ITT: /mu/ in 1993
>>130190963
And here we go.
>>130190963Fuck this whiny grunge bullshit. Take me back to '87 when rock was real.
>>130190963This is a really good year for music tbhfam.
>>130191258t. Kip Winger
I’m -4 years old
Metal is dead and mostly thanks to Pantera ruining it by turning it into meathead music for drunk rednecks.
>>130191009He did it.
Anyone who thinks there's nothing more nauseating than a middle-aged man who pretends his hormones are too much for him has clearly never seen a middle-aged man acting cute. To say nothing of a middle-aged white "bluesman" who compares himself to Picasso whilst suing black people who sample his hooks. C
can't wait for the many years of exciting music Nirvana have ahead of them
Hey anyone catch that new X-Files show? It's not bad.
At least the money that went into this obscenely expensive record comes back as physical luxury: the difference between hearing it on a cheap box and a booming system is the difference between daydreaming about sex and having somebody's crack in your face. Which is only one way it's more pornographic than obscene. And which doesn't make it Jam & Lewis's. This achievement is Janet's, period--those who disagree should send me the name of that hot number in the S.O.S. Band they couldn't wait to boff. Better nose than Michael, better navel than Madonna, better sex than either. A-
>>130191333didn't this album get some guy killed or something?
>>130191570>the difference between hearing it on a cheap box and a booming system is the difference between daydreaming about sex and having somebody's crack in your face.lmao What the fuck?
>>130191570Hi, Janet. It's a race to #1 and it's on. Who will win?
>>130191444Yeah, same goes for Blind Melon.
>>130191209aka Sony demanded a follow-up to Ten but they didn't have any songs since they used all of them up on Ten so they just knocked out a bunch of ad-libbed jam sessions and called it a day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_in_musicSingle worst year of the 1990s. Actually, the only bad year of that decade.
>>130191707you saying it's worse than 97 or 98? because those are my picks for worst years of the decade.
and here we go
There are no rules. Obscene megabucks, boring rehab, song doctors, turning 40, minuscule interest in doing something new--nothing stands between the world's greatest hard rock band and their best album since Rocks. The drugs long gone, they show a strong professional commitment to rebellion and an undiminished relish for the fleshpots. If the song doctors prescribed "I'd rather be O.D.in' on the/Crack of her ass," not to mention "It's like gettin' head from a guillotine," they were worth every point. And though at first you may miss the killer cut, the "My Fist Your Face" or "Janie's Got a Gun," in fact the midtempo, classic-rock, love-as-pain "Cryin'" should prove irresistible to anyone who doesn't equate good art with doing something new. A-
>>130191667This is a race nobody wins.
Never mind sexual--if snatches like "Make me gag," "Lick my injuries," and "Rub 'til it bleeds" aren't genital per se, I'm a dirty old man. And if the cold raw meat of her guitar isn't yowling for phallic equality, I'm Robert Bly, which is probably the same thing. She wants that cock--a specific one, it would seem, attached to a full-fledged, nonobjectified male human being, or maybe an array or succession of cocks, it's hard to tell. But when she gets pissed off, which given the habits of male human beings happens all the time, she thinks it would be simpler just to posit or grow or strap on or cut off a cock of her own. After which it's bend-over-Casanova and every man for him or herself. A
>>130191852>rating this thing higher than a C
>>130190963Googoo gah gah me liek Raffi>I was born this year
>>130191793>>130191689not music
>>130191793Those old enough to remember know the unfortunate truth: 75% of the people who bought this were white
>>130191980only our dicks win. couldn't care less about their music, just put on their music videos and break out a jar of vaseline.
Guitars screeching every which way, beats speeding and hesitating and slamming chaos back into the box, twentysomething boyvoices whining and arguing and drawling and straining, it's the world according to indie rock: a tantrum set to music as sharp and self-contained as a comedy routine. Aurally, this is now--one now, anyway. If it has zero to say about tomorrow, why don't you just worry about that then? A
i guess this is probably the last Simpsons season right?
He clicks, he clacks, he squawks, he squeaks, he creaks, he groans, he moans. That's not the point. Old guys with worse voices have sung better--Champion Jack Dupree prevailed in his 80s because he didn't stake his manhood on the technical impeccability of his instrument. Now, although Sinatra still sings better than the likes of Bono and Carly Simon, Luther Vandross runs rings around him in the vocal department while Liza Minnelli out-acts him. Lesson learned: He who lives by the larynx dies by the larynx. C
>>130190963now that the Democrats are back in power gay people will finally have rights. so many good souls lost over the last decade. gone too soon...
>>130192158What an unfortunate way to go out.
Having erected a whole label around this piece of history, the legendary artiste and his new management returned triumphantly to the corporate scene of the artiste's salad days. But within a few months it had stiffed irretrievably, whereupon BMG-né-RCA dumped both artiste and label for a comeback as spectacularly ignominious as any rock and roll has known. Oddly enough, the music is the artiste's most arresting in many years; the dancebeats and electrotextures make you prick up your ears and wonder where they'll lead. Then the artiste begins to sing--often lyrics of his own devising, as in the title tune, a metaphor for race relations. B-
>>130192268how do you do fellow kids?
It' just a filler album. Next one is gonna rock hard.
>>130192246that girl became a hamplanet
>>130190963He won
"How 'bout some Nirvana?" you'll say. "Oh yeah, great band," the reply will go. "Really had their own sound. What do you wanna play?" "It don't matter that much, any of the first three." "You mean Bleach?" "Nah, the Geffen albums--not that outtakes thing, but Nevermind or Bluebaby or . . . what did they call the Steve Albini one?" "You mean the really hard one. In Utero. The guitar one." "What do you mean guitar? It had songs on it." "Well, so did the outtakes thing." "The Albini one had better songs, actually. And it was real cadmium besides. Toxic." "You have to play it loud, though. And aren't you supposed to crank the treble too? I liked Nevermind better." "I liked Bluebaby a little better too. But that was a good album. Go ahead. Once Madonna conks out, she sleeps through the night. She's a good baby that way--nothing wakes her up. Come on, let me relive my youth." "I hope you don't regret it in the morning." "These days, I never regret anything in the morning. I'm too fucking tired to bother. Let her rip." A
>>130191258Def Leppard got to #12 on Billboard this year with Two Steps Behind from the Last Action Hero soundtrack.
Don't blame me, I voted for Perot.
>>130192408One of Cuckgau's most incomprehensible reviews of all time.
>>130191994the fuck is this weirdo's problem?
More how do you do fellow kids?
If Idol's interest in William Gibson's uncopyrightable neologism was originally piqued by the dollar signs that appear in front of his eyes whenever he encounters the magic rune p-u-n-k, well, the fate of any good idea is that sooner or later it touches people with no deep connection to it--like punk itself and the former William Broad, for instance. Not that Idol would think of offending this new generation he's read about. So "Adam in Chains," which after a long spoken intro devolves into what a vulgarian might take for his latest love-gone-bad rant, is in fact "a prayer for the tomorrow people and powerjunkies." And the deathless "Suck on my love meat" is intended as a critique, not a celebration. Sexist, our Billy? How cyber would that be? C-
>>130191009Hey guys, I am a tabloid writer. Let me get this straight. First, Wacko Jacko buys a pet monkeyThen he becomes white Then he tries to buy The Elephant Man’s skeletonThen he buys a ranch house with a amusement park and zooThen he sleeps in a oxygen chamberThen he smashes a car for no apparent reason NOW he’s kidnapping little boys, taking them to his ranch and doing God-knows-what to them.I can see all of the money coming in already.
I've never seen the point of hating U2. Their sound was their own from the git, and for a very famous person, Bono has always seemed thoughtful and good-hearted. I liked what I read about their pop irony, too. Problem was, I couldn't hear it--after many, many tries, Achtung Baby still sounded like a damnably diffuse U2 album to me, and I put it in the hall unable to describe a single song. But having processed this blatant cool move, I'm ready to wax theoretical. Achtung Baby was produced by Daniel Lanois, and Daniel Lanois isn't Brian Eno--he's Eno's pet romantic, too soft to undercut U2's grandiosity, although I admittedly enjoy a few of its anthems-in-disguise now. Zooropa, on the other hand, is half an Eno album the way Low and "Heroes" were. The difference is that Bowie and Eno were fresher in 1977 than Bono and Eno are today. Each must have hoped that the other's strength would patch over his own weakness--that Eno's oft-wearisome affectlessness would be mitigated by Bono's oft-wearisome expressionism and vice versa. But tics ain't strengths, and although these pomo paradoxes have their moments, when I'm feeling snippy the whole project seems a disastrously affected pastiche of relinquished principle. B-
but it's really great schtick ("Born To Raise Hell", "On Your Feet Or On Your Knees") *
>>130192580>I've never seen the point of hating U2Believe me, I sure as hell can.
Gen X Comedy Hour X 2 ("Strength--Pt. 2," "Airplanes") **
David Crosby adds new meaning to the word "survivor", meaning "if you can't kill the motherfucker at least make sure he doesn't breed" and until VH1 got onto the revolting "Heroes" video I'd hoped never to sample this piece of make-work for his rich, underemployed friends. Oh, well. The only thing that could render it more self-congratulatory would be a cover of Jefferson Black Hole's "We Built This City." C-
Goodnight sweet prince.
Grandma Rosie keeping the spirit of jazz alive.
She's a rebel, and if all goes well, also a pathfinder, which isn't certain mainly because the acts and attitudes that make her a rebel are so normal. Her number of partners may be over toward the right side of the bell curve. She may have commitment problems. But for at least two decades, bohemian women of a certain age have displayed this much desire, independence, bitchiness, self-doubt, and general weirdness--while continuing to pin down the unmanly emotional apercus that make "Dance of the Seven Veils" and "Divorce Song" so gender-specific. They can behave this way if they want--they're just not supposed to come out of the closet about it. And while Phair knows more than enough about tunes and guitars to challenge the taboo, the weirdness level of her spare, intuitive, insinuating demos-plus is bohemia-specific. Which is apt for sure. But not necessarily pathfinding. A
His crusade against the used-CD scourge puts him up there with Rudy Giuliani on the ever-growing list of public figures who could have gone either way and promptly went that, and like Rudy, he wants the world to know that he has no use for the welfare crowd. Nor is his music getting any purer. But it is getting Garther, which means it may soon approach wonder-of-nature status--if there's anybody trying to stuff bigger emotions into a song, he or she is a lot crazier than this professional entertainer. As garish as their titles, "Standing Outside the Fire" and "The Red Strokes" won't convert skeptics. But that kind of middle-class heat is what he's about. When he calls his Baton Rouge honey every hundred miles, you can feel his dick throbbing--probably even if you don't have one yourself, which is of course the idea. And when he constructs a soap-opera plot about how an adultery connects to a random suicide, he enters passion's twilight zone. A-
>>130192675>I went to prison for being human garbage>please feel sorry for meFuck off, Dave.
Actually we are alternative rock and were all along, honest!
>>130192927no, Brett, no
when is this dumb rap thing ever gonna go away?
this is how we chill from 93 tilthis is how we chill from 93 until
>>130192927Kino.
The inspired amateur caterwaul of a thousand zine dreams, more convincing than the boys' version even if it isn't as good as it ought to be or as right on as it thinks it is. By now male hardcore bands feel obliged to at least master the fast four-four, which has its advantages but ends up formulaic. This music scorns all rules--there's no way to prepare for it. The primitive tunes stick like peanut butter to the barbed-wire sound, and while Kathleen Hanna stays calm on her love song "For Tammy Rae," she prefers to break her lyrics down into preverbal emotion--the big-dick grunts of "Sugar," the can't-come screams of "Star Bellied Boy," the scratch-your-eyes-out ululations of "Li'l Red." Ideological though their rage may be, it comes off rooted rather than received or rote, so they scare people. If I were young enough to have girlfriend problems, I might scrounge around for ad feminem putdowns myself. A-
>>130192927It is and isn't. Brett Michaels has always been a country/blues boy at heart, unfortunately liking a music format doesn't equal being able to write or perform it and this album proves it.
Talk about your anxiety of influence. As someone who never thought punk had much to do with musicianship or musicianship much to do with GN'R, I remain impressed even with the excitement worn off. I mean, Axl Rose damn near stealing "Human Being" from David Johansen? Because his drummer is so fierce? Fear and UK Subs (!) and Nazareth (!!) tunes that belong on the same record? What would Harold Bloom say? Something about Axl being a shitty songwriter, I hope. Which wouldn't be altogether fair. But hey--criticism is unfair. A-
Mariah and Janet should make a lesbian porno.
>>130192927all we need is for Motley Crue to try this same stunt. say, whatever happened to them anyway?
Adam Duritz sings like the dutiful son of permissive parents I hope don't sit next to me at Woodstock. He went to good summer camps; he doesn't eat junk food; he's confused about all the right things. And he's not going away anytime soon--so starved are his peers for a show of musical emotion more learned than Mariah Carey's that some even compare him to Van Morrison, as if all sodden self-pity were the same. It doesn't end with Duritz, either--"Mr. Jones" and "Anna Begins" might live up to the songs in them if the band conceived the tracks as music first and songs second. Folk-rockers never do. B-
>>130191240wait they had albums other than DUTG?
>>130191209this was the last time Pearl Jam were cool and everyone had to get their albums before they turned into douchebags who refused to do music videos and whatnot
singing the erotic obsession and existential futility of any spirit too long attached to the flesh, then trying for love too late ("Evening Gown," "Hang On to Me Tonight") ***
>thread about a specific year>nothing but Cuckgau spamNever change
>>130193977the last thread we did was for 1953 so Cuckgau was in grade school back then
>>130193489One of the albums that launched buttrock.
>>130194036We need more 1950s thread then
>>130194053But then it would just be complaining about Mitch Miller and Pat Boone.
>>130192601This was released on a German label who unsurprisingly only promoted it in Germany so it got absolutely no attention or sales anywhere else. Also Lemmy is turning into a boomer by this point as he's upping the war songs and doing fewer party and sex songs.
>>130192158Ugh, if only he'd stopped with L.A. Is My Lady.
>>130193155fiends keep me paidthe shadeis mine to lounge inso broke niggas how's that soundin'?
>>130191009>Muh buttocks>Muh peneth
>>130194036>>130192158>>130192819two grizzled old folks who were here with us in 1953 and are here with us in 1993 (even if Frank really shouldn't be by this point).
As Nova Scotian as lox and bagels, it's orthodox North American neohip. The specifics of the Halifax "scene" are irrelevant; dissonant, guitar-decentered pop has become the province of anyone within reach of a culturally correct college radio station--anyone "Left of Centre," a title that refers in so many words to "pop culture" rather than politics. The most meaningful song is the opener, about a cool coed whose grade average is higher than the singer's even though "her spelling's atrocious." Everywhere else, the ugly beauty of the guitars sustains. B+
>>130194316Alvvays have spent their entire fatuous career being the world's greatest Sloan tribute act.
folkie and proud, he's earned one of these things if anyone has ("World on a String," "Like a Hurricane") ***
>>130194435That's not Sinatra's I've Got the World on a String, amusing as that might be.
>>130194435can't say i love Like a Hurricane mostly because of the church organ
Surprised, that cover looks rather like 98-99 than it does 93.
>>130194739to those who complained Cuckgau never liked Saint Etienne, you happy?
>>130194739pedo cover art
>>130194849that's the singer when she was a kid, you yogurt head
simple music for a perfect world ("All That She Wants," "Happy Nation") ***
>>130194960oh fuck you, Max Martin. just...just fuck you.
>>130194739Chvrches so badly wanted to be these guys but they never had what it took.
Fey and ironic naturellement, but I wasn't ready for baroque--techno synths, massed brass, Village People chorus boys. And I also wasn't ready for sincere. For all his "I've been a teenager since before you were born," Neil Tennant finally seems, well, ready to love--finally seems to comprehend that needing another human being is more than an experiment you perform on your feelings, a way to insure that you'll not only be ravished but ravished exquisitely. Convinced cornballs may still find his emotions attenuated, but I say the production values suit the tumult in his heart and the melodies the sweetness in his soul. And I dare anybody who still thinks he's just talking to notate his high notes. A
As a mere admirer of Funky Divas, I prefer this stopgap EP's techno "What Is Love," rap "Hip Hop Lover," and dancehall "Desire." Qua song, "Runaway Love" cuts any of them. And Salt-n-Pepa's "Whatta Man" is the second catchiest and first funkiest thing they've ever put their larynxes on. Backup singing may not be their vocation, but they can always pay the bills with it. A-
>>130195054>>130194316ol' Bob just can't resist singers doing bad beat poetry
>>130191317Nah
In a year when the big rappers have either repeated tired outrages or outgrown them, Kelly's crude, chartwise new jack swing is black pop's most depressing development. An effective singer in the post-Stevie new-soul mode whose way with a beat is confirmed by an impressive catalogue of bestselling productions, he aims his common denominator straight at the solar plexus. He has no apparent interest in tune--the Spinners' "Sadie" sounds positively angelic after "Summer Bunnies" and "I Like the Crotch on You." And despite a few moments of class consciousness, he displays far less human decency in his quest for booty than such unaltruistic competitors as Jodeci and Boyz II Men. But lest anyone suspect he lacks moral acuity, he offers this Inspirational Liner Note: "To all those women out there when I step off in a club--don't treat me like I'm just anybody because you end up treating me like I'm nobody and that's wrong." C+
>>130191333opening single is sort of autobiographical but not
Many of the rock belter's more overwrought cris de coeur decode nicely into SOS's from the closet. But somehow I don't expect she's going to abandon her fevered word-slinging and musclebound dynamics now that her open secret is officially public. She'll always do her damnedest to make sure no one misses the full significance of images like "naked soul," "ache for something new," and "stand firm in the tempest." Patty Scialfa is Shonen Knife by comparison. But I blame Etheridge on Bruce anyway. C+
>>130195344let it be known. they were already pushing this kind of crap back then.
>>130195485yay, I'm Canadian didn't you notice? XD
>>130191264>talking like a brainrotted millennialunderage b&
>>130195514on album two's cover she decided to go for a summer theme and wear fewer clothes. which, really, is all she was good for in the end anyway.
Proof we didn't need that his talent is as phat as an elefant's phart and his brain is the size of a pea. Only it isn't his brain--it's his ability to comprehend contradiction. Like Michael Ivey, of all people, he flunked his follow-up because he can't figure out how to put success and rap together. Where Ivey (or the Basehead "character," ha ha) takes his dorky confusion out on women, L.L.'s sexism is love-man suave--his "It's so relaxin'" after a piece of pussy gets off in the back of his Jeep is a rare moment of grace. Instead he slings the gangsta metaphors and handgun memories in the vain hope that the guys hanging out by the check-cashing place will think he's hard. But from the look of the crotch he's grabbing in several photos, as of now he just ain't. B
>>130192719my dad hasn't stopped crying since he heard the news
I am born.
>>130195583Thank God!
>>130195570damn, that's the gayest thing i ever read, not cool man
>>130192226I don't even think he recorded in the same room with the guest singers. Just a lame way for Capitol to squeeze one last pay day out of the old guy before he died.
>>130192866>His crusade against the used-CD scourge putsWait, what!?
>>130191852SNL had a skit ridiculing Aerosmith's penchant for dozens of interchangeable ballads that all had Amazing or Crazy in the title.
>>130192819By the 90s she looked like one of those Russian nesting dolls.
>>130192508this is kind of cool, but tf still cared about Billy Idol in 1993?
>>130192580by this point they were already kind of washed
>>130195963it looks like she's pregnant with all five of her kids at once
>>130195765the rest of the band hated those fucking ballads. why Steven Tyler didn't put them on a solo album i have no idea.
>>130195963right is Diana Krall aka the queen of Bed, Bath, and Beyond sound system music. funny how miserable she looks while Clooney looks happy and enjoying herself despite being old, weighing 400 pounds, and having lived a pretty hard life.
>>1301934894/10 album>>130193431yeah i bet they would try an alternative rock album to get back on the charts
>>130193208riot grrl was never as good as critics claimed it was>>130193347>1988>Grrr, I hate GNR so much fucking dumb meathead rock I swear>1993>Guns does an album of classic punk covers>WTF? I love GNR now!
>>130191994this is one of the worst things ever written
>>130195163This>>130193208God this band is evil
>>130195169he quit while he was ahead, unlike Sinatra
>>130196166to be fair Krall modeled herself more on Peggy Lee or Julie London than Clooney
>>130195243wasn't this some kind of Saint Etienne-esque dance pop album?
>>130191865i bet my mom would love this one
somehow his axe and his voice sing the same tune, momentarily transmuting his self-pity into simple sadness ("Out There," "Start Choppin") **
>>130196377i hate "Independence Day"
>>130196404my main memory of that song was Sean Hannity using it as his bumper music when my mom would listen to him in the car
>>130192719He threatened to run for President in '92 and the CIA killed him for it.
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