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What are five of your favourite bands or artists that got started releasing albums in the 90s that are not listed in PA?
The first five that immediately come to my mind are: Air Broadcast Portishead Pram Stereolab I would appreciate it, but it is not required, if some specific music is mentioned, or one can talk about favourite albums. This is not just about the 90s music from the acts, so feel free to talk about the music of the acts from after the 90s. With Air, my favourite albums have been Moon Safari, Talkie Walkie and 10, 00 Hz Legend (I also like The Virgin Suicides OST). My favourite is actually 10 000 Hz Legend which tends to get rated considerably lower and I once was quite dismissive of too when I had yet to give it a proper listen and was being influenced by negative reviews. For two favourite tracks from it, I love "Radian" and "Sex Born Poison". I actually find that a nice track to pair with David Bowie's "Blackstar" and one from Cat People with humming Bowie. With Broadcast, "The Book Lovers" from the 1996 The Book Lovers EP was what got me into it. I also like The Noise Made By People, Haha Sound and Tender Buttons very much. My favourite Broadcast album is The Noise Made By People. A favourite song from it is "Papercuts". With Portishead, I love all three of the studio albums, whcih are Dummy, Portishead and Third. Dummy was one of my very favourite albums not long ago, and I only quite recently discovered Third. Third (2008) is my favourite now. I find it the most consistently good to my ears and I love the Krautrock and folk qualities on it. I've been quite obsessed with the album. I could mention any number of tracks, but will mention this for its folksy beauty. With Pram, I have the first six albums and love them all. If forced to pick one, then I might go with Helium, or Sargasso Sea or The Museum of Imaginary Animals depending on the day. I will mention "Blue" as song: With Stereolab, I like lots of their albums, but it was Dots and Loops and Emperor Tomato Ketchup that made me a fan. Discovering Stereolab led to lots of discoveries (including Pram). Ill mention a long one of theirs rather than the great, shorter and I expect better known ones such as The Flower Called Nowhere and Cybele's Reverie. And Ill give nod to another long one, which is Metronomic Underground which is very clearly Krautrock influenced (think Can and Neu!). Looking forward to hearing about your top five (you don't have to limit to five and can mention less). Thanks. |
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Posted: March 20 2022 at 16:31 |
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1. Goldie 2. Lush 3. DJ Shadow 4. Boards Of Canada 5. Slowdive The 2CD version of Goldie's Timeless is just pure magic all the way through; undoubtedly the most atmospheric and ecstatic drum & bass music out there, ambitious yet subtle. Technically, including Lush in here is cheating because their first EP dates from 1989, but 1992's Spooky is their first full-length release and to me summarizes everything I love about the shoegaze scene of the early 90s, from the Robin Guthrie production to the dreamy vocals and ethereal chord progressions DJ Shadow and Boards Of Canada both epitomize the chilled-out meditative electronic music that sprung up in the second half of the decade, imitated many times over since then but the old masters are still the best at it IMO I finally have to mention Slowdive's experimental Pygmalion album which has a really strange hypnotic and highly imposing effect when listened to late at night, when one is half asleep and half awake. Its predecessor Souvlaki is very impressive too in its own way, but their final release of the 90s is truly something else. |
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Scorn Pinback Barbara MorgensternTied and Tickled Trio Red Snapper Some of the examples are from the 2000s, as artists starting in 1999 with most work later qualify, whereas those with their first album in 1989 don't. Rules are rules.  |
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Posted: March 20 2022 at 20:04 |
While that is what I had in mind (I wouldn't have excluded demos and singles from the 80s, but I was thinking of major releases), I like to be flexible with my own rules, and am open to changing them if they seem unjust, unreasonable or problematic. For instance, I made the rule to do better at cleaning up, but then discarded it as I felt that was being too hard on my lazy ass. It has since thanked me (nice donkey!). Mirakaze mentioned one that I had planned to mention when I thought of this general topic (I wasn't wed to five then but I thought of it even before I thought of Air) which is Boards of Canada, but I looked it up on rateyourmusic and saw that on its bandpage there a release is mentioned called Catalog 3 under its main album listing, and so, as I put very little thought or effort into making this topic, I discarded it. That said, that is just some tape they recorded, and not a proper release, and I wouldn't worry about that. I had never heard of that release and just didn't look into it at the time. I love that Children album too.. That and The Campfire Headphase are the only albums I have by Boards of Canada. In an Interactive Poll my nomination was a Boards of Canada track as I recall, "Dayvan Cowboy". I look forward to listening to all the music that has been posted. I did get the chance to check out Mira's ones earlier and really enjoyed those and I do appreciate Christian's music tastes.
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Erik Truffaz 4 metal bands and a jazz musician  I could make a totally different list tomorrow  |
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Alice in Chains
Soundgarden Smashing Pumpkins X Japan Manic Street Preachers Honorable Mentions: Nevermore Helmet Pearl Jam Nirvana Morbid Angel Immolation Semisonic Pantera Supergrass Incubus Thergothon Corrupted (Paso Inferior is a masterpiece) L7 And I'm sure there are plenty more that I'm not thinking of right now
I'm definitely an alt-rock guy when it comes to the 90s in generalEdited by Necrotica - March 20 2022 at 23:58 |
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Freak Kitchen Charles Fambrough Joshua Redman Alice in Chains |
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As per usual I find myself agreeing with most of Greg’s choices…but that is somewhat boring to get yet another round of the same artists..so I am deliberately trying to come up with some others. Good thing that there are so many to chose from
 The Future Sound Of London (Lifeforms, Dead Cities) Massive Attack (Blue Lines, Protection, Mezzanine, 100th Window) The Brian Jonestown Massacre (Methodrone, Take It From The Man!, Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request, Thank God For Mental Illnes) Aphex Twin (Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and Vol ll, …I Care Because You Do, Richard D. James Album) Wu-Tang Clan w/ solo projects (Enter The Wu-Tang, Wu-Tang Forever, ODB - Return To The 36 Chambers & Nigga Please, GZA - Liquid Swords, Rawkwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Method Man - Tical and Blackout!, Ghostface Killah - Ironman, Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance etc etc) |
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Posted: March 21 2022 at 09:47 |
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Boards Of Canada
Dirk 'Mont' Campbell Deathprod Supersilent Pearl Jam Alice In Chains Stereolab Rage Against The Machine
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5 different ones..on the same day? Yes.
Think I’ll do single albums this time around. The KLF - Chill Out (One of my alltime fave electronic albums with a cut-n-paste mojo, field recordings, Tuvan throat-singing and some of the chillest 90s “dance-like” beats thrown in for good measure. There’s only one other album out there that comes close to sounding like this, and that is funnily enough also called Chill Out…though released much later by The Orb. Safe to say, if one of these catches your fancy…the other one is a safe bet). Btw the album that came out the year after, The White Room, is also a particular fave of mine…and one of the rare few ‘Dance-albums’ I really dig. I can imagine some old seasoned prog veterans fleeing to the hills for this one though Düreforsög - Knee (Danish take on Tom & Jerry vs zany avant metal. Clears out the sinuses whilst being an impeccable album to shake dat booty to. I have some insane memories listening to this one.) Shpongle - Are You Shpongled? (What at the time was called ‘Goa’ is indeed a wild take on the type of electronic stuff we got from the likes of Gong/Hillage/Ozrics but turned completely electronic with a deep zooming and somewhat monotonous bass beat. I still listen to it quite frequently though nowadays it feels infinitely more chilled) Bohren & der Club of Gore - Sunset Mission (Sloooow mountainous jazz that doesn’t sound like jazz, which somehow found a crowd amongst Godspeed, Sigur Ros, punk and black metal fans here in Denmark) Buena Vista Social Club - s/t (Ancient cubans doing their thang and it’s quite simply magical) |
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Bohren are great, good call.
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Thanks. I caught them live a couple of times during the late 90s early 00s, and they were even better in a live setting. I remember seeing them in Kødbyen, Copenhagen - which is in the more “sordid” (and interesting no less) part of our capital. The music was so slow and intense that it made me sweat profusely. I had to go outside to smoke a cigarette..and standing just outside the experience was just as intense as the windows in the building were vibrating like crazy and gave off the impression that the band had garnered a new member in some giant glass-player. Great times.
Oh and I blew it with Düreforsög as they’re featured on PA…although I tend to forget as I can’t recall the last time I saw them mentioned. I’m swapping in Fields Of The Nephilim’s greatest outing ‘Elizium’. Killer album. Edited by Guldbamsen - March 21 2022 at 11:18 |
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Bohren are actually on here as well, under post-rock / math-rock quite bizarrely considering some of the bands who get rejected.
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Well that’s a double-whammy I guess seeing as I just popped in to say that Sunset Mission was released in 2000. I honestly had no idea Bohren were included on PA. |
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Massive Attack Seal Alice in Chains Alanis Morrissette Rufus Wainwright Pearl Jam (Ten only) Julia Fordham (first releases were in 1988 and 1989 but I didn't discover her until 1991) New Family Soul Sensation New Wave Slowdive |
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RHCP RATM Nirvana Pearl Jam Spin Doctors Bjork Portishead FFF Jolly Joker Burma Shave dEUS |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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sorry to sound pedantic, but these guys do not qualify here, Blood Sugar Sex Magik from 1991 was their 5th album.
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Some good pedantry there. ;) To add to it, sorry, Björk is included in Prog Archives (I don’t think of her as Prog, but I’m not opposed to her in PA either).. Björk is one of my favourite artists from the 90s.
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Some big favorites in this category are (Youtube embeds didn't work for some reason, so I deleted them, sorry. I gave the song title so you can search on your own if you wish):
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- absolutely an all-time favorite artist for me. weirdly glitchy retro-sounding lo-fi pop. (Favorite Albums: Worn Copy, Before Today, The Doldrums, House Arrest). Song: Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups Sloan -- in my opinion, the best power pop band of all time. Four great singer-songwriters together in the same band, splitting the writing and singing fairly evenly (favorite albums: Action Pact, Never Hear the End of It, 12). Song: If it Feels Good Do It Pavement -- overhype prevented me from appreciating this band for 20 years but when I finally "got" it, hoo boy. Just brilliant guitar rock (if a bit wandering, obscure, and introspective). (favorite albums: Wowee Zowee, Slanted & Enchanted) Song: Rattled by the Rush Peter Jefferies -- this is kind of cheating, since he was already established in other bands in the 80s (This Kind of Punishment), but his solo work beginning in the 90s is where I discovered him. He's from New Zealand, and piano and drums are his main instruments, along with his distinctive and expressive voice. (Albums: Electricity, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World) Song: Dear Boss Dogbowl -- Originally with King Missile (Dog Fly Religion), this whimsical neurotic/romantic gives off some Jonathan Richman vibes, with no end of fun, cute melodic songs with offbeat lyrics and psychedelic production. (albums: Cyclops Nuclear Submarine Captain, Flan) Song: You Hit Me Over My Head Edited by HolyMoly - March 24 2022 at 12:52 |
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If you want to get really pedantic... Björk technically started out in the 70s http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=31792
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