The 1990s in and out of PA (see OP for details)

Here's a challenge, try to list two albums from the 1990s by one act that you like that is included in the ProgArchives database, and try to list two albums from the 1990s by one act outside of ProgArchives that you like. If that proves problematic, well, I'm not going to be fascistic with rules, and tangents are welcome.

I'll choose Art Zoyd's Faust (1995) and Häxan (1997) as my two albums by one band in PA choices, and Stereolab's Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996) and Dots and Loops (1997) as my out of PA choices.

I'd be happy if this turns into a general discussion about 90s music. Over the past six months I found myself listening to quite a lot of 90s music that I probably wouldn't have paid much heed to in the 90s (thanks to Chris Morris' dark "Blue Jam" radio programme ).

In the 90s -from 1991 and forward- I was a huge metal fan. The 90s is the best decade for progressive metal, yet I discovered most of its treasures in the 2000s and 2010s.

Progarchived: Therion - Theli and Vovin
Non-Progarchived: Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding and Accident of Birth.

Edited by Shadowyzard - March 16 2020 at 15:58

Cristi wrote: Shadowyzard wrote: In the 90s -from 1991 and forward- I was a huge metal fan. The 90s is the best decade for progressive metal, yet I discovered most of its treasures in the 2000s and 2010s. Progarchived: Therion - Theli and Vovin Non-Progarchived: Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding and Accident of Birth. Nice choices.  Theli and Accident of Birth are great albums especially.

I'd choose those two too, among the four.

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

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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!

Not a bad challange to me specially outside PA. But I choose:

^ 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.

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).

Here is a Tree theme:

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