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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #90 on: August 26, 2014, 02:36:03 PM »
Quote from: Hroðulf on August 26, 2014, 06:48:31 AM
I don't mind their new direction, but it sounds too similar to what Wilson is doing.

I certainly noticed elements that seemed to come straight from Wilson's latest solo album, which was another album I really liked. OTOH, I think Akerfeldt has a very distinct writing and composition style that sets them apart even when heavily pulling from outside influences. I also find Opeth to be more interesting and have more staying power...Wilson's stuff tends to get set aside for me after a while, where as I still listen to "Ghost Reveries" (first Opeth album I heard) on a daily basis after several years. To each his own, and I'm a known Akerfeldt fanboy.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #91 on: August 27, 2014, 07:10:32 PM »
Quote from: hans030390 on August 26, 2014, 04:12:45 AM
Quote from: DaveBSC on July 30, 2014, 09:45:11 PM
Quote from: 6 on July 18, 2014, 11:17:22 PM
Opeth Voice Of Treason

DR11. Well done Opeth once again.

HDTracks has a 24/96 copy up now. A very good sounding album (love the music too, though some will feel divided on that).

Yes I saw. Will definitely be grabbing that.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #92 on: November 11, 2014, 05:24:54 PM »
I was going to review the Foo Fighters new album but lost the will to live halfway through listening to it. Instead I bring a melting pot of cool weirdness...


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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #93 on: November 11, 2014, 09:47:44 PM »
If the Foo Fighters let you down, how bad is it? Is it Chris Cornell bad or mainstream Rock (Nickelback!) bad? If it is the latter there still is hope...
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #94 on: November 12, 2014, 02:01:25 AM »
Quote from: 6 on November 11, 2014, 05:24:54 PM
I was going to review the Foo Fighters new album but lost the will to live halfway through listening to it.

I was just thinking of checking it out... perhaps I'll skip it so I can retain my will to live!  Thanks 6.

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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #95 on: November 15, 2014, 09:51:17 AM »
Quote from: Deep Funk on November 11, 2014, 09:47:44 PM
If the Foo Fighters let you down, how bad is it? Is it Chris Cornell bad or mainstream Rock (Nickelback!) bad? If it is the latter there still is hope...

Ok in the interests of fairness, balance and masochism I've listed to the whole album. On the last track now.
Sonic Highways is a well recorded, well performed, anodyne slab of MOR rock. I'm renaming them Fighters Of The Stone Age after listening to tracks like Subterranean.

It's not that it's bad. It's the aural equivalent of being told by your doctor that all your food will now have to be liquidised into a bland pulp. If there's a style of music called Dinner Jazz, then this is Dinner Rock.


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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #96 on: November 16, 2014, 12:27:24 AM »
I gave it a try today... it is quite polite.  FF are in that phase where we'll all say they've lost their edge, and maybe that's true.  This album is pre-approved to be piped into Starbucks.

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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #97 on: November 16, 2014, 12:58:25 AM »
Has anyone lasted through all of the "new" Pink Floyd album, The Endless River? That's just a question, not a review or comment on the album. It's over an hour and only has one song with lyrics. Also, it was recorded in 1993. Might not qualify as new.  :)p8
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #98 on: November 16, 2014, 07:55:51 AM »
Yup I've been listening to it in whole since it was released.  It's not too shabby.  There are definitely filler tracks, but as a whole I like it.  My biggest qualm with it is that a lot of it sounds rehashed...basically like Division Bell (mainly Marooned) and On an Island, with a touch of SOYCD here and there.
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Re: What happened to ROCK!?
« Reply #99 on: November 16, 2014, 07:57:33 AM »
Just finished downloading it...seems a little meh....
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