― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
-- Richard K (billycorga...), July 30th, 2004. (Richard K)
― artiste (artiste), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:56 (twenty years ago) link
At least there's no totally obvious #1 single...right?
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
Here?
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― artiste (artiste), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:01 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
― scott pl. (scott pl.), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:06 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:13 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:18 (twenty years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:32 (twenty years ago) link
oh good grief . . .
― chris herrington (chris herrington), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:36 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:37 (twenty years ago) link
(He's posted a few times and is a Smashing Pumpkins fan like myself. Ergo, a good egg!)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:39 (twenty years ago) link
― comme personne (common_person), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:43 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:45 (twenty years ago) link
There is much wisdom here.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
― comme personne (common_person), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
You've gotta be kidding me.
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:55 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago) link
xpost ned beat me to it
― bnw (bnw), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Gear! (Gear!), Friday, 27 August 2004 17:59 (twenty years ago) link
― comme personne (common_person), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:00 (twenty years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
― comme personne (common_person), Friday, 27 August 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
But like those other bands I cited just now, what's also going to happen is that that new people will keep discovering them and their shows are always going to have a big chunk of the crowd be folks for whom it's their first or second ever show. They grew up on it thanks to their older siblings, they found it on their own and now that they're not really talked about much anymore they love it as a private obsession, they're always part of a 'new' generation that keeps a certain obsessive flame alive. Sure, there are other bands that they might like more, more recent, but those bands are also the ones open about how they formed because they played the hell out of The Number of the Beast or Violator or Kid A when they were younger.
And people might ask themselves why it is that 'the kids' or a subsection of them would enjoy something so cultish and so limited and so not-pop, say, and figure it was just brainwashing or peer pressure or an innate conservatism among most listeners. Or they might not ask themselves that, because maybe there was no need to ask the question in the first place.
Maybe.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Alba (Alba), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:05 (twenty years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:24 (twenty years ago) link
― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:25 (twenty years ago) link
Well done, Steve. Loved the buildup inbetween, watching people be worng about Rooty vs Kish Kash and the excellent Avalanches stuff ('Etoh'/'Summer Crane' would definitely have replaced 'Frontier Psychiatrist' in my recommendations, and the early trifekta that ends with 'A Different Feeling' is almost as good as the 'Etoh'-onwards final stretch).
Ah, fun time.
― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Friday, 27 August 2004 19:26 (twenty years ago) link
― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
Top five with maybe a one in three chance at #1, I'd say. I can't think of a more likely choice at this point.
― Andrew Unterberger (Andrew Unterberger), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:10 (twenty years ago) link
Hoo-ray! I've already got my nominees...
ALBUM: Bjork, HomogenicTRACK: Nuyorican Soul, "It's Alright, I Feel It!"
(no way am I risking obvious choices on the off-chance someone else will nominate them, only to see no one nominate them.)
― Eric H. (Eric H.), Friday, 27 August 2004 20:48 (twenty years ago) link