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Post by Naos on Nov 5, 2017 21:16:28 GMT -5
I listened to part of AJR's album and I actually don't think it was that bad, though there were some pretty stupid lyrics in there. Weak, the CHR single, is kind of a outlier soundwise, but this song is much more representative. I kind of liked The Good Part, which I think would make a good second single, though it's even poppier then this, and Netflix Trip isn't bad if you can get past a few bad lyrics and how incredibly stupid the song's concept is (it's about comparing the events in the narrator's life to episodes of The Office -- yeah seriously). However, Thirty-Three and Drama's lyrics were too awful to look past, and Bud Like You just sounds like ass. I dunno if I would want to subject myself to the rest of it, and I totally get the thrashing this got by critics, but if you liked this then there's a few other tracks you may like as well. I do think Mark Grondin's review of 'The Click' was the best. Especially since AJR saw it if I remember correctly.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Nov 6, 2017 0:17:43 GMT -5
This year the Alt chart is being bombarded by a lot of garbage, and all we can do is sit and watch listen (insert sad smiley, that for some reason doesn't appear properly)?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 6, 2017 23:23:07 GMT -5
Ngl I wanna listen to the album to see how bad it is (same reason why I listened to Misanthrope and the new Sleeping with Sirens album)
I actually posted Mark Grondin's review of the album on the first page, the only album he awarded a 1/10 so far. Might as well bring it up again since this song is getting more attention.
EDIT: Nearly done with the album as of this edit, and it's pure trash as I expected. The awful distorted noises and occasional vocals, the immature and poor-written lyrics, and uninteresting (and annoying at times) music, make this one of the worst albums of the year. Deserving of the 1/10 rating Mark gave.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Nov 7, 2017 1:59:55 GMT -5
Ngl I wanna listen to the album to see how bad it is (same reason why I listened to Misanthrope and the new Sleeping with Sirens album) I actually posted Mark Grondin's review of the album on the first page, the only album he awarded a 1/10 so far. Might as well bring it up again since this song is getting more attention. EDIT: Nearly done with the album as of this edit, and it's pure trash as I expected. The awful distorted noises and occasional vocals, the immature and poor-written lyrics, and uninteresting (and annoying at times) music, make this one of the worst albums of the year. Deserving of the 1/10 rating Mark gave. In other words It will be a big hit on Pop Albums?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 7, 2017 2:03:36 GMT -5
Ngl I wanna listen to the album to see how bad it is (same reason why I listened to Misanthrope and the new Sleeping with Sirens album) I actually posted Mark Grondin's review of the album on the first page, the only album he awarded a 1/10 so far. Might as well bring it up again since this song is getting more attention. EDIT: Nearly done with the album as of this edit, and it's pure trash as I expected. The awful distorted noises and occasional vocals, the immature and poor-written lyrics, and uninteresting (and annoying at times) music, make this one of the worst albums of the year. Deserving of the 1/10 rating Mark gave. In other words It will be a big hit on Pop Albums? )" class="smile">" class="smile"> Their album spent 8 weeks on the Billboard 200, but that was it, and the lead pop single like, only went top 30? Just quoting Mark again, because the album is just awful: "Fu ck this record, everyone at Warner Brothers* who bankrolled it, fu ck the culture that enabled it, and if you inflict this on anyone, fu ck you too." * - BMG actually distributed this album since they aren't with Warner anymore. I'd even take the Ded album over this lol. Just listen to the album at your own risk.
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Post by rainie on Nov 7, 2017 14:43:40 GMT -5
Daryl the Beryl out of curioisty were there any tracks you enjoyed off the album? As I said before I don't think these guys are completely incapable of making good music, and I'm wondering if there are any tracks I missed that are worth listening to.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 7, 2017 17:29:02 GMT -5
Daryl the Beryl out of curioisty were there any tracks you enjoyed off the album? As I said before I don't think these guys are completely incapable of making good music, and I'm wondering if there are any tracks I missed that are worth listening to. No. This and Weak are the best songs on the album but that's not saying much.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 8, 2017 2:39:25 GMT -5
Also holy crap I realized in the video, Mark put indie in quotations for the genre of the album, which was supposedly indie pop. Which I agree with since I don't even think this is indie lol
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Nov 8, 2017 3:15:11 GMT -5
Also holy crap I realized in the video, Mark put indie in quotations for the genre of the album, which was supposedly indie pop. Which I agree with since I don't even think this is indie lol for second I thought this was about me, because my name is also Mark and I saw something about Indie. Thank goodness I did a double take on this post.
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Post by Red on Nov 8, 2017 12:09:51 GMT -5
My curiosity got the best of me...I'm listening to The Click.
I'm an idiot.
Okay, finished with the album. How do I put this...you've probably listened to fun.'s album Some Nights, right? You may love it, you may hate it, but it's memorable and it was a massive album. Why do I bring up fun. here? Because The Click is basically what Some Nights would sound like if fun. was not interesting, had terrible production, sung about truly meaningless topics, had absolutely awful lyrics, sounded like whiny brats, and took their most obnoxious tendencies and upped them to 100. This...thing is a CHORE to sit through. It's not even an interesting kind of bad. It's just...bad. It basically takes the worst things about some very popular artists and makes them much, much worse. I want the near 50 minutes of my life back that I've wasted after listening to this.
And yes, "Weak" probably is the "best" song on this album. And that says a lot about how awful this album is.
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Nov 9, 2017 0:21:21 GMT -5
23 16 Up this week AJR Sober Up 1071 769 302 3.368 This is going to be a big hit. > I can't wait till we upgrade the worst songs of the 2017 year list . I'm gonna tank this fucker hard.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 13, 2017 3:46:58 GMT -5
Compiling my ranking of alternative songs in 2017 now and this is on it's course to end up last on my rankings, below Imagine Dragons AND Judah and the Lion. Don't get me wrong, most of their songs this year are awful, but if I were to make a choice, I'd take their turds to this turd.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 20:12:56 GMT -5
Compiling my ranking of alternative songs in 2017 now and this is on it's course to end up last on my rankings, below Imagine Dragons AND Judah and the Lion. Don't get me wrong, most of their songs this year are awful, but if I were to make a choice, I'd take their turds to this turd. And seeing from your playlist for the alt rankdown this may (unfortunately) make the top 100 at 100. And to rub salt in that wound that put One More Light at 102. Fuck alt radio for pushing this shit.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 20, 2017 20:14:28 GMT -5
Compiling my ranking of alternative songs in 2017 now and this is on it's course to end up last on my rankings, below Imagine Dragons AND Judah and the Lion. Don't get me wrong, most of their songs this year are awful, but if I were to make a choice, I'd take their turds to this turd. And seeing from your playlist for the alt rankdown this may (unfortunately) make the top 100 at 100. And to rub salt in that wound that put One More Light at 102. f**k alt radio for pushing this s**t. We're probably pulling both this and OML from this year's RD in the event they appear in 2018, which they should. We're pulling off the 2018 crossovers which didn't make the top 50.
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Post by rainie on Nov 20, 2017 20:17:20 GMT -5
And seeing from your playlist for the alt rankdown this may (unfortunately) make the top 100 at 100. And to rub salt in that wound that put One More Light at 102. f**k alt radio for pushing this s**t. We're probably pulling both this and OML from this year's RD in the event they appear in 2018, which they should. We're pulling off the 2018 crossovers which didn't make the top 50. This is almost certainly gonna make the list in 2018, but are we sure OML is? It's currently moving pretty slowly and I could see it dropping pretty quickly after peaking.
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 20, 2017 20:18:05 GMT -5
We're probably pulling both this and OML from this year's RD in the event they appear in 2018, which they should. We're pulling off the 2018 crossovers which didn't make the top 50. This is almost certainly gonna make the list in 2018, but are we sure OML is? It's currently moving pretty slowly and I could see it dropping pretty quickly after peaking. We'll see. Hence why I said 'probably'.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2017 20:24:41 GMT -5
And seeing from your playlist for the alt rankdown this may (unfortunately) make the top 100 at 100. And to rub salt in that wound that put One More Light at 102. f**k alt radio for pushing this s**t. We're probably pulling both this and OML from this year's RD in the event they appear in 2018, which they should. We're pulling off the 2018 crossovers which didn't make the top 50. So which other songs will probably get taken off the list because they’ll be crossovers?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Nov 20, 2017 20:27:22 GMT -5
We're probably pulling both this and OML from this year's RD in the event they appear in 2018, which they should. We're pulling off the 2018 crossovers which didn't make the top 50. So which other songs will probably get taken off the list because they’ll be crossovers? One Foot is the first one to come to mind. That's why we're waiting for a few weeks before we start 2017. Legendary too, especially the rate it's taking off now.
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Nov 20, 2017 21:04:46 GMT -5
I've heard this numerous times on the new Alt station here, and I honestly have to say it's become a guilty pleasure.
*ducks from flying tomatoes*
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Nov 21, 2017 4:52:32 GMT -5
The real question here is? Is this another "Commercial Jingle" under cloak?
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Post by Daryl the Beryl on Dec 3, 2017 6:08:24 GMT -5
Top 10 on Alternative:
11 10 AJR Sober Up 1706 1515 191 5.377
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Post by Butterflies & Hurricanes on Dec 3, 2017 14:57:27 GMT -5
I've been fortunate enough to have never heard this on the radio yet...but I know it's just a matter of time...the 2x I listened to it on here I found it extremely bland
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Post by Lordef†ones on Dec 3, 2017 15:31:48 GMT -5
Rivers Cuomo needs to be stopped.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2017 16:48:06 GMT -5
IF you guys think this stuff is bad you should hear the absolutely atrocious non-songs that are Bud Like You and Netflix Trip, where the singer compares his life to characters from The Office. Also I have friends who like AJR.
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Post by Green Baron on Dec 3, 2017 17:23:59 GMT -5
that's cause for excommunication
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Post by Doc Indie Party Rock on Dec 5, 2017 0:49:22 GMT -5
Top 10 on Alternative: 11 10 AJR Sober Up 1706 1515 191 5.377 I dreaded this day, but I knew it was coming.
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Post by Shadows in the Dark on Dec 12, 2017 15:12:42 GMT -5
While I'm not a fan of this by any means, I don't think it's as bad as other people here are saying. I'd take this over "No Roots".
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Post by Walking Contradiction on Dec 12, 2017 18:00:40 GMT -5
I've heard this numerous times on the new Alt station here, and I honestly have to say it's become a guilty pleasure. *ducks from flying tomatoes* Okay, that didn't last very long. I got tired of it really fast. Still won't be at the very bottom of my 2017 list though.
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Post by Green Baron on Dec 22, 2017 0:16:49 GMT -5
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Post by rainie on Dec 22, 2017 1:43:26 GMT -5
That's still higher then where Spectrum Pulse is gonna rank it though ;)
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