A Century of Music

[axolotl]

The last truly great time period for rock music?

I don't know. The following periods were pretty great.

I've put them in spoilers, for convenience.

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You do know I'm just busting your chops, I hope.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dreams (1993)
Paul Weller - Wild Wood (1993)
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (1993)
Pearl Jam - Vs. (1993)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

The last truly great time period for rock music?

Interesting question. Not sure you'd agree, but I'd probably go early 2000s with The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Hives, Dylan's resurgence, Gorillaz, Spoon, The Shins, and still some good Weezer.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Interesting question. Not sure you'd agree, but I'd probably go early 2000s with The White Stripes, The Strokes, The Hives, Dylan's resurgence, Gorillaz, Spoon, The Shins, and still some good Weezer.

No, the White Stripes, Strokes, and the Hives were great.

The White Stripes are completely in my wheelhouse and I almost never listen to them.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Continuing with 1993 albums
Bjork - Debut (1993)
Counting Crows - August and Everything After (1993)
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me (1993)
Snoop Doggy Dogg - Doggystyle (1993)
Grant Lee Buffalo - Fuzzy (1993

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Jellyfish - Spilt Milk (1993)
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (1993)
The Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen (1993)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Off my usual Monday playlist schedule, but yesterday did my 1994 song playlist (just plum forget to post about it)

So today, started 1994 albums - quite the day. Some tremendous albums this year (especially for a Britpop fan like myself)
Not a bad years for iconic album cover art either

Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Blur - Parklife (1994)
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese (1994)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Off my usual Monday playlist schedule, but yesterday did my 1994 song playlist (just plum forget to post about it)

So today, started 1994 albums - quite the day. Some tremendous albums this year (especially for a Britpop fan like myself)
Not a bad years for iconic album cover art either

Weezer - Weezer (1994)
Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York (1994)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (1994)
Blur - Parklife (1994)
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese (1994)
Beastie Boys - Ill Communication (1994)

The early nineties were fucking gold.

Or perhaps during those years my brain was at maximum imprintability (a word I just made up, apparently).

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

^^
Looking at the 6 albums I spun today all of which I really enjoy and play regularly, the only one i actually listened to in and around 1994 was Nirvana (and may have been a few years late at that). In 1994, I graduated med school, got married, moved and started internship. So really little time fo music (or movies or TV or books) in the mid to late 90s. Most 90s music I discovered a decade later (or even more).

 

[Unsomnambulist]

^^
Looking at the 6 albums I spun today all of which I really enjoy and play regularly, the only one i actually listened to in and around 1994 was Nirvana (and may have been a few years late at that). In 1994, I graduated med school, got married, moved and started internship. So really little time fo music (or movies or TV or books) in the mid to late 90s. Most 90s music I discovered a decade later (or even more).

I imagine the sleep deprivation of internship (I thought it was residency) was not conducive to music enjoyment.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I imagine the sleep deprivation of internship (I thought it was residency) was not conducive to music enjoyment.

True. And just not keeping up with what was out there. No concerts. Didn’t really listen to new music or music shop

(internship is the first year of residency traditionally the worst - though recent hourly restrictions and regulations have made it a lot easier. All together did a 4 year residency after school plus one year of a fellowship where one specializes further)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Continuing today with more 1994 albums:
Nas - Illmatic (1994)
Johnny Cash - American Recordings (1994)
Portishead - Dummy (1994)
Green Day - Dookie (1994)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Beck - Mellow Gold (1993)
Suede - Dog Man Star (1993)
Jeff Buckley - Grace (1993)

Quite the year - hell of a listen today
Must admit I haven't broken out Mellow Gold in a bit and forgot how much I dig its sound
Dog Man Star really may be better than Suede's debut (and I love their debut) - it's a big-sounding, sweeping album that still has such elegance to it. Great year in BritPop

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994)
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
The Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die (1994)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

I did start listening to 1995 music later last week but given, shall we say, the distractions of the week, was quite inconsistent
Continuing this week but will post my combined listening

I first started with the usual yearly playlist including

"Wonderwall", "Champagne Supernova", "Don't Look Back in Anger" by Oasis
"Common People" by Pulp
"Gangsta's Paradise" by Coolio
"California Love","Dear Mama" by 2Pac
"You Oughta Know", "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette
"1979" by Smashing Pumpkins
"One of Us" by Joan Osborne
"Don't Speak", "Just A Girl" by No Doubt
"Stupid Girl" by Garbage
"Breakfast at Tiffany's" by Deep Blue Something
"Fantasy" by Mariah Carey
"Name" by The Goo Goo Dolls
"Tha Crossroads" by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
"Blue" by The Jayhawks
"Alright" by Supergrass
"The Ghost of Tom Joad" by Bruce Springsteen
"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men
"Boombastic" by Shaggy
"Da Funk" by Daft Punk
"Hypeballad" by Bjork
"Down by the Water" by PJ Harvey
"Brown Sugar" by D'Angelo
"Exhale (Shoop Shoop)" by Whitney Houston
"Black Steel" by Tricky
"This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan
"Sittin Up In My Room" by Brandy
"Country House" by Blur
"Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"This is a Call" by Foo Fighters
"Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith
"Street Spirit" by Radiohead
"Fu-Gee-La" by Fugees
"Girl From Mars" by Ash
"Brooklyn Zoo" by Ol Dirty Bastard
"Game of Pricks" by Guided By Voices
"Wonder" by Natalie Merchant
"Scream" by Michael Jackson
"I Wish" by Skee-Lo
"I Want to Come Over" by Melissa Etheridge
"I'll Be There For You" by The Rembrandts
And others

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Starting 1995 albums

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Radiohead - The Bends (1995)
Pulp - Different Class (1995)
Supergrass - I Should Coco (1995)

With Oasis, Pulp and Supergrass, just a fantastic year for Britpop, my favorite subgenre of the decade

Apologies to "Sabotage" and several Nirvana and Oasis songs that I love, but IMO Pulp's "Common People" is the greatest song of the 1990s

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill (1995)
Bruce Springsteen - The Ghost of Tom Joad (1995)
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love (1995)
Blur - The Great Escape (1995)

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

After posting past couple of days listens, got a good day of 1995 listening today to finish of the year

The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass (1995)
Elastica - Elastica (1995)
Garbage - Garbage (1995)
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)
GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)
Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters (1995)

 

[Ojai Sam]

After posting past couple of days listens, got a good day of 1995 listening today to finish of the year

The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass (1995)
Elastica - Elastica (1995)
Garbage - Garbage (1995)
Guided by Voices - Alien Lanes (1995)
GZA - Liquid Swords (1995)
Foo Fighters - Foot Fighters (1995)

@Zeeba Neighba I don't know if you have grouped these albums in any pattern, but this is by far my favorite batch from 1995.

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Started 1996 today with my 1996 playlist - compared to 1995, not as deep a year but some interesting albums nonetheless
But first some songs!
Including:
"Killing Me Softly With His Song", "Ready or Not" by Fugees
"No Diggity" by Blackstreet
"What I Got" by Sublime"
"Firestarter" by The Prodigy
"Where's It At", "Devil's Haircut" by Beck
"Bulls on Parade" by Rage Against the Machine
"One Headlight" by The Wallflowers
"Un-Break My Heart" by Toni Braxton
"Woo Hah! (Got You All In Check)" by Busta Rhymes
"Lovefool" by The Cardigans
"Crash Into Me" by Dave Matthews Band
"I Belive I Can Fly" by R. Kelly
"On and On" by Erykah Badu
"Wannabe" by Spice Girls
"El Scorcho", "The Good Life" by Weezer
"Change the World" by Eric Clapton
"The Distance" by Ckae
"Push", "3 AM" by Matchbox Twenty
"A Design for Life" by Manic Street Preachers
"Midnight In A Perfect World" by DJ Shadow
"C'mon N Ride It (The Train)" by Quad City DJs
"Setting Sun" by Chemical Brothers
"If I Ruled the World" by Nas
"Elevators (Me & You)" by OutKast
"Follow You Down" by Gin Blossoms
"If It Makes You Happy" by Sheryl Crow
"Novocaine for the Soul" by The Eels
"The Beautiful People" by Marilyn Manson
"The State I'm In" by Belle and Sebastian
"Pony" by Ginuwine
"Counting Blue Cars" by Dishwalla
"Professional Widow" by Tori Amos
"The Man Don't Give a Fuck" by Super Furry Animals
"Dead Presidents" by Jay-Z
"I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone" by Sleater-Kinney
"Henry Lee" by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
"Macarena" by Los del Rio (Bayside Boys Remix)