The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

Whiteout75 said:
I’ve almost forgot that I also really enjoyed those first Kings of Leon albums. They’re so associated with that dreadful Sex on Fire-song now though.
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I don’t mind that album, that song was okay for me but definitely suffered a rare “I could live my life with never hearing it again” amount of airplay for me. After that though… they seemed to make albums of the same mid level. I checked my last.fm and it looks like I listened to the new album a couple of times when it came out. I must have liked it a good bit better than the few before it but not enough to return to it since.

There’s just a raw earnestness to this album that I dig.

Interesting that Kings of Leon made the list twice.
 
Nee Lewman said:
10/1/24
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Lorde - Melodrama



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Melodrama - Lorde | Album | AllMusic

Melodrama by Lorde released in 2017. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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This is my favorite of her albums. I recently sold off the deluxe edition as part of my recent purge it was going for over a $100 on the secondary market. I might pick up a standard press at some point, it’s an excellent pop record.
 
Nee Lewman said:
10/1/24
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Lorde - Melodrama



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Melodrama - Lorde | Album | AllMusic

Melodrama by Lorde released in 2017. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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One of best pop records in the last decade.

Lorde's absolute ceiling of a brilliant, young artist who broke the dull, repetitive discourse surrounding mainstream music of the early 2010s. Melodrama is full of these songs that are always threatening to become these huge, overblown synthpop anthems, but they almost never break the surface...almost as if the music is engaging in fight-or-flight mode. It all culminates towards self-introspection at the closer "Perfect Places," with Lorde positing "...what the fuck are perfect places, anyway?," resolving like the season finale of a TV series. In the emotionally draining trek from "Green Light" to then, Lorde realizes the idealistic search for a higher somewhere is a foolish effort. This perfect place does not exist and that’s fine with her.

Even if she never releases another record even close to this tier, her impact on popular music still resonates.

Rating: 4/5 [Excellent]
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Antonoff with Lorde and/or Lana Del Ray is the best Antonoff.
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I haven’t listened to Lorde is the problem with not knowing I liked this. I have listened to Lana and she just rubs me the wrong way. I will admit that she does work better with Antonoff than not. I find her just okay. Not gonna turn it off if it comes on and every once in a while a song hits me just right but every album feels like a slog.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I haven’t listened to Lorde is the problem with not knowing I liked this. I have listened to Lana and she just rubs me the wrong way. I will admit that she does work better with Antonoff than not. I find her just okay. Not gonna turn it off if it comes on and every once in a while a song hits me just right but every album feels like a slog.
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That’s exactly how I feel about Taylor Swift. Well, Taylor doesn’t rub me the wrong way necessarily but from a musical take that’s pretty much how I feel.

I prefer the drama that LDR brings to the music.
 
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