http://youtube.com/v/zs5kvCY22uc #6 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” Known widely for their theme (“Having an Average Weekend”) and incidental music for the Kids in the Hall show, SMOASP made three of the best – maybe the best ever — albums of surf-rock. And I’m counting the Ventures, Dick Dale, and the […]
http://youtube.com/v/aSZKlAAUfR8 #7 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” Did the Whigs make it out of the 90s? If they did, I decree it false. “Up In It” ought to be played in full at the next ATP. Marcy Mays (Scrawl! I miss thee also!) breaks my heart anew with this one […]
http://youtube.com/v/DX0WiCJEnUA #8 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” list For those of us who saw them live, nothing needs to be explained. Not for kids.
http://youtube.com/v/imZN26YwhM0 #9 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” list. I recall tenuous connections to MBV and Aphex Twin for these guys, could be wrong.
http://youtube.com/v/jzGRcPA4A1Q #10 in my “Bands/Artists from the 90s Whom I Miss Most” list. I think one of these guys is in SunO))) now “Bear Catching Fish” was a stunner of an album, but Slint got all the press
until I saw this. Someday, I’ll recall all the shows I’ve seen there.
In the interest of all thing negative and reductive, here’s a response to the top ten albums of 2008 as chosen by Penusfork. 10.DJ/RuptureUprootI did like the “Brooklyn Anthem,” despite the carpetbagging. But while most tracks are accomplished dancehall-dubstep-electro hybrids, I still can’t get the memory of bad drum n’ bass/jungle out of my head […]
http://youtube.com/v/IFvKGDplH24 #9 in the “You Had Them All Wrong” 80s bands’ list. SBMs were best known for the non-hit wonder, “Wild Blue Yonder,” but their full-length stateside debut is stellar all the way through. I never got to see them live, nor did I care for anything they did after this, but I did see […]
http://youtube.com/v/yTvgKFbelkw In an 80s documentary on the Fairlight, he said: “I’m certain the third world is going to have an increasing influence on our culture; and in music, a very vigorous hybrid will be produced, which is based on this non-european influence, and new technology, which is going to get cheap, and this facility will […]
http://youtube.com/v/JlRobLl4pGA #7 in the “you had them all wrong” 80s bands list. Sure, CH wrote perfect but airless pop on their debut. Yet a few songs hinted darker streams flowed through Neil Finn, and he let loose with the darkness on their subsequent and best album, “Temple of Low Men.” Not your average pop by […]
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