Local Cleveland band from my college days
The Jangles - Sweet Providence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV3pvFAwYuw
I am amazed you can actually find this on Amazon still
The Record Company’s Give It Back To You.
Off The Ground, Turn Me Loose, and This Crooked City are awesome.
I’m posting from a work computer, so sorry, no youtube links.
Refused - Shape of Punk to Come
One of the last really interesting and original rock/punk albums I’ve heard (and it came out in '98.) Just a crazy mish-mash of hardcore punk, jazz, techno, and just energy and punk spirit the whole way through. And fresh. I haven’t heard anything like it before or since. This album really should be much bigger than it is.
I don’t know that it should be “huge”, but my absolute favorite Steve Miller album is the relatively unknown Recall The Beginning; A Journey From Eden. It’s an in-between album, lost in the shuffle between his SF psychedelic blues period and the big pop hits that started with Fly Like An Eagle. It has everything from Do Wop to lush acoustic ballads and it has some of Steve’s finest lead guitar work in Fandango.
Thirding Minutemen and Refused.
Aw duuuuuuuude - Farewell to Kings!
And of course, my go-to, my staple, and never given its due - The Philosophy of the Worldalbum.
Hoping to start the 3,427th doper Shaggs tizzy.
Oil and Gold by Shriekback
FEAR - The Record
I was rather surprised that Gaia Riva didn’t become relatively famous, at least in Europe. Her album “Frantic” is full of songs that seem like easy pop winners:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIt9mxC8qZEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjNVmPbKeo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFxo-lTfXzshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOINDnb4ghMThat’s the first half of the album.
If it’s not to gauche to quote oneself, I’m now on my home computer, and can linky-link:
The Record Company: Give It Back To You
Hedningarna, a Swedish group. Tra (wood) is the album name. Stunning album. Never gets old.
Benjamin Booker. Have you seen my son. Punkish growl.
So people know- that’s a song, not an album.
I only wish record and radio companies kept this in mind when deciding what gets pushed/played.
Juliana Hatfield’s “My Sister” was pretty popular back in the early-mid 90s, at least around here, and that was a 5/4 pop song. (Though only normal pop song length, and plenty of vocals.)
Also, have you ever tried counting Outkast’s “Hey Ya”! It’s actually pretty fun. The beat subdivision is 4-4-4-2-4-4. I always wondered what the heck the rhythmic oddity in there was, and then I counted it. Ah ha!
My vote is for 59 Sound (2008) by The Gaslight Anthem. Every song is catchy and band has serious Springsteen obsession. They are broken up now, they never reached this high after. Damn good album and good concert to go along with it.