1998 in music. • Page 6

I remember reading that they were going to produce a rap album. I wonder if they that ever happened. Must have been in the 00s.

 

The Moon, My Saddle by Chamberlain is definitely more my sort of thing. It's very Brucey at times, with his sense of storytelling and impassioned vocals, meeting maybe a bit more alt-rock sounds and the blues. Hard to pin it down exactly, but it's a great collection of songs, and from the little I caught on a first listen, some evocative and well written lyrics.

 

I've never really given Madonna any kind of a serious listen but Ray of Light is a really cool album so far. Didn't know she even made music like this lol. The title track is so fun.

 

Madonna has such a varied catalog.

 

I’m not proud of it but I can’t see the phrase my saddle without thinking ginuwine

 

Woo! I’m glad you liked it. My bandmate introduced me to it out of the blue a few years back and it blew me away. It sounds so modern in some ways.

 

Listens so far:

Braid - Frame and Canvas
Excellent shit. Ferocious and melodic and sharp and messy. Just great.

Bruce Hornsby - Spirit Trail
Honest-to-god one of the best double albums I've ever heard. Probably his second best record and his greatest achievement. So, so enthusiastic about this one.

 

frame and canvas is the best emo album ever

 

Do You Know Who Are? is the best emo album ever

 

Agreed with all of this! @cshadows2887 great recommendation. Not that they sound "alike" per se, but I would also put it in the same bucket as Old 97's, which is a great thing.

 

Great! Look what you've done... You've made Clarity cry!

 

Dizzy Up The Girl still holds up.

 

If that album was just Johnny songs it would be one of the 5-10 best albums ever made

 

I like "January Friend" a lot, but yeah, the Robby songs aren't even close to as good as the Johnny songs.

 

It only took him one album to catch back up. His stuff on Gutterflower is killer. But Johnny just took The Leap before him.

 

Reading old reviews always cracks me up. I know music is subjective of course, but it is always a nice reminder to me to never take critics too seriously, since they usually don't know what they are talking about any more than we do:

(2 1/2 stars out of 4)--The Goo Goo Dolls provided summer's inescapable
"Iris," a trifle that guaranteed a long chart ride for the CITY OF ANGELS
soundtrack. Fans can slurp more of that sticky, string-smothered pop in
Dizzy Up the Girl, a title that could serve as a warning to diabetics.
Chief singer/songwriter John Rzeznik has an appealing, sensitive voice,
but his appetite for sugary confections and his unfortunate tendency
toward sentimentality smother the trio's lilt and kick. Though the
sweetness is balanced by such acidic cuts as "Full Forever," the Goo Goo
Dolls prove a tad too gooey.

They actually preferred one of the Robby songs, lmao.

 

Some of the '90s knee-jerk reactions against those kinds of bands are hilarious to read in retrospect. "Unfortunate tendency toward sentimentality"? God forbid!

 

Right?! And making the entire blurb a whole bunch of wordplay referencing trifles and other sugary confections? Please, who are the corny ones here?!

 

Maybe it's partly of his own choosing, but I feel like Bob Nanna is comically underrated in 2022. The man has made so much great music.

Frame and Canvas is really good, I Keep a Diary is on my list of favorite closers ever.

 

Braid's best stuff is buried on a compilation of unreleased stuff they released after they split, which is fairly unusual;

You're Lucky to Be Alive, Please Drive Faster, Sounds like Violence, Strawberry Ann Switzerland, That Car Came out of Nowhere are all their absolute best songs. Frame and Canvas is good, but this is the album I come back to (or the songs I come back to), when I'm in the mood for Braid.

 

hey mercedes is good too

 

This is actually probably my favorite release of his:

 

Like, sorry it doesn’t sound like it was recorded in a garbage can?

 

"Iris" is the best song of all time, so that review can suck my ass.

 

well,