1990 in music. • Page 2

wow. I haven't heard enough albums from this year to vote.

 

do you only listen to new music or something?

not trying to be a dick. it's just always a little odd to me when I encounter people on a music site that don't really go backwards. seem to be quite a few on here.

 

pantera has never really worked for me. not entirely sure why.

 

Checked out Left Hand Path by Entombed - maybe the first time I've listened to an entire death metal album? This was fine, some fun riffs, and it's pretty relentless, though I did kind of feel that I could have turned off after 10 minutes and I would have got the gist, which was pretty much the case by the time it finished.

Maybe not quite as ridiculously heavy and brutal as some of the other death metal stuff I've heard bits of, but much more tolerable in large doses.

 

it’s more that it was one of the first/incredibly influential tones than it is, like, an incredible album. rip to LG.

 

Passages is a really cool collaborative album between Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass. Like a proper punk rock split, they take turns essentially cover and re-interpreting each others work, so we have Ravi Shankar applying his sitars and Indian classic musical approach to Glass' contemporary classical stuff, and Glass doing the same in the opposite directions.

I'm a sucker for a sitar, so I think I preferred Shankar's contributions here, but it's a really enjoyable and interesting album, featuring two artists who I really should spend more time with.

 

I was thinking about this yesterday. I like their energy and the music for the most part, "rocks". But I can't really get INTO them. I'm fine with the shouting/yelling vocals generally, but I think it all gets a bit too same-y.

 

need to check out that Ravi album, love his playing

 

I'll be honest, this year is a bit thin for me, too. I think it was a time of transition between eras and bands I know well and have listened to extensively. And a boom period for styles I'm less well-versed on.

They always have a couple killer songs on every record that carry the rest of the record for me. I also grew up with them.

Aww when I saw this album I was really hoping it was somehow a collaboration. A split is markedly less interesting.

 

i agree. thin year for sure. there are still more than three albums haha.

 

Yeah, I was intrigued by it when I saw it on your Target list! I still enjoyed it though, but yeah was hoping it'd be both of them together, though they are interpreting each others compositions, so still sort of collaborative.

 

1. The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
2. Morrissey - Bona Drag
3. Depeche Mode - Violater

Haven't heard that much from this year either but I adore that Sundays album.

 

there's a three-way tie for first, with each album only having two votes each. it's gonna be very close.

 

Listened to Reading, Writing and Arithmetic by The Sundays from @SpyKi 's list, as I didn't recognise the name at all. This was really nice! Very Cocteau Twins-esque dream pop, with some very Smiths-esque guitar lines. Some great slightly unconventional pop songs here, and from what I caught of the lyrics, they seemed sharp and memorable.

Very enjoyable! Would definitely be back for more here.

 

The Black Crowes - Shake Your Moneymaker
Yes, it sounds like The Stones and Faces. But who gives a shit. The songs are good. Not a lot of debuts that can boast 4 songs on par with "Hard to Handle", "Jealous Again", "Twice As Hard" and "She Talks to Angels". Amazing guitar production, too.

Damn Yankees - Damn Yankees
Definitely at least tangentially hair metal, but Tommy Shaw and Ted Nugent (sigh) give it an actual rock pedigree. They really bring it at 200mph across the record. If you've ever wondered why anyone as stupid and annoying as Nugent was ever successful, "Piledriver" is about as succinct an answer as you can find.

The Allman Brothers Band - Seven Turns
Literally never heard a band so fired up to be making a comeback. Gregg Allman's '80s success really gave him a different kind of power as a singer and an appreciation for clean, tough surfaces. And adding Warren Haynes to your band is never gonna hurt either. "Good Clean Fun" is one of their best tracks period.

Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
Well shit. Awesome. Just fuckin' great.

 

awesome! Glad you enjoyed this and spot on with the Smiths style jangly guitars.

they were a super underrated band that I don't think was quite ready for the "spotlight". Their follow-up albums are equally as pleasant to me, maybe not as strong because they were trying a bit harder to maintain success. I still maintain that Harriet Wheeler has one of those most beautiful female voices I've heard.

 

Black Crowes are pretty high up there on the bands i just do not get list

 

Speaking of the Allmans, the record label I work for is producing an Allman biopic, which happens to have been announced yesterday

https://deadline.com/2021/11/allman-brothers-movie-biopic-nick-cassavetes-notebook-1234875904/

 

they are one of the few bands that are extremely not complicated to understand haha. do you like the rolling stones? make them from atlanta.

 

liked the teenage fanclub album from this year. it’s not bandwagonesque but it’s still solid.

 

The appeal is good riffs and songs, really. Can't speak to the rest of their career. But the debut has it.

 

Amorica is honestly their best album

 

I’ll give Amorica another go. I’ve listened to it the most cuz i absolutely love jack joseph puig, but their songs sound like an Applebees commercial or something

 

They also lose major points for having a song called Jealous Again. That name’s taken