ITT: /mu/ in 2002

'CAUSE WE NEED A LITTLE CONTROVERSY
'CAUSE IT'D FEEL SO EMPTY WITHOUT ME

USA! USA! USA! We's gon' get you, Osama.

NEVER MADE IT AS A RICH MAN

Slipknot and their gay little mall tween poseur fans suck. That is all.

Poor Dave. First he was going on about he had a right to sing da grunge. Then he was going on about his wreck of a love life. Now he's going on about going on. It happens to all of 'em--most of 'em, anyway--and rockin' harder than a motherfucker won't get 'em out of it. Pretty often, rockin' harder than a motherfucker is what got 'em into it. B-

>>126774928
Accurate but anything above C plus was too high.

>>126774845 (OP)
Have you guys heard the new starting line album? Kenny is so cute in the best of me video. I'm going to see dashboard at the bar tonight. ARE YOU LISTENING WOOO OHHHHHHH OH OHHH.

Post good albums to get hit in the balls to

>>126775136
cmon bam i got work in the mornin

IM BREAKING THE HABIT TONIGHT

Goodnight sweet princess.

IT'S GETTIN' HOT IN HERE

Celine Dion comparisons are too huge to mean a damn thing, but only huge will do. Hill's singing is more "human-scale"--like the female CEO of a Birmingham-based health-maintenance operation. Her drumming rocks--like RoboCop on steroids. She's an SUV that seats five linebackers across, a radio signal that grinds the competition into static, the megabomb they'll drop on anybody who doesn't get liberated on their timetable. At this horrible moment in history, she's American overkill as popular music. One thing you can say for Dion--she's Canadian. C

>>126774845 (OP)
Doesn't get better than THIS

Probably not the worst album ever released by an artist of substance--there are all those Elvis soundtracks. But in the running. Full-length double-CD of wordy strophic strolls that often last six, seven, eight minutes, accompanied solely by a solo guitar Hill can barely strum (the first finger-picked figure occurs on track 10, where it repeats dozens upon dozens of times, arghh). Unlike Hill herself, who during one of many spoken-word breaks tells the adoring multitude that her singing voice has been roughed up by a late night (but not how weak it is when she gets her eight hours), the melodies do not assert themselves. Inspirational Patter: "Every single one of these songs is about me first." Makes them realer, aight? D-

F

FUCK FEMINEM

FEEL AS EMPTY AS A DRUM
DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T COME

The last really strong year of the Billboard, stuff was declining before this but 9/11 put a little bit of gas in the tank momentarily.

>>126775298
Wow damn, rest in peace, gal. That Pajeeta would never be a thing if you didn't invent the style she's copying long before she was alive.

Fuckin' freedum hatin' terrists, maaan...

Down from 48 percent to 35 at amiannoying.com, not because they're less annoying but because they're less successful. Annoying they remain, and not, annoying webmaster, because they gigged as Goat Punishment or--who cares?--lost their bass player to the Rentals. They're annoying because Rivers Cuomo is the punk Tom Scholz--a solitary genius in love with big and precise. In Boston's arena-rock, this made sense even though it was annoying. In Weezer's arena-punk (slightly more arena on this outing, and less annoying as a result), it totally misses the point, which from the Ramones to the Libertines has been to achieve concision and economy while just barely remaining erect. Onstage, that is. How Cuomo has comported himself in other areas of endeavor I haven't a clue. B-

STARIN' BLANKLY JUST AHEAD
MAKIN' MY WAY THROUGH THE CROWD

HELLO MY FRIEND
WE MEET AGAIN
IT'S BEEN A WHILE, WHERE SHOULD WE BEGIN

MY FRIEND THE COMMUNIST
HOLDS MEETING IN HIS RV...

>>126774845 (OP)
Chinese Democracy is gonna save rock when it comes out next year.

No dolt, she figures it's in her best interest to sound like one--as well as an insider outsider like Gush and Bore, whose horrible lessons in playing it safe she takes to heart. "We got rockstars in the Whitehouse/All our popstars look like porn," she whines on the first track, which the "hit" tops by claiming, "I don't have diddly squat," while dissing her "friend the communist" (who I bet isn't, and I also bet doesn't deserve the putdown). And those are the good songs. Soon here come Don Henley, Stevie Nicks, turns of phrase like "Lay it like it plays [a little dumb, but OK]/Play it like it lays [wha?]" and "With broken wings we'll learn to fly" and (am I missing some irony here?) "Life is what happens when you're making plans." Over this I'd take not the White House (where she'd go in a second if invited politely) but certainly porn (which I note without prejudice she is). C+

Sneed

>>126775656
thanks for the world's greatest soccer mom anthem, toots. i mean that though.

IF I HAD JUST ONE TEAR RUNNIN' DOWN YOUR CHEEK

>>126775187
meh he exaggerates a little hit

>>126775788
*little here I mean

>>126775159
>>126775298
Meh looking at this year's Billboard it's the same as it ever was since their day--the white singers have all the serious, statement-making songs while the blacks have the mindless get down and boogie in da club ones.

F

ouch

>>126775875
Jay Z had her and Aaliyah whacked so his old lady had no competition.

>>126774845 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyu_hqpxj8M
I just downloaded this mp3 from PureVolume.com, you'll never see these guys on MTV.

F

>>126775159
https://zvyki.com/song/123351597/Rosemary_Clooney_-_The_Canasta_Song/

lol man music has come a long way since this corny wack-ass 50s shit. what was my grandma thinking?

>>126776102
It's still better than Slipknot. Man, wish somebody'd invent faster Internet downloading MP3s from Limewire at 56k is for the dogs.

IF YOU WANT TO I CAN SAVE YOU
I CAN TAKE YOU AWAY FROM THERE

>>126774845 (OP)
They hit the fucking pentagon

How desperate rock scribes are for shows of quality by bands of any remaining commercial clout. This piece of let's-slow-it-down-a-little isn't terrible unless you're expecting thee funk, but though it was greeted with hosannas in a slow news month, it's certainly a turn or two slacker than Californication. When you're an energy band, wisdom don't make much nevermind. But melodies, harmonies, and so forth are supposed to drag some spiritual stuff along with them. It's not enough for Anthony Kiedis to get all mature--he's supposed to say something interesting about maturity. And he's never had thing one to say about anything else. B-

absolutely gorgeous and tranquil album. massive upgrade from Parachutes. i don't see how they'll ever top this.

Hey, my favorite album came out this year.

i mean, it's okay but still... what a massive downgrade from Blackwater Park

>>126774845 (OP)
Jerry Cantrell's magnum opus.

>>126777281
This is the best album the Chili Peppers made so far. Hope they don't fuck it up in about 4 years with some arrogant vanity project named after a stadium and make shitty doo wop songs about a Dani or a California or something crazy like that.

With America lighting up one too many places like the Fourth of July, I went back and tried to hate "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue" like I oughta, but it was still too pithy and heartfelt, and the album still gave up a colloquial aptness and easy masculinity I'd overlooked. But obscured by the uproar is a piece of work as immoral as "One in a Million" or "Black Korea"--no, worse. I can forgive duet partner Willie Nelson almost anything, but I'm appalled that he lent his good name to "Beer for My Horses," which not only naturalizes lynching but makes it seem like fun on a Friday night. True, the horses the mob rides evoke Hollywood westerns. Right, there is "too much corruption," though somebody should tell these yokels that "crime in the streets" dropped in the good old days when we had an economy. But the racial coding of the "gangsters" the song sends to their maker needs no explanation. And those "evil forces" who "blow up a building" ain't bomber pilots, now are they? B/E

>>126775159
props for posting a picture of her in her prime instead of a 90s pic where she looks like Jabba the Hutt

>>126775159
Steve Hoffman Forum had a death sticky thread for her it was real early in the site's existence. 4chan wasn't around yet in 2002 though.

>>126775875
That bitch was fucking nuts, seriously her head should have been gone.

>>126775413
I would argue Norah is more Julie London than Peggy Lee.

bump

>>126778388
Good album, but Damnation's better. Still, A Fair Judgment is one of my absolute favorite Opeth songs.

trust fund band

fucking kino