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Top 5 albums from the nineties
Kid Modernist:
I'm saddened by how similar a lot of these lists are. I suppose that it's to be had though, a good album is a good album.
I'd say for me:
The Cure - Wish
Nirvana - Nevermind
Paul Simon - Rythm of the Saints
Sublime - 40oz To Freedom
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain
5 is tough, close:
NMH - In the Aero
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magic (In fact, I might switch this one with Paul Simon's based on when you asked me)
nuisance:
--- Quote from: KharBevNor on 30 Sep 2006, 18:05 ---Reading this thread has really reminded me what a totally shit time for music the nineties actually was. I mean, it has the best neo-folk albums and Skyclad released almost all their good albums, but wider trends-wise, shit shit shit shit death of rock shit shit shit. And this decade is worse.
--- End quote ---
The death of rock would be like a wet dream for me, but it's not coming any time soon. I had a look through these lists to try to catch albums not by rock bands and didn't come up with many.
Here are the currently most popular, out of 195 albums chosen, FWIW:
Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (7 picks)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (5 picks)
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (5 picks)
Fugazi - Red Medicine (4 picks)
Radiohead - OK Computer (4 picks)
Slint - Spiderland (4 picks)
Beck - Odelay (3 picks)
Belle and Sebastian- If You're Feeling Sinister (3 picks)
Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime (3 picks)
Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted (3 picks)
Weezer - Pinkerton (3 picks)
To my mind, these are all acts that have been accepted into the rock canon. Maybe you have a more narrow definition of rock than I do - I use it thinking about traditions and context more than sound.
ComfortEagle:
Neutral Milk Hotel Wins the Day, which reminds me, that is on my list of albums to get again.
I had a tragic CD accident in which a large chuck of my collection was lost. This along with Pinkerton, and my various cd's of local artist, I'm more worried about my local CD's, they really cant be recovered.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: nuisance on 30 Sep 2006, 21:42 ---To my mind, these are all acts that have been accepted into the rock canon. Maybe you have a more narrow definition of rock than I do - I use it thinking about traditions and context more than sound.
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No, you see, I'm talking about good rock. You know, the stuff that ROCKS. Because we call it ROCK music and I always have this thing were I expect it to ROCK because, you see, I like rock.
@ Johnny C: I'm not just talking about the eighties. Anyway, I personally find each of those bands more enjoyable to listen to than, say, Nirvana or Oasis, plus they were contemporaries to bands like Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Megadeth, Dio and Metallica, back when they were all at the heights of their powers: They either all fired key members or went completely shit in some other way when the nineties approached, and have only recently, if ever, recovered. The other general shit in the mainstream was great as well: a decade when Siouxsie and the Banshees were a household name! The pop music was infinitely better, before the complete victory of off-the-shelf dance beats. New genres and styles were popping up left and right, most of my favourite bands were formed: it was a great decade in almost every way. Fun, interesting, and, most importantly, completely and absolutely devoid of this fucking irony shit. Hell, even the novelty acts were stuff like Ian Dury and John Otway, rather than the Cheeky Girls or Las Ketchup.
The seventies were also pretty bitching, and the sixties, not bad. The nineties are a load of post-modernist shite almost obscuring a few great bits and pieces of music that had nothing to do with general developments in the decade at all. Everything went shit or got commercialised, there was grunge, nu metal, gangsta rap, brit pop, and don't even get me started on what happened to punk...it was a fucking awful decade. Fucking awful.
KharBevNor:
Yeah, that pair of Nazis Pearce and Wakeford, playing Rock Against Racism rallies and writing anti-nazi songs, whatever shall we do with them? Especially Pearce, writing all those songs about his same-sex relationships. What about that nasty Dave Tibet, who dedicated Hitler As Kalki to 'My Father, Who Fought the Nazis'.
The most politically objectionable World Serpent affiliate is Boyd Rice, and he's not a nazi, he's one of your campaign-for-human-extinction satanist/misanthropes. The easiest way by far to see that none of the original neo-folk bands have any real nazi sympathies is to compare it to actual nazi music. Do you reckon Jhonny Balance or Genesis P Orridge or all those other people would have been so in with all of them if they'd been a bed of nazis, or vice versa? Half of them are gay for fucks sake! I mean for fucks sake, is this a nazi song:
So, this is your life
This is your world
In a lullaby to a ghetto
Where you murder boys and girls
Ashes of a butterfly
On a blood-soaked wand
Painted, all decorated
Absent and missing
Like secret dreams
And, broken promises
Like all our dead
And thoroughbred
Let the absence of life begin
To form an ash
And diamond lake
Revisionist, rust-torn and red
Black sun baked
Frank eyes never lie
They weep and shine
With that emptiness
Feral inside them
That mirrors can't define
Don't look to God
He's turned away
Savaged by the smell
Of the first of seven days
So, this is your life
This is your world
In a lullaby to a ghetto
Where you murder boys and girls
No, it's not. The Nazis are a symbol, a metaphor a dark shadow for these people. I can't imagine anyone with half a brain coming on to nazism through listening to the lyrics of my favourite neo-folk bands. All this nazi crap arises from fucking stupid anti-nazi campaigners who can't be arsed to do research and echo the false assumptions of other fucking stupid anti-nazi campaigners, and I'm quite frankly sick of it. Especially as, because of it, there actually ARE now nazi neo-folk bands.
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