The 40 Weirdest Post-'Nevermind' Major-Label Albums (according to Spin)

a buddy of mine was a hired gun guitar player in butt trumpet for like 5 years in the early 2000s. apparently an odd gig to say the least.

still torn between bungle and cop shoot cop

you should split the difference and vote GOD

weird, i played trumpet in butt guitar

the record I enjoy the most of these: Gallon Drunk

it's rare to see a magazine list where I like p. much everything I've heard from it but this comes pretty close. intrigued by the other things now

(though I'm assuming, possibly incorrectly, the stuff I've never heard of is mostly metal. and I've heard and liked some of the metal!)

Gorky's, HNIA and Mr Bungle my immediate favourites. Love the Pell Mell too but it's not that weird, just not very major label either, iirc?

This is totally Pell Mell for me, because I was too old for all that Buttfudge Meat Tomb stuff. Medicine were great when I saw them live, though.

it might be fair to say that GOD is actually the weirdest of these

I thought I just posted a booster thread for GOD but it's gone missing. But that is the answer. Maybe my favourite album of the 90s, nevermind this poll.

Gallon Drunk are pretty great

my wife almost dumped me early on in our courtship when I excitedly played the GOD album for her shortly after she found a NIN remix CD in my collection with a track titled "Fist Fuck"

you can thank our buddy foetus for that remix

i still say that fixed might be the best NIN release

it's pretty high up there

I don't actually think the GOD signing was that weird though - they were signed to Virgin's jazz label and IIRC (without digging it out) John Zorn plays and produces a couple of tracks.

^formerly Great Plains, right?

― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:15 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes!

27 DRIVE LIKE JEHU – YANK CRIME (CARGO/INTERSCOPE/ATLANTIC, 1994)

runners up:

34 MERCURY REV - BOCES (COLUMBIA, 1993)
17 ROYAL TRUX - SWEET SIXTEEN (VIRGIN, 1995)
16 UNSANE - TOTAL DESTRUCTION (MATADOR/ATLANTIC, 1993)
10 GOD - POSSESSION (VIRGIN, 1992)
4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995)
1 BOREDOMS – POP TATARI (REPRISE, 1993)

also some of them were in ego summit with jim shepard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWNcNrygGaQ

http://www.wordriot.org/archives/874

so much garbage

hit to death is the obvious winner here, a really great record. shot forth self living isn't bad either

don't know why i never heard that tad record since i loved all the tad sub pop stuff

Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record wuz robbed

... of this list though, I would probably go w/ Jehu

JEHU

man what an awesome time in the record business....steel pole bathtub!

Pure Guava should be #1 on this list for "The Stallion Pt. 3" alone!!

I like all of the ones I've heard here (Pure Guava, Hit To Death, Horsedrawn Wishes and Fun). Voting for Horsedrawn Wishes which just pips Pure Guava. Speeeeeeeed to my siiiiiiiiiiide.

hahahhahaa this list is shit i'm gonna go and read it now

hahahahaha this list is shit

hahahhahaa this list is shit i'm gonna go and read it now

Everything about this post is beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HZ3oyPQKc

^ fuck, what the hell happened to Tad? Definitely preferred him circa Woodgoblins when it sounded like he was going to stomp on yr face, set fire to your car and barbecue yr granny on the embers

sounds like the fucking foo fighters there :(

i've fallen in a jim shepard youtube hole & i'm never coming out

heh at this Ned Raggett quote from AllMusic:

Pop Tatari definitely holds the crown as being one of the strangest things to surface under a major label's auspices. Even the Butthole Surfers' major label debut that year looked straightforward in comparison.

like did someone just read that review and then decide to do a whole feature on the concept?

from Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments review:

After a bevy of cherished singles, Columbus, Ohio's favorite inebriated sons turned out this spit-caked debut full-length. How it managed to find its way out on a major label is anyone's guess

Pure guava duh

There were weird tiny editorial tweaks on the major label Pop Tatari vs the WEA Japan original. For instance, 'I Am Cola' had its intro of Eye repeating 'Cock eez eet!' excised.

fuck ween

lots of these albums, Boredoms especially, have long been infamous as unlikely major label gambles

"let's make a band with all the worst aspects of frank zappa & none of the amazing music"*

*except "that's what deener was talking about", great tune

m@tt otm, ween is awful

sounds like the fucking foo fighters there :(

shit you ain't kidding, that's so fucking depressing

Voted Melvins

jehu 4 eva

Yank Crime is one of the greatest albums of the 90s, period.

V3

Sammy - C/D?

there ain't nothing even remotely weird about that Morbid Angel album

sounds like the fucking foo fighters there :(

― the drawl of the mc's could be farts (NickB), Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:47 PM (4 hours ago)

dude, it's like a Jawbreaker b-side!

same with the Napalm Death. other than that i don't really have a prob with the choices, and it's a toss-up for me between Bungle and flaming Lips

xpost

trux easy

allmusic.com's review of Bakamono - The Cry of the Turkish Fig Peddler:

Roots in American punk and Sonic Youth influence Bakamono's 1995 album for Priority.

review by John Bush

would love to write a book full of stories about the creative and/or financial ruination of so many people involved in this gold rush. Our Band Could Be Your Tax Write-Off.

― trey songza (some dude), Friday, January 11, 2013 4:06 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would read

Some of these weren’t really Nirvana gold rush “cash-in” albums; they were on pseudo-indies distributed by majors, etc. (as I’m sure is pointed out somewhere in the thread).

Nirvana and "Nevermind" get way too much credit for their influnce.

would love to write a book full of stories about the creative and/or financial ruination of so many people involved in this gold rush. Our Band Could Be Your Tax Write-Off.

― trey songza (some dude), Friday, January 11, 2013 4:06 PM (six years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

would read

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 9 June 2019 18:16 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

likewise

I’m surprised that no one voted for Entomed. Not one person?

I wonder if Pure Guava did better business for Elektra than 0898 Beautiful South

those were the days.

My friend’s band is opening for Steel Pole Bathtub at a local club next month! I never saw them back in the day. … Also Ethyl Meatplow <3, Butthole Surfers …

Some of these albums were good but not all that “weird” … like Babes & Gallon Drunk.

I know I had that Butt Trumpet CD because of the name … radio station free bin promo pile … the same pile that introduced me to ICP

I've never seen Steel Pole Bathtub and would love to, I love them

I was listening to that GOD album this week! Holds up.

all the Earache stuff up there is great. they still sell tons of reissues of those albums. they didn't need no major.

I've never seen Steel Pole Bathtub and would love to, I love them