Strange how musical tastes can change isn't it? I'm still the only person I know who actually owns Bleach, and I loved that band for a long time. But I have tried a couple of times to go back and listen to some of their albums, and I find now that they are "meh" worthy, at best.
I disagree. Endtroducing is the quintessential DJ Shadow, before he hyped himself out of relevance. ITOT is a great album. I have a VHS of one of his live performances with cut chemist, and while it is amazing, I wouldn't say it's a "classic" album nor one that everybody should own.
Hear you on disk 1, but disk 2? Even for this Pink Floyd fan, disk 2 is out there.
I find this discussion and passion from you and Narlus interesting...Oh, COME ON...
You are gonna put up a "best of" album?
Oh my god tell me about it. The unplugged album was SO overplayed. And of course in Seattle it was non stop. I would be jsut fine if I never heard another nirvana song. I much prefer Foo Fighters. I think pound for pound, Dave Grohl was/is the talented one. And apparently, much less of a head case.
I approve of Clutch, but that's nowhere close to their best album IMO. Robot Hive: Exodus, Blast Tyrant, Pure Rock Fury, and maybe even Elephant Riders are better.
I own Bleach.
It's not so much about taste, but about timing. Appetite for Destruction had effectively shattered the glam rock pretty boy studio/factory business model less than 5 years before Nirvana hit mainstream success. (fwiw, AfD was released the year Nirvana initially formed).
I never said Entroducing wasn't good. I just like ITOT more. But I also clarified that its a live performance, not an album.
have you seen any of his recent photos?
First patient, pull out the skull, remove the cancer
Dammit... must spread...
Pitchfork and Lost Needles doesn't really do it for me, and I think Slow Hole to China is only OK. But yeah, I like them a lot.
filled that quota.
Watch it, Old Man.
how old are you? you sound older than SS.
am already a grumpy old fart at the ripe age of 27...
how old are you? you sound older than SS.
the video was cool in concept, but i could seriously only stomach about 45 seconds of it.
they were only sampling themselves... most (if not all their stuff, Tron soundtrack excluded) is synthesized. Check out their stage setup from that tour pretty cool stuff:
"Half man, half shark!"
Certainly, something like "nevermind" can takeoff in large part simply due to the zeitgeist, but I don't think that the popularity of Nirvana or any of the post Incesticide albums were simply due to the fact that Kurt didn't use hairspray. I recognize thats not what your saying, timing is a factor here, but I don't think you can say that Nirvana didn't put on some great albums either. I just don't think they hold up, for whatever reason, be it changing taste or the cultural meme, at least not in the context of this thread. If this is a "one album to take to a desert island thread", the album needs to be good yesterday, today, and 20 years from now. For me "Thirteen tales from urban Bohemia" fits that bill. IMHO it was awesome in 2000, and its still awesome now. I still play it regularly.
