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

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

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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).

6 THE TOO PURE/AMERICAN RECORDINGS ALLIANCE

for Long Fin Killie; can't imagine what the US public thought of them.

maybe this is 'too much time on ilx' but the basic theme of this list seems p well-established to me, regardless of Ned having referenced it once or twice

I expected to see SURGERY - SHIMMER (ATLANTIC, 1994) and I thought SHOT was The Lizard's major label album.

Yeah, Shot and Blue were both on Capitol, Blue being the Andy Gill-produced 'weird/experimental' one. Though out of the timeframe of the list, iirc.
The live one came out before their final Touch and Go lp.

I think SPIN is saying that the circumstances of the release are what was so weird about it:
"The band allegedly told an A&R stalker that they'd only sign a one-album, one million-dollar deal, something the exec supposedly considered possible. They did, in fact, sign a one-album deal towards the end of 1993 — for a live album. It goes without saying that the post-Nirvana rock landscape was not the place to expect big numbers from a live album, no matter how well it was played or recorded."

I can't even remember SHOW and I was a fan at the time, saw them live at the Astoria in '93.

Nirvana/Jesus Lizard split single is the gateway drug on that one.

It's between Fudge Tunnel and God for me. Love both those records - they're in my iPod right now. Saw FT on that tour, in fact, with Sepultura, Fear Factory and Clutch.

Wait, is the Claw Hammer in the poll the same one that made Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are Not Devo? Cos that was a completely fucking great record, but I never explored any further than that.

best thing abt the God alb being on a major label = lots of cheap review copies at Music & Video Exchange

fudge tunnel and butt trumpet, it was great that the major labels were signing 12-year-old boys back then...

And Mr. Bung Hole

choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck

Voting for the Gorky's Zygotic Mynci comp, their early stuff was so great. I like the Drive Like Jehu and Melvins albums a lot too but yeah this

Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record wuz robbed

is OTM.

I only own the Cop Shoot Cop album, so that one. Plus it's frickin' great.

I need to go back to that Cop Shoot Cop album; I remember it being great but I can't bring to mind any of the songs on it.

(basically whenever I try to remember how a Cop Shoot Cop song goes, I get the Spiritualized song stuck in my head)

"let's make a band with all the worst aspects of frank zappa & none of the amazing music"*

pretty much everything about this statement should be so apparently wrong to anyone who's listened to even one Ween album

trolling Ween fans has become one of my favorite ilx pastimes, i could do this all day

I have the tee-shirt for that Cop Shoot Cop album but I play "Release" all the time to this day and this is despite totaling my car while playing it (I still remember going to the junkyard to pry the CD from the stereo and, yes, I still have that CD.)

In my universe, this song was a #1 hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RbnshwWL-A

While wearing the aforementioned shirt and living in Ohio, some guy came up to me and complimented me on it. I was a little inebriated so I started to go on how I loved the band, saw them live and got to interview them back in the day. The guy mistook my drunken enthusiasm for bragging. He sized me up and bitterly spat out "Oh yeah? Well, I did coke with them! How's that?!?"

Um, okay, dude. You win.

I don't know if this detail matters, but Mr. Bungle were already signed to and had an album released by WB before Disco Volante. The self-titled album came out in '91. I remember the lyric, "Will Warner Brothers put our record on the shelf" in "Carousel."

Voted 'Steel Pole Bath Tub' - Chicago record store and label Permanent Records released their swan song, 'Unlistenable,' last year. It's named after the Slash Records A&R team's reaction when they brought it to the table. It's pretty friggin' awesome too. Just looked up their wikipedia entry and it seems they've had a good run of making video game music!

that first Bungle album is so so great, even if part of me holds a grudge due to hyperextending my elbow in the pit at their show and having a fucked-up arm for years afterward as a result

I didn't know Yank Crime was on a major! I haven't listened to half of these. That Mr. Bungle album rules but I voted Boredoms

I love the first Bungle album. It makes me feel 13 all over again without feeling the slightest hint of shame. The music is just that cool.

I don't know if this detail matters, but Mr. Bungle were already signed to and had an album released by WB before Disco Volante. The self-titled album came out in '91. I remember the lyric, "Will Warner Brothers put our record on the shelf" in "Carousel."

― afriendlypioneer, Friday, January 11, 2013 10:07 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah there was def a little bit of cheating on that entry, but the fact remains that no one ever said WB had to put out a SECOND Bungle record

especially one with a 10-minute musique concrete suite on it

The hit single off the Cop Shoot Cop album was $10 Bill - a genuine chart hit in Britain after Jakki Brambles championed it on daytime radio and played it every show.

Well, I just learned some things about Fred Armisen and Carla Bozulich

Hello, I gather I was invoked earlier.

Dude, you owned this thread without even showing up.

Hahah well then.

Now we all want to know what you vote for.
Or at least, I do.

Sorry, I do not vote in poll threads (nor do I start them). I will stand by that assessment of Pop Tatari, though.