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Extremely funny joke no one ever made ever

I know this is probably because they got hacked but it's really funny because the actual artist is credited in the SongDNA along with the official OM account

The song is a 1:23 US Trap (?) track, pretty boring too if you ask me

TL;DR: Last time I listened I didn't pay enough attention, still not my favourite album but it works well. Enjoyed this second listening session.

As one of you recommended me to do, I gave Disintegration another listen, after exactly 6 months. Unfortunately though, life has not hit me down a couple of times during these last 6 months.

I'd like to preface this by saying I listened to it together with a great friend of mine who's a massive Cure fan, on my home speakers, with lossless quality.

I definitely liked the album more than last time, which was probably a way too distracted listening session anyway (at least for an album like this). Talking was minimal and usually during the songs I already knew, so that I could focus on the music, and my friend made sure to make me read each song's lyrics carefully. I could understand the nuance of the music and the lyrics much better this way. I appreciated the ambience they created with the songs, although I would say that, with the songs being a little more varied, it was less cohesive than Pornography. The drums were effectively very simple, but that was to be expected. The drums worked well, the songs clearly weren't supposed to have a driving feel and having the same backbeat without much diversity is how you do that. The basslines had more fun and I appreciated that, they were less of a backing track surgically stitched on the drum beats and more floating with the rest of the music. The bassline on Fascination Street is very cool.

As per what I personally thought about the album:

The album wasn't bad and, like last time, there were some very good songs (like Lullaby, Fascination Street and so on) I genuinely enjoyed. Overall, I think it's a great album when you've got an hour of free time with a cup of tea and it's a cold rainy day outside, to sit on the sofa and kind of get lost in thought, maybe write something. I don't think it's an album that I would put on for an attentive listening session, dropping everything I'm doing to take a closer listen. I believe it lends itself very easily to sort of drop in the background and stay there, filling the air. Conceptually, it felt very close to Souvlaki by Slowdive. Musically, I enjoy Disintegration far more than I do Souvlaki (I don't even listen to the latter, a friend of mine put it on a couple of times), but these long entrancing instrumentals with vocals that just sit above them instead of harmonizing with them are a common aspect in both albums. I do understand why the vocals are made this way and I'm not criticizing it, yet I prefer when vocals mix and harmonize with the music itself (take Nude by Radiohead for example).

I wasn't there when the album was released, but I know that the socio-historical context of its release, like with almost any other work of art, did play a big part in cementing the album among the most influential and popular albums of all time, perhaps that's also something I'm inevitably missing.

To conclude, my last post was perhaps too hurried of a review. When I listened to, reportedly, "the best album of the 80s" and it sounded just ok to me, I immaturely immediately jumped to Reddit to let everyone know I didn't get it. I apologise for that.

I will keep expanding my musical journey (I mean of course, I'm a music fan what am I supposed to do) and maybe I will listen to this album again sometime and it will all finally click and I will have it on repeat for a week. I still prefer Pornography though.

Twinings Assam with sugar and milk, accompanied by Kweepeer spread on croissants.

Life isn't that bad after all

It's sad because the Pope actually spoke out against AI and I don't see the point in other users creating "Anti-AI propaganda" with... Generative AI.

Vendor in Porta Portese (famous used marketplace in Rome) gave me these two nice coins as change. I thought they looked cool, so I decided to look into them, apparently the left is a limited mint and the right just looks very cool. What do you all think? Do you like them?

Random shuffle btw