2017 Music Catch Up

Time to look back on all the nonsense I didn't talk about on this here blog; discussed in as little as one sentence.

The Great Big Best & Worst of 2017 List

365 days and not a single one wasted by you or me, I'm sure. It's time to praise those who put some effort into their art and ridicule those who don't.

Rule 1: Only full original material from 2017, no re-releases or demos. This means all EPs, Singles and LPs from this year are fair game, but not singles for upcoming releases in 2018. This also means no Live albums or Cover albums. Those just don’t count.

Rule 2: An album cannot end up on the “best” list for being just good, it has to be great or near-perfect. Likewise, albums cannot end up on the “worst” list just for being mediocre. If you are on the “worst” list, you deserve it.

Rule 3: Don’t get hung up on the ranking. All music on the “best” list is good, so do yourself a favor and check everyone out.

OK, let’s begin.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Movie Review (Minor Spoilers)

*Note: 'Minor Spoilers' refers to basic plot detail, and information revealed in trailers and other publicly available knowledge, but no actual plot specifics. Continue reading at your own risk.*

It's time for us to take a deep breath and a step back and consider that perhaps bringing Star Wars back wasn't a good idea.

Spotify Playlists

Just a heads up that over on Spotify I have two playlists setup. One for all the music I've been listening to over the course of 2017, and one from last year that I use to catalog all the music I'm interested in. There's tons of rock, punk, metal, jazz, etc, and it's all good/bad/whatever. Point is, I'm interested in it, and it's there. It would be cool if you or someone you know followed it and told me if there was anything else I could add to it.

Anyways, that's all. See ya.

2017


2016

Dr. Living Dead - Cosmic Conqueror: Quick Album Review

You should go listen to Crush The Sublime Gods.

GWAR - The Blood of Gods: Album Review

 

This was never going to be easy…

Primus - The Desaturating Seven: Album Review

So the weird thing about Primus is… [laugh track]

Kingsman: The Golden Circle: Quick Movie Review [Minor Spoilers]

Note: “Minor Spoilers” refers to information revealed in trailers, basic plot points and other publicly available knowledge to be used as talking points. Continue reading at your own risk.

Well… all those Men in Black 2 comparisons were right weren’t they?

IT (2017): Movie Review [Minor Spoilers]

Note: “minor spoilers” refers to basic plot details that may or may not include specific events and features to use as talking points. Continue reading at your own risk.

The old “IT” was terrible and that’s OK.

Doyle - Doyle II: As We Die: Album Review

Is Doyle’s new release a mosh amongst the dead, or is it pushing up daisies?

DragonForce - Reaching Into Infinity: Album Review

Reaching for infinity and grabbing it.

Record Store/Fair Update (3/10/17-4/9/17)

Way back in early March, I visited my local record store, and forgot to do a "Record Store Update". I then recently visited my local record fair and now an article that should have been 1 page long is now almost 3. Enjoy.

Deep Purple - inFinite: Album Review

Deep Purple gives us another helping of hard rock.

Lich King - The Omniclasm: Album Review

Lich King's newest release has finally arrived; was it worth the wait?
Of course it was.

13 Reasons Why: A Critical Nitpick

I have nowhere near enough time to do a full review of Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why, but I do have time to be overly critical over a handful of plot points in this depressing drama.

Now before I go any further I should mention 2 things. The first is that I legitimately enjoyed the series, and even though I’m going to be spending the next hundred thousand words or so explaining the things I didn’t like about it, you should definitely watch it. The second being, I’m about to SPOIL major plot points from the entire series, so if you want to go in dry, read at your own risk.

Warbringer - Woe To The Vanquished: Album Review

Warbringer’s grand return.

Logan: Movie Review (Minor Spoilers)

Note: “minor spoilers” includes things such as basic plot details, discussion of reveals in trailers and public media, and basic contextual knowledge, that is to say, stuff we’ve seen in the comics/books/whatever. Read at your own risk.

This turned out to be much better than I expected.

Kong: Skull Island: Movie Review

Minor Spoilers

A B-Movie revival.

Posting Schedule Update

Over the past few months, this blog has run pretty well on one post a week on Fridays. After doing some thinking, I've decided this schedule could use a change.

You see, a common release day for movies, shows, and music is Friday. What that means for this blog is, if it's an article day, I'll already have something prepared and write the review for whatever just came out during the following week. Then there is the more recent reality which is, something comes out, I need a review, then struggle to come up with something competent within 1 day becomes, at best, a rush job and at worst, highly biased and poorly thought out as even the best of us suffer from hype culture.

So to reconcile some of this, posts are now going to released on Mondays. Same time as before, (1 PM) and following the same article/review/article pattern as we've been doing previously. This does mean, the next few posts are going to be a little weird as we transition to a new schedule, but everything will be squared up within a week or so.

So the next few posts will be:

1/20  -  2016 Catch Up
1/27  -  Classic Review
1/30  -  New Review
2/6    -  The Art Of The Opening Scene
2/13  -  New review

So that's the plan for the next few weeks. Hopefully this means my quality of work will increase, I'll post a Record Store Update every now and again, and hopefully this works out for everyone.

See you later and take it easy.

-Eric

The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody: Album Review

Pronounced “Ox-ie Mel-o-die”. I had to google it.