defend 1996

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yeah, what was I thinking about the Makers, must be all the crap (but free!) beer embibed during the Schmidt/Batista pitching duel last night.

"Indie as a genre" is soooooooooooooooooooo ILM... *yawn*

There's no such thing as a bad year for music, by the way, but there are (many) bad years for particular trends and genres. Basically, bad ideas spread like germs--some people are immune or just aren't exposed to these.

Experiment Zero - Man or Astro-man? and
Pinkerton - Weezer

1995 was good coz that's the year that Mellon Collie came out, and the Sinking of the SS Danehower.

Which is a roundabout way of saying that I cannot emotionally defend anything from 1996 (got to get out = got to start another life = this has to end = IT HAS = 2002 RoXoR) even though logically I know some of it is good.

(I wuv Emperor Tomato Ketchup = will never play it again = "Let Me Blow Ya Mind" RoXoR)

I wuved Gorky's Zygotic Mynci in 1996 = their fascinations caused me shame because the vestiges were still around = now they're gone so I could wuv them without shame, if I still wuved them, which I don't

(hey I liked the Brotherhood in 1996 = bought one of their singles in Dorchester when SIR JAMES SPICER was still the local MP = bloody hell he'd have had me sent to a year's hard farm labour for that ha ha chiz chiz)

Singles

*Includes 1995 votes: Oasis 21, Pulp 7, Everclear 3, Los Del Rio 2, Fugees 1, Everything but the Girl 1, Garbage 1, Houston 4, Underground 1.

@Ten voters specified this mix. The others would have if they'd thought of it.

* And per Ethan's complaint YES, I DO mean this in an indie-centric way. "Electronica" was just opening up into unprecedented far-flung territories, the whole alt-rock explosion left "indie" scrambling for new territory, and the two were both colliding with these internationalist pop ideas and German, French, Brazilian, and Japanese influences and for a moment these territories were unstable and about to get pretty damned interesting.

Fever In Fever Out as well.

Goth-Pop Revival
Garbage, Placebo, Suede - all the crap bits about Grunge but with eyeliner and men dressed in bin bags

Big Beat
A bunch of goons from Brighton making dance music out of children's cartoons is never going to be a dance revolution.

Jungle becomes Drum'n'Bass
Heralding a wave of boring loops with no energy to them at all. New Forms was a crap album, I WANT BIG BEEFY BASSLINES DAMNIT!

Britpop goes crap:
People don't remember Britpop for This Is A Low and Common People, no. People remember a bunch of soundalikes wearing waterproofs and making tuneless bilge about god knows what and Liam Gallagher flipping the bird at the camera.

Poppy Ska-Punk :
No Doubt, Reel Big Fish and that other band started it and before you knew every Hollywood High-School Prom band was fronted by a chubby goateed part-dude with a chequered tie. Queue a billion Ska-Punk covers of cheesy 80s songs.

Mitigating factors: If You're Feeling Sinister, Expecting To Fly

LOLOLOLOLOL

fair point tuomas but to all intents and porpoises, 'born slippy' fkn DEFINED '96.

http://www.cdquest.com/images/album_art/sorted/0049/9250/0049925053227.jpg

Shit, is OK Computer really 9 years old?!!

Mogwai - "Tuner" and "Summer"
Ween - 12 Golden Country Greats
Scooter - Wicked
White Town - "Your Woman"
Air - "Modulor Mix"
Robert Miles - "Children"
DJ Trace - "Mutant Revisited"
The Cardigans - "Lovefool"
Sneaker Pimps - "Spin Spin Sugar (Armand's Dark Garage Mix)"
Disco Inferno - Technicolour

"defend 2006" would be a better thread.

1997 was a far worse year for music and almost put me off all recorded sound forever.