Oooooooh, it's onnnnnnnnn...
(Personally, I think they're both kinda doofy, but I have the sense not to say as much around here...ooooooops.)
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i'm kinda trolling because i'm kind of amazed that Black Love seems to be arising as the consensus favorite
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:42 (twelve years ago) link
voted down on the upside tbh
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
i tried with the Whigs, man, i really tried, but the vocals are just awful
This is me and the Hold Steady, so I sympathize with your unpopular opinion.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
eh I would be amazed if pinkerton doesn't win this poll
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
Also, ftr, the Whigs and the Crows had some pretty good songs, but I wouldn't go so far as to call myself a fan of either. As opposed to a few other acts on this list (at least within the general era covered by this list).
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, May 3, 2012 10:43 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
ok then we're 2 for 2 on the same page dude
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:47 (twelve years ago) link
http://foodcourtlunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/duritz3.jpg
durtiz's head alone, before he even opens the mouth attached to it, is more embarrassing than dulli.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link
Anybody remember when Dulli and Donal Logue guest hosted 120 Minutes? That was fun. He should've done more of that.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:50 (twelve years ago) link
duritz is hilariously horrifying. but "i'm not sleeping" and "children in bloom" and "catapult," those are some great brooding guitar rock songs imo.
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:51 (twelve years ago) link
was donal logue in character as jimmy the cab driver?
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:52 (twelve years ago) link
counting crows ugh x 10000, fans treat them like some kind of second-coming Dave Matthews Band and I DON'T GET IT I DON'T I DON'T I DON'T
sorry
calm now
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
I don't know what prompted it, but I felt compelled to 'check in' on Duritz via GIS a couple of months ago. I mean...props on consistently rockin' the dreads for > 15 years, dude.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
I know what prompted it
you are secretly in love with him
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
well it's easier when they're fake
― iatee, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
No, but I think that was the first time I'd seen him not as Jimmy the cab driver. REVELATORY.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:56 (twelve years ago) link
dulli is/was ridiculously over the top, which was not too fashionable at the time (or to me in general). but he totally pulled it off live and however 'obvious' the whigs' rock/soul thing seems, i'm unaware of anyone (apart from prince, who they obviously adore) managing it
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 02:57 (twelve years ago) link
I can't think of a musician whose career began with execrable hair that I've been fond of
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
i am still trying to get over the revelation that donal logue was jimmy the cab driver
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone good enough for Jen is good enough for me, VG.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:58 (twelve years ago) link
― Neil Young’s social media channels (some dude), Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:39 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
some dude otm
― iatee, Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:39 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
cannot be said enough
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
soon i will be forced to link to aero's reviews of said whigs
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
i can't think of two musicians who have less in common that prince and fucking greg dulli
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:00 (twelve years ago) link
Greg Dull more like amirite?
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
http://addictedtovinyl.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/bnlgordon.jpg??????
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i don't even really object to dulli's lyrics/persona or the whole sketchy R&B thing, if anything that's why i wish i could tolerate the singing itself
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT5K4-WWjT8
forever what i associate with this particular era: the radio IDs from the slightly cooler modern rock station that you had to really work hard to hear if you lived where i did, leading to me building a huge DIY antenna (which worked!) during the summer between 8th/9th grade
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:02 (twelve years ago) link
I now have "Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman)" on a loop in my head. Thank you, this thread.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol contenderizer
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
I remember that 2nd PUSA album was great, but I haven't heard it in over a decade. I did hear a bootleg of a show a few years ago and the entire audience was enthusiastically singing along to every single song. It sounded so fun!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, exactly. the boozy, self-loathing/aggrandizing cad thing is fine by me, and i like the idea of fusing heavy soul with heavy rock, but the voice just grates, and it doesn't work with the music. every element of the sound is so thick and oppressive and unnuanced. the guitar churns, the vocals bellow, the rhythm section mulches, and there's no room to breathe. musical waterboarding.
have i mentioned that i don't like the afghan whigs?
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:11 (twelve years ago) link
you have! no particular reason to heed your taste tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
On my site I have Soundgarden rated highest, then Screaming Trees and Afghan Whigs. But I'm feeling Black Love the most right now, partly because they're on my mind as I'll be seeing them at Lollapalooza for the first time since about 1992. I would have also included Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension, though I'm not sure what kind of sales Maxinquaye had. More than a lot of these I'm sure. Ride - Tarantula too.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
first Remy Zero album
― the endless white snow has never felt more textile (loves laboured breathing), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:27 (twelve years ago) link
(actually Ill probably vote Hi-Fi)
of course not. it's mine, after all.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:35 (twelve years ago) link
two of my best friends are huge & eternal whigs/dulli fans. have tried so often and long to "get it", to no avail :(
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
291 posts and nobody's claimed Hi-Fi is R.E.M.'s last good album. Pleasing!
― timellison, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
thought that was a given?
― mookieproof, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
^
― The Jupiter 8 (Turrican), Friday, 4 May 2012 03:50 (twelve years ago) link
most played 1996 hits on modern day alternative rock radio:
1. Sublime - "Santeria"2. Sublime - "What I Got"3. Green Day - "Brain Stew" / "Jaded" 4. Sublime - "Wrong Way" 5. Smashing Pumpkins - "1979" 6. 311 - "Down"7. Bush - "Glycerine" 8. Cake - "The Distance" 9. Bush - "Machinehead" 10. Smashing Pumpkins - "Tonight, Tonight" 11. The Butthole Surfers - "Pepper" 12. Sublime - "Doin' Time"13. 311 - "All Mixed Up" 14. Local H - "Bound For The Floor"15. Rage Against The Machine - "Bulls On Parade" 16. Beck - "Where It's At"17. Oasis - "Champagne Supernova" 18. Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart" 19. Smashing Pumpkins - "Zero" 20. Sublime - "Caress Me Down" 21. Spacehog - "In The Meantime" 22. Marilyn Manson - "The Beautifu People"23. Soundgarden - "Burden In My Hand" 24. Sublime - "April 29, 1992 (Miami)" 25. Tool - "Stinkfist"26. Beck - "Devil's Haircut" 27. No Doubt - "Spiderwebs" 28. Beck - "New Pollution" 29. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Aeroplane" 30. Garbage - "Only Happy When It Rains"
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:55 (twelve years ago) link
that seems about right
― crüt, Friday, 4 May 2012 03:57 (twelve years ago) link
And to think Garbage had two way bigger hits that year!
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 May 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
only 2 songs from the 'commercially disappointing' list! congrats STP and Soundgarden, you outlasted "Swallowed" and "Who You Are"
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:01 (twelve years ago) link
I wanna say that STP track was in the year-end radio top ten, but I could be wrong.
― Leslie Mann: Boner Machine (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 4 May 2012 04:03 (twelve years ago) link
probably, yeah, it was pretty ubiquitous
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:04 (twelve years ago) link
"Desperately Wanting" is the song i hear on the radio now most besides those 2, though, and it's kind of great.
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:06 (twelve years ago) link
lots of Tori stans might creep out and vote for BFP.
not a stan but voted for this. it's a pretty strong record.
― get wolves (get bent), Friday, 4 May 2012 04:07 (twelve years ago) link
basically the reason i put "alternative" in the subject line instead of just "rock" was to include that nutty harpsichord-filled album
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
it'll be pretty interesting to see who wins, though. i figured initially that it'd be a battle between Weezer and REM but maybe Whigs and Tori are in contention too.
― some dude, Friday, 4 May 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link