At the time I said something like: I hate ryan adams for trying to convince people that t. swift is a good song writer. And look, so many people fell for it.
Vinyl Me Please Essentials
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At the time I said something like: I hate ryan adams for trying to convince people that t. swift is a good song writer. And look, so many people fell for it.
AudioAce
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Picking a new album as essential is always gonna be a gamble. Its either gonna be on the ball or the opposite of this title.
From what I have heard I don't think this is an essential pick....for me. I was more of a fan of what SK did but I think it was because the sound was more appealing to me. SK but with Annie Clark producing it does not appeal to me in the slightest after Masseduction. Didn't enjoy that album at all.
I'm glad some of you want this though. It would be much worse if this was a dud in a wide sense. Color is boring. The one they have on their website is much more appropriate and for 11 dollars more you get a shirt and a poster which seems more worth it to me.
From what I have heard I don't think this is an essential pick....for me. I was more of a fan of what SK did but I think it was because the sound was more appealing to me. SK but with Annie Clark producing it does not appeal to me in the slightest after Masseduction. Didn't enjoy that album at all.
I'm glad some of you want this though. It would be much worse if this was a dud in a wide sense. Color is boring. The one they have on their website is much more appropriate and for 11 dollars more you get a shirt and a poster which seems more worth it to me.
Indymisanthrope
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Kinda like the Big Smoke exclusive. Was it Great Music? No. But the story was good, the mission was good, the idea that experiencing music together can introduce us to something new *and* help to lift someone up was good. That was back when “telling the story of an album” actually meant more than running some blurbs from an interview and a press kit. If they ever get serious about making a more “intentional” community again they should look at some of the groundwork they laid with those albums. They’re not the ones that are gonna sell 30k copies, but they’re the ones that will make people feel like they’re involved in more than a lifestyle brand.
It’s a direct quote from his reddit posts earlier today. I think we know what he likely was trying to get at, that voices from women of a certain age aren’t likely to top the charts and they’re still worth hearing, but he said it sort of inartfully.
wenis
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what an easy skip this month.
MadLucas
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Forgive me if I am not remembering this correctly, but a few years back I seem to remember VMP sending out a survey of albums that we would hope for as AOTM's. I very, very clearly remember one of them was a Rilo Kiley album (Execution Of All Things, perhaps?).
Hear me out: that Tennis album was their way of saying "we tried."
A good album? Yes, but maybe 7/10. A tiny bit underwhelming, especially if you have already heard Rumours, Rilo Kiley, or the second Best Coast album, all of which that album blaringly reminded me of.
i also remember it was chosen instead of hurray for the riff raff which angered which wasn't a help
Bravoceratops
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Didn’t see if anyone caught this earlier in the thread, but according to Storf Reddit AMA, next month Essentials ROTM “fits broadly under Psych Rock.”
dhodo
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Lol, not sure how much that means since the EU record is Go-go and Oriental Jazz is free jazz. Might be right this time though!
wolflow
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Already gonna guess that it’s gonna be The Soft Bulletin by The Flaming Lips, something that’s been teased about by them for a while that I REALLY want, especially since next month is my birth month and that would make such a great birthday present!
Edit: Meant September was my birth month WHOOPS
VMP also ranked it as like the 19th best album of that year on their year end list. Essentials shouldn't be the 19th best album of any year.
dhodo
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I thought it was weird that they're promoting a top 10 funk albums list and put 3+3 on it instead of Go for your Guns. Gave me the same vibe.
Renée
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YESSSS I'M DOWN FOR WHATEVER IT IS!!
Curved Air would be great! Jefferson Airplane would be great! Twink would be great! Something in that realm, please!
(i dunno about go-go so i can't say anything about EU but i was definitely bugged with Oriental Jazz not being that free) the fact that it "broadly" fits makes me unsure about it being that much psych.. maybe it will just be kinda psychedelic but besides that not much... or maybe it is flaming lips and i will go crazy
dhodo
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Yeah I hope it is really any kind of psych rock, it is quite a broad genre
Anything Transmissions - Yoshimi Flaming Lips would be awesome, I only have Soft Bulletin.
TheThinWhiteDuke
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No, i directly quoted Storf from reddit. He said that
Dead C
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Renée
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Dead C
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I was referring to the band Curved Air, but I could go for that too
I know
Renée
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Well, if you know, then do I know? Or do we both know? Who knows anything about the mysteries of the universe?
Blessed feathers was a great feel good story for vmp. The music is fine. (Trademark: @gouis )
I do think I'd probably like it. But the way they presented it to us was shameful. The country was reeling from it's descent into hatred. And vmp gives us an album about people that took a boat ride and wrote a ship's log. (Oversimplification is overly simple). Nah, white dude gatekeepers, go away with that.