Rank a random album's tracklist

I'm going to randomly rank the tracklist of "Stronghold" by Summoning, because it is my #1 album of all time and the album I last listened to (for the 100th time).

1. The Rotting Horse On The Deadly Ground
2. Where Hope And Daylight Die
3. The Loud Music Of The Sky
4. A Distant Flame Before The Sun
5. The Glory Disappears
6. Long Lost To Where No Pathway Goes
7. Like Some Snow-White Marble Eyes
8. The Shadow Lies Frozen On The Hills
9. Rhun (It's last only because it's the instrumental intro and much shorter than the rest of the tracks)

Nice, we needed a new music thread that pacinoyes can post in every other day. Good topic too, I’ll do PIL’s debut

1. Public Image
2. Fodderstompf
3. Theme
4. Annalisa
5. Religion I and II
6. Attack
7. Low Life

That top 3 is really fucking strong but my top 2 off their next album (Memories and Swan Lake/Death Disco) would go over those 3

Think I’d probably have the same top 2 for Goo

Agalloch - Ashes Against The Grain

1. II - Bloodbirds
2. Fire Above, Ice Below
3. Not Unlike the Waves
4. Falling Snow
5. Limbs
6. Our Fortress Is Burning... I
7. This White Mountain on Which You Will Die
8. III - The Grain

Stranger Things inspired me to revisit Metallica's Master of Puppets album:

1. Master of Puppets
2. Orion
3. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
4. Battery
5. Damage, Inc.
6. Disposable Heroes
7. Leper Messiah
8. The Thing That Should Not Be

Love the top 5, like the bottom 3.

Well my last post just sent me down a rabbit hole of revisiting all the early Metallica albums, which I hadn’t listened to in their entirety in quite a while. I’ve been a fan of them for almost 20 years, and I never thought to rank the songs on their albums until now.

Kill 'Em All:

1. The Four Horsemen
2. Seek & Destroy
3. No Remorse
4. Phantom Lord
5. Hit the Lights
6. Whiplash
7. Metal Militia
8. Jump in the Fire
9. Motorbreath
10. (Anesthesia)-Pulling Teeth

Ride the Lightning:

1. Fade to Black
2. Creeping Death
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. The Call of Ktulu
5. Ride the Lightning
6. Fight Fire with Fire
7. Trapped Under Ice
8. Escape

...And Justice for All:

1. One
2. Blackened
3. Dyers Eve
4. Eye of the Beholder
5. The Shortest Straw
6. To Live Is to Die
7. The Frayed Ends of Sanity
8. Harvester of Sorrow
9. ...And Justice for All

Black Album:

1. The Unforgiven
2. Enter Sandman
3. Nothing Else Matters
4. Through The Never
5. Of Wolf And Man
6. My Friend Of Misery
7. Sad But True
8. Wherever I May Roam
9. Don't Tread On Me
10. The God That Failed
11. Holier Than Thou
12. The Struggle Within

1. Peter Bogdanovich
2. Communion
3. Lonely
4. I'd Want You
5. Groundhog Day
6. Nashville
7. 2 Wrecked 2 Care
8. Geography Teacher
9. Every Bottle is My Boyfriend
10. I Want to be a Cowboy Baby
11. I Don't Really Care For You
12. No More Virgos


Good album.   It's only a debut, so there's lots of room for growth.   I dunno what genre I'd classify this, but it's not country.   The Irish like country tho.   I recently talked to some Irish girls. (a lot of them here in Southern Cali)   I'll give it a 7.5

Peter Bogdanovich is by far my favorite.   #2-6 is the next tier.... those are good songs.   #7-9..... passable, slightly better than the next tier.   The rest..... moderately passable.

Beatles
Revolver (1966)

Might as well do Revolver too - not the GOAT album to me, or even best of '66 (that's Blonde on Blonde) or their best -(Rubber Soul) but for 9 tracks it's pretty unfnckwithable ......

She Said She Said - this is one of their greatest and most crucial songs imo and in the complex ascendent / descendent structure and its performance: poppy, yet boundary pushing, catchy, weird, it soars and bottoms out - hard to discern what it's about - until you are told what it's about - strangely comforting yet off and disorienting - menacing / threatening. A breakthrough song - like Norwegian Wood & A Day In The Life are in their peak 65-67 era.......which are similarly total horror stories masquerading as something else

Eleanor Rigby
For No One
Taxman
And Your Bird Can Sing
I’m Only Sleeping
Tomorrow Never Knows
Doctor Robert
I Want to Tell You

Here, There and Everywhere
Got To Get Into My Life
Love You To

Good Day Sunshine
Yellow Submarine

Take it away Courettes:

I can see that ^ - you know, everybody responds to different things.

If you've ever read pacinoyes song reviews you'll know what I respond to is a lyrical motif and how it's couched in the music. My Wet Leg "Piece of Shit" review was one of the best things I ever freakin wrote like that (imho) - and it got maybe - 1 like and 0 replies - screw you MAR - j/ k

What I love about the song is it goes up: "When I was a boy ......." countered to the descending answer "Making me feel like I've never been born....." (which is what I meant by "bottoms out") - the remembrance of youth is joy, the remembrance of the conversation however is sadness. There's nothing incongruous within the song and that performance - it's illustrative of the feel of the real life conversation - and that dichotomy.

So you dont know how to take the song (or I don't)......it's complicated .........and that's the opposite of most Beatles songs and most Pop songs in general which usually convey 1 idea and 1 mood. The song actually starts with  "She saiiiiiiiiid" ....... ascending and it ascends every time he sings it later as a starting point.

That's the same emotional effect as Norwegian Wood that many find beautiful - but to me quite clearly could be read as horrific - how you take it is on some level, complicated because you're involved in uncovering the layers of the song - it is not "passive" ........I tend to "read" songs the same way I "read" movies in a much more intuitive kind of way (you never hear me talk about tracking shots or ambient light - well not usually anyway)  .......you know, in general pacinoyes approaches music criticism as mostly apart from music theory even though I may go slightly into that territory ............... in Rock and Roll I'm basically a caveman who once read a book 

Metallica's "return to form" albums after the much-maligned St. Anger:

Death Magnetic

1. The End Of The Line
2. All Nightmare Long
3. Cyanide
4. The Unforgiven III
5. The Day That Never Comes
6. That Was Just Your Life
7. Suicide & Redemption
8. The Judas Kiss
9. My Apocalypse
10. Broken, Beat & Scarred

Really like the top 2, 3-8 are solid, last two are okay/fine

Hardwired... to Self-Destruct

1. Spit Out The Bone (probably their best pure thrash song since the And Justice for All days)
2. Atlas Rise
3. Dream No More
4. Here Comes Revenge
5. Halo On Fire
6. Moth Into Flame
7. Confusion
8. Hardwired
9. Murder One
10. Am I savage?
11. Manunkind
12. Now That We're Dead

Really like the top 2, 3-8 are solid, last four are okay/fine. I slightly prefer the songs on DM, but this album has far better production.

Megadeth - Rust in Peace

1. Hangar 18
2. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due
3. Five Magics
4. Tornado Of Souls
5. Lucretia
6. Rust In Peace... Polaris
7. Poison Was The Cure
8. Take No Prisoners
9. Dawn Patrol

I really like this album (their best), but it's not really close to Metallica's golden trilogy of 80s albums imo - Lightning, Puppets, & Justice - all of which have more sophisticated songwriting and better vocals (I've never really cared for Mustaine's voice, though it's tolerable I guess). Megadeth is more virtuosic in their musicianship, but it kind of makes them slightly more soulless and mechanical... still like them, but they're just missing that secret sauce that would make me want to go back to them more often...