haha been there did that in 1996
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
the only song I can recall from a mixtape i made off the radio around this time that isn't on the above album list is NIN's "The Perfect Drug"
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
do most cure fans hate mint car this much?
― iatee, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
I had just become arts editor of my college paper after writing a couple of years and I had never seen so many promo CD's coming into the office; I saw every one of the albums here around the office at some point (I reviewed that Cure album) along with Imperial Teen, Jonny Polonsky, Jars of Clay, etc. Major labels were swimming in loot.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol i heard the big Jars of Clay song on the radio the other day
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
produced by Adrian Belew!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
xxxpost:
Nope. I like 'Mint Car', and I like 'Return' too.
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
pinkerton
wild mood swings was bought out of loyalty. The point where I ceased to look forward to new Cure albums (unimaginable to my teenaged self). They have done good stuff since tho.
― pandemic, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
presumably called after jerry harrison said he was busy
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:23 (twelve years ago) link
dammit, I was actually going to get some studying done today before Some Dude had to go and post a list of alternative rock albums
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
on that 'time and place' tip it's really striking to me how many of these albums I can remember being absolutely ripped apart in the NME - like obviously most of this wasn't their bread and butter in the mid 90s but I think that being a huge-but-faltering American alt-rock band was just the worst thing you could be from that perspective
Whigs and S. Trees exempt from this iirc
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
underperforming major label debuts are a different category re: Sammy
I don't know that could've possibly underperformed. Pretty sure I bought it sight unseen because the tape was selling for, like, four bucks brand new. Pretty decent album, too.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
oh c'mon like Jerry Harrison wouldn't have accepted the chance at carving more throwing copper.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
i said "busy," not uninterested
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
was there actually a Screaming Trees album that sold 'well'? xp to Dorian
― listicular fortitude (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
― da croupier, Thursday, May 3, 2012 4:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol i started the thread against better judgment on a busy work day, if it's any consolation
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:30 (twelve years ago) link
Sweet Oblivion was a pretty minor blip as far as grunge's boom years go, but it still sold probably several times more than any other Screaming Trees album before or since
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
incidentally the only year i went to Lollapolooza was '96, where i saw Metallica and Soundgarden and the Trees work these albums
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
i think this is the first time I've heard "Mach 5" in over a decade. It kicks harder than I remembered!
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
these guys could have been alt-rock's ZZ Top if they weren't such fucking goofballs
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
never cared for the screaming trees after they left sst. a few good songs on uncle anaesthesia, i guess, but it's mostly dull. didn't care for sweet oblivion at all, and never heard dust.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
― da croupier, Thursday, May 3, 2012 1:35 PM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i half like the first album, but the second is disappointing. "volcano" is great, "ladies and gentlemen" has an awesome chorus, "mach 5" and "supermodel" are okayish. no need for the rest.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
^ based on memory. just tried to listen to "supermodel". so painful and bad.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
wtf why I am listening to WMS
"Strange Attraction" is so terrible, I wish I had back the time I wasted trying to convince myself I liked it
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Win a eulogy from William GreiderA car crash, ptomaine, disposable lighterA bus plunge, avalanche, RV, vinegar ciderFree-fall, motorcycle, hang-glider
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:43 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to figure out what percentage of these albums were recorded while wearing sunglasses
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
xpost Jars of Clay is from Nashville, which is where Adrian Belew has a studio/lives. It's weird to think of King Crimson jamming away in some weird corner of Music City.
"Dust" is actually a pretty solid album, like "Black Love" pretty much what you'd hope from its predecessor (which is very underrated, that "Sweet Oblivion")
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
I've grown to enjoy the Superunknown stuff but I think "Pretty Noose" was the first and last Soundgarden song I liked at the time it came out
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
Trying to figure out what percentage of '90s alt albums are in any way defensible once you've read the lyrics.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:50 (twelve years ago) link
first PUSA album is a classic. maybe it hasn't held up all that well but it's at least as good as "Nevermind" isn't it? I cannot seperate that album from Domino's pizza and Mountain Dew and Goldeneye 64 and the Ice Age Magic set, it all goes together to me.
IMO the one that got half-deleted "Freaked Out and Small" was actually very good. I still like 'em..
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
lol frogs
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
I CAUGHT THE MOON TODAYPICK IT UPTHROW IT ALLLLL AWAY
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
I would just like to note that apparently the title track of Wax Ecstatic is actually "Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina)"
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
lol that and the bad religion and cure songs are the ones on your playlist that i was like "what does this sound like again? woah, i totally know this"
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:54 (twelve years ago) link
want to be pedantic about you including a song from Neil's '95 album instead of Broken Arrow, though
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
haha oh wooops
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
they're both short titles i got confuuuused
Here's something that is automaticIt's Wax EcstaticWhen life is nothing less than tragicIt's Wax EcstaticWhen life has lost all it's magicIt's Wax EcstaticWhen life can't promise the fantasticIt's Wax Ecstatic
('ecstatic' pronounced 'astatic', of course)
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'm just going to remove neil entirely then cuz broken arrow has great stuff but he kind of stopped being "alternative" after mirror ball, imo.
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
the first POTUSA record was the first CD i owned when i was a kid iirc
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
i'm listening to "tiny music" right now and this is OTM:
"Tumble in the rough" -> "big bang baby" - > "lady picture show" is a pretty awesome 3 in a row.. "Ride the Cliche" is great also.
― billstevejim, Thursday, May 3, 2012 2:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i forgot how good "lady picture show" is
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 3 May 2012 20:58 (twelve years ago) link
the first POTUSA album is what should be played at a party of screaming 9-year-olds running around hopped up on caffeine and sugar
― billstevejim, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
well that was me in 1995 so yeah
― ciderpress, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
I went to a PUSA show two years ago and literally everyone I saw was in their mid-20's. "People born in 1986" is basically their whole audience.
― That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield. Show me how you do it. (frogbs), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
― da croupier, Thursday, May 3, 2012 4:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
i'm pretty sure i saw the "This Town" video on 120 Minutes. i'm also pretty sure it's the single worst song on any of these albums.
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
i had 17 of these
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, Neil was still headlining horde and doing crazy, post-sonic youth versions of "Like A Hurricane" in Jim Jarmusch directed footage, but if I was going to put a song from Broken Arrow on this it would be "Big Time" or "Music Arcade" and neither have anything to do with the other shit on the playlist while "I'm The Ocean" at least has Pearl Jam on it.
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
I'll rep for No Code start to finish -- still my favorite PJ album
yeah yeah yeah, shocking right
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
oh man i never realized how much of a "Purple Rain" lift "Hey Jupiter" is until just now
― da croupier, Thursday, 3 May 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
Three Snakes & One Charm is great too, Johnny Fever otm