Earth - Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version ALBUM REVIEW 

"Earth 2: Special low frequency version? Has there ever been a standard version??" You're standing on it pal

I actually found this album totally by accident a few years ago when Brad Taste reviewed the lil dicky song earth and im pretty sure he made a parody of it called earth 2. I went to search it up on Spotify and stumbled upon this album. Curiosity got the best of me and wouldn't you know, about 75 minutes later I was a fan Upon searching for the parody Brad made, in order to make sure I was remembering correctly, I have realized that Brad was deliberately and overtly referencing this album

This classics pick is insane lmao

HUGE FREAKIN SURPRISE. Love TEETH OF LIONS THAT RULE THE DIVINE. Favorite drone song ever.

This album makes you stare into space, in the best way possible

Hell yeah melon reviewing one of my favorite albums of all time!

my favorite part of Earth 2 is where the guitars go wooow wow wow wow wow wooow woooow woooooow

He's the one Who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means

Sunn O))) began as an Earth 2 tribute act

So nice of Preoccupations to release a third self-titled

Hands..... Little arms

I saw them play at a cemetery

A review for Iowa would be great

@ 1:35, you mention Extra Capsular Extraction by the band Earth??? ...I couldn't locate that specific album.. are you referring to "Earth=A Bureaucratic Desire for Extra Capsular Extraction" the cover art is different (happens, whatever..?) BUT what track has Kurt Cobain on Vocals?!??! (If NOT the same album, can you help me find the song/songs that had Kurt on Vocals with the band Earth..? Maybe, RU-vid links, or Spotify, or Apple Music.. by any chance? ... thank you my friend!

We've got Earth 2, but what about Sex 2?

Perfect album cover. It conveys both massive scale and near complete emptiness. Whenever I look at it while listening to the album, I imagine that the camera is gradually zooming out to eventually reveal something incomprehensible and terrifying.

fun fact: Duster’s “Stratosphere” cover is a direct homage to this album

about the "special low frequency version" part of the title, its an homage to the half speed cd reissue of the Syntonic Research album "Environments 2: Tintinnabulation (special low frequency version)" and Earth even used the same font for the cover as that on the Environments 2 cover

Finally. You left a comment on someone’s review of this album 14 years ago saying you should review it. I knew you’d come around! I don’t forget things Melon.

I can't believe Lil Dicky released this a few years ago and its already a classic. I wouldn't expect anything less. ☺️

This is my favorite Lil Dicky sequel album. Thank you Anthony for this (But actually this album is remarkable and you are 7 for 7 rn on classics week)

Dopethrone turns 25 next year. Just putting it out there.

Well that was a good Classics Wee- BY GOD ITS EARTH 2 WITH A STEEL CHAIR

earth 2 is amazing, we need a earth 3

this is wild to me because I was invited to see a documentary just 2 days ago about this band and I had no clue who they were but I went anyway. And then there was a surprise announcement that the band were going to do a Q&A right after (they're from my town, something I also didn't know). So I got to learn all about this band and then see them talk about their history, and now there's this video lol. They're p sick, guess it's time to actually check them out

Earth, Boris and Sunn O))) are the three unfaltering pillars of this sound till date.

Another Earth album I love is The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull. It’s a relaxing listen.

This album has gotten me through countless zoom classes and study sessions

I highly recommend the book Monolithic Undertow to anyone interested in the history of drones in music up until experimental records like this and later. Its a fascinating yet surprisingly easy read!

found this album when i was 13 through a wikipedia rabbit hole, ended up introducing me to a lot of avant-garde music i would have never been exposed to otherwise. so glad you're highlighting it

Holy shit he actually reviewed it! This album has been genuinely helpful for me in my life. I actually use it for studying and reading, i have a hard time paying attention (ADHD) and this entire album is the exact balance of droning and engaging that helps me do anything i need to do. Also, it’s just fucking sick. I love this album.

Saw them perform this album opening for Sunn O)) in Seattle earlier this year. Total bucket list night.

This is honestly one of my favourite drone/ambient and “metal” albums. Glad to see a review of it!

Drone Metal basic ass chronology: 1991: Earth - Extra-Capsular Extraction 1992 November 1: Naked City - Leng tch'e 1992 November (unknown): Melvins - Lysol 1993 : Earth - Earth 2 1996 : Boris - Absolutego 2000: Sunn O))) - ØØ Void

Lysol by the melvins is such a sick album, love how the first two songs drone on just for every other song to be super short lmao

Dylan Carlson is such a fresh inspiration, I think their best album is Primitive and Deadly ❤

O))))))))))))))

This isn’t Deathconsciousness

Man I suggested this on the stream but I did not expect Melon to actually do it. Thanks Anthony!

Day 636 of commenting until Cleanthony Breaktano reviews an album by Woodward and Parker

True story: used to listen to this record in high school, and it’s the only album my parents ever actually asked me to turn off. 😂😂😂 Fucking amazing record!

The cover reminds me of stratosphere by duster which i love

Are we gonna ignore that you were ranking poop bars an hour ago ?

Ok now this is a classic. One of the most important metal albums of the 90s. Terrifyingly heavy particularly for its time.

Solid review Anthony! I watched in 24x speed.

Did not expect this at all! One of my favorite albums that put me on to ambient music, along with Disintegration Loops and Music for Airports, wore all three of those out in high school.

anthony, this is your neighbor, pleaase stop blasting earth 2 so loud you are keeping the whole neighborhood up at night thank u

I never comment, but... Holy fucking shit. I never thought I'd see a classic review of this album. I know you've gone on record saying you love it, but I just never thought it'd get that level of up-front appreciation. I remember finding this album on my first visit to [message board redacted] in 2011 and losing my mind. Obviously back then it was played/posted for laughs, but it legitimately left an impact on me. As someone with raging synesthesia, it made me realize you could find "music" (only in quotes to denote the massively multiplicative nature of such a term) comprised of literally anything: any color, any texture, any sound in the world. From there, I found Sunn O))), then harsh noise wall, and the rest has been an incredibly corrugated history. Seeing this album get a classic review is externalizing to no end -- as it not only cements this album as more than just the joke that people On Da Internet made it out to be (regardless of those who, like yourself and myself, seriously enjoyed it), but it adds this album, deservedly, to the canon of true game-changers. The fact that this review aired days after fucking Abbey Road? Tears in my eyes. So, so happy about this. Thanks, Fantano. This made my day.

Goated album when it goes like VVVVVVVVVVVVV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV VV V V V VVV i go crazy everytime man i swear

Fun (or not so much) fact: Dylan Carlson is the person who gave Kurt Cobain the shotgun he shot himself with. Strange that nobody mentioned that since the video released.

My brother called me a hipster for playing this album.

Brad taste in music is jumping for joy

I want to see this guy review thergothons stream from the heavens also, the American death metal scene had been exploding more around 1989 93 was when the dire was already far spread out

Some people find this relaxing but personally I found the album terrifying given the very vague concept of an 'Earth 2' sounding like a bunch of weird distorted noises. The album cover just makes it way more uncomfortable. No idea how they thought of giving drone this theme at the time but it was bloody brilliant

Earth 2 is about the only album that made me "wake up" dazed. I didn't sleep, but a strong "my brain turned off". and its achieved this multiple times too. Sunn; despite being skilled sound craftsmen, have not been able to achieve the same feeling. Theyve worked wonders in creating other environments and feelings, but hardly the likes of earth 2. I knew who sunn was long before earth, too

Moon pix when

Sunn O))) and Earth got me into meditation and mindfulness, wouldn’t be where I am without them

I've found that pretty much every release from Earth is just really good music. This album in particular holds a special place in my heart, though. It's so meditative. The last song, Like Gold And Faceted, which is practically the same chord for 30 minutes, somehow just works.

I was thinking a review of a classic metal album, but a classic Drone Metal album is a great surprise!

Judging by the last two classic albums being colored blue, why do I get the feeling that a Weezer classic review is imminent

I was just thinking of Boris' Pink might get a classic review but this one is a pretty close (and unexpected) choice!

Watching this as I am sewing, thank you, i haven’t heard of this artist/band so this will give me some new music to listen to as well, awesome review im sure as always :)

Doesn’t he usually do 5 classic reviews per year? Are we getting 7 this year?

Anthony your moustache looks like a cowboy hat.

OH HELL YEAH, there are still so many people who don't know this record exists, and it's a fucking masterpiece. Thanks for this Anthony!

Can’t believe Lil Dicky made a sequel to Earth!

Dylan Carlson, my favorite guitarist and the reason I learned to play guitar in the first place. To me, this does sound like what the Earth sounds like deep beneath the surface. And the cover exemplifies that notion.

They made a sequel to Lil Dicky's best album

Honestly, one of the best written reviews you've done

Hibernaculum is super good & underrated ❤

“And they called it the ‘special low frequency version’ like was there ever another version??” Yes I have the high frequency version, the album is all I’ve been able to hear since I first put it on.

Wasn't expecting this one and I heard about Earth while reading Electric Wizards by JR Moores, awesome book and this is a great album.

This album carried me during Covid

Boards of Canada next please

I'm pretty sure the cover art is a pun about the volume of the album- lots of headroom

love this album, and love this pick. can't wait for a bunch of people to listen to this album just off seeing this review and be mad confused lmaooooooo

YEAH

An album that I can't listen just any time, but when I'm in the correct mind state to listen to it, it's reality-shaking

Absolutely wild classics week picks this year lmao

Still praying for velocity design comfort

Love it. Picked a copy up on vinyl back in May last year. It's been a deep dive since then into collecting the rest of the back catalogue. Still after a copy of Hex for sensible money.

4:29 I know some record trivia Fantano and Austen dont?! Cool. The cover and title is a reference to the album Tintinambulation 2: Special low frrqurncy version. Yes, it WAS part of a nature series. It's literally the only vinyl I still own🤣 by happenstance.

in college I would I plug my laptop into my 2x12 guitar amplifier, flip my amp face down into my mattress at the foot of my bed, and play this record as I went to sleep. best naps I ever had.

"Earth 2 2.23 Special Lower Frequency Mix" is the new 2023 30th Anniversary Reissue. It's quite good.

Being a Melvins/Nirvana first wave grunge enthusiast, I got both Extra Capsular Extraction and Earth 2 when they originally came out. Earth 2... It's impossible for a metal/sludge listener today to really get the mind blowing *otherness* that came with this record; nothing was really quite like it. Sure, Melvins we're doing some very slow and very, very heavy stuff, but nothing like this. And the engineering was *so* pristine and articulated it was truly like nothing before. Today in a world where drone metal is an entire genre, this simply won't hit the same. I've always respected the fact that they never repeated this trick and went on to do other, equally innovative, moves with "Hex" and their more lo-fi garage doom rock material of recent years.

so glad earth got an update

"Teeth Of Lions Rule The Divine" the track naming convention Earth has is fucking god-tier.

Another year has passed without a Deathconscioussness classic review

I had somebody recommend Earth 2 to me when trying to find an alternative to white noise. I've been playing it on loop while working and studying, which is why all 3 songs are in my top 10 on Spotify Wrapped, even though I wouldn't usually listen to music that is so slow. Over time, I can really appreciate the riffs and subtleties of the sound.

was really hoping todays review would be bowies station to station since it’s his bday

A LIFE CHANGER.

The bees made honey in the lions skull is amazing

Shout out Lil Dicky

YES

This albums coo lol

So wrong bro …this album is HEAVY HEAVY HEAVY… DOOM DRONE METAL…ok ..?

I THOUGHT I WOULD NEVER SEE THE DAY. THANK YOU FANTANO.

if you wanna talk about kurt cobain influences YOU GOTTA TALK ABOUT MEAT PUPPETS II AT SOME POINT

this dude really spent twelve minutes talking about literal guitar feedback 💀💀💀💀💀

Relaxing af perfect music to zone out to, daughter of darkness clears though (they are nothing alike but idc listen to it)