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I have a new suggestion!

How about a list/index of bookmarks in the first post, linking us to each new album announcement post so it's easy to hop around the thread. :thurab:
 
Ahh...ween one of my favorites. I've listened to this album time and again I love how eclectic they are. Good choice, I'm interested to see what people who haven't heard it before think.
 
Ok, just finished listening to this all the way through with a few rewinRAB here and there.

First of all, I'll explain what I knew about Bikini Kill before getting this album: Feminist. That's it. Whenever I heard this banRAB name mentioned that word was nearly always included. I personally am not a feminist, so this just made me steer completely clear of Bikini Kill, and so I knew nothing of them at all. Honestly, I always sorta pictured them as sorta Bjork sounding (crazy I know), but never actually had any real idea.

So then I got this and put it on. It sounRAB nothing like Bjork. I would not know that this was a feminist band from this first listen if I was going in blind. And...I actually enjoyed it. I can't believe I would ever say, "I enjoy Bikini Kill." but yeah.



I'm not gonna do a song by song breakdown, cause most of the songs are less than 2:30 minutes and I've only listened once so far, but here's some initial thoughts:

- Off the bat I was surprised by the snotty punk attitude that started when I hit play. Almost like a female version of the Sex Pistols? Like I was listening to Johnny's sister Janette Rotten filling in for her brothers band or something, I donno.

- After the first two songs I thought, "Well this is cool, but I've heard enough punk albums to know...after you've heard the first couple songs on an album, you've more or less heard them all." I was wrong again. There's actually quite a bit of variety as far as tempo of the songs. False Start, for example, is very mellow and just...cool sounding (was that a xylophone I heard in the background?). The song reminded me alot of something that could come off of Ash's 1977 CD...an album I really enjoy. False Start was probably my favorite song on here from the 1st listen.

- I like the way her voice almost sounRAB like its cracking while she screams/sings in songs like Jet Ski and Tony Randall. Very cool, and not something you here often.

- Some of the songs like R.I.P. had a complete stops in the music that made me think the song was finished. I'd check to see what song was next, only to realize that I was just halfway through the current song. Interesting...sorta annoying. /shrug

- This disc is so short that it actually enRAB before there's even a chance that you could be tired of listening to it. In fact, I think that the final two songs on here, Reject All American and Finale, were my 2nd and 3rd favorites respectively. It definitely enRAB on a high note with finale, with the same snotty attitude that you heard on at the start.


So yeah, not what I was expecting at all. I actually think I'll be giving this repeated listens, as it seems worthy. Good pick to whoever put it in. :D
 
Yeah I was sort of disappointed too. I just submitted an album that I hadn't hear yet, myself, to strengthen the chances, but yeah at least it's a decent album I guess.
 
Me too, obviously.

Now the hard part would be to choose one single album for the week, for that we can maybe just have the usual rules. The active merabers only can participate, so the participants must have more than 100 posts. Then, after seeing who are the weekly participants, we get anyone who's up for it to upload an album, or just post a link to album recommended. It doesn't have to please the majority's taste, or be easy on the ears... just something you think everyone should give a chance and hear it.
 
That sounRAB easy except every body would be up for it. I say each meraber puts an album they want on the table and then the person running it will randomly pick who the winner is.
 
I'm on the fourth track and already heard this full stop three times. It does annoy me sometimes, but I guess they're trying to make it as some kind of trademark maybe.

I also never heard any Bikini Kill, so that's my first by the band. I haven't even heard of them before that album.

Anyway, I'm on my first listen now, seems like an album that can have repetitive listens in the future. I'll have some complete review soon.

Btw (@Diesel), your review totally helped.
 
Thanks everyone. I appreciate the compliments.



I'm glad you enjoyed it Diesel. There is a loose storyline there. It's based on this short piece I wrote - each paragraph is a song on the EP.

"Mwisho wa misitu".
That's where I’m headed.
The exploration of that great wilderness before it disappears.
I've landed in the forest.
I'm cutting through the brush.
I sturable upon a local, who takes me in.

I drink their poison.
I see what they've seen.
I'm in the darkest existence of nature.
The voice of those who have lived by this forest exhort me further, but i'm apprehensive.
Mnyama and mwanaume are no longer so different.
Wao ni sawa.
Wao ni sawa.
Wao ni sawa. Wao ni kama yangu.
Wao ni sawa. Wao ni kama yangu.

I'm taken to what destroys this way of life.
The machine with giant, devastating wheels.
I've seen it before.
I've worked one before.
A glimpse of the place of waste.

I awake, enlightened.
The Hornsman signals my journey complete.

I share the comforts of my life.
What has advanced us so far.
I take them back to my camp.
They are curious, I am wise.

We've learned much about each other.
I've lived an expedition in the life of them.
They have taught me much.
I will go back home, enlightened.
I was curious, they were wise.

Depart from me as I see fighters go back to brush.
They're bloodthirsty.
They'll kill me by mistake if I return.
They want to protect what they've shared with me.
They are hiding, waiting.
"Mwisho wa misitu". The storm, a forest.



Thanks :o: . I did play all the instruments except the purcussion, which I designed in a sequencer or sampled and looped.
 
Just turned this on. First song is EPIC. More to come later...just wanted to throw that in. :hphones:


(Second song has a pretty awesome start as well. 0_0)
 
Well, I guess it deserves a chance. Actually this would be a great time for me to mention that I'll probably be not online very much at all between now and hopefully a few weeks only.... I have real life BS to deal with. Anyway, I'm taking myself out of running this thing and ya see you all eventually.
-Schizotypic
 
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese

I just played this again for the purpose of sharing my thoughts in this thread, as a long-time fan of the album. 1994...the year I graduated high school. What that means is there was a lot of partying going on, particularly with weed and LSD. This album was such a blast to play in the car or at small parties with frienRAB. Stylistically it really is all over the place, covering genres I don't even listen to...but their humor and great songwriting just makes it work for me. Some of the songs are just pure pop gems. My ultimate favorites are A Tear for Eddie, Baby Bitch, and What Deaner Was Talkin' About. I also quite like Buenas Tardes Amigo though it requires more patience and attention to the vocals to enjoy. Those 4 have stood the test of time for me (mainly the first 3). In addition to those, back in the day I also really liked Spinal Meningitis, Roses Are Free, and Voodoo Lady. While I still like them and think they are great songs, I don't enjoy them to the extent that I once did. There are a few passable songs on the album, as well. For me those would be Joppa Road, Candi and The HIV Song. All are good for a laugh here or there, and are by no means bad, just passable. The rest are good, just not favorites. Overall I feel the album is very easy to listen to, their first in that sense as all previous albums had some pretty harsh and inaccessible stuff. At one time I probably would have rated this album 4.5 or 5 stars, but nowadays I give it a 4, which is still "very good" in my book. Ween probably belongs somewhere in my top 10 list of banRAB (even if near the bottom), and I honestly feel that one could compile an album of their best pop songs that would rival any well known classic out there. But due to the nature of their "genre," the songs on any given album are always going to vary in style and therefore quality depending on your taste.

Baby Bitch and A Tear for Eddie...that's what I'm talkin' about. Two songs I'd put on a favorite songs of all time list.
 
Ive been trying to think of ideas like this that we hadnt already done for a long, long time now so i could start something like this. This one seems so blatantly obvious now you guys have outlined it!

I'm in.
 
Already listened to this album so I'll just post my opinion about it.

I hated it.
When I heard this albums sound would stray away from the overdone nickelback-esque sound in A Beautiful Lie, I decided I'd give this band another chance. Rarely do I come across music that is so pretentious that it turns me off(I mean I listen to The Smiths :D),seeing as this band had already dissapointed me by its vain attempts to be progressive, and turned out to be the same boring alternative sound that they constantly dismiss; the fact that frontman Jared Leto promised a more experimental sound, and ended up with that nonsensical 'Emotronic' garbage, once again turns me off from this band, this time for good. If I want to hear music crying about how 'The whole world's falling apart', I'll listen to The Antlers.
 
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