Thread 127440807

ITT: /mu/ in 1999

OH GOD, LIMP BIZKIT SUCKS

>>127440837
You are gay. Limp Bizkit is for us dudes who have sex with women.

RHCP are back. Ah, fuck why?

fucking little kiddie tween pop Britney boyband bullshit i swear

>>127440807 (OP)
I can't wait for the completely free and prosperous creative musical voyage that the 21st century will have to offer that totally won't be completely ruined by some terrorist attack in a couple of years or anything like that haha

My gf is going with her friends to that woodsomething fest, should i go with them? I want to stay home and play Unreal
also she's not using any bra, don't know what's got into her

SPACE MAY BE THE FINAL FRONTIER BUT IT'S MADE IN A HOLLYWOOD BASEMENT
AND COBAIN CAN YOU HEAR THE SPHERES SINGING SONGS OFF FROM STATION TO STATION

MY BRAIN'S DEAD WEIGHT
MY BRAIN'S DEAD WEIGHT
AND I'M TRYNNA FIGURE OUT WHICH SPICE GIRL I WANNA IMPREGNATE

>>127440989
oh look another novelty white guy rapper he'll be forgotten in six months just like Vanilla Ice and all the others

SCAR TISSUE THAT I WISH YOU SAW
SARCASTIC MISTER KNOW IT ALL

nu metal sucks fuck all you retarded 13 year olds who listens to it

>>127441110
it's some fag ranting about how his babysitter raped him over PS1 music

so how many tits and asses did you feel up at Woodstock, bros? i nailed about six.

Man it was just frightening how DMX letting whitey say nigger was the beginning of the end for rock.
Thanks HBO.

>>127441204
actually what killed rock is the albums posted in this thread and the dumbass 12 year old Millenials who purchased them

>>127441202
PS1 music but at least it's stupid fun unlike Issues.

Holy fuck, they went full doom on us, bros

give their image credit for having a sound ("Re-Arranged", "N 2 Gether Now") *

In the year rock died again, what should come storming back but metal--d/b/a "hard" or "loud" rock and, as Syracuse demonstrated, uglier than ever. Yet these God-fearing grunge babies sound falser than rape-inciting Limp Bizkit, abuse-tripping Static-X, party animals Buckcherry, or even world-dance Days of the New. Because their songs address universals, they don't debase women, a plus. But their spirituality is as sodden as their sonics. I mean, it's not as if familial oppression isn't real. It's the main thing that turns the hard and loud into truth-seekers and revenge-seekers both. So after years of Marilyn Manson lies, young bands seem to have found a psychic space where such themes open up the musical imagination. By contrast, these guys are still in denial, bellowing regressive circumlocutions to drown out the truth inside. Which is what? Maybe lust. C

>>127440807 (OP)
Anyone wana go halves on some kine bud and see DMB with me?

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>>127441110
>>127441202
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>>127441254
yes these are indeed proof of how rock could no longer be taken seriously

>>127441213
It was Nickelback and the death of small radio stations in America. Basically all the radio stations got bought up and put under the control of the same Jew in new york as the dj for the entire country.
And the search for the next Nickelback who was the last rock band to come along and sell records flushed it all down the toilet.

>>127441213
>actually what killed rock is the albums posted in this thread and the dumbass 12 year old Millenials who purchased them
You knew, anon, because you were that 12 year old Millenial.

Will my CDs still work in 2000?

now that the dust has settled, what do we think? i imagine unwound will never make a good album again

>>127441272
>Basically all the radio stations got bought up and put under the control of the same Jew in new york as the dj for the entire country
About 25 years too late for that, radio playlists were super corpo by the mid-70s. The era of free form radio was a brief magic couple of years in the 60s.

>>127441238
The straight rap tracks here like N 2 Gether Now are boring and drab as fuck.

>>127441280
You have no idea what you're even talking about. Go sit in the corner and eat paste.

>>127441291
>>127437098
nah he's right it was all covered in the disco thread

>>127441304
he doesn't want to say the obvious which is that in the late 90s the first Millenials started to become a music market and the industry starts catering to them and their horrible tastes

Anybody who believes kids are naive enough to take this record literally is right to fear them, because that's the kind of adult teenagers hate. Daring moralizers to go on the attack while explicitly--but not (fuck you, dickwad) unambiguously--declaring itself a satiric, cautionary fiction, this cause célèbre runs short of ideas only toward the end, when Dre's whiteboy turns provocation into the dull sensationalism fools think is his whole story. Over an hour his cadence gets wearing, too. But he flat-out loves to rhyme--"seizure"/"T-shirt," "eyeballs"/"Lysol"/"my fault," "BM"/"GM"/"be him"/"Tylenol PM"/"coliseum," "Mike D"/"might be"--and you have to love the way he slips in sotto voce asides from innocent bystanders. Sticking nine-inch nails through his eyelids, flattening a black bully with a four-inch broom, reminding his conscience/producer about Dee Barnes, watching helplessly as an abused Valley Girl OD's on his shrooms, cajoling his baby daughter Hailey into helping him get rid of her mom's body, he shows more comic genius than any pop musician since--Loudon Wainwright III? A-

>>127441358
back when he just sounded like a kid having fun instead of a full of himself super serious guy out to conquer the world

CAN YOU TAKE ME HIIGGGGGHEEERRRRR

BLAME CANADA

pass the PS1 controller, brah

MY LONELINESS IS KILLING ME
I MUST CONFESS I STILL BELIEVE

new age fuck fiends ("Scar Tissue", "Purple Stain") *

My church is having a Pokemon card burning event. Be there and let's rid our children of this Satanic filth.

Since he was already marked for death with Menudo, don't assume his rebirth is a one-shot. But don't try and make him into some kind of Latin pride poster boy, either--slicked up workout rhythms and romantic pap were tokens of progress circa Desi Arnaz and Xaviet Cugat. Added up, all they amount to are the reactionary strategems of yet one more crappy pop star. C

WHICH BACKSTREET BOY IS GAY
I'M NOT SAYIN' THAT IT'S AJ
OH WAIT, THEY'RE ALL GAY

>>127441192
dude she let me pull her down and she started fucking me

>>127441192
I raped 3 and beat 2 into unconsciousness. Nu-metal will never die!!!!

>>127431753
Ah Chappy, dear, you were in diapers then you didn't remember when a posse of Disney Mousketeer child sex slaves ruled the Top 10. I did though.

the beats their statement, the ballads their way of life ("I Thought She Knew," "It Makes Me Ill") *

>>127441213
time heals all wounds especially when you consider none of them approach Swift or Shillie Eilish level of puke inducing

>>127441713
Wait this had tracks other than Bye Bye Bye?

>>127441755
pre-sellout when they were a halfway competent band

>>127440807 (OP)
don't know about you guys but i could listen to godsmack for the rest of my life, literally.
pic related, it's me.
ps: go away

>>127441755
The first two had a lot more of a regional Canadian flavor I don't think you can "get" them unless you're from the prairie provinces or the Upper Midwest states.

>>127441794
they didn't have an album out in 99 though

WHAT A GIRL WANTS, WHAT A GIRL NEEDS

Ignore the porn-movie cover except insofar as it conveys terror. These guys are so frightened of females that they turn down sure sex from one hussy on grounds of name-dropping and reject another for being too quick with the zipper. There's no macho camouflage--girlophobia is their great subject. And boy, have they worked up some terrific defenses. If preemptive jealousy doesn't do the trick, there's always suicide, or abduction by aliens. Yet note it well--because they're out front about their little problem, "Going Away to College" is the love song the Descendents put Green Day on earth to inspire. A-

Hazlewood is an "interesting" figure, always was. A natural hipster, in the biz but not of it, pop and rock and country and just plain weird--Duane Eddy, Nancy Sinatra, and Gram Parsons is quite a trifecta. Problem is he's never been all that good. There's a nice best-of hiding in his collected works, including the new standards collection. But his vogue transcends crass track-by-track quality controls, combining the usual convolutional one-upsmanship, a visceral distaste for roots-rock's sonic canon, and a generation of aging slackers' discovery that doing bizness needn't deaden your mind or rot your soul. If slick blues licks make you sick, Hazlewood's studio hacks and string-section dreck will be some kind of change. If you like Nancy Sinatra almost as much as Karen Carpenter, thin-piped Nina Lizell will clean away enough Janis-and-Bonnie grit. If you doubt all shows of soul, the flaccid sentimentality of "Easy and Me" will be one more trope as far as you're concerned. But without opening a book I can recall half a dozen unreissued singer-songwriter albums that do more with their varied conventions than this Europe-only 1970 rarity--by Thomas Jefferson Kaye, Nolan Porter, Marc Benno, Hirth Martinez, Alice Stuart, Mississippi Charles Bevel. And I shudder to think of the unreasonable claims to be made when their time comes around again. B-

>>127441829
you're right, only their best album.
retard.

>>127441852
I hate Tom DeLonge's voice.

Young Glaswegians extolled by those weary of verse-chorus-verse as "radical," "beautiful," and other things that would never occur to the rest of us, they mutate the forgettable mess of their debut into something altogether more deliberate and kempt--occasionally tuneful, invariably slow. Only on the oceanbound land mass where acid house was Beatlemania would anyone sit still for such earnest post-rock tripe. C

"Guns, money, pussy, cars, drugs, jewels, clothes, brawls, killings, buroughs, buildings, diseases, stress, the D's." And then: "Straight reality." Yeah, right. B-

>>127442021
Why did British music seemingly stall out at post punk and hasn't come up with any new ideas since?

the new megadeth album is good

>>127442103
t. Dave

Begins with _indisputable documentary evidence_ that race-mixing is a Communist Party plot. Gets worse. D

Goodnight sweet princess.

WE STARTED MAKING OUT
AND SHE STARTED TAKING OFF HER PANTS

Goodnight sweet prince.

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HE SAID, SHE SAID BULLSHIT

>>127440807 (OP)
I was 16 then!.

So lemme think what my mindset was then

>wow this Bad Brains record sure is great I should show it to my girlfriend!

>>127441820
>tfw from Ohio

>Today I am reviewing this new band and their debut album
>They arent Nirvana
>1/5 shit band, shit album
>come back kurt...

>>127442260
>>127442204
literally who?

>>127442143
turns out Griff was #OurGuy all along

>>127442021
should get a C minus just for that nightmare fuel cover

Here's something you don't know how much you don't need--Dixie Chicks imitators. I do, because I also played the Lace album. The best-selling Osborn sisters have more jam. But although they swear they "won't wear stiletto heels" (unlike all those hussies at the Wal-Mart?), they definitely make nicer to men than Dolly and Loretta if not Tammy and Reba. Nothing in "Still Holding Out for You," cowritten by none other than Richard Marx, suggests that smart sister Kristyn wouldn't dress like a slut to get him back. Somebody send that lovelorn lass a Victoria's Secret catalogue. C+

Nas covers his ahzz. If in one song he's "wetting" (lovely word) "any nigga" (another) his fellow playa Scarface doesn't like, in another he's fomenting revolution: "Combine all the cliques and make one gang." Yeah sure. The question is how convincing he is, and only two themes ring true: the bad ones, revenge and money. His idea of narrative detail is to drop brand names like Bret Easton Ellis; his idea of morality is everybody dies. Ghostface Killah's "Wildflower" is far more brutal than the she-cheated-while-I-was-playin "Undying Love," and far less bloody; Biggie's "Playa Hater" is far more brutal than the Wu-Puff cameo "Hate Me Now," and far more humorous. Blame his confusion and bad faith on a conscience that's bothered him ever since he bought into the Suge Knight ethos. I've never met a ho in my life. This kind of sellout starts with a "W." B-

What jerks melody inflicts on us. With no connection to any human virtue of substance, the catchy tune ushers all manner of unpleasant personality traits into our lives. And if this smart aleck is less dangerous than Fred Durst, he also does less with what he was given. For sure he's less original musically (as opposed to melodically) no matter how many piano lessons he took, banging away like a garage guitarist with the occasional fancy stuff to prove he has a right--God, Joe Jackson was more fun. And although he also throws in the occasional well-turned sentiment to prove he has a right--"Don't Change Your Plans" and "Mess" are recommended to nice guys seeking covers--his basic program remains revenge-of-the-nerd. He always knew he was smarter than whoever and ever amen. He always knew there were people who'd admire him just because he was clever. And unfortunately, he was right. B

goodnight sweet prince

F

Nobody who didn't want money from him ever said he could rap, but he did have a spirit and a community, both now gone--one because it's harder to stay human on top than to act human getting there, the other because anointing Biggie your coproducer doesn't make him any less gone. Wallowing in otiose thug fantasies and bathetic hater-hating, hiring big names who collect their checks and go, he is indeed hateful if not altogether devoid of musical ideas. And for inducing a cute-sounding little-sounding girl to pronounce the words "hit-makin', money-havin', motherfuckin' pimp" he should be taken to Family Court. C+

>>127449634
#NotGuilty

After taking in Girls Against Boys' incisive analysis of the culture-killing boypop scam in The Nation, which certainly needed the heads-up, I sought a class enemy to hit on, but the best I could do was this mildly annoying Old Kid. Featureless funk holds up an album that rode to gold on the back of the overstated title ballad. It's not even tripe--more in the line of twaddle, only less pretentious. Right, he should act his age like his ex-bandmate Jordan, and deserves the obscurity to which he will soon return. But in a world that contains George W. Bush, we're well advised to figure out at just what point bland feel-goodism becomes murder. B

>>127449809
>After taking in Girls Against Boys' incisive analysis of the culture-killing boypop scam in The Nation, which certainly needed the heads-up,
qrd?

Unlike so many musical scions, he's got the equipment--songs he wrote, songs he didn't write, lonesome whine, pissed-off groove, rebel drawl, rebel attitude. But except when it comes to devil's daughters, he lacks the power to convince anyone that he's reinventing rather than reclaiming--that this is expression as well as art. "I plan on livin' long," he boasts, and that's something to brag about. But sometimes there's a cost. B+

Rather than hating playas, she's bored with them. Between Aretha and Lauryn and the sister who knocked on the door and just by being sincere convinced Mary she'd had Mary's man's baby, all that she can say is that she's ready to love someone serious and walk away from anyone who isn't. Unless you count Bennie and the Jets, her pop allies don't do all that much for her song sense, which is why her live album is still where to begin. But two more like this and she'll be ready for another. A girl who can come out of a Diane Warren song with no symptoms of soul death has performed a miracle that defied Al Green. A-

Just two years for 9/11