"Fever opened my ears to a spectrum of experimental soundscapes from early-2000s international dance acts like Daft Punk, Jamiroquai, Basement Jaxx, and Röyksopp."
That's awesome when an album opens new doors for people.
I traveled to London around this time and the marketing was happily unavoidable. I think I took pictures with every Kylie poster I saw. I don't like pop music for the most part, but she's so lovely and special, I couldn't resist.
When I was a kid, my girlfriend hated that I didn't love Mariah Carey. I broke up with her over it. A guy can only take "Mariah this, Mariah that" for so long...
Boys Say Go, Nodisco, Just Can't Get Enough, Meaning of Love, But Not Tonight, I Feel Love, Goodnight Lovers... DM ain't all dour. They have a fairly fun sense of humor about them.
The video for It's No Good is pretty fun!
As a child of the 80s, I feel like any one that covers DM, the Cure and New Order is going to mess it all up (although Radiohead did an amazing version of Ceremony)
She didn't make it better and she didn't kill it either. It's more like "Hey, Kelly Clarkson singing Depeche Mode"
It's not is 311 doing "Lovesong"...
They are obscenely underrated. Seeing them live for the Laid tour was a massive highlight. Their performance of Skindiving, of all songs, was just insanely good. I remember it so vividly!
"Cure, Depeche Mode, REM, Love and Rockets, Pixies et al" YES! Although they were very much beloved and respected, I don't know if people who weren't around at the time realize JUST how all-encompassing they were to kids of a certain age. I still wear all black...
Madchester bands weren't influenced by house like Robin S or anything, but acid house stuff and rave culture at the time. I loved the Mondays, Inspirals, Charlatans, and all that. The Roses were much more traditional sounding than that. whiskeyclose0 nailed it with The Byrds on ecstasy. There's no piano breaks in Stone Roses :D
As someone who got several of those records on day one, it felt like it was definitely acceptable to get Pixies, Nirvana and Primal Scream records on the same day. I left the RHCP one on the shelf that day. Culturally and in hindsight, it did move the needle as the article mentions, but it was definitely not something I felt was groundbreaking at the time.
I don't get the Stone Roses "house music-influenced sound" reference though. Are we talking 90s house music ala Robin S and Inner City? Cos that debut Roses record sounds NOTHING like that. At. All. It's a very Brtish sounding traditional record unless you slap Fools Gold on at the end and it ends up closing on a Madchester note.
I'm in shock this was a number one song, considering I have very strong recollections of every other number one so far, including the ones where I wasn't even born yet! Yet, in the middle of formative years, here we are.
Who the hell is Tommy Page and what is this song?!
I'm talking about the stuff they'd do with Noel or Tim Burgess, not Dust Brothers area. Was speaking in general terms, not that he lifted something the way Lorde lifted Primal Scream...
One makes harmless, boring music and is noted to be a nice guy, the other makes self-indulgent, boring music and is noted to be an asshole.
The Smiths were great though right?
Dude said slavery was a choice, aligns with a homophobe who punches women and some asshole that beats women AND sexual assaults them.
I gave up Morrissey for less.
You're not wrong, it's very Chemical Bros collab sounding. It sounds like that time. I'd like to hear him push more towards XTRMNTR than something this slick. I am all for him being out there and doing his thing. He's Johnny f'n Marr after all...
" Gen Z being so consumed by anxiety and drugs that they can't handle more than 3 instruments on a track at once" - BCA
I have no idea if GenZ is consumed by either, but damn, I miss a 4th,5th and 6th instrument!
I dunno, I have never heard either song until now, but they basically sound like covers of each other. I mean, it sort of seems like her thing if she has to give credit to so many other artists.
"Most of the rappers on the bill didn’t rap their verses so much as hype up their own pre-recorded tracks."
I wouldn't risk catching Covid to hear people yelling over recorded tracks. Jesus... security sounded really great too. Feel bad for the bar staff.
Probably just old, but this sounded kinda hellish! lolol
I'm an old guy. I wondered what the loss of tribalism was going to mean for music. Back in MY day, you could tell a punk from a metalhead, from a pop kid from a hip hop kid, etc.
The monoculture of music kicked in years back and everything sort of settled into the middle ground.
Turnstile sounds like the craziest parts of many genres and that makes me happy.
Hope they blow up for the kids.
They were indeed special. Saw them when the record dropped and my experience was the just as mindblowing. Saw them later at Coachella and they decimated the audience.
I cut my teeth on Violator, Disintegration and Technique. I didn't think I'd love albums that much again, but then came Danse Macabre, Turn on the Bright Lights and Sound of Silver. Music is awesome...
It's not a joke though, more like a forecast. Looks cloudy, might rain. Morrissey booked a show, will probably cancel.
In the beforetimes, I bought a total of 4 tickets to see him, different years. He showed up for one. Coachella 99. It was good! Very easy to get to the front. He's revealed himself to have opinions that made me not want to support him financially as a fan. I'll always love the Smiths and some of his early solo stuff, but the man is inside his art. I can't separate that.
The Cure's my favorite band of all space and time and Gallup is definitely the type of player that affects the sound of the band. If the Cure plays without him or makes a record without him, he'll be missed the way New Order's Hook is missed. Sad to see, but that's life I guess.
As a primarily electronic band, they could have done Fuel. That song is wild and probably would lend itself well to all sorts of tomfoolery.
But as mentioned, those deep cuts are rarely appreciated. Hell, f'n Miley Cyrus APOLOGIZED to her audience when she covered Cocteau Twins.
If you're going to cover something, make it sound like your own. Hell, Siouxsie did that with an entire covers record. It sounds just like a Banshees record should, not karaoke.
It's wasn't hard to show a movie in multiple auditoriums using one print. You simply thread the print across multiple projectors. You'd have to stagger the time by a few minutes of you were running it across a long distance. I worked as a projectionist back in the day!
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