commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1996

The Cranberries - To The Faithful Departed 0

This one really deserves its last place.

It's a topic near and dear to everyone's heart.

its the last decade before most ilxors got jaded

now I wish She's The One had been a part of this

yeah Petty along w/ Cracker definitely shoulda been options but tbf they probably both would've been down in the 2 vote ghetto with Type O Negative.

i kinda figured this would have a good turnout and wide distribution of votes, but i really didn't think all but 3 albums would get votes!! also v happy that Hi-Fi beat Pinkerton.

Kinda sorta feel like Blow It Out Your Ass, It's Veruca Salt fits the bill here? Except for the pesky fact of it being an EP.

my favorite under-the-radar follow-up EP of 1996 is Ruth Ruth's The Little Death, which is fucking incredible and better than maybe 2 or 3 of the albums on this list

better than ALL BUT maybe 2 or 3 etc.

sd how old are u?

30, was 14 in '96

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― mookieproof, Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

that really is bewildering -- i liked it ok at the time (mike watt!) but god has the production aged badly even in the context of this lot

ha man i remember 'october rust' getting a 5-star review in ALTERNATIVE PRESS

ha i think i read reviews of AT LEAST half of these in Alternative Press

i had a sub to that in hs :/

idk when i became the emo us weekly but it was after i was reading it

great stealth typo right there

ohhhh

some dude if you were 14 in '96 (and thirty now) do you think about these records as you heard them then or as you hear them now or some mix of the two?

(i'm not trying to shit on your ability/authority to criticize them at all, but i am curious)

a mix of the two, but it really depends because some of them i really HAVEN'T listened to in full in years and years, some i just revisited recently, some never left rotation.

but pretty much all of the ones i love or that have songs i love, i acknowledge that the albums have flaws or that the production hasn't dated well, etc.

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― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

It's really not that bad...

I think the huge response is that the overground notoriety of these albums intersects perfectly with the median ilxor age? I.E. Everyone has an opinion on this...

xpost yes, yes it is. My memory isn't that bad.

No. 4 was a p good album, but I remember Tiny Music had decent singles and a horrendous trumpet solo

I hope we can at least all agree that Tiny Music was certainly no Talk Show or 12 Bar Blues.

homie just threw down the lol 90s gauntlet

Hey, sd, thanks for reminding me of Ruth Ruth's existence. I obsessively cobbled together a playlist of alt rock radio "hits" from the '92-'96 era a while back and somehow totally overlooked "Uninvited". Good tune. I'll check out that EP.

uninvited is a great song that no one remembers

Alanis?

i actually was not that into "Uninvited," i just got into Ruth Ruth when i had a (ding ding) Alternative Press subscription and one issue came with a cassette of 2 songs from the aforementioned Epitaph EP, and i got heavy into that and later retroactively appreciated their major label album and came around on "Uninvited"

great, i've got to listen to friction, baby again now.

I think pre-emo era AP was just a little after my time. My continuum was RS > Spin > Raygun > CMJ, so I was taking a lot of cues from CMJ samplers around then. No love for Ruth Ruth that I recall, but, hey, I got to be one of the first to hear Jimmie Ray!

Fucking Jimmie Ray.

hahaha i too subscribed to CMJ during the DJ Rap era. this is like Cros OST levels of legendarily awful:

http://www.legalsounds.com/download-mp3/jimmy-ray/cmj-new-music-monthly-volume-56-april-1998/are-you-jimmy-ray/song_5327646

haha even the cover of the issue is a perfect storm of lol 90s:

http://991.com/newGallery/Pearl-Jam-CMJ-New-Music---A-552958.jpg

Vic Chesnutt, John Doe, and Nuge!

I just ripped all of those old samplers (the ones that weren't cracked to shit, anyway). Total time capsule, for good and ill.

i can't knock you for that but there is a disturbing number of people who have seemed to dedicate themselves to the cause of collecting and preserving CMJ comps

I discovered a lot of ace stuff from those comps, but they really are, like, 90% chaff/shit.

Like, I ripped 2-3 years worth and culled maybe 20-30 decent songs from the lot.

i should actually be mining those tracklists for nominees for the commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1994/5/7/8

I probably discovered three times as much awesome stuff from their reviews as I did from their samplers, honestly. And then there were Douglas Wolk's non-music reviews, which were hugely influential.

xpost

Yes. Yes, you should.

they really are, like, 90% chaff/shit.

read this as "like, 90% catshit."

holy fuck the BOGMEN

horrendous trumpet solo

hahah i like "Adhesive" but yeah the trumpet solo is a bumout

lol i never minded the trumpet solo but i'm not going to defend it.

12 Bar Blues vs Talk Show would be a great way to test just how deeply runs the median-age ILX altrock giving-a-shit index. Would rather hear ''Hello Hello'' than ''Barbarella'' any day of the week, myself.

I remember "Hello Hello" being an alright single, and that the singer's old band was called 'Ten-Inch Men'.

barbarella is cool, hello hello is ok. the rest of the wieland album is a disaster, and i refuse to believe anyone has heard the rest of the talk show album

the Talk Show album should've been called No Head Just Talking

omg i just realized The Heads' album was released in 1996 too, what a year for failure