Found out about these two recently.They have some pretty solid music. Their careers will seem pretty promising so far. What do you guys think about Biggie's producer? He seems a little skeevy but I've liked some of his stuff. Bet he's got great stuff ahead too.
>>131363507bros this is the year zoomers start getting producedwe must prevent it at ALL costsyou know what to do
>>131363507The Allman Brothers Band is shredding hard these days- the new cats Warren and Woody are absolute monsters. I hope they dont leave the band...The new live album is straight fire. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjO1o2C5ACs
This was disappointing. It's not the worst thing ever, I guess, but it's some of the weakest songs he ever made. Especially that R. Kelly ballad. Ugh. I can't see how things could get any worse for him.
dude i'm so fucking sick of alanis morissette
hate blurhate waysis toohate britpopluvs me big beatluvs me trip 'opluvs me dnbsimple as
>tf no sexy hacker gf to play games with:(
>>131363693>Black Grape that highit's a completely forgotten band now
>>131363507New Extreme album just dropped. Nuno is so fucking good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8D0gvyrBQQ
>>131363507AND SOOOO SALLY CAN WAIT
One track from the 80s you would play on a roadtrip?“Shout” – Tears for Fears“Summer of ’69” – Bryan Adams“I Love Rock ’n Roll” – Joan Jett“One Vision” – Queen
Damn this Britpop shit is getting good
>>131363741it was a big album at the time (in the uk at least), critics loved it too, its weird how forgotten it is, probably cos it doesn't fit neatly into britpop or big beat or other scenes of the time but its success was in crossing over a lot of those worlds, BG were one of a few bands that could play dance fests, raves as well as regular rock gigs.The follow up album bombed and once the Mondays started doing nostalgia tours they completely memory holed Black Grape
Like any pop skyrocket, Gwen Stefani is video-driven, and so hebephrenic you know she unprotests too much. The production's as bizzy as the Ivy at lunchtime, too. But this act's real problem is ska. Since the dawn of two-tone there hasn't been a single band in the style--excluding the punk Rancid but including Madness and the Specials--that was as songful as its fun-besotted partisans claimed. When that hippity-hop beat is hyped up for postpunk consumption, its energy somehow precludes tune. Not that she could sing in the same shower as classic Cyndi Lauper anyway. But classic Belinda Carlisle is another story. C+
>>131363946that shitty album cover certainly didn't help too
the last year before boybands ruined everything
>>131364000what's a boy band? you mean like boyz II men?
>>131364000Like the Beatles?
>>131363693Black Grape, Pumpkins and Tilt are the best of a pretty sorry lot. 1995 was a pretty sad year
>>131364044Yes
LOL this dumbass wants to be an actor now. Surely no one will ever take him serious...
>>131364394Is he taking a break from beating up elderly asian guys?
>>131363507Bro, I'm so stoked for the new Mercury Rev album coming out next month. If it's anything like the last two records, it's gonna be fucking insane. They mog the Flaming Lips so hard.
>>131363592>bros this is the year zoomers start getting producedNo they don't. Why do people have such a hard time grasping the fact that the start of gen Z is 1997?
AOTY dropped bros
>>131363592what's a zoomer, is it a toy?we're talking music here kid
>>131363693>elasticalmao
cool
SPENDIN' MOST OUR LIVESLIVIN' IN THE GANGSTA'S PARADISE
It's 1995 and now that I'm older, stress weighs on my shoulders
If the popular songs you love are gunslinging tales recited over a faux Bernie Worrell tootle, of course this wordy quintet will sound like some kind of change. Unison chants, schoolyard tunes, and goopy slow jams may not be how to rock anybody else's world, but gangstawise they add up to a new flava, kinda. Anyone musical enough to hum good, however, will find the concoction unfathomably dull even if they don't notice the cold hand of Eazy-E deadening beats from beyond the grave. C
>>131363718Burn's wetware matches her software.
Tough-guy sentimentality is an old story in American culture, but self-pity this rank is usually reserved for teen romances and tales of brave avant-gardists callously rejected by the mass media. His I-love-Mom rings true because Mom was no saint, and his respect for old G's seems genuine, probably because they told him how smart he was. But whether the metaphor be dead homies or suicide threat, the subtext of his persecution complex is his self-regard. What's doubly galling is that these are essential hip hop themes--as Ice Cube and B.I.G. have made all too vivid, it is persecution that induces young black men to kill each other and themselves. That such themes should rise to the top of the charts with this witless exponent of famous-for-being-famous is why pop fans decry the mass media. C+
>>131363579Is that 2pac? That nigga has been on my mind. No cap, I been thinking about that time when I barebacked him raw in a San Diego motel. That shit had to be the tightest, blackest, wettest boy pussy I've ever laid pipe into. I swear to God, the most heavenly high is gargling that wonderboy's nuts while going fist deep into his shitter. I had 2pac screaming in the sheets with head too ridiculous to ignore. That nigga frotted my cock until he busted on my mouth, I had to return the favor. That nigga 2pac and I been fucking non-stop ever since, but keep that shit on the DL. He does that shit for free. If you're gonna ask me how to "long" 2pac, I'll be deadass. All you gotta do is ask, be straight up, and get physical real quick. Touch his nuts, get on ya knees, talk your shit. He doesn't play around with no pansy-ass niggas either. He likes his men manly, and his dick thick. Dark skin, 6'5 is the minimum and I ain't talking about height boy.That nigga 2pac stole my heart and drank my seed.
RIP Jerry :( massive fucking F sticky this shit now ffs
CHANGED A LOT AND THEN SOME SOMEKNOW THAT WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN DOWN DOWN
>>131365482this rap shit gotta be on it's last legs by now. enough already!
>>131365482>>131365459>>131365420Not music.
baka can't believe Tony Bennett won AOTY. Eric Clapton's From the Cradle was ROBBED I tell you!
>>131365482>>131365459>>131365420The unfortunate truth: 75% of the people who bought these albums were white
>>131365550oh of course but were they aware of their whiteness at the time or under some sort of delusion?
You guys catching Seinfeld tomorrow night? What's Kramer gonna do next?
>>131365550eh...Pac, sure but Mobb Deep and BT&H had a pretty much black audience without much crossover.
>>131365580I get bad vibes from the actor, seems like he could fly off the handle at any second.
A little heavy-handed (all right, a little _more_ heavy-handed), with three rodeo songs and a big fat Irish anthem that won't be to everyone's taste (all right, your taste). Don't matter, because he's so far from the schlock phony he's taken for--so open-hearted, so extreme, so sui generis--that all but a couple of tracks do his thing even when he's protesting too much (which, all right, may be his thing). Cute trick: the two about marriage explain his weakness for bucking broncos. B+
>>131365512Racist
>>131365667Aw, thanks!
now that cobain kicked it I got a really good feeling that's finally time to bring back hair metal. long overdue.
madonna old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ6kaNcsw4Q
>>131365591>eh...Pac, sure but Mobb Deep and BT&H had a pretty much black audience without much crossover.
>>131365629This man ruined country forever.
>>131365905That's a recent pic, not from the 90s and doesn't count. I mean if you go and see old-ass 70s funk bands in this century there's like three black boomers and mostly overweight white guys with Nintendo character shirts in the audience.
Billie Joe has an instinctive hold on the rock and roll virtue of sounding like you mean--his songs conceptualize his natural whine with a musicality that undercuts his defeatism only don't be so sure. "I'm a smart-ass but I'm playing dumb": eight million sold and all he admits to knowing is the futility of Telegraph Avenue losers who dis the rich occasionally and each other all the time. How he'll feel when this one doesn't sell two million we should all want to know. A-
I'd bet $50 bucks back in '90 that she wouldn't last a year and...welp...
>>131365957When they were still pure. Now if only they'd disbanded after this album.
Ha ha remember when we used to listen to those lame hairspray bands. What were we thinking back then?
This well-regarded little item rekindles my primeval suspicion of Europeans who presume to "improve" on rock and roll (or for that matter Betty Hutton, originator of the best song here). I don't miss the Sugarcubes' guitars per se so much as their commitment to the groove, which--sporadic though it would remain, Iceland not being one of your blues hotbeds--might shore up the limited but real intrinsic interest of her eccentric instrumentation, electronic timbres, etc. Then there's her, how shall I say it, self-involved vocal devices. Which brings us to, right, her lyrics, which might hit home harder if she'd grown up speaking the English she'll die singing, but probably wouldn't. Anybody out there remember Dagmar Krause? German, Henry Cow, into artsong and proud of it? Well, take my word for it. She was no great shakes either. But at least she had politics. C+
>>131366079Bjork sucks dick.
>>131366079fuck this yoko ono wannabe what did you think of the new Jethro Tull, Roots to Branches?
>>131366070Poison is playing gas stations in Topeka now. It seems like only last week that they were arena headliners.
Eric Bachmann's pissed-off, speechlike yowl-to-croak isn't as callow or pop as Stephen Malkmus's demented, speechlike croon-to-whine, but their bands share an aural gestalt: tuneful two-guitar breaks that set off unkempt explosions before recombining in brief climaxes soon interrupted by more disarray. The Archers trace the agitated melodies and off guitar to the Replacements, as if the clamor Bob Stinson unloosed by accident and spirit possession was instead planned out by former sax major Bachmann and axe-wielding bad boy Eric Johnson. With Paul Westerberg an adept of the realistic popsong and the Archers' titles so gnomic they forget them themselves, I resisted this notion until the show where I caught myself shouting out a whole utterly comprehensible stanza: "They caught and drowned the front man/Of the world's worst rock and roll band/He was out of luck/Because nobody gave a fuck/The jury gathered all around the aqueduct/Drinking and laughing and lighting up/Reminiscing just how bad he sucked/Singin' throw him in the river/Throw him in the river/Throw him in the river/Throw the bastard in the river." A
>>131366175thanks USAID
In memory of those we lost this year (Eazy-E not included because not music)
With their damn newsletter at 80,000 and counting, the growth of their economic base is impervious not just to criticism but to any eventuality that doesn't involve the breakdown of the American transportation system. So give 'em 10 years, and don't worry you'll miss something in the meantime. Phish isn't a classic two-guitar jamming band like the Allmans or those guys from Marin. It's a keyb-guitar-bass-drums quartet, its music dominated conceptually by the high-cholesterol chords and florid arpeggios of Page McConnell's piano. Occasionally there's a good song--naif that I am, I like the one called "Simple." But they've never put more than a couple on one studio album, and this two-hour live double is where they show off their base-building specialties, e.g. "a mind-blowing 35-minute version of `Tweezer'"--which is actually only 31, praise God, and guess what else they got wrong? C+
>>131366334this is shit. tf were they thinking hiring the fucking Jane's Addiction guitarist? where is John?
Aw yeah
Worth ignoring while she was merely precious, she must command our brief attention now that she's becoming overvalued as well. With the possible exception of Saint Joanie, who at least has stature, this is the bad folkie joke to end all bad folkie jokes. Between her breathless baby-doll sexuality, abiding love of her own voice, and useless ideas about injustice and prejudice, she may well prove to be the most insufferable individual yet to pick up a hollow-body guitar. End of story--I hope. C-
>>131366397her and Mariah should do a lesbian porno
>>131365945Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to unblack your gf and your music taste. I'm sure you've got good reasons to think Bobb Vageen sold the majority of their albums to those cool black teenagers in the epic nineties. I mean you were there, right?
>>131366397don't care about Jewel's music but god she was so hot back then
No way does the sex on this concept album recall Prince or Marvin Gaye--spiritually, its precursors are Kiss and Judas Priest. Rather than lust between equals, it's powerful men manipulating starstruck girls. And since the backstage adventure with the lawsuit attached somehow goes unrecounted--supposedly, DeVante pointed a gun while K-Ci felt the complainant up, with both love men pleading guilty to less specific charges--only a fool would take their word about how knowing their honeys are. So here's hoping your mama didn't raise no fools. And here's hoping this papa didn't either. B-
>>131366440"Carnival" is just Laura Branigan's "Self-Control" with Seinfeld bass, big deal.
>>131366452>No way does the sex on this concept album recall Prince or Marvin Gaye--spiritually, its precursors are Kiss and Judas Priest. Rather than lust between equals, it's powerful men manipulating starstruck girls.Somehow I don't think Judas Priest were boning girls.
>>131366285RIP Jerruh.
Four albums in three years, each sonically distinct, each adding a thematic facet to a coherent sensibility. Pretty good for an alleged up-and-comer, eh? In fact, major, and I'll reserve the G-word if you will. Bored with raunchy details, she's going for universals: salvation, rapture, fulfillment, escape. Putting aside her rough lead guitar as unequal to this quest, she's applied herself instead to opera lessons that in no way prettify vocals that were pretty amazing even before they assumed all this range, modulation, and command, and traded in Steve Albini for Flood to help her get at some postsexual imperatives. The fuller sound they arrive at is far from slick--her buzzy keybs are as ominous as her guitar, her register shifts weirder than ever, and the mix can get disconcertingly murky. So watch out for pigeonholes. To fixate on blues or sex is to sell short religious yearnings, avant-garde affinities, and pop potential that are all intensified on an album whose generalization level only magnifies its impact. And to figure she's hellbent on the big time is not to think at all. A
I guess they're going to do 1-2 more Simpsons seasons before the show ends.
"He's grown up a little," an intelligent young member of his target audience was gratified to report, and that's a reasonable explanation for his surprise abandonment of bump-and-mack banality. But as a sage old outsider, I wonder whether he hasn't also sold out a little--and whether pop music and the world aren't better off for his market-driven pursuit of the love-man demographic. Luther's ladies buy as many tapes and CDs as B-girls do, and in real stores, too. So as said B-girls evolve into jobholding consumers who won't get played, a fella with his eye on the main chance learns to improve the quality of his dubious promises: "Trade in my life for you," that's strong, and no harm in a little "goin' down on you by the fireplace." Add a dollop of Dre, a cup of Isleys, and more church than he sees the inside of in a year, and you have the smartest and sexiest new jack swing since Teddy Riley fell off the edge of the biz. A-
>>131366334it's just the same old funk chords they always did with buttrock solos
Her supposed comeback in fact a breakthrough, she never approached gold back in the day, and hence was never big enough for a live album until now. This is lucky timing, because Grammy-era bland-out rarely dulls her concerts, where her roots-respectin' rockers come out raunchy, her tender ballads casually intimate. So even if you love Nick of Time, this two-CD mix of old songs and new illustrates why Raitt became an icon while Ronstadt turned into a gargoyle. She creates a world in which Bruce Hornsby and Bryan Adams project as much soul as Ruth Brown and Charles Brown. She's so free of ironic impurities she sings "Burning Down the House" as if it means one thing. And her parting words aren't "Take care of yourselves"--they're "Take care of each other." A-
