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    Posted: March 18 2020 at 17:10
Mr. Bungle's Disco Volante is a massively multi-genre freak which was an excellent application of the prog mindset in the spirit of the time.
Goldie's Timeless and DJ Shadow's Endtroducing are seminal electronica works that continue to be highly rewarding atmospheric journeys to this day.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ I didn't know of that Placebo. I have the albums of the 70s Belgian jazz-rock Placebo in my collection.
 

The debut is something of a classic indie rock album. The track Nancy Boy is probably their only well remembered track. I tend to have a 'thing' for 3 piece bands Smile


Checking it out, thanks. The first one to come up on youtube was "Nancy Boy", not surrisingly. The vocals are reminding me of a rather famous three piece band, The Shaggs! Just kidding... Geddy Lee with Rush.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote richardh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2020 at 15:26
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ I didn't know of that Placebo. I have the albums of the 70s Belgian jazz-rock Placebo in my collection.
 

The debut is something of a classic indie rock album. The track Nancy Boy is probably their only well remembered track. I tend to have a 'thing' for 3 piece bands Smile
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^ I didn't know of that Placebo. I have the albums of the 70s Belgian jazz-rock Placebo in my collection.
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Par Lindh Project - Gothic Impressions and Mundus Incompertus

Placebo - s/t and Without You I'm Nothing

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2020 at 14:52
Originally posted by TCat TCat wrote:

Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

PA.... Bondage Fruit I and II
Non-PA... Fishbone - Give a Monkey a Brain....and Chim Chim's Badass Revenge.

 
Yes!  Love Fishbone!


And I love Bondage fruit but what memorable experiences I've had with a fishbone have been of the painful stuck-in-my-throat variety. I think I've heard of the band, but then I could be mixing it up with Fish and the hard rock band Boned, or perhaps I'm thinking of Country Joe and the Fishbones.
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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

PA.... Bondage Fruit I and II
Non-PA... Fishbone - Give a Monkey a Brain....and Chim Chim's Badass Revenge.
 
Yes!  Love Fishbone!

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Being born in '94, the only good music I remember listening back in the day was Jamiroquai.
Still today I only own a few dozen albums from the 90's and since Ozric Tentacles, Porcupine Tree and Spock's Beard were already mentioned I can't add more. I have to explore more from Mansun, I very much enjoy "Six".

Outside PA, I heard a fair share of 90's Punk but I rarely listen to it these days. I think I'll go with Rage Against The Machine, I still enjoy the first two albums.

I should probably mention Eric Clapton: Unplugged. It was the album that made me want to learn the guitar.


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Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

^ I don't remember liking a lot of 90s music in the 90s. I tend to be behind on music and discover it much later. I have a much bigger appreciation for a variety of 90s music now than I did then. I was a young man in the 90s, and a lot of the music I was exposed to was in night clubs.
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The main reason why I never liked the comment about the death of progressive music, is because in the 70's, 80's and 90's I did not lose touch and kept on listening to new things AND I was there at the "beginning" and just about heard many of those things and had the albums! So by the time I hear TD with Jerome, in Seattle, it was ... something new, and there were a lot of far out pieces in that show (220 Volt Live) that a lot of folks did not like ... it was a master stroke for a band continuing on and not falling apart. Same for KS, and some of his work ... his "digital" stuff really took off and went nuts and I loved it ... the "progression" never died.

There might have not been a "lot" of big names, but I could tell you that I was hearing Queensryche, and things like Dream Theater, which my roommate had in his own collection! So it's hard for me to relate to PA having it listed or not ... the subdivisions drive me nutz as it is!


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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Jeffro Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 18 2020 at 12:13
I'll go with 

Spock's Beard - The Light & Beware of Darkness
Sting - The Soul Cages & Ten Summoner's Tales
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PA.... Bondage Fruit I and II
Non-PA... Fishbone - Give a Monkey a Brain....and Chim Chim's Badass Revenge.
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PA
Mike Keneally - Hat and Sluggo!

Non PA
Jellyfish - Bellybutton and Spilt Milk
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Here is a Tree theme:
 
In PA:
Porcupine Tree - "The Sky Moves Sideways" (1995) and "Coma Divine" (1997)
 
Outside PA:
Screaming Trees - "Dust" (1996) and "Sweet Oblivion" (1992)
 

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King Crimson - "Thrak" (1995) and "The Great Deceiver" (1992)
Alice in Chains - "Dirt" (1992) and "Jar of Flies" (1994)
 
I'm a big fan of 90's music, especially the grunge movement, so I'm sure I'll come up with more.

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^ I don't remember liking a lot of 90s music in the 90s. I tend to be behind on music and discover it much later. I have a much bigger appreciation for a variety of 90s music now than I did then. I was a young man in the 90s, and a lot of the music I was exposed to was in night clubs.

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Great idea for a thread Greg..and I have personally taken quite an interest in 90s music lately...though not because of the radio which I never listen to.

PA:
Cul de Sac - ECIM
Cul de Sac - China Gate

Outside:
The Future Sound Of London - Lifeforms
The Future Sound Of London - Dead Cities


I like The Future Sound Of London considerably. As for hip hop, plenty I like. Will look into that, and Cul de Sac.

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I only listen to news and traffic radio, plus some music programs on the radio. "Blue Jam" was a Chris Morris 90s pretty disturbing, morbid, macabre, strange, taboo-breaking, very horrific at times, and very dark comedy, late night BBC radio program that mixed sketches, like mini radio plays, with music. They then did a TV version of it called Jam, I don't think a lot of what he did could be gotten away with or commissioned today, and some say only Chris Morris could have gotten away with it. Some favourite bits of mine involved a zombie child and a man who deliberately would injure himself to cause his wife to suffer, and she found herself, unbeknownst to him, enjoying his suffering. It's the psychology angle that interested me.

I didn't catch Blue Jam on the radio here, I could not imagine it playing on the radio here, or anything like that being produced for our national broadcaster. CBC feels toothless; it tries to be so polite and nice. What satires have been made have generally felt like gentle parodies.

Chris Morris is brilliant, I think (he angered Phil Collins through "conning" him into publicly endorsing an anti-paedophilia campaign called Nonce Sense -- "I'm Phil Collins and I'm talking NonceSense" for his Paedogeddan Special of the show Brass Eye -- he also got various other celebrities and politicians to endorse ridiculous things -- even had one politician raise an issue in the House of Commons).

I guess it would be insensitive for Brass Eye to do a Corona Virus Special.

I do listen to plenty of podcasts, and I listen to radio dramas and comedies through the BBC radio app (a favourrite radio dramedy of mine was Good Omens). Blue Jam has been made available at certain sites (such as internet archive). I could not imagine BBC radio re-airing it even late night, but I could be wrong, and I found an rss feed for it so I can listen on my podcast apps. I only discovered it this past year, and it has given me an appreciation for quite a lot of music that I wouldn't have listened to otherwise. It's one of the darkest comedy programs I've ever heard and is not something I would tend to recommend to people.

In the 90s I did listen to radio in the car, but usually classic rock radio, plus sometimes French language radio (I liked their music more), and I liked late night university radio, which is where I first heard Henry Cow and all sorts of weird and wonderful=to-me music. I was always something of a purveyor of the strange, perhaps as I have often felt like stranger in a strange land, and I can relate to these The Doors lyrics.

People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down
("People are Strange" by The Doors).
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Not sure I can do this right ... since I was heavy into TD and KS at the time, along with PH/VdGG ... since I was too busy and did not exactly have the ability to purchase a lot of things, and kept it down to the minimum, but I did keep up with some things like Marillion, and a few other things.
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Not a bad challange to me specially outside PA. But I choose:
Faust: Rien & Faust Wakes Nosferatu from PA and other
P J Harvey: To Bring You My Love and Is This Desire (really would like to take Dance Hall at the Louse Point into other album by PJ, but because it´s collaboration album with John Parish, then those two).

When Paul has put also other choises, here´s mine too:
From PA
Absoluuttinen Nollapiste: Muovi Antaa Periksi - Suljettu
Yes: Talk - the Ladder
Circle: Hissi - Pori
Kingston Wall: s/t - II
Pekka Pohjola: Sinfonia No.1 - Pewit
Jukka Gustavson: Bluesion - Kadonnut Häviättömiin
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282: Strangers From the Universe - I Hope It Lands

Outside pa
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Henry´s Dream - Let Love In
Tom Waits: Bone Machine - the Black Rider 
Nomeasno: 0 + 2 = 1 - Why Do the Call Me Mr. Happy
Sonic Youth: Washing Machine - a Thousand Leaves
Trumans Water: Apistogramma - Fragments Of Lucky Break
Radiopuhelimet: Avaruus - Hiljaista!
Dr. John: Television - Anutha Zone

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This was harder than I thought as I think I was was in the middle of my Noel Coward, Cab Calloway, Jimmy Smith, Kenny Burrell, Thelonious Monk, Dub detour/tangent in the 90s.

Included on PA
ELP Black Moon 1992
Townscream Nagyvárosi Ikonok 1997

Not Included on PA
the Fall Extricate 1990
Black Grape It's Great When You're Straight 1995
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Yet another humdinger of pics from yours truly

PA:
Disco Inferno - D. I. Go Pop
Disco Inferno - Technicolour

Outside:
Autechre - Amber
Autechre - Chiastic Slide

I may have to restrict myself from posting electronic music but dammit man the 90s were the bee’s knees for that genre!
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It’s a little funny because I grew up in the 90s - remember being something like 10 when Metallica’s black album came out, which was one of the seminal releases of the decade. Everybody I knew bought that album alongside Pearl Jam’s Ten, Nirvana’s Nevermind, Rage Against The Machine’s s/t, Prodigy’s Fat Of The Land as well as the usual suspects from Oasis, Blur, Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as a big slab of Korn, Type O Negative, Tool and Napalm Death.
BUT....all the music that really attracts me about this decade some 20 years down the line is the one found underneath the surface. Stuff I had no idea existed and most likely wasn’t prepared for at the time. Back then everything was VERY black n white with regards to music and I had no trouble in absolutely destroying folks with subpar tastes ie Aqua fans

Though I’m fairly certain that I would have gone completely berserk for Ozric Tentacles had I known about them in the 90s...which is why they’re my next PA pick:
Ozric Tentacles - Waterfall Cities
Ozric Tentacles - Erpland

Outside:
Ol’ Dirty b*****d - Return To The 36 Chambers
Ol’ Dirty b*****d - Nigga Please

Yup I just picked some hip hop...but I love ODB. The man was a genius...but sure one has got to hear past the overt gangsta gestures to get to the really juicy bits. I love the way he plays around with his voice..almost as if it’s a toy. Nigga Please extrapolates on this tenfold and also sees the beats taking on a more experimental character.
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