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Top 5 albums from the nineties
Brian Majestic:
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--- Quote from: DynamiteKid ---4. blink-182 - Enema of the State (1999)
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I don't know if I am more boggled by this making it onto a top five of the nineties or that it made your top 100 albums list.
Either way...boggled!
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I don't know if I'm more boggled by you being an asshole or your misuse of the word 'boggled.'
Enema.. is a brilliantly written, short, sharp punk album. It's good fun, a few of the songs are (shocker) oddly affecting, and 'Anthem' actually manages to talk about bestiality and politics within the same sentence.
So fuck you, and fuck your elitism.
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Well to be fair, I was only teasing and thought it was obvious...although I'm not sure how I misused "boggled".
I thought Dude Ranch was a far better album as far as Blink goes, though I'm not really a fan of the band to begin with (I freely admit to liking "Dammit" though). If we must have a "silly offensive" punk album, I'd probably go with Guttermouth's Album Formerly Known as Full Length which is fantastically dumb, but not on my top 5 list. As for just pop-punk, it has been mentioned previously, but Jawbreaker's 24 Hour Revenge Therapy is grand, and if you have not heard it, I'd suggest listening to it immediately - "Jinx Removing" is one of the most beautiful punk songs ever.
And my own taste in music is pretty suspect (my unabashed love for Blatz, for instance), yet i'm not sure how disliking one album makes anyone an elitist.
Johnny C:
Eno is a fantastic ambient songwriter, and his contributions to records from David Bowie, Talking Heads, Devo, John Cale and U2, among others, are totally invaluable. Plus, I have a vinyl "Peter And The Wolf" album in which a mysterious "Eno" is credited as playing the synthesizer, along with Manfred Mann's guitar and Peter Gabriel's drums! Hooray for Eno!
Thrillho:
Your mind can be boggled. As far as I know, one is not 'boggled' per se, one's mind is boggled.
A lot of people prefer Dude Ranch. But both Tom and Mark have difficulty singing in tune as it is, and I find Dude Ranch borderline unlistenable in places because they sing so badly. Enema is kind of the big-budget update to Dude Ranch. I just prefer it because of the production sheen, and that's not some MTV generation shit either, because I like plenty of albums with little to no production - such as my own ;-) - I just think it suits this album. As for being silly-offensive; it is in parts, but that's not why I like it. I like it because of wistful, euphoric parts of it rather than, say, the title. 'Going Away To College' is my favourite song there, for example.
You were a new poster, and as such I knew nothing about you, nor did I know that you were the kind to be ironically elitist as a lot of people on here are. But there have been people who have joined this forum assuming we're all indie assholes - and there's plenty of them on here - and acted in the way you did seriously. I take a lot of crap for the music I listen to from just about everyone because I listen to almost anything once, so I tend to get defensive about it.
So, in short, I apologise for calling you an asshole.
Thrillho:
Couldn't if I tried. I tend to only pay attention to names of people I like.
...have we met?
Praeserpium Machinarum:
Isn't it more indie/metal smartasses? Sp2 isn't here anymore so we are fresh out of lovable arseholes.
--- Quote ---Praeserpium Machinarum- Lauryn Hill is such a good call, I'd completely forgot about that album (and there was one I actually remember listening to way back when).
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It was pretty much the first album I bought and I loved it to bits. It wasn't my gateway album though because at the same time I was raving about Aqua. Still I think I struck gold at an tender age of 11.
A little addition to my list:
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes(1992)
She will most likely never top it in terms of emotional power and honesty.
Jim O'Rourke - I'm Happy and I'm Singing and a 1,2,3,4(recorded in 1997-98 but released later on)
Simply the best electronica album I have ever heard. In one word: amazing.
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