AverageJoe
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Wierdly, that song (almost) is also on my list too
Urban75 Album of the Year 1994
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The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
I liked the version by the singer who was in Procol Harum
AverageJoe
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Rivers Cuomo in Procol Harem is an interesting twist
32) Shellac - At Action Park
Hardcore punk that inexplicably sounds like King Crimson. I wish I knew about this at the time. I wish I knew this last week.
Hardcore punk that inexplicably sounds like King Crimson. I wish I knew about this at the time. I wish I knew this last week.
Just having a philosophical moment here with Soundgarden and Shellac right next to each other.
I want to like Soundgarden, I can hear how they are supremely on top of their game. How professional they sound. And even how much they rock. It's like all the notes and chords and beats fit together in an idiosyncratic, artistically satisfying way that draws upon past metal/punk in a way that is both familiar and different. They are on paper totally brilliant. But I don't want it to fit together. I want rock music to be on the brink of falling apart. I don't want rock to lift you up into the sky, I want it to punch you into the ground. I don't want to listen to Soundgarden, I want to listen to Shellac.
You may have to all wait a little while while I obsess to myself about this point.
I want to like Soundgarden, I can hear how they are supremely on top of their game. How professional they sound. And even how much they rock. It's like all the notes and chords and beats fit together in an idiosyncratic, artistically satisfying way that draws upon past metal/punk in a way that is both familiar and different. They are on paper totally brilliant. But I don't want it to fit together. I want rock music to be on the brink of falling apart. I don't want rock to lift you up into the sky, I want it to punch you into the ground. I don't want to listen to Soundgarden, I want to listen to Shellac.
You may have to all wait a little while while I obsess to myself about this point.
ska invita
back on the other side
Soundgarden? GET ON WITH THE SHOW!!! 
31) - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Let Love In
This is basically a Jim Morrison solo album if he had made solo albums and they turned out alright. Highest rated Nick Cave album on rate your music. I should give it a serious listen.
This is basically a Jim Morrison solo album if he had made solo albums and they turned out alright. Highest rated Nick Cave album on rate your music. I should give it a serious listen.
29) Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
If you listen to one Nine Inch Nails album, it should be this one. I thought you would all put this a bit higher tbh.
If you listen to one Nine Inch Nails album, it should be this one. I thought you would all put this a bit higher tbh.
28) Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
To be fair this would slap on tinny speakers in a busy street in Manhattan. Also good album cover.
To be fair this would slap on tinny speakers in a busy street in Manhattan. Also good album cover.
26) Orbital - Snivilisation
Thirty years later and I'm beginning to get Orbital. It's melodic instrumental rock if melodic instrumental rock were techno. I approve.
Thirty years later and I'm beginning to get Orbital. It's melodic instrumental rock if melodic instrumental rock were techno. I approve.
maomao
普費斯
He's a paedo though.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
ohh no he's fucking not.
maomao
普費斯
Yeah cause telling everyone you wank over CSAM is art man.
24) The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
Not sure what this is. I'm going to call it post techno. Ambient noise twinkly glory.
Not sure what this is. I'm going to call it post techno. Ambient noise twinkly glory.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Naah, it was fucking childish 'let's be as objectionable as possible' bullshit - describing behaviour which the women he toured with at the time said was completely untrue. And has been addressed repeatedly since then, which is why so many women were very happy to work with him and sang his praises after he died. It was as believable as Sarah Silverman's version of The Aristocrats (which it was blatantly inspired by).
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
I believe the women he worked with, you dont. But what the fuck would they know?
maomao
普費斯
Did he masturbate over normal porn at work or something? How would they know? Why aren't the men he worked with relevant? You're just making it sound even shadier tbh.
I just thought it was worth pointing it out in case that affected how people who'd just discovered Shellac felt about their music. It affects how I feel about it. The arguments are well-documented on the internet and on these boards already.
23) Kenny Larkin – Azimuth
Though this (appears) to have no explicit message, it nevertheless communicates a sense of forward looking technological sci fi optimism that now ironically seems retro. Remember the good old days when optimism was a thing and we weren't all hauntologyafied? Brilliant stuff. My reference point is Heldon (who the fuck are Heldon???).
Though this (appears) to have no explicit message, it nevertheless communicates a sense of forward looking technological sci fi optimism that now ironically seems retro. Remember the good old days when optimism was a thing and we weren't all hauntologyafied? Brilliant stuff. My reference point is Heldon (who the fuck are Heldon???).
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Because they fucking toured with him and said that the way he describes treating women, and other behaviour on that tour, was completely nonsense. That it was untrue and that he liked making things up to wind people up. Forty years on, some sad sack decided it would make a good bit of clickbait, once Albini couldn't answer back. A cheap and cowardly piece of journalism covering a subject that had been raised and answered whilst he was alive. Had said journo actually wanted to make a genuine point, he had decades in which to do so, but he chose not to. Because immature kid who grew up is a dull story.
He never burnt down his hometown with Kerosene either.
Maybe give us a link to that argument on here and we can all make our own minds up. I'm not even 100% sure who we're talking about.
maomao
普費斯
22) Luke Slater's 7th Plain - The 4 Cornered Room
This completes a run of 6 excellent Detroit techno albums. This one has some crunchy synth chords.
To be honest, that these aren't troubling the top 20 is a bit of sign that the rock crowd outnumber the techno crowd.
This completes a run of 6 excellent Detroit techno albums. This one has some crunchy synth chords.
To be honest, that these aren't troubling the top 20 is a bit of sign that the rock crowd outnumber the techno crowd.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
call it what you like, its. bloody great album either way.
21) Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Like the Velvet Underground (sorry I only have 60's/70's references) but getting there by being out of tune rather than with drones. In 2024 in the age of pitch correction, this sounds amazingly avant garde. Some of the instrumental parts of this are totally brilliant.
Like the Velvet Underground (sorry I only have 60's/70's references) but getting there by being out of tune rather than with drones. In 2024 in the age of pitch correction, this sounds amazingly avant garde. Some of the instrumental parts of this are totally brilliant.
I've never heard anything quite like it.
