dont tiktokify my artist PLEASE!!

 

miraidempa is some fucking peak man ill tell you tell you that. so i first heard this song in a clipdump by nenwhy (thank you nenwhy) called those who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and those ..... it goes on for a while. but it was really fucking good. and i had to listen to the whole rest of the album as well and it was also pretty good. this is definitely the best song on there but its fairly solid in general, if a little basic at times. simple chord progressions and song structures can get you a long way when you have the aura and hype moments that this record has. some prime japanese alt rock that TIKTOK IS DISCOVERING FOR SOME REASON RED ALERT PLEASE DONT LET THIS HAPPEN!!!! i am powerless to stop my niche fav artist from being gentrified. regardless though, if anyone deserves it, miraidempa does. some really fun high energy stuff that borderline brings my ears to a climax at times. the opening track and once upon a time at the sumida river are the highlights for me. 

maybe definitely

 

so you know i had to go and listen to their first album as well. ill be honest, theres one song on here that gave me the faith to listen to oasis in the first place and thats supersonic. this shit was in my head for like a solid week whether i was listening to it or just hearing it in my mind. that song alone carries this album above morning glory, but there are some other great songs on here like the opener, rock n roll star. digsys dinner is one of the deeper cuts that im a big fan of as well. that chugging guitar riff reminds me of this one song, do right by jimmys chicken shack, and ive always loved that one so i guess i was bound to love this one as well. yeah overall both this and morning glory are 90s rock classics i just prefer supersonic to any other oasis song theyve ever made

whats the story

 

mic the snare recently released a new installment of his deep discog dive series, and this time it was on oasis. these vids almost always get me to listen to some of the subject's discography, and this time was no different. so how did i like whats the story morning glory? the answer is i liked it quite a bit. mic referred to it as an answer to the darker grunge sound at the time and i think thats a really good way of putting it: its happier sounding but still loud and abrasive. as i like to put it: its like if the beatles actually sounded good. that is tongue and cheek from me but i do also kinda mean it, part of the reason i dont actively go out of my way to listen to the beatles is because i dont find their actual sound appealing, as good as the songwriting obviously is. oasis for me is a more accessible version of that quality songwriting and it oozes through every song here. i especially love some might say, champagne supernova, and hey now, and of course the all time classics like wonderwall and dont look back in anger are still as good as they always will be. all that being said, the album overall isn't quite for me, and while ill definitely come back to some of the songs on it, the album as a whole package just doesnt really fit what im looking for in music generally. 

7/15 i can feel the bladee taking over

 im supposed to be listening to as much new music as possible this summer but i wont lie ive just been spamming bladee recently. i listen to bladee at least once a day usually because hes on all of my playlists pretty much, and sometimes ill take a day where i basically just only listen to bladee the entire time. but this is the first time in a bit where ive been listening to basically only bladee/drain gang for the last couple of days. in honor of this, i think im going to make a tierlist of all the bladee albums that ive heard. not right now though cuz im at work. but in the future it will be coming 

new pierre

 

definition of a 7/10. mostly liked the songs, but very few stood out to be as like "wow this shit is really good." that being said, there were a couple that i did really like, like bon appetite and violette, the latter of which has some really fun production on it that made it really enjoyable. this sound i think is where pierre is at his best, with that bouncy and bassy sound that just makes you bob your head involuntarily to the beat. but yeah, im honestly struggling to remember too much else about this album, it just was perfectly fine with only a couple standouts that ill probably be returning to. definitely good if you like pierres production style though

ghoul intentions

 

Just listened to the EP because I’m a big fan of a lot of Glocca Morras other stuff, especially Y’all Boots Hats (die angry), which is one of my favorite midwest emo songs of all time. I had heard a couple songs off this one and I knew it was gonna be much more hardcore punk sounding than midwest emo sounding, and this was definitely correct. I still enjoyed it quite a bit though, with its rougher, more intense sound. A lot of these are short and sweet, reminding me a lot of Joyce Manor’s self titled. There are a lot of bangers on here, but the best one has to be Professional Confessional. “Why do you skip through the parts you don’t like/that is the wrong way to live your life” is something that has stuck with me ever since I first heard this song. I also liked little man, railing, and support my head. 

comin out of the zuu

  

nowadays, I think Denzel is generally revered as one of the best hip hop artists in the modern era, with Melt My Eyez See Your Future solidifying that he could not only drop some quality songs but also be insightful and introspective in those songs as well. Knowing that, I was kinda disappointed upon listening to ZUU. I had heard Ricky off of it, and I liked it quite a bit, but I was expecting more from the album. Instead, it sounded kinda uninspired. Really basic sounding beats and boring bars about standard rap fare topics. Good flows to be found for sure, but nothing that made up for that lack of depth in my opinion. Luckily, it was quite short, so I didn’t have to listen to it for that long. However, that length reminded me of another Denzel Project that I hadn’t heard in a while, UNLOCKED. 

 

Holy SHIT, UNLOCKED is maybe 10 times better and more refreshing. Yeah, we aren’t getting the introspective journey that we would end up getting on MMESYF, but this time that IS made up for by some of the tightest, most refined hip-hop ive seen put together. Getting Kenny Beats on a Denzel project should’ve been a no-brainer as the two pair so well together. Kenny’s off the wall creative production and denzel’s interesting and satisfying flows are the gift that keeps on giving. The album is only like 20 minutes long but it packs so much more into that 20 minutes than some hour long records do. Every time i go back and relisten to this album i catch something new and i appreciate the effort behind every second of these songs. One of the coolest projects of the 2020s that i think gets overlooked a bit due to how good MME is.  

floral green

 

this is an album i shouldve gotten to a long time ago. I’ve listened to some of the songs on here to death while not having heard some of the other ones at all. Consequently, this was a weird listen all the way through, but that’s not the fault of the album at all, which is great. Between this and Shed, Title Fight has one of the best back to back album releases of our time. The way they’re able to blend the intensity of their hardcore roots with the emotion and listlessness of contemporary midwest emo acts at the time makes for a one of a kind band, in my opinion. No other band does it as well, and no other album does it as well as Floral Green does. Head in the Ceiling Fan is the prime example of this: raw and loud, but simultaneously vulnerable and tender. Many other songs on this record also do this really well though (Frown has always been one of my favorites). I think Title Fight might be in the conversation for one of my favorite bands of all time at this point, they deliver emotion in the exact way I want out of my music. 

listening to music

 ive been enjoying my new playlist quite a bit but i think some of the songs on there are starting to get a bit dull. and this is basically something that happens every single time i try to make a playlist. yknow, for a long time i just had one big playlist with like 4000 songs on it. no specific playlists for certain moods, just one big playlist to rule them all.

the problem is that after a while, the songs added at the beginning of the playlist start to get super stale to the point of unlistenability. i mean, i have songs on here that i added in like 2018, which is seven god damn years ago at this point. if i was listening to this consistently across those seven years, those songs would be beyond old. 

so i made a new playlist a few months ago near the beginning of the year, and its been serving me well for the most part but i cant help but notice that it gets a bit stale itself a lot of the time. i like the idea of not having playlists for certain moods and really just having one big masterplaylist with all the songs i like on there, but if it lasts for any longer than a couple months i start to get really bored of a lot of the songs added near the beginning. 

 

im thinking about potentially instantiating another playlist. all the songs have to be new. theres no adding songs from either my big playlist or my recent smaller playlist, thats not allowed.  i also might consider making a new one of these every couple of months, just so that it stays fresh. i like this idea because its gonna force me to discover more music instead of just spamming stuff i already know i like, which is a goal of mine. i feel like this might be a problem a lot of people relate to, especially if you listen to a lot of music. you sorta just squeeze all the dopamine out of a song and move onto the next one. im gonna try and avoid this and instead focus more of my music listening efforts on discovering more stuff. theres a good video i saw recently about ways to discover music without the spotify algorithm that im gonna try and take the advice of.