Best Decade Tournament - 90s - Numbers wins!

[Lament]

Their first (real) single. I still want to run through walls and start fires and blow up cars and wipe out the human race in general every time I hear it...



Manic Street Preachers - Motown Junk


(This is sadly the only video with the studio version on youtube)

[Lament]

Stip takes...



Scatman John - The Scatman

[Lament]

Just kidding.

[Lament]

Stip takes...



Pearl Jam - Corduroy

[Birds in Hell]

Stip takes...

Scatman John - The Scatman

Oh Jesus fucking Christ, stip.

I have to admit, with a few of the guys who are in this thing, I'm actually moderately concerned for the first time that at least one of my selections might be nabbed before I get around to it; I'm not planning on picking it until my seventh choice, so hey, fingers crossed that works out.

[Lament]

bada takes...



Beastie Boys - So What'cha Want

[Lament]

I have knee tunes' pick. Should we just assume Jorge wants Two Princes?

[Heathen]

I have knee tunes' pick. Should we just assume Jorge wants Two Princes?

Either that or some shitty punk tune that no one will steal anyway, so let's move on the next guy.

[Rangi Guy]

Are you really that anti- ... those bands you mentioned?

No, I really like REM and the Beastie Boys. Soundgarden and Jeff Buckley both have some songs I like. I've never cared for Tool or Tom Waits. I can't stand Radiohead now, but I loved them in the 90s and still enjoy their three 90s records. I just think when everyone stacks their groups up with the same artists it gets kinda dull.

I'm not completely sure what to make of this - actually I kind of get the Tool thing - I was really late to the party with Tool having only heard Sober and pretty much discarded it, but now are so invested in their music, Radiohead on the other hand - it wasn't till around 2000 when Kid A came out that I really started paying attention to them.

[Birds in Hell]

I'm in firm agreement with Lament's general point but, yes, I think Kid A was Radiohead's first really good album.

[Iholdthepain]

Are you really that anti- ... those bands you mentioned?

No, I really like REM and the Beastie Boys. Soundgarden and Jeff Buckley both have some songs I like. I've never cared for Tool or Tom Waits. I can't stand Radiohead now, but I loved them in the 90s and still enjoy their three 90s records. I just think when everyone stacks their groups up with the same artists it gets kinda dull.

Maybe over-played, maybe cliche... but for great reasons.

[Iholdthepain]

Are you really that anti- ... those bands you mentioned?

No, I really like REM and the Beastie Boys. Soundgarden and Jeff Buckley both have some songs I like. I've never cared for Tool or Tom Waits. I can't stand Radiohead now, but I loved them in the 90s and still enjoy their three 90s records. I just think when everyone stacks their groups up with the same artists it gets kinda dull.

I'm not completely sure what to make of this - actually I kind of get the Tool thing - I was really late to the party with Tool having only heard Sober and pretty much discarded it, but now are so invested in their music, Radiohead on the other hand - it wasn't till around 2000 when Kid A came out that I really started paying attention to them.

OK Computer was on regular rotation... The Bends, not as much... Kid A and Amnesiac changed everything, though... Maybe it was all the Lone Star Donuts... Anyhoo, they've been pretty mind-blowing for me.

TOOL... Don't even get me started!

[Lament]

Radiohead on the other hand - it wasn't till around 2000 when Kid A came out that I really started paying attention to them.

I'm gonna get blasted for this I'm sure, but I was beyond disappointed with Kid A when it came out. I found it to be a really boring retread of what artists like Massive Attack and Tricky and Portishead had spent most of the 90s doing. But because it was from "ROCK'S GREAT HOPE" everybody acted like it was the greatest thing ever. I found the whole Kid A "experience" to be really off-putting. Thom Yorke was in every fucking major music magazine giving promotional interviews about how he wasn't promoting anything. "We're not doing videos but here are mini-videos for every single song!" "No tours. Just two VIP/Celebrity/Press packed megashows in LA and NY that will be reported on like the second coming of Christ."

It just all seemed so fake and hypocritical, especially since at the time my line of thought was "Y'know, you can always just stop doing promo and press. I mean, Pearl Jam did just that a few years ago, and they were in a position of far more power and popularity." But whereas Ed got criticized back then for being whiny and ungrateful, Thom was praised for all of the "statements" he was making about the industry.

And then the album came out. And there was nothing exciting or groundbreaking or even all that interesting about it. But the world at large had decided it was a classic before it even came out, so there was no point in having a dissenting opinion. It was the same month Stankonia and Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea came out, so Kid A was out of my rotation pretty fast. When Amnesiac came out I gave Kid A a second chance, and found I liked a few songs, as I did with Amnesiac as well. But I just didn't care anymore. When Hail to the Thief came out, I thought it was terrible. I'll still give their new albums a listen, but again and again I just don't give a fuck. I still love the first three records though, and a lot of the non-album stuff from those eras as well.


99% of people here will disagree with me, but I don't really care. In my mind Radiohead has been running a smoke and mirrors scam for almost fifteen years now. It's like some kind of amazing "Emperor's New Clothes" act that I've just stopped trying to understand.

[Lament]

Are you really that anti- ... those bands you mentioned?

No, I really like REM and the Beastie Boys. Soundgarden and Jeff Buckley both have some songs I like. I've never cared for Tool or Tom Waits. I can't stand Radiohead now, but I loved them in the 90s and still enjoy their three 90s records. I just think when everyone stacks their groups up with the same artists it gets kinda dull.

Maybe over-played, maybe cliche... but for great reasons.

Yeah, but I mean, we're not assembling a library here. We're trying to have fun. Get a little out there with your picks. Instead of trying to decide what the 7th or 8th best Soundgarden song is, pick something someone might not have heard in years, if at all. I dunno. Put some personality into your picks.

[LetMeSleep]

hey fuck you

[Lament]

I mean, look at Spenno's 80s group. That was an awesome set of picks, not in that I loved every song he picked, but in that his picks represented him in a way that was unique to his tastes while still being true to whatever the spirit of this whole exercise is. If everyone picked like that, this would be a lot more fun.

[Lament]

hey fuck you

[William Bloke]

hey fuck you

Wasn't that a Beastie Boys song pick?

[koopee27]

beastie boys - sabotage


kp

[William Bloke]

I have knee tunes' pick. Should we just assume Jorge wants Two Princes?

Either that or some shitty punk tune that no one will steal anyway, so let's move on the next guy.

I'm for this. I have numbers pick ready to go as well.