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Post by castleoblivion26 on Aug 5, 2021 19:00:25 GMT -5
it was what I wanted to see the least but honestly I did like all 3 songs so I'm not really upset lol The entire album was really good Great job hosting 🌺CountryLineDancer! |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Jan 6, 2023 2:11:29 GMT -5
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Jan 15, 2023 16:36:16 GMT -5
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Feb 17, 2023 16:31:55 GMT -5
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Post by nathanalbright on Feb 17, 2023 21:10:17 GMT -5
Alright, I'll add this one in, thanks for the reschedule.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Feb 28, 2023 14:30:12 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Feb 28, 2023 16:39:51 GMT -5
I'm going to do this!
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 3, 2023 3:55:06 GMT -5
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Post by tim on Mar 3, 2023 4:00:48 GMT -5
Don't y'all go sleeping out on this one...it's a great album!
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 3, 2023 10:39:11 GMT -5
I'll do it sometime over the weekend!
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 4, 2023 18:33:18 GMT -5
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Post by bboat11 on Mar 5, 2023 14:24:57 GMT -5
I'll try to get it done today! The first album we did was quite good!
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 6, 2023 15:58:39 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 6, 2023 16:38:17 GMT -5
WHERE does time keep going? You WILL have a list from me by midnight PST.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 7, 2023 13:29:41 GMT -5
WHERE does time keep going? You WILL have a list from me by midnight PST. And I indeed received the Tapatalk message notification at 11:58 last night! |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 16, 2023 23:50:31 GMT -5
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 16, 2023 23:51:50 GMT -5
These tractors don’t know what they’re missing smh
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 16, 2023 23:52:05 GMT -5
#12 "Biggest Fan"
Total: 73 Average: 9.13 Std Dev: 1.76 (Lowest)
CLD's ThoughtThis song is fine, but it is just lacking the punch or energy that she has in many of the songs in this album (and main reason I enjoyed this album. The overall melody is not bad, but it could have been a little less flat for the song to be a little more interesting. |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 17, 2023 0:06:02 GMT -5
#11 "Look What We've Become"
Total: 69 Average: 8.63 Std Dev: 3.67 (3rd Highest)
This song has a decent verse, but I just feel like the chorus melody to be not as engaging as the other songs. By the end of the song, the song started being repetitive to my ears. |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 17, 2023 0:20:29 GMT -5
#10 "Instigators"
Total: 67 Average: 8.38 Std Dev: 3.08
Instigators is leaving a little too early imo. This song is full of energy, which I did not expect when the song started with some sound that kinda reminds of some computer games lol. How she sings "You, me, together we're gonna be" part is quite satisfying, and the supporting vocal is adding extra energy into this song. Adding up with the guitar bridge, it is a strong rock song imo. |
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Post by SHOOTER on Mar 17, 2023 0:21:04 GMT -5
I love this entire album so even the bottom-3 is still a solid B/B- in my book.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 17, 2023 0:32:11 GMT -5
#9 "Delirious"
Total: 53 Average: 6.63 Std Dev: 3.07
CLD's ThoughtThis song kinda has infectious chorus melody, but the unique part obviously was the mood change of the song. There is a instrumental slow part after 3 minutes, and come back to Grace's "screaming" at the end. As I mentioned, I do like the energy that she puts into this album, and this song is uniquely delivering that, but the screaming was a little too excessive to my ears. I feel like it should sound better if I were to actually listen to this in a concert, but at least for the audio version, I was unable to enjoy the last part of the song as much as the first part. |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 17, 2023 0:34:58 GMT -5
Also, I discovered an album review thread that our fellow participant nathanalbright created, so I am quoting his review here! I was like he does not show up to the RD reveal that often, but noticed that he has all the comments on his thread! Midnight, by Grace Potter Some artists tend to fall in-between genres, and it can be hard for those of us who are not deeply involved in those fanbases or genres to really appreciate. Grace Potter, for example, is an artist that I am not greatly familiar with but who has a certain amount of passionate fans. Normally, this tends to alienate me from an artist, but given that I tend to enjoy both the sort of country/Americana/Adult Alternative that this artist tends to straddle between, I was willing to give this album a listen and see how much I enjoyed it. Despite the genre confusion that this artist is involved in, is there a coherent and enjoyable sound that this album presents? Let's find out. The album begins with "Hot To The Touch," a song that rocks surprisingly hard about what seems like a doomed relationship, but one that is filled with a great deal of infatuation. "Alive Tonight" is an upbeat song and pleasant enough, but not a song that tends to offer a great deal of depth beneath the repetitive hook and the admittedly energetic instrumentals. "Your Girl" is a song about a really confusing romantic situation where the narrator's fondness for the girl of the object of the song keeps her from going further with someone who keeps on trying to get with her. "Empty Heart" is a bluesy song about the artist's seemingly unsuccessful efforts to start a relationship with someone who has been through a tough time, with an upbeat pseudogospel choir but a repetitive hook. "The Miner" is a lovely song with intricate instrumentation about a dysfunctional relationship with someone who keeps breaking the narrator down, never a good thing. "Delirious" shows an insomniac narrator wanting to enjoy some late night sort of activity with other people who are awake like she is. The concept is an interesting enough one, but not fleshed out with a lot of detail, and filled with a fairly commonly repetitive hook, but at least the lengthy instrumental coda adds interest to the song. "Look What We've Become" is a driving song that seems dedicated to those who were negative about the artist and some unspecified "us," but again the details are rather sketchy about who the other person or people are included in the titular "we" or what indeed they have become. "Instigators" is another driving and highly repetitive song where the singer tries to make herself appear to be some sort of bad girl who starts trouble with others. "Biggest Fan" offers encouragement to someone she wants to sweep away who she considers herself the biggest fan of, which offers a somewhat dark and obsessive view of love, but also one that is unfortunately all too self-absorbed. "Low" offers a promise of commitment and encouragement, but while it has interesting music, the lyrics are pretty repetitive, far more so than one would expect for an act aiming for AAA superstardom. "Nobody's Born With A Broken Heart" tries to give a story about lonely people, but even if the intent is good and the music and production are excellent, the song itself has sketchily themed lyrics and a repetitive hook like so many other songs here. The album ends with "Let You Go," which given the title is predictably a sad piano ballad about what appears like the collapse of the singer's marriage to her former bandmate which appears to have prompted the unrecognized collapse of her group and the solo turn represented by this album. The extent to which you enjoy this album depends a great deal on what sort of expectations you bring to the album. I expected a country album that would have rich lyrical detail and ended up with an album that reminded me of pop music that is not popular, where one does not necessary understand why. By and large, the production and instrumentation on this album is excellent, but the songs are consistently underwritten, with repetitive hooks and lyrics that try to evoke feelings that they do not earn with their writing. This is an album one can enjoy well enough if it appeared on the radio, but it doesn't really leave any sort of deep resonance that comes from a well-crafted song. This material reminds me of Andrew Gold, the sort of singer-songwriter who tries to do everything while lacking in lyrical depth simply because they were successful enough and were told that they were good enough to do it all. This album would have been bettered by some time spent re-writing the songs and making them more detailed and less dependent on the supposed charm of the singer that seems wasted on me, at least. This is by no means a bad album, but it was disappointing. |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 17, 2023 0:35:41 GMT -5
Since bboat11 went for supper, I'm also gonna go home and put the reveal on hold! Have a good Midnight everyone! |
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Post by .indulgecountry on Mar 17, 2023 0:47:40 GMT -5
Well damn, I'm flopping so far.
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 21, 2023 18:59:04 GMT -5
#8 "Your Girl"
Total: 52 Average: 6.5 Std Dev: 2.69 (2nd Lowest)
CLD's ThoughtWhile the vocal performance and melody was on the less distinct side, compared with other songs on the album, I quite enjoyed the lyrics and delivery here. The repetition of "Wish I never Met Your Girl" delivers the desperation of the narrator, but at the same time, we all know that the narrator ended up having another affair, and the mood of the song effectively delivers her underlying evil thought that having affairs without meeting "your girl" was no problem |
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Post by 🌺CountryLineDancer on Mar 21, 2023 19:15:23 GMT -5
#7 "Nobody's Born With a Broken Heart"
Total: 50 Average: 6.25 Std Dev: 3.46
The lyrics and production of this song has a very positive vibe, and I kinda wish that Grace placed this song at the end of the album, as I feel like it is a good fit as a closing track. It does not have the energy that I enjoy, but I quite like the lyrics on the verse. |
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