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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    Still on my country's artists music. This time, Irena Starošaitė. I heard a couple of her songs many years back (she was kinda popular in 2000s), but never actually listened to her. First album, so far, chanson type music. Pretty good.

     

     

    So What Are You Listening To?

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    Started local folk rock/metal again, this time, decided to review the band called Žalvarinis (Made From Brass), and this is, um, real, at lest 19-20th century lyrics from rural folk songs wrapped up in a modern rock/metal format.

     

    So What Are You Listening To?

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    And with Compton (2015), I have ended Dr. Dre's discography. Um, I am still of the opinion that the album 2001, which was released way back in 1999, was his best overall. Some good collaborations in the end in the album "Compton" (2015), but, that's just the thing, overall, I find Dre to be average. Where he shines is in the collaborations (even in 2001 album his best songs were collabs). On his own, forgetful.

    As always, subjective assessment:

    The Chronic (1992) - 5/10
    2001 (1999) - 6.1/10
    Dr. Dre & Friends (2003) - 5.9/10
    Compton (2015) - 6.9/10

    Next on, will be probably my own country's artists repertoire. It's time to listen to Aistė Smilgevičiūtė ir grupė Skylė (Aiste Smilgeviciute and Band the Hole) newest album on Spotify, which is basically campfire songs (a drastic change from folk metal).

    Unpopular Opinions about Music

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    On 9/7/2023 at 1:35 AM, BlueSkies said:

    The Rolling Stones- a few songs I like but overall not a big fan

    More or less that's how I feel about a lot of "legacy" bands (that paved the way to someone or was a major influence on someone) out there.

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    Misheard Lyrics (Mondegreens): There's A Bathroom On the Right

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    Yesterday, accidentally, on reddit, encountered a topic wherein someone posted lyrics to Nightwish Return to the Sea. And it got me thinking that I always heard quite differently the verse that was posted.

    What I always hear: "Giant spiders learnt how to swim and with wales they fought my nightingale" (which, I found logical all these years cause of the song Know Why The Nightingale Sings), but what Tarja is actually saying is: "Giant spiders leant how to swim, with wales they form a united kin". Which... actually comes close to Nirvana's lyrics for Smells Like Teen Spirit random nonsense :D

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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    And with "Everythangs Corrupt" (2018) completed Ice Cube discography.

    As always,subjective assessments of each album:

    1. AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted (1990) - 5/10

    2. Kill at Will (1990) - 2.9/10

    3. Death Certificate (1991) - 5/10

    4. The Predator (1992) - 4.4/10

    5. Lethal Injection (1993) - 6.7/10

    6. War and Peace Volume 1 (1998) - 6.7/10

    7. War and Peace Volume 2 (2000) - 7.2/10

    8. Laugh Now, Cry Later (2006) - 3.8/10

    9. Raw Footage (2008) - 6.3/10

    10. I Am The West (2010) - 6.9/10

    11. Everythangs Corrupt (2018) - 6.3/10

    What Are We Currently Reading?

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    During holidays, had the time to catch up on my reading and almost read 300 pages of C. Paolini's 'To Sleep in the Sea of Stars'. It's a science-fiction novel about a xenobiologist (biologist examining non-human lifeforms in other planets), who accidentally discovered a relic of a forgotten civilisation, and this event brought down a bunch of things to happen to her.  Currently, read 3 parts of the book (560 pages in total), another 400 give or take still remains. It's quite better than Dune. At least the descriptions and the dialogue is not dry.

    So What Are You Listening To?

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    Continuing on with rap... NWA. Since they only had released two albums, the listening was short. Started yesterday, completed today. Overall, Straight Out of Compton I liked the best strictly because of Ice Cube. His voice and delivery carried the whole album along with Dr. Dre beats. Um...  Niggaz4Life... even though I would rate it higher than SOOC, but its so edgy and no filter at all at times most of the time that it begins to be funny. 🤔

    Straight Out of Compton (1988) - 4.6/10

    Niggaz4Life (1991) - 6.9/10

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    So What Are You Listening To?

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    So, with "All Eyez On Me" (1996), I complete the 2pac's discography when he was still alive. I'm debating whether to do his posthumous works, maybe later. His later albums, in terms of production quality, were much better, though, flow and lyrics... not really my style.

    As always, subjective assessment:

    1. 2Pacalypse Now (1991) - 6.2/10

    2. Stricly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... (1993) - 7.5/10

    3. Me Against the World (1995) - 5.3/10

    4. All Eyez on Me (1996) - 6.4/10 (CD1) / 6.9/10 (CD2). Total average: 6.6/10

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