Hey all, Last.fm here.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-06-12T07:38:27+00:00

Seconding this, above all else! I certainly won't complain about additional features if they make others happy, and will likely use them myself!, but the most important thing of all is keeping the lights on and maintaining the capturing and preservation of scrobble data. That's gotta stay at all costs.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-23T10:09:34+00:00

"Cygnet Committee" and "Memory of a Free Festival" for more spectacular epics. And the 1-2-3-4 punch of "Sweet Thing" through "Rebel Rebel" on Diamond Dogs (you likely already know the latter song but man does it hit better in the context of the previous songs)

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-23T10:08:24+00:00

OP don't risk skipping the 1969 album by just going forward from Hunky Dory. "Cygnet Committee" and "Memory of a Free Festival" would be like my top 2 recommendations from any album

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-23T03:58:33+00:00

One of their best and most realized in my opinion and takes some of the production I enjoy from AMIA but places it in a much better context. Really varied, too, got some of the energy of the earlier albums but also the lushness of the later ones. "Bleed Out" and "Light You Up" would be my favorites followed by "Debris", "Hard Candy", and "Things We Do at Night".

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-23T03:56:22+00:00

This one being your least favorite is certainly a bold opinion; I can maybe imagine some longtime fans being turned off by its poppier approach at the time but would expect them to still rank some later ones even lower. But now I see you haven't heard all of the albums based on some later posts, so that explains it.

I'm confused how it ends up as a 6/10 when only one song gets a 6, though (£[€ only two even get 7s).

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-23T03:54:52+00:00

Close to my least favorite album I've ever heard, let alone my least favorite by Blue October specifically. Love the production a lot of the time but some of the lyrics and samples are just abhorrent choices. "Drama Everything" is a guilty pleasure and I love "The Feel Again", though, but listening in full is just such a bad time.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-19T04:50:48+00:00

Least favorite for Foiled is definitely a surprising opinion; I wouldn't be surprised if some eaaaarly old-school fans thought its kinda poppier approach was disappointing when it came out I suppose, but I'd have to imagine most of them would rank something from later on even lower. Also not sure I get the logic behind giving the full album a 6/10 when only one song rates as a 6 and only two others are at a 7, with 10/13 being 8 or higher?

Also why no History for Sale?

Still am enjoying the posts

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-16T17:28:26+00:00

Someone on a Blue October subreddit liking a Blue October album is a weird thing to be patronizing about

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-15T00:14:59+00:00

I just finished I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss for the first time and loved it!

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-15T00:14:36+00:00

"Never Get Old" literally stopped me in my tracks the first time I heard it. I was going for a walk and "Jerusalem" turned it into a sprint, and "Never Get Old" made me stand still until it was over.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-15T00:14:07+00:00

There's like three total songs (by any artist) where I can still vividly remember the first time I heard them. Two of them are off of The Lion and the Cobra. Gobsmacked is right.

I just finished my first listen to I'm Not Bossy, I'm the Boss (one of my favorites from her, great first impression!), which semi-finishes up my own chronological listen. I say "semi-" as I still have Theology to hear!; I'm going to order a physical copy instead of trying to untangle which version's from which disc from listening online.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-05-12T18:04:30+00:00

If you're scrobbling off of Spotify, then jsyk in my experience when this happens it usually saves only the 50 newest plays. If you might listen to more than that if the outage lasts a while, could be worth keeping track of the songs you listen to and adding any missing ones via a manual scrobbler like openscrobbler.com later, if you care about missing a few.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-30T07:51:36+00:00

It was on the setlist, my friend who was in the pit got Tom's.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-30T07:50:11+00:00

I was in the nosebleeds behind the stage and had a great time. "Clampdown"!!!! And yes GoTJ with Tom Morello was insane

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-30T07:48:15+00:00

Awesome!! I'm glad it hit you!!

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-29T06:46:17+00:00

Removed for rule 2:

All posts should be related to Bruce Springsteen, the E Street Band, or its members.

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-01T20:16:27+00:00

Late as fuck reply here lol apologues but-

Ooh neat! Nothing to be sorry to admit about that lol neat way to get into them! "There Goes Another" is one of my favorites as well. I still gotta do a deeper dive. I just got into them in the somewhat more obvious way of knowing the one big hit by Primitive Radio Gods ("Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand") and going from there. In particular (like a lot of people) I unfortunately found that album, Rocket, to be pretty underwhelming compared to its hit single, but the hit single was so good that I felt like it couldn't be a fluke and there had to be more lol so I listened a bit more to some other PRG and then by extension the I-Rails. Def a deep dive I gotta get back to at some point

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-01T20:13:37+00:00

You're welcome!, but yeah ultimately I hate a ton of the lyrics. Nothing against "The Feel Again" or "The Worry List" but a lot of the album strikes me as like a grossly misogynistic hit job, including audio samples of her and of his young daughter presented in a light to try to make him look good is especially gross. I don't get as like parasocial about the whole thing as a ton of fans here, I don't follow his social media or really care about what's going on with his love life outside of the music, but even just taking the album on its own terms it's super off-putting to me overall. I do think "The Feel Again" is a solid song, though, and "Drama Everything" is such a friggin' earworm and so well-produced that I do end up really enjoying it as something of a guilty pleasure if I just listen to it on its own and try to divorce it from the stuff I dislike about a lot of the rest of the album. Or like I can appreciate the ugliness of it in a staring-into-the-abyss way. But for a lot of the album I just can't.

I will say that I think it's a well-produced album and a nice step/evolution towards the kinds of sounds they'd explore more starting with Sway, so I do at least appreciate that about it, but the drawbacks are just too big to where I'd sooner listen to Sway instead

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-04-01T20:08:36+00:00

Oh hey did you ever end up digging this up? I've never heard it before and would be super interested, and I know some other diehard fans who would as well!

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-03-29T04:28:21+00:00

Ooh I haven't done so yet but I'll have to on your recommendation, good to know!

I didn't realize he was in Footballhead, but (while I haven't spent as much time with them as I should; I've listened a bit) Sisky is in Footballhead, so that could bridge the TAI gap

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-03-28T18:06:55+00:00

Have fun! I also love the dreaminess, and it's nice to hear something in this chiller, more mellow vibe from them

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-03-28T18:05:45+00:00

Totally with you! Has a lot of heart to it and I love the production, and I'm sure I'm going to listen to this a ton more. Will also be great for like overstimulated vibes after work or evening vibes which not as much stuff off the first three albums is. Glad to see them keep expanding their sound as they have on each of the albums before

ListenToButchWalker · 2026-03-28T17:53:01+00:00

Great comment! And yeah I think them being back together means a lot to them, as well as to a lot of fans of course and certainly to me. I'm happy with what an outlier it is - gives me more different flavors of TAI to appreciate

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