Our Lord and Savior Is Back

Link for Taj Mahal Travellers : mediafire.com/file/19tpez60yotk2ud/ilif238-TjMhlTrvllrs-July15th.zip/file

Its only in 192 though. Mega

think

friendly reminder that Scaruffi is in hell sucking off Jeffrey Epstein.

Lana Del Rey btfo

Attached: 4ECA5EF0-9876-4E36-AAC9-3C56D4CFACEC.png (750x1334, 1.11M)

still don't get it

i think scaruffi just suffers from mainstream success. After Ultraviolence, I think this is her second best. A 7? Most likely not but a 5. Nah, it's definitely 6-6.5 area. If an album does well, he usually bashes because of his contrarianism

tf is groove music
is it any good?

I first discovered Taj Mahal Travellers back in 2005, this guy who did a book about his metal youth (which I ended up buying) wrote a Hanoi Rocks page on markprindle.com. Anyway he listed bands he'd recently enjoyed at the end of this book, also included Mainliner and Les Rallizes. He actually ended up sending me the Zoviet France discography on CD-R (don't remember what I sent him) in 2006 after I sent a comment in to the Prindle page and he thanked me for it.
Anyway pretty sure that Taj Mahal rating is a bump up and both that and have been on his page since well before I got into them

Attached: sh.jpg (329x500, 42K)

oh i'm dumb i thought groove was a media player lol

*just a bumping up of the original rating

nice!

yea it was an 8 and now it's an 8.5 if you got to the artist page

for whatever reason, scaruffi usually doesn't do interval ratings on his latest review page

He even added art for each for each album

>it really opens your eyes to a lot of things when you begin making it yourself
Thats true but it's actually not always a good thing. How many fucking bands start out strong in their career and after some years they fall off hard? It's not like they themselves think their later stuff is garbage, they will tell you about how they think they have improved greatly and became better. When you become a expert it's easy to get lost in the details and view your music in a overly technical manner thats ultimately very uninteresting.

That’s a very good point and prolly based on remorse

Most bands who have a long career tend to stick to what caused them to stick around for that long thus their new shit is usually bad and time has moved way past their irrelevant sounds but stans ofc make these bands stick around longer than they should because most bands are also just personalities and the more likeable you are, the more successful you’ll usually be.

agree

>90182028
>i think scaruffi just suffers from mainstream success.
Explain his high Ultraviolence rating then.

i should elaborate more. Ultraviolence, while popular, wasn't a huge critical success. This new one was both. Hence scaruffis' contrarianism

>He gave No Cities to Love (SK's worst album before Center Won't Hold) the same score as The Woods.
Oh well, he's somewhat redeemed for giving The Center Won't Hold a 4/10. Honestly too charitable, should have been a 3/10.

>Can't have an opinion on literature unless you're a writer

>Can't have an opinion on sports unless you're an athlete.

>Can't have an opinion on food unless you're a cook.

>Can't have an opinion on a house unless you're an architect.

>Can't have an opinion on video games unless you're a programmer.

>Can't have an opinion on clothes unless you're a designer.

>Can't have an opinion on jewelry unless you're a jeweler.

>Can't have an opinion on sports cars unless you're a race driver.

Many of his high ratings are critically acclaimed albums though. How would you explain Jagged Little Pill and ArchAndroid?

OH NO OH NO LANA DEL REY BROS WE GOT TOO COCKY

>can't have
Read Try again.

>Once I started making music I began to listen to music with different ears, it really opens your eyes to a lot of things when you begin making it yourself

How so?

Those albums are exceptions in the sense that they were the artists first album or a break out album that subverted the expectations that no one saw coming. This got scaruff, too.

>based Scaruffi still agrees with pic related being the best album in LDR's discography

based af

Attached: 325913-l.jpg (440x430, 77K)

finally people can admit that arctic monkeys record was horseshit fucking basic ass reddit safe album of the year pic pile of shit album.

the coaches don't play the game

But jagged little is one of the most successful + critically acclaimed albums of the 90s? Surely he wouldnt give it such a high rating if he was a contrarian.

based

He also cured cancer.

refer to again to this and read it over again
To clarify, Morissette was a pop-icon in Canada and pretty much reserved to her country. But the way she subverted expectations really made her music interesting, especially in a man's world. I think scaruffi and a lot of critics took note of that. It makes sense. That record was a landmark. Personally it's not an 8 in my tier but I can definitely see it 7-7.5 tier.

>Father of the Brode 6/10
He really has a soft spot for Vampire Weekend eh?

Yea if they were from the 80's or even 90's, all of those 6's would be 7's and their first record would be a potential 7.5 or even 8. Hell, i am surprised it's not a 7.5 now.

Speaking of 7.5 indie record that should be higher, Funeral deserves an 8 and so does Illinois come on scruffles stop being so mean and give them an 8 already.

>But the way she subverted expectations really made her music interesting, especially in a man's world. I think scaruffi and a lot of critics took note of that.

Yeah, except that Scaruffi had given her previous albums before JLP significantly lower ratings than what he gave to that album alone. So I don't think gender roles were necessarily the only key factor of him giving it an 8/10, so much as it was most likely the musicality behind the record that intrigued him in the first place.

ITT
>he doesnt like muh rolling stone approved best band evar band he a contrarian!
dead board

ya......

>4/10
eh, I'll give Scaruffi a pass on this one because of course he wouldn't like an album like this. it's a masterpiece tho.

Attached: 71QQh2KpOjL._SS500_.jpg (500x500, 32K)

>a masterpiece
what other masterpieces do you like? can you name a few?

do you really want me to list albums that aren't similar to Tranquility Base? masterpieces are masterpieces in their own right.

sure, i mean it would give me an idea on the criteria you used to consider such an album as a masterpiece... like, it's not even their best album... then again i'm not too interested in arctic monkeys

not him, but I think he's only asking you what other albums that you find to be masterpieces (regardless if those albums sound radically different to each other), so he could see how shitty your music taste is

>it would give me an idea on the criteria you used to consider such an album as a masterpiece
not really. like I said, masterpieces are masterpieces in their own right. there isn't a criteria.

>so he could see how shitty your music taste is
pretty much what I expected. that's why it's useless discussion.