Hum and Weezer are indie rock tho. This thread is about HARD ROCK
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 12 July 2008 23:59 (sixteen years ago) link
definitely agree with Smile for this year (so far). (xp yeah i guess it's not on a major. damn.)
'97 was kind of a dismal year for music for me. i was just going through the rateyourmusic best-of for that year and it made me wonder what i even listened to that year. some of my favorite groups throughout the 90s released albums in '97 so crappy that i stopped listening to them completely.
― rockapads, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
Mods should prolly add the word "hard" in the title, cuz it doesn't make it clear.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean '97 is all about Chemical Brothers Dig Your Own Hole which is KIND of a hard rock record, but not enought for the purposes of this thread.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
Torche would take 2008 easy if a major label was smart enough to have put that album out and made it glossier.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
maybe mods should wipe your ass for you too
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:03 (sixteen years ago) link
and the original post doesn't make it clear either
― Hurting 2, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Deftones - Around The Fur was 1997
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:07 (sixteen years ago) link
That album srsly blows except for "My Own Summer" tho
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:09 (sixteen years ago) link
cloud COOOOOME!
"My Own Summer" is hella sweet
I'm gonna listen to it right now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9TyLtbsxmc
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:11 (sixteen years ago) link
one of the best albums of 97 but not on a major http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/harvey_milk/courtesy_and_good_will_toward_men/
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
ZZ Top's Rhythmeen, 1996.
― Gorge, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:28 (sixteen years ago) link
There are a number of 2008's discussed in Rolling Hard Rock. A few mainstream country releases this year also do double duty as hard rock records, all released on majors. Offhand, Flynnville Train and Cross Canadian Ragweed come to mind.
― Gorge, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:34 (sixteen years ago) link
By the way, y'all can pre-emptively kiss my ass, because I'm gonna stick up for Disturbed's second album (Believe, 2002) and the new one. The debut and Ten Thousand Fists are kinda weak.
― unperson, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link
:O
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Would Nimrod count? It ain't great, though.
― roxymuzak, Sunday, 13 July 2008 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
totally love downward is heavenward, but yeah, I don't think that it counts.
― original bgm, Sunday, 13 July 2008 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
I suppose this helps to explain why I was buying so much old jazz and electronic music around that time period.
Same here. Late 90s was a lot closer to the death of rock than the Elvis-in-the-Army -> Beatles era ever was.
― bendy, Sunday, 13 July 2008 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.galeon.com/allmusic/caratulas/a/Andrew_WK-I_Get_Wet-Frontal.jpg
― Steve Shasta, Sunday, 13 July 2008 04:04 (sixteen years ago) link
I have Downward Is Heavenward too, and yeah it's pretty good. Wish Kerr would stop listing all his favourite artists and being all "now if only they were on a major label they might make this list..."
― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 July 2008 09:18 (sixteen years ago) link
shut it oceansize fan
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 13 July 2008 11:35 (sixteen years ago) link
are Beggars Banquet a major label, come to think of it?
― Just got offed, Sunday, 13 July 2008 11:36 (sixteen years ago) link
werent they owned by a major?
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 13 July 2008 13:55 (sixteen years ago) link
There's some sort of connection to a major with them but I can't think what it is. Probably to do with distribution. Which would also mean that McLusky would technically qualify but in practical terms it's not all that relevant
― DJ Mencap, Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Lots of labels must have a distribution with a major but that doesn't qualify them as being on a major, it might disqualify them from being 100 % independent.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 13 July 2008 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll give you Radiohead. Maybe QOTSA, I guess. Aside from that, this is pretty weak sauce. "Lean times," indeed.
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 13 July 2008 16:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Sepultura - Roots (1996)
Stopped reading after that. Besides, since when is Roadrunner a major?
Seriously, it's pretty hard to find a better rock album on a major than A Matter Of Life And Death.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 13 July 2008 16:58 (sixteen years ago) link
Has anyone mentioned Damone yet? Because their last album was on Interscope, and it was great.
― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 13 July 2008 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Besides, since when is Roadrunner a major?
Roadrunner is now a subsidiary of Warner Music Group. But at the time Roots came out, it was still an indie AFAIK.
― MacDara, Sunday, 13 July 2008 19:49 (sixteen years ago) link
A couple more from 1997: The Flaming Lips - Zaireeka (Warner Bros.) Prodigy - Fat of the Land (Maverick/Warner Bros.)
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 13 July 2008 20:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Both were covered in Kerrang actually so do count I suppose.
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Shasta OTM re AWK, and I'll hold out for 'Mechanical Animals'
― Soukesian, Sunday, 13 July 2008 21:43 (sixteen years ago) link
like-minded thread that i just remembered:
hey writer-types, do you ever get any big label rock records that are worth listening to twice?
― scott seward, Sunday, 13 July 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Slim pickins on that thread, too, when you consider the time-frame imposed by this thread, and screen out the discs listed there that are, in fact, on non-major labels (and were mistakenly listed as having come from "big labels," e.g., TVOTR's discs, which are on 4AD and/or Touch and Go, neither of which is a major (please correct me if I'm mistaken)).
― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 13 July 2008 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Be Your Own Pet are on Universal, well Ecstatic Peace!, but Universal are at least involved enough to have the best tracks taken off their last album.
― I know, right?, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I thought HIM's Razorblade Romance was quite good, and that came out on a major.
― Jeff Treppel, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:28 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost
Opinions vary, as usual. The Darkness and Flyleaf have been screened out here. Where's Evanescence, too? All of the heavy or hard-and-fast conventional rock bands thrown into the emo category also gone missing. Quite a few of them have been on majors.
― Gorge, Sunday, 13 July 2008 23:36 (sixteen years ago) link
1996 Weezer - Pinkerton (DGC) Local H – As Good As Dead (Island) The London Suede – Coming Up (Nude/Columbia) Fluffy – 5 Live (The Enclave/Polygram EP) Ruth Ruth - Laughing Gallery (American)
1997 Prodigy: The Fat of the Land (Maverick/Warner Bros.) Everclear – So Much For The Afterglow (Capitol) The Dandy Warhols – Come Down (Capitol/Tim Kerr) Night Ranger – Neverland (Legacy/Sony)
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:21 (sixteen years ago) link
1998 Kid Rock – Devil Without A Cause (Atlantic/Lava) Monster Magnet – Powertrip (A&M) The Living End – It’s For Your Own Good/Hellbound (Reprise) Metallica – Garage Inc. (Elektra) Hole – Celebrity Skin (DGC) The Hunger – Cinematic Superthug (Universal) Local H – Pack Up The Cats (Island) Bloque – Bloque (Luaka Bop/Warner Bros.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Night Ranger! I loved that band, way back when. I didn't realize they were still around (aside from the nostalgia circuit) in 1997.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 14 July 2008 00:24 (sixteen years ago) link
1999 Hardknox – Hardknox (Jive/Zomba) Cyclefly – Generation Sap (Radioactive/Universal) Boom Boom Satellites – Out Loud (Epic) Crazy Town – The Gift Of Game (Columbia)
2000 Everclear – Songs From An American Movie: Vol One: Learning How To Smile (Capitol) Green Day – Warning (Reprise)
(2000 is the worst so far, looks like)
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:30 (sixteen years ago) link
2001 Montgomery Gentry – Carrying On (Columbia) Kid Rock – Cocky (Lava/Atlantic) Beautiful Creatures – Beautiful Creatures (Warner Bros.) Days of the New – Days of the New III (Uptown/Universal)
2002 Montgomery Gentry – My Town (Columbia) The Donnas – Spend The Night (Atlantic) Cyclefly – Crave (Radioactive/Universal)
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
1996 Ruth Ruth - Laughing Gallery (American)
this was '95. their '96 release was an EP on Epitaph that I thought was way way better than the full-length.
― some dude, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:11 (sixteen years ago) link
btw, fav major label rock album from '97 that may or may not be 'too indie' for this thread's criteria: Skeleton Key - Fantastic Spikes Through Balloons
2003 Brooks & Dunn- Red Dirt Road (Arista Nashville) H.I.M. – Razorblade Romance (Universal)
2004 Big & Rich – Horse Of A Different Color (Warner Bros.) Montgomery Gentry – You Do Your Thing (Columbia) Courtney Love – America’s Sweetheart (Virgin) The Mooney Suzuki – Alive & Amplified (Red Ink/Columbia)
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:26 (sixteen years ago) link
2005 Miranda Lambert – Kerosene (Epic) The Living Things – Ahead Of The Lions (Jive/Zomba) Shooter Jennings – Put The O Back In Country (Universal South) Brooks & Dunn – Hillbilly Deluxe (Arista Nashville) The Rolling Stones – A Bigger Bang (EMI) The Darkness – One Way Ticket To Hell…And Back (Atlantic)
2006 Montgomery Gentry – Some People Change (Columbia) Damone – Out Here All Night (Island) Eric Church – Sinners Like Me (EMI) Def Leppard – Yeah! (Mercury) Rammstein – Rosenrot (Universal)
Etc. (And I can already think of a bunch I missed, but never mind. Too tired to do '07 and '08 now.)
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:42 (sixteen years ago) link
can already think of a bunch I missed
Including other Darkness and Shooter Jennings and Rammstein albums, for starters. And, uh, White Stripes.
― xhuxk, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Bon Jovi -- Lost Highway When it gets to the point the entire album is played as a concert in public television ... not my favorite, but the performances and songs really kick live after a year of performing them.
― Gorge, Monday, 14 July 2008 01:52 (sixteen years ago) link