adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 20, 2020 18:39:08 GMT -5
adamclark52s Top Ten Disappointments of 2020 SO, HOW WAS YOUR YEAR? MINE WAS OKAY. IF ANYTHING IT WAS A LITTLE BORING. BUT I SAW SOME GOOD MOVIES, GOT SOME br00tal NEW TATTOOS, STARTED A NEW JOB, ETC. THAT'S NOT TO SAY THERE WEREN'T A FEW THINGS THAT RUFFLED MY FEATHERS THIS YEAR. SO LET'S BEGIN, SHALL WE.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 20, 2020 18:50:37 GMT -5
10. Anaal Nathrakh - EndarkenmentAnaal Nathrakh are a funny, funny band to me. They release albums at a pace you can set your watch to, every other year at almost the exact same day. And like clockwork for the last ten years, they released albums of varying quality that was almost as predictable. And stranger still those albums were all almost the same but I could pick out ones I liked more than others. Since 2009 it has gone: In the Constellation of The Black Widow (2009): good Passion (2011): bad Vanitas (2012): good Desideratum (2014): bad The Whole of the Law (2016): good A New Kind of Horror (2018): ba…wait a second? That one was really good too. What gives? So I wasn’t sure what to expect with Endarkenment. Would they hit three home runs in a row? Or would they continue their trend after one blip in the system? Sadly it was the latter. And it’s not like it was even a “bad” album. It just wasn’t…good. I’ll file it with Desideratum and Eschaton as those albums that I have to Google the spelling of their titles. If anything the band has to take a step back for a while. Maybe take a good five years off and then come back when not one is expecting anything. Make it mean something other than "oh, it's fall in an even numbered year, time for a new Anaal Nathrakh album". And the pig face penis cover is beneath them.
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Gus Richlen Was Wrong
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Post by Gus Richlen Was Wrong on Dec 20, 2020 22:14:50 GMT -5
I only heard the title track from that album, and even as someone who loves just about everything Anaal Nathrakh... that track SUCKED.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 21, 2020 2:58:08 GMT -5
I only heard the title track from that album, and even as someone who loves just about everything Anaal Nathrakh... that track SUCKED. There were only a few songs I liked and even those were just because of a cool sample in the background ( the Age of Starlight Ends) and made up of parts of songs from the last two albums I really liked ( Feeding the Death Machine and Singularity.
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Post by Mike Strike on Dec 21, 2020 5:37:27 GMT -5
The realization that the last movie I may ever see in a theater was ****ing Sonic.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Dec 21, 2020 7:10:07 GMT -5
The realization that the last movie I may ever see in a theater was ****ing Sonic. Given how adorable that movie was, it was a worthy farewell IMO.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 21, 2020 7:25:31 GMT -5
I feel like it would be easier to make a list of ten things in 2020 that weren't disappointments. Even then you might have to cut it down to five.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 21, 2020 7:47:22 GMT -5
Man that Anaal Nathrakh album is probably going to be my album of the year unless the new Deeds of Flesh album is better (haven't been able to listen in full yet).
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 22, 2020 3:13:25 GMT -5
9. Mushroomhead – A Wonderful LifeI really shouldn’t have and don’t have very high expectations for a Mushroomhead album but even they’re capable of better than this. There is literally one song on it that I can tolerate and that’s the very first song on the album A Reqiuem For Tomorrow. After that there’s sixteen (yes, SIXTEEN) songs that I never want to hear again in my life. Well, I listened to them again maybe six months after the album came out just to see if they were as bad as I remembered and I made it about halfway through before I remembered that it was. I can say that a lot of the problem lies in new vocalist Jackie LaPonza because she is pretty horrible. But she’s not even the lead vocalist on the album. It’s a group effort of sucking. Their last album wasn’t very good either and didn’t really have anything for me until about midway through. But this was just shit. And now you can say “well Adam what did you expect? Mushroomhead are shit”. I’m not going to disagree with you this time around. If they were a really good band then this would have made it a lot higher on the list.
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Post by salz4life on Dec 22, 2020 10:06:05 GMT -5
The realization that the last movie I may ever see in a theater was ****ing Sonic. Same!
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 23, 2020 3:26:06 GMT -5
8. Big Tits ZombieI had really high hopes that this movie would meet my really low standards. I’m a simple man. An old man. A lonely man. I have certain perversions that are often satisfied by a certain type of cinema. Am I supposed to deny myself my self? I watched quite a few horror movies from Japan this year and with a title like that, a cover like that and the beautiful Sora Aoi in the lead I thought I’d hit the motherload. But I’ve seen much better in both the areas of skin and violence from Japanese ultra-gore. I guess story too, but who watches these movies for story? There was skin. And there was violence. Not enough though. I was expecting a non-stop barrage of both. I was much more satisfied with Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 23, 2020 11:31:47 GMT -5
The realization that the last movie I may ever see in a theater was ****ing Sonic. That would've been mine if not for the fact I saw Empire Strikes Back last month.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Dec 23, 2020 12:40:23 GMT -5
8. Big Tits ZombieI had really high hopes that this movie would meet my really low standards. I’m a simple man. An old man. A lonely man. I have certain perversions that are often satisfied by a certain type of cinema. Am I supposed to deny myself my self? I watched quite a few horror movies from Japan this year and with a title like that, a cover like that and the beautiful Sora Aoi in the lead I thought I’d hit the motherload. But I’ve seen much better in both the areas of skin and violence from Japanese ultra-gore. I guess story too, but who watches these movies for story? There was skin. And there was violence. Not enough though. I was expecting a non-stop barrage of both. I was much more satisfied with Zombie Ass: Toilet of the Dead. With a title like that how can anything live up to it?
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 23, 2020 13:25:02 GMT -5
With a title like that how can anything live up to it? America: "Piranha 3DD is the most horndog-appealing movie title of the century." Japan: "ビッチお願いします"
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 24, 2020 2:18:29 GMT -5
7. Revenge - Strike.Smother.DehumanizeRevenge are another one of those bands much like Anaal Nathrakh who have pretty much released the exact same album for their entire career but I somehow manage to pick something out to differentiate them. On this new album they really overdid the pitch-shifted vocals to the point where it got real old and even annoying. They used them quite effectively on their last album (2015’s ‘Behold.Total.Rejection’) but this time around they were used in pretty much every song and it was too much. And the album lacked that one song with “that moment”, like the ending of Conquest Genocide (from ‘Triumph.Genocide.Antichrist’) or a meaty riff like the one in Doom Order (from ‘Victory.Intolerance.Mastery’). I still applaud them for their laser focus to consistency on all fronts of their presentation but it felt like this time around they were trying too hard to meet people’s expectations for a Revenge album.
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Post by edgestar on Dec 24, 2020 16:22:24 GMT -5
I have a concussion. That's pretty disappointing.
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adamclark52
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 26, 2020 18:29:43 GMT -5
6. New Model Cars (f*** you, I’m old)Buying a new car was an inevitability that I held off on as long as I could. I was happy with my 2009 Mazda3 Hatchback but I also felt like a donk because it didn’t have features that are standard these days; like a back-up camera, Bluetooth, cruise control or a cap on the gas tank. It had a wicked Cannibal Corpse sticker on the back window that somehow lasted since I bought the car in 2012. All good things come to an end and I had to say goodbye to it in August. So I got me a “brand new” (used) 2019 Mazda3 Sedan with all the bells and whistles…and no CD player since vehicles produced after 2018 eliminated them. That was a kick in the teeth that I knew was coming for about a year and a half since I bought my last van and the dealer couldn’t believe that a 2017 model still had one. And you think car audio shops can install an aftermarket CD player? Nope. So instead I had to buy a f***ing discman (which are somehow still in production) and now I have this big stupid thing sitting on my dashboard. It reminds me of the scene in Wayne’s World where (after he’s signed his first big deal) him and Cassandra are driving and he puts a CD in an external CD player on his dashboard and she’s blown away that he has a CD player in his car. Except the opposite. Now if someone saw me put a CD in an external player they’d have a different look of disbelief on their face. f*** you, I’m old. I still listen to CDs. But this is a huge nail in the coffin and I can see myself gravitating away from them in the next few years. Oh, plus the car is a piece of shit. No guts. Terrible milage. Weak-ass stereo. The trunk isn’t insulated while I’m driving thanks to my snow tires make it sound like I’m in a helicopter. Not to mention the CD player doesn’t have a backlight so I can’t tell what song is playing.
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 27, 2020 19:12:07 GMT -5
5. Salem – Fires in HeavenOn September 28th, 2010 Salem released the greatest album of the decade that was the 2010’s: the behemoth known as King Night. Almost ten years to the day (on October 30th, 2020) they finally released the follow-up to their masterpiece. While it’s a f***ing good album it’s understandably impossible to follow perfection. The album has some glaring problems; the worst of which is the beginning and the end. Opener Capulets is…not a good song. So right from the start I was turned off and worried. And closer Not Much of a Life is…terrible. It’s just terrible. So in the end I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth. The nine songs those bookended though are incredible. But BUT they’re all just way too short. That’s a good bad thing. I want more of all these songs. The title track and Sears Tower are destined to be timeless classics for the ages. Crisis has this twisted feel that would have been more than at home on King Night. Starfall is audio heroin. But they all feel like they’re just parts of songs. They have "it" in them but they're still keeping it to themselves. I guess it comes down to feeling like that after ten years I didn’t get my fill of Salem. I’m hungry for more. And of it takes another ten years to get another serving I don’t know what I’ll do.
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Post by chazraps on Dec 27, 2020 19:34:58 GMT -5
5. Salem – Fires in HeavenOn September 28th, 2010 Salem released the greatest album of the decade that was the 2010’s: the behemoth known as King Night. Almost ten years to the day (on October 30th, 2020) they finally released the follow-up to their masterpiece. While it’s a f***ing good album it’s understandably impossible to follow perfection. The album has some glaring problems; the worst of which is the beginning and the end. Opener Capulets is…not a good song. So right from the start I was turned off and worried. And closer Not Much of a Life is…terrible. It’s just terrible. So in the end I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth. The nine songs those bookended though are incredible. But BUT they’re all just way too short. That’s a good bad thing. I want more of all these songs. The title track and Sears Tower are destined to be timeless classics for the ages. Crisis has this twisted feel that would have been more than at home on King Night. Starfall is audio heroin. But they all feel like they’re just parts of songs. They have "it" in them but they're still keeping it to themselves. I guess it comes down to feeling like that after ten years I didn’t get my fill of Salem. I’m hungry for more. And of it takes another ten years to get another serving I don’t know what I’ll do. Wait...*this* Salem?
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Post by adamclark52 on Dec 27, 2020 20:40:25 GMT -5
5. Salem – Fires in HeavenOn September 28th, 2010 Salem released the greatest album of the decade that was the 2010’s: the behemoth known as King Night. Almost ten years to the day (on October 30th, 2020) they finally released the follow-up to their masterpiece. While it’s a f***ing good album it’s understandably impossible to follow perfection. The album has some glaring problems; the worst of which is the beginning and the end. Opener Capulets is…not a good song. So right from the start I was turned off and worried. And closer Not Much of a Life is…terrible. It’s just terrible. So in the end I was left with a really bad taste in my mouth. The nine songs those bookended though are incredible. But BUT they’re all just way too short. That’s a good bad thing. I want more of all these songs. The title track and Sears Tower are destined to be timeless classics for the ages. Crisis has this twisted feel that would have been more than at home on King Night. Starfall is audio heroin. But they all feel like they’re just parts of songs. They have "it" in them but they're still keeping it to themselves. I guess it comes down to feeling like that after ten years I didn’t get my fill of Salem. I’m hungry for more. And of it takes another ten years to get another serving I don’t know what I’ll do. Wait...*this* Salem? it sure is!
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