ITT: /mu/ in 1992
STP - CoreBlack Sabbath - DehumanizerMorbid Angel - Covenant
Hi.
>>128933989How long is the new AT 40 format going to last? It's been slow and boring lately.
>>128934031Fuck you, squealing whore. Just...just fuck you.
>>128934031i'd very much like to have sex with her vagina and suck her nipples
OH GOD, GRUNGE SUCKS
>>128934081I mean what else are her and Janet Jackson good for anyway?
What a sizzling hot summer we had
So now that Metallica are for frat Stacys and 40 year old car mechanics...
Did you guys hear about what happened to Kurt Cobain? Apparently several young black gentlemen raped him
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Crunch, crunch, crunch. Riff, riff, riff. Way harder, louder, and more metallic than Soundgarden will ever be. The price of all this power is that it's also stupider, the sound of hopeless craving. This is a heroin album, take it or leave it--"Junkhead" isn't ironic and probably isn't fictional, either. As I sit here looking at my books and degrees (well, degree) I can't help but wonder how my life would go if I just "opened my mind" as resident sickman Layne Staley--I mean, the narrator of the song suggests. I'll wait for my own man, thank you very much. B-
>>128934171I was hoping for someone else to take up the metal torch where Metallica dropped it but not like this, guys, not like this. Not by turning it into a redneck barroom brawl.
>>128933989The cute gril form work invited me to a rave but then when the day came she said she only invited me as a joke.
SEGA DOES WHAT NINTENDON'T
>>128933989Lmao some dude named Kevin Nash just got raped by a bunch of black guys!
Nick Cave's admirers crow about his many virtues--a rock musician who's scripted a movie and written a novel! They then profer such dismal examples as "I am the captain of my pain" and a scene in which Cave describes a whalebone corset hanging in a bordello (whalebone is very literary, you see, it hasn't been used in underwear since well before Nick was born). If this is your idea of literary genius, then you may be ripe for his cult. Otherwise forget it--the voice alone certainly won't do the trick. C
https://youtu.be/NZ3Ck43m_ZY?si=9O6Uj6GC2r8zy5bX
>>128934418accurate. Nick Cave sucks dick.
FUCK RHCP
Once you've learned to distinguish them from the Gray Templed Prelates, the Stoned Tempo Pirates, the Stolen Pesto Pinenuts, Pearl Jam, Wishbone Ash, and Temple of the Dog, you may decide they're a halfway decent hard rock act. Unfortunately, after they're done setting you up with their best power chords, you realize the type song is "Sex Type Thing" and it's attached to a rape threat. The band claims this is intended ironically, sort of like "Naked Sunday"'s sarcastic handshake with authority. But ironic critique loses its teeth when the will to sex still powers your power chords. And if that's the excuse critics as well as MTV listeners have reason to suspect, then the whole band should catch AIDS and die. C
How do you do fellow kids?
>>128933989>just heard the news about vinnie vegasmusic for this feel?
>>128934693LOL
https://voca.ro/1o7GIrKPqIrq
https://youtu.be/5y-eJ-yMfEo?si=xdM2RnmPMC--O3In
>>128933989gang starr - daily operationbest album of 92
OK, everybody, let's use our imaginations, shall we? It may be a little hard at first, but if we try we can have lots of fun. To start, let's pretend that we have nothing against dance music--that instead of fixating on impersonal and mechanical and all those obvious things we can just enjoy it for what it is, as innocently as babes. Come on now, really try. Got it? Good. Because now I'm going to suggest something even harder--that we pretend we've never heard of Madonna. I know that's like asking you not to think of a purple polar bear, so just pretend to pretend, if you know what I mean, which as good postmodernist children you do. Now, put the record on. Hear those bass and synth beats? Sinuous and subtle and sexy, aren't they? How 'bout the faux-Arab electro on "Words"? And aren't the techno effects all nice and cheesy-futuristic? The singer doesn't have great pipes, but because she's too hip to belt (this time), she doesn't need them. She's in control, all understated presence and impersonal personality except when she's flashing some pink. Also, not counting that "Love your sister, love your brother" thing, the lyrics are not stupid. I love the rap where the boast turns out to be a lie. And whoever thought of recording the breakup song through the phone hookup was pretty smart, wasn't he or she? She, I bet. A find. A
>>128935018And I bet she never even knew "Fever" was originally a Little Willie John song.
>>128935039She holds back a lot on that one because she really didn't want to steal it from Peggy Lee.
>>128935018This was basically the last time anyone still considered Madonna cool at all and she wasn't a legacy act abandoned by everyone but her most loyal gays.
twisting, turning, crunching, grooving, speeding up, slowing down, giving as good as they get ("Give It", "Unsung") **
>>128935144Pantera if Tim from accounting did the vocals.
>>128935144He wouldn't have even reviewed this one at all except they were from NYC.
>>128935144THEY SAY THAT DYING YOUNG IS BORING
>>128933989Who knew these old fuckers could still rip? I guess the new younguns' help.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDMWkeP4kDg
The crucial innovation of this benchmark album isn't its conscienceless naturalization of casual violence. It's Dre's escape from sampling. Other rappers, as they are called, have promised to create their own musical environments, usually without revealing how much art and how much publishing fuels their creative resolve. But Dre is the first to make the fantasy pay out big-time. The world he hears in his head isn't the up-to-date P-Funk fools say they hear--that would be too hard. Instead he lays bassline readymades under simulations of Bernie Worrell's high keyb sustain, a basically irritating sound that in context always signified fantasy, not reality--stoned self-loss or, at a best Dre never approaches, grandiose jive. This is bell-bottoms-and-Afros music, its spiritual source the blaxploitation soundtrack, and what it promises above all is boom times for third-rate flautists--sociopathic easy-listening. Even if it's "just pop music," as some rationalize, it's bad pop music. C+
>>128935204Those who were there know the truth: 80% of the people who bought this album were white
>>128934171Slow down and put away that moonshine jug, Cletus.
>>128934218>>128934171>>128934225>>128934269>first several albums posted are all metalslopITT: White boys
>>128934031The year of her unplugged album, no studio album in '92.
eternal sleep ("Man on the Moon," "Nightswimming") ***
>>128934031don't give a shit about her music but i'd gladly cum all over her face and tits
With the help of their first real producer, they stop flirting with progress and concentrate on remaining the world's greatest rock and roll band--if Butch Vig snuck in a "Smells Like Teen Spirit," it's known only to David Geffen's bagmen, who understand things about airplay that you and I don't. "Youth Against Fascism" is catchy indeed, but fun as it would be to hear "I believe Anita Hill" roaring from a passing boombox, I don't think it'll fly. And elsewhere it's gonna be tough extricating the hooks, which are more plentiful than ever, from the noise, which makes a comeback. Aurally as well as lyrically, this album earns its title. Thurston never could carry a tune, but he can surround one. And when Kim warns you not to touch her breasts, the possibility that she's an uptight chick never crosses your mind. A
>>128935333>Youth Against Fascismtalk about cheap low effort critic b8
started listening to this because of more than words and holy fuck do these guys rip, especially the guitarist but like... what the fuck kind of a name is nuno???
Metal has evolved at such a drastic pace that this assiduously inoffensive prefab seems almost folkloric, a weird anachronism in which the great tradition of Jon Bon Jovi and Mark Slaughter--manly tenor, moderate tempos, technically unassailable riffs--is preserved for the dwindling faithful. They "Reach for the Sky," they "Hold That Dream," they "Rock You Tonight," and because their "Mama Didn't Raise No Fool," they describe the inevitable bone job as "Sleeping With You." Now isn't that sweet? C-
>>128935391yeah just like Adrenalize this album was a dinosaur when it was new
The honorable Timothy White avers, "Her vocals have never felt performed," which those of us who don't commune regularly with the stars can take as a sign that the guy's been in show business too long. It's our belief that Ms. Lennox's vocals have never felt anything but performed--and that this palpably phony quality was her chief charm even though it meant that at her most nuevo wavo she was destined to turn conventional pop singer sooner or later. So here she goes normal, if that's what you call somebody who emotes banalities to her baby daughter loud enough to wake the disco: "precious little angel . . . [percolating bass] . . . bundle full of love . . . drowned in my own tears . . . [cool trumpet solo] . . . gift from heaven . . ." Thank your maker she fades it instead of going out on a high note. And give Dave Stewart this: he kept her dishonest. C+
>>128935204not surprised he decided to mostly sit on the other side of the glass in the studio. dude can't rap his way out of a paper bag.
>>128934988kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRLjpXLEp1A
As bland as Nicolette Fogelberg, with Tony Brown running the broad-spectrum lyrics through his good-taste machine as if he wants to be Peter Asher when he grows up, Gill is the real country-hunk menace because he's so reproducible. I admit they pin a few classics--"Don't Let Our Love Start Slippin' Away" and "Say Hello" have the ring of general truth. But when they don't, it's '70s singer-songwriter all over again. Eddie Rabbitt just didn't know how to market himself. C+
Over and above Irish-American backlash and papal maledictions from the depths of the catacombs, this muddled project stiffed because no one understood it, possibly including O'Connor. At least half the titles aren't "standards." I mean, Rice & Webber? Early Loretta Lynn? "Scarlet Ribbons"? An anticlericalist sermon? A putative Marilyn Monroe song that made a bigger splash when Helen Kane did it in 1928? A samba? Doris Day's "Secret Love" (which as it happens was the first record I ever bought, though I came to prefer the B side, "The Deadwood Stage")? All they share (except for the sermon) is that they are not rock (and also, conceivably, that O'Connor grew up with them, as she claims). But unlike La Ronstadt, O'Connor has no not-rock audience, and little not-rock savvy. Instead of hiring some reasonable substitute for Nelson Riddle--Billy May, or her Red Hot + Blue crew--she relies on high-grade hacks like Torrie Zito and Rob Mounsey. Even thorough their blare she sounds so defiant, so vulnerable, so sexual that at times she could be the greatest natural singer since Aretha. So up till the last three cuts, she almost gets away with it. But she doesn't. B
>>128935558>she almost gets away with it. But she doesn't.For one thing, she can't match Doris Day's vocal wattage.
With Cyrus oversinging like Michael Bolton at a Perot rally, this album revolted me well before I got to its climactic title cut, about how brave guys help their fellow man by killing other men, presumably not fellow and most likely gooks or something. Only it turns out Michael Bolton was on the same side as Michael Stipe, and it also turns out that Cyrus manages a nice macho self-mockery on both his hit and the likes of "Wher'm I Gonna Live?" and "I'm So Miserable." Give him a few years of ups and downs and he could be the 21st-century Waylon Jennings. Can't wait, can you? C+
She's been raped and she's written a great song about it, the quietly terrifying "Me and a Gun." It's easily the most gripping piece of music on here and it's acapella. That means she isn't Kate Bush. But although I'm sure she's her own person and all, Kate Bush's market share she'd happily settle for. C
>>128935595Should have used a condom, bub, really should have.
Montreal chanteuse goes gold Stateside, and I'm thinking, hey, North American Eurodisco for Anglophones, could be OK. Not hardly. Though the two Ric Wake productions lilt sweetly enough, she's a creature of the power ballad, with tympani all over her drum pads and Diane Warren hand-me-downs for hooks. Worst album of the year--that I can remember. D+
>>128935614yeah he was right about this one. i have to suck in my cheeks to not laugh out loud at her dribblings.
Fun automaton, floundering has-been, or unnoticed fixture, he hung in there, so that 1992 was the 23rd consecutive year he put a single in the top 40. Since Elvis himself only got to 22, this statistical aberration merits a tribute, and though I was disarmed by the news that he'd not only come out but was donating all singles royalties to AIDS research, I decided to take it as a long overdue hint to ignore his albums. Unfortunately, the first single was an all-too-well-plugged Eric Clapton feature. Then came an AIDS ballad drenched in midtempo melodrama, followed by a title tune that's just as soupy with less content. So here's hoping somebody at MCA likes "Sweat It Out," a fast dance number about vanquishing the forces of reaction. Inspirational Verse That Saves Me a Review: "No more Tears for Fears/Give me tears of rage." C+
>>128935614she gigged in gay bars for years before she got a record deal. just so you know.
>>128934693At this point "alternative" rock had already become a power tooled corporate product for teenyboppers at the mall. Didn't take long tbqh.
>>128935703I like a lot of Elton's stuff but god, this album fucking SUCKS
>>128935753It's an Elton album released after 1976, of course it fucking sucks. What did you expect, really? :^)
>>128934031flash in a pan. we'll forget about her in less than three years
Goodnight sweet prince.
>>128935494that was unironically great. do they do cool shit like this at pop concerts?
>>128935760at least something passable, I think there's only one song I can stand on the whole album, maybe two
>>128935703>and though I was disarmed by the news that he'd not only come out but was donating all singles royalties to AIDS research, I decided to take it as a long overdue hint to ignore his albums.Smart move.
>>128935614aw come on, of course Tori was cheesy and over the top but it made sense to suicidal edgy teens in the 90s. i guess Cuckgau just couldn't remember what it was like being 16 anymore.
Though no outsider wants to believe it, they're not just the latest scruffy rumor. And though no insider wants to believe it, they're more well-schooled than inspired--skilled, gifted, of enduring artistic value, condensing a decade of indie thrashing about into a two-year recording career that takes off with their debut album. Always good at both tune and noise, they sacrifice you-know-what for you-know-what now that they're thinking about quitting their day jobs, and as you'd expect, the content is formal: noise doesn't give up without a fight, often it fights hard, sometimes it fights dirty, and tune digs where it's coming from. Yielding a message complex enough to offer hope that the lyrics--more bemused than enraged, more depressive than despairing--will catch up. A
Once again Butch Vig's mission is to smelt speed-sludge into grunge-metal alloy, which with this band involves intense admixtures of ditty and power chord. Although the passion of their major-label stab may not match Nirvana's, it's just as catchy and a touch nastier. Driven onward by the quick and muscular Dee Plakas, their buzzing textures and heavy hooks are streamlined rather than softened or dulled even if they don't accelerate like on last year's thrash longform. Read-my-title outbursts like "Wargasm," "Diet Pill," and "Shitlist" fulfill the ancient prophecy of a time when gurls would reinvent punk out of sheer delight in their own power. Grrrls will be grrrls. A
As usual when a punk band does the trick, the secret isn't just magic. It's ideas, like the way Kathleen Hanna slips into the cockney "roights" on "Double Dare Ya," or the weary "Fine fine Fine fine Fine fine Fine fine" that ends "Suck My Left One," which I'd say is about learning to make something of sexual victimization and then learning that it's still no fun, but I could be wrong, which is why we need this band even if we don't believe racism and eating meat are, and I quote, "the same thing." Poly Styrene discovers ideology. Ideology discovers Poly Styrene. A-
>>128934269YOUR SOUL BETTER BELONG TO JESUS, BOY, 'CAUSE YOUR ASS BELONGS TO ME. MMMM HMMM.
>>128935921it was about the time Dave got busted for DUI. let him alone with his pain.
MADMAN SHAWN - WALK THRU HELL (OFFICIAL VIDEO)https://youtu.be/DTZncXUGWeM?si=QC-jON9jQ92iJ8fZ
Like the good orthodox category-haters you'd figure, these perverts claim they're not industrial, which is true only in the sense that Led Zeppelin wasn't metal: they may be too good for the category, but that doesn't mean they're not of it. And like Led Zep, they're cold bastards who are worth your time even if you think you don't like what they do, which is toning up your cardiovascular system by running you over with a tank. Their rockism is checked somewhat this time by a meticulousness that may put off casual sympathizers, but from synth-ooze to caterwaul, the care they put into their din connects as an aural wit that complements and undercuts their over-the-top doom-mongering. You don't laugh with them and you don't laugh at them--you just throw back your head in glee at the unlikely fact that they exist. A-
>>128933989hip-hop was peak in 92
The cassette-bound are advised to fast-forward to side two, CD investers to program, oh, 6-4-7-8-9-10-1; there's no true filler here, but "Wrong's What I Do Best" is far more thematic than "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair," in which 10 suburban cowpeople sing the praises of 61-year-old youth, and which I conceive as a coda. George has been hitched and on the wagon since well before he cut his late-'80s dreck, but he can still sing the likes of "Drive Me To Drink" (if she can't be his wife she can be his chauffeur) and "There's the Door" (if she can walk out of the house maybe he can walk out of the bar) as if he does a lot of listening at 12-step meetings. His problem wasn't authenticity--it was Billy Sherrill. A-
Burdened by the responsibilities he believes come with success, Brooks leads with the first song in Nashville history to inveigh, however discreetly, against not just racism but homophobia. There's nothing as wicked as "Papa Loved Mama," which didn't bat an eye when mama fucked around or papa ran her over with his truck. But "Somewhere Other Than the Night," about sex on the farm, and "Learning to Live Again," about a divorcé's blind date, typify the smarts of a guy who knows not all suburbanites are as stupid as Michael Bolton believes. Having mastered the kind of nice-guy aura that has escaped pop superstars since the days of Como and Cole, Brooks could yet get away with being a liberal. B+
>1992>Not being at GoaThese Indians aren't bad, though I hope they stay where they are to keep their culture special.
His voice permanently hoarse--sounds like he's been campaigning for president since he dropped So in 1986, which in a sense he has--Gabriel deploys a multihued battalion of respected professionals into wave upon wave of overkill. Though the sonic layering isn't devoid of interest or even originality, the problem goes way beyond a grandeur that seems inauspiciously egotistical on "his first real record of love songs"--these arrangements would obtrude into any musical event more low-key than an Olympic anthem or a massed May Day choir singing "The Internationale." "Steam"'s googolgroove overwhelms its petty sexism, but "Kiss That Frog" wrecks a funny little idea about Pete's penis by asking it to hold up the weight of the world. And "Kiss That Frog" is the other fast one, plus one makes two. What you mean US, white man? B-
>>128936048"Steam" lends you the impression that he hasn't been keeping up with music since the last album six years ago. Seriously this is way behind the times for 92.
A damn good deal of a cd. This things packed>>128934171>>128934218>>128934693>>128935144>>128935949A truly amazing year for music. If youre not too pussy to appreciate it
Even if you hate weak guys a lot more than I do, you can't deny that "Hey Jealousy" is a classic--Peter Buck himself would kill (or at least steal) for that gold-plated guitar hook. But though the guy who came up with it is now dead, the group and its handlers jangle on through mediocre follow-ups programmers wouldn't have played twice before "Hey Jealousy" softened them up. Released in 1992, the album is now double platinum, on the charts a year and a half after it broke. And I wouldn't put it past them to sell the next one too. The marketplace--what mere journalist can fathom it? C+
Nothing wrong with mixing up a blues-based mush of Stones and Faces and Allmans and whoever, especially when you come by your influences naturally and don't imitate any of them. So of course these youngsters are "original" enough. What they're not is good enough. After all, the Faces and the Allmans weren't such hot songwriters either, and their heirs don't exactly have a Young Rod or a Gregg-and-Dickey to compensate. With seven of Southern Harmony's 10 live-in-the-studio cuts going on longer than 17 of Exile on Main Street's thick-mixed 18, call them the new Humble Pie and put out a search on DFX2's Emotion. Now there was a Stones rip. B-
three years after the audition, they still don't cohere enough to let the songs quit ("My Lovin' [You're Never Gonna Get It]," "Giving Him Something He Can Feel," "Free Your Mind") ***
trancelike or ecstatic, techno with a spirit-feel--modest and luxuriant, compelling and humane ("Go," "Electricity") **
real is not enough, but attached to the right voice it's something to build on ("Sweet Thing," "Real Love") *
More like an old country singer (George Jones leaving Epic, say) than the world's greatest rock and roll band (greater than Mick's side project, anyway), Joey and whoever (Johnny credited on guitar, Dee Dee cowriting two good songs, Marky ditto, C.J. singing Dee Dee) do right by their formula. Reasons to believe: the Dee Dee ballad Joey sings, and the Beach Boys tribute that goes, "Touring, touring, it's never boring." A-
>>128935822faggot
>>128935255It's about sticking it authority and the system, dude. I thought you'd understand given what just happened to Rodney King.
>>128934107>>128934328Nashbros...
good year>>128934218spot on. grunge alt rock music in a nutshell>>128934418nick cave isoverrated >>128935102still had relevance in 98, 00 and during her last classic hung up>>128935333kim gordon shitty vocals ruin that record and moore is just an ok vocalist>chickmore like a granny>>128935752nirvana>>128935760what are the reasons for 76 being the turning point?>>128935792rip>>128935840great record but isn't the real thing which tell you how legendary the fall, the main influence in the music and vocals, is.
Bump
>>128936863>what are the reasons for 76 being the turning point?Broke up with Bernie Taupin? Doit.
>>128936863>more like a grannytbqh the point where they stopped being edgy was shortly after this when they became parents and aged about 15 years overnight. oh well, happens to everyone i guess.
As politically incorrect as the dickheads she disses, Shanté scorns "bitches" and "hoes" (and "hookers" and "sluts" and "bull daggers") who think they can rap--that is, every female rival you can think of, many of whom she calls out by name in the scabrous "Big Mama." She claims to rhyme her own, but she only had her name on three tracks last album, which was four years ago, and this one doesn't bother with writing credits. So if in her world the original is still the greatest, that world exists mostly in her own mind. The thing is, though, it also exists on her records. Because she still is the greatest--she just is. Her tone and attack and enunciation vie with Ice-T and Chuck D and Rakim. Her material is full of outrageous insults and filthy internal rhymes. And perhaps because hard is all there is where she comes from, her tough, jazz-tinged music is as fresh as the stuff gets these days. She's of limited use showing off a slow groove or going dancehall, and I'm not going to claim she's got redeeming value. But I'm also not going to tell you "Brothers Ain't Shit" has nothing to say. A-
>thread about a decade>entire thread is Cuckgau's gay reviews You faggots are beyond help
>>128934418Music for British and Aussie moms who watch soaps.
>Instead of an actually fun thread it's just more Cuckgau spammingFuck you.
>>128936080Steam only exists because the label demanded a hit
Now that Metallica have sold out, it's time to burn my Metal Up Your Ass T-shirt.
thank god for Eric Clapton saving musici hope he wins every Grammy ever
>>128936080still huge album and tour though, last time Gabriel was a hot commodity. he had a better run than most since it was 15 years since beginning his solo career.
>>128936863>kim gordon shitty vocals ruin that record and moore is just an ok vocalistWhen did her shitty vocals not ruin their records?
growing in wit, growing in wisdom ("Liza and Louise," "Please Play This Song on the Radio") ***
>>128935595The C plus grade was honestly too generous.
>>128934171so yrepellant
>>128939868skater bro trash. 4/10 album and band.
The first single-artist techno album you can take home to your stereo swallows the Something Good EP and spits out the bones, cannibalizing it the way it cannibalizes everything else. Grounded in DJ Tim Garbutt's factitious funk and the low-register, high-energy synth blare of Belgian new beat, it marshals aural images of mass excitement--football match, soul concert, symphonic crescendo--into a bold-faced synthesis of two kinds of phony grandeur: disco's and arena-rock's. Its trance-dance strategy is to transform Philip Glass into a raver, the perfect pomo extension of techno's sometimes irritating, often hilarious fondness for the classical tradition. The most exciting thing to happen to Annie Lennox since childbirth. More fun than a batch file of monkeys. A-
>>128939846lol good point
>>128935425yeah she's middle aged and a mom now and sure sounds like it
Despite lyrics beholden to Mark Lanegan's attention-grabbing baritone, a big spooky aspiring commodity fetish that puts quantity before quality in the feeling department, these Northwest veterans have started roiling and hooking and knocking 'em dead at the very moment they seemed ready to expire of corporate torpor--not Kurt & Co., but definitely good for a fix. It isn't just songs, which are in evidence on their SST best-of and discernible on their Epic product, and before you credit the production, which must help some, ask yourself why Don Fleming can't do the same for Gumball. My theory: they got a new drummer, just like Kurt & Co. Hey, you never know. B+
>>128934218I thought the first album was better myself.
Go Blue Jays!
Except maybe for a few pie-eyed corner-cutters over in marketing, nobody born before Never Mind the Bollocks thinks Linda Perry is "alternative." It was to avoid music that might distract from her big vague voice--referents: people she never heard of like Lydia Pense and people you wish she never heard of like Ann Wilson--that she axed her female guitarist for a male hotshot once her male producer took her aside. Janis is dead, unfortunately. Also unfortunately, her vision of meaningful rebellion lives on. C
>>128935199sick jam
>>128940300Fuck this band...just...just fuck them.
>>128940300>the Gen X version of a faggy Millenial whining that adulting is hard
mean length of Harvest track not counting six-minute opus: 3:14; mean length of Harvest Moon track not counting 10-minute opus: 4:37 ("Old King," "Harvest Moon") ***
This ambitious sophomore wins the prize--the female postfolkie you're too bored to hate. The digitalized Suzanne Vega is wisely popwise and the bionic Joan Baez positively swangin' by comparison. Matching strong, undistinguished voice to literate, undistinguished verse, Colvin is like a young Joni Mitchell without swoops or self-invention. And lest you riposte that young Joni Mitchell beats old Joni Mitchell, Columbia doles out production chores to old Joni Mitchell's bass-playing husband, who drags the ordinary down toward an offensively well-groomed studio folk-rock that combines the smugness of '70s El Lay with the overstatement of '80s Megapop--and later for the '90s. C
>>128940526damn, Bob, not everything needs to be riot grrl. chill out already.
Dylan's last cover album confused his followers mightily, not least because he called it Self-Portrait. And maybe he tossed this one off as per contract too--his boyish tenor and nimble acoustic guitar don't rescue "Frankie and Albert" or "Sittin' on Top of the World" from the taxidermist, and though "Tomorrow Night" could be a mean parody of Lonnie Johnson's sour-voiced original, it probably just sucks. But most of these old tunes he gooses or caresses to some kind of arousal--he clearly knows the sensitive spots of Stephen Foster's "Hard Times" and the antiredcoat jig "Arthur McBride." Not that he thinks such intimacy yields a self-portrait. Older than that now, he merely explores a world of song whose commonness and strangeness he knows he'll never comprehend. B+
>>128935822he liked Alanis but she was more conventionally rock and had catchier songs
metal for rap-lovers and opera-haters ("Wake Up", "Know Your Enemy") *
>>128940526Really there's nothing offensively bad about this album even if the vocals could be a little more up front and not buried in the mix.
>>128940743classic. makes you want to break out the Genesis and the Streets of Rage cartridge.
>>128940743lol nobody really cared about their politics they just dug the guitar and yelling A BULLET IN YOUR FUCKIN' HEAD at concerts
Shoulda cut that "Teach Me Tonight" and that "Blue Moon" about 30 years earlier, lady. Uggh.
>>128935461That's actually not the singer, it's a chick from some other group even though a lot of people think it is.
>>128936153Yeah YNGGI is a little excessive.
>>128936000Garth Brooks is a con artist who did all kinds of shifty tricks to beat the Beatles and Michael Jackson's sales numbers.
Sometime between ages 54 and 58, Cohen appears to have lost his voice. Where once his whisper was the essence of intimacy, now he's singing loud and saying less for longer. Which ends up not mattering because the music is his best since John Lissauer split in 1979. Even the instrumental is satisfying minor Cohen, kind of like the sexy stuff. The political stuff--the horror-stricken "The Future," the hope-stricken "Democracy"--is major. And the eight-minute sendup of Irving Berlin's 10-line "Always" is a pomo triumph: the hoarsely pitchless singing, the soul-on-demand of the backup girls, and the thudding beat are all travesties, all acts of love. At first you think, Sure, Lenny--"Always." Endless love, just your style. But as the minutes wear on you begin to think he may mean it, and then you begin to worry. Holy shit--is this old drunk going to be on my case for the rest of his unnatural life? Would he settle for a lost weekend? A-
Now posing as a major-label debut, Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly's 1990 Rough Trade one-off Pod still sounds like the art project it was, but although Donnelly is otherwise occupied, this 1992 EP sounds like a band. Postamateur Raincoats, say. They substitute the Who's "So Sad About Us" for the Kinks' "Lola" because they're less arch and less soft. But they're lovers not fighters nonetheless. A-
Since she doesn't fancy comparisons to Sinead or Kate Bush--"I'm like anyone as long as they're female. If they've got dark hair it's even better"--perhaps she'd prefer Cream or the Doors. Island Records sure would, but in a sexist world she's unlikely to achieve such heights of rockist catalogue stuffing--I just meant a band that sounds great until you listen to the words when you're not stoned and decide they're self-indulgent blather. This fate she's spared by the cloudy but essential feminist distinction between egoist bullroar and honest irrational outpouring--and of course by her postrockist guitar, where she starts to reinvent her instrument the way grrrl-punks reinvent their form. A-
>whats your name>where you from>what have you had
For a stunning five-song run toward the start, they replicate the brittle brilliance that tricked their old fans into expecting a tour de force every time. The packed pop-pomo pastiches make the redolent meaninglessness of near-literal lyrics signify and sing, softening you up for the more scattered experiments that follow. Which include the XTC-does-Bo-Diddley "Hypnotist of Ladies," the 22-part "Fingertips" ("I'm having a heart attack/I'm having a heart attack"), the brittlely brilliant "Dinner Bell," and "Narrow Your Eyes," which if I'm not mistaken is about the actual dissolution of an actual relationship. A-
>>128941261>>128941223I can't tell either of them apart, they seem to be the same singer using a different name.
>>128941223>track 4Ladies, I gotta let you all know: Don't date a bad boy, it's bad for you
fuck
>>128941261>track 2Uh...people have a midlife crisis and get divorced?
>>128934225It's exactly what you'd think, the same old hair metal slop with slightly updated 90s production.
>>128941855^Kek this. Adrenalize sold but it was the same old slop that would have sounded current six years earlier.
>you upset me deliberately >youre using telnet so i backtrace the ip and find your house>what happens next is implied to be a mystery but we both know
>>128941908I guess we're posting from our 386 PCs with DOS, right?
>>128934171wait a minute didn't this used to be a hair metal band or something?
>>128941983>he surprised to learn that a bunch of so-called "alternative" bands are hair metal dudes who never made it past the club level
>>128941920no thats pig disgusting, i post from a BSD or BSD derivative
>>128942022Don't you have a show to be getting ready for now, Kurt? You'll be late.
Maybe they're SoundScan scammers like Vince Gill and Skid Row, reaping unwarranted cred from a revamped accounting system. Or maybe they're cool alternatives like Nirvana and Pearl Jam, poised to prove the sales appeal of self-dramatizing pessimism. Maybe they're even riding the actual-hit "Friday I'm in Love," which actually sounds cheerful, though by Sunday it's over, actually. In any case, let it be noted that these new wave survivors, a specialized taste of undiscriminating undergraduates for years, have just now scored their biggest album ever, a redolent 13 years after they didn't actually kill that Arab. I ask you, where were the Moody Blues after 13 years? (Riding their second--and final--No. 1 album, since you didn't know.) C+
>>128933989Found this at a random record store the other day, cashier said it's from some small metal label in Norway.Wtf is going on over there?
>>128940910all the best airbrushing in the world to make her 62 year old mug look 28 again
what are y'all's expectations for In Utero?
>>128942124Give them props for longevity. Not many bands who had an album out in 79 were still a hot commodity in 92 let alone in the top 10.
Ah, I forgot to set my VCR and didn't tape The Next Generation last night.
Designed to prove his utter inexhaustibility in the wake of Diamonds and Pearls, by some stroke of commerce his best-selling album since Purple Rain, this absurdly designated "rock soap opera" (is he serious? is he ever? is he ever not?) proves mainly that he's got the funk. I confess I'm too square to regale the guests at my all-ages dance party with "Sexy M.F.," a title extended to six syllables in its recorded version. But "My Name Is Prince" clears up a question posed by the title, a rune available on floppy disc to any publication willing to take his guff. And "Blue Light," a ballad that's got the reggae, is a sexy motherfucker. A-
>>128943207>>128943168#washed
Strictly Roots - Beg No Friends (Official Video)https://youtu.be/oJ4N91UKc5s?si=3-LsSsN2rQsQYWFh
the grand old lady of jazz keeps it going now that Ella and Peggy are retired
>>128943237Every 80s metal powerhouse was washed by this point.
>>128941120he's also washed
>>128943649That I would take any day over that other "jazz" grandma posted up thread.
The new Super Nintendo Final Fantasy looked really neat when I saw it in a store display when I was visiting Tokyo last month, too bad I can't read the dang shit.
>>128943727Indeed.
>>1289349882edgy4me
>>128943736I heard they had some of them on the NES as well that we never got.
>>128943727>That I would take any day over that other "jazz" grandma posted up thread.i mean for one Clooney always really did want to do jazz stuff while that other lady just decided to bandwagon jazz to look "legit" after she was too old for chart pop
>>128943649Yeah, fine. For me it's Anita.
>>128943807yeah imagine if someday you could play those games with PC software and autist fanboys make English translations for ur
>>128943863and i guess Blossom Dearie is keeping the spirit of jazz alive as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9rVxa78wi8
>>128943882I'm hip
>>128943899not music
>>128933989What the fuck is Grunge? Sounds gayhttps://youtu.be/CKARIfYgVzk
>>128943899ok what oldfag is going to come out of the woodwork and shamefully admit he was a suburban white boy who had this album back in 92?
>>128933989THE GAY IS DEAD!oh, they’re doing a tribute concert…
1992. My father is 30 years old and likes Ministry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1992man the top 40 was really black back then
>>128944120>Start Doing This
One step up the evolutionary ladder from the cute boy on the steps who's rechristened Fabian or Vince Eager, these two Atlanta 13-year-olds are totally fabrikated. They contributed less to their beats, lyrics, and look than the New Kids. And not only is "Jump" one of those works of art that makes rock and roll worth living for, a trifle that sweeps all questions of import and integrity aside, but there's an album to go with it. Nineteen-year-old producer Jermaine Dupri writes for irrepressible 13-year-olds so set on enjoying the full privileges of adolescence that only a bad cop would enforce their curfew. Dupri exploits their preadolescent tempos and timbres to the max. And he shades their ebullient music with subtly disturbing samples only lil boys from the hood could be sad and savvy enough to call their own. A-
>>128944059I really hope this doesn’t lead to the poodle and the car-fucker milking a dead man’s legacy in favor of money.
>>128944095Rock had heavily gone back to the album format in the 90s so for some time the Billboard was populated with R&B, dance, and hip-hop.
>>128944059We have Axl to carry on the gay piano rock torch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkizHNR3yBg
>>128933989
>>128944197SY sucks ass, bro.
>>128934171>i'm gonna break 1992 kayfabe here and say:one of the top 10 heaviest albums ever made TO THIS DAY
>>128934693fuck you. that's one of the best albums ever made. i will literally kick you in the throat if i ever meet you irl.
in lieu of the future, they'll accept nice neighbors and the occasional stroll ("Too Much To Ask," "Generator") *
>>128940550Never happened. This group's version of Black Flag's What The...
>>128944132Nobody but Brazilians cares about this album.
>>128942202this was to prove i guess that she could sing live and wasn't just a studio confection
>>128944095Oh boy Millenials don't know just how wigger the 90s actually was. It was a lot worse than anything since 2010.
>>128944719Talentless bullshit. They only gave them a pass because Natalie Merchant looked cute without makeup.
>>128944120Fun stuff before they decided they had to do "Waterfalls" for cred purposes.
>>128935461came out October '91. almost but just missed, anon.
>>128941223>>128941385I don't consider Walkaway Joe one of the more interesting cuts on here.
>>128941223last era of decent country before 9/11 ruined everything forever
>>128945009Well I'm actually surprised some country albums got posted because these threads tend to draw a blank where country is concerned a lot of the time.
>>128940910>>128943649>>128943727yeah both had a lot more fire in their 20s but even back then Clooney had more substance and didn't sound like she had marshmallows between her ears
I agree with that anon that fuck me if I can tell Trisha Yearwood apart from Mary Chapin Carpenter anyway. Always assumed they were some country radio programmer's tulpa.
>>128945307MCC is more rock than country.
ugh music SUCKS now look at all these rappers and talentless electronic """musicians"""remember REAL music? the beatles? the who? the stones?punk rock ushered in the worst wave of rock music we've ever had. americans ruin everything they get their hands on.
>>128945434This is way more of a 2012 comment than a 1992 comment.
>>128945460people have been saying the exact same thing for decades.that is the joke.
>>128945462jeez and they think the 2010s was peak woke, they were already doing this shit aggressively in the early 90s
>>128945494In '92 people thought electronic music and hip hop were interesting.
>>128945562and 20 years later people were just making tired, lifeless, and fake pastiches of that stuff
>>128934218>moron is unaware of Louder Than LoveThat ignorance erfectly suits the era, it was nothing but posers who probably still to this day have no idea Dave Grohl was Nirvana's sixth (6th) drummer.
>>128940910Frank Sinatra also did TMT on LA Is My Lady and he probably should have done it in the 50s-60s as well instead of when he was retirement age. And Mike Love should have never attempted that song at any point.
>>128945602>>128940176He did know that Nirvana had drummers before Dave.
Babes in Toyland--Fontanelle
>>128945626>And Mike Love should have never attempted that song at any pointUnfortunately when we had the /mu/ in 1981 thread a few days ago I forgot to post Looking Back With Love. My apologies, but that album had to be posted because of how singularly horrifying it is.
>>128945602>moron is unaware of Louder Than LoveCuckgau reviewed that one, yes.
>>128942164Whoa mate, this blew my mind, I was expecting just another trendy death metal record that sounds like all the others but this is something completely new!
>>128943649Oh right, you just reminded me that this was around the time when Madonna openly disrespected Peggy Lee at an award show when she was old and in a wheelchair.
>>128939846always ruined their record, that goes without saying
>>128934270wow thats awful. a true raver girl wouldn't have done that to you.
>>128945602>have no idea Dave Grohl was Nirvana's sixth (6th) drummerHow is this smugly produced factoid relevant to anyone but Nirvana superfans? Half of those drummers aren't even on commercially available recordings, and Grohl bashed them all out of history anyway.
>>128946267Let's talk about gender babyLet's talk about you and me
>>128935255>white boysPuta gringo
>>128935314To be fair, same.
>>128935908Hate hate hate this "band"
>>128936103Love love love this band
>>128944071My dad was 38 then. Started liking all the alternative bands despite being a boomer. Grew up on Led Zeppelin and CSNY though. My old man turns 72 next month.
>>128944758Nah I liked them. But I also thought Natalie Merchant was cute.
