The Album Review Club - Week #196 (page 1316) - Aja - Steely Dan

threespires said:
I'll give you I Before E and Tuesday but you are on thin ice with the others and you are away with the fairies with Midnight. I pity your friend Charles having to grow up with such a wrong 'un for a mate.
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I spoke to him earlier today and he remembers it differently.

He sat on my head.
 
RobMCFC said:
Nearly a match - Maths, Physics and Computer Studies for me.
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Someday it would be interesting to see what parallel lives we lead, even in different parts of the world as we enjoyed our various genres of music that (sometimes) lines up.

First 2nd language? After 4 years of French it was Pascal. Next?
 
BimboBob said:
I spoke to him earlier today and he remembers it differently.

He sat on my head.
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I never took you for a farter, tbf. I've hosted so many playlists for you now, my Spotify account is very confused on who I am anymore. We need to have a deep talk about how much I now love The Colour of Spring. That is real. Bravo again for that one.
 
Black&White&BlueMoon Town said:
First 2nd language? After 4 years of French it was Pascal. Next?
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Was taught Pascal as a precursor to Ada; no concurrency, no party :-) Though I seem to remember there was a concurrent variant of pascal not to mention Modula-2 which I had on my Atari-ST where I also learnt 68000 assembler and discovered the joys of Midi.

Then mercifully I got (slightly) better at talking to women :-)

On topic, for me Bimbo set a high watermark with The Colour of Spring that mathematically he won't be able to better. I've played the nominated album frequently and recently enough to know this will fall short of that from a scoring perspective but it's still full of quality and there's more than enough wiggle room to score very well and it's certainly winning on nostalgia triggering at the moment.
 
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threespires said:
When we get AI that is powerful enough to accurately predict what Bimbo is going to do next, that's when we need to start crapping ourselves.
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It is really not THAT hard.

'He will shit on a nomination with something wildly out but 'amusingly' contrary'. Done.
 
threespires said:
Here you go. Just for you because they were being mean earlier about you feeling poorly...

I've used the SACS model for genre families. Alt rock (nice broad family) wins the day over more traditional types of rock. Whilst most of the folk is folk rock, I was surprised by how much of it there actually was.
Need more jazz, you're definitely getting some Coltrane at some point.

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SACS (Spires Arbitrary Categorisation System)

Core rock includes the likes of metal, hard rock, blues rock etc
Alt rock includes punk, post punk, art rock, indie, power pop etc
Americana includes country rock but heartland is in Core rock
Folk is mostly folk rock
Electronica is anything that uses synths properly and that by definition excludes anything with the bastard DX7

(Edited to reinclude the 2 Classical offerings removed from the date ones)
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Have we had any Folk? What is folk rock?
 
Coatigan said:
It is really not THAT hard.

'He will shit on a nomination with something wildly out but 'amusingly' contrary'. Done.
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And ChatGPT is not going to give you that take any time soon, so you/we all are not yet entirely replaceable.
 
Coatigan said:
Have we had any Folk? What is folk rock?
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See I knew this would happen (and you were always prime suspect ;-)) . It was just to cheer BH up as Mad Eyed Screamer had robbed his coat.

Anyway, you can't question SACS, SACS is just SACS.

But if you must know, Folk included VM Astral Weeks (Folk Rock), Aldous Harding (Indie Folk), Billy Bragg (Folk Rock/Punk) amongst others. Arrrghh, why have I just dug myself a bigger hole....SACS is just SACS.

FFS: Edited to replace Aldous Huxley with Aldous Harding.
 
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threespires said:
See I knew this would happen (and you were always prime suspect ;-)) . It was just to cheer BH up as Mad Eyed Screamer had robbed his coat.

Anyway, you can't question SACS, SACS is just SACS.

But if you must know, Folk included VM Astral Weeks (Folk Rock), Aldous Huxley (Indie Folk), Billy Bragg (Folk Rock/Punk) amongst others. Arrrghh, why have I just dug myself a bigger hole....SACS is just SACS.
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SACS? Maer like, ballsacs!
 
RobMCFC said:
As expected, People on Sunday by Domenique Dumont scored a low average: 12 votes @ 5.08 which was mainly made up of scores between 4 and 6. It's a score that finds the album sandwiched between The Chemical Brothers and Michael Stearns in the ever increasing league table. Thanks to @GoatersLeftShin for another interesting ambient nomination.

This week, it's the turn of @BimboBob to provide us with a week of listening pleasure.
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Apologies folks for not getting my vote in on time. Was in work and thought I would get time but as can happen the day just got away from me with important matters so didn't get to do my write up.
As mentioned when it appeared I wasn't really aware of DD but was pleasantly surprised when I began listening. I suppose that goes without saying when I nominated Aphex Twin at the start of the year.
Have to say I loved this album, some of it seemed a bit stripped back but hypnotic, simple and soothing.
As @RobMCFC said it did often merge into one. I did watch it along with the original film and di enjoy that experience but also listened in the car. I actually found the nature of it calmed my driving and I got excellent fuel consumption when listening, tootling along on my commute at 56!
I also listened to a bit of Miniatures de auto rhythm which I though was a bit more involved and up tempo than much of this selection.
Really enjoyed and will be getting more play time from me....it's a belated 8 from the Derry jury.

Now back to work and listening to ABC
 
threespires said:
I took your FUQAS model (Foggy's Uncalibrated Quality Assurance System) and adapted it (I assume it's creative commons - apologies if not) and this is what I got..

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Well, as the categories are Mega Awesome, Awesone, Okay and Shite, and Foggy undoubtedly owns the IP, does this make him Chairman MAOS?
 
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