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FE Listens: The Hour of Bewilderbeast
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Post #1: 2nd Feb 2020 9:22 AM 
FE Listens - February Pick

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1. The Shining
2. Everybody's Stalking
3. Bewilder
4. Fall in a River
5. Camping Next to Water
6. Stone on the Water
7. Another Pearl
8. Body Rap
9. Once Around the Block
10. This Song
11. Bewilderbeast
12. Magic in the Air
13. Cause a Rockslide
14. Pissing in the Wind
15. Blistered Heart
16. Disillusion
17. Say It Again
18. Epitaph

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As a reminder, we have chosen to pick out songs that stuck out to us, or ones that you would listen to again/put on a playlist. There is no hard rule to what songs you have to include here, but they should just be the highlights of the album for you. Try to pick at least two, if you can, but you can throw on as many as you want here. (My normal habit with this is to put a small star next to a song right after I listen to it to remind myself that it stuck out to me.).

On top of this, we are giving the album an official rating from 1-10. Your rating can be off any system or scale that you choose, but here is a general scale just in case you are needing a little help pinpointing where it should be:

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10. A classic. One of your favorite albums of all time.
9. A great album. One of the best albums of the year.
8. A good album. You would suggest it to a friend.
7. An above average album. The songs hold up pretty well but the album won't change your life.
6. A promising album. There is potential for them to create great music, they just might not have perfected their sound.
5. An okay album. Your life is pretty unbothered after listening to it. You'd listen if it was on but nothing more.
4. An uninspired album. It has a few good songs but the rest were bad.
3. A disappointing album. You expected better from the album and artist and neither delivered on it.
2. A bad album. You would never go out of your way to listen to this artist or album again.
1. A horrible album. You can't understand how this album crawled its way out of a studio.


 
   
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Post #2: 2nd Feb 2020 9:24 AM 
So I've listened to this one before, and I remember really liking it. Some of the standout songs I remember are Camping Next to Water, Disillusion, Pissing in the Wind and Once Around the Block. Looking forward to listening again
 
   
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Post #3: 3rd Feb 2020 8:01 AM 
On track 4:

1. Spin will hate this
2. Every song sounds a like. I had no idea track 2 started because it sounded like track 1 kept going.
Curtis @ 25/7/2017 9:44
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Post #4: 3rd Feb 2020 9:12 AM 
eh, this is a forgettable album to me. I'll try to give it another listen to before voting but probably not.

Would be nice if we would vote a different genre. There's no difference in these selections.
Curtis @ 25/7/2017 9:44
Great job Ahoda

   
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Post #5: 3rd Feb 2020 9:24 AM 
Ahoda @ 3/2/2020 7:01
On track 4:

1. Spin will hate this
2. Every song sounds a like. I had no idea track 2 started because it sounded like track 1 kept going.


I remember disliking the preview song for this album, so if all the rest are the same, then yeah, I probably won't give it a listen.
 
   
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Post #6: 3rd Feb 2020 11:43 AM 
It got like 5 votes so I expect 5 ppl to somewhat like this?
Wasn’t me lol.
 
   
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Post #7: 3rd Feb 2020 12:26 PM 
well that review doesn't have me feeling hopeful about listening to the hour plus album now. :P I did vote for it, because of the sample song. And I didn't want to listen to the 90s albums that I've heard before.
 
   
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Post #8: 3rd Feb 2020 12:39 PM 
It's actually not bad to listen to in the background of playing Mafia or whatever. :P
 
   
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Post #9: 3rd Feb 2020 12:39 PM 
Christian @ 3/2/2020 13:26
well that review doesn't have me feeling hopeful about listening to the hour plus album now. :P I did vote for it, because of the sample song. And I didn't want to listen to the 90s albums that I've heard before.



you'd rather listen to music that sounds just like the music you just listened to ;)


All jokes aside, you'll like this album.
Curtis @ 25/7/2017 9:44
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Post #10: 3rd Feb 2020 12:56 PM 
but yes, when you do that however, they all do sound the same.
 
   
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Post #11: 3rd Feb 2020 12:57 PM 
I've made it all the way to song #7 so far.
 
   
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Post #12: 3rd Feb 2020 5:42 PM 
Perhaps I was catering to the crowd a bit in nominating this album. It's not the kind of thing I'd usually listen to....generally anything post 2000s is not something I'd listen to, because I'm a 'le wrong generation' boomer nerd who thinks rock music and tbh music in general is in a sorry state these days. All that aside...I thought this had something. Not much, but something. I'll see if my opinion changes on a second listen.

The only reason I came across it is because some guy who played bass for me briefly said my songs sounded similar. He thought he was a big influence on me and was surprised when I said I hadn't heard of him. Honestly I don't know what the fuck he was talking about because my songs sound nothing like this. (btw my music sucks and I'm not linking you guys to it)

Anyway, I do agree that similar stuff keeps getting nominated, and that a lot of people participating don't really get a look in, and there's no chance of them doing so with the way we currently run this.

I have an idea to remedy this. I propose we scrap the free for all nominations we currently have, and instead assign one person per month to take a turn. Perhaps they can nominate several albums and everyone can vote for their fav from there. This way everyone will get a turn, and we can guarantee that the music will be more varied.

Like this post if you agree with this proposed change, dislike if not.
 
   
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Post #13: 3rd Feb 2020 6:05 PM 
I don't currently have any motivation to carry on with song #8 and the rest right now.
 
   
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Post #14: 3rd Feb 2020 6:36 PM 
Christian dont be a quitter
Curtis @ 25/7/2017 9:44
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Post #15: 3rd Feb 2020 7:00 PM 
Ahoda @ 3/2/2020 19:36
Christian dont be a quitter

I'm not a quitter. I was giving an update. I said "right now", not forever. Silly.
 
   
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