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Just now, Chad Fuck said:

I'm not saying 90s Chad was correct, I'm just saying that how he was then.  I've forgiven that guy most of his foibles.  But there was that one hot chick who smoked in WWII in Lit & Film class that he failed to bang.  So that is a forever scar.  Damn you, 90s Chad!

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BTW, I saw BM open for...Neil Young with Booker T & the MGs at the Erwin Center.  I totally forgotten that show until this moment.  That lead vocalist was manic.  He was jumping around on top of all the amps and PA speakers.  It was nuts.  Neil of course slayed.

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I never claimed I batted 1000.  It's the misses you remember most.  

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5 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

BTW, I saw BM open for...Neil Young & Crazy Horse at the Erwin Center.  I totally forgotten that show until this moment.  That lead vocalist was manic.  He was jumping around on top of all the amps and PA speakers.  It was nuts.  Neil of course slayed.

I never claimed I batted 1000.  It's the misses you remember most.  

 

1996? I saw them here at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater. The Gin Blossoms and Ben Folds opened.

 

I've somehow seen the Gin Blossoms twice without meaning to. I've seen the Meat Puppets 3 times without trying.

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4 minutes ago, G650 said:

 

1996? I saw them here at the Virginia Beach Amphitheater. The Gin Blossoms and Ben Folds opened.

 

I've somehow seen the Gin Blossoms twice without meaning to. I've seen the Meat Puppets 3 times without trying.

1993

This set:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/neil-young-and-booker-t-and-the-mgs/1993/frank-erwin-center-austin-tx-33d1b035.html

This also says Dinosaur Jr. was on the setlist as well, but I have zero recollection of that, and I think I'd remember seeing them.  

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

 

That's funny, as Nevermind is one of the biggest contra-examples I use of how vintage the production of this album was. Nevermind was absolute big label pop sheen, might as well have been a Janet Jackson album, whereas Blind Melon sounds like straight out of 1972.

Maybe it's because I was in high school/college in the early 90s.  But, to me, that Blind Melon album sounds super-90s.  That's not to say I don't like it.  But the rhythm section gives me that early Blues Traveler vibe.

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4 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Definitely Candy-O as well.

Candy-O is my favorite.  A good friend got me to buy the vinyl of it last year, and after one listen, I bought two more Cars albums.  I'm still hooked.  I love missing out on something on the first run and getting to discover it for myself later in life.  I wish that sort of thing happened more often.

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2 hours ago, G650 said:

Now that I think of it, there's probably 3 or 4 albums where I don't skip a song, that's a pretty rare thing even among my favorite bands like the Stones or Zeppelin.

Well, that IS the point of this thread after all... :)

Most of mine are already listed. I found that I missed the days of listening to entire albums all the way through, enough that I dusted off my old turntable and receiver/amp and speakers, and set them up in a separate room.  It's the parlor or the lounge or as my wife calls it, "the drinking room."  That's where the 18 year old Scotch resides, and my album collection.  I'm not a huge "vinyl is the only medium with soul" kind of guy, but I find that getting away from the media room with the TV and all the streaming apps, forces me to relax, slow down, and approach music in a way that makes me appreciate the more subtle points.

Although I'll still blast No Sleep Til Brooklyn with the best of them, when we get to that point on License To Ill.

 

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3 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Maybe it's because I was in high school/college in the early 90s.  But, to me, that Blind Melon album sounds super-90s.  That's not to say I don't like it.  But the rhythm section gives me that early Blues Traveler vibe.

 

Yeah, I mean we are basically the same age. But I just relistened to it this morning, it is wildly different than say Nevermind or Core, which are two albums that really crystalize the '91 to '94 years, where everything really changed big time. If you put them on back to back, it's pretty stark. Jar of Flies, which followed, has a similar vibe as it was tracked in the same place and they used a lot of ambient room in the mix as well.

 

It's funny you should bring up the rhythm section, I think Glenn Graham and Brad Smith were second to only Moon and Entwistle in their uncanny ability to be going to apeshit the entire time and its always right on time. It's pretty wild to listen to.

 

I credit Blues Traveler a lot with changing the sound of the era as well. They are a little hippy dippy for me, all that mindless jamming shit is definitely not my thing, but they have some solid tunes. I actually think Straight on Till Morning was a significantly better album than Four.

2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

That's where the 18 year old Scotch resides, and my album collection.  I'm not a huge "vinyl is the only medium with soul" kind of guy, but I find that getting away from the media room with the TV and all the streaming apps, forces me to relax, slow down, and approach music in a way that makes me appreciate the more subtle points.

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2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

Well, that IS the point of this thread after all... :)

Most of mine are already listed. I missed the days of listening to entire albums enough that I dusted off my old turntable and receiver/amp and speakers, and set them up in a separate room.  It's the parlor or the lounge or as my wife calls it, "the drinking room."  That's where the 18 year old Scotch resides, and my album collection.  I'm not a huge "vinyl is the only medium with soul" kind of guy, but I find that getting away from the media room with the TV and all the streaming apps, forces me to relax, slow down, and approach music in a way that makes me appreciate the more subtle points.

Although I'll still blast No Sleep Til Brooklyn with the best of them, when we get to that point on License To Ill.

 

My blasting point of License to Ill starts a little sooner at 0:01 of side A song 1 Rhymin and Stealin.

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46 minutes ago, G650 said:

Yeah, I mean we are basically the same age. But I just relistened to it this morning, it is wildly different than say Nevermind or Core, which are two albums that really crystalize the '91 to '94 years, where everything really changed big time. If you put them on back to back, it's pretty stark. Jar of Flies, which followed, has a similar vibe as it was tracked in the same place and they used a lot of ambient room in the mix as well.

 

It's funny you should bring up the rhythm section, I think Glenn Graham and Brad Smith were second to only Moon and Entwistle in their uncanny ability to be going to apeshit the entire time and its always right on time. It's pretty wild to listen to.

 

I credit Blues Traveler a lot with changing the sound of the era as well. They are a little hippy dippy for me, all that mindless jamming shit is definitely not my thing, but they have some solid tunes. I actually think Straight on Till Morning was a significantly better album than Four.

 

Well, for a little background, by the time I was at UT in the fall of 92, I listened to an absurd amount of Soulhat, a long with Blues Traveler and similar music.  So Blind Melon fits that vibe, rather than the Nirvana, et al style of music, grunge or whatever I listened to a lot in high school.  That was my 90s, and so Blind Melon fits that mold for me.

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31 minutes ago, G650 said:

Where do compilation albums fit, allowed or nah

Personally I'm omitting them from a discussion like this, I don't think they're quite in the spirit.

Although even so, there are still a great many Greatest Hits/Anthologies/Compilations that still have tracks I'll skip.  It's pretty rare for me to love every song on a record, or every hit from an artist.

 

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1 minute ago, dcbc said:

 

Well, for a little background, by the time I was at UT in the fall of 92, I listened to an absurd amount of Soulhat, a long with Blues Traveler and similar music.  So Blind Melon fits that vibe, rather than the Nirvana, et al style of music, grunge or whatever I listened to a lot in high school.  That was my 90s, and so Blind Melon fits that mold for me.

 

Haha, Soulhat. That's a name I've not heard in a long time. I totally get it though, I went to a HORDE fest or two. I may have seen Rusted Root on one of those, I remember their show was basically a 90 minute bongo beat. They definitely shared some aesthetics with Blues Traveler, though Blues Traveler were still pretty underground in '92, just the cognoscenti were listening to them at that point such as yourself. You probably were digging on some moe. too? Melon was a very dark and edgy band though, very much like the Rolling Stones.

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1 minute ago, G650 said:

 

Haha, Soulhat. That's a name I've not heard in a long time. I totally get it though, I went to a HORDE fest or two. I may have seen Rusted Root on one of those, I remember their show was basically a 90 minute bongo beat. They definitely shared some aesthetics with Blues Traveler, though Blues Traveler were still pretty underground in '92, just the cognoscenti were listening to them at that point such as yourself. You probably were digging on some moe. too? Melon was a very dark and edgy band though, very much like the Rolling Stones.

 

No MOE or Rusted Root for me (I tried).  I did see Soulhat open for Blues Traveler at Fitzgerald's in Houston in April (or so) of 1992).  I was parked front row-center.  Amazing show.  I still have one of Brendan Hill's drum sticks from the show.  Remember when bands used to toss drum sticks and guitar picks into the crowd?  Around 95, I sold a lot of CDs and replaced them with a lot of funk, Grateful Dead, Phish, and Widespread panic.  That's where I hid out during a lot of the post-Cobain/grunge era of the mid  to late 90s.   

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Also, for an album many of you may have never heard of with absolutely no skip-worthy tracks on it, check this out.

 

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I listened to it with my 19 year old the other night, and got a "Wow" at the end.

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4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

 

No MOE or Rusted Root for me (I tried).  I did see Soulhat open for Blues Traveler at Fitzgerald's in Houston in April (or so) of 1992).  I was parked front row-center.  Amazing show.  I still have one of Brendan Hill's drum sticks from the show.  Remember when bands used to toss drum sticks and guitar picks into the crowd?  Around 95, I sold a lot of CDs and replaced them with a lot of funk, Grateful Dead, Phish, and Widespread panic.  That's where I hid out during a lot of the post-Cobain/grunge era of the mid  to late 90s.   

Oh hell yeah, I have a pretty sweet pick collection.

 

Panic was obviously huge when I at was at CofC, the southern hippie thing is too real. I remember dosing microdots and catching them at the AAA baseball stadium in '97

 

Edit: Government Mule another biggie about that time.

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10 minutes ago, utee94 said:

It's pretty rare for me to love every song on a record, or every hit from an artist.

I look at this exercise as if every song isn't at least an 8/10, it doesn't fit.  

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Just now, G650 said:

Oh hell yeah, I have a pretty sweet pick collection.

 

Panic was obviously huge when I at was at CofC, the southern hippie thing is too real. I remember dosing microdots and catching them at the AAA baseball stadium in '97

I saw them several times and have a few albums.  I'll still listen to a track here and there.  But by the late 90s, I found their shows to kind of drone on-and-on.  They have some good songs though.  I ended up spending a lot more time with music from the Dead, Phish, Zappa, Talking Heads, Tom Petty, Stones, Kinks, and so on.

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6 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

I caught Rikki Rocket's drumstick at a Poison show in The Woodlands in high school. LMAO. 

Decided to give it to a friend who was a massive fan, worth it just to see him display it like the Holy Grail. 

 

In one weekend in 92, I saw Lollapolooza 2 and the Faith No More/Metallica/Guns n Roses show.  I was on the front row at the latter and James Hetfield gave me a beer (more accurately, he poured half a bottle of Heineken in my mouth from the stage).  Either way, it was funny and appreciated.  What a weekend.  In two days, Ice Cube, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Sound Garden, Jesus and Mary Chain, Ministry, Faith No More, Metalica, GnR.  Ice Cube probably was the standout.  

 

I also, with free tickets, ended up seeing Tesla open for Lynard Skynard a couple of years later.  We were pretty bored and sitting down (pretty good seats), and Jeff Keith yelled at us for not being more into it.

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Just now, dcbc said:

I saw them several times and have a few albums.  I'll still listen to a track here and there.  But by the late 90s, I found their shows to kind of drone on-and-on.  They have some good songs though.  I ended up spending a lot more time with music from the Dead, Phish, Zappa, Talking Heads, Tom Petty, Stones, Kinks, and so on.

Yeah, I am not a regular listener or anything. As I said the whole jam thing is not me. But I'll throw Porch Song or whatnot on every so often.

 

I was pretty much listening to straight punk rock in late 90s as far as current to the time. I think I listed Social Distortion already, to keep it pertinent to this thread, but they have several albums with 100% top shelf songs.

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13 minutes ago, dcbc said:

In one weekend in 92, I saw Lollapolooza 2

Was at the Ft. Bend County fairgrounds for this one. The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow in 97 degree Houston humidity was too much to handle.

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7 minutes ago, smuggs said:

Was at the Ft. Bend County fairgrounds for this one. The Jim Rose Circus Sideshow in 97 degree Houston humidity was too much to handle.

Oh, wow.  I definitely blocked that from my memory.  Also, Ministry was a bit much.

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50 minutes ago, dcbc said:

 

Well, for a little background, by the time I was at UT in the fall of 92, I listened to an absurd amount of Soulhat, a long with Blues Traveler and similar music.  So Blind Melon fits that vibe, rather than the Nirvana, et al style of music, grunge or whatever I listened to a lot in high school.  That was my 90s, and so Blind Melon fits that mold for me.

Brosef.  I got there the same time.  

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1 minute ago, dcbc said:

Yeah.  We both eventually were English majors too, right?

Yeah.  English/Spanish for me.  Man, I sometimes forget how long I've been around these places and how many paths/stories have been crossed/swapped.

I have a case of the olds.  

Inevitable. 

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4 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Oh, wow.  I definitely blocked that from my memory.  Also, Ministry was a bit much.

They had a guy pumping his stomach contents into a pitcher and Al Jourgensen came up on stage to drink a glass. After that a guy came out and started running meat skewers through his face and ass. I had to walk.

 

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I was 90-94.  We all got to see a lot of bad Texas football.  Although at least for me, we were 3-1 against OU.  But also 1-3 against the ags.  And y'all got the '95 season, which didn't suck (until it did).

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1 minute ago, smuggs said:

They had a guy pumping his stomach contents into a pitcher and Al Jourgensen came up on stage to drink a glass. After that a guy came out and started running meat skewers through his face and ass. I had to walk.

 

 

I had a running theory for several years that Al Jourgensen and Rob Zombie were actually the same person.

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2 minutes ago, utee94 said:

I was 90-94.  We all got to see a lot of bad Texas football.  Although at least for me, we were 3-1 against OU.  But also 1-3 against the ags.  And y'all got the '95 season, which didn't suck (until it did).

Undergrad was tough for football fans.  I always bought the sports package with hope...but wound up hardly using it because well, we sucked.

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1 hour ago, dcbc said:

No MOE or Rusted Root for me (I tried).  I did see Soulhat open for Blues Traveler at Fitzgerald's in Houston in April (or so) of 1992).  I was parked front row-center.  Amazing show.  I still have one of Brendan Hill's drum sticks from the show.  Remember when bands used to toss drum sticks and guitar picks into the crowd?  Around 95, I sold a lot of CDs and replaced them with a lot of funk, Grateful Dead, Phish, and Widespread panic.  That's where I hid out during a lot of the post-Cobain/grunge era of the mid  to late 90s.   

*moe.

Like them or not, Rusted Root doesn’t belong in the same discussion with moe. as a legitimate band worth a listen. They suck horribly while moe. at least has some merit as a jam band. Not one of the greats but they’re still playing and still have a following. I haven’t listened to them in over a decade, maybe two, but they’re still out there. And guitarist Chuck Garvey is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet.

They don’t have an album that qualifies but a couple of moe.’s early albums had some good songs that fared well on college radio stations. At the time I think this qualified as a mini-hit:

Also had what might have been their best song on that album.

 

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So this topic actually fascinated me a bit, and really puts in relief how rare it is, as I've gone through some of my favorite bands and albums, and even my all timer, the Stones don't have a single album that I think every song is a winner. A couple albums get close, Faith No More - Angel Dust, Clash - London Calling, most Zep albums.

 

I end up with about 6 that I can figure.

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I'll say this...   I just went to see Modest Mouse playing Good News for People who Love Bad News 

I really liked a lot of the songs on that album, but at the concert I was kinda swept up in the crowd's reaction to some of the songs I didn't really like.   Evidently I was at some of the wrong parties.  Dance Hall?!  really this is the song that's getting the girls going? Whole crowd just cheering and singing it was great.  Now, only because of that experience, I like those songs.  I think the power of songs eliciting memories and experiences makes all the difference.  Albums that got played start to finish at parties have the best shot in my book.   

Given that, gun to my head... 

Kelly Brewing Company

 

 

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1 hour ago, G650 said:

I'm listening to Midnight Oil's Blue Sky Mining right now, this might actually make the list. Depends on how the last couple tracks hit.

Definitely makes the "Albums with spastic dancing giants" list.

 

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Agreed Midnight Oil kicks ass, btw.

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4 hours ago, smuggs said:

Definitely makes the "Albums with spastic dancing giants" list.

 

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Agreed Midnight Oil kicks ass, btw.

I went to the concert when they dropped blue sky mining... 

First song:  Look at that nerd NERD!

Last song:  pretty cool as I notice a bunch of the crowd moving like they've just been tazed

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On 1/9/2025 at 10:47 AM, G650 said:

So this topic actually fascinated me a bit, and really puts in relief how rare it is, as I've gone through some of my favorite bands and albums, and even my all timer, the Stones don't have a single album that I think every song is a winner…….Clash - London Calling

For reasons completely unknown to me, “Four Horsemen’ has always annoyed me, otherwise this album is on my list for sure. If I could get an accurate count of times I’ve listened to a given album start to finish, this one would be #1 on my list by a mile…

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13 hours ago, Ignatius said:

For reasons completely unknown to me, “Four Horsemen’ has always annoyed me, otherwise this album is on my list for sure. If I could get an accurate count of times I’ve listened to a given album start to finish, this one would be #1 on my list by a mile…

I love U2 The Joshua Tree but absolutely loathe "Bullet The Blue Sky."  It's an instant FF/skip for me.  Back when I first got it and dubbed my album to cassette tape, I just omitted that song, and then pretty much just listened to my tape all the time.  So as much as I love the rest of it, that album doesn't make the "albums with no bad songs" list for me.

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