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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jun 13, 2023 7:21:27 GMT
Sorry for letting this drift for a few days been a bit busy. Open for 1991
I'll go with Massive Attack again. Here's what I said earlier It seemed incredible that a ramshackle dj crew could come up with something so sophisticated. Stately, but with an intense longing, it seemed a new direction for British soul music and quite ground breaking. Favourite bit? As wonderful as that string arrangement is, for me it's the hopping, clinking Latinesque percussion on the rhythm track. The tracking shot video was pretty awesome too.
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 13, 2023 10:05:11 GMT
Is the fella from Massive Attack really Banksy?
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Post by davey on Jun 13, 2023 14:08:47 GMT
1991
Set Adrift on Memory Bliss - PM Dawn
The brief era of flower-power hip-hop was a lovely little moment in time.
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Post by rayge on Jun 13, 2023 14:28:59 GMT
Ahem,
1989
KLF -3am Eternal
Hail Eris!
(actually might come back to this, but it'll do as a placeholder)
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jun 13, 2023 14:43:01 GMT
Is the fella from Massive Attack really Banksy? No. Although Del Naja knew him in his early graffiti days.
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Post by rayge on Jun 13, 2023 15:11:09 GMT
1990
No doubt at all that my favourite band from this time were Bongwater, but it's difficult to pull out a 'typical' track. I missed out on their best album, Double Bummer, and the best track on their 1990 one was their cover of Kissed Sweeter Than Wine, and good though it is, I can't quite bring myself to pick that. The KLF put out Last Train to Trancentral (Live from the Lost Continent) and America: What Time Is Love?, but I picked them for the previous year (and yes that was my second pick from 1990: bite me). There were other albums on Shimmy Disc that year, including King Missile's Mystical Shit, with the title track a standout (Jesus was Way Cool and Cheese Cake Truck were also pretty nifty). Basically I'm floundering here, going to have to come back to it, soz.
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Post by rayge on Jun 13, 2023 15:19:10 GMT
1991
No dithering problems for 1991, though, as the top group of the Nineties released their debut album, closely followed by a 12" single of extraordinary formal perfection. No pretension involved in their habit of calling their releases Films: they really are the most visual of bands, with some extraordinary soundscaping going on. Dave Fridmann is the last in my personal pantheon of producers, and this is perhaps the first example of his genius.
Mercury Rev - Car Wash Hair
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jun 13, 2023 15:26:26 GMT
1991 Geto Boys - My Mind Playin Tricks On Me
Gangsta rap generally has no appeal to me, I found NWA to be too cartoonish to really take seriously outside of a few tracks, but Scarface is the best story telling rapper since Slick Rick's prime, and the best Geto Boys tracks transcended the "gansta" label due to him. I think this song has the best lyrics of any hip hop song I've heard. I'm not one for lyrics generally, but this story of drug fueled paranoia is as good as anything Dylan ever came up with, and the Isaac Hayes sample gives it bonus points.
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 13, 2023 16:38:43 GMT
1991
Clock DVA - Techno-Geist
Going to have to repeat a band again, but this was Clock DVA's finest album since 1981. An bit of a nod to Kraftwerk in the album title, and with Techno-Geist in particular they seemed to reach the full realisation of the man-machine concept. That machine-driven post-punk bassline, the robotic drums, the gorgeous piano motif floating through the track. And liner notes referencing Carl Ludwig von Reichenbach, Luigi Galvani, Marcel Duchamp and Mary Shelley, just for this one track. Pretentious? Moi?
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Post by osgood on Jun 13, 2023 17:42:32 GMT
Sometimes it seems I've been living on a different planet
1991
Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
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Post by DayoRemix on Jun 13, 2023 18:03:19 GMT
1991
"Jesus built my hot rod" Ministry
Damn, this was tough..Kept going back and forth between this, Bikini Kill, Front 242 and Cypress Hill, but I passed on Ministry a couple of times earlier, so they get the nod..(No guarantee I will not have a change of heart and put in "How I could just kill a man" in..lol)
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Post by DarknessFish on Jun 13, 2023 21:15:52 GMT
I almost picked Jesus Built My Hotrod, too. Can't believe that was 91, I saw them around that time, 2nd or 3rd gig I ever went to. I thought about F242, too, but think I might have been making up for not picking something from their earlier years.
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Post by DayoRemix on Jun 13, 2023 21:50:13 GMT
I almost picked Jesus Built My Hotrod, too. Can't believe that was 91, I saw them around that time, 2nd or 3rd gig I ever went to. I thought about F242, too, but think I might have been making up for not picking something from their earlier years. Does seem crazy how long ago it came out..the Front 242 track ("Rhythm of Time") might have been their last really good single..Also thought about "Windowpane" by Coil..interesting track..my omissions should be worth a look
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jun 14, 2023 9:55:51 GMT
1991
A good year really. One thing you learn when you get older is that the history of rock music and popular culture isn't necessarily written by those who experienced it at the time so those who do write about it can often give a false or misleading picture of the period. Thinking back to 1991 in the UK there's one single that in my head seems to dominate more than any other. One single that seemed to be everywhere on MTV (on the occasions I'd watch it at a mates house anyway) and one that also seemed to rule the playground. More so than Teen Spirit, which I don't recall having serious impact until 1992, or Pearl Jam or some indie thing like MBV that people rave about now and call "era defining" and that song was Enter Sandman. This monster - and the Black Album itself - was fucking everywhere for the next few years. Like some DSOTM for the 90s. And even though metal was not my thing at all, I instantly loved it and just thought of it as a classic rock song really with a memorable video (looks a bit naff now). Their Born To Be Wild or something. That one classic moment where a band crosses over, finds a whole new audience but still manages to include enough of their essence and mojo to bring everyone on board. I think it's undeniable.
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Post by fonz on Jun 14, 2023 13:38:02 GMT
Is it overblown? Is it Axl? Is the video tremendous? Are there amazing guitars?
Yes, to all of these.
It’s a great record. The best track off the Illusion albums, and that is saying something.
It won’t be popular on here, but it’s great rock music. Arguably they could have condensed the two double albums down to a regular double, or a triple album, but there’d always be the argument about which tracks to drop.
I don’t think ‘rock’ would ever be as ambitious again.
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