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Post by irvred on Jun 27, 2019 11:01:28 GMT -6
I honestly don't even know it beyond Tender and Coffee & TV Spoiler alert it is the best one |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jun 27, 2019 11:01:57 GMT -6
added to today's lineup (which has already been real weird)
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jun 27, 2019 13:48:36 GMT -6
god why are so many 90s albums like 80 minutes long
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Post by Timbo on Jun 27, 2019 14:03:37 GMT -6
Shoegaze basically rose and peaked and then plummeted in the 90s. If you've ever been curious about what was good back then (and still good today) listen to these albums that aren't by MBV, Ride, Swervedriver or Slowdive.
Swirlies - Blonder Tongue Audio Baton
Drop Nineteens - Delaware
All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors - Turning Into Small
Brian Jonestown Massacre - Methodrone
Charterhouse - Whirlpool
Mercury Rev - Yerself is Steam
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Curve - Pubic Fruit
Medicine - The Buried Life
Lush - Spooky
Pale Saints - In Ribbons
Lilys - In the Presence of
Nothing
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jun 27, 2019 14:04:13 GMT -6
^^^^cannot recommend drop nineteens enough
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Post by forpetessake on Jun 27, 2019 14:49:36 GMT -6
Sure many of these are elsewhere in thread but some that I loved then and continue to be in my rotation:
R.E.M. - Out of Time (Arguably 2 best songs are sung by Mike Mills - Texarkana and Near Wild Heaven)
Filter - Title of Record (Fantastic driving record)
Massive Attack - Blue Lines and Mezzanine (Hardly obscure for those that love trip-hop but perfect entree into it)
The Verve - Urban Hymns (Not just that Rolling Stones song - Lucky Man and The Drugs Don't Work are top-notch)
Radiohead - The Bends and OK Computer (Well duh)
NIN - The Downward Spiral (Still amazed it got the radio play that it did)
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore and Siamese Dream (Adore was definitely a contentious record with love/hate but I love the mood. No Mellon Collie - way too long)
Maxwell - Urban Hang Suite (duh again)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (Show me a better 1-2-3-4 punch than Sure Shot, Root Down, Sabotage and Get it Together...)
Alice in Chains - Dust (Probably been few albums where the despair of the vocals matches so well with the angst of the lyrics)
Really love Aimee Mann - Bachelor #3 or Return of the Dodo (has songs originally on Magnolia soundtrack from 90s but was released in 2000.
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Post by zircona1 on Jun 27, 2019 18:12:30 GMT -6
Sure many of these are elsewhere in thread but some that I loved then and continue to be in my rotation: R.E.M. - Out of Time (Arguably 2 best songs are sung by Mike Mills - Texarkana and Near Wild Heaven) I'd argue the best songs are the last 4 - Half A World Away, Texarkana, Country Feedback, and Me in Honey. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 1, 2019 9:02:35 GMT -6
The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust (1995)
 Tweet just posted something about how great the new album is, and I wore my Chemical Brothers shirt over the weekend, so this fine Monday morning seems like as good a time as ever to highlight my favorite album of theirs. Exit Planet Dust is my fav album by these guys because it all works so well as one piece. The first half hour is relentless but consistent; neither dancing nor headbanging would feel out of place. Chico's Groove (my personal fav) serves as a late break and paves the way for the beautiful One Too Many Mornings and more-reserved Life is Sweet. Playground For a Wedgeless Firm is a final breath - almost a hesitation - before the gentle cinematic ending of Alive Alone. Overall, the Chemical Brothers have better singles than they do full albums. But this debut, even moreso than Dig Your Own Hole, is a concise experience that never wavers during its trip. I think its better than Homework, and an excellent listening companion to Better Living Through Chemistry, Endtroducting, or Mezzanine. Highly recommended for your Monday.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 1, 2019 11:17:20 GMT -6
Is this song going to bump Where You Been into the upper half of my list???
It might.
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Post by andrewvb on Jul 1, 2019 14:17:43 GMT -6
green mind > where you been for me
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 1, 2019 15:01:31 GMT -6
Updated the first post with links to all write-ups so far...they've all been great. Feel free to contribute something short this week!
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Post by Pale Hose on Jul 2, 2019 9:24:30 GMT -6
Updated the first post with links to all write-ups so far...they've all been great. Feel free to contribute something short this week! I plan on doing a write up of some sort over this long weekend. |
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Post by zircona1 on Jul 2, 2019 20:46:30 GMT -6
Moby - Everything Is Wrong (1995) I'm currently reading Moby's book Then It Fell Apart, so I've been thinking about his music. Several years before he sampled old gospel records and combined them with breakbeats on his most popular release, Play, Moby made this album. It's a pretty eclectic mix of songs - fast techno, a few hardcore punk songs, soothing ambient, gorgeous Philip Glass-esque piano pieces - none of these should work together on an album, and yet, they do. This is my favorite record of his. SPIN named it their #1 album of 1995. Here's the original review: books.google.com/books?id=f7SFGOzAxGQC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA93&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 3, 2019 7:00:53 GMT -6
Play is on my list so I suppose I should give this a spin. This album's a blind spot for me in his discog.
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Post by goodson on Jul 3, 2019 7:50:22 GMT -6
thissy was legit telling me how good this album was last weekend when i was calling moby a dickhead lol
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Post by goodson on Jul 3, 2019 7:50:59 GMT -6
also the ryuichi sakamoto writeup is coming but it is very long and i am obsessed with him so i need to make sure it is good
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Post by Tweet on Jul 3, 2019 8:00:59 GMT -6
thissy was legit telling me how good this album was last weekend when i was calling moby a dickhead lol Everything is Wrong and Play are two legitimately very good albums. Dunno about Everything is Wrong but Play will probably make mine |
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Post by sthubbins on Jul 3, 2019 8:30:39 GMT -6
my dad used to listen to the Moby album "Hotel" in his car on repeat. that is not a good album
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 8:38:22 GMT -6
REM - New Adventures in Hi-Fi (1996) Fun scoots fact: I'm a lot younger than my siblings. Like over a decade younger, and in the case of my oldest brother, almost 14 years separate us. I point this out because they were the source of most of the music I listened to when I was growing up. I fell in love with REM pretty early on - I had "borrowed" multiple albums of their discography from my brothers by the time I was 10. One of my first CDs I went out and bought on my own was Monster. I actually owned two copies of Out of Time because I broke the first one from overuse. That brings me to New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which I feel is probably REM's most underrated album. I did not instantly connect with it and have grown to appreciate it more over time. It's now the album I listen to the most frequently out of their entire discography. This is the album that covers all the different eras of REM, which is appropriate considering it was Bill Berry's last go-around with the band. Bittersweet Me could fit on an REM album from the 80s and you probably wouldn't blink twice. There's also a handful of songs that continue the sound they explored on Monster and are probably better than anything you'll hear on that album (Wake Up Bomb is the best example). This is a big record by REM standards - over an hour long, and it holds up remarkably well even with exploring so many different eras of the band. Another fun fact: the entire album was recorded while the band was touring Monster.
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Post by ten15 on Jul 3, 2019 8:47:23 GMT -6
The Wake Up Bomb rips. I also still really like Electrolite.
Haven't listened to the whole album in a while - will have to do that soon.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2019 8:48:39 GMT -6
Leave is probably my favorite at the moment.
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 3, 2019 8:50:49 GMT -6
Leave and Wake Up Bomb are the two best ones!!!
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Post by zircona1 on Jul 3, 2019 9:06:49 GMT -6
my dad used to listen to the Moby album "Hotel" in his car on repeat. that is not a good albumYep. Was a big fan of Moby after Play came out, and 18 was solid, but Hotel was where I jumped off. |
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Post by zircona1 on Jul 3, 2019 9:11:04 GMT -6
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is great. As scoots said, it covers a lot of the different areas that REM explored over their career as a four-piece.
Some factoids:
-I went to a record store at midnight to buy it when it was released
-I had a brief stint reviewing music for the school paper in college, and did a glowing write-up on it
-'Zither' was recorded in a dressing room
-'The Wake-Up Bomb' is probably in my top 5 of favorite REM songs
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Post by venom on Jul 3, 2019 9:14:03 GMT -6
That brings me to New Adventures in Hi-Fi, which I feel is probably REM's most underrated album. I did not instantly connect with it and have grown to appreciate it more over time. It's now the album I listen to the most frequently out of their entire discography. this goes for me too. i picked it up on tuesday after school, went home, put it on immediately and was underwhelmed at first. my stepmom asked me to do some chore in the middle of it. when i came back and finished it, i came away liking it much more. and it's never really left my regular rotation. over hundreds of listens over the years, i always pick up a little something new and enjoy it just a little more. i can't fathom this farther down than early teens on my list. |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 3, 2019 9:16:39 GMT -6
I'm going back through it now and forgot how goddamn solid the whole thing is.
Wake Up Bomb > New Test Leper > Undertow > EBow > Leave is a powerhouse run
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Post by Xamnam on Jul 3, 2019 10:02:03 GMT -6
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Post by venom on Jul 3, 2019 10:05:00 GMT -6
Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (1993) my confession is that this record did nothing for me in the 90s. it wasn't until some years later, spurred by GVSB playing this album at the hideout block party, that it made its impact. it's big, chunky, dark and dynamic. it's the opposite of a sophomore slump, likely thanks to producer ted niceley who was about to hit his prime with fugazi, jawbox and shudder to think. the vocals are gruff. the riffs are heavy. (i swear the "let me come back" riff was ripped off by hot snakes.) the bass is like a jackhammer. and when it cooks, you want to shuffle your feet. through it all it's a band confident in their style after a tweak to their sound.
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Post by munkivelli on Jul 3, 2019 10:23:58 GMT -6
New Adventures in Hi-Fi is great. As scoots said, it covers a lot of the different areas that REM explored over their career as a four-piece. Some factoids: -I went to a record store at midnight to buy it when it was released -I had a brief stint reviewing music for the school paper in college, and did a glowing write-up on it -'Zither' was recorded in a dressing room -'The Wake-Up Bomb' is probably in my top 5 of favorite REM songs That needs a vinyl reissue baddddd |
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Post by chvrchbarrel on Jul 3, 2019 10:33:54 GMT -6
Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby (1993)my confession is that this record did nothing for me in the 90s. it wasn't until some years later, spurred by GVSB playing this album at the hideout block party, that it made its impact. it's big, chunky, dark and dynamic. it's the opposite of a sophomore slump, likely thanks to producer ted niceley who was about to hit his prime with fugazi, jawbox and shudder to think. the vocals are gruff. the riffs are heavy. (i swear the "let me come back" riff was ripped off by hot snakes.) the bass is like a jackhammer. and when it cooks, you want to shuffle your feet. through it all it's a band confident in their style after a tweak to their sound. This rips |
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