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     Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 959 Registered: 01-2005 |
1. Pale Saints - In Ribbons 2. PJ Harvey - Dry 3. Luna2 - Lunapark 4. Lucinda Williams - Sweet old World 5. Lush - Spooky 6. Beautiful South - 0898 7. Blue Rodeo - Lost Together 8. The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray 9. Ride - Going Blank Again 10. Bettie Serveert - Palomine 11. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth 12. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People 13. Luka Bloom - The Acoustic Motorbike 14. K.D. Lang - Ingénue 15. Curve - Doppelganger 16. Sonic Youth - Dirty 17. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 18. Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos 19. The Catherhine Wheel - Ferment 20. Television - Television 21. Freedy Johnson - Can You Fly 22. Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe 23. Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man 24. Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted 25. Lou Reed - Magic and Loss | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 914 Registered: 10-2004 |
1992 was an infinitely better year than 1991. These are all pretty solid records: XTC - Nonsuch High Llamas - Santa Barbara Nice - Nice Stereolab - Peng! and Switched On Saint Etienne - Foxbase Alpha Unrest - Imperial f.f.r.r Nick Cave - Henry's Dream Magnetic Fields - Wayward Bus Lush - Spooky Eggstone - San Diego Beat Happening - You Turn Me On The Television record is just okay, imho. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1917 Registered: 05-2005 |
Good call Michael. A great year for music. I spent the year in Australia. 1 The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (An all-time classic power pop album) 2 Sugar - Copper Blue (Bob Mould's last truly great album - everything he has done since just pales compared to this unfortunately) 3 R.E.M. - Automatic For The People (a beautiful record apart from the trite Everybody Hurts. It matters not a jot that everyone and their little sister bought it) 4 PJ Harvey - Dry (an incredible debut, even with the crap sound. I wish they'd remaster it, though as it was recorded for 3000 pounds there probably isn't a whole lot that can be done with it) 5 Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes (heartbreakingly beautiful. Nothing she has done since has impressed me nearly as much) 6 Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over (a high watermark in a stellar career) 7 Grant McLennan - Fireboy (I know a lot of you don't rate it much, but I love it) 8 Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue (Cathal Coughlan in very fine angry mode) 9 Come - Eleven:Eleven (an indie blues rock classic) 10 Ride - Going Blank Again (from pop to prog, it was all at least very good and often great) 11 Beastie Boys - Check Your Head (a great follow-up to the peerless Paul's Boutique) 12 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted (a retrospective choice, I didn't get it till 93) 13 Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe (I had it on the other side of the tape I had It's A Shame About Ray on. I played that tape to death) 14 Sonic Youth - Dirty (the only one on this list I have on vinyl! Double, coloured vinyl at that!) 15 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream (not a classic considering his entire catalogue, but some great songs) 16 XTC - Nonsuch (terrific pop album) 17 Ministry - Psalm 69 (satisfied the teenage metaller in me at the time - and still does!) 18 Luna - Lunapark (a very good start for what became a great band) 19 Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury (hip-hop meets industrial? I'm there) 20 Throwing Muses - Red Heaven (overall not a classic, but Dio, Kerstin's duet with Bob Mould, is incredible). It is illuminating to see how much of the best music of 1992 was made by women or female-fronted bands. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 919 Registered: 10-2004 |
Only three lists? Surely we can do better than this! And I'd be utterly perplexed to find that I was the only one here who rates Unrest's excellent Imperial ffrr. They were hugely important back in the early 90s. | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 237 Registered: 01-2007 |
Rockingbirds and Jayhawks-Hollywood Town Hall my 2 favourites from that year | ||
| frank bascombe Member Username: Frankb Post Number: 238 Registered: 01-2007 |
Oh and the Grant and the Lemonheads and Buffalo Tom a great year | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1497 Registered: 03-2005 |
1. The Bats -- Fear of God. I'll bet you forgot this one Padraig. 2. The Chills -- Soft Bomb 3. Ingenue -- Kd Lang. Wildly overexposed, but a great album. 4. Marty Willson-Piper -- Spirit Level. This was the first that I heard and I still think this is his finest solo album. 5. Ed Kuepper -- Black Ticket Day. Typical 1990s Kuepper, which means 2/3 of a very good album. 6. Varttina -- Seleniko. Finnish female harmony loosely based on traditional music. Gorgeous. My Moles anthologies both come up with the year 1992 on them. If the Moles had a 1992 album, it should definitely be on the list. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 965 Registered: 01-2005 |
Thanks Randy, I forgot about Soft Bomb! I would put it at #5 just behind Lu's Sweet Old World. Sorry Lou, your relegated to #26 and off my list. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1093 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hi, gang. (Reluctantly) back from nine days in Mexico. Trying to avoid work, so making a list sounds like a good idea. To wit: 1. Freedy Johnston - "Can You Fly" 2. Pavement - "Slanted and Enchanted" 3. Mzwakhe Mbuli - "Resistance Is Defense" 4. Lucinda Williams - "Sweet Old World" 5. Sonic Youth - "Dirty" 6. Coupé Cloué - "Maximum Compas from Haiti" 7. The Chills - "Soft Bomb" 8. L7 - "Bricks Are Heavy" 9. Chris Bell - "I Am the Cosmos" 10. Sugar - "Copper Blue" | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 303 Registered: 05-2005 |
I saw the 1994 one first but again it's the Ride and Church albums for me - "Going Blank Again" and "Priest=Aura" respectively. | ||
| Allen Belz Member Username: Abpositive Post Number: 913 Registered: 09-2006 |
Vilkommen beck Herr Brookman! (read in best Frau Blucher accent) | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 971 Registered: 01-2005 |
Church - Priest=Aura, should be on my list. While I like the song "Aura" a ton, some of the other songs don't register as much on my scale, so to speak. On my revised list it would slot in around 22 or so. | ||
| David Gagen Member Username: David_g Post Number: 130 Registered: 02-2007 |
Leonard Cohen - The Future Bob- Good As I been To You (lovely versions of trad folk tales) Tom Waits - Bone Machine (The Ocean Doesn't Want Me inspired me to take up my poetry pen!) The Cure - Wish | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1949 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, Fear Of God was 1991, at least in the Antipodes. However, I did forget Soft Bomb, which, seeing as it's my favourite ever album, is nigh on unforgivable! So Soft Bomb becomes No 1 and Throwing Muses falls off the end. Revised list... 1 The Chills - Soft Bomb 2 The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray 3 Sugar - Copper Blue 4 R.E.M. - Automatic For The People 5 PJ Harvey - Dry 6 Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 7 Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over 8 Grant McLennan - Fireboy 9 Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue 10 Come - Eleven:Eleven 11 Ride - Going Blank Again 12 Beastie Boys - Check Your Head 13 Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted 14 Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe 15 Sonic Youth - Dirty 16 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry's Dream 17 XTC - Nonsuch 18 Ministry - Psalm 69 19 Luna - Lunapark 20 Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy - Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury | ||
| Pat Boland Member Username: Pat_boland Post Number: 40 Registered: 05-2005 |
Some great lists there. For the record, here's mine: R.E.M. - Automatic For the People The House of Love - Babe Rainbow Sugar - Copper Blue The Lemonheads - It's a shame about Ray The Church - Priest = Aura The Vulgar Boatmen - Please Panic Buffalo Tom - Let me Come Over 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden The Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall Cracker - Cracker Loudon Wainwright III - History XTC - Nonsuch Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted That is all. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1096 Registered: 08-2006 |
Hey, Pat, good call on the Vulgar Boatmen album. Maybe I'll pull that out tonight. Haven't listened to it in some time. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 394 Registered: 01-2006 |
Laser Guided Melodies – Spiritualized Lunapark – Luna Slanted & Enchanted – Pavement Bone Machine – Tom Waits The Future – Leonard Cohen Soul Kiss (Glide Divine) – Spectrum Wayward Bus – Magnetic Fields | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 972 Registered: 01-2005 |
Revised list: 1. Pale Saints - In Ribbons 2. PJ Harvey - Dry 3. Luna2 - Lunapark 4. Lucinda Williams - Sweet old World 5. The Chills - Soft Bomb 6. Lush - Spooky 7. Beautiful South - 0898 8. Blue Rodeo - Lost Together 9. The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray 10. Ride - Going Blank Again 11. Bettie Serveert - Palomine 12. Lyle Lovett - Joshua Judges Ruth 13. R.E.M. - Automatic For The People 14. Luka Bloom - The Acoustic Motorbike 15. K.D. Lang - Ingénue 16. Curve - Doppelganger 17. Sonic Youth - Dirty 18. Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes 19. Chris Bell - I Am The Cosmos 20. The Catherine Wheel - Ferment 21. Television - Television 22. The Church - Priest=Aura 23. Freedy Johnson - Can You Fly 24. Juliana Hatfield - Hey Babe 25. Cowboy Junkies - Black Eyed Man I bought 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden, when it first came out. I haven't played it in years, so I didn't include it on my list. Embaraased not to own: Sugar - Copper Blue L7 - Bricks Are Heavy Tom Waits - Bone Machine Throwing Muses - Red Heaven Buffalo Tom - Let me Come Over | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1958 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, was I Am The Cosmos released for the first time in 1992? I thought that was a rerelease? Chris Bell was certainly long dead by then anyway. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1959 Registered: 05-2005 |
Awesome album though, of course. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 975 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, It was never released before in any album form, although a single of "I Am The Cosmos"/"You And Your Sister" was released in his lifetime, as per the attached from Amazon: From the Label Big Star co-founder Chris Bell was recording this solo album at the time of his death in 1978. Previously unreleased on any format, this "Great Lost Album" clarifies Bell's role in the band's sound and secures his own place in pop history. Bell died tragically in a car crash in 1978, and only one single ("I Am The Cosmos"/"You And Your Sister") was released in his lifetime, on Chris Stamey's tiny Car label. Both single sides are included here, along with newly-discovered alternate takes. The fifteen tracks highlight Bell's ethereal vocals, his uncanny sense of song structure and insightful, melancholy lyrics, all of which illuminate his often-overlooked contribution to Big Star. I AM THE COSMOS features rare photographs and liner notes by Chris's brother David Bell. Recorded all over the world (including sessions at the famed Chateau D'Heurville and Air studios), I AM THE COSMOS is a haunting pop masterpiece ripe for discovery | ||
| David James Member Username: Broadmajestic Post Number: 21 Registered: 10-2006 |
1. Swell - Well...? 2. Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted 3. The Wedding Present - The Hit Parade 4. Gallon Drunk - You, the Night, and the Music 5. Girls Against Boys - Tropic of Scorpio 6. Morphine - Good (superb) 7. Red Red Meat - Jimmywine Majestic 8. Ride - Going Blank Again (irony for sure) 9. The Dentists - Dressed 10. Buffalo Tom - Let Me Come Over 11. Grant McLennan - Fireboy 12. Sugar - Copper Blue 13. Fatima Mansions - Valhalla Avenue 14. Ed Kuepper -- Black Ticket Day 15. The Orchids - Thaumaturgy | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1967 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for that Michael. | ||
| fsh Member Username: Fsh Post Number: 131 Registered: 05-2005 |
Thanks for that Padraig. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 982 Registered: 01-2005 |
Going over everyone lists, and it occurs to me that 1992 just might turn out to be the best year of the 90's, although 1990 had some real crackers as previously discussed. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 357 Registered: 07-2006 |
rather terrific year i thought too! ride - going blank again rem - automatic curve - doppelganger jesus & mary chain - honey's dead sonic youth - dirty pavement - slanted & enchanted tori amos - little earthquakes spiritualized - lazer guided melodies morrissey - your arsenal L7 - bricks are heavy madonna - erotica boo radleys - everything's alright forever carter usm - 1992/the love album manics - generation terrorists annie lennox - diva catherine wheel - ferment | ||
| Geoff Holmes Member Username: Geoff Post Number: 320 Registered: 05-2005 |
If 1992 was the best year of the 90's then that, to me, says a lot about the quality of the music in the 1990s! I just remember all of that viseral, in your face, vulgar stuff at the time (not only grunge)and thinking it was just like the golden idealistic age of the 60's had finished again and we had to put up with an early 70's idoltry of lowest common denominator inspiration! I'm serious!! A relative got me that 1001 albums... book for Xmas and there are huge swathes of the 1990's that every album for me is just yuk! I think things have started to turn around again since 1998, but that early 1990's period was mostly a blank for me. Even most of the guitar pop was sub standard compared to the 60's, 2nd half 70's and 80's. Ride were the candle in the dark for me during that period! | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 960 Registered: 10-2004 |
Geoff, I mostly agree with you about the 90s. They were like living in the dark ages. Grunge and all of its icky corporate co-opted fallout just killed a good part of the decade for me. And "indie" rock, for the most part, became so lazy and formulaic. Stereolab, the Magnetic Fields, the High Llamas, and Lush, to name a few, really helped get me through the 90s. Nick Cave made the early 90s pretty interesting too. But overall, yeah, the first truly dreadful decade for pop music. I spent a good deal of the 90s mining the more obscure corners of music from the 80s and 70s as a result, which was how I discovered the Go-Betweens. But, in my ever so humble opinion, even the 90s look awfully appealing compared to the current decade. But I realize I'm virtually alone on this board in thinking this. | ||
| joe Member Username: Dogmansuede Post Number: 358 Registered: 07-2006 |
i'm right there with you jeff. surprised to see ride getting so much love around here - especially GBA, which makes most peple scoff when they find out how much i love it. mark gardener played ox4 on his short acoustic set out here a few years ago which is never far from my mind. particular when he started singing "yellow" over the top of it, which worked a little too conveniently. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1013 Registered: 01-2005 |
Geoff, I think 1990-1993 saw some great music released, keep in mind I'm a huge fan of the shoegazer movement. Lucinda Williams also (Just Like A Rose) bloomed during the 90's. I agree with Joe and Geoff about Ride and Stereolab (Lush is covered by my shoegazer comment). The whole grunge movement seems so yuck these days. A lot of female singers came to forefront in the 90's, which I thought was a great thing. The mid-90 for me was when it really went downhill. I never bought into Oasis for instance. Geoff's comment about 1998 being the turnaround year for improvement dovetails nicely with Lu's great Car Wheels On a Gravel Road. | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 774 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'm inclined to stay on the fence here. Of course if you're only referring to rock music then the early '90's were a bit stodgy. Lots of good dance/techno records & clubs that brought on the superstar DJ revolution. Which is where it kind of bottomed out IMHO. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 1514 Registered: 03-2005 |
I always get a kick out of Jeff's trashing of the 90s because his description of the 90s pretty nicely matches MY description of the 70s. BUT what I've found--about both decades--is that while the popular stuff was most often dreck, the under-the-radar stuff was just fine. And I expect this to be the case for the current decade. As some of you are probably aware, my modus operandi is to hunt out the obscure but highly recommended things long after the dust has settled and so I'll be on here raving about something that's 10 or 15 years old which is a new discovery for me. The 70s and the 90s were eras when huge previous waves of musicians exhausted themselves creatively. The 70s gave birth to corporate rock which is with us to this day, of course. The 90s gave birth to what I view as phony music movements. Alt-country? Please, it's just 90s country rock. Grunge? 90s hard rock. Shoegazer? Maybe that IS a proper movement but I'm tempted to just call it Ramones on reds driven through processors. Industrial? Maybe. Techno? New Order taken to the absurd. But somewhere, in both of these decades, a new generation was coming up. The obvious example is punk in the 70s and it seems to me that at least down in the Antipodes there was a new generation of musicians coming alive from the Cannanes to Randal Lee's groups to Richard Davies. Even Martin Phillipps really only came into his own as an artist in the 90s. So maybe the southern hemisphere was out of sync with the northern and maybe that's where you want to look for vital music of that era. I also think that the advent of cheap decent digital recording devices has opened up the field for a whole new generation. The Handsome Family is an example that jumps to mind but there are obviously many more and they probably were overlooked by the media for the simple reason that they were the authentic "indie." And where today? I know Hugh Nimmo currently buys a bucketload of Scandinavian releases. It seems beyond time for the continental Europeans to have something new to say. And all the MySpace people that Spence keeps telling us about. And what about South America or Asia? We haven't really heard an awful lot from them, thanks to our English-only filter. Maybe that's where we should be looking. IMHO. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1016 Registered: 01-2005 |
I suppose you can even say that Stereolab borrowed some of the groundbreaking sounds that Neu! was doing 15 years prior, but they did expand on it. Too bad the two guys in Neu! couldn't get along, as that's one band whose creativity and groundbreaking sound went way beyond kruatrock, especially on New! 75 which was way ahead of the curve. Three albums just wasn't enough. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 2018 Registered: 05-2005 |
Well put Randy. I have never understood writing off a whole decade. People who do that generally write off the 80s, which Jeff loves. The 90s were no better or worse than the 80s or 70s. The 60s still endures, and probably always will, as a pinnacle though. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1018 Registered: 01-2005 |
I've been copying a lot of my cd's into my pc notebook the last couple of weeks, and I played 10,000 Maniacs - Our Time in Eden while rippping it into my library. I forgot how nice it was. Too bad they only lasted one more year with Natalie Merchant singing, but they did release a great live album with Natalie in 1993, MTV Unplugged. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 961 Registered: 10-2004 |
Randy, I agree about the parallels between the 70s and 90s. Both decades were dominated by hugely unsavory developments, but when you scratched beneath the surface, you could find a lot of great and interesting music to get excited about. The only difference I saw, however, was that while the 70s were saved in a big way in the latter half by all the punk, post-punk, new wave, etc.. stuff, the 90s noticeably lacked a similarly explosive or seminal movement. Lots of promising developments, but no massive wave of something new-ish to wipe the slate clean. And I don't count grunge here, seeing as it was co-opted and destroyed so quickly by major labels. And it began in the 80s anyhow. By the time it became a household term, it was already a meaningless descriptor of anything "alternative" with distorted guitars. (I had really hoped that Stereolab and the High Llamas were onto something, as far as spearheading something that would lead to a larger wave of good music. And for a time around '96-'98, it really seemed like they were, but then things fizzled and the resultant "international pop" trend was of very little consequence). I think Randy's comment about the prevalence of musical phoniness in the 90s is spot-on. One thing I'd add to that is a broader phenomenon of what I'd call pseudo-honesty. Except for all the bad 90s disco, mainstream music in the 90s was all about a return to a sincere or honest approach to music, as a reaction against the plasticity of what often dominated the charts in the 80s. Essentially, a reaction against Stock, Aitken, and Waterman. This was marked by the reemergence of bands playing real instruments (typically shunning programmed beats and whatnot) dominating the charts. But we wound up with something every bit as formulaic, safe, and calculated, with the Hootie and the Blowfish and Counting Crows types at one of the spectrum, and the pseudo-grunge of Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam at the other. Similarly, Britpop, too, turned out to be a big, hollow joke with no real redeeming qualities. And on to Padraig's statement: I think one has to remember that this is all hugely subjective. As for me, when I've come up with my best of "19__" lists, I often struggled to keep my lists of favorite 80s albums *under* 20, while finding at least 10 or 12 for the 90s lists has been slightly challenging. Speaking as someone who does like to give any new music a listen, at least out of curiosity, I find that pretty telling. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1020 Registered: 01-2005 |
I'll have no problem with getting 20 plus favorites from 1993, but trying to get that many in the years of 1995 through 1999 will be like trying to find more than twelve eggs in the carton. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2034 Registered: 05-2005 |
I really struggle with the 90s lists, not my favourite decade. Did anybody see the programmes Pop On Trial on BBC4 over the last week or so? Each programme was chronologically dedicated to a decade from the 50s to the 90s, and musicians or media people argued the case for each decade, and in the final programme a spokesman had to convince a jury which decade was the best. Watching the programmes it struck me that the 70s was far and away the superior decade, closely followed by the 60s. The 90s seemed to me to be the decade from hell. Unsurprisingly, for me at least, the 70s won the debate. Obviously this was a lighthearted way of looking at things but I thought they nailed it. There are loads of interesting things currently bubbling underground in the Dubstep/electronic scenes - or overground with LCD, Hot Chip,Burial and Panda Bear. | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 414 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yeah I saw it Kevin, really interesting. The arguments put forward for the 90s were dreadful.....you should like Sky Blue Sky so if the 70s were your favourite decade!! I find it hard to say one decade is better or more important than the other, much like individual years unless it's particularly poor like 2007. I'm listening a bit to Burial and LCD at the moment and enjoying them both though I was playing some Spiritualized demos from Laser Guided Melodies era too and it was streets ahead in innovation and inventivness than either of those two and it's about 17 years old...in my opinion.. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2035 Registered: 05-2005 |
XY, I was listening to BBC6 last night and they played a Spiritualized Peel session from 1995 - it was awesome | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 415 Registered: 01-2006 |
Kevin that would have been around the time Pure Phase was released, I think it's their/his best album... | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 2036 Registered: 05-2005 |
Yeah, always loved Spiritualized. Played the Spacemen 3 album Playing With Fire tonight just to remind myself where it all started for Jason Pierce. Another great album | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 420 Registered: 01-2006 |
Yeah PWF is amazing. Probably the pinnacle if Pierce and Sonic Boom's partnership..Let Me Down Gently, So Hot Wash Away All of my Tears, Lord Can You Hear Me, Honey, Come Down Soflty To My Soul... a best of Spacemen 3 would be some record... I never saw any reason for Pierce to redo some of his S3 songs with Spiritualized, the originals were much better arranged and more effective, the newer versions were way over the top in my opinion. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 2102 Registered: 05-2005 |
The early 90's for me personally were a weird time. Bogged down in trying to keep a job down to pay for gear and rehearsels for the goups I was playing in. I didn't buy an awful lot, and I was too wrapped up in the above. However early 90's music and music things in general is the kinda thing I would love to talk and debate about round a table with you lot in a pub sometime, that'd be nice. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 1023 Registered: 01-2005 |
I just picked up a 1992 album that I had never heard of before, but first pass I said it's pretty great: Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living Their 1993 album, The Buried Life, is even more terrific. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 980 Registered: 10-2004 |
That would be cool, Spence. I just wish I wasn't so damn far away! |