dr casino you need to get a mungo city jar, where every time you want to post a clip of "mungo city" or reference "mungo city" on ilx you hit yourself with the mungo city jar.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
lmao
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahah
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
btw props for filing "fucking racist asshole" alphabetically under F
― some dude, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
can't believe i didn't bother to read the Xgau P&J essay from this year already, really touches on a lot of the same points covered itt: http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pj96.php
― the girl with the swag and tattoo (some dude), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
voted for whigs, nice to see this turnout
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:17 (twelve years ago) link
formative years for so many of us
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 May 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/53/Carbuttoncloththelemonheads.jpg
thought of another album for the 'accidental omissions' list along w/ Cracker and Tom Petty
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:25 (twelve years ago) link
oh man – I assigned this album when I was arts editor in college. "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You"!
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
Just listened to "If I Could Talk I'd Tell You" this morning. Another pretty little Lemonheads tune, if ultimately fairly empty at its core.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
I did not like that album
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Blame the drugs.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
it's a shame about evan
― some cute (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't that around the time he started doing stuff with Noel Gallagher? Yeah...
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
his vocal sounds like he's singing around a gob of Listerine.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
some really good stuff on it, first three tracks especially, but oh god C'mon Daddy is fucking terrible
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
I love the sound on that Lemonheads album. It's so bright and airy. While there aren't any stand-out songs, first half of the record is really solid. I like the cover of Knoxville Girl. It always seemed that there was something pretty fucked up lurking behind the Dando persona and that choice of song is kinda, "Yeah, that makes sense."
― brontosaur, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:14 (twelve years ago) link
I know it's not quite "modern rock," but Sheryl Crow's eponymous follow up definitely fits in this category. Better than the first album, IMO, but definitely a big dip sales wise (I think Entertainment Weekly even wrote an article about all of these at the time).
Alt radio definitely played "If It Makes You Happy" and "Everyday is a Winding Road" -- which should've been the leading single.
― LimbsKing, Saturday, 24 May 2014 11:41 (ten years ago) link
Is it viewed as a disappointment though? I don't think so. It's still her most critically beloved album (self-production, etc), and those singles got as much airplay as the TNMC stuff.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 May 2014 12:15 (ten years ago) link
It went triple platinum and stayed in the charts for more than a year.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 24 May 2014 12:16 (ten years ago) link
man I know I'm a sap, but I love If It Makes You Happy.
― when I was in the 3rd grade I thought I was Geir (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 25 May 2014 07:40 (ten years ago) link
"Sheryl Crow" sold less than half what "Tuesdsay Night Music Club" sold so by my measuring stick of what constitutes thread inclusion, i'll allow it
― ςὖτ ιτ Οὖτ (some dude), Sunday, 25 May 2014 10:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah -- I was unaware that it had actually sold 3 million copies. I just remember the opinion at the time was that it was a letdown from TNMC, and "If It Makes You Happy" slid down the charts quicker than "All I Wanna Do." (Artistic merit notwithstanding -- great album, great singles, esp. when you include "A Change Would Do You Good" and "Home.")
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 25 May 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link
Sheryl Crow sold more copies than Tuesday Night Music Club here in the UK, and I remember several songs from it were hits here. Only 'All I Wanna Do' from Tuesday Night Music Club had much impact.
― Toni Braxton-Hicks (Turrican), Sunday, 25 May 2014 15:13 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, that one's tricky - definitely a sophomore slump but maybe one that could have been comfortably predicted by the execs? Feel like the singles from it were generally bigger and longer-lived than those from a lot of these other records - or maybe just had a slightly greater degree of crossover/VH1 play...
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 May 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
yeah it seemed like "Every Day is a Winding Road" and "If It Makes You Happy" never went away between 1996-1997.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 25 May 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
never forgave her for using "everyday" incorrectly
― resulting post (rogermexico.), Sunday, 25 May 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
Thats prob the weakest of the singles from the album tbh. You can almost hear Soak Up the Sun start to take shape...
― when I was in the 3rd grade I thought I was Geir (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 25 May 2014 20:21 (ten years ago) link
yeah it sold less but it also proved she wasn't a fluke one album act, which was a real risk for those kind of big hit having vaguely boho female acts. it wasn't fairweather johnson or anything. pretty fond of that album and the next one tbh.
― balls, Sunday, 25 May 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Yeah balls otm. I'd prob taking the singles from this album and the Globe Sessions (+ Difficult Kind which I can't believe wasn't one) over a comparable string from any pop or country singer that ILX has been enamored with in the past couple years
(xp to myself actually its A Change Would Do You Good that resembles Soak Up the Sun. But Change is great, go figure)
― when I was in the 3rd grade I thought I was Geir (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 25 May 2014 20:57 (ten years ago) link
OMG what an appalling shitshow of a list.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 19 November 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
No kidding!
― paris geller spinoff pitch (morrisp), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
idk i feel like i like a majority of these
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 00:33 (four years ago) link
Everyone wrong about Sheryl Crow.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 November 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Lotta good albums in this list.
― omar little, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 02:06 (four years ago) link
II by The Presidents was the first time I'd ever been disappointed in a CD I'd bought. I think I was 11 and it was probably my 5th or 6th CD. I remember thinking, "it sounds like they made half of these songs up in an afternoon"
I also recall Factory Showroom being a huge disappointment, like it was almost a betrayal that TMBG had made such a "normal" rock album. It's still pretty weird of course. In retrospect its probably one of their finest albums, I remember putting it on recently and thinking it made a case for TMBG as part of the same power pop lineage as Costello & Squeeze. It does have that really awful "XTC vs. Adam Ant" song on it though
― frogbs, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 21:18 (four years ago) link
i've warmed on factory showroom thanks to the TMBG poll thread discussions. even at the time it felt to me like a helpful course correction *away* from John Henry's generic rock band move. i just wish it had felt more overstuffed with ideas and songs, like their older albums.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
Hey Look: https://www.spin.com/2021/09/1996-alternative-bubble-burst/
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 13 September 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
from ILM poll to SPIN article in 9 years
well done, some dude
― alpine static, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
i dunno if it'll do as well as some of my earlier works, but i think it'll attain a cult following over time― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:55 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, May 3, 2012 12:55 PM (nine years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 04:17 (two years ago) link
In the UK '96 was ofc alt rock - or rather, Britpop - saturation year but I think if we have a "commercially disappointing major label rock/alternative album of 1996" then it's C'mon Kids. Not sure framing this around its relative uncommercial nature can go too far either - Mansun never saw Six bomb like the Radleys did Kids.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 11 July 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
Duritz cut his hair not long ago.
And Satellites is a great fuckin' album.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 11 July 2022 19:09 (one year ago) link
Man, I love New Adventures. I actually think it's a great album, the last one R.E.M. made (although I think Up is a pretty good album too).
― birdistheword, Monday, 11 July 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Wait a minute, I interpreted the poll backwards (i.e. vote for the worst), hah.
Bad Religion's "Grey Race" was the right amount of bleak cynicism for a new college liberal like me when I first got it.
I still love the album and most of the songs.
"Cease" is the one on my mind lately
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 July 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
That's how I read it!
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Monday, 11 July 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
worst album in that list has to be Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
― akm, Monday, 11 July 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
I bought Razorblade Suitcase in a charity shop for pennies last week. Why is it so long :(
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Monday, 11 July 2022 19:49 (one year ago) link
this was very definitely a "best" poll, fwiw, and a very good some dude thread!
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 11 July 2022 19:57 (one year ago) link
I miss the dude in class who used to mimic Gavin Rossdale's voice
"THAT'S JUST FOINETHAT'S JUST ONE OF MY NAIMZ"
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Monday, 11 July 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link