and "Un-break My Heart."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
on perusal of my mp3s, my favorite things about 96 were
entroducingemperor tomato ketchupsongs for a blue guitarstrandhorse storiesif you're feeling sinisterharmacyexploded drawingjawbox
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
God, what a fucking horrible year for music!
― Clarke B., Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
and black love
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:53 (eleven years ago) link
still enjoy that beck, love fugees, love s-k (though there's 4 s-k lps i'm more likely to listen to), listen to emperor tomato ketchup fairly often in warm weather months, the tricky and pulp are obv classics, haven't listened to the former in years, haven't needed to listen to the latter in years, the rem is my third or fourth fave album by them, i'd imagine i listen to walking wounded at least once every three months or so, even at the time i never quite understood why cassandra wilson, the maxwell is a classic, ugh those rubin johnny cash albums, how the fuck did that shitty soundgarden rank that high, that sheryl crow is decent, i always smile when cibo matto pops up on someone's ipod in the lab, that tony toni tone is fantastic, those e6 albums are classics, ye gods at that jon spencer album ranking maybe you dudes have a point, lotta overrated unexpected comeback albums that still have their moments
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:29 (eleven years ago) link
most days I like the Imperial Teen record best.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:31 (eleven years ago) link
weird at dirty three not ranking up there (i mean i understand p&j had to recognize ratm and sublime and all), i remember them placing in the rolling stone poll that year so it wasn't exactly under the radar in hackville
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
glancing at acclaimed music if i was voting p&j that year i'd have emperor tomato ketchup, reasonable doubt, walking wounded, millions now living, new adventures in hi-fi, horse stories, pre-millenium tension, cubist castle, atliens, labradford in some order.
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:39 (eleven years ago) link
<3 that dirty three album so much
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
i didn't love the Jon Spencer joint...nothing like as good as Extra Width/Orange
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
i'm kind of fond of it, different energy than the earlier records but kind of cool and unhinged in the way it careens from one song to the next.
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 02:58 (eleven years ago) link
i think i was somewhat disappointed in it at the time and then that disappointment got retroactively compounded by acme
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
oh Acme is a total fall off
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
Horse Stories is one of my favorite albums. '96 was a pretty good year for stuff that flew slightly under the radar.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah Acme was no bueno. bleh
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
i always smile when cibo matto pops up on someone's ipod in the lab
wanna hear about balls' lab
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
we listened to tragic kingdom in the lab the other day, somehow it (or just no doubt in general i'd guess) came up so we decided to put it on. i know it's been noted but god cd glut is really the marker for that era, it was ridiculous how long that album was and unlike some cd glut era albums where the sprawl works for it (eg hi-fi for me at least) here it just became ridiculous. was shocked that there wasn't quite as skacore air to it as i remembered, 'sunday morning' and 'don't speak' still sounded great (as if 'don't speak' every really left radio anyway), 'excuse me mister' sounded alot weirder than i recalled, other than the minimum ska the rest was pretty much how i imagined, much better than its rep at the time (or even now probably right?) but still not so great that it didn't provide the baseline for both the subsequent albums to be better (well judging by the singles at least).
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
lol xpost
god i swear i'll look at a post i've just made and see grammar and spelling errors that just mystify me, i'll look at it and think 'o look, that's alzheimer's. there's alzheimer's creeping in. *adds piracetam to shopping cart*'.
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
if i count all the time in coffee shops since 1996 i wonder if endtroducing isn't the album i've heard most in my life
― goole, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:25 (eleven years ago) link
Tragic Kingdom reminded me at the time (pre-"Don't Speak" ubiquity) of Faith No More, for some reason. I'd have to hear it again to know whether that comparison holds up.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:28 (eleven years ago) link
aw man I love Tragic Kingdom start to finish. Much as I love them I've never found that they repeated the consistency of that first album. imo.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:29 (eleven years ago) link
what i like on endtroducing i like alot but i bet like 35-40% of the vote it got was dickweeds slapping themselves on the back for agreeing w/ 'why hip-hop sucks in 96'. which wow does that title look even dumber now, like if frank zappa had recorded a track called 'why rock albums suck in 67' and then the only lyric was 'it's the drugs!', that level all time RONG.
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
Yo balls, Tragic Kingdom was in regular rotation for me when I worked a temporary shelving job at UGA Libraries following the great library fire of ought four, I got moderately into it and I do think the highs are pretty high. Staggering to realize it officially had SEVEN SINGLES according to wikipedia but obviously around three of those were non-starters. I dunno if it's THAT overstuffed at 14 tracks but definitely it could shed two and it'd be no big loss. Or three, or four. Looking at the tracklist I'm struggling to remember anything beyond some bits of chorus about the last four songs, and I listened to this thing a LOT. First ten are pretty solid though - - - competent uptempo ska-rock-whatever album with a few huge highlights.
The mid-90s is one of those times when you sort of wish the album had never been developed as a format and people just had singles to stake their rep on. I mean, "Spiderwebs," "Just A Girl," "Sunday Morning" - there was great material on this record!
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:33 (eleven years ago) link
"Sunday Morning" is so great. i always like the least successful single off of each No Doubt/Stefani record the most.
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
lol i think part of it may have been just me and another worker going 'fucking hell how long does it take to get to 'sunday morning' already???' and then after 'don't speak' going 'fucking hell there's four more songs on this thing'. it still sounded fine, i'll take it over ratm and sublime, nevermind 311 (aka 'why altrock sucks in 96').
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:38 (eleven years ago) link
the fact that i grew up thinking 12 track albums were the norm and 14-15 is like awesome bonus is so fucked up and wrong, i'm glad i saw the light eventually
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
I loved "No Diggity."
I've never owned it on any format
― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
whiney how hyped were you for that blackstreet/odb/slash/fishbone joint
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
it was my everything
― thommys got bendz (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
311
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:49 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnPntwwxuq8&ob=av2n
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
still suprised tom gave that a '10' on popular tbh
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkhl-CgETg
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
boy america got the better of that deal
love the extras in the spacehog video - 'ok guys it's the 90s, just stand around and look like bored assholes.'
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:54 (eleven years ago) link
There are a lot of people out there who really like Spacehog I gotta say, enough that I've always been sort of barely curious to dig beneath "In The Meantime" and "Mungo City." Although the memory of OG Pitchfork's scathing takedown of their Chinese Album or whatever it was called has always sort of put me off.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
balls, you probably remember athens band Boulevard - - - at one point they had a guitarist who was just ALL about the Spacehog dude, who I want to call...Royston? Royston Sinclair?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
barring a couple of weird al videos i'm not sure any video ever made me laugh as immediately and as hard as this one did in 1996https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bYj2o7y4rk
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
haha "tattva" is kind of a jam imo
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
I think I have finally, painfully, given up on defending Kula Shaker. You were all right, all along! But the hours spent spinning K endlessly while working through the first Tomb Raider on PC will remain sacred to me.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
That Spacehog album was fucking awful. Just, y'know, fyi. I can send you the tape if your curiosity remains unshakable.
― Bob Bop Perano (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
are you talking about benj1 burt0n??? i actually hang w/ that dude. never really listened to boulevard, a little after i stopped really paying attention to local music (was never the same after jeremy barnes moved). you know who was the huge spacehog fan is stipe. i've always had a slight curiosity to check out anything else by spacehog but really i'm fine only knowing one song by them but really loving that one song. i only know three songs by the grass roots but really love those three songs. maybe it'll be something like the turtles where when i do finally delve deeper i'll wonder what took me so long, but in the meantime...
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
no, no, not benj but one of their other members along the way - - - possibly w1nst0n but my memory is shaky.
essentially spacehoggery (?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Rwvwu3RrE&ob=av3e
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:07 (eleven years ago) link
what blackstreet/odb slash fiction joint?
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
STILL LOVE THIS SONG FWIW - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDHd-vxcMDo
PPL OF ATHENS I WILL BE SINGING THIS SONG THURSDAY AT KARAOKE.
― balls, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
my sister says she was in a spacehog video. i've never watched one, so i don't know whether or not this is true.
― The term or title antichrist, in Christian theology, refers to (contenderizer), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
i'm gonna start calling liv tyer "the spacehag"
― kitty shayme (some dude), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
I am so pissed off to be reminded of "Mungo City"― da croupier, Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:58 PM Bookmark
― da croupier, Thursday, September 13, 2007 4:58 PM Bookmark
^^^ pops into my head every time i think of Spacehog now
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:09 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6YkVlI5VSU
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link