I can see this (said as the guy that also suggested a 1989 album for inclusion). But I would take everything you said and apply that to Angel Dust as the ultimate expression of that stylistic approach. The Real Thing sounds kind of old and stiff to me in comparison and I can’t remember the last time I listed to it. But Angel Dust still shows up in the rotation from time to time.
If you want to take the musical ideas put together in both albums, the add a hefty dose of PCP, then you get Mr. Bungle’s Mr. Bungle. that album is like free drugs. And is an album I still listen to a lot, and that I fully expect to be alone here in admiring.
If I had had enough coffee this morning, that statement could be enough to get me worked up into a spluttering rage. As things stand, I can only managed a frowny addition to the thread. :mad:
That said, maybe you’re basing the assessment on an additive assessment of Phair’s library, something like…
100 + 85 + 50 + (-1,000,000) + who cares = some huge negative number
Although I feel the decade peakedearly. Madchester was thebestpartof the decade. I like grunge, but it’s no comparison. It’s just a pity that the actual album those last 3 90’s singles are from was an '89 release.
*Unplugged*is without a doubt my favourite Maniacs album, not sure what that says about me or them (and I *love *all the Natalie-era Maniacs albums. I deeply regret them not doing an unplugged Katrinas Fair)
First of all: of course you should listen to what you like. If I ended up actually being cool-kid enough to put someone off listening to music that they enjoy, that stinks.
Secondly: Xap…I’m a cool kid?! How cool is that! ;). I’m happy to get off your lawn, sir!
Spiderland! This thread is telling me is although I normally don’t listen to a lot of the music from my past (I can’t keep up with all the new stuff I’m adding to my playlists daily!), it’s time to dig out my early 90s record collection and go to town.
Don’t you remember how the 90s was actually “the slint decade”?
The swing in mood from underground activism, to mainstream assertions of dominance, and then to assertions of hard rock dominance, and back again, on these threads, is totally tripolar. I guess there are a few convos at once happening though.
Pretty much this. I’d even campaing for personal fave Cleansing. Like Pork Rind I’m still adding stuff to my playlists, but the one uniting stance might just be that the 90’s was the beginning of the end of thinking about music in terms of albums.
I’m not a huge fan of nineties music, although I generally like it way better than most of what came out in the previous decade. My favorite is the Black Crowes’ Southern Harmony And Musical Companion.
Not my favorite Surfers record, but damn that’s a good rock record.
And yeah, Loveless is a probably the right answer. It just cascades forever, and is gorgeous. Probably the nexus of my taste, innovation and popularity.
But my personal favorite is probably The Melvins’ Lysol. People have tuned lower, but I’ve never heard anything quite that heavy. In the age of CDs, the whole album is one track, and they provided no song titles. I found out about it because a friend of mine borrowed it from a girl he used to date. I’m not going to say I married that woman because of it, but it was one of many reasons.