What My Students Like! (High School Album Review Thread) • Page 2

Live Through This is a great pick

I want to suggest Exile In Guyville but I feel like that would be completely inappropriate as amazing as it is

 

I also really want to recommend Julien Baker's Sprained Ankle because that soul-crushing music is important as hell but idk if it really fits into your ideal list/theme.

 

I recommended Horses. If they like that they'll find Guyville soon enough.

 

I wish I had this class in high school

 

time to shake up these children and make them wonder what even is music?

Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica, 1969, experimental/avant-garde (highly recommend including this)
Van Dyke Parks - Song Cycle, 1967, avant-garde/pop
Mr. Bungle - California, 1999, experimental rock
Naked City - Torture Garden, 1990, hardcore/experimental
CAN - Tago Mago, 1971, psychedelic rock
Frank Zappa - Over-Nite Sensations, 1973, experimental rock
Sun Ra - We Travel The Spaceways, 1967, (space) jazz
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain, 1971, funk/psychedelic
Primal Scream - Screamidelica, 1991, trip-hop
Ween - Chocolate & Cheese, 1994, experimental rock
the Raincoats - the Raincoats 1979, post-punk
Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years, 1987, experimental rock
Grinderman - Grinderman, 2007, post-punk

 

an An Albatross album might worthwhile for modern avant-garde

 

Far as you know do any of the kids in your class like American dubstep or whatever the trendy bad form of edm is these days? (I've lost track.) If so, maybe we could throw some classics of electronic music in the ring to steer them in right direction?

 

And/or, find some quality dubstep from before the genre saturated or just cream of the crop.

 

Gotta understand Beefheart.

 

We did a project like this in my radio class last year. It was a lot of fun


Joy division - unknown pleasures, 1979, rock
My bloody valentine - loveless, 1991, alternative
Nas - illmatic, 1994, hip hop
Godspeed you black emperor - lift yr skinny fists like antennas to heaven, 2000, rock
The velvet underground - white light white heat, 1968, rock
Fugazi - in on the kill taker, 1993, rock/punk
Cocteau twins - heaven or Las Vegas, 1990, alternative
Ice cube - amerikka's most wanted, 1990, hip hop
At the drive in - relationship of command, 2000, rock/punk

 

Definitely should include The Avalanches in there, Since I Left You is a classic.

 

Oh for sure!

 

You have to give them some Stevie Wonder in the 70s. Social conscience and great artistic achievement.

 

If there was a class where I was listening to Sun Ra and Funkadelic I'd be a way better adult than I am

This class is backed

 

lol I had to go to college to get that class, at least their was a whole day dedicated to funkadelic

 

No clue. Most of my kids are either into modern hip hop or alternative rock and stuff. I do have some electronic on the list I was making though

 

I played "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure, "Wurthering Heights" by Kate Bush and "Rock to It" by Shad for them today. Pretty great responses, I'll report back in a bit.

 

Alt Rock
Deftones - Around The Fur, 1997, Alt Rock
Refused - The Shape of Punk To Come,1998, Punk
Smashing Pumpkin - Mellon Collie and The Infinite Sadness,1995,Alt Rock

Funk
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis,1970, Funk/Soul
James Brown - Payback, 1973, Funk
The Whispers - Whispers, 1979, Funk

For Hip Hop,
Camp Lo - Uptown Saturday Night, 1997, Hip Hop
Pete Rock - Petestrumentals, 2001, Hip Hop
Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision, 1998, Hip Hop
Common - Be ,2005, Hip Hop

 

Boys Don't Cry
"Boys actually do cry so that's not very logical lyrics"
"The song was very upbeat and joyful. I did not care too much for the lyrics as I could not hear all of them based off the way the singer was singing. The song had little substance."
"I'm sorry but no. The beat is very annoying. Makes it difficult to listen to the lyrics. Will not be listening to it again."
"Don't like the voice, it sounds like he's crying while singing"
"Hard to understand
Sounds Horrible
I didn't connect
My ear's bleeding
I don't get the lyrics
Meaningless to me"
"This song is about a boy going through a hard time, but he feels like it is not socially acceptable for boys to cry, so he tries to suppress his feelings by laughing and ignoring them."

Wurthering Heights
"I can appreciate how Kate can hit high notes, however it kind of sounds like an obnoxious cartoon character and it's a little too annoying for me to want to listen to this song ever again."
"Sounds like it came from the movie Frozen. Terrible voice."
"Very fairytale like at first but the voice ruined the song. Sounded too autotuned."
"Soothing
Beautiful Voice
Lyrics tell a story
Lovely beat/rhythm"


oh boy

 

You're in for a treat.

 

This has me laughing so much for some reason.

 

I'll add my two cents to this:

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Light, 2002, Rock
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People, 1992, Alt Rock
The Cars - The Cars, 1978, New Wave/Rock
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, 1971, Hard Rock/metal
The Doors - Waiting for the Sun, 1968, Rock

 

Feel like this thread will have rock heavily covered so i will say

Prince - Purple Rain, 1984, pop/rock/r&b

Bikini Kill - The Singles, 1998, punk

i know bikini kill is unlikely due to occasional mature lyrics/titles for public school, but on the off chance it is included i'll put it up. Bikini Kill changed my Entire Life when I heard them in the 8th grade

 

Yeah Kate Bush and that fucking autotune, amirite??

 

Throw them for a loop and have them respond to Ryan Adams' 1989?