{"id":7396,"date":"2018-02-09T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7396"},"modified":"2018-02-05T12:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:41:51","slug":"wherein-there-is-music-based-rambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7396","title":{"rendered":"Wherein there is music-based rambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have purchased three new albums this year so far. Which is kind of a lot, I guess. I don&#8217;t really buy a ton of music anymore. And I don&#8217;t pirate <em>any<\/em> music anymore. So what are our three albums of honour? We have:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Story of the Year &#8211; <em>Wolves<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tonight Alive &#8211; <em>Underworld<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sons of Butcher &#8211; <em>Cover Stains<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So in January, I got the new albums from two of my favourite bands of all time, but those aren&#8217;t the ones that I feel the urge to type words about. No, today, for the first time in many, many years, I want to type some words about Sons of Butcher.<\/p>\n<p>To catch you up: Sons of Butcher was a 2005 Canadian animated show that lasted for two seasons, and since the main characters were in a band, they also released two studio albums. I don&#8217;t know if either show or music were successful, as the market for comedic rock is very limited, but it took me a while to warm up to both. Once I did, though, I was all in. Bought both seasons on DVD and both albums. Listened to them all the time. They&#8217;re one of the few bands that I could not get the ex-wife into. And honestly, I don&#8217;t blame her. This is stuff for a very specific niche.<\/p>\n<p>Moving closer to the present, I Googled Sons of Butcher randomly the other week, and through a series of clicks I discovered that they have a Bandcamp page and <em>way<\/em> more than two albums. While my instinct was to immediately download them all, I opted instead to pledge $5 for their live cover album. The track list was a strong list of classic rocks songs that I love with a number of SOB originals. Seemed like a good idea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sobcovers-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7398\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sobcovers-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sobcovers-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sobcovers-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/sobcovers-1-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Results? Mixed. Mostly because it is a live album and lacks a certain polish. Normally that&#8217;s fine. I actually like the rawness of a good live album. But none of these guys are particularly good singers, which poses a problem when you don&#8217;t have any means to sand up the rough edges. Also, since there&#8217;s presumably no mixing going on, all the guitar solos are muted and only come out of the right side, which is not optimal. I mean, the solos are really good. It&#8217;s a darn shame they don&#8217;t get to shine a little more.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from those gripes, I like the album. It&#8217;s not a straight cover album by any means. Like I noted before, there are a number of Sons of Butcher songs in there, and a number of the covers are tweaked a bit, usually for the sake of making them &#8220;funnier.&#8221; I really love &#8220;Tasty Meats (Done Dirt Cheap)&#8221; but the changes to &#8220;Hit Me With Your Best Shot&#8221; aren&#8217;t especially hilarious, just excessively dirty. Thankfully that song gets cut off a little early.<\/p>\n<p>That actually reminds me of something else weird; there are clearly supposed to be skits in between some of the songs, but they&#8217;ve all been excised. Why? I couldn&#8217;t even fathom a guess, but the cuts are poor and it&#8217;s more than a little distressing. A couple songs cut out very abruptly, and there are a number of instances where tracks cut out just as soon as the band starts talking. I can see how this may have been necessary for a physical album release, but when you&#8217;re using a digital marketplace, why not just keep it all in. Maybe it&#8217;s a simple as none of it was funny.<\/p>\n<p>Like so many things that I like, I feel as though I&#8217;d never recommend this to anyone. It&#8217;s just for such a specific crowd, and I am very sure that nobody I know has the required sense of humour, or a taste for very unrefined live music. But that&#8217;s why I have this blog! So I have &#8220;someone&#8221; to &#8220;talk to&#8221; about all the weird things I like and not get scoffed at like I&#8217;m some kind of idiot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have purchased three new albums this year so far. Which is kind of a lot, I guess. I don&#8217;t really buy a ton of music anymore. And I don&#8217;t pirate any music anymore. So what are our three albums of honour? We have: Story of the Year &#8211; Wolves Tonight Alive &#8211; Underworld Sons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=7396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wherein there is music-based rambling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7396\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}