Favorite albums? - eviltoast

What albums do yall listen to from beginning to end? There are plenty of artists and bands that I like with great songs but sometimes the album has filler in between the main tracks. Which albums do you feel like have little to no filler? I’d put up Chief Keef’s Finally Rich (debut album) Licensed To Ill by the Beastie Boys, maybe Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by Beatles, Curtis (1970) by Curtis Mayfield and Cuba Libre by Carlos Puebla. What are your favorites?

  • pacifist [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    No Gods / No Managers by Choking Victim is all bangers. The songs Money, Fuck America, and Praise the Sinners all sample Parenti speeches lol should definitely give it a listen all their stuff is great. Another ska-punk album I love is the self-titled Operation Ivy.

    Warlord by Yung Lean and Eversince by Bladee are my favorite albums though.

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      Hell yeah, those ska-punk albums are great. I always find it funny that the first time I ever heard parenti was in a choking victim album.

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        I don’t think it’s correct to call them a fascist band.

        They disbanded in 98 and the allegations against Stza are from the 2010s, the fact that a single member became a POS over a decade later doesn’t determine what the band is a whole.

        Idk, I fell that saying that is like saying that “I Want To Hold Your Hand” is leftist only because John Lennon became one years latter.

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          Its pretty ironic that John Lennon had a line in the song”Revolution” that goes “But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow” and later on John Lennon became a supporter of Mao. He said that Mao was doing a lot of spectacular work in China and making it more equal and that he regretted the line in the song. Kinda sucks tho bc there are a lot of old people that uphold that line like its a bible verse

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          They disbanded in 98 and the allegations against Stza are from the 2010s, the fact that a single member became a POS over a decade later doesn’t determine what the band is a whole.

          the band as a whole more or less never existed, they where active for a single day then broke up lol, based on that though I think its fair to disavow the ‘band’ because they themselves have distanced themselfs from Stza

          I do agree with your wider points and if you still enjoy them thats fine, I really like the albums they put out too but it can be hard to seperate the art from the artist for me personally.

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    Lately I’ve been really into PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation and Fishing for Fishies by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. I have listened both like more than 30 times already.

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    Any album by La Dispute’s Rooms of the House on back will pretty much never get a skip from me. Anti-Flag is also essentially my living anthem in band form.

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        Absolutely. It’s my go-to protest punk band. I was watching some live footage and I really wanna see them perform at some point.

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        Every time I listen to them, it makes me want to write poetry and scream lol. I do need to give Panorama another listen tho.

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          Same. I use to write poetry prolifically, working on starting that again. Also working on making music – I love to scream!

          There’s a creative writing community here if you ever feel inclined to share!

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          also also: I really recommend listening to Panorama with headphones or earbuds if you have them. A big criticism is that the mixing is shit and you can barely hear the vocals, but using my raycons that was rendered a complete non-issue.

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            I might do the headphone treatment today. I was listening to it yesterday in the car just because and my car speakers leave a lot to be desired.

            I haven’t creatively written in a long time but I can sub to that comm. I wanna start writing light theory related stuff right now but don’t have the time. Maybe fiction short stories with socialist overtones might be fun.

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    its quickly becoming a favorite, but king gizzard’s new album petrodragonic apocalypse definitely ranks up there. overall favorite albums are probably human by death, shed by title fight, or fear of music by talking heads. all of kraftwerk’s albums are also pretty close to favorites, especially “the mix”, a re-recording of all their hits where they somehow take their masterpieces and make them even better. i own the mix on tape and listen to it almost every day lol

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    I’ve been listening to 2000s electronic lately, mostly Boards of Canada’s “Geogaddi” and “Campfire Headphase” and sometimes The Unicorns’ “Who Will Cut Our Hair”

    Edit: I don’t know how I forgot this, but “The Fire This Time” is an audio documentary about the us intervention in the Middle East that fans of IDM should definitely listen to.

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    • Prince Daddy & The Hyena S/T
    • Viagra Boys - Cave World
    • Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
    • The Falcon - Unicornography
    • illuminaties hotties - Let Me Do One More
    • Cat Heaven - Fear of a Cat Planet
    • Bomb the Music Industry - Get Warmer
    • Vial - Loudmouth
    • Ceschi - This Guitar Was Stolen Along With Years of Our Lives

    idk I kinda only listen to albums all the way through, never got into listening to songs by themselves. My list is 100% recency bias, I kinda go in waves with albums

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      Ooh the 36 Chambers is insanely good. Like for a group with that many people, I think they really made it work giving each one their style of flow and personality. Not easy to accomplish bc they had like 7-8 people I think. Protect Ya Neck will ALWAYS be a legendary track, the energy of that song is just incredible, great music to exercise to also

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    TOUGH! Mostly rap

    spoiler
    1. Revenge - XXXTENTACION
    2. The Sun’s Tirade - Isaiah Rashad
    3. DAMN - Kendrick Lamar
    4. A GHETTO CHRISTMAS CAROL -XXXTENTACION
    5. Calamari Tuesday - Feed Me
    6. Because the Internet - Childish Gambino
    7. Awful Swim - Father
    8. ? - XXXTENTACION
    9. To Pimp a Butterfly - Kendrick Lamar
    10. I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside - Earl Sweatshirt
    11. JESUS IS KING - Kanye West
    12. Summertime '06 - Vince Staples
    13. 3.15.20 - Childish Gambino
    14. KOD - J. Cole
    15. System of a Down - System of a Down

    Honorable Mentions: 17 (XXX), The Moon & Antartica (Modest Mouse), Toxicity (SOAD), Cilvia Demo (Rashad), Back to the Woods (Angel Haze), Feet of Clay (Earl), ye (Kanye), iridescence (BROCKHAMPTON), S16 (Woodkid), Age of Empire 2 OST, Is This Beauty? (Fukkit), Big Fish Theory (Vince), untitled unmastered (Kendrick), 2022 VOL 1 & 2 (WILLIE G), Iron (Woodkid)

    My ranking can be fickle sometimes, but my top 15 roughly stays the same

    I slept hard on JESUS IS KING for, perhaps, some obvious reasons, but I heard it at work and its actually so good, some wince parts nonwithstanding but that’s life.

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          I’m sorry, I don’t remember it! It wouldn’t be making fun of you, though! You’re neat!

          I really liked “I Don’t Like Shit…”, so I probably said something about that!

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      Great list btw, Kendrick is a legend. I was a huge Kanye fan when I was younger and sorta listened to him less and less after his Trump turn, I completely skipped Jesus Is King bc it seemed like he was focusing too much on religion, I miss his old stuff, like anything from Life of Pablo all the way back to when he performed in ‘03 on Chappelle’s Show, but Donda had some amazing tracks here and there

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        Agreed mostly, I will say if you can tolerate the more opaque Christianity and some mildly uncomfortable moments (which is bog standard Kanye IMO) Jesus is King is actually a really good album too, I slept on it but someone played some at work and was like oh what’s this from??

        TYSM!!

        Kendrick is indeed obvious GOAT material 👑✅️ I plan to relisten to Mr. Morale soon.

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          Shoutout to XXXtentacion, his ? Album was legendary and Skins nearly made me cry a few times. Absolutely spectacular album that really made you feel the loss of his presence. And before anyone tries to catch me slipping, yes he was an awful person in his personal life, but the music he made resonated with a lot of people. I guess it gets into an Art vs Artist argument which I fully admit I am not principled or consistent on. I love some movies and albums and near nothing can make me dislike those songs. I’ve heard that Ace of Base is slightly Fascist leaning (idk if that’s true) but I love “The Sign”

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            I think it’s just yet another case of “hurt people hurt people”, the key takeaway to me is that he was young, traumatized, clearly was tortured by his actions, and made substantial steps to taking responsibility and radically changing his behavior and his life by the time ? came out. And THAT is why he is my favorite artist.

            I don’t discount his older stuff either, when he was in the middle committing such widespread violence and regularly gloating about it, because the pain is still quite clear. I think he always had a big heart and I know how pain makes us double down and do awful things, both I and many many people in my personal life have been warped by their pain and “passed the buck” so to speak. The difference is, is someone like him actually changed, no small feat, quite rare, dare I say inspiring.

            That said though I understand pre-empting, people just assume you love women beaters for liking X (completely discounting all the men he beat and stabbed but okay). I also have some music etc. that I like that is made but much more unambiguously awful people who have NOT changed and WILL NOT change. I try to just love people and not judge them for their ugliest–I would kill a fascist in battle and know it is necessary and even just, but I could not look them in the eyes without seeing the hurt child inside them. I love my dad even though he is greatly warped, I try to be friends with my coworkers and stand against their Andrew Tate brainpoison as a friend and not as an enemy, etc.

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              And as selfish as it sounds to say, XXXtentacion’s violent music went so fucking hard. Like that shit makes Chief Keef’s Earned It sound like Easy Listening music for the elderly.

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      IDLSIDGO is amazing, I remember that was my go-to album right after it came out for like a year, when I was also not liking shit and not going outside

      Also it’s great to see someone mention Father, I was a huge fan of the Awful Records stuff back in the day, although tbh I haven’t kept up with them much lately, I’ll need to check that album out

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    Slowdive self-titled is perfect. Isaiah Rashad’s Cilvia Demo. OM’s Conference of the Birds.

    I can sing every word of Songs: Ohia - Magnolia Electric Company. If you think you’re not into country, give that album a listen.

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    my favs
    • La Dispute - Rooms of the House
    • La Dispute - Wildlife
    • La Dispute - Somewhere at the Bottom of the River Between Vega and Altair
    • La Dispute - Panorama
    • Touché Amoré - Stage Four
    • Touché Amoré - Is Survived By
    • La Dispute & Touché Amoré split - Searching for a Pulse/ The Worth of the World
    • Paramore - After Laughter
    • Turnover - Blue Dream
    • Turnover - Peripheral Vision
    • Hot Mulligan - you’ll be fine
    • Hot Mulligan - Why Would I Watch
    • The Wonder Years - Sister Cities
    • The Wonder Years - No Closer to Heaven
    • FEVER 333 - WRONG GENERATION
    • Marcel Cartier / Agent of Change - Invent the Future

    Mostly depressed midwest white boy shit. Love it all tho.

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    Achievement by PilotRedSun

    His music channel though is PilotRedSky so it’s interesting that he put Achievement on his animation channel. He’s more active musically nowadays.