Thread 127627552

ITT: /mu/ in 1991

I'm Bart Simpson and Saddam Hussein can kiss my ass.

AND EVERYTHING I DOOOO I DO IT FOR YOOUUUU

Paula and Janet should do a lesbian porno movie.

>>127627552 (OP)
Fuck Nirvana

HEY, I'M YOUR LIFE I'M THE ONE WHO TOOK YOU THERE

BABY, BABY
I'M TAKEN WITH THE NOTION
TO LOVE YOU WITH THE SWEETEST OF DEVOTION

>>127627819
in which they continue their slide into increasingly lame insurance commercial music

well now that Metallica are now the official T-shirt band of fratbros and 40 year old car mechanics, I officially toss my Metal Up Your Ass shirt in the trash

SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T

>>127627840
Album turned her into an instant joke/meme.

EEEXIT LIIIGHT

>>127627819
eh their time had about reached the end anyway

they've grown up, they've learned to write, they've earned the right to be sex mysticks ("Give It Away", "Breaking The Girl") *

New up and coming band in Washington called Unwound. Wonder if they'll make it big.

>>127627552 (OP)
Goody, the year rock died forever by becoming nothing but junkies whining about hating their mom and wanting to kill themselves instead of rocking out and getting laid.

>yeah fuck Motley Crue fucking gay little poseurs
>but man their albums are sure recorded better than ours what if we steal their producer?

>>127628074
Fuck off Gene Simmons.

Xtian Xover queen who inspired Hits's gnostic riposte: "Q: What do you get when you cross an atheist with a dyslexic? A: Someone who doesn't believe in dogs." Inspirational liner joke: "Q: How do you tell the difference between a bulldog and a woman with PMS? A: The bulldog doesn't wear lipstick. See, only a woman can make that joke." Don't be so sure, lady. C-

It's hard to hear through the oversell, but--especially if you ignore the faith-hope-and-charity, bringing it down under an hour--this is plainly his most consistent album since Off the Wall, a step up from Bad even if its hookcraft is invariably secondary and its vocal mannerisms occasionally annoying. Teddy Riley acting alone has never manufactured such abrasively unpredictable beats, much less the singer to top them--if they're not as catchy as a 10-year-old might hope, that's just Michael riding the rhythmic moment, as always. And though it's futile to analyze the love life of an invisible man who's convinced he's more popular than the Beatles now, he's hawking the most credible sex-and-romance of his career. "In the Closet" implores his mystery woman to keep their--get this--"lust" behind closed doors. Soon he's going wild, or fabricating desperate nostalgia for their used-to-be. And then he's muttering "Can't Let Her Get Away" through clenched teeth--mantralike, over and over into the void. Coulda happened, doncha think? With Brooke Shields maybe? A-

After years of hair-flailing sludge that achieved occasional songform on singles no normal person ever heard, Seattle finally produces some proper postpunk, aptly described by resident genius Kurt Cobain: "Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo." This is hard rock as the term was understood before metal moved in--the kind of loud, slovenly, tuneful music you think no one will ever work a change on again until the next time it happens, whereupon you wonder why there isn't loads more. It seems so simple. A

what pros ("Don't Damn Me", "Bad Apples") *

>>127628155
Was that EMOTIONS stick supposedly close to getting up her ass?

The label must have played one on her

Between "Dead Homiez," which mourned murdered friends in a voice some called soft, and Boyz N the Hood, which required him to simulate thought, the St. Ides spokesperson was worried about his image. To use the only noun in the hard lexicon that suggests normal human sensitivities, he was acting like a "faggot." So here he reclaims his perpetually threatened manhood. Early on he mitigates the usual gangsta shit--gat as penis and pit bull, female body as pestilence and plague--with such touches as an antigang track and a nurse with attitude. But eventually he breaks new ground. In addition to many fascinated rhymes on the complex subject of who fucks who in the ass and how, he nuts out on white devils who crave "a taste of chocolate" because "white bitches have no butt and no chest." He inveighs against "Jap" and "Jew." And he proposes a "nationwide boycott" of Korean-owned inner-city businesses that escape the torch, poking gentle fun at the Korean accent along the way. Call him Ice KKKube--a straight-up bigot simple and plain. C+

>>127627552 (OP)
>summer 1991
>it's the first time you heard "alla tha dj's surely taken lesson, start talkin trash and i come with my smith n wesson *BANG* *BANG*
>then you heard "but the stone that the builder refused, shall be the head corner stone" and then the chord change
>who the fuck are these guys this rules
>THEN BADFISH CAME ON

god i still remember getting fucked up to this album for WEEKS. my friends would literally come over with enough coke and beer to last us a week and we'd just loop this album and belt it out at night. we put speakers in our frat house on my buddies upper porch and just blasted it. my buddy losing his mind on acid when badfish came on earning him a nickname of the same. RIP badfish

kill me bros ;-;

>>127628145
and how Baby Baby has remained a supermarket staple ever since

>>127627552 (OP)
>U2 is back, baby

goo goo gaa gaa i am baby
now play gothic i like that one
maybe try loveless when it comes out in november

>>127628266
All the oldfags died. I'm the last one left. ALL my friends are DEAD!! DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!

in life abuse begats melodrama. in music riffs work even better ("Once", "Even Flow") *

>>127628277
Christagu actually didn't review AB and just gave it a dud rating because the tard said he couldn't describe any of the songs.

>>127628277
nobody actually cared about him anymore by '91 and he was already becoming a punchline

>>127628330
whoops, meant to reply to >>127628167

What am I in for?

Stooges for airports ("Big City", "Hypnotized") *

This is supposed to be where they finally slam nonstop. In fact, however, the music's just like the lyrics--market-ready. Catchy, yes, and funky in its laid-back electro way, but never hard enough to scare off the novelty audience. Which might be fun if they didn't outpig the LAPD in the bargain. Can Chuck D really believe they mean what they say? Sure they really hate women, and anybody else who looks at them funny. But unless they're even sicker than they seem, they're too greedy to murder anybody as long as they can make so much money fronting about it. And so they've calculated every rhyme to push somebody's button--to serve up the thrill of transgression to ghettobound and merely ghettocentric young-black-males, and also to the big score, culturally deprived white boys seeking exotic role models. That kids will take them at their word obviously doesn't concern niggaz who'll be hard-pressed to contain their pent-up hostility after the bubble bursts. It'd be nice to think they'll off each other when that great day comes, but I doubt they have the balls. So in the interests of public safety, pray they don't get taken by their investment advisors. C-

Robertson's unctuous undertone is the voice of a two-bit hustler who's discovered the big lie--the good and the beautiful, rapture and immortality, my BMW's in the shop, of course I'm not married, I can't wait to go down on you. It's disheartening that people whose age and wisdom approach my own are fussing over his New Orleans "concept"--a posse of L.A. studio hacks augmented by a few ringers and the kind of second-line once-removed horn charts the Band was hiring 20 years ago. The '70s are over, gang. Now let's dispense with the '80s. C

>>127627738
why?
>>127627743
its good psychedelic music
>>127627922
elaborate?
>>127628053
on point. dismissive.
>>127628058
Fall ripoff
>>127628145
i disagree, its actually a great record. underrated
>>127628359
detroit techno

Yo check this out. I found it in a bargain bin and I think you'll guys like it.

What kills the faithful is the anonymously supportive production, never distinctive enough to threaten (or challenge) a fading superstar in the throes of permanent identity crisis. But though they do meander into the insufferably ruminative self-pity that never used to bother Smiths fans, the songs start out plenty striking, guitar signature or no guitar signature. Tart as a grand aunt, louder on the gay subtext now that he's no longer an antipinup, Morrissey isn't just another English eccentric. He exemplifies what's made eccentricity a staple export of that once-proud nation for generations. Good show. B+

Sonically retrograde and philosophically advanced, this is the testimony of a mad raver at peace with his lot in the world--but not with the world, not by a long shot. As Pete Solley muddies the mix back toward classic grunge, Lemmy rages against war--sometimes in so many words, sometimes by metaphorical imprecation, sometimes by standing tall amid the barrage. But an embittered artiste he's not--riding their iron horses into the sunset, tributes to L.A., Rio, and the Ramones prove he knows how good he's got it, and prove it full-throttle. A-

meh these alternative bands are looking to be a cheap fad, no reason glam metal's going to be going anywhere after all these years any time soon

>>127627552 (OP)
Man I just bought Nirvanas debut album Nevermind.
That Kurt Cobain is quite the songsmith.
He'll be releasing hits for decades I reckon.

Learning and diversifying, remembering where he comes from and sticking to what he knows, Ice-T wins big as the old school shakes out. He won't desert the hards because a hard he remains; his violence is pervasive and graphic because he knows brutalization from the inside. But he's nothing if not a moralist, and so the new jack drunk dies in his Benz, the cops break down the gangbanger's door, his gays are left to live their own lives, and his prematurely ejaculated sex jam is a dis on the horny fool who slavers for it. Since most of what I know about the hard audience comes from rap records, I can't guarantee he'll get away with it. But I can guarantee that this one has something to teach everyone who can stand to listen to it and almost everyone who can't. A-

Sure this trio has its own sound, kind of--jagged, perky, sprung. And more important, songs. But so many indie bands have sound and songs that they flop or fly on content anyway, and here content means Juliana Hatfield. For their varying gender-based reasons, some men and some women find her too cute, but I say she's a former girl who's willing to be winsome and has her gender-based beefs regardless, e.g. "I'm not your mother." Later, probably with a different guy, she pops the big question: "If I called on you from far away/Would you say the things I want you to say?" I would, Juliana, I would, whisper a million (or anyway a couple thousand) lonely fellows. But when it came down to cases they probably wouldn't. A-

>>127631366
>Since most of what I know about the hard audience comes from rap records
Suburban white teens pretending they live in Watts and dodge drive-bys on the way to school?

Winger are the sound of the 90s. I'm calling it now, they will dominate rock right into the 21st century.

Corporate-censored off the Atlantic-backed Oppressing the Masses, the title track reflects thrash-metal's chronic confusion between politics and horror comics. "Gutterslut" ("Gonna make this bitch bleed") and "Dicks of Death" ("Suck it, whore") reveal the lighter side of earnest nihilists who have hormones after all. Plus a live remake equals an EP. I prefer the major-label version. C-

Led by matched admirers of Jimi Hendrix and Charlotte Perkins Gilman, anchored by a former Anita Baker road drummer, and spiced by a former Three O'Clock gittar man, their sorta-major sorta-debut is way too all-embracing at 17 songs and umpteen cross-genres, following their sorta-indie demo album and live EP into college-radio nowhere. I don't care whether they're progressive and postmodern and goofy and smarter than the person next to you (but not you). And I also don't care whether they can play their instruments. Because they can't play their influences. C+

"...Basically"
iykyk

Can someone tell me what's the tuning on the opening song of Bullhead? Shit is heavy as fuck, I don't believe they've tuned lower than B, no one ever does that, that would be insane

"DID I DO THAT?"

*LAUGH TRACK*

ARSENIOOOOOOOO

HALL!!!!!!!!!!

WHEN I LOOK INTO YOUR EYES
I CAN SEE A LOVE RESTRAINED
BUT DARLIN WHEN I HOLD YOU...

Those who wish Afropop were more political should reflect on this avowed revolutionary's Fire in Soweto--first banned in South Africa, which is no feat, it then became the theme music for Liberia's Samuel K. Doe, who soon proved one of the continent's worst despots. And as with most protest pros, neither Okosuns's "progressive" music, rock-colored reggae plus ye olde indigenous rhythms, nor his "progressive" lyrics, which praise Jah and Jesus and ye olde African woman, have gained passion or precision with the years. C+

woo
bless you

From the unyielding strictures of Minor Threat's straight-edge hardcore to the confrontational formalism of Fugazi's surgical AOR, Ian MacKaye is a musical puritan as well as all the other kinds. Obsessed with corruption, he's learned that words and voices don't excise it as efficiently as a well-honed guitar. So if the rock-solid precision of Guy Picciotto's distorto riffs offer something like pleasure, that's a contradiction MacKaye will have to live with, because Picciotto is the star of a unit that no matter what you read is just now coming on. A-

"It's that damn kenny rogers"

your living room has a computer, theirs has a synthesizer ("I Eat Dinner," "Love Is") *

"I remember Rob when he first got his Saab"

>>127631923
>your living room has a computer
most people in '91 still didn't except sexless nerd weirdos

Funny sh*t

You never get a second chance to make a first impression and a first impression is a lasting impression. We don't judge.

not a diva--a transgendered arena-rock god in all his/her grand self-regard ("Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?", "I'm Ready") *

>>127631941
Cuckgau was a fairly early computer adopter he was using a PC to write since the early 90s.

shameless ripoffs to be proud of ("Things That Make You Go Hmmmm . . . ," "Here We Go, Let's Rock & Roll") **

Cause i don't ever want to feel
like i did that day

beyond noisome ("Lonesome Bulldog") *

OK, OK, I admit it. This is a credible metal album, and not because it leads with the credible "Rusty Cage." You can tell from the guitar noise, the main if not only point of contact between metal albums and what most of us want from rock and roll. While Chris Cornell howls on about "lookin for the paradigm" and "your Jesus Christ pose" (I swear, that's the good stuff), Kim Thayil finishes off "Slaves and Bulldozers" with an electrical storm and erects so much razor wire around "Jesus Christ Pose" (right, same song) you might almost want to interview him. Then he writes a lyric himself. It seems to hinge on the word "begat." B-

you could be with me
captain fantasy

: /

Yeah try talking about this one with your date at sadie hawkins and see how good it goes

>>127632126
>release date November 6, 1992
You idiot.

doesn't know his own new power ("Willing and Able," "Jughead," "Cream") **

Got me a stasssh spot
in my hooptie foe da clock

Another requirement to fill you full of sexual confidence only - hell fucking no -not now not ever.

>>127631698
they were done

>>127628595
>i disagree, its actually a great record. underrated
unfortunately she sounds like she has a wad of peanut butter lodged in her mouth and her Christfag fans complained she sold out

>>127632150
>>127632150
I think it said 91. Didn't get play till way later.
I'd look on the tape to double check, but it's in the trash pile now where it belongs.

>>127632150
shit was 35 years ago you dick

>>127632096
It is.

>>127627819
the cool part of this tour is that Alice In Chains opened for them

>That whiney-ass Nirvana song is playing again
What happened to real rock?

Hope your girlfriend name
ain't linelle,
i screwed her last night in a cheap motel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3LK3R2rKo

"How I Could Just Kill a Man" is about what it says it's about, anger rather than advocacy, but that doesn't mean I buy their this-is-reality we-don't-glorify-it any more than anybody else's--putting a hole in someone's head because he's trying to steal your car is foul, not to mention bad for your health, and I wish they'd say so. Still, shit happens, and from their Beasties-Spanglish accents to their guitar-hip samples, it sounds different when these guys make music out of it--funny, for one thing, which in hard guys amounts to a new vision. They like hemp, hate cops ("pigs"), use the word "fag"in vain, and celebrate their neighborhood rather than their dicks. I like their music--plenty. A-

GIVE IT AWAY NOW GIVE IT AWAY NOW GIVE IT AWAY NOW GIVE IT AWAY NOW GIVE IT AWAY NOW

They sure can play their axes--might even be tolerable as a boogie band. But "All in the Groove" is just a classic-rock line. John Popper's interest in fun is strictly rhetorical, and his rhetoric is so prolix I bet they only play three-hour sets so he can get all the words in. I also bet that as a Jack Bruce fan he thinks it's groovy when his rhythm section hustles out more notes than a good groove needs. C-

CASH MONEY AIN'T NEVER GONNA PLAY OUT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGy5tp_CDU0

>>127632411
I GOT NOTHING TO LOSE
MUCH TO GAIN
IN MY BRAIN
I GOT A CAPITALIST MIGRAINE

I'LL ROLL THICK
AND YOU'LL BE YELLING "RAID!"

Rod continues his degeneration into increasingly lame AC mom ballads.

"I'LL ROLL THICK
AND YOU'LL BE YELLING OUT 'RAID!'"

One reason it took Raitt two decades to achieve the El Lay iconicity she deserves is her resistance to both folk gentility and studio antisepsis. So praise Don Was for humanizing the control-freak production values she could never get on top of in the '70s. Another is her moral seriousness. So praise songwriters like John Hiatt, Bonnie Hayes, and maybe even Paul Brady for combining heft with hookcraft, and Shirley Eikhard, whoever she is, for "Something to Talk About," the slyest distillation of this rowdy Quaker's sexy ways since "Love Me Like a Man." But after that tell Raitt that no commercial reservation should ever torpedo a "Tangled and Dark," about a deep, long wrangle with love itself, or an "All at Once," about losing the teenage daughter she's never literally had. It's like the guitar she's afraid she hasn't properly mastered--she stops writing at the risk of her own intelligence, idiosyncrasy, and reality. A

and along came Tony Brown too ("I Don't Go Back Anymore," "You Couldn't Get the Picture") *

I got a little boy to look after
and if i die then my child'a be a bastard.

As El Lay song doctors process NutraSweet, textured cellulose, and natural fruit flavors through a web of synthbites, a Nashville neotraditionalist thrice-removed wins a nation's heart standing up for the studio-pop verities. Backed by apparently living session men as he imitates now Merle, now George (Strait), now Charlie (Daniels), he picks sure-shots from the if-you-say-so rebellious "Against the Grain" to the if-you-say-so soulful Billy Joel cover, and now and then he helps write one: the light-hearted death-to-cheaters yarn "Papa Loved Mama," or the marriage counselor's theme "We Bury the Hachet" ("And leave the handle stickin' out"). Last album he landed only three; this time there are maybe six, plus a couple of marginals. Ergo, this one's twice as good. A-

>>127632545
Who got the motts?

Hard, hard, hard--hard beats hard news, hard 'tude. Hard on the brother man (African slave traders, black rookies, dead gangstas, malt liquor addicts, Quiet Storm, Jet, and anybody who calls Flav "nigga"). Trademark dissonances and quick-witted interactions are sui generis, yet it's so in-your-face spare and sneaky deliberate that it's further from Fear of a Black Planet than Black Planet was from Nation of Millions, which was a lot further than a nation of others noticed. Strong top to bottom, it could peak higher: the closest thing to a "Bring the Noise" or "Terrordome" or even "911" is that nigga song. Motto: "Justice evolves only after injustice is defeated." A

File the 35 minutes of orchestrated amplifier overrun that is Arc. Snicker as 1980-88 gets schneidered. Grouse that he reprises all six songs on the rock half of the 1979 summum Live Rust, several of which he defined then and none of which he redefines now. But don't dare forget that except for Saint Jimi there's no live-er rock and roller than Mr. Time Fades Away--not because he's an ace improviser, though he can amaze you, but because his edges cut conceptually, rough where blooze and punk and garage jokers settle for ragged. And remember too that in 1979 he was half a folkie, as he will be again. This live double is all rock and roll. Anyway, repeating yourself a dozen years later is a concept in itself. A-

new kids on the jack ("Motown-philly," "Please Don't Go") **

Nightmare on Gurl Street, or Beyond the Valley of the Sonic Youth ("Teenage Whore," "Clouds") ***

if you can dig art-rock fantasia (and hey, why not?) this one has a nice, witchy wail to it ("Crush", "Rhinoceros") *

Violent Femmes has a new release.
who the fuck are violent femmes, just buy the old tape instead, the tape with the cover that smashing pumkins is going to rip off shortly.

Been Caught Stealing
once.
when i was five

There was no god damn shoegaze in 1991.

>>127632760
that album came out in 90 though so we don't actually include it in this thread.

What this year sadly demonstrated: The rap cancer was already well established

>>127632777
we are full of shit aren't we

>>127632774
the literal most famous shoegaze album came out in 91 you silly billy

>>127632777
songs didn't get airplay till years later i apologize you can f*** yourself.

>>127632797
>released 8/20/90
he's correct though

>>127632810
There was no shoegaze. It's fiction.

>>127632812
Technically out of the four singles released from RDLH three of them were out in 1990 with only the fourth being withheld until almost a year later. I do grant that in some cases like with Metallica they were spacing them out so that Sad But True wasn't actually released as a single until 93.

>>127632813
He's technically an idiot. He is and objectively and empirically a gullible idiot.

>>127627552 (OP)
Plebs never fucking know.

No nostalgia act here. This is is real and new and kicks ass.

>OHHH WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE OLD DAYS....LORD IT SENDS CHILLS UP AND OWN MY SPINE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5ygCRR97vw

>>127628053
FUCK THIS BAND

>>127628167
Dude was already Wacko Jacko by this point and more of a tabloid meme than an artist even before the pedo accusations. This album despite its megabucks budget really didn't sell and Janet was a much hotter commodity by 91.

no way Bush isn't a two term president after cleaning up in the Middle East like we did

FUCK

You don't fucking know

TOO MANY FUCKIN N**GAS HUH

>>127632850
I just saw them on Carson, They were really good. Gonna have to go check them out live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoECJbxkAdc

Airplay varies by region and station

>>127633273
>Airplay varies by region and station
it does. getting off topic for a moment i surprised some anon last week when i said i'd basically never heard 2010s rap or indieslop played in my area and it's still basically the 80s here.

>>127631990
That is funny, though. lol

>>127633385
started noticing it drastically when moving around. explains a few things. A lot going unsaid.

>>127633518
this anon was saying his 2000s in Michigan consisted of all the kids listening mostly to rap and pirating everything on Limewire which was quite contradictory to my own experience which was where white kids mostly did not listen to rap and everyone still bought physical CDs

music has peaked. it will quite literally never be this good again

>>127627819
Way too compressed, hate the mastering on this.

>>127634030
I hear what you are saying.

And I am saying that airplay would vary by region and station.


But people would also recommend tapes by word of mouth in the 90's imho. Agree that it would be absurd to search rather or not such was objectively true or anecdotal when your friend would let you borrow the tape so you could make a copy. What the fact is, is that Google search or you tube will not remember all of these tapes.

>>127634309
Van Halen were still a huge touring act mainly because everyone wanted to see Eddie play, but their albums weren't really a hot commodity anymore.

>>127633139
dang that dude can sing.

>>127634387
dont tell Sanny that. He will remind you that VH had 4 #1 albums with him...

>>127627840
>track 6
Nah, I'll pass.

>>127628155
worthless music but fuck she was so hot back then

>>127627840
Rush Rush was a huge hit that I find really tedious and wince-inducing.

>Testifies before Congress
>speaks out during the '88 tour and registers thousands of voters.
>talks about running for office
>Goldwater/Ron Paul Libertarian

>Feel something is wrong
>first doctor says nothing is wrong
>second opinion: you're fine
>third doctor finds nothing
>fourth doctor: you are dying of prostate cancer and we caught it too late.

This fucker was murdered.

>>127628053
yeah what else is there to say about this one? Give It Away was the ultimate 90s party song and that was pretty it.

>>127634595
I'm pretty sure he died from having a horrible fast food diet and chain smoking, not because the Jews or something offed him.

>>127634617
There is no doubt about this, but how did they miss something like that three times?

"Boy, these things went down in value. We'd like to thank Jethro Tull for not releasing an album last year"

>>127634603
sure a lot of people hate this band but as a 90s child I'll always find myself a sucker for that song especially the Nickelodeon background music-sounding instrumentals

i love Christgay's end of year Pazz & Jop column for '91 where he just rants about UYI and Metallica S/T being the worst things ever

Is this the end of the road for Geoff? His voice sounded really frazzled on the Building Empires tour.

Here are the lads in better days ...

If you hear this, you are listening to Z-ROCK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbHX9-QItNs

>>127628145
As I believe has been mentioned she went mainstream pop for this one album to make some cheap easy bucks while she was still reasonably young enough (31) for mainstream pop and ofc it did piss off a lot of her core Christfag fanbase. All the same Baby Baby was at least a charming hit that is still a staple of supermarket sound systems to this day.

>>127628145
>>127634774
i was surprised when i heard her Christmas album and that she used to sing normally at one point instead of the Eddie Vedder in girl form vocals on HIM

>>127628145
ha ha Cuckgau just putted her 80s albums in his Meltdown list which meant they were so shitty he didn't even bother reviewing them at all

>>127628155
I always thought Mariah was best on the early albums and never liked her later R&B sound. Her vocals really didn't translate well to having a beat.

>>127632869
they like to say the point where the 80s gave way to the 90s was when Nevermind knocked Dangerous from the top of the Billboard album chart

>>127628201
>postpunk
Bob, do you even know what that term means?

HOLY SHIT

Dude, raid your dad's fridge for pbrs, I'll skate on over after school. I got the new cassette, it's another Peaceville you gotta hear this

>>127628217
>>127631341
Fucking bloated train wreck and it was expensive to buy both of them especially during the early 90s economic recession.

>>127628260
i grant you rap in this era had a million times more punch than anything Kendrip could dream of

for me its peak music (or possibly 1994)

>>127628311
2/10 album and band.

>>127628311
These guys were always a chick band, dudes didn't really listen to them.

>>127628366
i laughed a little at this one

Mocha ice--lick it up ("Rico Suave") *

>>127628388
>and also to the big score, culturally deprived white boys seeking exotic role models
Bingo.

>>127628420
>It's disheartening that people whose age and wisdom approach my own are fussing over his
Oh you know how it was. Boomers would always jerk off to any late career crud their peers were still shitting out.

>>127631904
1990 technically

>>127627552 (OP)
I sure hope Kurt Cobain isn't walking around any alleys in urban areas during the summer months in 92

Not as catchy from the git as Bossanova, which with eyeballs all over the cover and escape from terra firma all over the lyric sheet is risky if you want to get a rack jobber's attention or respect. But postpunk formalists-in-spite-of-themselves, a category that includes any consumer/tastemaker who's zoned in on 50 or a hundred relevant albums, would be fools to deny themselves the feast that awaits. These devilkins have the music down, and they never overstay their welcome. A-

>>127631289
>track 3
*tips fedora*

>>127634936
Which is ironic considering that Nevermind has aged a lot worse than Dangerous, which still sounds fresh.

>>127635917
I take it as a critique of televangelists more than anything which were a very real grift job in this era.

>>127634691
lol what exactly did he say?

>>127635927
The snares on dangerous are a joke we will talk about this at length later.

>>127635961
>As for metal, well, that's generational and there'll be more of it. I suppose us graybeards should educate ourselves but it's like Balkan girl groups--I'd be a fool to try and like everything. To that end I found myself preferring the knee-jerk sexism of GNR I to the asshole existentialism of GNR II. I found myself putting James Hetfield out of his misery inside of five plays. Life is short and I found it getting shorter with every song.

>>127636001
Basically he's saying he could sort of tolerate Appetite when they were dumb meathead rockers singing about deep-throating sluts but they went too far with all the politics and philosophizing on UYI.

>>127635962
The heavily compressed guitar tone and the wet snare reverb sound of Nevermind locks it so hard to 91 that it felt dated just a few years later. I am available to talk.

>>127636028
that was the problem, Kurt complained Butch Vig overproduced it and overproduction usually ages badly

>>127631366
all boom bap era HH is horrifically dated

>>127631426
the Go Go's impression here is just a little too obvious

>>127636041
Absolutely. And don't get me wrong, I love Nevermind. But it's very much a time capsule of 1991 alt rock. Dangerous on the other hand has appreciated with the time. What was criticized as dated then, especially the New Jack Swing elements, feels forward-looking from today's point of view.

>>127631698
Nothing especially bad about this one but also nothing super memorable either. Competent background noise.

>>127631698
>>127636120
One think you can say is that Hard at Play is relatively bare bones and doesn't suffer from the overproduction issue of many of the "big" 91 rock releases consequently it's a lot more timeless.

>>127636107
My favorite example to illustrate how forward-looking Dangerous really is is Blood On The Dance Floor. BOTDF, a Dangerous outtake, was released as a single in 1997 without any changes since 91. The fact that a 1991 outtake could chart in 1997 without alteration shows that MJ and Teddy Riley were experimenting with ideas far ahead of the curve. The lean production, synth bass and darker vocal delivery make it fit right into 97. Instead of sounding like a Dangerous leftover, it's like MJ had anticipated where the mainstream would move six years later.
And that goes for a lot of songs on Dangerous. Granted, not all (She Drives Me Wild or Black Or White are firmly early 90s), but the more experimental, darker and groove-driven tracks like In The Closet, Who Is It and Give In To Me anticipated trends that would come years after and still sound fresh to this day.

>>127632096
best Sabbath tribute album ever

>>127627840
This also aged better than it had reason to.

>>127628145
Not this one though, inescapably early 90s.

>>127632166
the beginning of Prince's slide into self-indulgent faggotry

sorry guys but nobody's asking for new Foreigner in 1991

I'd say Badmotorfinger probably aged the best of the big 91 rock releases (Badmotorfinger, Nirvana, Ten, TBA, BSSM) and maybe also Facelift unless we discount that for having actually come out the previous year.

>>127635358
my big bwother gave me this and i shitted my pants

>>127636423
It's been ten years since anyone was asking for new Foreigner, I don't know how they managed to exist for this long.

>>127636451
>I'd say Badmotorfinger probably aged the best of the big 91 rock releases (Badmotorfinger, Nirvana, Ten, TBA, BSSM)
forgot UYI

And Achtung Baby, I guess.

>>127636468
somehow they managed to stay on Atlantic until getting axed for alt rock acts

If you believe the true sound of life on planet earth is now worse than bombs bursting midair or runaway trains--more in the direction of scalpel against bone, or the proverbial giant piece of chalk and accoutrements--this CD transfigures the music of our sphere. Some may cringe at the grotesque distortions they extract from their guitars, others at the soprano murmurs that provide theoretical relief. I didn't much go for either myself. But after suitable suffering and peer support, I learned. In the destructive elements immerse. A-

>>127633139
THE MOUNTAINS I HAVE CLIMBED WOULD HAVE KILLED A 1000 MEN

good shit mine

Go Twins!

>>127636972
Kirby....Kirby Puckett

>>127634030
Not gonna lie.

>>127627819
"Heh...You kids don't know what that means, right?" - literally ever Boomer dad to his adolescent son