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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 17, 2023 12:25:31 GMT
1996
I was going to go for something more obviously musical, but in the end I couldn't overlook one of the UK's most memorable and extraordinary number ones. 'Firestarter' treads a careful line between something genuinely disturbing and a pantomime flamboyance, if it fell too solidly in either camp it wouldn't be half as effective. More than anyone else, Howlett really picked up the legacy of Public Enemy in the way they used samples as a dramatic form of sonic assault. Here you have a cacophony of pummelling drums, disembodied voices, scratches and thuds all revolving around Flint's incendiary lines. Rather than a contemporary dance act, I reckon its closest cousin is Sweet's 'Blockbuster' with which it shares its exciting brash and provocative theatre. Plus, as an added bonus, it's always guaranteed to wind up the music snobs!
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Post by loveless on Jul 17, 2023 12:33:56 GMT
1996
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Post by fearlessfreap on Jul 17, 2023 13:36:33 GMT
1996
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World Basically a rewrite of David Axelrod's Holy Thursday, but this dominated 96 as far as I was concerned.
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Post by DayoRemix on Jul 17, 2023 13:57:34 GMT
Midnight.. was my first choice as well and Firestarter was on the list..Guess I'll need to choose from the hundred other tracks I have from the year..lol (Love 1996)...
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 17, 2023 14:12:11 GMT
DJ Shadow was going to be my other choice so nice to see it get in.
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Post by rayge on Jul 17, 2023 15:08:47 GMT
I bet this wasn't anywhere near anyone's list. I'm not being wilfully obscure, it just happens to be the very last teen-themed single I fell in love with (I was 48 when I bought it, after a review in the NME), not so much for what's in the grooves as for the way the amateurish gung-ho attack the band puts into the performance magically evokes the dynamic, pounding Spectoresque arrangement that the band clearly heard in their heads. Needs to be played really loud for full effect, although, as usual, the digitised version lacks the dynamic range of sound of the seven-inch. It's a fine song. too, in the spirit of Friday on My Mind, or The Vogues Five O'clock World, with a great lyric and a wildly enthusiastic driving drummer who seems to get more and more excited as the record goes on.
Telstarr- Berserk
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 17, 2023 16:18:16 GMT
I'd completely forgotten about that Lily's track. Quirky in a good way!
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jul 17, 2023 21:42:30 GMT
1996:
It's me being a sentimental simp, but I can't deny that nothing else that came out that year gave me as much pleasure.
I was disappointed when I heard "Free as a Bird" but pleasantly surprised when I heard this. I think this is because a) it's a better song; b) The Jeff Lynne-isms aren't laid on as thickly; c) Paul doesn't try to 'collaborate' with somebody that's not there but rather honors the original intention.
The video's great too.
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Post by davey on Jul 18, 2023 1:07:59 GMT
1996 Clear Blue Skies - Juggaknots
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Post by DarknessFish on Jul 18, 2023 8:18:51 GMT
1996
Current 93 - The Inmost Light Itself
Ok, the third C93 track in 5 years, but the three albums they produced in those years are my three favourite albums of all time. This time it was a choice between the slower, more relaxed "The Frolic", and this track. A simple folky riff repeated over and over; the sound of children playing erupts early into the track and continues throughout, and David Tibet attacks a free-wheeling poem concerning life, death, religion and the futility of existence.
No more C93 for at least a few years now, I promise.
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Post by fonz on Jul 18, 2023 8:40:17 GMT
Final track on. Soundgarden's final album. Short, sweet, elegiac. Though we didn't know it at the time there was a sense that this marked the end...of something. Soundgarden were far and away the most original group to come from the grunge era, and every album marked a progression. There are a few songs on 'Down on the Upside' that could have been my pick of '96, but 'Boot Camp' is the most poignant.
Cornell was a unique talent. His passing hit me harder than any other musician's, even Zappa's (-I wasn't as invested in Zappa when he passed-that obsession only took hold in the subsequent decade).
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Jul 18, 2023 10:09:15 GMT
Christ, we've hit a low point
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Post by rayge on Jul 18, 2023 10:19:00 GMT
Christ, we've hit a low point So elevate it. Excelsior, Dougie.
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Jul 18, 2023 10:27:27 GMT
Christ, we've hit a low point I always said the 90s were worse than the 80s.
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Post by DayoRemix on Jul 18, 2023 10:35:17 GMT
And you've always been wrong about that..
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