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#28 Whole Day Off
Thanks to these adventures and me exploring 100s of bands and albums for playlists and things that grab my attention, I have come across some albums that have really blown me away. Off the top of my head: ZZ Top, The Strokes, Journey, Oasis, The Roots, and Sly and the Family Stone. Alas, all those have more than 1M listens per month so me and my big mouth have to cross those bands off my MAD31 possibilities list. But, I can't be mad because that weird journey and looking for under 1M bands led me to Oingo Boingo and a couple other artists I have fallen in love with. I posted earlier that I found the debut to be pretty inconsistent. The highs for me are the 4 on the playlist, but I didn't like a few songs. I also felt that they hadn't really landed on their true sound with the cover and sounding a bit like DEVO on this album.
Next came Nothing to Fear, which is one of those albums like I described above. Instead of going to the next album, I listened again and I ended up adding the whole album to the playlist. That's when they got put at the top of the list, since I was already thinking something more fun and 80s after the Mastodon playlist. I probably knew this was where I was going about 6 months ago, right @Raging weasel and @Ilov80s ?? With my whole 8months of listening, IMO this album and Dead Man's Party are both perfect 80s albums. In the end, I preferred how the guitars are featured more here, so much so that I realized that 2 of my selections from Dead Man's are from the live album that is more guitar driven. Nothing to Fear also has a bit more dark humor that I dig and I think it's a bit weirder. Hint: this is where my #1 song comes from.
Anyway, this song. Like my Dino Jr list, this is more about tiers and nitpicks. I really love the guitars here and specifically the middle of the song from:
Maybe, it's just one of those strange days when nothing's right
No nothing seems right at all
Through the transition and guitar solo. I really like the bass throughout the track too. My nitpick is that I find it a TAD repetitious at the end so it got the slight red mark as I was rearranging picks. I loved what Simey wrote in her post, and I think my selection could be similar. To copy or paraphrase: They might not be your cup of tea, but I think everybody will at least like a sip or two. I was thinking tonight that in the first 4 songs I naturally had examples of their 3 major sounds. Spider is their late stage that is more straight rock but IMO features Elfman's voice fantastically. The two off Good For Your Soul is the ramp up to Dead Man's, which also has 7 songs on the playlist and we still have a few from that album, including a top 5 . Nothing to Fear is more the sound from their first 2 albums that will make up 11 songs total.
TL/DR: if you have liked at least 1 song from my first 4, I think you will at least like 1/3 of my playlist. If you have liked 3-4, IMO they are only going to get better and better.....
Thanks to these adventures and me exploring 100s of bands and albums for playlists and things that grab my attention, I have come across some albums that have really blown me away. Off the top of my head: ZZ Top, The Strokes, Journey, Oasis, The Roots, and Sly and the Family Stone. Alas, all those have more than 1M listens per month so me and my big mouth have to cross those bands off my MAD31 possibilities list. But, I can't be mad because that weird journey and looking for under 1M bands led me to Oingo Boingo and a couple other artists I have fallen in love with. I posted earlier that I found the debut to be pretty inconsistent. The highs for me are the 4 on the playlist, but I didn't like a few songs. I also felt that they hadn't really landed on their true sound with the cover and sounding a bit like DEVO on this album.
Next came Nothing to Fear, which is one of those albums like I described above. Instead of going to the next album, I listened again and I ended up adding the whole album to the playlist. That's when they got put at the top of the list, since I was already thinking something more fun and 80s after the Mastodon playlist. I probably knew this was where I was going about 6 months ago, right @Raging weasel and @Ilov80s ?? With my whole 8months of listening, IMO this album and Dead Man's Party are both perfect 80s albums. In the end, I preferred how the guitars are featured more here, so much so that I realized that 2 of my selections from Dead Man's are from the live album that is more guitar driven. Nothing to Fear also has a bit more dark humor that I dig and I think it's a bit weirder. Hint: this is where my #1 song comes from.
Anyway, this song. Like my Dino Jr list, this is more about tiers and nitpicks. I really love the guitars here and specifically the middle of the song from:
Maybe, it's just one of those strange days when nothing's right
No nothing seems right at all
Through the transition and guitar solo. I really like the bass throughout the track too. My nitpick is that I find it a TAD repetitious at the end so it got the slight red mark as I was rearranging picks. I loved what Simey wrote in her post, and I think my selection could be similar. To copy or paraphrase: They might not be your cup of tea, but I think everybody will at least like a sip or two. I was thinking tonight that in the first 4 songs I naturally had examples of their 3 major sounds. Spider is their late stage that is more straight rock but IMO features Elfman's voice fantastically. The two off Good For Your Soul is the ramp up to Dead Man's, which also has 7 songs on the playlist and we still have a few from that album, including a top 5 . Nothing to Fear is more the sound from their first 2 albums that will make up 11 songs total.
TL/DR: if you have liked at least 1 song from my first 4, I think you will at least like 1/3 of my playlist. If you have liked 3-4, IMO they are only going to get better and better.....
This is a playlist I've been really liking but a bit quite about. Not 100% my wheelhouse, but I am digging the songs and really appreciating the musicianship.
