A Modest Construct
enduring iconoclast. persistent nihilist. love machine.
Friday Random Ten XCV
The “All done with this semester” edition
- John Vanderslice • Exodus Damage
- the Gathering • Shot to Pieces
- Pain of Salvation • Brickwork Ascend 1
- Agalloch • The Lodge
- Aereogramme • In Gratitude
- HIM • It’s All Tears
- Evereve • A Part of You
- Jesu • Tired of Me
- Solefald • Fraternité de la Grande Lumiére
- Mastodon • Shadows That Move
No one ever says a word about so much that happens in the world:
- The Smedley Log (why can’t all Live albums be as good as Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi?
- Winter Spring Summer (Under the Pink = Best. Amos. Ever.)
- Rusty’s Kingdom (A philosophical FRT question: should 12-second tracks be elided in deference to full-length songs?)
- Faux Real, Tho (Lenny Kravitz built this garden for us… on rock ‘n’ roll)
- The BM Rant (I think Mellon Collie… might just be one of the best alternative albums of the 1990s)
2 trackbacks
“why can’t all Live albums be as good as Throwing Copper and Secret Samadhi?”
- most people would chop that comparison down to just Throwing Copper, with great songs like Waittress ,TBD (imo) the horse song and a few other gems. You may be one of the few people I’ve encountered who (like me) would also include Samadhi as one of their good ones. I personally loved it.
To be sure, Throwing Copper is—hands down—my favorite, but I think Secret Samadhi was cut from the same cloth.