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I’m pretty sure we did this thread before and I offered up Wire “Pink Flag”. I still stand by that one.

Also:

SpiritWorld “Pagan Rhythms”

Boris “Akuma No Uta” (although sometimes I am not in the mood for Naki Kyoku”)

Cardinale “31:13” (cheating a bit here because it’s just one song)

Cavity “On the Lam”

Converge “Jane Doe”

Down “NOLA”

Quicksand “Slip”

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On 4/14/2023 at 10:01 PM, Carl Spackler said:

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That first Marshall Crenshaw album still gets a lot of play around casa de hulla.  Same for Everywhere At Once.  Oldest Story In The World is a top 10 song for me.  I've seen Peter Case a bunch of times, and he's never played that song.  My brother says every time he see Peter, he plays it.  I once saw him play back to back sets.....only repeated one song and he never played Oldest Story.  

 

Peter's album, Full Service No Waiting doesn't have a bad song on it.  Same for his 1986 debut album. 
I LOVE this one from Full Service.  "Going out tonight, way downtown. Where my friends who died still hang around"  Wow. 
 

 

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On 12/28/2024 at 8:32 AM, Underdog said:

No argument out of me, Turnstiles, imo, is a really good, underappreciated album. 

I would not consider myself a Billy Joel fan however an older friend gave part of her record collection and The Stranger was in there. I put it on and was pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed it.  

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On 12/28/2024 at 10:32 AM, Underdog said:

No argument out of me, Turnstiles, imo, is a really good, underappreciated album. 

That was my first Billy Joel album. My older brother already had the big hit albums. When I joined Columbia records as a lad I picked the Billy Joel album he didn’t have. It’s a great album. I didn’t know any of the songs on it but fell in love with it pretty quickly. 

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On 1/1/2025 at 5:57 AM, ztejas said:

Always liked this one off of their next album 

 

Heh, I just re-read through this thread and if you go back to 2020, you had the exact same response when I mentioned Play Deep.  I'm not dragging you, because I completely agree, that's a cool-ass track.  Recently (like, within the last 5 years) I heard some cover of it that was really good, but I don't remember who did it.  Google search didn't turn up the one I remember, though it turned up several.

 

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@utee94 reminded me last night I totally spaced on the first Blind Melon album which is an amazingly solid album, No Rain is probably the worst track on it. Also has one of my all time songs on it in Time.

It's one of the best sounding albums of the 90's too, up there with Jar of Flies. London Bridge's live room is probably my favorite in the world, it's up there with the old Olympic and Trident. Melon was aggressively old school on the instrumentation and production as well, targeting Exile on Main Street as the sound. It was radically different and retro sounding than almost anything else that came out around then, it took years for people to gravitate back to that sound which is almost de rigueur these days with stuff like Isbell.

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59 minutes ago, G650 said:

@utee94 reminded me last night I totally spaced on the first Blind Melon album which is an amazingly solid album, No Rain is probably the worst track on it. Also has one of my all time songs on it in Time.

It's one of the best sounding albums of the 90's too, up there with Jar of Flies. London Bridge's live room is probably my favorite in the world, it's up there with the old Olympic and Trident. Melon was aggressively old school on the instrumentation and production as well, targeting Exile on Main Street as the sound. It was radically different and retro sounding than almost anything else that came out around then, it took years for people to gravitate back to that sound which is almost de rigueur these days with stuff like Isbell.

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Man, No Rain was the only track on that album I didn't hate.  But it takes all kinds.  I've never seen them live or heard anything else they made, so perhaps there's something more to it.

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No Rain is a somewhat insipid song, though I definitely wouldn't say it's a bad song. It just doesn't hit like I Wonder or Time. Or Change, which is another insanely good song. Jesus this was such a good album. I don't listen to them very often anymore but every year or so I will whip this out and listen front to back, kind of like I do with Animals or Social Distortions Live at the Roxy.

 

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.

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No Rain is a somewhat insipid song, though I definitely wouldn't say it's a bad song. It just doesn't hit like I Wonder or Time. Or Change, which is another insanely good song. Jesus this was such a good album. I don't listen to them very often anymore but every year or so I will whip this out and listen front to back, kind of like I do with Animals or Social Distortions Live at the Roxy.
 
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.

Ha! I reviewed this record for the UT student radio which at the time only went out over cable I think. I seriously doubt anyone was listening. In any case, I said it was very poppy and if I didn’t use “insipid” I should have. I predicted that it would be a huge or accordingly. I dragged it pretty hard. Yeah Chad! You are awarded +1 cool points for calling it while in your “why aren’t all bands Nirvana?” stage!
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1 minute ago, Chad Fuck said:

You are awarded +1 cool points for calling it while in your “why aren’t all bands Nirvana?” stage!

 

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.

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39 minutes 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.

There's mandolins on Blind Melon, for fuck's sake.

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Blind Melon fucks watermelons. Or cantaloupes, which are true melons.

Saw them at Southpark in 94 when they opened for the Pumpkins. They came out directly after The Reverend Horton Heat and promptly put everyone to sleep.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

G650 speaks no lies.  Blind Melon fucks.

 

I know you would be into them with your other faves. A lot of those guys owe a huge debt to Melon, they really were way out in front on bringing back vintage instruments and equipment. Shit like tweed amps and lap steel, mandolin, banjo, you name it. And very immediate production style, without all the shit that was in vogue by then. A lot of their contemporaries sounded very much of the time, Nirvana, STP, both of which I like to varying degrees, if you listen to their concurrent albums, are very, very slick. Sampled drums, highly compressed, lots of layers. Which ironically was a lot of Andy Wallace's doing, and he did Soup for them. Which I like and became a total cult favorite, but I don't think sounds as good as the first album. To be fair though I chalk a lot of that up to not being at London Bridge.

5 minutes ago, Al_4_ISU said:

There's mandolins on Blind Melon, for fuck's sake.

 

Just now, G650 said:

Shit like tweed amps and lap steel, mandolin, banjo, you name it.

Haha, yeah.

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1 minute ago, smuggs said:

Bind Melon fucks watermelons. Or cantaloupes, which are true melons.

Saw them at Southpark in 94 when they opened for the Pumpkins. They came out directly after The Reverend Horton Heat and promptly put everyone to sleep.

 

I love some Horton Heat. Both times I saw BM though they ripped, the were the headliner in each. Meat Puppets opened in 95, who were very good as well. I can't remember who opened in the 00's when I saw them.

 

I got to see Unified Theory, Chris Thorne and Brad Smiths project, in the early aughts as well in a crazy intimate show. The main venue had a fire, so they set them up in the club in front. We all got to be like 15 feet away and shoot the shit with them after the show, phenomenal time.

 

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ZZ Top - Tres Hombres, Tejas

Skynyrd- Pronounced, Second Helping, Street Survivors

Allman Bros - Fillmore East, Eat a Peach

Hendrix - Are you Experienced

RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magic

Willie - Red Headed Stranger

 

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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.

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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