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JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK
Twenty f*ckin years
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Alice In Chains last album with Layne is a f***ing masterpiece
Why do I only ever see people talk about Dirt and Jar of Flies
Why do I only ever see people talk about Dirt and Jar of Flies
Edge
Kris King's Ghost
Dirt was the commercial wunderkind, and Jar of Flies is a favorite of music aficionados.
Personally, I think Facelift is my favorite album of theirs from start to finish.
JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK
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I actually haven’t listened to Facelift at all tbh. I feel like AIC is a perfect combination of the best aspects of Dirt and Jar Of Flies, and I think it’s the band at the peak of their powers musically. It has the heaviness/dense sound of Dirt with the melodies of Jar of Flies
Bob Richards
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HFsNumber1Heel
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The band Hum who was big around 1995 (when I was teen) just put out a new album there first in like 22 years. Curious to hear it. They dropped it out of nowhere this week it was like a WTF moment.
I'm into all kinds of stuff but tonight will be night #2 of the new Pyrrhon which is extreme metal from Queens.
Very interested in the Dua Saleh EP Rosetta that just came out. A young Sudanese rapper from Minnesota. I've listened to it about 3-4 times but all while working so I haven't sunk my teeth in.
Also for anyone here who likes punk and post punk, two of the guys in Fugazi (Ian MacKaye and Joe Lally) put out a new album. It's a s/t and the band is Coriky. The drummer is Amy Farina who plays with MacKaye in The Evens.
I'm into all kinds of stuff but tonight will be night #2 of the new Pyrrhon which is extreme metal from Queens.
Very interested in the Dua Saleh EP Rosetta that just came out. A young Sudanese rapper from Minnesota. I've listened to it about 3-4 times but all while working so I haven't sunk my teeth in.
Also for anyone here who likes punk and post punk, two of the guys in Fugazi (Ian MacKaye and Joe Lally) put out a new album. It's a s/t and the band is Coriky. The drummer is Amy Farina who plays with MacKaye in The Evens.
Tawnos
A guy with a bass
nyrage
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Funny that you should mention Hum. On Friday I moved their cd from one of my main CD racks to my island of misfit cds racks because I needed the room. I haven't listened to it in forever although I used to love that song "Stars".
HFsNumber1Heel
FKA Roo Returns...Still A Contrarian Apparently
"Stars" was such an interesting song in the summer of 1995. To me it's like if Weezer went full metal (and I'm not a Weezer fan at all). That or Smashing Pumpkins but heavier.
I was a teenager that summer not even in HS and have such fond memories. Even though those dastardly heels the Devils won the Cup, "1994 Hangover" was still very much going on. I remember playing in a band with my still to this day best friend and writing punk music everyday. It would be a bonus if I went over and his neighbor who was a year younger than us was riding her bike around the neighborhood. I had the biggest crush on her for a school year and that year gap when I was in HS and she was still in MS, it killed it. When I saw her again it was a different world because there's so much development and life experience between end of 8th grade and beginning of 10th grade.
That summer I remember Grace by Jeff Buckley being a big album and of course White Zombie and Primus.
I worked in a day camp and "Stars" by Hum was always playing and by the end of that summer "Galaxy" by Blind Melon got a lot of airplay as did "Runaway" by Janet Jackson and "Warped" by Red Hot Chili Peppers.
RHCP became my favorite band by that point and I was stoked to go through a album release/tour cycle with them. I still love OHM and think people disliked it just to dislike it.
But back to Hum, yeah they had a brief moment where they were a very big band and projecting upwards. Curious how this new one sounds.
One Hot Minute is a good album. I’ve seen RHCP a few times and I really enjoy Frusciante’s solo career. Pearl Jam is another favorite of mine. But I got really into a certain kind of grungy, hard country rock when I lived in Texas (twice, 6 years total) and the way that the sounds in the guitar (which a lot of blues riffs obviously originated in the south) and overall instrumentation can come pretty close to a heavy PJ cut or something like it, but there’s this twang and cloud of dust and old saloon feeling somewhere in the very writing just amplified this feeling of Americana, drink a beer, get your hands dirty... honesty that I got hooked on. I’m real picky with country music because most of it I dislike just as much as your average northerner. But there’s a certain brand of harder southern rock that just speaks to me like nothing else.
nyrage
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We all have one of those songs. For me it was "Low" by Cracker. I used to rollerblade up and down those big hills in Central park in 93-94 and "Low" was always playing on the radio.
I'm more of a metal and alternative fan. A lot of that 90s rock stuff had its moment, but definitely faded for me.
White Zombie - The A&R guy that signed Metallica had the biggest crush on me. I used to always deliver million dollar checks to him every quarter for Metallica when I worked for Atlantic/Elektra records. He would always give me Metallica stuff. One day he sees me and says I want you to hear a new band I'm going to sign and I want your opinion. I go up to his office and he plays a White Zombie demo. After hearing it, I said, "Not bad, but not for me". They had a few good songs, but not my type of music.
Primus - After I moved to Florida, I saw Primus in Pensacola around 95-96. I was wearing a shirt by a death metal band called Possessed. It was Larry LaLonde's band before joining Primus. I'll never forget Les telling Larry on stage, "hey Larry, look, someone wearing a Possessed shirt. That crappy death metal music you used to play". Larry just laughed. I wanted to stab Les. He might have been joking, but that was the last time I saw them. Oddly enough, I saw Primus open up for U2.
Edge
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NYR94
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Definitely. So sad what happened to him. Such a talented guy.
For those of you who play video games, a certain Pearl Jam song features prominently in the recently released The Last of Us Part 2.
JESSEWENEEDTOCOOK
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HFsNumber1Heel
FKA Roo Returns...Still A Contrarian Apparently
Do you mean Michael Alago aka the aka Who The #$% Is That Guy? I met him at a Danzig/Corrosion of Conformity/Mutoid Man show in New Jersey back in 2017. Super nice and humble guy. I had no idea who he was until after. All my friends were like "Yo do you know who you just took a pic with?" a day or two later.
Cracker? I loved those guys. Saw them in DC in the early 2000s. Very fun show. Kerosene Hat was a great album. They had about four really solid ones. I used to know David Lowery a little bit back in the day. Good dude, at least to me. He could be a grump if you asked him the wrong question. A lot of my friends who were into They Might Be Giants also got into Camper Van Beethoven around 1995-96 so because of Lowery in CVB and because Cracker and CVB started touring together in the early 2000s, it was another reason they were around.
Primus-I've seen them a bunch of times live. My favorite was the first when they played with the Meat Puppets at Nassau Coliseum in November 1995 when the crowd started peeling off the tarp to touch the ice and a giant "Lets Go Rangers" chant erupted. In later years they would get very jammy live, I think that was after Claypool started playing with Trey from Phish and the Frog Brigade etc. Primus was one of my favorite bands growing up. It's crazy how "mainstream" they were between 1992-1996.
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HFsNumber1Heel
FKA Roo Returns...Still A Contrarian Apparently
@Loki Dog 74 sorry it took so long to respond, storm caused a power outage and I basically lost a day of work with no internet. Thank goodness tomorrow = Friday for many.
For Frusicnate's solo career: what did you think of the Attaxia albums he made with Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally from Fugazi? I might be that album's biggest fan I love Fugazi and they were going for a Public Image Limited classic lineup feel. Frusciante actually dropped an album and one EP under his electronic music Trickfinger moniker. The second EP is on the way later this year I believe. It's a return to form compositional wise for him, definitely getting ready to write RHCP style. I hope they can get an album out by next year but because of covid and the way those guys write and record it probably isn't out until 2022 and there's a chance it could be either their last or next to last album with three of the guys entering their 60s.
Southern rock is awesome whether all that classic Allman Bros/Skynyrd/Wet Willie/Marshall Tucker, or Corrosion of Conformity and down.
PJ I've tried but for whatever reason, after Vitalogy their albums don't connect with me other than a few tracks here and there.
nyrage
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Yes, Mike Alago. I watched that documentary about a year ago when someone I just met randomly brought up his name and she was friends with him. Small world. I didn't even know about that documentary until she mentioned it.
My first job at Atlantic Records was in the Royalties dept. I met Robert Plant that first week, but that's another story. One time I was asked to hand deliver a million dollar check to Mike for Metallica. From that point on, Mike specifically asked for me to bring up their checks. Definitely a nice guy. Maybe a little too friendly. Ha. He was always wanting me to hang out with him. I remember running into him at a King Diamond show and he told my gf how jealous he was of her and what a catch I was.
I didn't know David Lowery personally, but I heard that we was a pretty smart guy.
I feel the same about Pearl Jam. I like a few songs, but I never connected to them.
I’m less into PJ’s newer stuff admittedly, but Yield and Binaural are good albums. Everything else after Vitalogy is hit or miss for me, but a mediocre PJ album is still better than a lot of artists’ best album.
Ataxia is phenomenal. I think Dust is my favorite track but I really love all of it.
You should check out some Whiskey Myers stuff.
Bury My Bones, Gasoline, Strange Dreams, Stone, Guitar Picker, Bar Guitar and a Honkytonk, Die Rockin, Different Mould are all great tracks to start with.
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