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

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

thank you John Bush

no Thought Industry, no credibility

this is not that weird, not sure why it's on the list:
http://www.youtube.com/user/deathfrom78/videos?query=bakamono

on the upside this thread got me to watch the tad documentary on youtube which was a pleasure

Also, that Bakamono album was released in 1995, I could be wrong but Priority was still an indie until 1996 when EMI (?) bought a majority stake.

Off the top of my head it looks like God's Possession is the one I've ranked highest on my big list, followed by Melvins and maybe Gallon Drunk.

It's a cool idea, though the piece should acknowledge the fact that there's a long history of interesting or "weird" major label albums before friggin Janes Addiction. Fear of Music, Blank Generation, probably something by Pere Ubu, Captain MF Beefheart. In the 90s there was also classics by Talk Talk, Kyuss, The Young Gods. Was Swans on a major at all?

briefly, for one album in 89

and while they hate that record, I have a soft spot for it.

fuck ween
― fart the police (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
m@tt otm, ween is awful
― trey songza (some dude), Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

eat shit and die

here come here come rome plows

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

― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, January 11, 2013 12:56 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha look at ned's review of pell mell -

The idea that Pell Mell would have ended up on a company run by David Geffen must have seemed truly bizarre when the band first started, but that's what a little Nirvana can do for bands (and so it must have seemed for many an alternative outfit in the early '90s).

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