Reviewing 4chan's Most Infamous Albums - /mu/core

[@itsboundo.]

YES I am aware that some of my score sheets are incorrect. My favorite tracks on MPP are Also Frightened, Bluish, and My Girls.

[@goopgrips354]

filtered

[@hangedman19861]

I very much enjoyed this video! I definitely don't agree with you with everything but great analysis. Will follow you from now on.

[@Descro382]

no love for Summertime Clothes?

[@NovemberXXVII]

With zero direct experience of 4chan, this just looks like Rateyourmusic's charts with all the Metal and Experimental taken out.

[@nobodyburgen4594]

/mu/ was essentially the Heads to RYMs Tails, until eventually RYM massively overtook it in terms of users.

[@edmundtrebus4084]

Yep.

[@pupylver]

the communities are basically one in the same

[@radhinkabagaskara5595]

Bro why do you think the top RYM charts is essentially /mu/core? It's because the users overlaps with each other.

[@curly_wyn]

Good. Metal is just not good or real music. There’s a reason why it’s never on best albums of the year/the decade/all time lists: it doesn’t deserve to be.

[@armegeddon10]

Man I wish there was some way I could hear deeper, longer discussions on Loveless, Spiderland, In The Court of the Crimson King, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, and The Money Store.

[@RustinRobson]

Check out @albumfocus on instagram

[@agdgdgwngo]

There's loads of video essays on Loveless. I even have a book about it.

[@armegeddon10]

@@agdgdgwngo (Boundo and I discussed Loveless and the other albums I listed at length on various podcasts together lol)

[@whatburnsneverreturns]

Unpopular opinion, Spiderland isnt that good. It just sounds like to me like a copy of Adrien Belew era King Crimson so I would rather listen to that instead, overrated album, still sounds nice though.

[@SoupPersonUwU]

King crimson got me back into music. Not due to the music chart, but my Dad's recommendation, but highly recommend to anyone.

[@agdgdgwngo]

@9:15 I'll try and sum some up Loveless since it's my favourite album. It's just sheer guitar pleasure basically, and there is lot of cool stuff hidden under the surface, how the frequencies all overlap and create different tones etc. It's low key incredibly trippy, like it's designed to be listened to in anltered state and it really takes you place if you do. That said, besides the psychedelia of the sound it's very romantice too, it has plenty of hooks. It has the weird quality of being very loud but easy to fall asleep to, it's hyponotic. Then there is the sheer originality, from the glide guitar technique which was totally unique, the use of sampling and how meticulously produced it is and a song like Blown a Wish - which sounds like it's from the future still to this day.

[@agdgdgwngo]

@@dieselbaby right on, Stone Roses is a fantastic album. Bye Bye Badman is sheer perfection. I learnt the bass lines for every song on that album. On a similar pedestal I put Pure Phase by Spiritualized and Heaven or Las Vegas. That was such a great era for music, late 80s early 90s.

[@joseel554]

My cheesy description has always been that it sounds like the dreams you have when you're in love. And it feels like a recurring dream. I don't listen to it all the time but when I come back to it it's in my mind for a while

[@curly_wyn]

Spiderland = The greatest goddamn piece of music that the state of Kentucky has ever done and ever will do.

[@facingthewind]

Shitpilled opinion

[@petrabanjarnahor229]

Yea pretty sure God liked to listen to it before making the big bang.

[@BevIsGuilty]

Knocked Loose’s A Tear In The Fabric Of Life is close though

[@wilatti3450]

Jack harlow better tbh

[@aborikin2764]

Pretty low standard to meet ngl

[@d0ubl3d]

My love for loveless is deeply tied to escapism. While on the surface it’s sonically amazing, compared to other dreampop and shoegaze this is the only album that almost makes me feel high. I get a lot of comfort out of the genuine dreamlike feeling it gives me. All the distortion of the guitars burn and meld their way into my brain+the steady beats of everything feel like the album is just slowly melting the walls around me until I’m left with a peaceful, calm, and empty head. Listening to it on full volume is truly meditative for me. It’s helped me get through a lot. Had a bad day? Well, *DUT DUT DUT DUT* and then just lose myself to the blissful sounds that fill my brain entirely and push all other thoughts out

[@petitbrie9868]

I feel similarly. I used to use music while working to motivate me but it's just impossible with this one. I juste get into the album so much that I just, like you said, escape. Gets my mind empty and I love it for that.

[@mckenna5272]

YES EXACTLY you get it

[@mckenna5272]

this is how i feel about cocteau twins too lmao

[@gnome7806]

I'm right there on you with King Crimson. It's such a forward-thinking, fresh record whose production is so full and realised. But its not just a technical jerk off. All of those incredible musical elements build such strong emotional moments and interesting world building within the album that it still holds resonent to say. Like you said, you'd expect an album as experiment as this is from '69 would be aged as hell but it still feels contemporary and works fantastically even today. Great video!

[@FrenchToasted1995]

i always prefered wake of poseidon

[@insertnamehere1258]

i like it for the sound, sounding very modern, and themes, very progressive for their time, including damning of the Vietnam and politicians, in 21st century schizoid man

[@eliasmg9144]

I prefer red, discipline and larks tongues in aspic much more. I listened to this album around 2019 or 2020 and I thought it was good but not worth going gaga about it. Seeing that it is usually regarded as the best king crimson album, despite being the debut, made me skip the rest their discography for almost 3 years. It wasn't until I listened to red back in 2022 that officially became a kc stan

[@colinburroughs9871]

They got better over time, which is what apparently lot's of people missed if record sales are any indication. Larks, Discipline and Red all top the debut pretty easily frankly.

[@alisonmccue8060]

As the type of dingus who absolutely did cry when they saw Neutral Milk Hotel on their birthday I love this video.

[@-elijahriggs-]

I didn't realize it was tacky to have a touching story, but Aeroplane has a deep place in my heart. I graduated in 1999, but never heard this until 2013. I was turned onto it by a girl that I fell in love with and date for years. I bought her a turntable, pioneer amp and speakers and this was one of the first four albums she bought, She said it was her favorite record and that her ex hated it, but didn't give it a fair shake. It DROPPED MY JAW when I heard it. I couldn't believe how good it was. I asked her if she had ever seen them. She said no. I said lets see if they are on tour. They were (the last tour of the foreseeable future) All tickets sold out so if we wanted to see them it was stub hub , which I had no problem paying whatever it took. We were in NC. They were playing at Ponte concert hall in FL, a place that I absolutely hate. Then I found two tickets, AT RETAIL (25 dollars a piece) in Jackson, MS. We drove 20ish hours round trip and it was worth it. We got into the front row (General admission) and held it. I told her to take up a bit more space when I go smoke, drink or bathroom and I would do the same and people would understand. Front row all night. Amazing show. Later we got ITAOTS (signed by whole band) and Jeff's solo Live at Jittery Joes signed by him. His mom was there that night and his grandmother was passing away at the time. According to the band Grandma was the first person to hear them play ever. I told her lets go by the bus to get the autographs so we don't miss them. I didn't know they were going to the merch booth and signing. I screwed up. I'm good at running into the artists after the show without trying, but I really didn't wanna screw this up. We got all the autographs, but Jeff's. He walked out of a different door and jumped into a car with his family and started to drive away. My heart sank. It wouldn't have been a problem (at the time for me, I had only heard them the first time a month prior, now they mean far more to me), but I felt so bad I lead her astray. That we simply could've waited at the merch booth and got them to sign. The SUV stopped after half a block and reversed and he got out and signed. I can't tell what that meant to me. Not for me, but to me. She got to stand next to him for a moment, though she was anxious and too scared to talk so I had to. I owe him so much for that. I was a hero. I told him I appreciated that he came back. There's obviously way more to the story, but too much to say. I'll never disassociate this record from her and that time of my life. This record in a masterpiece to me.

[@tomwilko7841]

What a strange tale of modern consumerism and beta idolatry

[@borohhh]

@@tomwilko7841 jajajajajaja bruh

[@jkid1134]

All that's missing is "3.5/5" at the bottom

[@frds_skce]

That's so lovely, anon. So, is she still around with you?

[@Treem0re]

@@tomwilko7841 cringe

[@jmckenzie962]

Regarding Loveless, I personally think the title is a bit mystifying because I genuinely don't think I've heard another record that manages to perfectly capture the feeling of being deeply in love. Loveless is the feeling you get when you're _so_ in love with someone it makes you dizzy and physically sick, in album form. From pure euphoria, bliss, dreamyness, and lust, to heartbreak, yearning, and emotional breakdown, Loveless absolutely nails every aspect of love.

[@itsboundo.]

Love this comment. I'm definitely going to talk about this album some day but might I suggest Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished by Animal Collective? Makes me feel exactly like this.

[@paperhouse_3919]

@@itsboundo. same thing with Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, ver 1.28~

[@tastedawaste1367]

It’s called loveless, why would it be about bein in love sounds like they have none 🤨

[@pupylver]

it’s quite literally about a failing relationship and falling out of love bro…… you got that shit completely backwards

[@eater9494]

i completely agree i could never possibly see it as a "loveless" album texting that One person while when you sleep is playing is such a wonderful and euphoric experience

[@milit4ryfairy]

I didn't realize all of my favorite albums were top-rated by 4chan. Mommy, am I autistic?

[@-shakir5152]

90 percent of the album i listen to rn is on the /mu/ core list and i just discovered this list 💀

[@iane7474]

​@@-shakir5152same 💀 kid a and remain in light are my favorite albums of all time, do I go to a doctor to get checked for autism

[@Henryduckfan63]

Phenomenal video, I could listen to you talk about the entire /mu/ chart and not get bored. Looking forward to future videos.

[@sralairt]

Lift Your Skinny Fists and Soundtracks For The Blind are definitely the peak of post-rock. Lift Your Skinny Fists is so grand, cinematic and spiritually intriguing that it's unreal that this amount of subtextual depth is possible on an instrumental record. Soundtracks For The Blind, as I interpret it, has more of a interpersonal signature from Gira and Jarboe which makes it ever more amazing especially how scattered and varied the sounds are in that record. The Sound and The Final Sacrifice are always gonna have a special place in my heart.

[@benjybrasington9508]

The Sound might be the greatest song put to tape

[@peanutbutnovember1237]

your story about lift yr skinny fists was super powerful. love these ratings.

[@1gnore_me.]

I used to ignore aeroplane because I thought it was just a joke, something posted by hipsters ironically to be funny ... then one day I actually sat down and listened to the whole thing. it's honestly incredible, moving & STILL groundbreaking with how it mixed folk & noise rock.

[@firebanner6424]

@@amremorse this is more about me than you, but it hurts to see something you herald as one of the absolute greatest artistic achievements of mankind described as "total dogshit." I respect your opinion of course.

[@firebanner6424]

@@amremorse i guess you deleted your replies but I just meant that I liked it a lot lol

[@Turbobuttes]

You haven't really heard Loveless until you've heard an 8 kbit/s conversion of it that's so small you could embed it in a jpg file and upload it to 4chan back when this sort of thing was still possible.

[@WeAreTheInsurgents]

I consider ITAOTS to be my favourite album ever and I'm SO glad that I discovered it without any knowledge of its notoriety on the internet

[@lethargy0_035]

Same. But when I actually first heard it i hated it. The first song I heard was holland 1945 and his voice really turned me away from it. But one day I decided to listen to the album all the way through and it just stuck with me

[@FishSticker]

I listened to it, and to lift your skinny fists, because a friend had said they were in her top 4 albums, so glad I checked them out

[@alex11v3]

ok, only one correction, jeff is a tecnhically good singer, the way he changes his voice so fast and keep the note is flawless and impressive. Just look at the brass section part in oh comely, the way he holds that note is impressive

[@glowerworm]

His Live at Jittery Joe's version of Two Headed Boy part 2 has a part where he holds a screaming note for like a full minute. The man has some *lungs*

[@heelstevenmaggle5615]

Yeah, it’s terrible.

[@DJ_CULLEN]

also his breath support is crazy

[@cameronrodriguez8795]

I listened to lift yr skinny fists for the first time on two tabs of lsd. The most amazing indescribable experience I've ever had with music. So special. So ineffably important. So beautiful.

[@possessedslig]

I listened to it and the whole time I sat there waiting for it to end thinking, "I bet this would be amazing if I was high as a kite"

[@ognyanbelstoynev]

how can this video have less then 10k views and how can you have less then 1000 subs underrated af for the depth, emotion and quality provided throughout this whole hour i am trully impressed!

[@relaxwithmyhorns3312]

I’ve also yet to understand Loveless. And I LOVE shoegaze. It’s an influential record absolutely, but I don’t get the emotional drive that most people get from the album.

[@lain9446]

It was the same for me until I got to "i only said". This song just clicked for me and I instantly started appreciating all of mbv's music

[@TheLoweGaming]

@@lain9446 wtf same. on like my third listen i got to that track and realized just how cozy and ethereal the album really is. every track after made sense

[@featherycoffee1401]

Damn, I loved that album instantly, probably my favourite shoe gaze album still

[@featherycoffee1401]

Candy claws is super close but still

[@sunny1992s]

It's the wall of guitar sound with the vocals that click with me. Granted at this point in my life was digging through Sonic Youth's discog(and I think someone online mentioned this album as a must listen), so my mind was prepared for the noise. It isn't suffocating but almost like a soft warm blanket. I fully understand why its a tough listen, but man those opening guitar chords still hit me the same way as it did almost 15 years ago when I first listened to it.

[@ianbyrne465]

I know it’s a meme in music circles, I know it’s basic as hell, but I will always have a place on my shelf for In the Court of the Crimson King. Beyond its influences on music, I can distinctly remember when I first heard it. Hooking up my dad’s old turntable for the first time and hearing the album with him is a memory I hold really close. I’d never heard anything like it, and it left me feeling energized and inspired. Still does to this day. I like most of their work, but none of it will ever hold the same place as Court for me. Absolutely gorgeous album.

[@christianvaneeden7460]

Lol. Basic. You mad bro.

[@DElkan]

​​​@@christianvaneeden7460 It's basic because it's so good. Same as Close to the Edge, Foxtrot, Tarkus, Aqualung, and Hot Rats.

[@redxross]

I think if a person can't get past Jeff Mangum's vocals, they don't *deserve* Neutral Milk Hotel

[@kenmc555]

/mu/core wasn't meant to represent the best albums ever, it was a way of understanding the memetics of that particular board at the time. If you didn't understand an in-joke, it was probably because you haven't listened to these albums.

[@zackzallie8735]

Tbh, it kinda represented the highly acclaimed albums from different genres. Especially the nerds who into underground or experimental stuff. You don't know how many people actually admitted to love listening to the albums. No one listens to Swans or Radiohead ironically.

[@mikehunt5926]

@@zackzallie8735i listen to radiohead as a joke

[@baphometfathom5348]

The velvet underground is probably my favorite group of all time Lou was such an interesting figure and his lyrics have always struck a cord with me being dark but obscure and beautiful in many ways, and Cale’s ear for weird Melodie’s on the first two, and their later works with reed being the creative force was soft but potent, not to mention sparking indie, punk, noise, and many other artists that still work today

[@idontcheckmynotifications]

Your feelings about Lift Yr. Skinny Fists reminds me of how I feel about my favorite song. Not my favorite album but Crazy Diamond is my favorite song. In particular that feeling of coming back to it and looking for answers, not leaving disappointed. When I’m lost in life, I play the full song, sit myself down and I feel like I’m at home and I can look back on all of myself. It doesn’t have the same theme of faith but Crazy Diamond always reminds me of how much I’ve heard it in my life and how much I changed over time and in a more meta twist how I think about myself. It’s a song that’s always been part of my life, even when I didn’t really recognise it or appreciate music as a kid. Just thoughts inspired and stewing and washing over me with the instrumentals soothing my soul. It reminds me of people who left me, and with the timing and reserved use of lyrics, they really hit me and make me look at myself and parts of myself I’ve also lost or still look back on with fondness. It’s just so hard to explain, but that song feels like part of me. Every time I listen to it, I always find some answer I couldn’t find on my own. I vividly remember important moments in my life and associate the song with those moments and those moments with the song. I understand why people wouldn’t “get into” Pink Floyd, but they did make my favorite song. This is a great video, and I absolutely love how you described everything and related it to feelings and explained it. So good. Suppose I should look at more of your videos lol, I could listen to people describe things like this and what they mean to them and just hear this kind of appreciation for hours.

[@squelar844]

beautiful comment

[@BradleyRegister]

Damn I remember when I first heard Aeroplane Over The Sea, the internet was still pretty new (I think it was 98-99), and this album popped up as recommended while playing You’d Prefer An Astronaut by Hum. Weird huh? I was immediately captivated by the album art so I clicked over to their page (I can’t remember what site all this was on) and the first recommended track was (I didn’t realize at the time) from their other album, the song was called Avery Island/April 1st which is instrumental, but I was intrigued enough to buy both on CD, and I’m so glad I did. I was 18-19 at the time, and Aeroplane turned my whole young musical world upside down. The sound of my band at the time went thru a drastic change 🙃 Sorry to be “that guy” but yea, the lyrics REALLY impacted my life. Out of context these lyrics might not seem very powerful, but what a way to end such an amazing album: “Two headed boy She is all you could need She will feed you tomatoes And radio wire And retire to sheets safe and clean But don’t hate her when she gets up to leave”

[@jimbopoppin3152]

I love hum, funny how those are considered “related” in some way

[@matthewwaugh9563]

Listening to you discuss these albums that I already really enjoyed made me love them even more. Really great to see someone talk about the music with such passion

[@leonellopez9668]

I really love your explanations as to why you love these albums and further justifies my love for music. Can’t wait to listen to some of these I haven’t, especially Slint

[@jonah3985]

One winter I spent a month listening to 'Kid A' on repeat while reading 'Neuromancer' by William Gibson. It was probably the greatest convergence of media and environment I've ever experienced. The only other experience that comes close was listening to Have A Nice Life's 'Deathconsciousness' while reading 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson during one Autumn. Which, that album was pretty huge there for a while and one you should definitely cover in this series. Edit: Lol, just found your Part 2 where you cover Deathconsciousness. If you haven't heard it, you should absolutely check out Dan Barrett's first Giles Corey album which I've now ended up listening to more than Deathconsciousness.

[@Ushisim]

I know you probably wont see this, but about a year and a half ago when i was really expanding past rap music and listening to more stuff, i just happened to stumble onto this video in my youtube feed. while listening to this video in the background, spiderland was the one that caught my attention the most through how you talked about it and the short snippet. Fast forward to now, and its 100% in my top 5 favorites of all time, washer is also my favorite song of all time. I havent listened to 6 of the albums on this list still as a matter of fact. I guess what im trying to say is if this video didnt pop up when it did, where it did, and wasnt made the exact way it was- i probably wouldnt have listened to spiderland by now. The record as a whole has honestly been one of the albums thats changed my life, so like, sincerely, thank you. Video is amazing too btw

[@d0ubl3d]

Finally finished the video, you’ve summed up my feelings on most of these albums perfectly, however I need to give a few of these a relisten, especially lift your skinny fists and soundtracks for the blind. Also, I weirdly agree with your Serial Experiments Lain comparison on Volcano. Gonna check out some more videos of yours but I’m curious if you have any more in-depth thoughts on Lain as it’s one of my favorite shows. Thanks for the great video!

[@tofu1313]

Incredible video! All of these albums are super important to many of us, and the way you talk about them and present them is impeccable. Amazing job!

[@alexmanson284]

Glad you enjoy GSYBE man! They're truly a incredible band and I personally feel every album is gold. LYSF!LATE really without words is the peak of atmospheric post rock.

[@dublev78]

Loveless is a masterpiece. Listen loud with headphones. It’s one of the only albums that can put me in a trance.

[@questioningcommie2858]

I love this video, idk why, but the way they explain their love for these albums makes me so happy and filled with joy and life It’s weird, but it’s how I feel :p

[@sotetsotetsotetsotetsotet2379]

"nothing that sounds like the first alien notes of Kid A". Blackstar comes to mind

[@ManyBurgers-]

If I remember correctly this is the video where I first heard about In The Aeroplane Over The Sea and it's now one of my favorite albums so thanks for that recommendation. In fact it probably got me into most stuff here and on the front page of RYM.

[@Manays]

I still have yet to understand why some underground albums are considered “basic” in the music community, just because everyone likes them? If so what’s wrong with that? Do people in those communities expect you to have an album from a shaman from 500 years as one of your all time favorites?

[@andergustafson6664]

because they are the gateway to even more obscure stuff and people like holding shit over you

[@collinbeal]

Liking an album can never be "basic", because you're already to the point where you sit down and digest a whole album. The rest of it is just subjective taste. Once you can interface with art meaningfully and seriously, devoting your attention to it, you're already there, and nothing about you being "basic" can be ascribed to you. Past that point, it's all gatekeeping and snobbery. It doesn't matter if your favorite album is a Justin Bieber one, to use a stereotypically maligned artist; you still took the time to foment that opinion after giving it consideration, and in that one can find no fault.

[@user-wx2ek3uv1i]

Nobody calls people basic just for liking these albums. It's just that so many people don't go past these and explore any other music.

[@Manays]

@@user-wx2ek3uv1i the funny part for me is that i’ve done deep diving in genres like shoegaze and math rock but I still like the entry level albums over some of my deep cuts I’ve heard

[@wadejg_blaze0n213]

I mean in my experience, I was in to AJR, the music community’s favorite punching bag, before I really dabbled into the obscure and hard-to-listen music. I still like them for some reason.

[@wwstrahinja]

You are my new favorite channel

[@tarotsport1451]

This video is like the boomer meme about the calendar tuning to 1984 but instead of 1984 it’s december 2018, so much nostalgia despite none of these touching my favorite albums

[@Neo5GT]

What are your favorite albums?

[@joshuachadwick9808]

@@Neo5GT ^^

[@копоть.гниёт]

damn i just wish i had irl friends that listen to music like this nice video btw! i really like the audio quality :D

[@wadejg_blaze0n213]

you’re bound to have friends who listen to Kanye, Talking Heads, Beach Boys and Death Grips, anything else tho, good luck :D

[@bbpoItergeist]

@@wadejg_blaze0n213only Kanye

[@Thomas-nz4si]

I don't think there's anything to "get" with Loveless. Its a dream pop album with a wall of sound barricading you from the dreamy vocals and instrumentation. There's more to it than that, but while the wall of sound acts as a fuzzy blanket to encase you in this weird world you also have to gaze past your slumber at the instrumentation behind the fuzz. And MPP/AnCo in general is on the list as a product of the time. When the list was first published this album was still fresh on everyone's minds, and people were much, much more into rock music back then compared to now. Its not a bad album by any means, but again its appeal is encased in the time it was released. If this list were released today I think the consensus would be that Sung Tongs would be the one everyone looks back at more fondly.

[@moneyallspent7117]

Too me Loveless is beautiful, structured, chaotic noise. It touches my heart. Loveless is a feeling. Beyond words. A experience. In 91’ I graduated High school. I was having the time of my life and at almost 50 when I listen to it now it still makes me feel the same way I did back then.

[@TrilobiteTerror]

Despite its bizarre, unorthodox, and often silly nature, Trout Mask Replica has some beautifully touching and sincere pieces. Orange Claw Hammer is a sheer masterpiece. Not one bit of it is nonsense (although some people may need to look up all the references). Through its railroad, tramp, maritime, and other themes/imagery, Captain Beefheart paints such a brilliant stroll through some (often forgotten) classic Americana. It's simply incredible. Then there's Veteran's Day Poppy which is such an emotional song about a mother on Remembrance Day grieving over the son she lost in the war. Remembrance Day (also known as Poppy Day because of the tradition of wearing remembrance poppies) is the UK's version of Veteran's Day. In the song, the mother laments about how she can't bring herself to celebrate the day with a poppy as it only reminds her of her son and how she can never get him back. Such a powerful anti-war song that sheds light on the true cost of war.

[@absol4785]

Thoughts are really well spoken and it’s always fun seeing those put onto different perspectives of albums I already love as well

[@FuturCrayon]

There's nothing like Loveless. To me this album is about contrast. Like one of those dreams where you're followed by a rotten wolf before kissing your girlfriend. Violence and sweetness. Harsch feedback loops drapped in tender, soft spoken, charming songs. Dressed like an electric symphony. I love how I still don't get where it's coming from. There are chords, even riffs, melodies you can't picture how the songs came, at first. It's all shrouded in a reverb vapor, the voices are distant, the drums seem to have been recorded with microphones a dozen kilometers away, but this sounds is like a coat where you can lay down and lose yourself forever.

[@pstrokeslibsarctic]

11:00 no, it’s mostly just Overdriven guitar overdubbed so many times, not reverb and shit like that on Loveless, only thing close to reverb was multitap delay on SPX90/Alesis Midiverb was being used on Soon and To Here Knows When, it recreates the layers of wall of sound.

[@indefinablenothing]

ON LOVELESS: I would like to posit (with absolutely no judgment) that the reason that It's Boundo doesn't quite "grasp exactly what makes this record so personally appealing to my[him]self and to others" lies in the fact that he isn't interested in dropping acid (and, I'm guessing, hasn't?). This album was pretty much made for LSD. When you listen to this album while dosed, you hear AND FEEL every fiber of sound coming out of the speakers and filling the room. It's as if the brain is able to perceive the strata of each individual track. It feels (and you feel) like electricity. You can literally hear the overtones of all the layered noise physically clashing in mid-air. The psychedelic realization of this particular noise as 'beauty for beauty's sake' even renders the lyrical content as unimportant...Is it a man's voice? A woman's? What are they even saying? The vocals are simply a part of the texture of the overall sound. It's the sum of that overall sound that is the featured content and, while on acid, it feels like a dense wall that you somehow are permeating and passing through...And I swear, you can actually make out most of the lyrics! :D It's safe to say that most who had listened to this record back in the day (while on acid) were profoundly blown away. The late 80s/early 90s nod to the 60s psychedelic sound was, at the time, moving in this direction; but when this album came out, it sounded like a bomb went off. Personally, I STILL consider this record as an important part of who I am today, and a part of my journey on how to fully listen to (and appreciate) sound (also, thank you John Cage). And I'm pretty sure that this kind of transformative impact on anyone's own psychedelic travels is still possible in the present day, even with the knowledge of what has come since this album was released. Loveless' sound is timeless and still feels like mainlining clean electricity (if that description makes any sense). Thanks, It's Boundo, for the fun video!

[@andergustafson6664]

I remember my first few times listening to in the Court of the Crimson King and I am instantly transported back to biking around my city in the bitter January cold. Very nostalgic album for me, I would listen to it constantly of January of 2021 when the Pandemic was really at its worst for me and how depressing it felt in those cold dark days. It brings a contrast to when I was first listening to Spiderland towards the end 2021 when the pandemic was finally releasing its cruel grip. Spiderland though it feels empty and hopeless, feels different to me because I think I grouped it with Lateralus and Ænima by Tool because those albums had also just been introduced to me by my friends. While that isn't necessarily a bad thing I don't think I truly got any of those albums until this summer almost an entire year after they were introduced to me when yet another metal album (Spiderland certainly isn't a metal record and I guess to call either Lateralus or Ænima purely metal albums feels wrong but whatever), Dopethrone by Electric Wizard, by my Journalism teacher around the same time of year just one year later just further pushed me to group these four albums together and are some of the only albums where I almost refuse to listen to any of the songs on these albums without listening to the whole thing. I don't really know where I'm going with this but it just feels nice to write it down and reflect on the second half of my high school experience now that I'm a college freshman (I know I'm not really that much older or different than I was in senior year but it still feels like I've changed at least somewhat) and how the music I listened to for most of it affected and changed me. I own all of these records on vinyl and they are among my most played, but I wish that there was more that sounded like it but wasn't the same thing. I just wish I could wrap my self up in a big and warm comfortable sound blanket and disappear.

[@HMz83]

I feel the exact same way about American Football's debut. I discovered it right when quarantine hit. I was stuck in my house with nothing but my new apple music subscription, my copy of Spongebob Squarepants: Battle for Bikini Bottom for the Playstation 2, my school-issued chomebook, and myself.

[@eyehatescott]

I would love to argue a thousand points with you but this is great content none the less. Subbed!

[@swagmundfreud666]

5:00 I completely disagree. Jeff Mangum is an amazingly talented singer on the technical aspect his vocal control is near superhuman. I've been playing songs from that album for years on guitar and the singing, particularly on oh comely and in the aeroplane over the sea, is easily the hardest part.

[@dael3560]

i just played this and studied for my finals, i love this video

[@madalaine4992]

awesome video thank u so much :-) totally excited to watch the rest of the vids you have up, great job man

[@GRANDDADDO]

Excellent video! If I had any constructive criticism, maybe work on the conclusion sections in the future. It's not bad in this video by any means, but its a bit too short and I think at least a ranking of the albums would be a better end to the video. Overall though, great content! Subscribed.

[@SirCarcass]

Man, Trout Mask Replica. I first got into Beefheart after watching a documentary about him. I still wasn't prepared for TMR. The first several listens I just sat there not knowing what to focus on and having no clue what was going on. After a while it just started to kind of click. I agree, I don't exactly like it, and I would never recommend it to anyone but the most adventurous of people, but sometimes it just hits right. My favorite song of his is Click Clack off of The Spotlight Kid. The rhythm of that song sounds like a train, and it rocks.

[@jackal59]

By the way, Godspeed You! Black Emperor are a shadow on record of what they are live.

[@itsboundo.]

I was lucky enough to see them in May and you're 100% right

[@ishmaelcamillo]

I’ve been looking for a video like this

[@ishmaelcamillo]

Jeez Louis you’re incredibly well spoken and versed on each album ty for this video💪💪💪🙏🙏

[@ethanf108]

Great video! "im also a big fan of Godspeed, but I'm more partial to Yanqui U.X.O. I suggest you listen to He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Grace the Corner of our Rooms by Silver Mt. Zion, personally one of my favorite and most emotionally impactful records ever. It was made by a subset of Godspeed members (including Efrim), and expands on the Cancer Towers on the Holy Road Hi-Way section, the part at the end of storm you mentioned being stunned by how gorgeous and haunting the piano is

[@itsboundo.]

I've got that Silver Mt. album on vinyl! Absolutely fantastic.

[@dubu9881]

It’s not a miracle that Pet Sounds was so good. Brian Wilson is a genius and wrote many beautiful songs for the Beach Boys before Pet Sounds. Of course LSD played a major role in how the album came to be, but the mental issues Brian endured that were expressed in the album, whether relayed in the lyrics or the musical composition.

[@manoknowfish]

Man, the part about skinny fists was so on point. I listened to this album while tripping, i took too much, i got into a panic attack, i didn't know who i am. searched for something to hold. My friend? My family? Me? Who am i? Where am i? I was so confused i knew, i knew i'm going to die but i couldn't accept it and then, i listened to storm, it wasn't my first time listening to this album but this time it was diffrent- it was about me, atleast it felt like that. They comforted me in my lowest point and when the time came in tge ebd of the song i accepted it. I'm going to die, but for now i'm alive.

[@vmppvm8763]

There's a lot of mythology about the way Loveless sounds and how it was recorded, but mostly it's just slammed tube amps, Jazzmaster vibrato bar, and some delay + reverb.

[@david0754]

The only time I've ever heard someone call anything death grips related Accessible

[@yawbyss981]

The Money Store always seemed pretty accessible to me. Sure it was pretty noisy, but it was also very rhythmic and catchy. Hell, most of the songs on it have a pop song structure.

[@david0754]

@Yawbyss yeah I guess you're right ,but it's still funny to me imagining someone listening to death grips and being like ,"this is way to tame for me"

[@yawbyss981]

@@david0754 lol, very true

[@TheLoweGaming]

I agreed with almost all of these ratings holy cow. And you pretty accurately described each and every thing I adore about all of these albums. You have 100% earned my sub today!

[@itsboundo.]

Aw thanks! I'm currently working on the 2nd one so stay tuned for that 👀

[@TheLoweGaming]

@@itsboundo. 👀👀 I’m hyped

[@hydrodragonn7385]

Gotta contest the shade on side C of MPP. Guys Eyes has the most beautiful harmony on the whole album, lion in a coma just throws you off of what you’re expecting. Not the best on the album but not bad imo

[@Ricochet8844]

I got to 36:26 while away from my screen and immediately thought an ad was playing.

[@wadejg_blaze0n213]

it’s funny that /mu/ has all these obscure and/or eccentric musicians like GY!BE, King Crimson, Slint, Animal Collective, and Radiohead, and then there’s just Kanye among them too. Not hating, in fact I absolutely love his music but I find it a little unusual that he’s part of /mu/‘s best

[@marzabarza4910]

Yeh MBV had a tour that is known in the industry and the loudest stage tour in history, apparently many ppl at each show received ear drum ruptures. They used a chain of amps and fuzz to create a wall of sound that would tear u apart.

[@patricklewis9787]

I’ll be honest I have only listened to like a 3rd of these with Neutral milk hotel and Velvet Underground being recommended from my hipster sister lol

[@actuallythepie]

i enjoyed watching this! keep it up

[@zackzallie8735]

OK Computer is probably my fav album ever made. No matter how many albums I got into, I always come back to OK Computer.

[@zackzallie8735]

@@dieselbaby On each day, my mood keeps changing on my favorite Radiohead album. In Rainbows is so lushy and optimistic, while Kid A is abstract and liminal.

[@lucysmart1476]

I have never heard in my Life of that chart. Coulda been helpful a while ago 🤷🏼‍♀️ saved me a lot of time

[@swagmundfreud666]

Man, my Junior High music taste was total mucore and as such this was such a nostalgia trip. FYI I'm being nostalgic over like 2019 tho so yes you should feel old...

[@itsboundo.]

lol we're probably not that far in age tbh, I'm only just 20

[@swagmundfreud666]

@@itsboundo. Yeah I'm 18. Kinda crazy to be an adult at this point lol and to be nostalgic for such a recent time relatively.

[@connorrosecrans3057]

Anyone have the link to one of these charts with all the albums, thanks

[@thedudeperson]

you made an error in your MPP review: when you said it wasn’t perfect

[@georgfriedrichhendl9881]

Radiohead Kid A, Sigur Rós Agaetis Byrjun & Coldplay Parachutes, the golden triangle of the year 2000 and maybe three of the best albums ever.

[@Seantendo]

25:40 Funny enough, those two albums came out the exact same day!

[@---eo1xf]

great video!

[@jadefae]

Incredible. So much effort and so much competence for a whole ass hour

[@Sebadiah23]

When this guy doesn’t like a popular “taste maker” album , you get the sense that he locks himself in a room and listens to it for as long as it takes to love it so that he can say he loves it. Good for him though for that dedication.

[@DElkan]

I had to rewind your intro because the first time round I was too busy singing Holland 1945

[@boligrafohacker7592]

i hope no one finds the rest of the king crimson albums so i can keep thinking i can gatekeep them

[@jackingwads7513]

....what a cunt >.> So you wanna spoon feed me so I don't have to dig like I had to for pat the bunny and rape man

[@asuka376]

have u listened to Opeth? that’s some good prog( the Deliverance, Blackwater Park era)

[@ttofu6201]

Incredible video

[@HeavyDirtySoulz]

Got into ween cause of your vid, doing more homework now !

[@pizzafreak1175]

17:00 Has a mistake for tracks from Loveless

[@michael.1907]

great video, LYSFLATH is my top 1 album too

[@bribanco9024]

Emotions are claustrophobic, they are harsh and drown me sometimes, loveless captures that.

[@ConvincingPeople]

It is perhaps telling of the kind of person I am that many years ago I stumbled upon one of the old "Patrician-core" charts and, having never used /mu/ or (at the time) RYM, first went, "Hey, I recognise a lot of these! Some of these are great…" and then immediately started nitpicking their choices. :P

[@TrentonF505]

There’s a few of these that I like, but Velvet Underground is the only one I’ve consistently come back to

[@Volodik18]

17:04 you forgot to change the songs from Loveless

[@bbqpig2241]

“one of the best” and “all time”

[@brandontingley7059]

My ultimate musical moment was Godspeed live on the Lift your skinny fists.... tour. Nothing has ever really come close. 1000 people there, all hardcore music fans and musicians. By the end of the show, maybe 10 people were still standing. They literally floored us.

[@matchbox2482]

Great video. Keep it up

[@redwhite3612]

are you going to make a sequel of this video?

[@itsboundo.]

I am! It's the video after my next, so stay tuned 👀

[@featherycoffee1401]

So I am guessing it's the next one isn't it?

[@user-qi3ef2kr2r]

A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, got me? No, Captain. I don’t got you.

[@regntonne]

When i heard Kid A for the first time i thought they broke up and Thom sorta continued by himself.

[@alexdflop]

At 17:00 I had to pause the video to confirm that you didn't animate the album cover lol

[@n.e.7647]

If you found out about these bands from 4chan, then you're a giga normie. All of these artists have been well known for many years, prior to /mu/.

[@hb3460]

In The Court Of The Crimson King is a 10/10 but Red is an 11/10 imo

[@happycamperds9917]

Tbh Court might be like #5 in my list of King Crimson songs. King Crimson is my favorite band and it just goes to show how great of a band they are that they have so many amazing albums.