pretty lacklustre year musically desu
It's over glamsisters.
only 17 years until i'm born!!
>>128087859NOT YET!
>>128087115https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1990
>>1280888661990 truly was the last year of the 80s.
>>128088883it's like this. it takes a while to stop when turned off. it's like this with the Kali Yuga as well
>>128088883matematically so
>>128088883The 0 year of a decade is actually the end of the previous one, so in fact 1980 was the last year of the 70s, 1990 the last year of the 80s, etc.
Hi.
>>128089580I just noticed how much she looks like Teresa Brewer but with 80s hair. Something about that specific phenotype that automatically tells you nothing good is going to come out of her music.
>>128089580her and Paula Abdul should do a lesbian porno
If what Glenn Danzig says is true, the Lizard King, had he lived, would have eventually discovered satanism and metallic guitar honed to a fine pitch of precision preening. But then again, I always knew Morrison was a putz. Glenn I'd held out hope for. B-
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I swear I didn't know her mama was an opera singer but then I'm embarrassed I didn't guess. She gets too political in her brave young attack on war and destitution ("There's gotta be a way to unite this human race/And together we'll bring about a change"). Elsewhere she sticks to what she doesn't know--love. Debbie Gibson, come back. All is forgiven. C
The appalling pall that pop metal casts over 1990's abysmal Hot 100 is a triumph of mass narrowcasting. By carefully downplaying any differences in gender or sub-generation, it is in theory possible for any passive Caucasian under 25 to consume (in descending order of marginal differentiation) Winger or Warrant or Heart or Jon Bon or Cheap Trick or David fucking Cassidy. Winger are Whitesnake with the sexism muted and the facelifts down the road, their feigned vulnerability and youthcult rote masking their will to power. They may last a while, they may not. They're so bad they're not even completely terrible. C-
>>128089838some cover artist was playing a lot of video games i see
>>128087842Hair metal had run out of gas and grunge hadn't really started yet.
Even known assholes don't come up with concept albums slavering to send our "top guns" after Saddam (sounds like "Satan"), complaining to Lincoln about "nuisance suits," and advocating the freelance murder of miscreants who beat the rap (he claims). Take it as proof that Monday-night football is a rightwing plot. And ask the RIAA why his guns 'n vengeance don't rate a warning sticker. C-
Poignant in a way that sons of a drug-abusing father who was out of the house plenty even before the divorce should come up with such, er, positive messages. Disgusting in a way that children of pop privilege should luck into the extra sales gimmick of twinhood. And utterly apropos that Rick's boys are fifth-generation entertainers--circus, vaudeville, situation comedy, Hollywood rockabilly, and now . . . "dynamic melodic vocal guitar rock." "Stylistically no one's doing what we're doing," Gunnar boasts, and he's right in a way. But what makes them truly unique is that he could just as well claim everyone's doing what they're doing. D+
OK, if you say so--but only if you promise your feelings won't get hurt. D
wait these guys are still around?
Genealogically, Chynna's group--the elaborately arranged professional folk-rock of her mama and papa, rather than the obsessively reworked private surf-rock of Carnie and Wendy's boyish dad, are where their (and the world's) polished pop comes from, and their fashion sense is Laurel Canyon a land-grab later. Finicky and well-manicured though it is, it's not without its intricately minor pleasures, notably on compositions untouched by the singers' hands--"Impulsive," or (Gunnar and Matthew, why didn't you think of this?) "Eyes Like Twins." The '60s myth "The Dream Is Still Alive" they claim as their own. C
>>128089946>But what makes them truly unique is that he could just as well claim everyone's doing what they're doingwhat the FUCK did he mean by this?
>>128090697The music's generic and sound likes every other late 80s pop rock slop album.
>>128087883Once I Revert To An Egg, I must bury myself underground for THREE YEARS! There my form matures...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhHsINEuRcU
This isn't groundbreaking like Nation of Millions, but it shouldn't be pigeonholed as a terrific rap record. It's an exceptionally consistent and entertaining record, period, on a par with Goo or Freedom or Rock 'n' Roll or maybe even Sign "O" the Times. Hilariously unreconstructed, it takes shit from no one and gives shit only in the most high-spirited way--the targets it disses hardest are Mike Tyson, whose mama would say knock the mother out if the poor fucker had a mama, and famed rapper L.L. Cool J, a/k/a Cheesey Rat. It's avowedly street, but star street, voicing sympathy and solidarity rather than bullshitting about where he comes from after five years somewhere else. Marley Marl and assorted live human beings jam into the mix. Great music, great vocals, great lyrics, from beginning to end, by a proud pro with something to prove. A
>>128090793Party rap was fun until bling rap, then it just became dysgenic.
With husband-producer Rodney Crowell down to "guest vocal," she's on her own. Not only is this the first time she's produced herself, it's the first time she wrote all the songs--only once before has she even come close. Musically it's singer-songwriter rock, though as always Cash redeems tasteful arrangements with high-quality melodies and intense vocal focus. But lyrically this prolonged meditation on a marriage in pain is country at its best, because country is marriage music and Cash knows the territory. Anger, fear, separation, transcendence, change--this woman has thought about the tough stuff. Most of the time she has as much to say as, to choose a random example, Woody Allen girding himself up for a big statement. And even when she's corny, her seriousness is so palpable that the emotional effort carries the songs. A-
>>128089997this was shit
The Fat Boys have had a reggae hit. So have the Bellamy Brothers. So why not a pop-funk hit for a black Brit liteweight? Catchy on jezebels and dull on world peace, he tries to shore up the formula with subtle touches rather than simple conviction, and back in Kingston, oldtime bizzers from Byron Lee to Edwin Seaga are smiling. They knew it all along--though Jah did give them a scare. C+
The problem with the Japanese is that they don't know the difference between a Ramones song and a Wrigley commercial. But we do, or should, and these are Wrigley commercials, in which three lookee-no-touchee geishas do a good job of half implying that the supercatchy "Banana Fish" is a J.D. Salinger reference--in other words, that they condescend to American culture as much as American counterculture condescends to them. Unfortunately, the only thing that might make this ambiguity interesting would be musical dimensions they have no time, use, or aptitude for. C+
Too used and abused to pursue their business interests, the self-appointed "real niggaz" watched other fake gangstas climb the charts till they could bear it no more. So they threw together this $6.98-list shortie and hoped Amerikkka would want it. Their best riff of 1988 is their best riff of 1990, attached to a blaxploitation docudrama pitting fake gangstas against fake cops (probably played by members of their management team). And for that 2 Live touch they hire a woman (as we'll call her) to mouth their instructions on cocksucking technique, one of many things they don't know dick about. To wit: first "grab" (ouch); then "lick" (just twice, before you get down to bidness); then "insert" (now "take it slow"); and "before you know it" (damn soon), "splash." When she swallows, she inspires such a conflation of awe and disgust she's forced to service the rest of the crew forthwith. C-
>>128089580The only time when Mariah was fuckable afDidn't yet get that bogged face and whispery vox
>>128089767Lol this moron sees everything through his high-school teenager leftie political lens
>>128091082He's suggesting quite accurately that "There's Got To Be a Way" was thrown on there to make her look semi-serious and not just a dumb pair of tits.
>>128090997As if Pink Lady didn't already prove that point a decade ago.
"Let me get this straight. You took all the money you made franchising your name and bet it _against_ the San Francisco 49ers?""Uggh, I thought the Broncos were due. Oh god, he's holding the ball in his hand. Tackle him! Just tackle him!!!"
>>128087859>>128089593>>128089629>>128089665Damn bros this has been a great year for metal albums, can't wait for metal to continue to dominate for the next several years!
>>128091241I tried out this one on Tecmo Bowl on my cousin's Nintendo and the Broncos won easily. Guess sports vidya still has a long way to go in accuracy.
>>128091321lolcow album and band
>>128087115Funk Metal is definitely going to be the next big thing after Glam, I just know it.
>>128091391Uncle Tom's Cabin and Mr. Rainmaker are sick.
>>128091391Before or after Halford drugged and raped the singer?
Don Knotts Jr. joins the Minutemen ("Mr. Knowitall," "Spegetti Western") *
title of the year ("Concrete and Steel," "Decision or Collision") *
>>128087115The Allman Brothers Band are back baby!! First new album in almost a decade. Dickey and Gregg joined by some young whipersnappers who absolutely shred. This shit is some good, clean fun.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdqUgPKEVOQ
>>128091321Jani Lane was raped and drugged by>>128091469Rob "Cocoa Butt Pirate" Halford
Wow this is awesome. Just when I thought new wave was old hat.>>128087859How the hell did one of the Shittiest metal bands on earth make this. I always knew they had chops but this is talent >>128089593Holy shit. Album of the year. This is fucking earth shattering.
his life in the bush of a fully-formed middle-class music scene more sophisticated than he'll ever be ("The Obvious Child," "The Coast") *
>>128087115ITALIA '90 BOYS LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOWHO'S GOT THE E'SPINTS ARE ON ME
>>128091634>his life in the bush ofEdie Brickell most likely.
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>>128091792Don't take prozac bros.
Goonight sweet princess.
>>128091921She was a major alcoholic.
This year was fairly meh outside metal.
This Was Bros. pseudothrowaway improves on the hushed emotion, weary wisdom, and new-age "maturity" of the Daniel Lanois-produced Oh Mercy even if the lyrics are sloppier--the anomaly is what Lanois calls Oh Mercy's "focused" writing. Aiming frankly for the evocative, the fabulistic, the biblical, Dylan exploits narrative metaphor as an adaptive mechanism that allows him to inhabit a "mature" pessimism he knows isn't the meaning of life. Where his seminal folk-rock records were cut with Nashville cats on drums--Kenny Buttrey when he was lucky, nonentities when he wasn't--here Kenny Aronoff's tempos are postpunk like it oughta be, springs and shuffles grooving ever forward. The fables are strengthened by the workout, and as a realist I also treasure their literal moments. I credit his outrage without forgetting his royalty statements. I believe he's gritted his teeth through the bad patches of a long-term sexual relationship even if he still measures the long term in months. And when he thanks his honey for that cup of tea, I melt. A-
>>128091997yep both 1989 and 1991 mog it so hard it's unreal
Imagine still buying those dinosaur LPs
>>128093196>even if he still measures the long term in monthsStill not as many exes as Merle Haggard.
Three daring women who decided that if Mudhoney could do it, they could too. And made rock feminists all over 'zineland darn proud. C+
>>128093528was that before or after they gave Cobain head to write them songs?
There are no doubt hundreds of frustrated chorines who could sing the three Sondheim originals "better" than the most famous person in the world. But with its pedigree of wit and musicality, show-tune pop-schlock sure beats the direct-to-Vegas power ballads with which she's heretofore betrayed her dance-rock roots. Especially when she writes it herself--except for the "Material Girl"-inspired "More," the Sondheim tunes are fussy and genteel (with Mandy Patinkin's "well-sung" cameo the nadir), but such fake period pieces as "Cry Baby," "He's a Man," and the risque s&m-lite "Hanky Panky" are all her. This is a woman whose great gift is for the mask. Camp isn't everything she can do, but she sure knows how to do it right. A
Generalizing the hostile "Shove" with the balls-to-the-wall "Fast and Frightening," dissecting everybody else's suicidal tendencies on "Deathwish" before joining the fun on "'Till the Wheels Fall Off," humping a "Broomstick" as a preamble to "Packin' a Rod," these clitocentric trouble girls are everything the Runaways were supposed to be. Afraid of nothing including the four-syllable F-word, they go for an obsessive, dirty, punk pop-metal so aggressive it'll scare damn near every sister in sight. But the bravest will grow stronger. Soon they'll tell others. And start their own bands. And conquer the world. Right? A
Without a doubt this is subtler and more durable than most slow, long-winded records, and half of it is terrific. She has her own sound, her simulated plainspeech strikes a blow for directness and honesty without committing her to any one thing, and if you think "Nothing Compares 2 U" cuts Taylor Dayne on the radio, wait till you hear "The Emperor's New Clothes" cut Aerosmith. Not since Patti Smith has anybody had a better chance of defining rock-not-pop in a specifically female way--she's just the right mess of emotion and savvy, crudity and sophistication, fury and independence and love. If there's anything that's older news than a 20-year-old who's angry at the world, it's a 23-year-old who's discovered life is worth living. But all that means is that if she can withstand the media flood, this won't be all that hard to top. How can she possibly know what she wants when she's only 23? B+
A genre piece without a genre, this plays down the masquerade--Tom Petty's superstar equipment-storage problems coexist naturally with toxic golfers, blood-yellow skies, uppity wimmin, elusive wimmin, greedy wimmin, and of course beautiful wimmin. From the gal who's "got a body for business, got a head for sin" to riffs that date to when they were pups, it shows off just enough of the colloquial command of the old masters they hype themselves as. Inspirational Verse: "Lift your other foot up/Fall on your ass/Get back up/Put your teeth in a glass." B+
"It's three o'clock in the fucking morning, will you turn that thing down? All I hear down here all night is thump-thump-thump-thump thump-thump-thump-thump--same fucking tempo, same fucking beat, on permanent repeat, you don't even have to walk over to the amplifier to start it up again, just galumph up and down in that stupid hippie pogo. Of course I love him too. I know the guitar is great. So what? This isn't the Beacon, goddamn it. It's my apartment." A-
They're back.
>>128091566that video is so 80s lol
Record of the year
>>128089580Look out, Janet and Paula. There's a new sheriff in town. Kek.
>>128088883amen to that>their last truly great album>written and recorded in 1989
Saw Freddie at the Brit Awards. He looked very sick, probably has gay AIDS
>>128094058Crazy to think this is 1990, sounds like such a cheesy 80's album (and I like some songs on it)
>>128098421He's gay Freddie Mercury?
>>1280984691990 was technically the last year of the 80s.
>>128098421looks like he's about to be DEADIE Mercury
No one knows how we came upon this
>>128090181an early experiment with dyke propaganda music+nepo babbies. 2/10 album and hit single.
>>128089580I'm seeing her live tomorrow.
>>128098485Very gay
Wow Sean Penn just won Best New Artist, I imagine his career will really take off now!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlRDtyR7uto
