OT: Watcha Listenin' To? - Part V

[TCTC]

I actually liked Weekend in the City and even Intimacy when they came out.
Not all time classics by any means, but still solid albums IMO.
Probably had each album in my personal top 20-30 of 2007 and 2008 respectively.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I actually liked Weekend in the City and even Intimacy when they came out.
Not all time classics by any means, but still solid albums IMO.
Probably had each album in my personal top 20-30 of 2007 and 2008 respectively.

I don't really like "Intimacy" on the whole, but "Signs" and especially "Biko" are very, very beautiful songs.

 

[Rebels57]

I also liked Weekend In the City

 

[Beef Invictus]

Is This It? didn't grab a hold of me when i listened to it. I've been meaning to give it another shot.


I've noticed a lot of 90s album rankings have a huge amount of love for Achtung Baby and that's another album that just does nothing for me.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Is This It? didn't grab a hold of me when i listened to it. I've been meaning to give it another shot.


I've noticed a lot of 90s album rankings have a huge amount of love for Achtung Baby and that's another album that just does nothing for me.

They made some weird (bad) choices on the songs to release as singles, with the exception of "One" and "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?" The songs from 3 to the end on both sides are great. And yes, I'm old enough to call them "sides" That was my favorite band growing up, along with The Police. Their sincerity made a lot more sense in the context of the 1980s.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Use Your Illusion and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are 2 albums that would have been absolutely incredible had they been trimmed down into a highlight reel of the 2 discs. It's just deeply difficult to sit through 28 songs of Axl or Billy.




This has been a very high contender for "favorite song" for years now. I think it's the only song I've never ever skipped or changed the station on, or didn't feel like listening to.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Use Your Illusion and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are 2 albums that would have been absolutely incredible had they been trimmed down into a highlight reel of the 2 discs. It's just deeply difficult to sit through 28 songs of Axl or Billy.

Yep lol. When you look at the songs that worked on that Smashing Pumpkins album though, holy **** were they great. That was released the same time Oasis had just put out theirs - then there were these great singles like "Standing in a Telephone Booth" and "Popular" and everything that was being played on 120 Minutes on MTV - it was by far the best period of music I have ever heard. And then Britney Spears opened her legs and swallowed it all into the black hole vacuum of her lady parts. RIP music.

 

[TCTC]

Billy Corgan wanted to create his own version of "The Wall".
Guy was extremely talented, but also a megalomaniac.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This is from later, but I love this one.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Yep lol. When you look at the songs that worked on that Smashing Pumpkins album though, holy **** were they great. That was released the same time Oasis had just put out theirs - then there were these great singles like "Standing in a Telephone Booth" and "Popular" and everything that was being played on 120 Minutes on MTV - it was by far the best period of music I have ever heard. And then Britney Spears opened her legs and swallowed it all into the black hole vacuum of her lady parts. RIP music.

This telephone booth?



Because come to think of it, that's another song I've never skipped or tuned away from.

I've only ever listened to Oasis while drunk so I don't recall much of it. Love Champagne Supernover though.

This is what I have in the background right now:

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

If anyone wants to check out a great album from that time, try "Regretfully Yours" by Superdrag. In my top 5 of that decade for sure. I couldn't even complete that list, though, it would be too hard. The only two I know for sure would be on there:

Liz Phair - "Exile in Guyville"
Superdrag - "Regretfully Yours"

I'd probably put "Indoor Living" by Superchunk on there, but you couldn't really ignore "(What's the Story) Morning Glory" - it's impossible.



I'm not going to link it because of the cursing, but listen to "F*** and Run" by Liz Phair. Genius.

 

[Rebels57]

Use Your Illusion and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are 2 albums that would have been absolutely incredible had they been trimmed down into a highlight reel of the 2 discs. It's just deeply difficult to sit through 28 songs of Axl or Billy.




This has been a very high contender for "favorite song" for years now. I think it's the only song I've never ever skipped or changed the station on, or didn't feel like listening to.

I am honestly hard-pressed to name a song I enjoy listening to more than 1979. It has this way of transporting me back to being 10 or 11 years old when I first heard it. It actually makes me emotional in a way. Its on my Desert Island playlist for sure.

 

[Beef Invictus]

This manages to be the Tooliest music video without technically being a Tool music video.

 

[Rebels57]

This telephone booth?



Because come to think of it, that's another song I've never skipped or tuned away from.

I've only ever listened to Oasis while drunk so I don't recall much of it. Love Champagne Supernover though.

This is what I have in the background right now:

Grouplove is AMAZING live. I saw them for free in Camden, NJ back in 2014. They are a blast and make some really solid albums.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I am honestly hard-pressed to name a song I enjoy listening to more than 1979. It has this way of transporting me back to being 10 or 11 years old when I first heard it. It actually makes me emotional in a way. Its on my Desert Island playlist for sure.

That's exactly it. It makes me feel like I'm back in the summer of 1995, laying in bed at night in Malvern with the windows open and a storm in the distance. It's a very specific thing to evoke. They managed to make nostalgia into a song.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This telephone booth?



Because come to think of it, that's another song I've never skipped or tuned away from.

Yep, that's the one - a real beauty, and a total one-off

This is "Popular"



And two more from a little earlier.

 

[Rebels57]

That's exactly it. It makes me feel like I'm back in the summer of 1995, laying in bed at night in Malvern with the windows open and a storm in the distance. It's a very specific thing to evoke. They managed to make nostalgia into a song.

Im glad im not the only that song has that effect on. They somehow managed to bottle up the essence of a specific time.

 

[Beef Invictus]

Oh man I haven't heard Misery in years. I strongly associate it with a Weird Al medley

Popular: good old spoken word 90's rock. A song type made weird by King Missile's "Detachable Penis."


In the last few years I've discovered that I like Beep-Boop rock. Thanks for that, Naked and Famous. That scene has produced some of the more interesting stuff lately, notably CHVRCHES.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Im glad im not the only that song has that effect on. They somehow managed to bottle up the essence of a specific time.

The funny thing is that they managed to bottle up what it was like as a kid in 1979, too
Such an amazeballs masterpiece of a song. Love it.

 

[Rebels57]

I like some of that genre too Beef. Dont be ashamed lol.

I tend to bounce around and explore every decade in a non-chronological fashion.

I just recently got into The Jesus and Mary Chain. Theyve got some damn good material.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Those two brothers were notorious for getting wasted and punching the hell out of each other One of them was with Hope Sandoval for a long time.

 

[Rebels57]

The funny thing is that they managed to bottle up what it was like as a kid in 1979, too
Such an amazeballs masterpiece of a song. Love it.

You said it man. It really is a masterpiece. Im gonna put it on tomorrow night when I have a solid buzz going during the Preds-Ducks game. Ill probably have a tear in my eye that represents both joy and a yearning for the past lol

 

[TCTC]

Isn't "Just like Honey" the song they used in Lost in Translation? Was the first time I heard of that band.

 

[Rebels57]

Those two brothers were notorious for getting wasted and punching the hell out of each other One of them was with Hope Sandoval for a long time.

I think they may have punched the hell out of the link too because it doesnt work lol

 

[Rebels57]

Isn't "Just like Honey" the song they used in Lost in Translation? Was the first time I heard of that band.

Yes! At the end. I hadnt heard it before that and didnt explore it..then The Shins name-dropped them on their new album so I went down the rabbit hole.