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Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is an American funk jam band from Baltimore, Maryland. The band has garnered a following as a result of their consistent touring, playing as many as two hundred shows a year. In a 2017 interview, Greg Ormont (vocals/guitar) said, "We met in college at the University of Maryland and the dorm project turned into the real thing. We've been playing for over 8 years. We've been touring the country for 4–5 years and just having a blast spreading our high energy psychedelic funk and good vibes. We like to bring the party and show people a diverse time that is positive and fun and everyone leaves a happier person.”
You must have quite a high opinion of yourself and your taste to foist a 75-minute jam band album on strangers. What the fuck is wrong with you? Rethink every life choice you've ever made.
lol this looks like it's gonna be nonsense. Ok, it's a live album but you can't really tell beyond the production not being crystal clear. Songs all 10min or longer. Guess it really IS going to be a jam. First song is bland and uninteresting so far. Just hanging on one motif for like the last 6 minutes. Music school dork vibes tbh. Update a little later: this got soooo fucking long by the end. The jam never fucking ends. Like oh god there's another solo spot coming up, strap on in for a few minutes of it. I think what *really* hurt was that so much of it sounded the same. Like the same choppy little funk riff over and over and over, with minimal variation. Even the same wah effect on the whole time. They even managed to wedge it into a cover of the Ghostbusters theme... for 15 minutes. 2/5.
Jam bands seem very masturbatory. The people involved seem to be very talented, but I don't think anyone needed an extended vamp on the Ghostbusters theme song, among other things.
3/10. It's not that it's really bad or anything, but I don't really need to hear hour-plus jam band albums before I die. And the Wikipedia article called these guys a funk jam band, but they just didn't feel that funky to me, a bit sterile even. I'm sure it'd be fun live. Having a Ghostbusters cover is fun for the first 5 minutes or so.
Not really the biggest fan. It's just kind of pointless noodling for an hour. I have nothing against jam bands (that Phish live album on this list was pretty good!), but I couldn't find anything here to latch onto. Very nondescript vocals, lyrics and guitar playing. It's like a jam band with default presets and no sauce. The most interesting moments were when they quoted some famous songs, like the Pink Panther or Ghostbusters themes. That was pretty cool. Also some meta bullshit: I think some users forget that nobody is forcing them to listen to these albums at gunpoint. There is literally zero reason to tell someone to rethink their life choices over an album choice, lmao
OK, jam bands aren't normally my thing, but I dug this. Really talented and I bet these guys are a blast to see live. Cool stuff.
Rating: 7/10 Best songs: Ocean flows, Lightning, Poseidon
I'm sort of loosely anti-jam band but this was a lot of fun and I was fully locked in by the end. I think that I liked that they don't take themselves too seriously.
I built a child’s twin bed frame in the time it took to listen to this which is okay because it was a jam band helping me phase out of existence
These guys are fantastic musicians. Very enjoyable to listen to
Never thought I’d see a Pigeons album in this list but here we are. They’re like if phish was less psychedelic and more talented. This live album was alright. Their instrumental ability is great but the whole jam band thing is very much an acquired taste. It’s fun for a little bit but about 30 minutes in it gets tiresome. I’m sure the live shows would be a little bit more enjoyable. I know j wouldn’t revisit this since I would always skip songs from psychology when they pop up. 4.6/10
As a guitar player, I really despise this kind of jam music. Technically uninteresting, gratuitous noodling on the fretboard is a bit like masturbation –fun for you but nobody else really wants to hear or see it. I imagine that if I was on a suitable amount of drugs this would be interesting, but as it stands sober this commits the cardinal sin of media by being boring as hell. 10+ minute jams with little to no dynamic contrast, key changes, melodic progression – it’s just flat and sterile, a block of music ready-made and packaged for you with no lumps or bumps to cut your teeth on. Really telling that A) there’s no crowd noise, probably because they were asleep or sitting politely in their walkers, and B) the best moments are when the band lifts melodies from people who know how to actually write catchy, enjoyable songs.
an album of guitar solos, not even joking.
I have never appreciated or been into much in the way of jam bands… and I had expected the original list to give me the opportunity to experience a lot more of that. It mostly didn’t though. Finally heard Phish for the first time on this project, and now this. I wasn’t sure I could listen to a lot of jam banding. Turns out, I kind of love it! Thank you user suggestions!
Good jam band stuff
Eh, it's ok. They're definitely talented but I'm not a big fan of jam bands. 3 stars.
This was well-played, but far too jammy for my taste. The attempts at whimsy were also a bit heavy-handed. The instrumentals were far better than the songs with vocals. Fave Songs: Poseidon, Offshoot
Good fun live album, would I come back to it, probably not, some of the Jams are just a bit long for my taste.
The second funk jam band live album in close succession... This was just fine but quite a bit longer than I needed it to be. The lyrics were pretty lightweight and the signing was a weaker link, though not bad. High energy and I'm sure they were very fun shows.
Funk. Ni fu ni fa.
This was really fun in places with some great energy and incredible playing, but certain parts got old very quickly. The interpolation of the Pink Panther theme on Offshoot was a nice little reference but then became the entire B-section of the track for no good reason. The 15 minute Ghostbusters cover was also pretty exhausting by the end That being said, considering the amount of live albums already on the list, I’d much rather have something like this - where the live setting and the jamming it allows space for is the key feature of the music - than the live Cheap Trick album that’s just a rougher performance of their studio tracks
Well, another album in which the musicians are judged more than the performer and based on covers. They are good musicians, with good rhythm and timing, but that's it. An album to have as a background... nothing more. 2.5 stars
This was so obnoxious. Niche college jam nonsense without vocal talent. At least throw a live DMB.
You know what we don't need? An almost 15 minute insipid cover of the Ghostbusters theme song. I'm sure this band is probably interesting live but it's so dull and uninteresting. I've been getting a few of these long albums and I just don't get it. The wikipedia article (which is super short) says they are a funk jam but I didn't hear much funk. Just a bunch of mediocre noodling on the guitars that didn't really ever get out of first gear. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 2/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No. Not interesting at all.
Live album
Like Vulfpeck and Phish another extreme long live album of a groovy rock band with excellent musicians with bland abd pointless songs missing any urgence or drive. This album consists of 90% guitar solo and is boring as hell.