this album is the definition of an introvert touching grass for the first time and feeling anxious

The origins of the album name is simpler than you think; it's called 'Spiderland' because one of the band mates's younger brother called their music "Spidery" after listening to this album

Hoping for the reaction of LMFAO's critically acclaimed record "Sorry For Party Rocking" next!

Slint is the definition of complex simplicity

Yooo the 2nd best Black Country, New Road tribute act

Ayooooo these guys paved the road for modern post-hardcore acts like demondice

The drumming on this album is so incredible

this album would be a pure 10/10 if ed Sheeran, Justin bieber, free dust, and DJ Khaled were on this.

i can definitely hear the jack harlow influence

DJ SLINT WE THE BEST MUSIC

I saw Fred and got excited what is this good music boooooo

The singer threw up after that last scream, you can hear why. One of the most iconic screams in music.

This album never gets old. The jangly guitars on Breadcrumb Trail, odd times signatures and distortion on Nosferatu Man, and extremely creepy instrumental on Washer literally kept my autistic ass hooked for 40 whole minutes. It’s only the 4th time I’ve listened to an entire album during a stream and not felt like I was redoing my 8th grade final exam. As a hardcore post rock fan, this is a certified post rock classic.

chocolate spider fish and the breadcrumb flavored water

Hey bro, this band lead the way into post rock like Mogwai and the likes thereof. Legendary album because it's actually good

Brad is not beating the itsy-bitsy spider allegations with this one‼️‼️

I saw your review of this on AOTY without realising that it was a quote from the Rolling Stone interview lol Also I can't believe you didn't press the "The car is on fire and there's no driver at the wheel" button at some point

Washer was the song that made me fall in love with the album

People generally like "For Dinner..." the least, but for me it is one of my most listened songs on the album. When i was a kid we'd go to my grandmas place up in the middle of hills, surrounded by fields, creeks, and forest, and there was a quarry just down the road. For Dinner is a PERFECT musical repressntation of sinister dark green evening turning black, when everything is completely still. The mood of that track is just desolate, the low level sounds of dry creekbeds and being lost in wilderness at night. Washer aswell is completely entrenched in that eerie stillness. Theres is no other album that captures exactly how i feel about my grandmothers house/surrounding forest. At night the landscape goes impenetrable black and in the house the darkness suffocates the light.

Good Morning Captain was like just as critical to me as losing my virginity

This album changed my life. I’m a musician and when I heard this, it opened my eyes to a new way of writing music. Without spiderland, I don’t know what kind of music I’d be making. This album is just a perfect listen all the way through, especially with the right vibes around me.

The outro to Nosferatu Man is actually unreal it's crazy how incredible the drumming is

Awesome thumbnail! Also it's great that you liked the album so much, it's definitely a classic.

this album is really helping through some tough times right now. it didn't hit for me on the first listen, but its a definite grower worth coming back over and over again and the stories and mood just resonate more and more deeply. don aman, washer, and good morning captain are absolutely amazing, this album deserves to be preserved for the aliens to come to earth after we've been wiped out.

Some girl I matched with on Tinder told me to listen to this album. She unmatched me a day later but at least I got a good album recommendation out of it.

One of the best, for sure. With respect to the album's genre tag - it is not that easy to pin it down. These are the genres that could claim "Spiderland": math rock, post-hardcore, slowcore, emo, post-rock, indie rock. It just shows how influential and experimental it is. But post-rock is probably a good box, especially early post-rock is about pushing boundaries, which this album does definitely.

My first listening of this album occured in the middle of a panic attack. As the album went on, I could feel my mind clearing, my breathing steadying, my world brightening. Finally, someone expressing how I TRULY feel. By the end, I was in tears, salty droplets streaming down my face endlessly. I felt complete. Absolutely gorgeous.

The fact that they wrote this music when they all were 20 years old is so fucking scary. What a masterpiece!

One of my favs of all time. Listening to this in complete silence is the way to go. This album has an atmosphere that’s unmatched imo.

Sped up nosferatu man sounds like pop punk💀

THE FORTUNE TELLER. SCREAMING BACK AT MEEEEEE

Slint is my 2nd favorite record ever for a good reason, it's a masterpiece. Glad you've checked it out now and I'm excited to see how you think of it :D

Pretty good for a bunch of 20 year old goofballs who would otherwise make tape compilations of fart sounds called "intestinal breathing"

I have been waiting my entire life for this moment. Thank you Brad

So glad you did this

This album sounds a lot more on the emo side. The moody atmosphere, the lyrics. It reminded me a lot to I hate myself in a way

brad in a nutshell: "Yeah I think this is still one of the top 40 most acclaimed albums of all time on rate your music" *starts listening* "wow............. this is surprisingly GOOD"

Brad X Slint combo wasn’t expected today but goddamn it was what was needed

I think this album stands out for having such a perfect structure. It sets you up with 2 absolute bangers and follows them up with a very long sequence of 3 slowburners, each one descending further into darkness in their own way, leading up to a bombastic closer

This album is so unique and stands on its own even tho there is quite a few clones

the best translation of music to emotion I've ever heard

peak theater-core

There's a band from Virginia called Kepone that features Mike Bishop (one of the founding members of GWAR) as the bassist/vocalist. They made three records during their lifespan, with various influences on each release. However, their first LP, 'Ugly Dance', has a really obvious Slint influence painted over the whole thing, as well as oddly well-fitting punk, southern rock and folk influences. Check it out, you won't regret it!

This album changed the way I listen to music. I can't explain how much of an effect it's had on me.

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this is a certified brad taste

The first time I heard Good Morning, Captain I think my jaw was dropped for the entire song. I think it was the first post rock song I ever heard, and it just blew my mind that music could even sound like that.

Such a great piece of art! Love it!

One of my favourite albums ever. Incredible band.

One of my new favs, thanks.

This album and band is so important to me. Especially as a kind of outsider musician in Kentucky. Love it.

I've been waiting for this all my life

The drums in this album are just straight up hypnotic

Lyrics were a last minute thing, basically made up in a car before recording. Steve albini was thinking it would be a purely instrumental albim, lyrics were added not long before recording

Bradley: no matter how bad my mood is the dj khaled sample always makes me lol same with kid rock

The thumbnail for this video is goated. Also, this was the first time I heard this album was listening along on stream, and i've come back a couple times just to feel its emotions again.

Best album of all time!

he finally did it 😲

My first time hearing Don Aman will always be one of my most cherished memories with music. Such a haunting and immersive sonic journey. Hit me so hard the first time I heard it

the documentary on this is also overwhelms you in a good way

This is an event record for all music, post rock and the 90s. Not only is it at least 10 years ahead but this record defines a new (perhaps irreplicable) formula of instrumental composition. 40 unmissable minutes, unique and above all, but not least, 40 minutes that rank among the most successful experiences in exploring new music, without resorting to stupid and monotonous stereotypes or current fashions: 9.5/10

i fucking love this album

i love slint so much

absolutely legendary record, and particularly impressive considering how young they were at the time.

I love this record

Reminder that this album, Loveless, and Nevermind all came out in the same year

FINALLLYYYY BROOO

Thank god

I really hope he does Laughing Stock, eventually That, Slints Spiderland, and Tortoise's Milions Now Living Will Never Die are the holy trinity of early post-rock

thank you

LET'S GOOOOOI

I looooooove this album

Indie rock rite of passage... My friend Tomas Introduced them to me in high school in 2001 cause I'm OLD.

Thumbnail made me curl up in a ball thinking of all the times I never won the toy out of the claw machine.

top 5 albums of all time its beautiful

my favourite album OAT

day 4 of asking brad to review the ghost pop tape by devon hendryx (jpegmafia)

Nosferatu Man is so damn good man, evil and grungy and banging

This is an excellent album, Slint was inspired heavily by King Crimson when making this LP, and even then they managed to take the progressive sound and make it their own. Like the Velvet Underground, they were a band that very few people listened to, but every person that did made a band. 'Breadcrumb Trail' - Good exposition to the band's sound. 7/10 'Nosferatu Man' - The motifs the band likes to use are expanded upon here. 8.5/10 'Don, A Man' - The opening song to my nightwalk playlist. Slint continues to spare itself but you can feel that the tension is rising. To me, I've always felt that this album symbolizes one's struggle with violent emotional impulses represented through the band's very sparing use of noise. Throughout the first half of the album, everything is very bleak and reserved, but not for much longer. 9/10 'Washer' - You can begin to see the musical motifs begin to develop fully into something less reminiscent of spoken word. The band goes for the Larks Tongues in Aspic-esque blitzkrieg of noise to really open up the record and catch the listener's attention. At this point they've spent a good 20 minutes teasing and lulling the listener, and as the guitar fades back into the lulling minimalist rhythm that started the song, the band has now shown its hand on its true violent capabilities. 10/10 'For Dinner...' - This song basically just spaces the two big compositions on the album, nothing wrong with a bit of an interlude. 5/10 'Good Morning, Captain' - Excellent use of buildup, I mean you know what's coming with the end. The tension ultimately arcs into a complete breakdown of all order that the band has spent 90% of the album at this point building up. It's an overall excellent use of emotion, and the payoff is worth it. Apparently the vocalist drove himself to the verge of fainting recording the final part. Naturally, it ends the album, as it should. Nothing more needs to be said or done. 10/10 Everything about this album becomes even crazier once you realize all of the musicians in this band were very young, like closer to 16 than 25. The fact that they were able to compose such a mature album at their age in contrast to the gravely embarrassing 30-something year old pop stars who target teenagers and talk about breakups and being popular in high school is only a testament to this album's longevity. While this was their last LP, it definitely influenced a generation of musicians. 9.8/10.

Holy crap slint

I FUCKING LOVE SPIDERLAND

YES

Brad, where did you get that shirt, it looks very good on you

It's been years Brad

One of the best rock albums ever released.

NO FKN WAY I MISSED THIS STREAM 😔

Bro is like: "wow the lyrics are so deep and well written and so good I'm in awe" while the lyrics are just about some guy in a carnival

I remember almost leaving my nearest Bull Moose (think Newbury Comics but way smaller and way cooler) before seeing this CD in the corner of my eye hidden away on a shelf and just being blown away by seeing this in person and not as a mythical youtube upload

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I can definetly feel the Bauhaus inspiration in this album.

When the music in Nosferatu Man is sped up, it sounds like classic hardcore punk.

"Nosferatu Man" sped up sounds like Orchid in a weird way

As a kentuckian, i would like to declare this band coming out of lousiville a ky W

No one told you he was 15 when writing this and they were all 16 when making this album?

F**King FINALLY

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on the topic of the moment at 0:12 to 0:15 usually when i stop interacting with friends i just unfriend them cause i doubt they wanna have a friend who rarely interacts with them so.

Omg thumbnail

DON STEPPED OUTSIDE

wtaf i literally checked if he had done this already like 4 days ago