you should review my own prison easily the best creed album

All I ever Am is my favorite track. Really relate to that song. Great review. My favorite band. My favorite album of 2024… Love the starflyer reviews you did too. They’re up there on my favorites list.

This is THE greatest Christmas album of all time. I'm glad im not the only one who has their cover of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas as the best version. There just arent words to describe the feelings that this song brings to me when I hear it at the start of the Christmas season. This was a spectacular review and I literally everything you said.

Great album and great review. The Lemon Twigs have a serious amount of work ethic and talent. Thanks for a well thought out analysis!

Crazy great album. Tight. Musicality is off the charts. If anything, slightly derivative and I miss some of their Bowie influence but the Melodie’s are catchy as hell

Album of the decade for me...catch them live, they are AWESOME 👌

I’m a huge believer in this album. Great video!

I love this album. I think those that don’t like it just want guitar heavy riffs. This one approach is much more interesting

“Baby Love” was the real stand out on this album

Great video man (awesome quality)! Love Brain and The Beach Boys!! Love this album!

I've listened through this album at work like +20 times at work this December so this video could not come at a better time! One of my favorite Christmas albums of all time. Silent Light/Away in a Manger into I Celebrate the Day just hits so hard. I have it on vinyl as well but mine is a red and green transparent record!

I agree. I’m even more harsh to the album though. I’m actually worried about Brian.

I always wonder why Rio Grande from his first solo album never gets mentioned? I wonder if it's because Landy got him to put Landy's name on the credits.

I love this album. I agree with you on Lucky Old Sun, and imagine if Carl and Dennis were alive for the reunion album.

Do you have record from Asian Kung fu generation

Hey bro, I have the same album what you have I love it and my favorite song is pacific ocean blue

Great review, underrated channel definitely deserves more attention. After having listened to it maybe a dozen times, for me this is their best and more consistent album of the late era, I will place it even over Bloodflowers (and I like that album a lot). I really really liked the work of Simon Gallup on this album, I just can’t get out of my head the images of charcoal, black clouds, starry nights and spacial-moonlike landscapes that this album evokes to me. Btw looking forward to your thoughts on the new Molchat Doma album. That is my top album of the year, has quickly become my favorite from them 🏢

Thanks for the comments and nice scenery! Love the new Opeth record, it's finally starting to gel after several listens.

Unique band Opeth, one of the best of our time

Great album by the Kings of Leon. Period.

Enjoyable overview. Look at his stint as Marlene Dietrich's bandleader/arranger. Also, he studied in Paris with, her name I think is Natalia Boulanger? -Quincy Jones RIP, Astor Piazolla and many others got insight and inspiration from this lady, she instilled a musical path of one's instinctual intent, . Burt Bacharach's long and illustrious career always had signature lasting elements. Thanks for the nice chat.

Releasing such a strong album in the twilight of their career is remarkable, very few of their great peers from the 70s & 80s can measure to that

Agree on comparison to "Disintegration". Those watchers of "South Park" will recall Kyle proclaiming "Disintegration is the best album ever!" in the "Mecha Streisand" episode (1998) featuring Robert Smith. Glad I found this podcast. Love it! Subscribed!

Thumbs up for Slint.

Excellent debut album by three young guys , there’s not a track I dislike , clean guitars beautiful harmonies and individual vocals , love it ❤ a solid 9 from me .

It isn't a VB video if Pet Sounds doesn't make a guest appearance

Nice review. I am not an expert musically or production like you are but I am simple, I love listening to this album, it makes me feel good.

Personally, I know, I know, going against the grain... But I love Green, Black and Make Believe, they be Glorious for me. White is truly Glorious (but agree with the swap outs!) Hard for me to find any redeeming quality to Hurl, it's Death for me. False Metal is a major train wreck of Death. But other then that, totally agree with ya! 😉

Never was a big beach boys fan, but recently dove head first down the rabbit hole and I am eating everything up. Wanted to view a ranking vid to see how my assesment related, and this vid didn't disappoint. Concise and informative, really excellent vid!

You think that album cover is bad just wait till you see the cover for weathered lol

Thank you for the great video! it will help me to save my time in Tokyo!

I discover this band by a algorithm suggestion in youtube by the time of My Island back in 2008, the first video i clicked was I Win, it was hipnotic for me then i started to dig a lot more into their vast discography every album was a different universe by it self now every time i listen something new from Mr Martin it make me enjoy music again. This album means literally Lust for gold for the Starflyer 59 sound

Love the shirt!

Most of my differences with the rankings are that a handful of albums should've (in my opinion) been ranked higher. Very rarely did I think any of these albums should've been ranked lower. So, I guess I'm just more friendly to Beach Boys albums in general as compared to the guy in the clip.

Great comparison between Love You and Pinkerton👌🏻

whats that synthy track playing in the background mate?

Agree 100% about Joe Thomas. I’d love to hear a “Let It Be Naked” treatment of anything he worked on.

Thanks for your excellent review. I came to Starflyer quite by chance. As a 71 yr. old guitarist, I'm always on the lookout for an ecology of relation. These gorgeous guitar centric lines and vocals were a nice surprise.

For me, the magic lies from "All Summer Long" to "Surf's Up". Before and after that stretch, there are good individual songs, but not albums. The whole albums (mostly, except for the comedy recordings) from "All Summer Long" to "Surf's Up" are the albums to own. Then, just pick up the few individual songs outside that period.

You should change the title to YOUR ULTIMATE WEEZER TIER LIST as your list doesn’t define how Weezer real tier list is. Also, Blue and Pinkerton is not the quintessential Weezer album! They are just two of the many amazing albums, and yes, that includes Raditude! Stop pigeon-holing Weezer to Blue and/or Pinkerton because Weezer is way more than those two albums and Rivers is way more than just an alternative rockstar! Rivers Cuomo is a musical genius who has a genuine love for music regardless of genres. Its 2024 and people should get used to genre-less artist who are more than capable of doing diverse music and artwork. I am very sorry to see people stuck in their high school pants.

I think you oughta reassess the Christmas album and place it in the A tier. Dick Reynolds who worked with the Four Freshman (the group Brian idolized) arranged the 41-piece orchestral backings on the traditional songs to which the Beach Boys would apply their vocals. No smal feat. And Brian's voice on Blue Christmas is ethereal. Some speculated that because he chose to sing it solo that it could have opened a door to a solo career. One of the finest Christmas albums of all time. It was recorded in both mono and stereo. I've never heard the mono version but I'm glad it was available in stereo because I think you'd miss a lot, in the same way you miss a lot in Pet Sounds while listening to it in mono (even though I prefer the mono version over the stereo remaster -- both have their own merit). The Christmas album was the last true stereo release (during the time if its release as opposed to a remaster) until the album Friends

my favorite album of the year!

Very thoughtful ranking of their eclectic spectrum of work.

I personally would have reversed your rankings for EWBAITE and White. I thought the low tracks on White were better than the low tracks on EWBAITE. For me, those are Summer Elaine and Drunk Dory and Thank God for Girls on White and Lonely Girl and Eulogy for a Rock Band on EWBAITE. As for my favorite Weezer tracks, in no particular order it's: My Name is Jonas, L.A. Girlz, Possibilities, You Won't Get With Me Tonight (Crushing Version), Holiday, Unspoken, and High as a Kite are all really good!

nice love weezer

You guys put a lot of work in this one! A labor of love, no doubt.

Starflyer 59's very BEST album! I love how it simultaneously grows OUT OF the Gold-vibe, while showing a depth of growth as a writer & arranger. This is probably my favorite album from '24!

Great review! I’ve been a fan since 2003’s Old LP. This 62 yr old can get enough of the blistering guitars on My Lungs!

U should review Revolver!

I agree with most of your rankings, but I would move So Tough, Love You, and L.A. to "C", drop MIU TO "D", and possibly move TWGMR to "B", simply for the fact that they got it done and Brian can still write great tunes!