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Tom Waits. that's what i'd call Tom Waits.

i find the lyrics and the deliveries of the early albums a bit too...saccharine and schmaltzy for lack of a better word; i might extend that to include Too Late For Everything and some of Cowboys...

i assume these are all the track titles for the new one:

#SmellsLikeSunshine #RadioWaves #WaitingOnTheWonderful #PunchingAtoms #WaterInOurHands #HighToSayGoodbye #BouldersOnHills #TimeHasNoPlace
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well, there is always that hope.

still unfortunate if you ask me, but you didn't 😬

shrug. a lead singer that borderline sounds like Michael Jackson or Claudio Sanchez on his worst days, a brass section that just has overt zero-space-and-feel flourishes, with breakneck tempos,...

i hate the vocals. the music is just by the numbers to me; bland and safe.

these did the most for me i miiiight say? hard to limit this:

The Mars Volta - s/t
Gang of Youths - Angel In Real Time
black midi - Hellfire
Bjork - Fossora or Marillion - An Hour Before It's...

may ____ have mercy on ye if you listen to Wilson's podcast.

missing Hoodoo, Fairy Dust, Banshee Bells, Lock & Key, and Drumzilla. ��

If this is a fish for throwing an i don't get it in the ring i cast my ballot. i did like Vulnicura in bits but since Utopia...it's a struggle. i haven't heard this one all the way through yet...

i'm avoiding the clips (but already know the setlist)...there's no pleasing these fans honestly (complaints that there wasn't enough new material, complaints that there wasn't enough old material, no...

oh i'm there...more or less front row after pit section...but i mean boo hoo for me with my personal cuts not making it.

tbh not digging the set...and only 5/21 of my personal favorites are on the list but what are you gonna do? will keep checking in for rotations.

While i mostly agree there's nothing new here. i think he may have been referring to the means more...how they were written or what was new therein. Walk The Plank for example is just keyboards and...

Is there a test? Do i need to write reviews? Music is either i like it or i don't. i have a job where i can be remote and barely do anything all day. my lists don't only extend to music.

yeah, i mean, none of these would be mentioned otherwise.

not including July thus far:

The Weeknd - Dawn FM
Black Country, New Road - Ants From Up There
Our Lady Peace - Spiritual Machines 2
Jethro Tull - The Zealot Gene
Eels - Extreme Withcraft...

Seriously? maybe i'll go back to it but it struck me as not having a lot of space or room to breathe.

i just get enough of that overplaying stuff in DT and that gets old pretty fast. again it's not bad, but i prefer the first and this one over it.

i think it's a good return to form. their last album kind of lost me where it didn't really have a lot of structure or good arrangements and it was monotonous. some songs i liked (A Void through...

tbh i find it a disappointment. the only songs i think work or are new is some of Rats Return, Herd Culling, Walk The Plank, and Chimera's Wreck's brush work. Dignity's main riff reminds me of Rush's...

been waiting for this. but, i still haven't heard the single. i won't listen to it either...after being disappointed with these two PT tracks...i'm going to hold out until i have the full album.

Glad i'm not alone in still thinking this album mostly just doesn't sound good...i like all the songs now at this point.

On Sierra Leone: i take the lyrics to just be about a guy who finds a...

i mean H is a bit older..? since last time but honestly not that drastically so...maybe they just wanted to do things differently. going back to FEAR yesterday i actually do think this is a stronger...

It's grown on me but i still think the mix/mastering/whatever is really not good.

Existential Reckoning came out last year but they haven't toured it yet. Just that live offering of it, it'll be like that but a bit different he said. At large Tool don't need him to write any more...

Saw both the NY and NJ shows...glad I did...Tool and King Crimson are bands i've seen in the double digits. Got their entire setlist they rehearsed sans them dropping Undertow one night across those...

RCMH NY. ORCH4, Row CC $250 but whatever. there.

i don't know. they're fine and good, but they've been writing the same albums over and over after Sum of No Evil IMO.

i like it but don't love it as much as the others. Something's kind of off in the production still (i had a worse rip before) and the songs just kind of plod on in this upbeat fashion that doesn't...

i came here to write this too. IMO sort of better than Mel's contribution...

i'm not really a big metal fan so this doesn't do much for me...there's not a lot of instrumentation a la Hubardo so it doesn't warrant the getting through certain sections to hear more diversity.

It's...fine...like everything else he does.

i hate to say this as i know who recorded drums on it but they sound pareeeety bad. not the performance, only the sound.

i...really don't want to go digging through 19 pages...was the band Ghost mentioned and what became of them..? nevermind i see they're done. good post; i know.

Yeah...i'm at the point where i'm in two minds...while i like literally ALL eras of the band, as my friend once put it, "the first four albums don't exactly get me hard." :lol

But like i said, and...

TCOL > TPTB for me. Nothing on TPTB except Facts of Life was new for me when i heard it...wasn't familiar with Response to Stimuli prior...and i often wonder about their decisions re TPTB III as...

Thus far i've enjoyed these...don't care about genre much these days:

Steven Wilson - The Future Bites
Wynton Marsalis - The Democracy! Suite
Sevish - Bubble
Juan Bond - Womb
Merzbow -...

i thought it was the best since Magnification (found everything since to have only sparingly good moments across the discs)...but not high on my list of priorities to return back to.

For the record:

A number of issues arising from the launch of the tour :
Firstly, I understand that the Fox Theater in Atlanta has described this as King Crimson’s “Farewell Tour”. We have never...

Thus far...Aug 22nd (F&F), Aug 26th, Aug 27th, and Sep 9th...all Royal...at those who are on the fence...this might very well be the last chance to see them in the foreseeable future - David...

i thought the doomy/free upright:drum duet and the shorter Osmosis like song were the best parts of it...otherwise good enough with nice grooves and sections here and there that's typical of their...

i think there's one last official KCCC to be issued and new ones will just be of the current band...but otherwise they're just releasing old shows as they find/remaster them.

i'm in the camp of it's fine. nothing more or nothing less. this isn't new, isn't special, isn't a "new direction" for him. there're far better acts to be on and on about. his ego's getting a bit too...

i miiight instead narrow this down to three categories per one album for the year...

"New For Me" Band That Wowed: Neptunian Maximalism - Eons

Old Band That Continues To Do No Wrong: Gazpacho -...

This might interest some of you...i dug it for the most part:
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Are they still on the bill with King Crimson next year?

i fear this might be the album that i jump off from. This concept to me is very lame and badly-imitated-Radiohead-being less-than-cryptic.

Same set? Each go out they've added 2-3 new to old-new songs. While i personally can do without say Court and Epitaph and would like to see soundscapes/more wilder improvs return...all the criticism...

While this isn't a band to rest on any laurels...i'm not a fan of thrash metal so hard pass for me...if they got the full line-up back together, re-imagined all three of the albums and were working...

Yeah...i have an opposite opinion of the two of them...Cedric's better studio and Omar's better live...he completely mangles/forgets/is too stoned to care about the words or his actual performance...

Aside from the porcupine being a literal porcupine toy, (seriously?!) and without being too too graphic re "the tube" i thought he did a really good job with this.

When to if Mars Volta returns i hope it's NOT him drumming.

When he died i found myself just putting all 25+ releases on random...and crying here and there...this morning was a bit of Power Windows and live versions of Bravado.

i'm on the fence with it...while i found some of it catchy, a lot of it i found kind of grating, and garage-band...it's mostly his voice; he sounds like a more raw version of the Everything...

Re Adrian coming back and improving their writing. IMO nothing of his contributions post Crimson have not excited me...see Idiom, Invisible, Gizmodrone, and all the Flux stuff...sorry.

That imminent DVD has been such for about two decades...so...yeah.

Occasionally i still reach for it and them. They'll have a new one out soon yet again!

There's a lot to be said here. MJK is about 55 and he's been seriously impressive this tour considering that and this ridiculous mischievous demon meets Euro-trash Joker meets BJJ/Capoeira persona...