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The first ever consistent rock album was "A Hard Day's Night", which was the first one to containt exclusively brilliant self-composisions by band members.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

So why not jazz?

Some jazz (particularly the slower songs on several classic jazz albums) is OK, but generally, there is too much inprovisation in jazz.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:28 (twenty-one years ago) link

You couldn't make it up, could you?

― Richard Litteljhon for legal reasons, Monday, 3 March 2003 14:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

I know.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Geir is from Norway apparently:does he even like black metal?
(Hellhammer might be too rhythmic a drummer I suppose)

― Scott Seward, Monday, 3 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

black metal is probably not melodic enough for Geir.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

Scott: All black metal fans in Norway are now in jail for the burning of their local stave church. You won't find them writing here. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

does he even like black metal?

He should - the stuff is as free from "black music" as it gets, and the Emperor/Dark Tranquillity school certainly crams more twin guitar melodic riffing, key and tempo changes into the songs than any 'conventional' rock band I can think of. But as the above list suggests, Geir likes his music aesthetically conventional, right?

― Siegbran (eofor), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Beatles found the perfect formula and future musicans should stick to that one. No need for "innovation".

hahahahaha! You really believe there's a 'perfect' formula out there?
What if someone such as yourself said this in 1960, everyone followed it, and your 'perfect' Beatles were stuck doing Irving Berlin covers?
Now, I understand that you probaly mean this formula is perfect in your eyes, but how are you so sure there's nothing that can be produced that you'd like better?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

In many ways he is the epitome of the ILM approach, or the ILM approach taken to absurd extremes, which is probably why he inspires such argument.

Quite right. I of course sympathize with him on the whole 'find your own aesthetic' point, and at the same time I'm rather glad it isn't mine...

As for GH...oh dear oh dear oh dear. Matos, Blount, I take it all back - let him have it.

It won't work. I understand, though. Somewhere in groups.google.com is the massive 1995 or so argument I had with him that tired me out after about a month or something.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 March 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

I find the comment about the Beatles particularly ironic, since I think innovation was part of their formula. Listening to them from album to album, I hear a constant inventiveness. (I admit there were some things that remained consistent as well.)

― A Music Consumer, Monday, 3 March 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

fwiw, my one comment re: FG was more of a cocked eyebrow in his direction, he's got the right to his opinions even if I think they're fairly narrow [understatement of the decade]. and I was funning w/MC, mostly

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jan G--yes, Ocean is the Toop book s/t. utterly changed the way I hear music, absolutely essential

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

1966 Otis Redding, Complete and Unbelievable: The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul
1967 The Who, The Who Sell Out
1968 Love, Forever Changes
1969 Gilberto Gil, Gilberto Gil
1970 Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
1971 Sly and the Family Stone, There’s a Riot Goin’ On
1972 Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything?
1973 Al Green, Call Me
1974 Ann Peebles, I Can’t Stand the Rain
1975 The Ohio Players, Honey
1976 Thin Lizzy, Jailbreak
1977 Parliament, Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome
1978 Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food
1979 The B-52’s, The B-52’s
1980 The Clash, Sandinista!
1981 Prince, Controversy
1982 ABC, The Lexicon of Love
1983 Prince, 1999
1984 Kurtis Blow, Ego Trip
1985 The Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
1986 XTC, Skylarking
1987 LL Cool J, Bigger and Deffer
1988 EPMD, Strictly Business
1989 Janet Jackson, Rhythm Nation 1814
1990 Shonen Knife, Shonen Knife
1991 De La Soul, De La Soul Is Dead
1992 The Pharcyde, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
1993 Liz Phair, Exile in Guyville
1994 Common Sense, Resurrection
1995 Whale, We Care
1996 Henry Threadgill and Make a Move, Where’s Your Cup?
1997 Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World
1998 Gomez, Bring It On
1999 Caetano Veloso, Livro
2000 Erykah Badu, Mama’s Gun
2001 Bersuit Vergabarat, Hijos del Culo
2002 Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow

― Neudonym, Monday, 3 March 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

and, why not, singles for each year from, why not, 1950:

1950 Hank Snow: "I'm Movin' On"
1951 The Larks: "My Reverie"
1952 The "5" Royales: "Laundromat Blues"
1953 The Crows: "Gee"
1954 Elvis Presley: "That's All Right (Mama)"/"Blue Moon of Kentucky"
1955 Chuck Berry: "Maybellene"
1956 James Brown: "Please Please Please"
1957 Jerry Lee Lewis: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
1958 Link Wray & His Ray Men: "Rumble"
1959 The Flamingos: "I Only Have Eyes for You"
1960 Jerry Butler: "He Will Break Your Heart"
1961 Ben E. King: "Stand By Me"
1962 Little Eva: "The Loco-Motion"
1963 The Beatles: "Please Please Me"
1964 Dionne Warwick: "Walk on By"
1965 Bob Dylan: "Like a Rolling Stone"
1966 ? & the Mysterians: "96 Tears"
1967 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles: "The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage"
1968 Sly & the Family Stone: "Everyday People"
1969 The Rolling Stones: "Honky Tonk Women"/"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
1970 James Brown: "Get Up I Feel Like Being a Sex Machine Pt. 1 & 2"
1971 Temptations: “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)”
1972 Stevie Wonder: “Superstition”
1973 Marvin Gaye: “Let’s Get It On”
1974 Gloria Gaynor: “Never Can Say Goodbye”
1975 Jacob Miller: “Baby I Love You So”/Augustus Pablo: “King Tubby’s Meets Rockers Uptown”
1976 The Sex Pistols: “Anarchy in the U.K.”
1977 The Sex Pistols: “God Save the Queen”
1978 The Clash: “(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais”
1979 Chic: “Good Times”
1980 Joy Division: “Love Will Tear Us Apart”
1981 Funky 4 + 1: “That’s the Joint”
1982 New Order: “Temptation”
1983 George Clinton: “Atomic Dog”
1984 Prince: “When Doves Cry”/“17 Days”
1985 Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam with Full Force: “I Wonder If I Take You Home”
1986 Prince & the Revolution: “Kiss”
1987 Public Enemy: “Rebel without a Pause”
1988 Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock: “It Takes Two”
1989 Rythim is Rythim: “Strings Of Life”
1990 Beltram: “Energy Flash”
1991 Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
1992 Acen: “Trip II the Moon”
1993 Bikini Kill: “New Radio”/“Rebel Girl”/“Demirep”
1994 M People: “Excited”
1995 Everything But the Girl: “Missing (Todd Terry Club Mix)”
1996 Blackstreet: “No Diggity”
1997 Sneaker Pimps: “Spin Spin Sugar (Armand’s Dark Garage Mix)”
1998 Fatboy Slim: “The Rockafeller Skank”
1999 Powerhouse featuring Duane Harden: “What You Need”
2000 OutKast: "B.O.B."
2001 Missy Elliott: "Get Ur Freak On"
2002 Nas: "Made You Look"
2003 (so far): Electric Six: "Danger! High Voltage," but don't hold me to it

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 3 March 2003 16:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Actually, Matos' list is correct about 1990, so replace Shonen Knife on mine and replace with Mama Said Knock You Out. This leaves LL and Prince as only artists to repeat on my list, which shocks the hell out of me.

But I've had second thoughts about a few of these--Stevie Wonder has to have his no-seeing ass on the list. Replace Rundgren with Music of My Mind by Stevie Wonder, then, but although Songs in the Key of Life is probably a better record than Jailbreak, keep Lizzy on for fun.

Matos and I agree on four records, then; Hongro on one; JBR and I agree on none; Murphy on none; Blount on none.

― Neudonym, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:04 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://tinyurl.com/6rqy

http://tinyurl.com/6rr8

Yea, this guy is a compulsive troll. Notice in the second thread (which seems to be his grand entrance to USENET) how many newsgroups its crossposted to (seven) and how its essentially tailor made to incite anger in each. For instance, his claim that people are tiring of hip-hop back in 1996 and then the act of xposting it to alt.rap. Not to mention that in retrospect this looks hilarious.

He'd be ingenious if the methodology hadn't already been being used for many years by other far more successful internet whacks. So, if thee be smart, learn from the mistakes of others before you; don't feed the trolls.

-
Alan

― Alan Conceicao, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

maybe he's genuine, though. i've read his home page and it's got a "history of melodic pop".

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe he's just a long-term idiot.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

A history of melodic pop by Geir...
http://home.online.no/~knhongro/Geir/pop/History.htm

it only goes up to 97. [when is 98, 99, 00, 01, 02 going to be documented?]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:14 (twenty-one years ago) link

I have stopped updating that page, and I doubt I will ever find the time to update it again

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

98 is the year Melody died.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, obviously, at the end, I would now have had Travis, Coldplay, Doves and Electric Soft Parade mentioned. And even some American acts like Cotton Mather and Flaming Lips.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

ha ha Nick, 98 was Embrace's debut ! what does Geir think of English melodic rock band, Embrace?

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:21 (twenty-one years ago) link

Not that much of a fan of Embrace. OK, but no more than that. Along with Stereophonics, Embrace is the most overrated of those traditional melodic rock bands. Their songs simply aren't good enough.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:22 (twenty-one years ago) link

Re: I doubt I will ever find the time to update it again

Right, I see you must be too busy with ILM and other music forums, these days Geir?

Re: Embrace: Their songs simply aren't good enough.

[Correct.]

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

my god, its like a couple of robots talking

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

Geir, I think everyone is fine with you having your opinion, but the way you make your statement is what is keeping others from respecting your views. You seem to think that your opinion is fact, your subjective tastes are objective reality. If you were to say "I don't like stuff that has no melody or places too much emphasis on rhythm" that would be fine, but you dismiss whole genres of music (as well as one-third of the holy trinity of music: melody, harmony, and rhythm) just because they don't suit your tastes or give you what YOU desire when YOU listen to music.
This outlook is very childish and I hope that you are under 18, because that is how you come across to us. Do you really think that all these millions of people who like rap/techno/all others who aren't Genesis are stupid? that we don't know good music? Do you realize how snobbish that makes you?

― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

guys, seriously, take up knitting, play super mario brothers, do anything else.

oh, i can't resist

geir what do you think of harmolodics?

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:32 (twenty-one years ago) link

Well, whether I write it or not, there is obviously an IMO attached to everything I write anyway.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

geir, out of interest, does yr search for perfect melody stop short of underground and independent pop music? or is it restricted to major label/subsidiary groups? could you discern melody from say, skinned teen or the more poppy moments of throbbing gristle?

― schnell schnell, Monday, 3 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

As long as it sounds like the best melodic stuff from mainstream labels throughout rock history, then fine to me. If it sounds completely different from, say, The Beatles, then it leaves me cold.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:43 (twenty-one years ago) link

Btw. someone suggested we list singles rather than albums. Here is my list of best tracks (i.e. not neccessarily singles) from each year:

1959: Buddy Holly: It Doesn't Matter Anymore
1960: The Shadows: Apache
1961: Del Shannon: Hats Off To Larry
1962: The Beatles: PS I Love You
1963: The Beatles: From Me To You
1964: The Beatles: I Should Have Known Better
1965: Beach Boys: California Girls
1966: Beach Boys: God Only Knows
1967: The Beatles: Strawberry Fields Forever
1968: The Zombies: A Rose For Emily
1969: The Turtles: You Showed Me
1970: Beach Boys: At My Window
1971: Beach Boys: Till I Die
1972: Genesis: Supper's Ready
1973: Genesis: Firth Of Fifth
1974: Supertramp: Hide In Your Shell
1975: Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
1976: Genesis: Mad Man Moon
1977: ELO: Wild West Hero
1978: Genesis: Burning Rope
1979: 20/20: Yellow Pills
1980: Japan: Gentlemen Take Polaroids
1981: Japan: Ghosts
1982: Spongetones: She Goes Out With Everybody
1983: Depeche Mode: The Landscape Is Changing
1984: Depeche Mode: Blasphemous Rumours
1985: Dire Straits: Your Latest Trick
1986: Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
1987: Dukes Of Stratosphear: Collideascope
1988: Crowded House: Better Be Home Soon
1989: Paul McCartney: My Brave Face
1990: Prefab Sprout: Jesse James
1991: Crowded House: Four Seasons In One Day
1992: The Cure: Friday I'm In Love
1993: Crowded House: Fingers Of Love
1994: Dodgy: Staying Out For The Summer
1995: Blur: Country House
1996: Ocean Colour Scene: The Day We Caught The Train
1997: Radiohead: Exit Music (For Films)
1998: Catatonia: Road Rage
1999: Cotton Mather: Camp Hill Rail Operator
2000: a-ha: Minor Earth Major Sky
2001: Electric Soft Parade: Silent To The Dark
2002: Doves: There Goes The Fear

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

b-but harmolodics?!

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

Your lists is severly lacking in MONKEES.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

What would harmolodics mean anyway. Sure, melody and harmony are very much two sides of the same story, and they do belong together.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Harmolodics

Voordat ik kennis maakte met de toonklok werkte ik veel met het 12-toons systeem van Schönberg. Vanuit de behoefte een jazzy sound te creëren gebruikte ik in die periode vaak complementaire vierklanken als in bovenstaand diagram. Drie vierklanken geven immers ook twaalf tonen en zijn dus in de chromatische toonladder ook complementair. De drie vierklanken in het hierboven getoonde diagram bestaan uit gelijke intervallen en zijn symmetrisch. Dat is niet altijd het geval. Een van de eerste combinaties die ik gebruikte bestond uit de volgende vierklanken:
Geanalyseerd vanuit de toonklok is hier een combinatie toegepast van 3 drieklanken van uur XI, waarbij de tonen van de 4e (As mineur) over de andere drie verdeeld zijn. Een goed inzicht in de toonklok maakt het mogelijk ook dergelijke groepen sneller te herkennen en samen te stellen. Bijvoorbeeld afgeleid van het twaalfde uur:

Beluister muziek fragment met RealPlayer G2 0'21"
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In "The Phare of Biarritz" heb ik deze akkoordengroep toegepast. In het volgende voorbeeld zijn de overmatige drieklanken uit de vierklanken geïsoleerd.

Een andere manier om tot vierklanken te komen is de stuurtonen te maken tot toongroepen. De stuurgroepen bestaan namelijk uit 4 tonen.
Een voorbeeld: Uur XI wordt gestuurd door uur VI. Als uur XI bestaat uit de akkoorden
E mineur Fis mineur Gis majeur Ais majeur
dan is de stuurgroep: E Fis Gis Ais. Neem je hiervan de eerste omkering, dan ontstaat er een Fis79 accoord zonder kwint. De hele groep van complementaire vierklanken, die weer af te leiden is van het zesde uur is:
De twaalfde uur variatie is te horen in de alt-solo en de bas-solo van "2soon2die"; de elfde uur variatie in de bas-solo van "Onweer", en de C-melody-saxsolo in dezelfde compositie is gebaseerd op de zesde uur variatie. Beide composities zijn te vinden op de CD "Ear Opener" van het Theo Hoogstins Octet.
Dit zijn slechts enkele voorbeelden van toepassingen van de toonklok. De mogelijkheden zijn vrijwel onbeperkt, denk maar aan transpositie van harmonieën, toepassingen in lintharmonisaties waarbij het mogelijk is twee linten die op verschillende uren zijn gebaseerd gezamenlijk te laten klinken. Ook als analysemodel is de toonklok al zeer waardevol gebleken, bijvoorbeeld in het artikel uit Entre’Act van Andre Douw. Concluderend kan worden gesteld dat de ordening van tonen, zoals weergegeven in de toonklok, kan leiden tot een andere kijk op zowel componeren als improviseren. Het is een allesomvattend systeem voor harmonie in de chromatische toonladder, dat een componist in staat stelt het hele scala van klankkleuren te overzien en op een consistente manier toe te passen. Het kost misschien enige tijd en studie om een dergelijke manier van werken onder de knie te krijgen, maar het is zeker de moeite waard voor musici die op zoek zijn naar nieuwe klankstructuren. Dat de beschreven klanken thuis horen in het jazzidioom blijkt wel uit de kop van de recensie van Frans van Leeuwen: "Hoogstins klinkt jazzy en vertrouwd" (NRC, 7/10/92).

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:48 (twenty-one years ago) link

Jess, why are you torturing yourself this way?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Btw. Cotton Mather is one band that would ride high in a lot of my lists, and they are definitely very much an underground band. Same about Merrymakers (although they do have a contract with the Swedish branch of a major one)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:49 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ik snak niet nederlandse....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

ned, apparently you've never applied a clothespin to your nipples for fun...same thing

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:51 (twenty-one years ago) link

Speaking of Buddy Holly, Geir -- I'm back -- he made at least one great, consistent album while he was alive (I think it was called "And His Chirping Crickets" or something). Chuck Berry's 50s albums are top notch as well, as are Big Joe Turner's and other rock-related artists, so I don't buy into your opinion that consistent albums started with the Beatles.

Harmolodics? I doubt Geir has even heard of Ornette or anyone else who practices it.

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

If there was such a thing as good pre-Beatles "rock", then Buddy Holly came close to it. I am bored by those songs he did that were using the same old tired 12 bar blues scheme that way too many 50s songs were built on, but when he managed to go beyond that and create songs with some harmonic variation, in a more Tin Pan Alley oriented style, then he was actually quite good. Funny how my favourite 1959 song wasn't actually composed by Holly/Petty though, but rather than Paul Anka.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 3 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-one years ago) link

44 years=29 artists, all of whom are Caucasian

Obv. you have a very limited range of music that you enjoy and a very limited definition of what music can be and what moods it can create. Can't you just own up to this (there's nothing wrong w/it, per se) rather than dismiss all music that doesn't fit your narrow expectations? This is I Love MUSIC, afterall, not I Love All That is Beatlesque.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 3 March 2003 18:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

GEIR DO YOU LIKE THE DR WHO SOUNDTRACK BY DELIA DERBYSHIRE DAT IS PURE RAUCOUS MELODY MADE ON MACHINES MADNESS!

― schnell schnell, Monday, 3 March 2003 18:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

This was hard...

1977 David Bowie, Low
1978 P.I.L., Public image
1979 Chic, Risque
1980 Prince, Dirty mind
1981 Human League, Dare (hehe, I love this now!)
1982 ABC, The lexicon of love
1983 Aztec Camera, High land hard rain
1984 The Smiths, Hatful of hollow
1985 Scritti Politti, Cupid and psyche 85
1986 Slayer, Reign in blood
1987 Sonic Youth, Sister
1988 AR Kane, 69
1989 New Order, Technique
1990 Ice Cube, Amerikkka's most wanted
1991 Nirvana, Nevermind
1992 Pavement, Slanted and enchanted
1993 Nirvana, In utero
1994 Notorious BIG, Ready to die
1995 Fatboy Slim, Better living through chemistry
1996 Tortoise-Millions now living will never die
1997 Chemical Brothers, Dig your own hole
1998 Mercury Rev, Deserters songs
1999 Wilco, Summerteeth
2000 Radiohead, Kid A
2001 Daft Punk, Discovery
2002 The Streets-Original pirate material\Sonic Youth-Murray Street

― Michael B, Monday, 3 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

I love how Blount listed shitloads of comedy albums; I wish I knew more comedy records

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 3 March 2003 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

'YR: Album; Single
'76: Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life; Cloud One – Disco Juice
'77: Brian Eno – Before and After Science; Roy Ayers – Running Away
'78: Magazine – Real Life; Martin Circus – Disco Circus
'79: PiL – Metal Box; Wire – Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW
'80: Talking Heads – Remain in Light; Taana Gardner - Work That Body
'81: Associates – Fourth Drawer Down; Logg – I Know You Will
'82: Simple Minds – New Gold Dream 81-82-83-84; Klein + MBO – Dirty Talk
'83: The Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels; Captain Rapp - Bad Times
'84: Prince & the Revolution - Purple Rain; Prince & the Revolution – When Doves Cry
'85: The Jesus & Mary Chain – Psychocandy; Prince & the Revolution – Raspberry Beret
'86: Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses; Rhythim Is Rhythim – Nude Photo
'87: Prince – Sign o’ the Times; Jamie Principle – Your Love
'88: AR Kane - 69; The House of Love – Christine
'89: AR Kane – "i"; Inner City – Good Life
'90: Ice Cube: AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted; Paris - Break the Grip of Shame
'91: Main Source – Breaking Atoms; The Geto Boys – Mind Playing Tricks On Me
'92: Kitchens of Distinction – The Death of Cool; Curve – Horror Head
'93: The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen; Catherine Wheel – Crank
'94: Bark Psychosis – Hex; Disco Inferno – It’s a Kid’s World
'95: GZA – Liquid Swords; Lemon D – This Is Los Angeles
'96: Porter Ricks – Biokinetics; Moodymann – Don’t Be Misled
'97: Carl Craig – More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art; Monolake – Lantau
'98: Urban Tribe – The Collapse of Modern Culture; New Radicals – You Get What You Give
'99: Basement Jaxx – Remedy; Pepe Bradock – Deep Burnt
'00: Black Box Recorder – The Facts of Life; Theo Parrish – Summertime Is Here
'01: Basement Jaxx – Rooty; Afronaught – Transcend Me
'02: Metro Area - Metro Area; 4hero – Hold It Down [Bugz in the Attic Remix]

― Andy K (Andy K), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

ned, apparently you've never applied a clothespin to your nipples for fun

I am content to not follow where others lead.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 3 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

1972 Tim Buckley, _Greetings From L.A_
1973 Pink Floyd, _Dark Side_
1974 David Bowie, _Diamond Dogs_
1975 Camel, _The Snow Goose_
1976 Squeeze, _How Dare You_
1977 Pink Floyd, _Animals_
1978 AC/DC, _Powerage_
1979 Squeeze, _Cool For Cats_
1980 The Soft Boys, _Underwater Moonlight_
1981 The Replacements, _Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash_
1982 (no clue)
1983 Talking Heads, _Speaking In Tongues_
1984 R.E.M, _Murmur_
1985 Tears For Fears, _Songs From The Big Chair_
1986 Firehose, _Ragin' Full On_/Green River, _Dry As A Bone_
1987 R.E.M, _Document_
1988 Megadeath, _So Far, So Good, So What_
1989 Camper Van Beethoven, _Key Lime Pie_
1990 The Breeders, _Pod_
1991 Matthew Sweet, _Girlfriend_
1992 Helmet, _Meantime_
1994 Del The Funky Homosapien, _No Need For Alarm_
1995 Eleven, _Thunk_
1996 Phish, _Billy Breathes_
1997 Radiohead, _OK Computer_/Supergrass, _In It For The Money_
1998 Beck, _Mutations_
1999 The Dismemberment Plan, _Emergency & I_
2000 Grandaddy, _The Sophtware Slump_/Deltron 3030, _S/T_
2001 (too many good albums, can't decide)
2002 Pedro The Lion, _Control_
2003 The Postal Service, _Give Up_ (so far)

The R.E.M albums are there by default, I don't listen to 80s music much.

Like all my lists, this is totally arbitrary, and if I re-created
it tommorow it would be completely different.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 4 March 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

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