Post Random Music-Related Thoughts You Have

[E.H. Ruddock]

I attended a Poison concert

[Ello Sailor]

Can't believe Ruddo bottom-paged me with that nugget of info.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Can't believe Ruddo bottom-paged me with that nugget of info.

I’m Cece Deville and you’re Riki Rocket

[96583UP]

"Rock music took a hard turn to suck around 95"
Not like this, broseph.

Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire (1996)
Failure - Fantastic Planet (1996)
Tool - Ænima (1996)
Modest Mouse - The Lonesome Crowded West (1997)
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape (1997)
Radiohead - OK Computer (1997)
Faith No More - Album of the Year (1997)
Hum - Downward Is Heavenward (1998)
Queens of the Stone Age - Queens of the Stone Age (1998)
Hole - Celebrity Skin (1998)
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing (1998)
Garbage - Version 2.0 (1998)
Mr. Bungle - California (1999)
The Flaming Lips - The Soft Bulletin (1999)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (1999)
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile (1999)

Not to mention a metric ass-ton of britpop albums that were really just art rock/pop rock with a trendy new name.

[96583UP]

i think part of the downturn was simply that what came before in 1990-1995 was so much better

[wease]

I won't go as far as trag. I still adore 90s music. The alt rock stuff, but especially the R&B and country of the 90s is fucking peak!

R&B was definitely good throughout. I prefer the new jack swing stuff like Tony! Toni! Toné! or Bell Biv Devoe to a lot of what came later.

Yeah buddy!

I saw Tony! Toni! Tone! open for Janet in 1994. Fuck yeah.

[tragabigzanda]

[Ello Sailor]

Aight now I know Trag is trolling.

[VinylGuy]

please include

Massive Attack Mezzanine
Fiona Apple Tidal - When the pawn...
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Lanegan - Scraps At Midnight
Soundgarden - DOTU
REM - Up
Marilyn Manson - Mechanical Animals

[Ello Sailor]

Some good calls in there.

Although including Mezzanine in a rawk list doesn't seem right.

[Higgs]

Sonic diversity?

DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.... (1996)
Spice Girls - Spice (1996)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call (1997)
Ben Folds Five - Whatever and Ever Amen (1997)
Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind (1997)
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation Of (1998)
Elliott Smith - XO (1998)
Beta Band - The Three EPs (1998)
Air - Moon Safari (1998)
Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998)
Fatboy Slim - You've Come a Long Way Baby (1998)
Death Cab for Cutie - Something About Airplanes (1998)
Powderfinger - Internationalist (1998)
Tom Waits - Mule Variations (1999)
Silverchair - Neon Ballroom (1999)
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun (1999)

[Higgs]

Oh wait - you were talking rock. Oh well, I still like my list.

[Ello Sailor]

I forgot Ween's The Mollusk (1997) which is damn near unforgivable. I'll have to do better.

[bart]

and nobody has even mentioned Buckcherry yet

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Ello Sailor]

Last night I turned around and thought I saw myself turning
Inside the strangest dream of life unloved and cities burning

[tragabigzanda]

Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb

I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem

[Ello Sailor]

Same thing happened to The Avalanches. It sucks to witness.

[Higgs]

Same thing happened to The Avalanches. It sucks to witness.

I dunno on this. Their last album was a damn fine "full album listen". Nothing to grab you as far as singles goes, but the album as a whole was legit, if you gave it the time.

[96583UP]

fuck there's nothing worse than bad DJ shadow ... that 'The Outsider' album should be played at camp x-ray