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

Only one I've heard is Pell Mell, iirc.

Pure Guava is one of those albums where track 3 will gets stuck in my head, and I forget it's there and go about my business, and then 10 minutes later I'll hear track 7 or 8 playing in my head and then realize the entire album had been progressing without being aware of it. It was the first weirdo album of its type that I had ever heard when I was 13. Bums me out hugely that repping for it was immediately followed by people saying "fuck ween." Y'all haters are markass bustas. I don't actually wish for you to eat shit and die.

pure guava would have been one of my other top choices, along with disco volante, pop tatari, and boces.

tbf, 95% of ween hatred is just people hating ween fans

they're mostly lame, but i'm not.

i believe u

so i did the boring vote for yank crime.

I wonder why this is considered a boring choice? Certainly not a boring answer to me (I am extremely biased though), but also, I spent years trying to get people to talk/listen to this album and it seemed to have slipped by most of them, even those into Fugazi/Slint/June of 44(and Rodan) etc. (not exactly like Drive Like Jehu, but "big" guitar bands of the era that everyone I knew listened to in some capacity) Somehow this just did not get into their rotation, perhaps BECAUSE it was on a major label. Wasn't until the early 2000's or so that I found other folks who had spent time with this record at all, which says something about whom I was hanging out with for sure, but also just seemed to be a lost record for a lot of people that should have heard it.

Just curious if other people had a similar experience with this record or, as n/a's comment seems to suggest, for a lot of people this record was a big deal when it came out with their friends and has been considered great from that time forward?

i just meant there's already a ton of other people voting for yank crime in this thread. but it was certainly seen as a classic album when i was doing college radio in like 98/99.

jehu was sort of a blink and you missed them kinda band, so it took at least a couple years for people to catch up. i even saw them play in 94 or thereabouts but didn't really pay attention to the record until a few years later.

drive like jehu - yank crime: classic or dud?

Cool, thanks. Won't clog this with any more DLJ talk, just curious.

dunno what to vote for here as i love a lot of these albums but i like the yank crime love. was big into early rftc but jehu blew them away

ok its fudge tunnel or unsane since noones mentioned either

sad that AG killfiled me :(

and jjjusten by the looks of it

what what?

oic

didn't butt trumpet win a Spin contest looking for the worst band in America? I'm assuming that was *before* they were signed ... ? help me out here, I don't really feel like googling for the history of butt trumpet

pretty sure the a&r guy meant to sign poopshovel instead but just got confused

34 MERCURY REV - BOCES (COLUMBIA, 1993)
27 DRIVE LIKE JEHU – YANK CRIME (CARGO/INTERSCOPE/ATLANTIC, 1994)
26 FLAMING LIPS - HIT TO DEATH IN THE FUTURE HEAD (WARNER BROS., 1992)
17 ROYAL TRUX - SWEET SIXTEEN (VIRGIN, 1995)
4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995)
1 BOREDOMS – POP TATARI (REPRISE, 1993)

I own and like all of these and have heard the Ween, Flipper, and Jesus Lizard records ... probably voting for TJSA

This was the exact time frame that I worked in college radio (1993-97), definitely a weird time

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

Notes from the LP back cover:

"Album done in a $50.00 a day studio that friends own. It's in the stone basement of a 3 story house built in the early 1900's. We only broke a few things while there. One reel of half-inch tape running at slow speed. Original title of album was "Harvard Zombie Meat" which basically means "educated people without a clue". The lyrics document this theory, though a few songs MAY be considered "positive."

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

col poo said one of those bands? i need to read better

guess i'll vote unsane then if he voted fudge tunnel

I voted for Ween, even though Pure Guava isn't exactly their best album...

40 CELL - SLO*BLO (DGC, 1993)

oh yeah I also owned this at some point but sold the CD. really don't remember anything about em.

that v-3 album is great

Listening to Possession for the first time in a year or so and it's still the best album on this list.

New ears make it feel like Pretty invents .nu-Swans though.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

nice!

4 THOMAS JEFFERSON SLAVE APARTMENTS - BAIT & SWITCH (AMERICAN, 1995) 8

I am pleased with the results of this poll and the relatively high participation.

Way to go team!

The correct answer is actually The Monks and everything else that Henry Rollins hoisted onto American by way of Infinite Zero.

14 MR. BUNGLE - DISCO VOLANTE (WARNER BROS., 1995) 8
10 GOD - POSSESSION (VIRGIN, 1992) 8

so so happy

poor butt trumpet

*solemnly plays Taps*

*stands up straight and pulls his pants up*

33 MEDICINE - SHOT FORTH SELF LIVING (DEF AMERICAN, 1992) 0

aww i should have voted for this

tbf, 95% of ween hatred is just people hating ween fans

― fuck wit' lysandre day (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, January 17, 2013 10:36 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw a few of my favorite people love Ween, including my former roommate whose taste i otherwise loved where i was forever like "seriousy man you're listening to Ween again?"

although if i'd ever been in the crowd at a Ween show i can easily imagine hating Ween fans in general

Yeah I have a couple of friends with otherwise impeccable taste who like ween

scorn for the 6 people who voted for ween should be transferred over to the 6 people who voted for daniel johnston imo

UGH

i haven't heard that daniel johnston record -- is it bad, or do you just not like him?
voted pell mell btw. listened to several of these last week and enjoyed that one the most.

i just don't think it's that weird that ween got signed either, esp compared to a lot of these bands.

i don't like daniel johnston, mainly due to the typical reservations about being a fan of someone with a serious mental condition. the devil and daniel johnston was great though.

i just don't think it's that weird that ween got signed either, esp compared to a lot of these bands.

― fieri inna babylon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, January 18, 2013 10:46 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

huh why? i know they got biggish later but they weren't very big or popular at the time they were signed.

because they essentially write catchy rock and pop songs, just with a layer of genre pastiche and irony and vocal EFX and shit, but i dunno, they are really "weird" in the most boring way possible imo

I think it was Trouser Press (4th edition) that summed up the secret of Ween as 'poorly disguised musical skills'

i mean i said it upthread but "zappa without all the good things" is really it...the genre pastiche, the insidery dickhead sense of humour, genre parodies, wacky vocals, funny accents and shit

the Ween song that became an alt radio "hit" was p fucking weird though (Push the Lil Daisies)

I kinda like em but definitely had friends who liked em way too much

ween > zappa