Adele?! I think every single person in the world decided to buy Turnstile. I cannot find a copy of Glow On anywhere apart from the sharks on discogs and eBay…
This is obviously vexatious.
But while we’re on the subject, I was just thinking about the first time I heard Teen Spirit (the DJ played it twice in a row because she couldn’t believe how great it was). While I dipped a little into alternative (FNM, Jane’s Addiction) prior to this, I was a metal/rock head. This record changed the whole trajectory of my musical outlook and is probably the reason I’m still haunting a site like this. Nevermind was such a vital, life changing record - over familiarity may have dulled that over time bit it still sounds brilliant. The only difference now is then I used to jump around the house to it, now I clean the house to it - I got old.
I was surprised to find Sylvan Esso were my top played artist on the Spotify end of year thing (my top five also included Bob Mould, Mogwai and Anthrax - it's been a weird year). I have them on a lot of my playlists because I find them simultaneously joyful and comforting - totally underrated but glad to see them getting recognition after three great records.
I guess that's why I didn't really relate to the SG album of the year list. It's has been such a traumatic year in so many respects, I found myself seeking music that gave me solace which meant listening to a lot of music that made me feel good (SE, Bob Mould) or the familiar especially music from my teenage years (I listened to a lot of 80's metal this year - hi Dio, Anthrax and Metallica). Yep, fucking weird year.
While the rock and metal categories are weird with too many dicks on the dance floor, it is nice to see Deftones and Gojira nominated off the back of genuinely great albums.
I had to look up H.E.R - I'm wondering if she has any reach outside the US as I'd never heard of her (not a brag, just an observation).
As the it says, the sad thing is that this is happened before and will happen again. I was at the Big Day Out where Jessica Michalik was died in the pit. It changed the landscape of how festivals were run in Australia forever but even thinking about it makes me sad. That place that we go to live, experience and celebrate music and means so much to us all, that it could turn deadly is so heartbreaking. Music is our safe place and this just hurts.
Hey Jack Black, if you pay me $9m to appear in your movie, I could probably retire after that. I might not have the ageing hip hop star chops you’re looking for but I bring a strong curmudgeonly Gen X vibe to the table (and I’m vaccinated because I’m not a fucking moron).
I know this isn't the place but for anyone who reads this, Australia is a bad actor in the climate change space. We're ruled by a bunch of fuckheads who are in the pocket of the mining industry - not even kidding when I say their emissions reduction scheme includes building more coal mines and gas plants. It's all laid out here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIyKmqEdgR4
There’s a bunch of people petitioning for the Mountain Goats to be the musical guest on SNL after Ed Sheeran’s withdrawal. This article suggests a better option for that slot…
I’m not articulate enough to express how much Fugazi have meant to me over the years. I only got to see them once on the Red Medicine tour - 97 I think and just thinking about that night makes me happy. Thanks for the great write up of a great album - Killtaker will always be my fave but it’s not like there’s such a thing as a bad Fugazi album.
I remember seeing Aussie legends You Am I at a festival in 1992 and they were cut off midway through their last song. Citing that they were poor musicians and couldn’t afford to smash their guitars in protest, they ironically smashed a three plug powerboard instead. Probably on a par with what’s going on here…
Many times in my life I’ve considered Mirror in the bathroom to be a perfect song - not least because of the way the drums drive it. Rest easy Everett.
Great band. Also, in educational content. If you don’t know about the real Kowloon Walled City, I recommend going down that rabbit hole - a wild piece of history/informal architecture.
I wonder if she regrets tying herself to the age concept for every album title. She probably looks wistfully at the King Gizzard album titles and contemplates what could have been.
Imagine what you could do with billions of dollars? Sure, you’d have a kickarse record collection but you could still be richer than god and maybe buy part of the Amazon rain forest to stop climate change or maybe take steps to stop world hunger or maybe facilitate Covid vaccines for third world countries or maybe get into a weird dick measuring competition with other billionaires building rockets like an emotionally stunted adolescent… The possibilities are endless.
Man, these grunge anniversaries. I was 17, about to turn 18 when Nevermind came out. It was a great time. I’m now 47, about to turn 48. Checks notes - climate change, pandemic, neo nazis… not such a great time right now.
I respect this. If I was a director, I’d totally cast my favourite musicians in my movies as an excuse to hang out with them. Sadly, I am not a director.
I love when people say they're doing their own 'research' on the vaccine. Please enlighten us with your findings Professor - oh, you're using google and your brother's friend's fifth cousin's tennis partner took the vaccine and grew a second head and now listens exclusively to Kenny G. You're obviously an expert, I look forward to the peer reviewed paper.
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