Art Girl Troika! PJ Harvey & Bjork & Tori Amos
That's from one of the UK music magazines, right? Pete has a copy of it back at his parents' house.
I was under the impression that I was your big comfy blanky.
Oz ,'Him'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Atropa - Nov 11, 2004 2:17:41 pm PST #5897 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
DavidS - Nov 11, 2004 2:50:17 pm PST #5898 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So watching VH-1 Classic's The Alternative is exposing me to a bunch of 90s British bands that I more or less ignored in the 90s. These are mostly groups associated with the shoegazer scene.
Who's got an opinion on the following records?
Spooky - Lush
Isn't Anything - MBV
Blurred Crusade - The Church
Nowhere - Ride
Ferment - Catherine Wheel
Wake Up - Boo Radleys
Jen - Nov 11, 2004 3:07:10 pm PST #5899 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Ferment - Catherine Wheel
I own it and I love it. The songs are incredibly textured. Chrome is another album of theirs that's great--there's a song called "The Nude" which is all about the singer going to a museum and falling in love with a woman in a painting.
If you're going to get a Church album, go with Starfish.
DavidS - Nov 11, 2004 3:09:33 pm PST #5900 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If you're going to get a Church album, go with Starfish.
Tempted, because the video for "Reptile" had all kinds of cool dual guitar interplay. The Catherine Wheel video for "Black Metallic" really caught my eye and ear. I think I'd (unfairly) dismissed them as MBV wannnabees, but there was obviously something going on that was smart and interesting in that song.
Jon B. - Nov 11, 2004 3:20:37 pm PST #5901 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Isn't Anything - MBV
Is that the one with "Cupid Come"?
t checks collection
Yep, it is. Seminal.
Nowhere - Ride
From Allmusic:
Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era, and with very good reason. All of the common words, phrases, and adjectives commonly used with the short-lived subgenre fit properly here, and they're all positive, every one of them. Whir, whoosh, haze, swirl, ad nauseum -- this record holds all of these elements at their most exciting and mastered.
I wouldn't be quite so effusive, but it is very good. Equally worthwhile by Ride is the "Smile" album which collects their first two EPs. "Chelsea Girl" (not that one) is a great song and worthy of the title.
Sue - Nov 11, 2004 4:05:13 pm PST #5902 of 10003
hip deep in pie
PJ Harvey & Bjork & Tori Amos
Oh my god, that would so be my hell.
Jen - Nov 11, 2004 7:00:07 pm PST #5903 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Tempted, because the video for "Reptile" had all kinds of cool dual guitar interplay.
And also because it really ought to be against the law not to have "Under the Milky Way" as a part of your music library.
DavidS - Nov 11, 2004 7:02:44 pm PST #5904 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
And also because it really ought to be against the law not to have "Under the Milky Way" as a part of your music library.
stamps Jen's "Goth Forever" visa into perpetuity
Betsy HP - Nov 11, 2004 7:04:56 pm PST #5905 of 10003
If I only had a brain...
Nowhere seems to hold consensus as the second-best record of the shoegaze era,
The shoegaze era?
Man. I love technical vocabulary with which I am unfamiliar. For me, the "shoegaze era" is the time I spent in adolescence trying to avoid people's eyees.
DXMachina - Nov 11, 2004 7:07:38 pm PST #5906 of 10003
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
t Stands in corner with Betsy, looking at my feet...