Aug 27, 2025 at 7:11 PM I wish they’d show Superbad at my campus wtf I haven’t seen it yet I’d love to see it on the big screen
Aug 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM The Tragically Hip - Up To Here Favorites: I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving Tonight), New Orleans Is Sinking RIPPER ROO’S RATING: 7/10 This isn’t necessarily my kind of music, it’s more my grandfather’s kind of music. Maybe I’ll have to show this to him sometime. It’s still good though. The songs are catchy while not being too basic due to having great guitar riffs and drums along with strong vocals that have presence. There’s even some decent storytelling on songs like “38 Years Old”. Since this isn’t necessarily my kind of music, I don’t have a ton to say about it although I can tell you how it makes me feel. It makes me wanna go out in the sun and get some work done. It makes me wanna get my hands dirty. This album could be a good motivator if you’re procrastinating. I like that a lot. If I was more into this kind of music I’d probably rate it a bit higher, but it’s still a nice album and worth listening to.
Aug 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM Bro you’re gonna loveeee it. I’ve only ever watched it on DVD, and I can tell that it’s gonna be incredible with an audience
Aug 27, 2025 at 10:19 PM It has been in my watchlist for a long time, and I’ve been wanting to watch it with friends. Maybe I’ll just bite the bullet and watch it solo sometime soon. Tbh, I wasn’t much of a movie guy outside of the MCU and other random flicks until about 2023 when I got Regal Unlimited
Aug 27, 2025 at 10:32 PM Lana Del Ray - Norman f---ing Rockwell! QUICK REVIEW Score: 9.0 Why the f--- did it take me so long to listen to this? I def now see why this album is so talked about in the music world, it deserves it. Admittedly, this is my first Lana record, but I knew what to expect going in because who hasn't heard a Lana song or at least a snippet of one in passing? However, this album did blow my expectations out of the water. There were tracks in here that went a little long, but it was never boring. I did not feel the length of Venice b---- at all, but tracks like The Next Best American Record and Bartender dragged a tad. For sure the weakest songs on the album (and while streams don't equal quality, they do also happen to be the least streamed songs on the album). The run from Norman f---ing Rockwell to California though...man oh man. The production, the vocals, the overall vibe hooked me immediately. What an album, will for sure stick in rotation. Amazing pick @Yeez ! @AOTWClub @Justin Trudeau 2025 AOTW Rankings: 1. h--- Hath No Fury - 9.0 2. Let God Sort Em Out - 9.0 3. Norman f---ing Rockwell! - 9.0 4. The Beatles - 9.0 5. I Didn't Mean to Haunt You - 9.0 6. Fantastic Planet - 8.5 7. Neon Bible - 8.0 8. Different Class - 8.0 9. It Was Divine - 7.0 10. Sir Lucious Left Foot…The Son Of Chico Dusty - 7.0 11. Based on a True Story - 7.0
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM @AOTWClub @Justin Trudeau Lana Del Rey - Norman f---ing Rockwell! I've given at least one listen to every Lana album except her latest a while and have enjoyed a few (Born To Die, NFR Chemtrails) but her style has never really been super for me and i also think shes a f---in weirdo, remember fellas don't do something you're not interested in just to have something to talk about to a woman you like lmao. That being said there is an undeniable talent here, I find the saccharine yearning for an old Hollywood Californian aesthetic to be a bit grating after a while but it doesn't mean she can't pull it off and she shows that in spades on this record. In a lot of ways this is her most mature album, it's one of the strongest relationships between good production, catchy melodies, solid songwriting in her catalog. This is Jack Antonoff at some of his best, he can feel asleep at the wheel when he's just doing his regular pop affairs but he does a great job providing the exact sound Lana thrives in. Lana herself sounds great on the record, her exact brand of airy whisper tone has never been my go to but she knows her range and how to work in it very well, I think the first 5 track run is pretty exceptional. Good opener that gets followed by the even better Mariners Apartment Complex. Venice b---- is very good, it's a bit long but it's pretty justified and the song sounds good so it's not a drag. f--- it I love you is a personal favorite, find it to be lyrically and melodically pretty great while being somewhat relatable. Doin' Time is a great cover of a song I already love, does justice to the original track by Sublime while completely fitting in her world and in the context of the record. Love Song, Cinnamon Girl, and How To Dissapear are also quite good (especially How To Dissappear) but this is some of my few problems with the album comes in. The songs listed above are mostly exempt from it but this record is long in the tooth for the kind of sounds it's going for in my opinion, now that could easily work in its favor if it's the kind of vocals and sounds you prefer but for someone like myself who sometimes feels like Lana is treading pretty similar water in different fonts it can wear on me a little. The run from California to Happiness is a butterfly is the section of the record where I think every song is just slightly too long, can feel like a bit of a slog despite how solid the songs are themselves. This is really a problem for me on the final track cause it's one of my favorites, something about the sound of that one clicks with me as more memorable than the songs before it. I don't really think there's a bad song on the record, all of it serves its place and this album deserves the praise it gets. I think it's pretty objectively good as an album and in the overall pop sphere is really refreshing but her music in general is not something I come back to very often for many of the quibbles I listed throughout the review. Favorite Songs: Mariners Aparment Complex, Venice b----, Doin' Time, f--- it I love you, hope is a dangerous thing for a woman to have RATING 8/10
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM I think the review sounds more negative than I actually feel about the album cause of my relationship to her discog as a whole but I implore y'all to listen to some of her other albums if you liked this one, there's definitely a variance in quality on some albums but when she hits she hits.
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:29 PM @DiggleDogg69 @jankland I’m glad y’all enjoyed the album!!!! I do agree that some of the songs on the backend are a bit long (I’ve never really been that into Bartender admittedly), but I’m glad y’all still enjoyed some songs. Also, update for the Superbad topic: It was awesome bro, there really is nothing like watching a good comedy in a crowded theater
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:44 PM For sure! I think NFR is a great album especially for people who want to have a great experience with this kind of pop, one of the best projects in this particular space for sure. Funny that Lana and The Weeknd used to make a decent bit of music together cause they're both artists who I think make objectively solid bodies of work but my ear doesn't connect with them in the way I wish it did cause I know for fact it's good music. There's just a weird barrier that stops me from truly loving it like I do some of my favorite artists but I always understand when people bring them up as personal favorites. h--- yeah. I love Superbad so much, I wish I could've had a theater experience with it. One of the last truly classic studio comedies.
Aug 27, 2025 at 11:49 PM They’re a great duo but I’ve always preferred The Weeknd’s duo with Ariana Grande
Aug 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM They did great together for sure. Off topic rq but I really like this song and decided to check out to video to find its actually sick as s--- lol. I think you'll enjoy
Aug 28, 2025 at 12:14 AM That was an insane video and song, wow I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing that. This really goes to show a lot of these artists gotta step their game up because there’s a lot of mid out right now.
Aug 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM Lana Del Ray- Norman f---ing Rockwell I wasnt very familiar with Lana before listening to this album, only knew her really from the feature on Midnights. The album sounded very familiar to me then I noticed often Taylor Swift collaborator Jack Antonoff had produced a large chunk of this album. Anyways i really enjoyed this album from front to back, gonna keep my review fairly short as work is a s--- show tonight. I loved how stripped back most of the songs are on here, her vocals sound amazing throughout. I really liked Mariners Apartment Complex, probably my favorite song on here. Venice b---- was too long, it was a solid song but just too long in my opinion. I also loved that she uses the "doin time" sample by Sublime, was super catchy! The production on songs like Love Song, Cinnamon and How to Disappear show off Antonoffs skill. Overall after 3 listens I really enjoyed this album, not my typical listen kinda like Wreckless but definitely a solid pop album. Score: 7/10 @AOTWClub
Aug 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM Lana Del Ray - Norman f---ing Rockwell! review Lana Del Ray is one of those artists that I was familiar with but never really checked out a full album from. To be fair that was probably the case because I find her fandom to be fairly annoying and edgy; her target audience makes me wanna gouge my eyes out with a spoon. That said, LDR’s music attracting a specific, adolescent and hormonally imbalanced audience is not her doing. We are here to talk about the music and nothing but. This is my opinion on Lana Del Ray’s Norman f---ing Rockwell! I liked the americana aesthetic of the title and the cover of this album. It made me really curious about how the whole thing would sound like. The first song, the title track, was a bit of a letdown and did nothing to pull me in. Although the production was very pretty, Lana’s writing did nothing for me whatsoever. This type of lyricism is what I was nervous about, I thought the entire album would be drenched in similar angsty cheesiness. Luckily I was proven wrong rather quickly by the songs that followed as I had pretty much no issue with any of the tracks in the run from Mariners Apartment Complex to California. I will say that the highs on this record are d--- high. And there sure is a ton of them. Tracks 2-8, The Greatest, and Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have are all excellent songs that genuinely increased my respect for LDR and her music. Upon my first listen I felt like the project is very lyrically inconsistent. It had sounded like the quality of Lana’s songwriting just didn’t endure in its best shape throughout. That quickly changed, though. Giving this album multiple spins and letting it marinate is definitely a must. There are some motifs and melodies in here that only clicked for me after multiple listens. For example, the chorus on Venice b---- sounded pretty out of place and awkward at first, but it later clicked and made this giant of a song stand even taller. Same goes for California, a song I initially found to be kind of cringeworthy. I now love it. The synergy between Lana and Jack Antonoff couldn’t be more apparent than it is on this record. They work together insanely well. Antonoff’s production is super consistent, beautiful, and luxurious throughout. It is as if he’d provided LDR with exactly the sounds she’d needed all along, and the result is a mature project with a clear vision and atmosphere. The songs on Norman f---ing Rockwell! are melancholic, gut-wrenching and almost catatonic. The project is a collection of sad ballads and a great display of both fantastic story-telling and grandiose compositions. My biggest gripe with this record, besides the title track being the way it is, would probably be Bartender and Happiness is a Butterfly. I did not care for what these songs did to the pacing of the album. If you’re not in the right mindset they can make the whole thing feel like a slog to get through. In contrast, although the final song was sonically similar, it sounded much more interesting and helped the album end on a high note. 8.5/10 Glad to have finally taken the time out to educate myself on Lana’s music. Thank you @Yeez for the pick; not only was this a very interesting listen, it was also a great summer album. This thing really does sound like late autumn, early september lmao. I had a great time with it. @AOTWClub @Justin Trudeau
