Mega64 Record Club Ep. 5 - Roxy Music - Avalon (#336)

Shawn I agree this able was a chore to get through. I barely did once I don’t know how you did it 10 times. Shows you are putting in the work. Love the show!

Strong disagree, Avalon is by far the best album I've listened to out of the series so far. The first three tracks are the strongest, in my opinion, and it does sort of meander in the middle before ending strong. There's a melancholy feeling to the album but it's also strangely uplifting. I found that I enjoyed the album more if I was sad or let down, particularly as I drove home after the last two Padres games against the Braves. Bryan Ferry's voice along with that kind of smooth, jazzy vibe the instrumental tracks give helped me to decompress and relax. Great album, is now an all time favorite.

I've really enjoyed every album up until this one. I was thinking it would be fun to slowly try and collect every album on the top 500 as we go through them but now I'm not sure I'll get EVERY one.

Shawn and I cannot be more opposite. I don't particularly listen to a lot of 80s music but I LOVE Roxy Music. I think Country Life is their best album but this one is their Metallica - Black Album so to speak.

You mentioned that the song More Than This sounded like it was from a soundtrack. Maybe you are thinking of Lost in Translation? Bill Murray sang it during the karaoke scene.

The RNG gods are not happy with the skip, my friend. You will be punished.

Rock on! Love the 80s

Reminds me so much of south park

Loving the series so far! I'm getting at least one new song for my playlist from each album. I liked this album a lot, I especially really love the very ending of India, it's such a simple quick little jam but I get caught on it so hard!

I hope Shawn isn't gonna waste days just replaying the album and listen to some songs he likes in it, I love some diana ross but the time of this album is heavy on the day.

Just throwing it out there that I love The Supremes, but I'm not sure how I feel about Rolling Stone's inclusion of compilations on a list like this.

It's very funny how different music tastes can be because most people seem to think this is a very middling album but it's by far my favorite that I've listened to for this podcast

Random number generator definitely not playing fair! #NotMyGenerator

Maybe each week's random number should be from a different range? Week 1: 1-100, Week 2: 101-200, Week 3: 201-300, Week 4: 301-400, Week 5: 401-500 and then it repeats. That way you get a nice variance. This is my favorite Patreon series. Keep it up Shawn!

I’m a bit of a new wave cuck so I actually liked this one and am glad it was picked because I’ve always meant to check it out. I definitely understand where you’re coming from with it being boring but I really enjoyed the atmosphere and vibe. More Than This and Take a Chance With Me were my favorites as well and I also really love the album cover lmao. So yeah 3/5 for me. Oh and an easy 5/5 for She’s Gone, that’s a fantastic track. And here’s my record club playlist btw: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7zOqtWB7eNjGH94sv7iHp6?si=A3qOWjRMS9aE0H1nSKpu9A&dd=1 Also I think we should do a double next week with album 320 and whatever we end up landing on haha

Nice being synced with Shawn on this one :3 I think I even called this album "homework" on the last comment section lol I've been singing More Than This for a week straight, non-stop, the rest of the album is mostly forgettable. Not bad at all. Just... nothing lol. I had high hopes from the intro but it never came close to recapturing my excitement. 4.9/10