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Slint’s Spiderland is a depressingly intense pinnacle of creativity for a variety of underground rock styles.
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FAV TRACKS: BREADCRUMB TRAIL, NOSFERATU MAN, FOR DINNER…, GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN, WASHER
LEAST FAV TRACK: DON, AMAN…..if i had to pick….
SLINT – SPIDERLAND / 1991 / TOUCH AND GO / MATH ROCK, POST-ROCK, POST-HARDCORE, INDIE ROCK,
classic/10
Y’all know this is just my opinion, right?
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“i’m trying to find my way home… i’m sorry… I MISS YOU!!”
this is first time i’ve actually sat down to watch one of your videos, and i did it because i love this album so much. this album is everything thing that you said and more. whenever i am red in the face angry i can just put this on and all of my anguish just melts away into the background as the album just captivates me and doesn’t let go. i would probably put this album in my top 5 albums, which is a hard thing to do; but it would be up there with other gems like ok computer.
The song “washer” is my favorite.
this album is amazing, the artwork is perfect
It’s a really good album. I dare say it speaks to me pretty clearly across all the tracks, really emphasizing the story with the instrumentals, which is exactly how an artistic album like this should be written. I would place it pretty high on my list.
Please review Squirrel Bait, such a classic.
This album meant so much to me in the 1990s. I still love it.
I found this review way needy. It did not offer any insight into the album that 20-odd years of intervening music criticism didn’t. Wow, 6 tracks, running time reveal. FFS.
I know/feel as a Kentuckian that everybody who has listened to this album has started a band. Much like the velvet underground and Nico album, but I guess more local
AND I FLEW OUT MY BACK DOOOOR
I have the same van huessen shirt
ahhh…. the hippster`s
best watched on weed
CREEEEPING UP INTO THE SKYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
Idiot. Their style comes from hardcore stuff from that late 80s. Tempo changes etc are endemic there, but I guess you have have no idea about that. But you probably weren’t alive then. Just more crap by people who’ve never been in a band let alone don’t listen to a particularly wide range of music from that period. Yeah, ‘I was there’ is a probably a cliche but who cares – you weren’t there, and trying to pigeon-hole it all just makes you another music journo 😉 This album, at the time, was just one of those things. No biggie. Somehow it’s now some big deal, but to be honest at the time it was okay but other bands (i.e Codeine, with ‘The White Birch’) had beat them to it. Slint were good, no mistake, but they were a bit behind the times at the time.
what about a review about one of the sunny day real estate albums?
i like your beach house shirt in this video anthony
A few seconds after 5:40, Anthony, you say that there are lyrics in Nosferatu Man about drinking blood. Can you elaborate on that? I didn’t hear anything on that track about drinking blood, but I wanna know what you do.
for those who haven’t seen the Breadcrumb Trail documentary, torrent it today
the drums on this album are magical
Am I THE only one who prefers Tweez??
2:32 Todd Brashear. Buckler was in tweez
Please, make a review of Talk Talk – Spirit of Eden
Tweez is my favorite album. This one is very good too.
am i the only one who thinks this album is boring?
Great review but buckler didn’t play bass on this. He left after tweez. The bass is by Todd brashear
y’suk
Breadcrumb Trail’s build strikes me as ecstatic in nature rather than just dismal.
im sorry…. and I miss you
Yo Fantano. In Breadcrumb Trail, the rollercoaster symbolizes sex. Nosferatu man is about pushing away people who get close to you which is common to really neurotic people, avoidant and narcissistic in particular. Think Notes from the Underground. In Good Morning Captain, the child is his past self. He feels like he betrayed himself like citizen Kane almost.
It makes a lot of sense almost as a linear story if you think about it.
just listened to this album after studying Mary Shelly and Edgar Allen Poe, fucking perfect timing really such a fantastic piece of eerie story telling
please do a review for Hole’s Live Through This.
What’s the red album on the shelf?
there is nothing about this album that doesn’t scare the living fuck out of me.
Review Human=Garbage by Dystopia at some point. That is probably my favorite album ever, if I were forced to pick.
Nice job on the review! Really good description. I just rediscovered “Spiderland” for like the 10th time. Just keeps getting better. Seems to be my go-to for dreary winter months – many gray cold days I pull into my work parking lot with it at full volume, park, turn it off, and walk into work like nothing happened. But something did happen, oh yes. Ha! great stuff.
Literally my favorite album of all time
it’s like a mature decision was made in a rock song *W O A H*