During my early teen years I listened to Alice in Chains and Soundgarden (as well as a lot of WaxTrax stuff and, happily, Dead Can Dance), so there is the sense for me that it's semi-vital to have grown up in that era.Quoting Acapelli (view post)
During my early teen years I listened to Alice in Chains and Soundgarden (as well as a lot of WaxTrax stuff and, happily, Dead Can Dance), so there is the sense for me that it's semi-vital to have grown up in that era.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Youth of America (the title track is generally regarded as their finest moment), though any of their first three albums would be a safe entry point.
Is This Real? and Over the Edge are both a bit more accessible than YiA, but given your tastes, you're fine starting with whichever interests you the most. Of those 3, I'd go Youth, Over the Edge then Is This Real? but all of em are brilliant. I've heard a few of their later albums and they're all good and interesting for different reasons than the first 3 even if they're not on the same level. Those first 3 are something special though, each improving every time I return to it.
Hmm. Been digging the tracks I've listened to so far (Over the Edge tracks, and now the title track of YoA). Formative bands for SY mean dd is intrigued. Impressive how much depth and wandering freedom there is on the title track.
Only the remastered boxset is available from Amazon. I'll wishlist it for now and give it a purchase in the coming months. Thanks for the rec.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
It probably helps. I'm old enough to remember how bad mainstream rock was getting* but for younger listeners grunge might have just been something mainstream rock has always been and often fairly crappy (with the likes of Nickelback or Creed). It also came out right when middle school bullshit was happening in my life and seemed to be the exact right soundtrack for those years. So admittedly my love for a lot of it is colored in nostalgia.
*although Nirvana's impact may have been a bit overstated since Guns N Roses and Metallica were the biggest bands in America by '91 and both of them were considerably more edgy than Winger, Poison, etc...but I will say Kurt Cobain was a vastly different type of rock star than had been seen in the bro-ey world of rock at that point...and also how influential his taste was: Sonic Youth, The Wipers, The Vaselines, Meat Puppets, Butthole Surfers, Daniel Johnston, Jawbreaker, and others would have had different careers without Cobain.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
OK, so I really like how the Flaming Lips have released their new album on MP3. As part of the $9.99 purchase, you get all of the tunes as individual, "shuffle-ready" format, and then you get the entire album mixed as one long track. That is super cool. Also, the music sounds better than anything they've done since Yoshimi.
Bought this today to have something calming in the background amidst the suck of news updates. It's doing its job nicely; lovely piano runs throughout the title track. Unique take on jazz--not quite classical jazz but not succumbing to the ambient textures either. "An Evening with..." just hit and, damn, that bass. Solid.
Also grabbed FL's Yoshimi off of Amazon's $5 sale. Haven't spent any time with the band so I'm excited to see what I've been missing.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
Did you get The Colours of Chloe?
My favorite periods are the Dingus and Ronald eras (two guitarists - Dingus is Johnathan Donahue from Mercury Rev, and Ronald left the band to wander the earth and find god); everything they did from A Priest Driven Ambulance through Clouds Taste Metallic is brilliant.
Yep (I track along with yours, Boner's, and Derek's recs at this point). It's quite ethereal, which is something different with regard to jazz recordings. But the textures Weber's pulling out of the bass in "No Motion Picture"... that's just quality. This is going to be an immediate grower; love how technological but warm the whole thing sounds.
The Boat People - 9
The Power of the Dog - 7.5
The King of Pigs - 7
My god, what a relief. At War with the Mystics was mediocre and Embrionyc was just embarrassing.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
Yes - we totally agree.
I know there are some other Dean Wareham/Galaxie 500 fans on here, so I'll just put this here:
http://www.warhol.org/connect/silver.../#.UW6nkLXqmSp
nah
i could be mistaken, but you don't like discovery either, right?
Not much. Don't like much after Homework.
I like the animated movie, 5555.
New album.
That Old Highway
*If you already dl'ed please re-download the first 2 tracks. I uploaded the wrong versions! I've enabled free dl's for those two tracks now.
Really like what I've heard so far.New album.
That Old Highway
*If you already dl'ed please re-download the first 2 tracks. I uploaded the wrong versions! I've enabled free dl's for those two tracks now.
Title track is CRAZY good.
"We eventually managed to find them near Biskupin, where demonstrations of prehistoric farming are organized. These oxen couldn't be transported to anywhere else, so we had to built the entire studio around them. A scene that lasted twenty-something seconds took us a year and a half to prepare."
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