ITT: /mu/ in 1996
>>131877361Awlright, are you ready for this?
>>131877361People born in this year are EPIC.
Alanis Morrisette and Jewel should make a lesbian porno, y'know what I'm saying?
Bob Dole just likes to hear Bob Dole talking about Bob Dole. Bob Dole!
Rock is dead, man. Korn and Manson suck ass. This is what you zoomers actually listen to?
>>131877361the first year since 89 without a Mariah Carey album. that's a plus at least (well, technically MTV Unplugged was an EP not a full album)
>>131877597what's a "zoomer"?have you read the netiquette?you might be a noobie
Goodnight sweet princess.
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As a joke about disco and a joke about heavy, Al Jourgensen's dance-industrial had some wit to it. Here the motherfucker realizes metal fans will throw money at you long after your hip credentials have gone the way of your hard-on. Result: Aside from the funnier-than-shit "Lay, Lady, Lay", a grindcore album worth hating. C
>>131877793after this one i decided i didn't need to listen to Ministry anymore
ha ha time to go on comp.sys.mac and post another "Apple will soon go le bankrupt" thread
>>131877672only notable music death of the year, unless you count Teresa Brewer's buttjazz husband (i don't count Pac 'cause not music)
Another Christgau spam thread.
>>131877793Also middle class Christians who vote Republican aren't an especially convincing villain.
Obviously not stupid, which I can understand means a lot to them after their troubled childhoods, these guys are the class of the American post-rock cough cough hack hack movement ptooey ptooey. But I would direct their attention to the British band Mark-Almond, a now forgotten jamming unit that achieved real sales and a measure of hip around the time they were born. Not that I necessarily think these "eclectic," consciously unspacy, all too unhurried soundscape improvisations are destined for the same degree of obscurity. Patterns of culture have changed, and in a boutique economy, this shit, like all other shit, is probably here to stay. Still, there are surer roads to posterity. Best moment: the lead bassline, lifted directly from "Poptones" (by PiL, kids). B−
>>131877963Tortoise sucks ass.
ha ha imagine ten years ago the idea of hearing them at the mall when you shop for skateboards
>>131877963aw man, the opening track is 20 minutes? the evils CDs permit that never used to be possible.
depression brutally simplified ("Ty Cobb", "Applebite") *
Only one more year until Limp Bizkit ruin rock forever.
>>131877696honestly she was pretty annoying (if hot)
wonder where that Allman Brothers poster is?
best friend just got one. mom says no :(
dammit, I forgot to tape Voyager last night
>>131878070It sounds like some slop you'd find on a CD-ROM demo you got free in the mail with your Electronic Gaming Monthly subscription.
The most street of the Clan--not comic like Ol' Dirty Bastard or mack like Method Man, not deep like Raekwon or Genius either. In a word, gangsta--East Coast-style, reflective and observant, only he doesn't vow to go straight all the time. By his own account, he's done a lot of bad things, and within five minutes he's spewing some of the vilest woman-hate in the sorry history of the subgenre. But the detail is so vivid and complex that for once we get the gripping blaxploitation flick gangsta promises rather than the dull or murky one it delivers. True crime tales like the vengeful "Motherless Child" and the unstoppable "260" are gritty and action-packed, and even the spew plays out as exactly what a long-dicked knucklehead would want to say to the young thing who done him wrong. Then there are moments like "Camay," in which social-climbing crew members move on a legal secretary and an assistant manager at Paragon, and the social-realist family reminiscence "All That I Got Is You." Most decisive of all, RZA's music is every bit as literal as Ghostface's rhymes and rap, giving up tunes, even hooks. As soulful as Tony Toni Toné--maybe more. A
>>131878347>>131877827>>131877722that shit's not music, bro
What verbal content you can parse might be sardonic if it carried any emotional weight at all--conned customers, security from LAX to JFK, assassination on Christmas eve. Yet it's too hoarse and wild to seem detached or even deadpan; basically what it gives off is intelligence, as a given you live with rather than a goal you achieve. The import's in croaked, wild, intelligent music that's also virtuosic, especially up against the myriad alt bands who fancy themselves players these days. The controlled discord of the four instrumentals recalls the compositional smarts of Eric Bachmann's sax-based Barry Black, but the nasty little guitar lines have Eric Johnson all over them, and bass and drums put in their two bits as well. True, their WEA debut could be more songful. But don't blame them for making the most of the cognitive dissonance that is their lot. A−
New Fall record is great.
>>131878409what is this fag's boner for AoL? they're extremely mid.
>>131878409>security from LAX to JFKbut for the wondrous days of pre-9/11 airport security
>>131878607>>131877417Back to the double-wide with you, Billy Bob.
>>131878446They're non-threatening dorks unlike Pantera.
>>131878721wait, HoP had more than one album?
Tricia had a dream, and by 1985 she was in Nashville pursuing it--studying "music business," as her bio says, at Belmont College. An internship and some demo singing later, she had signed with MCA, where she now epitomizes the blandness of today's quality country. Not that she's bad or anything. Her voice is big and precise, and she ends up with a good song or two on every album--including this one, where she doesn't ruin strong titles by Kevin Welch and Steve Goodman and brings off a terrific Matraca Berg line about chocolate and magazines. But if songwriters love her so much, it must be because she brings nothing to the song but what they put there. The same cannot be said of Willie Nelson, George Jones, Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks--even Shania Twain. In pop music, good taste isn't timeless. It's boring. B
>>131878825>Tricia had a dream, and by 1985 she was in Nashville pursuing it--studying "music business," as her bio says, at Belmont College. An internship and some demo singing later, she had signed with MCA, where she now epitomizes the blandness of today's quality countrythat's a funny way of saying she got a record deal by deep-throating Garth Brooks's dick>In pop music, good taste isn't timeless. It's boringthat part is correct
>>131878943Manson was never good.
Not as horrible as lead tracks fronted by the frontpersons of Concrete Blonde and INXS promise--in fact, once you forgive Johnette her pain, hers is actually OK. As is that of Live's Ed Kowalczyk, aping not R.E.M. or U2 but (what a dandy idea) Talking Heads, whose frontperson is otherwise much missed--for his personality, his lyrics, his inimitable guitar, his glue. Best in show: "Punk Lolita," in which Tina, Chris, and Jerry back Tina, Debbie, and Johnette with results that recall no one so much as (what a dandy idea) Tom Tom Club. B−
