#mu100

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i wanted new music to listen to (since i pretty much just work all day on art/projects and i need background noise) so i decided to try listening through this list of /mu/’s top 100 albums (not that i’m like, a /mu/ user or anything i just liked a lot of albums that were already on the list so i thought it might be a good way to find more artists i’d like). i’m gonna tag my thoughts on each album with #mu100 if anyone like, cares 

so here’s my thoughts on #1: slint-spiderland 

it sucked 

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#5 the beach boys - pet sounds

when I first saw this album, and heard about it, how it was revolutionary and experimental, i got fucking hype. because it was called pet sounds! so that means that theres gonna be animal noises in it! that’s so cool and experimental! and I open it up on spotify and i see the album cover and its the beach boys hanging out with goats. and I’m like holy crap those goats are gonna be in the album!!! like they’re not really pets, like, traditionally but they’re gonna be here and make noise and stuff!!!! nice!!!!!

NO!!!

THERE’S NOT A SINGLE ANIMAL NOISE IN THIS ENTIRE ALBUM!!! IT’S JUST THE SAME SONG LIKE 8 TIMES. there’s not a single meow or moo or bark or ribbit in the whole fucking thing!! the album isn’t evne about animals at all!! and you might be like “oh but maybe thats too much to include in a song” WELL THE THING IS THAT THE BEACH BOYS ALREADY KIND OF DID IT!! 

they have a song named “vega-tables”. you wouldn’t really expect there to be any vegetable related sounds in just one song named vega-tables. but you know what, there is. paul mccartney is credited for chewing celery. and its very loud and disgusting and honestly ruins the entire song. so clearly they had the like, idea to incorporate non-traditional sounds and were able to get a beatle to produce said sounds yet they couldn’t do it for an entire ALBUM named PET SOUNDS???????? 

overall it was pretty okay but not really my thing 

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#3 Aeroplane over the sea-- neutral milk hotel

I had a weird indie phase in middle school, so I was already familiar with neutral milk hotel. I had some songs off of this album, but that was back when you had to manually download shit so the only ones I had was holland 1945 and two headed boy 

it was really good like. ofc. I only found out recently that its apparently about anne frank so the songs that made me like, normal sad made me super super sad now that I know what they meant. 

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#2 in the court of the crimson king- king crimson

this album is good and everyone already knows it including me. i just listened to it again because I like it so much. i wish it was on spotify though 

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Nick Drake - Pink Moon

this was alright. not something i’d play during a car ride but it was nice. 

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#8 talking heads -remain in light

everyone and their mother already knows this album is amazing i don’t have to say anything about it 

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#7 radiohead-kid A

it was alright i guess i don’t know if radiohead is really for me lol 

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#6 The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico

it was alright i guess