better than ALL BUT maybe 2 or 3 etc.
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
sd how old are u?
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
30, was 14 in '96
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Porno For Pyros - Good God's Urge 4
wau
― 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
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:08 (twelve years ago) link
ha man i remember 'october rust' getting a 5-star review in ALTERNATIVE PRESS
― goole, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:39 (twelve years ago) link
ha i think i read reviews of AT LEAST half of these in Alternative Press
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:46 (twelve years ago) link
i had a sub to that in hs :/
idk when i became the emo us weekly but it was after i was reading it
― goole, Friday, 11 May 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
great stealth typo right there
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 11 May 2012 03:59 (twelve years ago) link
ohhhh
― goole, Friday, 11 May 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
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)
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 May 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 04:15 (twelve years ago) link
Stone Temple Pilots 6It appears I don't understand a lot more things in this world than I thought― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, May 10, 2012 8:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
It's really not that bad...
― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
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...
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Friday, 11 May 2012 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
xpost yes, yes it is. My memory isn't that bad.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 11 May 2012 05:18 (twelve years ago) link
No. 4 was a p good album, but I remember Tiny Music had decent singles and a horrendous trumpet solo
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 11 May 2012 11:17 (twelve years ago) link
I hope we can at least all agree that Tiny Music was certainly no Talk Show or 12 Bar Blues.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
homie just threw down the lol 90s gauntlet
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
uninvited is a great song that no one remembers
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
Alanis?
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 May 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
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"
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
great, i've got to listen to friction, baby again now.
― fauxmarc, Friday, 11 May 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Fucking Jimmie Ray.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
Vic Chesnutt, John Doe, and Nuge!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
I just ripped all of those old samplers (the ones that weren't cracked to shit, anyway). Total time capsule, for good and ill.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:17 (twelve years ago) link
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
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
I discovered a lot of ace stuff from those comps, but they really are, like, 90% chaff/shit.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Like, I ripped 2-3 years worth and culled maybe 20-30 decent songs from the lot.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
i should actually be mining those tracklists for nominees for the commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative albums of 1994/5/7/8
― some dude, Friday, 11 May 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
xpost
Yes. Yes, you should.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 11 May 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
they really are, like, 90% chaff/shit.
read this as "like, 90% catshit."
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 11 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
holy fuck the BOGMEN
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 11 May 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
horrendous trumpet solo
hahah i like "Adhesive" but yeah the trumpet solo is a bumout
― billstevejim, Friday, 11 May 2012 19:37 (twelve years ago) link
lol i never minded the trumpet solo but i'm not going to defend it.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 13 May 2012 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
I remember "Hello Hello" being an alright single, and that the singer's old band was called 'Ten-Inch Men'.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 May 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 13 May 2012 22:15 (twelve years ago) link
the Talk Show album should've been called No Head Just Talking
― contendo entertainment system (some dude), Monday, 14 May 2012 01:27 (twelve years ago) link
omg i just realized The Heads' album was released in 1996 too, what a year for failure
― contendo entertainment system (some dude), Monday, 14 May 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
omg hahahaha
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 14 May 2012 04:02 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 May 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
I liked this single, but didn't know who it was till way later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Mye3v3_KQ
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 May 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
xp I didn't mind the other STP side-project that lasted for 2 songshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtOjON_n4Vw
― billstevejim, Monday, 14 May 2012 08:08 (twelve years ago) link
oh shit yeah that was good!
― contendo entertainment system (some dude), Monday, 14 May 2012 11:03 (twelve years ago) link
i don't rc ever hearing that before. and it's pretty bad.
― goole, Monday, 14 May 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
it was a #12 Modern Rock hit off of the Tank Girl soundtrack, i shit you not.
listening to it now, not as good as i remember.
― kitty shayme (some dude), Monday, 14 May 2012 15:45 (twelve years ago) link