I just wanted a place to keep track of artists that I haven't listened to in years but going through their entire discography. The fun thing about this is getting to hear new to me albums that maybe I skipped over or finding out ones that were released in the last three years or so that I didn't know about.
I have done Lupe Fiasco so far and I'm currently working on Linkin Park. I'm on their least favorite album from them the fourth one, A Thousand Suns.
The album has some fun songs but it is so far and few between. As a complete project it just doesn't work for me.
I will probably do Green Day next and then Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Green Day's Dookie is the first cassette I ever bought with my own money.
One of RHCP album's is the first cassette I ever owned. I don't remember the album title but will look it up.
Oops I just realized this isn't the Member Journals section. Can I request it be moved to the right sub forum?
Looking forward to reading your thoughts!
A Thousand Suns isn't amazing, but I like it a lot more than One More Light at least. Not a good note for them to go out on IMO.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Jul 11, 2023, 11:22 AMLooking forward to reading your thoughts!
A Thousand Suns isn't amazing, but I like it a lot more than One More Light at least. Not a good note for them to go out on IMO.
I will be honest I have never listened to One More Light outside of the single they pushed for it.
@Guybrush Can you move this thread to member journals for me? Please.
After dredging through the fourth album. I completely forgot to listen to Reanimation. So I went back for a pallet cleanser. I listen to that and Collision Course. I also listened to Fort Minor as well. Now I just started Living Things. I thought Hunting Party was next but completely forgot about Living Things.
Okay so I finished up Linkin Park's discography. Well I forgot about Recharged so one more but for the most part I tackled all seven albums and the other remix album and collision course with Jay Z.
One More Light wasn't as bad as I thought heading into it. People crap on it and I can see why it is a more poppy feel but it felt cathartic to listen to. It is a great swan song for Chester imo. Listening to it tugged at my heart strings a bit.
Next up after I listen to Recharged. I'm going to dive into Green Day since they are the band that I first spent my own hard earned money on to acquire their debut album.
So far I have listened to:
Lupe Fiasco
Linkin Park
Artists that are coming up next:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Limp Bizkit
Black Eyed Peas
Coheed and Cambria
Arctic Monkeys
Busta Rhymes
Eminem
Soundgarden
Lacuna Coil
Breaking Benjamin
Trapt
Hoobastank
A-Trak
Kanye West
Quote from: DJChameleon on Jul 14, 2023, 01:22 PMOkay so I finished up Linkin Park's discography. Well I forgot about Recharged so one more but for the most part I tackled all seven albums and the other remix album and collision course with Jay Z.
One More Light wasn't as bad as I thought heading into it. People crap on it and I can see why it is a more poppy feel but it felt cathartic to listen to. It is a great swan song for Chester imo. Listening to it tugged at my heart strings a bit.
Next up after I listen to Recharged. I'm going to dive into Green Day since they are the band that I first spent my own hard earned money on to acquire their debut album.
So far I have listened to:
Lupe Fiasco
Linkin Park
Artists that are coming up next:
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Limp Bizkit
Black Eyed Peas
Coheed and Cambria
Arctic Monkeys
Busta Rhymes
Eminem
Soundgarden
Lacuna Coil
Breaking Benjamin
Trapt
Hoobastank
A-Trak
Kanye West
Recharged is one of my favorites. One more light was their worst album I thought.
Quote from: Mindy on Jul 15, 2023, 05:29 PMRecharged is one of my favorites. One more light was their worst album I thought.
No way but that's your opinion and you are entitled to it but A Thousand Suns is way worse to me.
I feel like such a fake Green Day fan. I had no idea that Dookie was their third album not first. Currently listening to 39/smooth.
Interested to hear your thoughts on some of these discographies. Green Day's best album to me is
Insomniac. Busta Rhymes' first three albums (especially his first) are straight up classics. The "Heads Will Roll" remix is the only thing I really know from A-Trak (I've probably heard other material that I'm not aware of), but that remix is a straight up banger:
Quote from: SGR on Jul 17, 2023, 09:57 PMInterested to hear your thoughts on some of these discographies. Green Day's best album to me is Insomniac. Busta Rhymes' first three albums (especially his first) are straight up classics. The "Heads Will Roll" remix is the only thing I really know from A-Trak (I've probably heard other material that I'm not aware of), but that remix is a straight up banger:
I'm going to double back and also discuss my thoughts on Lupe since he was the first artist I did and gave me inspiration for this journal.
My favorite A Trak production is probably this song.
I'm currently making my way through Green Day's discography.
I spent most of my listening time going through their second album but something about it seemed off. I don't know if it was comprised of demos or whatever, but it was taking a super long time to finish up. This is the first album that I've kind of bailed on while doing this whole member berries thing.
I went straight to their third album Dookie, and it felt so good to hear those songs and they brought back different memories from when I used to listen to this album on my cassette player in my room with the cheapest of headphones. I basically treated this album like a sing a long and sung all of the lyrics because I still remembered them vividly.
I'm in the middle of Insomniac right now and as I looked over the track list. I'm like wtf I don't know any of these songs but that's not true. Brain Stew and Walking Contradiction were my faves from that album, and I DID know them.
Nimrod is the next one that I'm going to tackle. I will most likely listen to it today on my 20-minute morning walk.
I was a huge Green Day fan in my youth for sure. I saw them in 2005 on the American Idiot tour (with My Chemical Romance opening), and I still think most of their 90s and 2000s stuff is solid even though I don't listen to them much these days.
Dookie is a straight up classic, like you I can sing along with every song no matter how long it's been since I listened to it. Insomniac is maybe not as classic as Dookie but lots of gems on there; Armatage Shanks, Geek Stink Breath, 86, Panic Song being some of my personal highlights in addition to the two you mentioned.
I like Nimrod a lot too, that's kinda where they start to deviate from the straight pop punk and start getting more creative with the instrumentation.
Went to a Green Day concert also in 2013 though, it was awesome!
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Quote from: Mindy on Aug 08, 2023, 02:17 AMWent to a Green Day concert also in 2013 though, it was awesome!
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I got into concerts late in life but I would love to see them live.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Aug 09, 2023, 03:30 AMI got into concerts late in life but I would love to see them live.
It was wild!
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I saw Nelly & the St.Lunatics when I was 13 way back too :laughing:
I never thought of myself as a super frequent concertgoer, but looking back I guess I kinda was. I've actually seen Green Day twice, once in 2005 and once in 2021 at Wrigley Field with Weezer and Fall Out Boy, though I actually had to dip about 3/4 through Green Day's set because nature called.
My first concert was Britney Spears in 1999. :)
Quote from: Mindy on Aug 09, 2023, 05:16 AMIt was wild!
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I saw Nelly & the St.Lunatics when I was 13 way back too :laughing:
That's so dope. I went to my first concert by myself when I was 30. I had this weird attitude about concerts at first especially when it comes to rock music. Live music has a different inperfect sound to my ears that aren't the same as a nicely smooth production from the studio that I hear on physical media like cassettes and CDs. Some people like the rough raw sound but I much prefer the smooth highly produced sound.
I have gotten over that take for the most part but I still prefer a clean studio sound. The only difference now is that I can appreciate a live sound for what it is more nowadays.
I went to K Fest recently and the guy mixing the sound for some of the artists was doing them no justice and I was like ah ha! See thats why I don't like live shows but I tried to enjoy myself even though deep down inside my music nerd self was screaming in terror and complaining.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Aug 09, 2023, 05:24 AMI never thought of myself as a super frequent concertgoer, but looking back I guess I kinda was. I've actually seen Green Day twice, once in 2005 and once in 2021 at Wrigley Field with Weezer and Fall Out Boy, though I actually had to dip about 3/4 through Green Day's set because nature called.
My first concert was Britney Spears in 1999. :)
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I would edit out what your first concert was unless you never use that for security questions. That's why I have been purposely been vague about what mines is. I might be a bit paranoid but I do tend to use first concert as my security question stuff so. Well I have in the past.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Aug 09, 2023, 11:52 AMSpoiler
I would edit out what your first concert was unless you never use that for security questions. That's why I have been purposely been vague about what mines is. I might be a bit paranoid but I do tend to use first concert as my security question stuff so. Well I have in the past.
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I've never used that as mine, so it shouldn't be a problem. :)
I took a slight break from Green Day and started up Janelle Monae's discography. I'm going to head back and finish up Green Day afterwards so that I can get into RHCP next.
Overall, I like The Offspring better.
But Insomniac is basically the best pop-punk album of all time. Better than Dookie. A complete 10/10. The way it flows is immaculate and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Every time I hear it, my brain goes to its happy place.
I finished up Janelle Monae's discography and will comment on it soonish.
I have started up Gym Class Heroes for the berries! I loved them so much during my college years and I like the fact that they were always repping upstate NY. They are a bit further up than me but I always liked to think they were from my area.
Quote from: SGR on Aug 29, 2023, 09:55 PMOverall, I like The Offspring better.
But Insomniac is basically the best pop-punk album of all time. Better than Dookie. A complete 10/10. The way it flows is immaculate and it doesn't overstay its welcome. Every time I hear it, my brain goes to its happy place.
Now that you mention it I liked The Offspring but I don't think I ever listened to any of their albums. It was just their singles that had music videos that I gravitated towards.
Which The Offspring album is your favorite?
My favorite Offspring album is Conspiracy of One, I think it's their strongest front to back. But Smash and Americana are the most acclaimed ones.
And hell yeah, I love Gym Class Heroes. Such an underrated band and an unsung precursor to the whole emo rap movement.
A friend of mines went to see All Time Low at an outdoor concert thing down in NYC. Gym Class Heroes opened for them!!
I'm so mad that I'm bogged down with family issues atm or else I would have gone with my friend and her bf.
Now that you mention it, they were definitely the precursors to emo rap. Hmmm.
Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid.
I love this concept album. I don't know how often artists do it but it's cool when an artist's debut album is a concept album. She carries the concept over to the second album as well.
The first album is composed of the second and third parts to Monáe's Metropolis concept album series. Incorporating conceptual elements of Afrofuturism and science fiction, The ArchAndroid continues the series' fictional tale of a messianic android and features lyrical themes of love, identity, and self-realization.
Even though I listened to four of her albums, I completely forgot to listen to the initial EP that's the first part to the concept album that comes later on.
Cold War, Tight Rope and Come alive are my favorite tracks from Suite II which is the first part of the debut album. Make the bus stands out as my favorite from the Suite III part of things. It contains a feature from Of Montreal.
The Electric Lady
In this album it contains Suite IV and Suite V, even though I have certain songs that are my favorite. What jogged my memory is that Janelle is so good that there is no skippable track for me. They all sound good for various reasons. My faves are definitely the singles but Ghetto Woman and Sally Ride should've been singles as well. Q.U.E.E.N. , Primetime and Electric Lady are the others.
Dirty Computer
I must've missed when Dirty Computer got released because I don't even remember it coming out. Django Jane, I Like That and Pynk. There is a companion short film that was released with it and I haven't watched it yet but I will find the director's cut and consume it soon. This album ventured away from the Cindy character that was in the last two albums and EP. The overall feel of the album just feel more pop heavy and like a branching out of her overall sound.
Age of Pleasure
She decided to focus on afrobeat and some reggae for this album but it feels so well and it was definitely a great summer album. Float and Water Slide were my favorites. Oh I absolutely love all the music videos associated with this album. I'm just a huge fan of Janelle Monae so I'm not even going to rate each album because they are basically all fives with no skippable tracks imo on all four albums. That's a tough feat to pull off but she did it.
Papercut Chronicles
So Mrs. Waffles mentioned that they are pretty much a precursor to the emo rap movement that is around today. The only difference is that emo rap nowadays use trap beats as opposed to a band like they used. Listening to this album brought back so many good memories of my college days but it also brought back memories of the era when I decided that I wanted to be a pick up artist. So cringe, in hindsight I never would have gotten into that. Taxi Driver and Make Out Club were the first two songs I ever heard from Gym Class Heroes and those two songs were enough to pique my interest into the rest of what they had to offer. That's when I ended up listening to their album in full. This was during the days when I would only listen to singles and not full records. So I just discovered today that this is technically their second album. I always thought it was their debut album. I went through and listened to their four other albums without even realizing that there was an album called For the Kids. I need to double back and check that one out.
As Cruel as School Children
When this album was released I rushed down to my local FYE to pick up a physical copy of it. I didn't find out till recently that Patrick Stump from Fall Out Boy produced this album. I know he's featured on "Clothes Off" but I didn't know he contributed more to the album than that. Some stupid reviewer said that they needed to get rid of the filler tracks to be successful and I'm like what fucking filler. This chick is the epitome of music reviewers just trying to find something wrong. Victoria Durham of Drowned in Sound needs a new job because she's failing at that one. Viva La Girl, Biter's Block and Cupid's Chokehold were my faves from this album. She also compared them to Outkast or said they were the Outkast of the rock world. Ugh I hate when people compare an artist/band to another one. Yeah you can say they sound a bit similar but they are both their own entities and it seems disrespectful to reduce one band to that of another major artist. It's like you are calling them a clone and that's all they are. Sure they might be inspired by another artist but that doesn't mean they want to BE THAT other artist/band.
The Quilt
I feel like they switched up a little bit but not too far from what they are known for on this album. It does seem to be a bit more rap heavy but it also has some really great features and just seems like a more mainstream album. I love how solid the album itself is. Don't Tell Me It's Over feat. Lil Wayne, Home, Cookie Jar Feat. The Dream , Peace Sign/Index Down Feat. Busta Rhymes and Blinded by the Sun were my favorites from this project.
The Papercut Chronicles II
They went back to their roots a bit more on this album. They toned down the amount of features, I feel like there were only three and they were mostly pop singers. Adam Levine, Neon Hitch and Ryan Tedder from One Republic helped out. My favorites from this album are Stereo Hearts Feat. Adam Levine , Holy Horseshit Batman and The fighter Feat. Ryan Tedder. I associate this album with a time when I was struggling to find employment and I ended up doing a load of different temp jobs. There was an agency where you would have to go there physically in the morning and wait in line. Once you got inside you would have to sit around and wait for temp jobs to come in and they would pick certain people to go out on certain days/jobs. If you weren't on the receptionists good side she wouldn't send you out for weeks. You do your temp job and at the end of the day, they cut you a check for the hours that you worked they were mostly minimum wage jobs every once in a while there would be an employer paying a bit more but that's because they would have do so much more on the job site that you really shouldn't be doing if you aren't qualified for. They just wanted to skip out on paying qualified licensed people to do the job. My favorite jobs were when I would get to work overnight either helping to set up a store or doing overnight inventory at a warehouse. There was also like a hardware store warehouse they sent us to that made us stack pallets and get rid of the broken pallets.
Yeah modern emo rap doesn't really sound all that much like Gym Class Heroes, at least not in terms of the instrumentals. But as far as the ethos of fusing those two they were definitely super early. They had the emo cred being on Fueled by Ramen and collabing with Fall Out Boy and Cobra Starship, and as a huge emo kid in high school those connections were how I got into GCH.
I also didn't know they had an album before Papercut Chronicles until like 7-8 years ago. Never actually heard it though.
Quote from: Mrs. Waffles on Sep 25, 2023, 09:12 PMI also didn't know they had an album before Papercut Chronicles until like 7-8 years ago. Never actually heard it though.
So I heard that album
For The Kids, it has a track on it that I've heard before but most of it was new to my ears material.
Here is the album that I listened to if you wanna hear it someday.
I heard an Arctic Monkeys song either in a commercial or a movie trailer recently and it made me want to re-visit their albums. I feel like I only listened to like their debut album and possibly the 4th one and part of the loungey album they put out. I'll update once I get through them. I first heard of this band around the time their debut came out but my memories of this band are tied to an old roommate of mines.
So I started from AM and worked my way up to the most recent release from them. Now I'm working my way from their debut up to AM.
I just finished whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not. Listening to that album again just jogged good memories of my college days.
AM's memories relate to my ex roommate because they used to play songs from that album all the time.
Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino was so awesome to listen to. I like that they decided to go more piano centric as opposed to the heavy guitar work they have done since their debut album. This album has such a chill lounge singer vibe to it. Reminds me of like going into a hotel in Old Las Vegas. The Car follows up with that similar vibe/sound and I enjoyed it. Not as much as my first time hearing the new style but I'd give it a 7/10 while Tranquility gets a 9/10.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Oct 24, 2023, 07:52 PMI heard an Arctic Monkeys song either in a commercial or a movie trailer recently and it made me want to re-visit their albums. I feel like I only listened to like their debut album and possibly the 4th one and part of the loungey album they put out. I'll update once I get through them. I first heard of this band around the time their debut came out but my memories of this band are tied to an old roommate of mines.
I've got a big soft spot for their first record. The rest of them (that I heard) never did much for me. Much like The Strokes actually.
Quote from: SGR on Nov 05, 2023, 04:05 PMI've got a big soft spot for their first record. The rest of them (that I heard) never did much for me. Much like The Strokes actually.
That reminds me I need to go through The Strokes discography. I've only heard singles here and there but don't think I have ever listened to an album from them all the way through.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 05, 2023, 10:33 PMThat reminds me I need to go through The Strokes discography. I've only heard singles here and there but don't think I have ever listened to an album from them all the way through.
It might be a bit overrated these days, but
Is This It? is still one hell of a great debut album. A lot of people really like the followup,
Room on Fire as well, but I'm not as big on that one.
Andre 3k is going to release a flute instrumental album on Nov. 17th with no bars. So I decided to go through Outkast's discography but I started at Stankonia then I'm going to go back to their first album and work my way up.
So many good memories listening to Stankonia again after all this time. I believe I was in my gap year between coming home from the military and going to college when this came out or when I listened to it heavily.
Quote from: DJChameleon on Nov 16, 2023, 05:03 PMAndre 3k is going to release a flute instrumental album on Nov. 17th with no bars. So I decided to go through Outkast's discography but I started at Stankonia then I'm going to go back to their first album and work my way up.
So many good memories listening to Stankonia again after all this time. I believe I was in my gap year between coming home from the military and going to college when this came out or when I listened to it heavily.
Stankonia is definitely my favorite Outkast record. While I dislike skits on most rap albums, I never skip 'em on that record. BREAK.
The whole sound of the album is just eclectic. It sounds a lot more raw, aggressive and colorful than their other records. Many of their other records have this woozy, sort of dreamlike production that just doesn't hit the same for me.
When I listen to Stankonia, it brings me back to my college days - outside the dorms with my roommate, smoking a cigarette, and listening to "Snappin' and Trappin'" - "One muthafuckin verse, and already, it's a classic!"
I lost track of my list big time but the nostalgic stuff I have been listening too lately is Tool.
I asked a friend of mines what his favorite band was and he said Tool. I know a few Tool singles but over the course of the conversation. I realized that I have never listened to a Tool album front to back. I started with Laterus but should've started with Undertow. Made it through those two albums and honestly, I wasn't missing much from the popular tracks off each album.
I love the Schism music video so much though.
Prison Sex and Sober were my faves from Undertow and Schism and Laterus from that album.
Tool is one of those bands where I kinda like the popular songs, but I also never took the full plunge. They're a bit dour, perhaps 🤔 Great sound, though.
Quote from: Guybrush on Jan 29, 2024, 11:20 PMTool is one of those bands where I kinda like the popular songs, but I also never took the full plunge. They're a bit dour, perhaps 🤔 Great sound, though.
Yeah he was telling me that he doesn't like introducing people to Tool because people usually don't have the patience to get to the good parts of songs since they build up which is typical for prog bands. 7 minute plus tracks and the average listener will tap out and be uninterested.
I love TOOL. Have since I was 16. Got to see them live once. Hell of a show.
Quote from: Hope on Jan 30, 2024, 12:37 PMI love TOOL. Have since I was 16. Got to see them live once. Hell of a show.
Wow it must have been incredible to see them live.
When I was younger, I had zero patience to listen to any tracks longer than 4 minutes. So I was not a fan of Tool that much just one or two songs here and there.
I saw them too, at Lollapalooza 2009. They were super good, but I was surrounded by very pungent weed smell from all sides, which distracted me somewhat lol.