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Topic	NFUN Ranks User-Nominated Albums
NFUN 09/10/21 6:49:09 PM #74:	Toxtricity posted... Derek Sherinian - Planet X https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7frFP-md1I8yqJv4oYojJieI could pick something else but leaning toward this right now WHOA that synth is cool. One minute in the first song and I can tell this will be the album to beat... eh, it gets a bit too meandery after that. I was never super into prog that is "opaque" or that feels purposeless, like over-nove. In the "List of Silly Things I Have Objected To" this ranking, that complaint is definitely the most benign. Track is solid outside of those sections, of course. As much as I like the album, it blurs together a bit. Maybe that's a risk albums that I enjoy run that albums I don't have some protection from, since I can more easily uncritically listen with pleasure without being distracted back into focusing by something that through me off (an effect that probably boosted Alter Ego, though I think this album is pretty self-consistent regardless). I think it being an instrumental prog album plays a role in this. Prog melodies by their nature are usually pretty hard to follow and are "uncatchy". Vocals trend towards the opposite, and even when consciously trying to keep music complex and having vocals alongside odd times or weird chords (#tool), it just being singing makes it more memorable (or easy to remember, rather). This album seems structured like a vocal album but without vocals, so something feels missing even if vocals were never intended for the tracks, and where I might expect there to be variety in the singing styles and constructions between different songs, it comes out to be more homogenous. Compare this with the aforementioned From the Gallery of Sleep by Night Verses, which is definitely built to provide a vocal-less and variegated experience (even ignoring the samples), or a vgm soundtrack, which generally show different moods for different contexts. Still, purely speaking of terms of how much pleasure I got from listening, pretty high up there. Definitely will need to check out Planet X and maybe I'll finally listen to Dream Theater... I tried looking up Snuff, because I remember having issues with it (probably thought it was too directionless), and all of the results are now some guy's bass cover portrayed ingenuously as official. nice ...is there another Crab Nebula I should know about? Score: his name looks Armenian and they're good at rock/10 Favorite song: Crab Nebulae or Space Martini or Prunei Babylon --- Kneel... or you will be knelt <cite>NFUN posted [p:957928364] in NFUN Ranks... [t:79645768]...</cite> <quote>Toxtricity posted... </cite> <quote>Derek Sherinian - Planet X https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8a8cutYP7frFP-md1I8yqJv4oYojJieI could pick something else but leaning toward this right now</quote>WHOA that synth is cool. One minute in the first song and I can tell this will be the album to beat... eh, it gets a bit too meandery after that. I was never super into prog that is "opaque" or that feels purposeless, like over-nove. In the "List of Silly Things I Have Objected To" this ranking, that complaint is definitely the most benign. Track is solid outside of those sections, of course. As much as I like the album, it blurs together a bit. Maybe that's a risk albums that I enjoy run that albums I don't have some protection from, since I can more easily uncritically listen with pleasure without being distracted back into focusing by something that through me off (an effect that probably boosted Alter Ego, though I think this album is pretty self-consistent regardless). I think it being an instrumental prog album plays a role in this. Prog melodies by their nature are usually pretty hard to follow and are "uncatchy". Vocals trend towards the opposite, and even when consciously trying to keep music complex and having vocals alongside odd times or weird chords (#tool), it just being singing makes it more memorable (or easy to remember, rather). This album seems structured like a vocal album but without vocals, so something feels missing even if vocals were never intended for the tracks, and where I might expect there to be variety in the singing styles and constructions between different songs, it comes out to be more homogenous. Compare this with the aforementioned From the Gallery of Sleep by Night Verses, which is definitely built to provide a vocal-less and variegated experience (even ignoring the samples), or a vgm soundtrack, which generally show different moods for different contexts. Still, purely speaking of terms of how much pleasure I got from listening, pretty high up there. Definitely will need to check out Planet X and maybe I'll finally listen to Dream Theater... I tried looking up Snuff, because I remember having issues with it (probably thought it was too directionless), and all of the results are now some guy's bass cover portrayed ingenuously as official. nice ...is there another Crab Nebula I should know about? Score: his name looks Armenian and they're good at rock/10 Favorite song: Crab Nebulae or Space Martini or Prunei Babylon --- Kneel... or you will be knelt</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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