Omnipotent Youth Society (万能青年旅店) in tier list
I definitely like it a lot. That said, these songs are often long and instrumental, a combo I always struggle with. It’s mostly a mix of purely instrumental shorter songs and 8+ minute songs with lyrics. That’s tough.
But I do like it, it’s enjoyable to listen to, it’s pretty quality stuff. I think this is a high C+, at least at first. Maybe it’ll grow on me more as time goes on to the point that I am invested in it, that I really love it, but right now it’s more that I recognize that it’s clearly good and high quality. I respect it, and I enjoy it, but it doesn’t captivate me. It certainly doesn’t feel worth the breaks it makes with my rules of thumb on length and instrumental stuff. When I stop and give it my full attention it’s easier to feel like it’s worth it because I become more able to recognize the thought put into every element, the decisions behind designing the sound. But that’s still not enough.
Maybe someday in the future those things will outweigh my difficulties listening, but that day is not today. For now, I’m gonna say that I like it, I respect it, and I’d love to like it more in the future— I just can’t like it that much right now.
RELISTEN1: I’m genuinely surprised I didn’t mark these as good albums when I first listened to them. I think I did in my brain, because I knew it was good, I knew it was quality, I just struggled with it because it was so long, the 9 minute songs are tough for me. But I didn’t mark it as a good album in my good album list I keep for myself. I suppose I was waiting for it to grow on me, and it did. It definitely did. I still think the long long songs aren’t my preference, but I can’t deny how rich and colorful everything this band makes is. Plus, there are a couple standout songs that are just bangers. Like, 大石碎胸口? The horns at the end of that go hard, man.
It’s not necessarily light listening but boy has it grown on me, I sure do like it. I understand why I originally gave a C+, that makes sense to me, but I think I’m gonna give it the C to A bump. The Cs are for things that I want to like more than I do, that are great… but, blah blah blah. I wanted to like this band more than I did, and now I do. It’s still kind of thick in my mind, if that makes sense. I like it a lot, but I think right now I appreciate it more than I like it, y’know? So while that appreciation might generate more like later, right now I think I still only like it enough for an A-
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