It's crazy to me how many of my friends I have tried to show this album to only to have them dismiss it or actively not like it. I'm like are we listening to the same album rn? So weird
@@dimitriasimov356 I've had the same experience. I think they hear the bubblegum pop outer shell and dismiss it without letting the full image develop. They all look at my like I'm crazy for suddenly liking "commercial" sounding pop music. I'm trying to get them to realize that it's brilliance is how much in works *in spite* of using commercial pop tropes that have been done to death. I'm having a "friendsgiving" house party this weekend and I fully intend to play the album on repeat the entire time until they all accept it's brilliance lol
Timestamps! She Looked Like Me - 1:23 Killing Time - 6:21 True Blue Interlude - 12:03 Image - 14:33 Death & Romance - 20:16 Fear, Sex - 26:28 Vampire in the Corner - 29:00 Watching T.V. - 33:28 Tunnel Vision - 39:06 Love Is Everywhere - 46:48 Feeling DiskInserted? - 50:22 That's My Floor - 51:20 Cry for Me - 56:32 Angel on a Satellite - 1:02:12 The Ballad of Matt & Mica - 1:06:32
@ pretty close to perfect so i guess a 9. but i don’t like condensing all my feelings about a piece of art down to an arbitrary number, or “ranking” as if we’re comparing it to other art. what makes one album a 7/10 and other an 8/10? so many different factors
"It really rewards an ungaurded listen" was beautifully put. I had never listened to them before I saw Imaginal Disk getting mentioned and decided to check it out and I had a similarly emotional experience. It's phenomenal. 100% agree with how you described the production quality as being miles beyond what it actually needed to be. This album would've still been an album of the year contender if the production quality was half as lush as it was. It really does feel like a new benchmark for what an album can and should strive for.
Totally felt the same, so beautiful it makes me cry. This has to be top 3 all time for me and I’m an old grunger from the 90’s, normally very dismissive and critical of new stuff, but this is simply phenomenal
First time watching a BTIM video in a while but your analysis is spot on. Being able to produce such meaningful comparisons in real time on a first listen sets you above most other reaction tubers. You’ve upped your game big time well done
this album was honestly so beautiful, i love seeing my favorite reviewers get to experience this for the first time. i like it more and more every time i come back to it.
You know what this album feels like to me? Has anyone ever played the game katamari damacy? For those that haven't the premise is you have to rebuild the stars in the sky using a little sticky ball and you have to roll up different things on earth. This is the musical equivalent of that. I feel like they rolled up 50s jazz, 60s psychedelia, 70s funk, 80s New Wave, 90s grunge and house and trance music, and a little bit of 2000 emotional pop punk. It's all perfectly blended and crafted and I love it!
I love Katamari Damacy and your analogy! It really does feel like the different genres are coming back at random intervals as if they were being rolled around on a globe.
Thank you for this Brad! I honestly loved your reaction, it gave me more insight into the lyrics so thank you for that! Last time an album made me feel like you felt, it actually was with the new Aurora album: What happened to the heart? It’s actually my album of the year and I think you would enjoy it it’s masterfully produced and written! Cheers🌟
@@doberman_hund pls go outside, hang out with friends and fam, eat some delicious food, touch grass, do crack or wtv, and just take the hate away, we really don't need it
Crying to an album is peak life experiences
I just adore how universally loved this album is.
It's crazy to me how many of my friends I have tried to show this album to only to have them dismiss it or actively not like it. I'm like are we listening to the same album rn? So weird
@@dimitriasimov356 some people dont resonate with music the same way you do... you do you and im js glad ur here to enjoy this album
@@dimitriasimov356 I've had the same experience. I think they hear the bubblegum pop outer shell and dismiss it without letting the full image develop. They all look at my like I'm crazy for suddenly liking "commercial" sounding pop music. I'm trying to get them to realize that it's brilliance is how much in works *in spite* of using commercial pop tropes that have been done to death. I'm having a "friendsgiving" house party this weekend and I fully intend to play the album on repeat the entire time until they all accept it's brilliance lol
Once in a while you just realize art is beautiful and you break down
Matt and Mica are geniuses. Simply incredible music
Edit: also Nick is an exceptional drummer. He does some insane stuff on this album
Timestamps!
She Looked Like Me - 1:23
Killing Time - 6:21
True Blue Interlude - 12:03
Image - 14:33
Death & Romance - 20:16
Fear, Sex - 26:28
Vampire in the Corner - 29:00
Watching T.V. - 33:28
Tunnel Vision - 39:06
Love Is Everywhere - 46:48
Feeling DiskInserted? - 50:22
That's My Floor - 51:20
Cry for Me - 56:32
Angel on a Satellite - 1:02:12
The Ballad of Matt & Mica - 1:06:32
❤
Thanks for sharing your emotions. It was beautiful to see. If I misspeled I don't care Chileno
Fué hermoso
"The only reason this isn't a 10 is "I don't know""
I got him, for me is 95 but not 100
ranking music by numbers is stupid
@estebanrodriguez1456 for me it might be recency bias but I can't think of an album I've enjoyed listening to more than this, 98/100
@@liamrab6 If you are asked "on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate this album", what would you say?
@ pretty close to perfect so i guess a 9. but i don’t like condensing all my feelings about a piece of art down to an arbitrary number, or “ranking” as if we’re comparing it to other art. what makes one album a 7/10 and other an 8/10? so many different factors
Yeah this one's a contender for album of the year for me. I listen to image like almost every day ... That song is so catchy and the drums are so good
Thanks for being real...showing your emotions I cried again listening to this like it was my first listen
cried over watching tv :(
this album genuinely lobotomized me
Listening to cry for me evoked a deep memory in me. Beautiful and sad. Time is so weird
"It really rewards an ungaurded listen" was beautifully put. I had never listened to them before I saw Imaginal Disk getting mentioned and decided to check it out and I had a similarly emotional experience. It's phenomenal. 100% agree with how you described the production quality as being miles beyond what it actually needed to be. This album would've still been an album of the year contender if the production quality was half as lush as it was. It really does feel like a new benchmark for what an album can and should strive for.
Amazing album and raw reaction, smiley ball from me for both
love is everywhere.
Totally felt the same, so beautiful it makes me cry. This has to be top 3 all time for me and I’m an old grunger from the 90’s, normally very dismissive and critical of new stuff, but this is simply phenomenal
First time watching a BTIM video in a while but your analysis is spot on. Being able to produce such meaningful comparisons in real time on a first listen sets you above most other reaction tubers. You’ve upped your game big time well done
this album was honestly so beautiful, i love seeing my favorite reviewers get to experience this for the first time. i like it more and more every time i come back to it.
You know what this album feels like to me? Has anyone ever played the game katamari damacy? For those that haven't the premise is you have to rebuild the stars in the sky using a little sticky ball and you have to roll up different things on earth.
This is the musical equivalent of that. I feel like they rolled up 50s jazz, 60s psychedelia, 70s funk, 80s New Wave, 90s grunge and house and trance music, and a little bit of 2000 emotional pop punk.
It's all perfectly blended and crafted and I love it!
I love Katamari Damacy and your analogy! It really does feel like the different genres are coming back at random intervals as if they were being rolled around on a globe.
I love how the songs flow together. I basically think of Vampire in the Corner and Watching TV as one song now.
i’m glad to see you are in better spirits. stupid shit happens on the internet
We're So Back
Thank you for this Brad! I honestly loved your reaction, it gave me more insight into the lyrics so thank you for that! Last time an album made me feel like you felt, it actually was with the new Aurora album: What happened to the heart? It’s actually my album of the year and I think you would enjoy it it’s masterfully produced and written! Cheers🌟
i love your reaction to tunnel vision.
that song is one of the biggest masterpieces on this album
Of all the albums or discs that I've listened to, this one is the most imaginal.
i need to know who requested this album so i can thank them 😭😭
omg this is my video of the yeat lmaooooooooooooooo i'm saving this to my list
29:00 is beautiful. Thank you❤
Vampire in the Corner to Watching T.V. to Tunnel Vision is in my opinion the best sequencing of three album tracks of all time
based, brad... based take
finalllyyyyy
I was a big fan of Daft Punk and was very disappointed when they broke up. Magdalena Bay is now the new Daft Punk for me.
This album makes you feel like you're on a futuristic Hello Kitty Planet in outer space
56:34 it’s like they knew 😂
This sounds in a way like the best parts of CHVRCHES’ music and I absolutely love it
Hey man can you upload the NIN reactions soon work greatly appreciate it🙏
AOTY easy.
JoJo reference?
fake tears
me when I've never been moved to tears by beautiful art
@@sdxr7317 i have, this guy is just performative and fake
@@doberman_hund pls go outside, hang out with friends and fam, eat some delicious food, touch grass, do crack or wtv, and just take the hate away, we really don't need it
hang
L take bro, this album made me cry too