What Are You Listening To?

#903 on RYM


Twelve minutes into the opening track which appears to be 60 minutes long…not sure I can withstand much more as my head is turning into a pulp

lol did you not know what this album was before buying it?

Obviously not!

That's so funny.  I'll take it off your hands.

nkotb wrote:
lol did you not know what this album was before buying it?

lifted from allmusic

Dopesmoker is at once an instant doom metal classic – some might even say a masterpiece – as well as an impossibly dense, nearly impenetrable listening experience for unprepared fans (just to give you an idea, the first vocals only arrive 16 minutes in)

Hutch=unprepared fan

what skeptical listeners must take into account here is that "Dopesmoker" is in fact a single song, not a series of song snippets stitched together progressive rock style. As such, this initially daunting edifice of snarling riffage requires quite a bit more patience and dedicated sampling before its secrets are unlocked and its riddles unraveled, but therein lies the crux of what is ultimately a very rewarding experience.



the band disbanded over this album and desire to keep it 1 60 min track
originally slated to follow closely behind their second album of a decade earlier, the landmark Sleep's Holy Mountain, it lingered in unreleased limbo instead – the subject of a vicious legal dispute between the Northern California trio and their record company, London, which refused to release Dopesmoker as delivered by the band – that is, a single, 60-minute-long song! The impasse eventually led to the stubborn band's ignominious dissolution circa 1997 rather than conform to the label's demands,


I love the moods/themes of this
Moods
Epic
Brooding
Dramatic
Eerie
Intense
Paranoid
Suffocating
Tough
Gloomy
Nihilistic
Aggressive
Bleak
Cathartic
Druggy
Ominous
Somber
Visceral
Malevolent
Menacing
Themes
Scary Music
Guys Night Out
Late Night
Nighttime

I also would take that record off your hands if you want to part with it and give it to someone who has contributed a bit more to this community than Star Wars Bernie Boy.

Julian, wrote:
I also would take that record off your hands if you want to part with it and give it to someone who has contributed a bit more to this community than Star Wars Bernie Boy.

Ahem.

grateful wrote:

Julian, wrote:
I also would take that record off your hands if you want to part with it and give it to someone who has contributed a bit more to this community than Star Wars Bernie Boy.

Ahem.

You forgot to post this from the NKOTB account.

Oh sorry it’s a cd

hutch wrote:
Oh sorry it’s a cd

*spits*

The D4 - 6Twenty

The only thing that would make their very brief brand of raucous rock and roll better is if they Welsh instead of Aussie  :P

Took me a while to open this up and wasn’t expecting much but this is a really interesting project marrying Philly hip hop with Mississippi delta blues. A natural culmination of G Love’s hip hop blues.

Some names on this: Luther Dickinson (producer), Chuck Treece, Schoolly D, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Speech plus a bunch of others

Time for me to catch him live…again…been too long…I thought he was playing around here but now don’t see anything

Looks like I just missed him in Baltimore

Finally added this to my collection

My favorite of their EPs. Brilliant.

2001:A Space Odyssey
Phish

grateful wrote:
2001:A Space Odyssey
Phish

Not familiar

hutch wrote:

My favorite of their EPs. Brilliant.

I support this take

I note the Daft Punk is $49.99 not $69.99 like Ween’s Chocolate and Cheese 3 LP reissue.

New Fontaines DC. Little too polished for my tastes but not bad.