I'll definitely have to check out the radio there. I like keeping tabs on the competition, haha.
Speaking of radio, I just discovered that we have Over the Edge on vinyl. FUCK YEAH. I'm playing a side as soon as Close to the Edge finishes. Unintended perfect transition.
Oh Wagomu, I kicked Prince off the lists, and to fill the spots of his in the 80's lists i've done so far I listened to The Wipers.
Go check it out.
I noticed that before, but I thought I immediately assumed that I somehow missed it before rather than thinking you may have changed something, haha. I'm definitely happy with them, seeing as you nailed the key points about them in my mind. Especially the grunge influence. I often wonder how they got buried beneath the sands of time. Nirvana wore that influence pretty openly. They covered two Wiper's songs, too, for god's sake. How much better advertising could a band get for the 90s generation? Yet they still managed to stay hidden.
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So is the 80's a bad decade for music? The nadir of rock? The end of the good days?
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Something I learned today, black and white is always gray, ignore the boomers, let the 80's have their say.
! Ladies and gentlemen, 1984.
I'm surprised you didn't like Double Nickels as much, though I know it can be a little out there for some. I love it so much more for its individual spirit, variety and counterbalancing of themes, both musical and lyrical. You've got a combination of off-beat stream of consciousness songs, the more punk traditional anti-socety songs and the more sincere autobiographical songs. Thinking about it, it's sort of like listening to the band's id, superego and ego respectively. But I digress.
Interesting fact: Double Nickels is only as long as it is because of Zen Arcade. When the release date for Double Nickels changed to the same day as Hüsker Dü's new huge double LP, the Minutemen decided to compete and wrote the entire second half of that album on short notice, haha. That may account for some of the weirder bits, but it wouldn't be quite the same experience without those.
I'm glad to see so much Meat Puppets love. The rest of their material, I'm not so sure about, but that album is just so damn beautiful. I really don't know how else to describe The best albums, in my mind, are ones that can emotionally move me and that album can move me to the other side of the country, far beyond the bounds of my own mind.
As for the rest, I think you covered all of the important (non-metal) releases I wanted to see. The Replacements, The Smiths and Hüsker Dü are among my favorite releases as well. Concerning the Hüsker Dü album, I think it definitely boils down more to an emotional concept. There is no clear story line at all, you've just got to follow the sound and vaguely outlined themes. While nothing is ever clearly understood, though, it makes for a fantastic journey.
1985… That's definitely another important year... for metal... Still, there are some fun releases in the punk and rock areas of music. More Replacements, Sonic Youth and Hüsker Dü. I hope to see your thoughts on the Dead Milkmen's Big Lizard in my Backyard. It's such a fun and quirky punk album and somehow became a huge college radio hit (my station's vinyl copy has a yellow electric tape label with black sharpie proclaiming, boldly, "OVERPLAYED," haha).
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I'm glad you recognized Rites of Spring, there. I'm surprised I've never ranted about real emo within your vicinity, though, haha. If you want a pretty good summary, better than what I could say, check this site out. The misconceptions surrounding emo are worth clearing up, if only because they're so annoying and demeaning to the actual genre.
On Sonic Youth: you are so going to enjoy next year. I'm glad it seems you did a bit of digging into no wave, since that's essential for understanding Sonic Youth's sound, as well as a lot of modern music. A huge influence they had.
The rest of the year, you've got pretty spot on. I'm disappointed, though, that you missed the Dead Milkmen, especially since Big Lizard in my Backyard actually became a pretty big college radio hit. Hell, the original copy in my radio station has a yellow electric tape label with the word "OVERPLAYED" sharpied onto it, haha. The Minutemen's final album would have been good, too. I think it's worthy of note, showing how much they matured as a band before D. Boon's tragic death.
I really can't wait until you go over this year again, with metal on the mind. Lots of good releases, but, most importantly, Possessed's Seven Churches. That's right, the birth of death metal!
1986 = Appetite for Destruction
@Cyan:
1986 = Appetite for Destruction
87' actually.
Speaking of which 87' is looking terrifying!!!
-Joshua Tree
-Document
-Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
-Appetite for Destruction
-You're Living All Over Me
-Sister
-Louder Than Bombs and Strangeways Here We Come
-Pleased to Meet Me
-Darklands
-Come on Pilgrim
gahhhh!!!!
Lying-ass CD case.
1986 would be:
Peter Gabriel-So
Van Halen-5150
Boston's last album
but that's really all I remember from that year that isn't metal or hair band stuff.
Edit: Also Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi, Crowded House, and Graceland by Paul Simon.
'86 should definitely include EVOL and The Queen is Dead. 1986 was one of the best years for metal also.
Ladies and Gentlemen.
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1987
Sonic Youth - Sister
1988
Sugarcubes - Life's to good
Ohh, and since I just discovered it, Ram with Paul and Linda McCartney is a great album, it came out I think in 71, had no idea this album existed until a couple of weeks ago. Monkberry moon delight is my favourite track on that one.
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@JERK:
Sorry, 80' is heavily booked.
Oh wait, maybe you have your hands full. I need to take a look at some of the stuff mentioned on the first page as well.
This is a fun idea for a thread, I would love to push my favourites in and get some recommendations thrown back at me.
1999 is out for anyone who's interested.
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zephos/1999__rock_album_rankings__work_in_progress_
Damn, I forgot about this gem.
Thanks again!
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theres no one to know
the city's been dead
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@The:
theres nothing to do
theres no one to know
the city's been dead
since you've been gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooNE
Hey buddy! You promised us many moons ago that the 00's were the best time!
Well it's time to see foer real!
You were right about the 90's though, "Ho Hum": The Decade.
You'll like the 00s more than the 90s but you won't like the 00s better than the 70s or 80s
Calling it now
The big thing about the 00s is that so much of its great stuff is very singularly its own, in its own new Timeline or Continuity and it gets harder to be a stickler about where their influences came from
@The:
You'll like the 00s more than the 90s but you won't like the 00s better than the 70s or 80s
Calling it now
The big thing about the 00s is that so much of its great stuff is very singularly its own, in its own new Timeline or Continuity and it gets harder to be a stickler about where their influences came from
Like they mash together very different things that no one else is doing?
it depends. At its core it's a clusterfuck, because the 00s have finally reached a point where they are pretty divorced from the people who "started" rock
it is singularly the most diverse age of music and people's influences and ideas come from all across the board, from direct precedences to shit from decades past and sometimes in combinations. Some people don't even sound like they were influenced by anything
Which reminds me, you know how you thought Modest Mouse sounded really "their own thing"? But how there were also guys like Pavement who were kind of centralized "normal" rock and roll with their own personal filter on what they think is cool? When one is like 50 years after the dawn of rock and roll, figuring out people's place in the grand scheme of things gets overcomplicated in its own Who Inspired Who cycle
Consider these guys, some of your favorite dudes in the 90s, the onset of like a new continuity and you'll be in the right frame of mind.
You're gonna be seeing computer and electronics usage at an all time apparent high btw, along with more and more guys who are just out to just be Rockin', and other guys who develop some intensely personal vision.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.
@Monkey:
1999 is out for anyone who's interested.
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Zephos/1999__rock_album_rankings__work_in_progress_
Thank you for this. I'm a self-professed fan of rock, but my library has always been extremely limited and narrow. You have introduced me to a world I could never imagine.
@The:
You're gonna be seeing computer and electronics usage at an all time apparent high btw, along with more and more guys who are just out to just be Rockin', and other guys who develop some intensely personal vision.
Whoooo! I like the sound of that!
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Thank you for this. I'm a self-professed fan of rock, but my library has always been extremely limited and narrow. You have introduced me to a world I could never imagine.
Much of it is also a world I didn't imagine either lol.
Especially like stuff after 1979.
