I do not get what tourists and normies see in this album. It's critically acclaimed, and jazz for decades has been no stranger to having excellent albums be soundtracks to shows and film, but this just seems decent. A couple of really stand-out songs for sure like the main track Tank, but the improvisation and interplay seem pretty goddamn sparse and shallow. Do I have to watch the show to get it? Don't get me wrong, it's pretty good stuff overall, but when an entire generation considers this one of the best jazz albums ever, and all I ended up getting was watered down Gerry Mulligan or Thelonious Monk, I can't help but be disappointed.
I do not get what tourists and normies see in this album. It's critically acclaimed...
Eclectic and first contact with jazz and blues. Yeah, it's touristcore. What else do you want to know
Wait until you see how acclaimed this is.
It's not entirely about jazz. It's just general Americana influenced. Cowboy and Bebop. Not just one or the other. Yes, watch the show.
OP here, I used to play TF2 like 15 years ago. Was the soundtrack actually very well received? I don't remember much about it, just some cool old fashioned brass sounds.
It's not entirely about jazz. It's just general Americana influenced.
I definitely realized that listening to the album, it had more blues than bebop at times, but everywhere this thing gets praised for being specifically a jazz classic and I just don't see that.
Yeah it's not bad but it's got a ridiculous RYM score (3.99) and regularly gets shared here in threads about "greatest soundtracks."
its RYMtrannycore
yikes, many such a case
Its importance is probably what gives it such high ratings. This is an album with songs so well received it introduced non-jazz listeners to what the genre can be. For many it’s the start of them listening to anything outside of top 40. I have friends that had never listened to a jazz song in their life shuffling through this album on pandora still to this day. This is highly unusual for a band put together to make music for a show. The songwriting and production are both critical in this and the reception, in this case, is substantial enough evidence for its acclaim.
I had no idea it had a following outside the show. The composer is pretty brilliant though. She does all kinds of genres, mostly for scoring like this.
What do you mean by eclectic? You mean the album?
anime and vidya soundtracks do this all the time and yet streaming stats for jazz in general remain dogshit, hmmmmmmmmmm
anime fans
everything is the best piece of ___ to these mouth breathing mongrels
they dont consume anything outside of their anime bubble to the point that anything that is doing things outside of expectations, ie "subverts tropes", is considered a high point of praise, regardless of the quality of the material
She also scored a more straight up Jazz story if you're interested. An anime about japanese highschoolers starting a jazz band in the 60s.
That's really cool, friend, why don't you tell your friends at reddit.com more about it instead?
I've never heard anyone say it's one of the best, but I can imagine people in their youth having an over stimulated attachment to scenes that the soundtrack is a part of. IMO tracks like Space Lion are really pleasing, while some of them are a little side eye laugh at myself awkwardly, but that's a strong emotion too so...
sounds good with the anime but you'd have to be a really special kind retard to listen to it without the context of the anime, isn't worth listening to on its own
space lion
the unwashed masses remain unwashed
Tale as old as media
frieren lol
Doesn't sound like my cup of tea at all, I hate movies about musicians. Is the soundtrack better?
you'd have to be a really special kind retard to listen to it without the context of the anime, isn't worth listening to on its own
Some people just like it
Tourists and normies just like it because it was in the anime.
see you Le later space Cowboy xD
What else would he mean by eclectic lol
Now type that again, without the seething
actual good anime jazz
youtu.be
Well it's not an eclectic album, which is why I'm confused.
Speaking of anime music, /ourguy/ just uploaded this:
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You're the exact kind of guy he just described, aren't you?
Here's a take, it's critically acclaimed by serious jazz critics too, because it's a serious jazz album that is just as good as jazz that isn't the soundtrack for an anime.
rym trannies who don't even know who bud powell is
serious jazz critics
Japanese do good slice of life stuff. You still might like it. It's ever just about the topic. It's all the other stuff along the way.
I personally wouldn't bother to listen to anime stuff outside the shows though.
Anthony Fantano and fat white gamer neckbeard youtubers are not and will never be serious critics of any sort
it's critically acclaimed by serious jazz critics too
source?
Blah.
It's never just about the topic.*
I do not get what tourists and normies see in this album
It's a good soundtrack and you can remember the scenes from the anime when you listen to it, there's no other reason.
I agree it's a good soundtrack, but I've seen so many people call it one of the best jazz albums of the 1990's and uhhhhhh sorry, I just can't agree
Now that's a classic Anon Babble post. Good for you. But seriously, thanks for giving me a new name to check out. I dig bebop and free jazz, just not someone who actively searches for new jazz to listen to.
There's a 33 1/3 book on it by a Peabody grad, it's pretty widely acclaimed all around.
Maybe it is? Lots of jazz came out in the 90s, lots of people like jazz. I'm sure someone thinks a Kenny G record is the best jazz of the 90s.
It is not.
I picture you putting your hands on your hips with a big pouty lip saying this. Sorry anon, anime music is good too.
if i imagine you angry i win
Maybe it is? Lots of jazz came out in the 90s
Then you should have no trouble giving us a top 25 or 50 favorite jazz albums of that decade then
by a Peabody grad
so not a music critic, let alone a jazz critic, serious or otherwise
asks for source
vaguely references a book without naming the writer or the book
Fucking retard. go back.
Lol, jazzoids trying to gatekeep and failing
Here's a take
Well at least that part was true lmao
Lol, weeboids trying to argue and failing
Only loathsome detestable freaks think like you.
What is it with redditors and their obsession with accusing others of gatekeeping? ESPECIALLY when no gatekeeping is even occurring, and even more especially when they are clearly losing a discussion
losing a discussion
What's there to lose? I'm right lmao
Maybe it is?
To tourists, yes.
Lots of jazz came out in the 90s, lots of people like jazz.
And I'm sure many of them are tourists.
I'm sure someone thinks a Kenny G record is the best jazz of the 90s.
Probably a tourist, yes.
It's always the weeb dweebs. Whiny, fragile, desperate to impress, desperate for attention, etc. Every single time.
You resorted to nothing but sassy ad homs when people called your bluff. You lose. Go back.
Still inferior to any jazz on the same style
Notice how End of Evangelion and Cowboy Bebop are the two highest rated entries on Letterboxd, #1 for movies and #1 for TV respectively (I just checked after like a year and that is outdated, they are now 26 and 4 but my point still stands) and also happen to be too of the highest soundtracks on RYM, #9 and #21 and that's including the Beatles and Prince and Pink Floyd and Talking Heads, technically soundtracks but let's be real why they're actually at the top of that list besides Prince where Purple Rain is in fact his defining album.
I'm just saying, it seems to draw a pattern to me.
A pattern of popular acclaim, yes? End of Evangelion has some fantastic soft rock, vocal jazz and easy listening music.
I make no claims to their objective quality, except that Cowboy Bebop ost sure as hell isn't a jazz great.
I'm saying their user bases are the same
I wouldn't call it a "Jazz Great™" either, but it's good jazz.
Cowboy Bebop was first wave Adult Swim and the soundtrack is better than a lot of other anime OSTs. But a lot of the love is because people love the show.