This is a list of all the albums, EPs, demos, etc that I listened to in the month of October 2011. At the end are my reflections and a list of the live performances I saw this month as well.
10/1/11
Motley Crue – “Dr. Feelgood”
Manic Hispanic – “Mijo Jr. Goes to College”
Between The Buried And Me – “The Anatomy Of”
Amon Amarth – “Once Sent From The Golden Hall”
Poison Idea – “Feel the Darkness”
Jughead’s Revenge – “Pearly Gates”
10/2/11
Katatonia – “The Great Cold Distance”
Blood For Blood – “Spit My Last Breath”
Lionheart – “The Will to Survive”
Immolation – “Failure of Gods”
10/3/11
Kool Keith – “Sex Style”
Gorgoroth – “Destroyer”
Death Angel – “Frolic Through the Park”
The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart – S/T
Dum Dum Girls – “I Will Be”
Testament – “Demonic”
D.R.I. – “Crossover”
Suicide Silence – S/T EP
10/4/11
Terror – “Rhythm Amongst the Chaos” EP
Architecture In Helsinki – “In Case We Die”
The Gravitys – “3 demos” CD
First Blood – “Silence Is Betrayal”
Freddy Cruger aka Red Astaire – “Soul Search”
Anthrax – “Spreading the Disease”
10/5/11
John Coltrane – “Classic Coltrane” Disc 2
Body Count – “Cop Killer”
Discharge – “Why?” LP
A Faylene Sky – “The Hero VS Us” EP
Everyone Dies In Utah – “Seeing Clearly”
The Swellers – “My Everest”
Aiden – “Conviction”
Pagan Faith – S/T EP
The Mars Volta – “De-Loused in the Comatorium”
10/6/11
Rebirth Of Paradise – demo CD
The Coltranes – “Visions of Terror and Bliss” EP
10/7/11
Through Arteries – “The Life and Death Of…” EP
Scale The Summit – “The Collective”
XBXRX – “Wars”
Camper Van Beethoven – “II & III”
10/8/11
Supersuckers – “Motherfuckers Be Trippin’”
Decrepit Birth – “Polarity”
As They Burn Alive – “Premonition” EP
Decapitated – “Winds of Creation”
10/9/11
The Coltranes – “Visions of Terror and Bliss” EP
H2O – “FTTW”
Soul Inside – S/T
Samhain – “Initium”
Weezer – “Pinkerton”
Calexico – “The Black Light”
10/10/11
2ManyDJ’s – “As Heard on Radio Soulwax, Pt. 2”
Mannequin Men – “Lose Your Illusion, Too”
The Sounds – “Dying to Say This to You” UK extended version
46 Short – “Truth Denied”
Through The Eyes Of The Dead – “Malice”
Look Back And Laugh – S/T
V/A – “Spring Really Sucks”
The Hope Conspiracy – “Death Knows Your Name”
10/11/11
Quiet Company – “Everyone You Love Will Be Happy Someday”
TV On The Radio – “Dear Science”
To Speak Of Wolves – “Following Voices” EP
10/12/11
OutKast – “Stankonia”
Hoodie Allen – “Pep Rally” mixtape
The Mad – “Eyeball” 7”
The Mad – “The Hell” 7”
10/13/11
Massive Attack – “100th Window”
Deicide – S/T
Deicide – “Legion”
Red Hot Chili Peppers – “By the Way”
Burzum – “Aske” EP
10/14/11
Them Savages – “CBDMN” EP
Transit – “Keep This to Yourself”
Remembering Never – “She Looks So Good In Red”
10/15/11
Ringworm – “Justice Replaced By Revenge”
Biology – “Making Moves”
Bleeding Through – S/T
Los Lobos – “Good Morning Aztlan”
Blue Scholars – S/T
10/16/11
The Beatles – “Please Please Me”
Ruckus – “Of Malice and Men” EP
Crisis Arm – demos 6-song CD
White Wizzard – “Over the Top”
10/17/11
Four Year Strong – “It’s Our Time”
Down By Law – “Punkrockacademyfightsong”
Gallows – “Grey Britain”
Slick Rick – “The Art of Storytelling”
Kula Shaker – “Kollected: The Best Of”
Backtrack – “Deal With the Devil” EP
10/18/11
Dishwalla – “Pet Your Friends”
Stray From The Path – “Make Your Own History”
Cowboy Junkies – “At the End of Paths Taken”
Harms Way – “Isolation” EP
The Wedding Present – “Take Fountain”
Smashing Pumpkins – “Gish”
10/19/11
Every Time I Die – “New Junk Aesthetic”
Mouse On Mars – “Radical Connector”
The Devil Wears Prada – “With Roots Above and Branches Below”
Bouncing Souls – “The Good, The Bad, and The Argyle”
OK Go – S/T
The American Scene – “By Way of Introduction” EP
10/20/11
808 State – “Utd. State 90”
Dinosaur Jr. – “Bug”
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah – S/T
Rollins Band – “Weight”
Hilt – “Journey to the Center of the Bowl”
Walls Of Jericho – “The Bound Feed the Gagged”
Madball – “Legacy”
10/21/11
Amari R.U.M. – “She Don’t Know” promo CD single
Pet Shop Boys – “Discography: The Complete Singles Collection”
Adestria – “Oh, The Places” EP
Bad Manners – “Magnetism: The Very Best Of”
Snapcase – “Progression Through Unlearning”
10/22/11
Ocean 11 – “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly”
The Bunny The Bear – S/T
Texas – “Careful What You Wish For”
A Lot Like Birds – “Plan B”
Ra Ra Riot – S/T EP
As I Lay Dying – “The Powerless Rise”
Fugazi – “Steady Diet of Nothing”
10/24/11
Guns N Roses – “Chinese Democracy”
Soul Coughing – “El Oso”
Nine Inch Nails – “Pretty Hate Machine”
New Found Glory – “Sticks and Stones”
We Are The Ocean – “Cutting Our Teeth”
10/25/11
Brujeria – “Brujerismo”
I Set My Friends On Fire – “Astral Rejection”
Redlight Bluelight – “Firecracker”
The Evens – “Get Evens”
Wisdom In Chains – “Class War”
Quiet Riot – “Winners Take All”
Still Alive – 2-song 2011 demo CD
10/26/11
Erykah Badu – “Baduizm”
Reign Supreme – “Testing the Limits of Infinite”
USAISAMONSTER – “Sunset at the End of the Industrial Age”
No Bragging Rights – “The Consequence of Dreams”
High Places – “3/07-9/07”
Kalmah – “The Black Waltz”
10/27/11
Brutal Truth – “Evolution Through Revolution”
Soul Control – “Cycles”
Skinny Puppy – “The Greater Wrong of the Right”
Oh Fortuna – “The Fireworks of Human Love”
The Dear and Departed – “Something Quite Peculiar”
10/28/11
Wasted Youth – “Reagan’s In” EP
Fairmont – “Coloured in Memory”
Negative FX – LP
Relient K – S/T
10/30/11
CIV – “Set Your Goals”
Skarhead – “Kings At Crime”
Husker Du – “Zen Arcade”
Becoming the Archetype – “The Physics of Fire”
Samhain – “Final Descent”
Danzig – “Deth Red Saboath”
10/31/11
Dark Funeral – “The Secrets of the Black Arts”\
AFI – “All Hallow’s” EP
NOTES
- -“The Anatomy Of” could have been so much better
- -“Frolic Through the Park” is the funniest name for a straightforward thrash metal album
- -The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart are fucking DOPE!!
- -First Blood’s new CD is so political, which was unexpected, but what was expected is that it’s fucking badass
- -Body Count is terrible
- -I know this is a cliché, but “De-Loused” is still my favorite Mars Volta album
- -The Coltranes get better with every damn release they put out there, those limey bastards
- -God I love Scale The Summit and the Smashing Pumpkins
- -Why it took my this long to hear Camper Van Beethoven, Negative FX and Los Lobos is beyond me
- -I listened to more Samhain this month than I have in my entire life
- -I don’t see what the big deal about “Pinkerton” is, good or bad…I mean, it’s alright…
- -“The Black Light” is a beautiful album, Calexico is really good
- -The Destiny’s Child samples that 2ManyDJ’s uses towards the end of the album kind of soured me
- -The Sounds are just not my thing, the only song from the whole album that I liked was one from a commercial! On a related note, Hoodie Allen FUCKING SUCKS!
- - Quiet Company is good enough but there are just too many moments on their album where I think, “wait isn’t this part from another band’s song?”
- -I like “Dear Science” more than I like “Return to Cookie Mountain”
- -I am so white that I never listened to a full-length OutKast album until the 12th of this month and had never really heard Erykah Badu at all before the 26th :/
- -The Cowboy Junkies sound entirely different than what I expected them to sound like. On a related but opposite note, The Evens sound exactly like what I expected them to sound like.
- -Harms Way is sooo damn heavy.
- -OK Go and Adestria are both kinda annoying
- -I actually like Hilt more than Skinny Puppy, and that’s not just because I listened to one of SP’s shittier later-period albums this month
- -“Progression Through Unlearning.” ‘Nuff said.
- -Of all the modern-day female-fronted first-wave-throwback ska bands, Ocean 11 is probably the best
- -“Steady Diet of Nothing” is at once Fugazi’s heaviest and most underrated album
- -There is a general stink across the entire album and there are more than a handful of songs that straight-up suck, but “Chinese Democracy” has its moments, and it weirdly reminded me of the Pumpkins ‘comeback’ album “Zeitgeist”…I think Axl Rose and Billy Corgan have similar control problems and grandeur anxieties
- - Soul Coughing did a lot of the live sounds for Roni Size’s music. Who knew?
- -I was pissed at myself when I realized I didn’t have “Pretty Hate Machine” on my iPod already, I had that cassette tape when I was in 5th grade fordanzigssake
- -The concept behind Brujeria is the coolest shit I’ve ever heard
- -It had been way too long since I had listened to Kalmah
- -Relient K’s otherwise inoffensive Weezer music is just made horrible by the obvious and constant Jesus references, gooood its annoying
- -The new Danzig album is actually pretty good
I also saw Alpha & Omega, Terror, Crisis Arm, Them Savages, North Americans, Burn Infinite, One X Choice, Blood Stands Still, Ruckus, Wisdom In Chains, Danzig, Samhain, and Danzig & Doyle Performing The Misfits live this month
Seeing Danzig sing Misfits songs was one of the coolest things I've ever witnessed.
