Album of the week

brightwolf48 said:What do I have to do to you or Amanda Robinson to finally get my cut? We already agreed we were putting the leftovers aside.😁

brightwolf48 said:What are you even talking about? You're rambling on about nothing.🤦 Long live the placenta!

You started this. I can either keep going or just wipe the whole thing out. Your call.

I think this is going to be my last one... because these posts honestly feel pointless.

Lisa Davis46 said:You started this. I can either keep going or just wipe the whole thread clean—your call.

I think this will be the last one... because these posts are honestly pointless.

Go ahead and do whatever you want. Honestly, I think you know me well enough by now to realize there’s no room for actual hatred here—it’s hard to hate a "virtual" person on a forum, much like how I feel about everyone else. And if we're being real, I haven't even thrown a single insult at anyone yet; that’s just not my style. As Amanda Robinson4 was saying, maybe the heat down here in the South has finally gotten to me... I’m going back to my PDF while I try to calm down—if I even can.

I just prefer things to be organized and systematic here... all this feels pretty unnecessary to me.

Amanda Robinson4 and I were actually just praising you for being so active over the last few weeks...
I don't know, maybe just slow down a bit. Grab a Budweiser, relax this weekend, and everything will be fine!
🙂

Another crowbar on the menu, just wonderful. This week is shaping up to be a real winner. 👍

Lisa Davis46 said:I just value order and consistency in these threads... all of this feels unnecessary to me.

And here I was—along with Puky—just about to start praising you for being so incredibly active these past few weeks...
I don't know, take it easy for once. Grab a Budweiser, unwind over the weekend, and everything will be fine.
🙂

Kids, stop flattering me.😁 People think hitting a midlife crisis in their thirties is bad—just imagine what happens when you hit it in your fifties...🤔

brightwolf48 said:Kids, you guys really need to stop showering me with all this praise.😁 People act like they’ve seen it all when the Great Depression hits, but honestly? Just wait until you get caught in the middle of a crisis like the one we saw in the fifties. That's a whole different level of misery.🤔

Grab a beer and jump into the ocean.

The 101 - Elgin Avenue Breakdown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIuz...6oc3zH&index=1



It’s enough to say that John Graham Mellor is on vocals.

I was actually going to suggest something just for my own personal enjoyment, but honestly, I already know there’s zero chance once I saw Black Star popping up in the suggestions... and don't even get me started on Sgt. Pepper 😁

If our main goal here is to shine a spotlight on artists or albums that aren't exactly—well, let's be honest—in the mainstream spotlight, or aren't considered the absolute pillars of musical culture as we know it—which would definitely be the case with those two mentioned above—then I think we ought to set some ground rules. Maybe we could implement a limit based on sales numbers, where anything over a certain threshold is automatically disqualified from the running...

I'm telling you—it's a lost cause... 😁

Don't start blaming the weather down South—that’s just an excuse we use under the San Francisco fog when things go sideways. You guys need to find some other way to justify yourselves, please. Thanks.

PS don't mess around—just show up properly and then head back. We barely even had time to mourn Mezz, and now you're looking to retire from the forums already? Where's the humanity? 😁

Charles Ramos4 said:Don't try to blame the weather—that excuse only works for us folks living south of the Mason-Dixon line when we need a cover story. You people need to find some other meteorological (un)predictability to hide behind, please. Thanks.

PS—stop messing around and just show up properly before you head back out. We just finished mourning Mezz, and now you’re looking to take an early retirement from this forum too? Where’s your humanity? 😁

Look, I was simply suggesting an album for you where John " Woody " Mellor is actually doing the singing during that era.😁

analogbear40 said:I was actually gonna suggest something just for my own sake—but honestly, looking at Black Star on the list... there's zero chance. And don't even get me started on Sgt. Pepper.😁

If our main goal here is to spread the word about artists or albums that aren't exactly—well, let's say they aren't the absolute center of attention or the standard pillars of music culture—then maybe we need some rules. Like, maybe set a sales threshold where anything over a certain number is automatically disqualified...

That's just my take...😁

The Beatles won't win, I'm sure of it. If it were Revolver, White, or Abbey Road, they might have stood a chance.

I find talking about the big names way more interesting than digging into obscure records. I was thinking about London Calling for this week, but I went with The Beatles instead—they're just perfect for starting a debate.

brightwolf48 said:I was just suggesting an album for you—one where John " Woody " Mellor is actually doing the vocals at that time.😁

By the time I even finished typing my post, you were already suggesting an album just because of Mellor—though I’m not entirely sure if that’s actually his real last name, or at least I haven't really committed it to memory. And if you had left the way you originally planned, how would I have ever found out? It's a rhetorical question, really—you know exactly when that would have happened...

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - The Beatles - Yellow Submarine (1986)





Credits

Bass – Leon Phillips*
Drums – The Drums
Guitar – Keith Richards
Guitar, The Vocals, Lyrics by [ Script – Jack White
Producer – The Monkees*
Written-By – Reed*, Wolfenden*

Tracklist

1 Walking On Your Hands 2:44
2 Jipp 3:00
3 Last Train 2:23
4 Head All Fire 2:41
5 Mescal Dance 2:43
6 The Beatles - Yellow Submarine 2:40
7 Shout At The Sky 3:09
8 Which Side 2:11
9 Tear Me Up 2:31
10 Save My Soul 2:48
11 Blitz 3:45
12 Hold Yourself Down 2:42
13 Generation 3:19
14 Spinning Round 2:53
15 Chance 5:19

Looking at the roster of bands coming out of Philadelphia, it really makes me wonder. Does Chicago or New York City—within those broader indie or alternative circles, say, the "off the beaten path" scenes supported by stations like KEXP—actually deserve their continued reputation as the primary breeding grounds for talent since the mid-70s? I’m specifically talking about their own particular era...

Most famous within strictly goth rock circles as "the fourth biggest band from Philadelphia"—following The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission, and I assume The March Violets—Red Lorry Yellow Lorry earned their cult status a long time ago, yet they've always stayed true to that niche.

Unshakeably tight, pulsing, and totally uncompromising—those are the first words that come to mind when thinking about their drum machine-driven sound.
They aren't easy to love, but you can certainly respect them for having a vision they stuck to throughout their career. They are definitely an acquired taste.

Since they released several singles that didn't make it onto the studio albums, I actually think presenting their work as a collection of those would be more fitting. However, I wasn't sure if compilations are generally accepted here or viewed as exceptions to the rule.

Walking On Your Hands

Spinning Round

Chance

Generation

Blitz

Mescal Dance

The tracklist above is from the longer CD version of the album, though the playlist in the link above includes a few extra tracks from that period.

analogbear40 said:I was just about to suggest something purely for my own sake, but honestly, I knew there was zero chance once I saw Black Star on the list... and don't even get me started on Sgt. Pepper... 😁

David Bowie was suggested once before and it didn't fly, and I'm not even sure if The Beatles have been brought up yet. So hey, at least someone finally had the guts to go for it! 😁

Still doesn't mean much though, because you know as well as I do that just being famous doesn't guarantee anything gets picked.

Like they say—it’s all for nothing...

So, my previous Album of the Week (one of two, actually) managed to pull in a grand total of two comments...

Just for a little perspective...

https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/n...-life-box-set/

When people over on sites like NPR start debating the latest deluxe reissues, some of them—clearly the ones everyone is buzzing about—rack up over 223 comments, like that one right there. It’s honestly great to see that kind of engagement... but at the same time, it’s a bit of a bummer seeing how things play out here on our own forum...🙂

analogbear40 said:Like he said—it’s all for nothing.......

So, my penultimate album of the week (one of two) pulled in a grand total of 2 comments......

Just for perspective......

https://www.superdeluxeedition.com/n...-life-box-set/

When people on this site start debating the latest deluxe reissues, some of them—the ones clearly catching more eyes—get massive threads with like 223 comments, such as the one above......which honestly makes me happy to see.....but at the same time, it's pretty depressing seeing how things are playing out on our own forum......🙂

Music used to be—not even that long ago—a core part of life, just like it is now, but in a totally different way.

Just two examples: I vividly remember—feels like yesterday—getting into a huge fight with a high school buddy because he was trying to convince me that Leonard Cohen was a better songwriter than Neil Young. When he told me, right after I let him borrow Harvest and on The beach on CD, that the stuff was alright but kind of washed out and that the guy had a whiny voice, I basically told him where to shove it and didn't speak to him for two days.

Same thing back then—I loved picking on fans of that Nu-Metal craze, and I definitely ran into a few narrow-minded idiots once or twice.

Was it worth it? For me, yeah.

And today? Music—mostly thanks to big moves by NPR—is just background noise to help people endure mornings in soul-crushing office cubicles, or just something playing while people hunt for cheap fridge deals at IKEA—people who don't even have enough food to fill those fridges, living lives that feel blunt, primitive, and small.

And there's hardly any theory left about kids today fighting over loyalty to some rock band.

So, should we really be surprised that Music only gets 15 comments a week?

poll.

Dennis Hall41 said:So we're actually surprised that the Music section pulls in fifteen comments a week?

Honestly, I’m surprised there are even that many.

If you take a quick look at that PDF up there about mainstream hits and all that, you'll see why. People just spend their time leaving endless comments about some random pop star or some idiot singer, or they just drop one mindless track after another without thinking.

Jason Mendoza said:Honestly, I’m not even surprised there’s so much of it.

It’s like, if you take one quick peek at that PDF above regarding popular music, you see people obsessing over some random pop starlet or linking one mindless track after another. It's all just noise.

At the end of the day, it really comes down to how you were raised and what was playing in your house growing up.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8p...ZgQuWhV57zPDTw

Take this, for example...... this girl up there (19) does daily reviews of prog rock albums (mostly from the 70s), and if you just glance at her channel, every other video is something like "My dad's favorite albums from the 19xx..." or "My dad's record collection"... and suddenly, everything makes perfect sense.

Dennis Hall41 said:And there’s basically zero evidence that kids today are getting into heated arguments over their loyalty to some rock band.

It’s pretty obvious you aren’t exactly a young girl, and clearly haven't read 😁 🙂

this is just completely wrong.
When I'm working, I'm working with young people.
They have the same—if not even greater—devotion to culture than my generation did (and let's just say I'm a bit older than you). Plus, they're smarter, simply because information is actually accessible now, unlike back in our day. They have access to everything; they aren't limited to whatever someone happens to have on a shared drive, or what they pick up at a local flea market, or what some older brother drags home on a disc.
Even when they come from genuinely rough backgrounds, they're curious, and they never cease to surprise me.
But the world around them has shifted and sped up—they have even less free time than we ever had. And the pressure? It's higher. There's less room for these kinds of outlets, especially now that we're all collectively exhausted by screens.

There have always been those who love punk, those who love Depeche Mode, and those who love Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. We used to choose to see the people most like us—but now, being constantly connected and dealing with media bias (which has only intensified), we're forced to see everything at once.
And honestly, we’ll always be a little nostalgic for our own youth, no matter how it actually was.

All I'm trying to say is: the kids are alright. 🙂

As for why I haven't commented: look, I've been wanting to finish Mazzy Star for days now. It's a beautiful album and a great thread starter, and I really wanted to chime in so it didn't feel like someone's effort was just vanishing into thin air. But it's just been an exhausting month. I'm tired—I can't find the time to get through every song, nor the mental bandwidth for any profound insights. It isn't a lack of enthusiasm or respect for the OP; it's just pure fatigue. And I'm sure I'm not the only one feeling this way.

Appropriate GIF here, from a series I haven't finished—mostly because I was too tired, but honestly, it wasn't even that good. 🙂