Worst albums of 2015
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Worst albums of 2015
>>61041307
Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven is 1000x worse than Emotion, and so are many other albums. As a pop album, it's very decent when compared to others in its genre.
inb4 art angels
>>61042023
So you rate pop albums on a different scale to other genres? Stay pleb
Currents and In Colour weren't necessarily complete shit but both overrated shit
Currents
>>61042132
Even without being poptimist, you kind of have to. Like you have to accept that you are rating an album that's probably not ambitious, experimental or substantial. Now if you say that an album does not need to be those things, then you're being poptimist.
>>61042351
>divers
triggered
>>61042351
>hating poison season
What the fuck is your deal?
>>61042085
What does this mean?
>>61042468
OP here
that means that you are a faggot
>tfw when I don't have a worst album of 2015 because I don't listen to music I don't like
>>61042440
just because something isn't ambitious, experimental or substantial doesn't mean it's bad
>>61042351
>divers
You are literally ISIS
I had such high hopes
>>61043298
>make some noise
i chuckled at that for some reason
>>61043298
This album is not only bad, but it some how got high reviews despite being crap.
i didnt listen to a lot of bad records in 2015 but i love the albatross and expected so much more from this record
>>61044428
Wasn't that bad
Just a little underwhelming
Glass Coughs and the song after are great
>>61044428
listen louder
I just dont want to create a thread for this but can anyone post that vid of some anons dad from here who played the sax and had tons of videos in his youtube channel but all of them where the same
>>61042491
>I know what albums sound like without listening to them
fucking moron
>>61043784
one of the best rap albums of the year
I'm not entirely sure about album but please show me a worse song
https://vimeo.com/119620221
Vijay Iyer Trio - Hood
>>61044687
not saying much lmao
>>61044641
>Going out of your way to listen to shitty albums just so you can say you have a WAOTY.
any album that was considered above average by anyone
>>61042085
The main problem with “Miley Cyrus and Her Dead Petz” is, there are no references to the dead petz in the lyrics. On the surface this is as expected, for there are, indeed, no references to the “real” beetles anywhere on The Beatles records, same as the tea accessories are not used as intended neither by Pink Floyd, nor Gong.
Investigating just a bit more we, however, easily find the places where the dead petz used to be and are no more. Not willing to speculate how this second death could be much longer and much more painful than the first one, only superficially mentioned in the title, let us show the place in the manner criminologists do and produce a report on what might have happened and how the petz properly died – as with almost all real deaths forsaken, forgotten and unnoticed.
So, we have in The Floyd Song (Sunrize)
The sunrize insists on gladness
But how can I be glad now my flower is dead
which is utterly banal or, what's the same, post-modernistic until we realize it, definitely, used to be
>>61044752
But how can I be glad now my pet is dead
(one can count and compare syllables for more evidence)
This line now is far from banal or even comic – it is utterly disturbing. It provides all sorts of 'is the author, in fact, human?' questions. How serious is he about the death of a pet (we are not even inclined to think the death has taken place as it's all a show) and, more importantly, what about us now that she grieves so much about her fucking pet? (The pet by now seems, indeed, dead, and so the name of the group stops being comical, and starts being really cynical).
This may well be a far-fetched hypothesis. However, what is not so far-fetched is there are no dead pets in proximity. There is a dead flower - as if the song symbolizes directly. It does not, however, symbolize directly otherwise no help from the Flaming Lips 'creators' would have been, indeed, needed.
So, why the pet was dead and gone? Surely, as a result of a censorship or, probably, self-censorship, the two being indistinguishable in the modern record industry making it impossible to seriously comment on any issues as you cannot neither agree to the censorships nor rise against it - same as you can not fight the fly which has already become a part of yourself, as shown in “The Fly” movie.
at least Cudder didn't compromise his integrity. Tyga doesn't even have integrity
>>61042440
that would imply pop albums are probably bad, unless you're a poptimist
214. Giorgio Moroder- Déjà vu
213. Ratatat- Magnifique
212. Enslaved- In Times
211. Kool Keith & L'Orange- Time? Astonishing!
>>61044787
What do the numbers mean?
>>61044781
If someone argues then that this change has been done to make the song less disturbing than necessary consider the following lines:
Why there is a sky
And why do pigs run
We are, of course, absolutely sure it used to be and why the pigs fly, intended to bring all the possible Pink Floyd references and such. Even better if it were Why the pigs fly/And why there is a sky, bringing a much more important (natural, timeless, existential) question to the end of the sentence where it should have been - so we could question the very validity of what Pink Floyd had done before. Alas, there is a large part of the audience who are not aware of anything so pigs just run letting the birds fly in a previous verse.
(NB. One can argue that the phenomenon of the pigs running is caused by the will of Our Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 8:31) to which we immediately answer that all pigs must die and we do have other artists much more skillful in transmitting the complicated symbolism of such unlikely scenarios)
So what we see are very big compromises done here and there in order to make the record a record as other records but with additional value which would allow the record to be chosen by the customer.
This could nevertheless be fine if the additional value was of any interest which it is, probably, not.
Take these lines and tell me you do not know what they mean:
And I had a dream
We robbed the record store
That's what Miley Cyrus and The Flaming Lips are doing on the record, and what, The Flaming Lips, at least, have been doing all the time.
What they are doing is, however, absolutely not important. They simply want you to understand that they understand together with you and with your help the thing which they are doing. By which time any semantics of doing have disappeared and you are working for Miley Cyrus for free as an idiot volunteer.
>>61044787
>213. Ratatat- Magnifique
I heard the first couple of songs and was shocked. Didnt they used to be an emo rap band or something ridiculous? The songs I heard were all instrumental and pretty smooth.
>>61044816
And in case you are a real idiot and still do not understand enough to work as a free volunteer for Cyrus & Co they explain a bit more
The one with the yellow door
One good thing of working for McDonalds is you are given the uniform. Records studio with doors colored not yellow are not being served.
So, what we have is the marketing of the album thought of and packaged into the album itself. You are buying an album with a contract and thus the mutual enjoyment is absolutely guaranteed. In the world where money have almost completely lost their value, the spiritual enjoyment you are guaranteed to get from this record is equal, if not bigger, than the financial gratitude the musicians receive from the donations on that free Spotify or how that devilish thing is called.
In this way none of the parties enjoy or even need the joy of inspiration and this is the world in which God does not exist.
The absence of joy is further deceitfully masqueraded as all sorts of love or other relationships problems which the album depicts when it's not busy conceptualizing itself.
>>61044856
no? To my knowledge they've always sounded in that vein
>>61044860
The only problem which needs to be solved though is the problem of the existence (http://thefloatinglibrary.com/2009/04/20/suicide-the-one-truly-serious-philosophical-problem-camus/) of the very album itself. The album should commit suicide. This does not mean the album is bad, far from it. This only means that currently we do not have any discovered means to effectively express the protagonist's suicide in the course of the narrative. Hopefully, future technologies will solve this.
My last comment is on the emoji. In one of the songs emojis are mentioned. This is stupid because the reference is going to be dated very soon and further shows how little Miley Cyrus cares about her work, except for the immediate sales.
However, the place where the protagonist tries to explain the meaning of emojis is real fun and does remind of the famous Wittgenstein observation that f(a) = b does not really mean that a and b stand in the relation of f, but, on the contrary, the fact that a and b stand in the relation of f means that f(a) = b.
Thus this album does not in any way diminishes or alters what has been done by the masters of the previous epochs.
210. Ash Koosha- GUUD
209. Liturgy- The Ark Work
208. KUNIKO- Xenakis: IX
207. Daughn Gibson- Carnation
206. 100%-
>>61042351
Elaborate on why you hate Poison Season and Have You in My Wilderness. Don't shit on them aimlessly.
The ark work
Speedin bullet 2 Heaven
Dead Petz
Barter 6
DS2
Art Angels
>>61044721
>missing the point this hard
how can you presume if an album is shit or not if you haven't listened to it, unless you ride pitchfork's/melon's dick on the reg? form your own damn opinion and quit treating music taste like an accessory
>>61044883
weird I think I was thinking of Blood On The Dance Floor, an American electropop duo.
>>61045052
Crunkcore is the genre they make
>>61042085
WHY THEY PUT THE DICK IN THE PUSSY?
>>61045067
ah its all coming back to me now.
Brokencyde what times we shared.
>>61041253
>>61045106
Brokencyde=broke inside!!!!!
>>61044856
>Ratatat
>Attack Attack
kinda similar names remembered through a ten year haze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDzt6yI3Dw8
>>61045159
I admit I never thought of that. I should've taken them seriously when I had the chance.
>>61045201
Fingers crossed for crabcore resurgence in 2016
>>61044889
Were you really that buttmad that someone bothered to put more than a cursory thought into the themes of Dead Petz? You must have spent a lot of time writing that all out just to look like an irritating ponce.
>>61042154
i haven't even bothered to listen to currents so i wont comment on that, but dear lord In Colour is good, but AS good as anything else i can find on soundcloud nowadays. massively overrated.
>>61045269
Any thoughts on a 2015 official style? disco funk seemed pretty big to me but maybe I wasnt paying enough attention last year.
>>61044721
wait so... you just like EVERYTHING you hear?
>>61042494
maybe it doesnt have to be "experimental," but substantial literally means something that has substance, and if your album doesnt have substance or oomph to it, its bound to be boring and therefore bad (or passable, which is certainly not good)
>>61043298
>make some noise
>not acapella covers of merzbow tracks
>>61044428
wat. this was great
>>61044618
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4miXAGrpwF8
a personal fave
>>61043298
saving this one, first sincerely funny joke in a long time
>>61045076
the fuck does this mean i see it every single damn time
>>61045529
lmfaooo im sure if i showed this to some people and pretended it was actually amazing they would believe me though
>>61045529
YES!
>>61044428
I don't get why this is getting hate, it had a lot of great songs. But it was kinda underwhelming.
>>61044382
new to the board, what is the overarching hatred towards chvrches here? Not defending them, just curious.
>>61044618
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5bQ3YlxrUo
??
>>61041253
>Beavis and Butthead skits
why would anyone do this?
>>61046153
oh my god i haven't seen this before
>>61044787
The fuck you say about Ratatat?
>>61041253
It's my pick for the worst that's for sure
holy shit it's unbelievable how fucking bad Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven was
>>61042351
I mostly agree.
>>61042102
>>61042348
>>61042351
>>61044986
>>61044909
guud was a fantastic album. don't trust aoty to make decisions for you
>>61044687
>>61044718
Seconding what anon said. It's like saying that the big mac you had yesterday is one of the best big macs you've ever had. Even if it was above average for what it is, it's still a big mac.
>>61043298
lmao
>>61043784
wouldn't call it crap but it is by no means deserving of the amount of praise it gets
>>61046099
because the only people who like them just want to fuck Lauren Mayberry
