thatpinguino

This album felt like finding the musical missing link. There is so much in For Your Pleasure that clearly influenced a ton of acts that I enjoy. I don't know that I loved the entirety of any song, but I loved something in every song. What a profoundly strange, campy, delightful album.

I liked this album a lot. Curry has much more variety and melody to his flow than Little Simz did and that made a huge difference for me. I would definitely go back to this album again.

Stranger of Paradise should be on this list.

I'm not sure how I feel about this album. I often find that I like the idea of David Bowie more than the real thing and this album reinforces that belief. Bowie's vocals are great and the overall experimental feel of many of the songs feel fresh and foreign despite the album being almost 30 years old. And yet, I didn't love the whole of any of the songs. I loved a riff here and a line there, but the sum wasn't as compelling as the parts.

On the upside, listening to this album led to me watching Labyrinth. So I'm glad I gave Outside a try.

I liked this album a lot! Every song is like a pop-punk or metal band fighting for control with a rogue vocaloid in the best possible way. Songs jump genres and riffs at least 2-3 times per song without the gears grinding. It's an amazing trick. For as Frankenstein as this album is, it somehow works. My favorite song on the album is THE DAY WITH NOTHING.

@onemanarmyy: I feel like ZP and I do this for Extra Life every other year.

This is the first album I listened to for the album club that I gave up on. I got through 40 minutes of this album and found it off-putting for just about the entire duration, which is especially bad because the album is a staggering 80 minutes long. The music here sounds like a jazz band and a math band thrown in a wood chipper. It is aggressively loud, chaotic, and muddy. I could barely pick out individual instruments, to the point where I put on another loud metal album just to make sure it wasn't just my speakers. It wasn't, this album is just mixed with everything turned up to 11 fighting for the same space. I also could barely discern when one song started and another ended because of how similar the sound was throughout the album and how many times the individual songs change tempo without warning. This is a stay away for me. Unless you are already 1000% in for whatever metal subgenre this is, there is almost nothing to grab onto.

The one positive takeaway I had was that the individual musicians in the band are clearly skilled at their instruments. It's a shame the mixing prevented me from calling out any specific riff or beat that I enjoyed.

Think we can safely leave this thread in 2009.

I really enjoyed this album. I don't know that I had a favorite song or moment so much as it was a nice thing to have on in the background. This is an album I would happily put on at a fancy dinner party to set a tone without overwhelming the room. Shout-out to the last song on the album for going as Full Jazz as possible. Just a real 5 minutes of people going for it.

@splodge: The end credits were calling out regions of India and basically saying "The Revolution lives in you too." It was to pull forward the themes of the movie into the modern day.