That bottom 5 really should have been switched around. Hot takes shouldn’t get more downvoted than misogynistic and homophobic content. I mean you were right in the middle so... congratulations?
I’ve started to do this in the last few days. It’s really tough here at the moment, and just planning for a future out of lockdown really seems hard to do and I’m interested to see how that shapes this album.
I remember reading this little nugget in their end of year single review of Ignition in 2003 and thought it was fucking gross then:
“Michael Jackson take note: R. Kelly's plan for diverting public attention away from his buggery is apparently to write hit after irresistible hit.”
I think I was late to them because on paper it just doesn’t seem like something I would be that into, but I’m really digging it, and man, when they unleash that guitar, damn.
I took a few days off work this week and caught up on a few things that slipped under my radar:
Milatarie Gun: All Roads Lead to the Gun I and II
SLOTHRUST: Parallel Timeline
Wild Pink: A Billion Little Lights
And some old favourites:
Girls: Album
Super Furry Animals: Radiator
The Wrens: Meadowlands
I second all of these (except Tyler and Turnstile. Still need to hear them). The Cassandra Jenkins album is a real surprise for me this year and Lightning Bug of course.
The opening seconds of White Horses when the vocals kick in: I actually gasped. This band are so thoroughly in control of their craft in a way that doesn’t feel laboured. At this rate I can’t wait to see the music they’re putting out in twenty years time.
I had an entire ‘Number Ones’ style essay ready for this article, but really all you need to know is that ‘Vomit’ is the one song I can honestly say has saved me from a very dark period in my life. As corny as it sounds this song really does make me believe in the power of music.
Well luckily for them it got heavy play at Guantanamo Bay in the following decade (and in person as well!). I know the bass player was pretty thrilled at the time. Fuck Drowning Pool.
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