time to get cracking. I’ll let the selector know in the next couple of days.
Wow! I was kind of expecting proto-Blink 182, maybe there are some snatches of that, but there is quite a bit going on here. Vocalist strongly reminds me of someone I can’t quite put my finger on, hoping that will come to me after more listens.
So 1993 is an interesting time for this, I’ve never been into Nirvana (Bleach is alright though), but otherwise I have no doubt this fell right into a black hole. Not that it deserved that at all though, its huge and clearly had a lot put into it.
I love the story with things like this where just so much was poured into a project, more than was really expected or necessary, and then they just dispersed. Obviously makes you wonder what could have happened if they kept going and its a little sad, but its almost like it belonged in an alternate timeline or something.
I really appreciate the write-up you did. Really set the bar, and its exactly what I was hoping the club would become.
Will be listening more, and to their first album too and be back with more thoughts.
Totally in.
