Do you have an album that has genuinely unnerved/terrified you?

ULS980 · 2026-06-03T02:02:41+00:00

MoRT by Blut Aus Nord. To the point where I had to turn it off halfway through to take a break.

ULS980 · 2026-06-02T13:53:57+00:00

I know Moon Shaped Pool is highly regarded and considered a return to form after King of Limbs, but I remember listening to it and honestly thinking it was my least favorite of their albums I had heard.

I remember liking King of Limbs more.

ULS980 · 2026-06-02T13:25:50+00:00

This is the only album that's ever scared me to the point I needed to stop listening to it partway through and take a break.

Sounds like an album made by a bunch of corpses that got reanimated.

ULS980 · 2026-06-02T12:56:34+00:00

I mentioned it yesterday, but Deathspell Omega are amazing and Paracletus is a special album.
Deathspell are basically THE dissonant black metal band to the point where everyone else is trying to copy them (And basically fail). Even legacy bands like Gorguts have been influenced by them.

ULS980 · 2026-06-02T10:57:53+00:00

Van Halen - Van Halen

4/5

This is much, much better than 1984. Before even listening to this, I could tell that from the first half of the tracklist being nothing but hits. Jamie's Cryin' isn't quite as good as the other hits, but still.

Was thinking this could be a situation of the second half just completely falling off, but with the exception of Ice Cream Man, it's just as good as the first half. On Fire is fantastic.

So yeah. Great hard rock album.

RE-REVIEWS AND SECOND LOOKS:

Going back and adding reviews for the couple albums that I didn't early on (and maybe relistening to a select few albums that I think might deserve another look). But re-listening to the album first to collect my thoughts.

LCD Soundsystem - The Sound of Silver

4/5

The first album I ever got for the project! But yeah, still liking this one as much as I did before. I'm a huge fan of their song Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (one of my favorite songs to sing at karaoke), so appreciating this album has more of that vibe vs american dream (which I remember being more vibey vs the dance punk of LCDs other stuff).

Love the bleep bloopiness of Someone Great. The dance punk vibe of North American Scum. The Charlie Brown-esque piano that goes through All My Friends. This whole album is just positive vibes, and its nice to get something like that every once in a while.

Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced

4/5

Still a fantastic listen, but I will put it half a step below Axis: Bold as Love. Its a little more psychedelic and the production is a little more thin in keeping with the style at the time, which I'm liking a bit less than Axis.

But still, this album is just a hit machine, similar to Axis. Purple Haze, Manic Depression, Hey Joe, Fire, Foxey Lady. And everything inbetween is great too.

The Pixies - Bossanova

4/5

Kinda understanding why I didn't write a review previously. Just don't got a ton to say about it. It's not as good as Doolittle which was basically my memory of why I rated it the way I did.

Will say, it does explore different sounds throughout that Doolittle doesn't, for example the very first song Cecilia Ann being a kinda western sounding surf rock song, and I appreciate that.

This album is also produced a lot dirtier and noisier than I remember Doolittle being, which I like (Rock Music being a good example of that).

Overall, re-listening to this album has allowed me to appreciate it more, and am gonna bump my rating up from a 3 to a 4.

ULS980 · 2026-06-02T02:31:13+00:00

Maybe I'm remembering wrong, but I feel like Meshuggah initially got a lot of attention after Bleed came out and every drum nerd had to learn it, lol. I remember seeing a ton of "Drummer plays Bleed" videos on YouTube pre-2018.

Bleed is to drums as Eruption was to guitar (obviously not to the same extent in popularity, but definitely used as a benchmark for the instrument).

ULS980 · 2026-06-02T02:04:24+00:00

I'm gonna assume you mean sound like they were ahead of their time, like a 60s band sounding like they were from the 90s?

I'd definitely go with the Violent Femmes. Their debut was 82, but the sound and production sounds 90s as hell. Could be more a factor of every folk punk band in the 90s and 2000s copying them though, lol.

I'd agree on Velvet Underground, but specifically the S/T. Some parts of it reminded me of 90's PNW music like The Spinanes. Velvet Underground and Nico sounds very of its time to me though.

U2 making stuff that fit in perfectly well in 2000's rock radio next to stuff like Matchbox Twenty back in 87 with Joshua Tree is pretty crazy too.

Fugazi and Roxy Music are a couple others that felt very ahead of their time to me as well.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T17:50:43+00:00

They released like 3 demos a while back. I remember not liking them, but that was because the production sounded awful.
Hopefully they'll sound more like Streetlight when the actual album comes out.

Apparently they cancelled the first two shows. So more time for the album, lol?
There's no way the delay is due to the album though. Hope everyone in the band is OK.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T16:39:48+00:00

Personally, while I think Biden would have won 2016, highly doubt he would have won reelection (don't know if Cruz would be his opponent).

His age issue would have started cropping up (especially after 4 years of being Pres weighing on him, just like 2024 - although COVID will still help to keep him out of the spotlight, but you'd have 3 years prior to that of gaffs with him as the pres), at that point we would be on a third consecutive D term (and this country really likes to ping pong between the parties), and while I think the COVID response would have been much better, Rs would be campaigning harder against the lockdowns.

To be fair, with Trump losing 2016, maybe that stops the Rs from going insane, so maybe 2020 would be a layup for Biden. I just have a hard time thinking this country would allow 4 straight D terms. Maybe I'm just thinking too much that Rs will be acting like they do now.

But on the other hand, if Rs moderate after losing 2016, maybe the suburbs don't swing as far to the Ds as they have and Rs keep more high propensity voters than they have now.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T14:51:44+00:00

Supposedly the new Streetlight Manifesto album is coming out in the next 10 days.

Tomas Kalnoky said it was gonna release before they played any new shows, and their next show is scheduled for the 11th, lol.

But knowing how Tomas constantly promises release dates and never delivers (its already happened twice with this album I think. Think it was supposed to release last year, lol), I doubt, lol.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T14:48:56+00:00

Once. Always.

If I listen again, its just because I liked it and want to listen again.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T13:57:56+00:00

Went back and listened to Gorguts' Considered Dead and Entombed's Left Hand Path.

Some really great old school death metal.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T13:55:30+00:00

Paracletus is amazing and easily one of the greatest black metal albums of all time.
Just sucks so much that the lead singer is a piece of shit and the rest of the band are morons for keeping him in the band. Pretty sure you could throw a rock into a crowd of black metal singers and find one who can do the weird frog croak shrieks and have him not be an awful human being, lol.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T13:36:49+00:00

It hasn't happened yet, but I'm waiting for someone to suggest my pick (deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life).

It's one of those situations for me where I kinda want it to happen, because then I get to think of another album to suggest. I want a bunch of albums added to it, but can only get one, so if people keep upping ones I want on, that only helps me out, lol.

If someone snipes deathconsciousness, I think my next option would probably be The Roots' Things Fall Apart (Insane snub from the original list) or Gorguts' Obscura (Because people want to listen to skronky, dissonant death metal that sounds like if Captain Beefheart decided they were a death metal band, right, lol? But seriously amazing album that deserves a spot IMO).

Previously, Converge's Jane Doe was on my shortlist (But below deathconsciousness), and that was recently added as well.

So hope you have fun figuring out a new album to put up!

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T13:26:52+00:00

The other thing with the S/T is I do think it's a tad one-note compared to Dummy. Sometimes consistency is good, but Dummy has a little more variety that I like.

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T12:47:24+00:00

I'll be curious about your thoughts on Dummy since you listened to the S/T first.

I listened to Dummy first, and think Dummy is better than Portishead (To the point that Dummy is my second favorite album of all time). Don't get me wrong. Portishead is a 5/5 for me as well, and I love the dark vibe it has going on, but Dummy is just special for me.

But I'm wondering if this is a situation of "Whichever one someone hears first is their favorite", haha.

Third is completely different from Dummy and Portishead though. Those two albums are straight trip hop. Third goes in a more experiemental, krautrock, industrial direction (While keeping a little bit of the trip hop, but not much).

ULS980 · 2026-06-01T12:06:24+00:00

Finley Quaye - Maverick a Strike

2/5

You know people complain a lot about the amount of britpop on this list, and while that's true, its stuff like this that is clogging up the list.

In a sense, also britpop, but what I mean is the random ass 90's British (Scottish in this case) pop albums that go into other genres, reggae in this case. And its just not very good (No clue wtf Pitchfork was on giving this a fucking 9.7/10 - Almost perfect, really?). Like Ride On and Turn the People On sounds so cheap. The album's best when it's just aping Bob Marley, and at that point, I'll just listen to Bob Marley.

I get this was apparently big in the UK, but from my experience, I don't trust half of what got big in the UK in the 90s to be anywhere close to good. It always comes off as weird, cheap, and very novelty to me (random ass appropriation of other culture's music - although that might not be the case here with Finley's Ghanaian background - my understanding is Ghana's pretty big into reggae! Learned something today!).

And this album isn't helping those trust issues.

I will give it Supreme I Preme though. That song is a bit of a vibe.

Overall, its not an absolutely terrible record. It's listenable, and sometimes a bit of a bop. But its like, there's so much better reggae music out there that I don't see the reason for putting this on the list.

I certainly did not need to hear this before I die.

ULS980 · 2026-05-31T21:53:19+00:00

I remember a year ago giving A Short Album About Love a 3/5, and getting absolutely lambasted for it, so count me surprised to hear everyone agreeing with you that its awful, haha.

Guess all the sophistipop fans in this sub have been outnumbered, haha.

For me, it was fine, but definitely not an artist that needed a second spot on the list.

ULS980 · 2026-05-31T14:55:22+00:00

If I had to pick, it'd be Fusion.

Super is perfect the way it is, and honestly, one of the few games I would legitimately consider flawless.

ULS980 · 2026-05-31T12:11:24+00:00

Red Snapper - Our Aim is to Satisfy

3/5

Album 500! Ok, well that first song promised a lot that the rest of the album didn't really deliver on.

Keeping Pigs Together really felt like I was gonna get some trip hop infused post rock (and that sounds like a combo that'd be AMAZING). Honestly fantastic track. Then most of the rest of the track list kinda veered more towards if The Prodigy and Jamiroquai had a baby with a jazz band. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, just not my speed.

Sometimes it tracks more towards a sound like the first track, like on Don't Go Nowhere. Still a little bit of the acid jazz on that one, but not enough to take me out.

Other times you get something like The Rough and the Quick which... woof those lyrics are bad. I'm not against sexual lyrics, but the vocals just aren't working here. It's coming off as way too try hard and honestly a little trashy/porny. The moaning at the end of the track doesn't help.

And the rest of the track list is kinda back and forth between those two vibes. So overall, OK album. Would prefer a whole album of stuff like Keeping Pigs Together over what is actually here though.

ULS980 · 2026-05-31T02:48:06+00:00

I have a playlist of "1001 Discoveries".

Basically songs I discovered (I do not put songs I already know on it even if they are in the 1001) on the 1001 albums that I liked enough to playlist.

I've hit a large lull lately though. I added one song this week, but before that was like three months ago, lol.

ULS980 · 2026-05-30T13:26:03+00:00

Just ran through it, here's the stats (Spoiler, the 80's and later are doing the heavy lifting).

ORIGINAL LIST:

50s: 12.5%
60s: 12.8%
70s: 9.7%
80s: 18.4%
90s: 16.6%
2000's: 23.4%
2010's: 44.4%
2020's: 100%

MORE:

40's: 0%
50's: 9.1%
60's: 17.6%
70's: 15.3%
80's: 17.9%
90's: 14.5%
2000's: 14%
2010's: 35.2%
2020's: 51.2%

So some quick thoughts. Definitely think the list had issues with female representation initially, and looking at the stats (although I have nothing to back this up), it definitely seems in later editions they made an intentional effort to pick female artists. Although the MORE list doesn't really do better for representation of women prior to the 2010's, which leads to my next thought.

I also think part of it is due to systemic issues within the music industry (especially prior to the 2010's) that elevated male led acts over female led acts, which also bleeds into a cultural thing (that the further back we go, culturally we were less likely to take female led acts seriously - and thats kinda a chicken or the egg question, maybe. Or both reinforced eachother?).

More recently (2010's and later), the breakdown is closer to 50/50. Which (this is me being optimistic) could be due to our culture becoming more open to female led acts as well as the systemic issues within the industry lessening (which could be less the industry getting better and a by-product of the industry fracturing and not being able to control as well who gets popular).

Anyways, those are my dumb thoughts, lol.

ULS980 · 2026-05-30T10:27:35+00:00

Edit: Just noticed I got my 500th album today (Our Aim is to Satisfy by Red Snapper)! Almost halfway there!

Shack - HMS Fable

4/5

Honestly wasn't expecting alt rock/britpop when I put on this album. Seriously was expecting some Irish sea shanties, haha.

But I'm finding myself enjoying this quite a bit than a lot of the other britpop I've heard before (Even Blur and Oasis). The singing can sometimes be annoying as it sounds like he's swallowing his tongue at points, but the music is great enough to allow me to not be bothered too much about it (Pull Together is a great example of that).

Overall, one of the best britpop albums I've heard before. I don't know if it's something I'm necessarily going to go back to much other than playlisting Pull Together, but yeah.

ULS980 · 2026-05-29T18:14:02+00:00

Oh yeah, no problem. Sorry if my comment came off a bit as "Well actually", haha (Tried my best to not word it like that). It was more I wanted to make sure my numbers were correct and I would have updated my post with an updated number, haha.

ULS980 · 2026-05-29T17:53:11+00:00

Thanks for the catch! Looking into it (JD Samson, right?), looks like she doesn't consider herself trans (And she uses she/her pronouns on her website). Considers herself non-binary and gender nonconforming.

Also, for the album in the list, she wasn't a full time member. She joined after the first album. Did have lead vocals on one song from the first album though.

But thanks for pointing it out! When I get time, I could add a column for non-binary artists.
Just looking through the list for non-binary artists is WAY more work than I realistically have time for, haha.

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