21 thoughts on “Theme Thoughts: Favorite EP + Short Update”
Meshuggah – None(1994) is my favorite EP ever, literally the very birth of Djent, so fucking ahead of its time, and SOOOO fucking groovy, i highly suggest a reaction! Love your channel man!
If you need to fill a slot, you could always look through the comments to these weekend videos and pick a couple more songs to fit the previous week's theme. (I know, doesn't work so well for this particular video if people recommend full EPs, but could be useful in general.)
If you want to fill slots and like the album format, maybe you could do one EP a week, like the album reactions :0 that way you get a full experience but don’t have to do the (frankly exhausting) work of listening to a whole new album twice a week
Reliqa – i don't know what i am and The Ocean/mono – Trascendental are two of my favourite EPs. Then there would be Gojira's Sea Shepherd EP that went missing
I really like Song of the Crippled Bull by Black Crown Initiate. Back when they were a newer band, they would play their full EP in their set and every song in the EP leads into the other, with callbacks. It made for a great live show. They were touring a ton back then and I saw them like 3 times as a supporting act. Always played amazingly. I met with the guitarist/clean singer and he was having reservations about the touring life, but it's good to see him sticking with it in the years since (Though he more recently quit this band to join Rivers of Nihil).
For the New Music Fridays, I could send some recommendations for new songs that are getting lots of traction. It won't always be a band your familiar with but I think reacting to some of these bands would bring in a new audience. I'm pretty good at keeping track of new albums / singles when they're released.
Fave EP: GY!BE – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada (viewed by many as best EP ever; according to Wikipedia, it is the highest rated EP of all time on Rate Your Music.) Moya being the track to try out. Another great one is Radiohead – Airbag/How's My Driving.
oh hey, bfmv's "hand of blood" was the the song i did my first recorded vocal cover of years ago 🤣it actually came out pretty good as far as i remember!
and yeah that clean to harsh transition was a doozy (i think my breath control wasn't as good as to be able to do it for full length though)
This is a cool and interesting video format to give your own personal perspective on the week's theme. I'd suggest one thing to make it more interesting…play your favorite part or several parts of each song you bring up which best exemplify why you would choose them.
I'm a big fan of Jinjer. 1st time I heard Perennial I wasn't sure I liked it. Not long after it became one of my favourite Jinjer songs, and still is. This seems to happen more than I'd expect.
BTBAM's Parallax 1 is one of my favorite EPs. Ngl, I didn't like it at first and it had to grow on me. I also love every song on Jingers' Micro EP. Perinnial is also my favorite song. I've played it on repeat a lot. It's awesome live as well. There's a few reactions I've watched from the Live at wacken.
I'm an album guy too, and your format did make me wonder how much differently I would feel about most of my music if it was all disconnected and out of sequence – not even deliberately often but by request, with truly no context.
Well, if you try to and can figure out a way to incorporate what's special about albums I for one would probably find it cool! Good luck!
My favorite EP has to be Ashen Eidolon by Gallowbraid. Jake Rogers (who is one half of Caladan Brood and the vocalist for Visigoth) wrote most and recorded most of it when he was like 15, all by himself. Only the drums and some female vocals are performed by someone else.
EPs have always been very popular in the indie world: recording (and releasing) an LP is expensive, so EPs are an easier way for bands to put something out (this is in a world where singles don't really exist, since singles are an industry thing intended to promote the album they're taken off of).
EPs also mean you are limited in time, so there's no filler and you really put in your best songs and, in many cases, a band's best overall release can be an EP (tricot's KABUKU EP is possibly the best thing they did). Also, in many cases, some really good bands never live long enough to release an LP… Chronic Sick's Cutest Band In Hardcore EP is a classic example.
As for listening to them: listening to EPs is usually something you do explicitly — you sit and listen to EPs, because it is kind of a hassle to keep changing (flipping vinyl!) every 5-10 minutes or so…it is something you have to fiddle with and so takes your entire attention. So overall, I usually listen to albums.
Ep's are genuinely my favorite music format, so many albums should just remove 60% of the garbage and make the best EP they can.
My favorites are bit cliche for a 90's rock / indie rock fan: Watery, Domestic – Pavement Offcell – Pinback Come on Pilgrim – Pixies Dog on Wheels – Belle & Sebastian Tonight, Tonight – Smashing Pumpkins (not called an EP, but it is) and yes, Airbag / How am I driving – Radiohead is really good
Bonus, pretty weird one I like is: Of Montreal – Icons, Abstract Thee
EPs are great. They're even better when the artist just wants to experiment with sounds and puts out something completely unique. My favourite EP of this kind is Cadaveric Fumes – Dimensions Obscure. Groovy death metal and 70's psychedelic rock combination, I hope you like synth intros, weird guitar sounds, and more synths.
Meshuggah – None(1994) is my favorite EP ever, literally the very birth of Djent, so fucking ahead of its time, and SOOOO fucking groovy, i highly suggest a reaction! Love your channel man!
The Broken EP is still my favorite NIN release.
My favorite EP is Alice In Chains: Jar of Flies (AIC, also has another great EP, called SAP)
2nd fav is BTBAM: The Parallax 1
If you need to fill a slot, you could always look through the comments to these weekend videos and pick a couple more songs to fit the previous week's theme. (I know, doesn't work so well for this particular video if people recommend full EPs, but could be useful in general.)
IMO you are absolutely right about your Jinjer analysis, thanx a lot for that!
warm greetings from germany and from the german musician.
If you want to fill slots and like the album format, maybe you could do one EP a week, like the album reactions :0 that way you get a full experience but don’t have to do the (frankly exhausting) work of listening to a whole new album twice a week
Reliqa – i don't know what i am and The Ocean/mono – Trascendental are two of my favourite EPs. Then there would be Gojira's Sea Shepherd EP that went missing
I really like Song of the Crippled Bull by Black Crown Initiate. Back when they were a newer band, they would play their full EP in their set and every song in the EP leads into the other, with callbacks. It made for a great live show. They were touring a ton back then and I saw them like 3 times as a supporting act. Always played amazingly. I met with the guitarist/clean singer and he was having reservations about the touring life, but it's good to see him sticking with it in the years since (Though he more recently quit this band to join Rivers of Nihil).
For the New Music Fridays, I could send some recommendations for new songs that are getting lots of traction. It won't always be a band your familiar with but I think reacting to some of these bands would bring in a new audience. I'm pretty good at keeping track of new albums / singles when they're released.
Fave EP: GY!BE – Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada (viewed by many as best EP ever; according to Wikipedia, it is the highest rated EP of all time on Rate Your Music.) Moya being the track to try out. Another great one is Radiohead – Airbag/How's My Driving.
oh hey, bfmv's "hand of blood" was the the song i did my first recorded vocal cover of years ago 🤣it actually came out pretty good as far as i remember!
and yeah that clean to harsh transition was a doozy (i think my breath control wasn't as good as to be able to do it for full length though)
This is a cool and interesting video format to give your own personal perspective on the week's theme. I'd suggest one thing to make it more interesting…play your favorite part or several parts of each song you bring up which best exemplify why you would choose them.
I'm a big fan of Jinjer. 1st time I heard Perennial I wasn't sure I liked it. Not long after it became one of my favourite Jinjer songs, and still is. This seems to happen more than I'd expect.
BTBAM's Parallax 1 is one of my favorite EPs. Ngl, I didn't like it at first and it had to grow on me.
I also love every song on Jingers' Micro EP. Perinnial is also my favorite song. I've played it on repeat a lot. It's awesome live as well. There's a few reactions I've watched from the Live at wacken.
I'm an album guy too, and your format did make me wonder how much differently I would feel about most of my music if it was all disconnected and out of sequence – not even deliberately often but by request, with truly no context.
Well, if you try to and can figure out a way to incorporate what's special about albums I for one would probably find it cool! Good luck!
A great semi-recent BM EP has been Hulder – Eternal Fanfare.
My favorite EP has to be Ashen Eidolon by Gallowbraid. Jake Rogers (who is one half of Caladan Brood and the vocalist for Visigoth) wrote most and recorded most of it when he was like 15, all by himself. Only the drums and some female vocals are performed by someone else.
EPs have always been very popular in the indie world: recording (and releasing) an LP is expensive, so EPs are an easier way for bands to put something out (this is in a world where singles don't really exist, since singles are an industry thing intended to promote the album they're taken off of).
EPs also mean you are limited in time, so there's no filler and you really put in your best songs and, in many cases, a band's best overall release can be an EP (tricot's KABUKU EP is possibly the best thing they did).
Also, in many cases, some really good bands never live long enough to release an LP… Chronic Sick's Cutest Band In Hardcore EP is a classic example.
As for listening to them: listening to EPs is usually something you do explicitly — you sit and listen to EPs, because it is kind of a hassle to keep changing (flipping vinyl!) every 5-10 minutes or so…it is something you have to fiddle with and so takes your entire attention.
So overall, I usually listen to albums.
Ep's are genuinely my favorite music format, so many albums should just remove 60% of the garbage and make the best EP they can.
My favorites are bit cliche for a 90's rock / indie rock fan:
Watery, Domestic – Pavement
Offcell – Pinback
Come on Pilgrim – Pixies
Dog on Wheels – Belle & Sebastian
Tonight, Tonight – Smashing Pumpkins (not called an EP, but it is)
and yes, Airbag / How am I driving – Radiohead is really good
Bonus, pretty weird one I like is:
Of Montreal – Icons, Abstract Thee
EPs are great. They're even better when the artist just wants to experiment with sounds and puts out something completely unique. My favourite EP of this kind is Cadaveric Fumes – Dimensions Obscure. Groovy death metal and 70's psychedelic rock combination, I hope you like synth intros, weird guitar sounds, and more synths.
Sorry Brian, where do you upload the album reviews?