2025 in 2025: Day 123

The Masterplan - Oasis

I used to find the record label spiel about these dudes doing I am the Walrus live so dishonest; they would always brag about how "The Beatles never attempted to play it live" and I am like, sure - because they quit playing live before they had even written the song, so they never had the chance. Some of these songs are very good, and some are vey much deserving of just being a b-side. And there were so many better songs left off that LOGMAN had to make his own compilation of them.

Highlights: Acquiesce, Talk Tonight, Stay Young, The Masterplan

7.5/10

Mata Leão - Biohazard

It was a shame to drop an awesome guitarist, but it did mean that just being a trio these dudes churned out a fast and furious hardcore piece of awesome. This is just the most no-nonsense album they ever made. And I think I stole some of the liner notes from this album to pad out the credits of The Return of the Mystery Monks of the Shaolin Temple.

Highlights: Authority, Modern Democracy, Control, In Vain

8/10

Matangi - M.I.A.

Well, this album is... crazy? At least, it starts out fairly weird and then slowly gains some sense of normality. And then back to the crazy. M.I.A. sure likes to shout out of tune.

Highlights: Exodus, Bad Girls

5.5/10

The Matrix: Music From the Motion Picture - Various Artists

Well, I used to have this album, but then I ditched it and only kept Rob D's Clubbed to Death. Because it is a very mean beat. I do not think the rest of the album was worth it.

8/10

MAXIDENT - Stray Kids

These guys are such a conundrum; MASSIVE beats and generally very hooky-hooks, but then they love making silly noises and having sections that just have zero flow. When they do it right, they really do it right.

Highlights: CASE 143, CHILL, TASTE, Can't Stop

7.5/10

Maybe You've Been Brainwashed Too - Иew Radicals

No surprises, I only have one song. But it is not You Get What You Give - surprise! It is, of course, Someday We'll Know. Great song. One day I might check out the full album.

8/10

Measure of a Man - Clay Aiken

This is all very harmless mature pop music. Which is probably quite a waste of a singer like Clay Aiken.

Highlights: Invisible, Run to Me, I Survived You, Measure of a Man

6.5/10

The Meat Won't Listen - WereWolph

14 songs. 7 minutes. And 2 songs make up half of that time. The covers are hilarious - even when he covers himself - but some of this is very much not metal. DRA fails, yet again!

Highlights: I would like a full cover of Creed's Higher

4/10

Mechanical Advantage (The Covers EP) - Robot Goes Here

Absolutely hilarious low budget electro covers or rock and punk songs. The programmed vocals on Back in Black are amazing.

Highlights: Back in Black, The Trooper, Live in the Van

5.5/10

megaphonic - YUKI

YUKI finally embracing just being the artpop queen she always had inside her. With a little bit of pop-rock thrown in. Really solid album all around

Highlights: 鳴いてる怪獣, 相思相愛, Hello!, マイ・プライヴェート・アイダホ

8/10

"Albums" listened to so far: 1080

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2025 in 2025: Day 71

Feast on Scraps - Alanis Morissette

This is a bunch of outtakes from the Under Rug Swept sessions. They are kind of good; fairly typical of the time, but certainly there is a reason they did not make the cut for the album.

Highlights: Fear of Bliss, Sister Blister, Offer, Unprodigal Daughter

7/10

February Son - Oleander

This is only the song I Walk Alone. Which is super awesome and I have no idea why I have never heard any other songs from this album or by this band.

10/10

Feel gHood Muzik : The 8th Wonder - Drunken Tiger

How do I have so much more Korean hip-hop than Japanese? And I have quite a bit of this dude. Especially considering this is a double-album. The lyrics in English are... bad. I am not exaggerating; lines like "A little bump'n grind is fine so long as I don't pee on you". And there are a whole lot of references to American hip-hop songs - sometimes it is pretty silly. Otherwise, this album is surprisingly groovy and I really dig it! Also points for a shoutout to JMJ.

Highlights: Rebel Music, Partner, Feel Good Music, Don't Cry, Guitar Missing the 6th String

7/10

Feel Inside (And Stuff Like That) [Single] - Flight of the Conchords

New Zealand's answer to Band Aid and USA For Africa. Except a million times more hilarious.

8/10

Feel the Laser - WereWolph

Best metal opening riff possible. Did he say margarine is haunting a school?? I don't think this dude should be mocking Ben Affleck and Matt Damon - they still have careers! This is mostly terrible, but also mostly quite fun?

Highlights: Evil Weekend, Dead People Unite and Take Over, Pink is NOT Your Color

5/10

Fever - Kylie Minogue

This has got to be one of Kylie's most solid albums; the pure pop disco of this thing is just off the hook! Pretty sure kids still say that these days. Also, let's be real - hottest album cover of all time.

Highlights: Love at First Sight, Can't Get You Out of My Head, Give It To Me, Love Affair, Your Love

8/10

Fight the Tide - Sanctus Real

Christian emo. It was really big with Christians in the mid-00s. Might be still? Some of it is still not too bad; if you ignore they singing undying love for a zombie and telling you how to be better person, then it is all good.

Highlights: Everything About You, The Fight Song, Alone

5/10

Fille! Fille! Fille! - 南波志帆

It is 1967. You are sitting in a bar in Hiroshima, smoking and drinking a strong beverage. Except it is 2018 and you do none of those things, but the soundtrack is the same. Except dreamier.

Highlights: Fille! Fille! Fille!, テリトリー

6/10

"Albums" listened to so far: 566

Random Thoughts from a Ryan Adams Marathon: Day 7

Time for the insanity that is the website exclusive 'artists'...
(Feel free to ask for an explanation)

Sad Dracula

* Let It B-Minus is quite good. Very 'Replacements' style and decent quick little tracks.

* Fasterpiece is even better. Like, a really cool album

Ghetto Birds

* The Dunes is bizarre... like, I don't even know what this was supposed to be. Bizarre song titles, vocals I can barely hear or distinguish, lots of acoustic guitar. Kinda dreamy? But not in the Jason Priestley way.

Were Wolph

* The Meat Won't Listen is kind of metal. Metal mixed with hilarity. Like songs called Skeletons are Basically Awesome as Hell. I think that sums this up nicely.

* Feel the Lazer is even better. Evil Weekend is legit awesome and the great ballad Dead People Unite and Take Over is... great? Also of note is Ben & Matt - an ode to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. Pink is Not Your Colour contains possibly the greatest metal lyrics of all time: "Just like Nostradamus/Only drunk and can't tell the future"

Rhoda Ro

* Khaki Time Portal is what you expect from a muppet and a cat making music on Garageband and being processed through a 15 watt guitar amp

Warren Peace

* War & Peace is another really good album. Fire & Ice is actually one of my most played songs in iTunes. Possibly due to the fact that my iTunes library now only dates back to late last year... but whatever.

DJ Reggie

* A Reginald Gangster is a fine collection of world-class hip-hop tracks. And by world-class, I mean incredibly ridiculous. I think instead of picking out songs I may just single out great lyrics, like "I'm the best motherfucker to talk about rabies"

* Holla Dayz Inn is more of the same. Except more songs end with "DJ Reggie 2006" and we get some philosophical discussion on the holiday experiences of a robot (who is then chased by a bongo player)?

* Song Destroyer has a great song about Moonlighting. Yes, 80s TV show Moonlighting.

* 4:20/20 is... well... almost exactly the same as the previous albums. Except I am yet to find a single track that interests me at all. Seriously, there is only so much entertainment the same strings samples and beats loops can provide when mixed with distorted vocals. Though at least there is a song about Star Wars on this one. Called Autumn in New York. Yup, that is how much sense this all makes.

* East Side Story is admittedly quite enjoyable. Mainly for great tracks like Return of the Ninja, which is just a quick half-review of a movie called Return of the Ninja. Plus Shake Your Dictionary and Kick Em in the Dungeon. Line of the album = "Last time it was thesaurus time I fell off my Brontosaurus tryin' to rhyme"

* Snapz the Clown brings back the unlistenable noises. By Prime, I think my ears are going to hate me forever for this.

* 1980 x 1000 is better. Again, fun songs about dinosaurs, Dracula and wooden underwear. I Am Alone is probably the most hilarious DJ Reggie song of them all - I can't even begin to list the humorous lyrics. Though I was particularly fond of the following from Bugs:"I had a bad day part 2, which means I had a bad day tomorrow"

* Hip-Hop Breaker - wait, this isn't over yet??? By Prime, DJ Reggie just won't leave me alone!

The Shit

* The Shit was super quick. And just silly hillbilly songs that lasted like a minute each.

* This Is Shit is the first just straight up punk album. It is reletively fun. The Chuck Norris intros make for a bit of interestingness. Oh wait, HERE COME THE ROOSTER CALLS! Rats is damn fucking cool. YAY THE SHIT!

* Hillbilly Joel is more hillbilly nonsense and introduces us to David Livingstone. MORE ROOSTERS!!! Good times

* General Ulysses S. Hospital is a nice mix of weird noises and punk rock and insanity. GRIM REAPER SANDWICH SHOP!!! Buddah VS Jesus is one of the most important songs in rock'n roll history...

* Holy Shit is a good mix of religious music... laced with references to King Kong and Tim Robbins. Makes me want to go to Bible School with my big gun. Oh shit - JIMMY HACKEYSACK!!!

* Christmas Apocalypse part 2 is possibly the most nuts of them all. From Trent Reznor's xmas tale, to Jacque Cousteau battling Jimmy Hackeysack, this is just mayhem and hilarity in a big xmas ball. WHISTLES!!! "Can I borrow a millionty bucks?" A lot of punching in the nuts going on at xmas time... Something tells me his math is quite off in this album as well.

* ...Hits The Fan is back to hard out crazy punk rock with crazy lyrics, lots of whistles and roosters. Probably some punching in the nuts as well I may have missed.

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