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or it says about the culture. im very sure you have never heard most of the songs that are very popular down here and i coudl easily say it reflects very much about you instead of your context.

i really don't think Perry has a face that's generic for anything.

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basically yes.

seeing that i live in a foregin country i am excused then, because radio hardly ever played this boring stuff (not that there were many english song playing stations to begin with) but naturally they focused on more exciting and interesting music. Aso we already had a local version of this kinf of thing already, so why go with something from outside. This type of R&B is good only if you are riding in elevators in tall buildings. Also, seeging that a lot of these songs barely get payed nowadays, it speaks to their staying power, Top 40 hits nothwitstanding.

i heard this song and 2 min later it was gone from my memory. a puff of nothingness with nice voices. a barely there 6. at least it was only 2 weeks at the top.

i got to see him in 2019 i think and he still puts on a very solid show. Just wiches he played For the Longest Time.

Leonard Cohen retired for a long time to a budist monastery but had to come back when he discovred his manager i think took off with all his money. It was a win win for all becuase we got some new great albums out of that.

Meanwhile at the great song side of town . . . Tool released Sober. The first single from their debut, Undertow, Sober is misery and lament in little over 5 min. A song about a friend of the band who could only be inspired while high, he won't be leaving his addictions anytime soon, as the guitars chug and roar while Maynard sings "I am just a worthless liar....I want what I want". The video (the first of a long line of great stop animation videos from the band) was directed by Fred Stuhr with the characters designed by guitarist Adam Jones. Sober peaked at 3 in the Alternative chart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nspxAG12Cpc

Meanwhile, at the loud side of town Catherine Wheel released Chrome. Do you like sonics? This album has to spare, the guitars sound beautifully, courtesy of Gil Norton While Rob Dickinson's voice always sounds like it's about to break while he is choking on his own melancholy. Pushing into a more hard rock territory, there is still plenty of shoegaze and dreaminess to let you float as you listen to the songs. Opener "Kill Rhythm" sets the mood, "Crank" comes out ripping from the speakers, "The Nude" is openly pretty among it's ache, "Show me Mary" could have been a hit in a more fair world. The cover was created by Storm Thorgerson of Hipgnosis design company (the ones from a lot of Pink Floyd albums). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwkaSlm6FW0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX_-PqCP9Yo

i tolerated 50 seconds of that dj miko aberration.

Plastic Dreams, what a whopper of a song.

Radiohead: Ok computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, In Rainbows, not an album, but a DVD, King of Limbs From the Basement All 5 Perfume Genius albums. Beatles : Rubber Soul, Revolver, St Pepper, White Album, Abbey Road. Aphex Twin: SAW 85-92 SAW vol II, Richard D James, Drukqs, Syro. Beck: Mellow Gold, Odeley, Mutations, Midnight Vultures, Sea Change. PJ Harvey: Dry, Rid of Me, To Bring you my Love, Stories from the City, Let England Shake. All 5 Fiona Albums. im sure there are more.

Steve does look like he listens to Micheal Bolton.

Movies is a 20. a creeping punch in the gut coming out of nowhere.

Come to Me is in my fav 5 of her, it is so beautiful and like you said, disarming in it's simple honesty.

By Starlight is one of the prettiest songs from Mellon Collie.

i was lucky enough to win a ticket for one of the Cronucopia shows down here, and visually it's an amazing experience, but she did play the WORST version of Venus as a Boy (she also wrecked Pagan Poetry by playing it in half and backwards -the 'i love' him part first-) but Not Get was mindblowing.

it did make me wonder what music does this guy like?

"Viorrc"

i have that issue too, it gets the first 10 spots right but after that, there are some really glaring omissions.

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Vespertine works better for cold dark nights with te (or something else)

* Metallica

some friends of mine went to the Mexico City shows that are in the Metalliza box set.

Walking in my Shoes is an 8, 9 with the visuals. Pets is a 10.

Boredoms rule, that is all.

upvote for both

Regret IS a 10

i love that song, so silly with an even more silly video.

great to see somebody gives this album some its due, i looooove it and my favorite behind Acthung and Joshua. a more radical turn, it explored their version of the world of loops and i wish some of the songs had been remixed (Daddy's going to pay for your Crashed Car has the blueprint for some amazing ones). Numb sounded soooo weird the first time, but you could not stop listening. Lemon is all magic, The First Time is how you do a ballad without the gloop and schmaltz, The Wanderer is one of the greats (and i think what started the Johhny Cash reappreciation), Some Days are Better than others really hits on these times, oh i can say so much more, but Zooropa the song is menacing beautiful and i almost lost it when they played it for the encore in the 360 tour when the thing with all the lights comes down. As a bonus (je) here is the remix version of numb, where it's sund effects were used for the ZooTv tour (there used to be a visual version, but it's gone from youtube) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPgVo59n36M and here is the more rough but still great version of Stay (Faraway so close) that was used for the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zExA7ZD28U0

The Beatles did a great, more rockin' cover version of Searchin available in the Anthology albums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-0Xz1ZccFI

Yes, was hoping someone would do this one. thanks!

i remember this at the time, it was quite a shock .

they always put on a great fun show. i really would love to be one of the guys in animal costumes dancing on stage once. .

agree with the 7, the song is a vibe and i never have any problem with those. it flows along whitout any effort and relaxes in its own chillness. Jante's vocal only adds to it.

Zooropa won a Grammy for best alternative album and i remember when Bono went to pick it up he had a "what the hell does alternative mean?" face.

Truganini is all urgency and anger rolled into such a powerful melody and lyrics. One of their best.

As a bonus, here is "Violently Happy" from her Unplugged (you can catch Talvin Singh playing percussion). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJ7yrISdzfM

Meanwhile, ath the trippy side of town . . . The Flaming Lips released Transmissions from the Satellite Heart. Like most things regarding this band, you know you're in for a trip, For a while they had been adventuring the far reaches of experimentation but for their sixth album, the band now had guitarist Ronald Jones and drummer Steven Drozd and somehow it became their breakthrough. Yes, it's the album that has "She Don't use Jelly" (which totally rocks to Mars and back) but that song is an outlier of what else is in there. The one-two punch of "Turn it On" and "Pilot Can at the Queer of God" will wake up the most sleepy person, the first being an introduction to the sound of the record, the second an all out fuzz punch to the face. Wayne Coyne's voice may not be for everybody but it suits the music in a perfect way, his nasal timbre rising high above the melodic noise. "She Don't Use Jelly" has such a pretty melody when it's not sending the amps to red while Wayne describes a parade of quirky individuals. "Superhumans" (such a 10) is a total pop nugget that's been rolled over in a carpet of distortion. Last track "Slow Nerve Action" drifts away beautifully with it's pounding drums and warbly guitar, signaling the trip is over. Although derided as a one (alternative) hit wonder, The Flaming Lips will continue to experiment over the decade and prove everybody wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvfxKbpoxRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woKyGavzW0Q