Jan 10, 2025

Thanks man anytime Sunday, I'll have a bit of time to k--- Monday too then won't be on much till Thursday

 

Jan 10, 2025

Sure

I will post the tracklist on sunday and try to create a playlist for Spotify or Youtube, or both.

 

Jan 9, 2025

Marsh is not built for this thread. Imagine him having to listen to music that isn't eminem or top 40 songs. Every review would just be "this was boring"

 

Jan 6, 2025

@AOTWClub

Smile 2: The Skye Riley EP

This one will be short. Nothing much to say about it other than interesting choice to go with an EP of some random forgettable movie lol

I think the songs were pretty good.

Best: Grieved You, Blood On White Satin, Death Of Me
Worst: New Brain

6.5/10

 

Jan 5, 2025

@AOTWClub @stepdad enjoyer has chosen

American Water By Silver Jews



Ripperroo: 7/10
Yeez: 10/10
Justin Trudeau: 8/10
DiggleDogg69: 8/10
Gimp: 7.5/10
Jankland: 8.5/10
49/60 = 8.1

I will tally up Smile 2 on Wednesday

 

Jan 5, 2025

For the last pick before the upcoming mixtape rotation, I decided to go with my personal favorite. The album I am picking is non other than

American Water by the Silver Jews



Silver Jews were an indie rock band from New York City, the mastermind behind this group was the late David Berman, a songwriter, composer, and a poet whose work influenced dozens of indie folk and rock acts. I will not talk about the album because it is best for everyone to go into this blind, but let’s just say that if indie music, with a touch of country-rock mixed in, sounds appealing to you - this project could have some memorable moments.

I’ve been a fan of David Berman for a looong time, after Silver Jews disbanded, he took a long hiatus and came back to music in 2019. His new project was called Purple Mountains. Couple months after this band’s debut, Berman took his own life. Although the Purple Mountains album featured some of his best writing and performances since his initial run, it now sounds like a suicide note of a man who knew exactly what his fate would be. RIP.

Hope you guys enjoy this one, my review of the Smile album will be posted by tommorow!

 

Dec 31, 2024

Skye Riley & Naomi Scott - Smile 2: The Skye Riley EP

Best tracks: Grieved You, Blood On White Satin

Worst track: New Brain

RIPPER ROO’S RATING: 5/10

This EP is giving Lady Gaga, Tate McRae, Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams, and even The Weeknd. I assume the derivative nature of this project is intentional, but the problem is sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s pretty obvious why Grieved You and Blood On White Satin were released as singles because they are by far the best songs.

New Brain sucks man, straight up. It’s the most generic “I’m going insane” song I’ve ever heard. It sounds like it was specifically designed for edgy 14 year olds, these lyrics make me cringe. It sounds like they had Chat GPT write a song about going insane, it’s very surface level. This song massively weighs the EP down and with only 5 songs (the 6th is just a piano version of a previous song) that really affects the score.

The way Just My Name is mixed kind of reminds me of The Weeknd from After Hours. I kinda like it, but it also just kinda makes me wish Lily Rose Depp made her own individual EP with the help of The Weeknd during The Idol show because I feel like that would’ve been a much better executed version of the EP we have here right now.

I like the singing on this album though and there is some definite catchiness here. I did add some of these songs to one of my playlists. Death Of Me is okay, kinda feels like another Lady Gaga song. If this EP was just Grieved You, Blood On My Satin, and Death Of Me I’d probably give it a 7/10 but unfortunately that’s not the case. Not a terrible project though! @AOTWClub

 

Dec 31, 2024

@Justin Trudeau @AOTWClub

First off want to say interesting pick @Michael Myers! being that I'm a movie freak I didn't even think about opening the avenue to this kind of music so I'm happy you went outside of the box a little


I haven't watched Smile 2 yet so idk if I'm missing any context outside of the basic plot of the movie and the main character being a pop artist.

I don't have too much to say than it's pretty inoffensive retail store sounding pop knock off of Lady Gaga and a couple other people, it falls into some pitfalls that I don't like about pop vocal production sometimes but I didn't hate this at all. A couple melodies were kinda try hard but Naomi Scott has a decent voice and I hear good things about her performance in the movie. The most glowing praise I can give this is I wouldn't be mad if a couple of these songs were in the playlist at my restaurant lol

Favorite Songs: Grieve You, Blood On White Satin
RATING
5.5/10

 

Dec 31, 2024

Go full send homie

 

Dec 31, 2024

It's so hard not becoming the rock and metal guy when I want to choose albums I love that y'all might not have listened to but have a shot at liking and it ends up being mostly rock or metal cause I'm afraid to go off the deep end with hyper pop bs lmao. I have a few curveballs in mind after the mixtape rotation though so I'm excited!

 

Dec 29, 2024

Rap is my main genre I know the most about so I’m usually more critical of that genre when we review rap albums here when compared to something like a rock album

 

Dec 26, 2024

Discovery - Daft Punk REVIEW

Score: 9.0

Review:
Daft Punk as a group I have always heard music from from pretty much everyone BUT themselves (besides Get Lucky with Pharrell). Like Stronger by Ye, Circo Loco by Drake & 21, so on so forth. I knew their influence and the songs that got sampled to make the songs I named, but I never heard the original versions and if I did it wasn’t more than a couple times. This album was f---ing fantastic, I’m definitely a fan now. I see why this album always gets brought up in conversation as one of the best ever now. GREAT pick @Yeez

@AOTWClub @Justin Trudeau

Spoiler: Rankings

My Rankings:

1. Discovery - 9.0
2. GNX - 9.0
3. Low - 9.0
4. Sling - 9.0
5. Cilvia Demo - 8.5
6. House Of Balloons - 8.5
7. Melodrama - 8.5
8. Orpheus vs. the Sirens - 8.5
9. Rare Chandeliers - 8.5
10. Seventh Son of a Seventh Son - 8.5
11. The Death Of Slim Shady - 8.5
12. Laugh Now, Cry Later - 8.0
13. Miles - 8.0
14. When the Smoke Clears: Sixty 6, Sixty 1 - 8.0
15. All My Heroes Are Cornballs - 7.5
16. Americana - 7.5
17. Indestructible - 7.5
18. Mannibalector - 7.5
19. Big Conspiracy - 7.0
20. Why Would I Watch? - 7.0
21. Atonement - 6.5
22. Kings Of Crunk - 6.5
23. MID AIR - 6.5
24. POST HUMAN: SURVIVAL HORROR - 6.5
25. Theater Of The Mind - 6.5
26. EAT ME, DRINK ME - 6.0
27. LIFTED or The Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground - 5.5
28. When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That s--- Gold - 5.0

DiggleDogg’s Rating Average: 7.59

 

Dec 25, 2024

 

Dec 25, 2024

Merry Christmas to the @AOTWClub crew

Stay sexy