4 from 1991-3
The best thing about moving home after a long stay abroad are all the boxes with things you’d forgotten you’d missed. Among a bunch of dusty CD’s, I found the following gems, all dated 1991-93:
L7 Bricks are Heavy. Grunge girlies from LA. Wargasm (a screed against Gulf War media saturation) is sadly prescient 15 years later. But forget the big words — L7 rocked!
The Breeders Last Splash. Dreamy, creamy Indie.
Nirvana Incesticide. Too-cool revisionists can kiss my flanneled arse. Nirvana were the DB. This collection of B-sides and miscellanea proved Cobain was not just a Butch Vig-polished pop-punk. RIP, Kurdt (sic).
Sonic Youth Dirty. Thurston/Kim/Thurston/Kim/wall of noise/rinse/repeat.
Other early 90’s faves?
October 31, 2007 in Music |
I was not old or kewl enough to have picked up Goo back in 1990, so pishoff with your “their older records were better” poo. Yes, I’m looking at you.
Comment by The Brit — October 31, 2007 @ 2:26 pm
I’m woefully ignorant of the early 90s. I was too busy with personal tragedy (and way too poor) to pay attention to what was going on in music. (I basically only listened to the classic rock station.)
Some of the albums I love from ‘91-’93:
Terence Trent D’Arby - Symphony or Damn
Sunny Day Real Estate - Diary
Sarah McLachlan - Fumbling Toward Ecstacy
Red House Painters
Quicksand - Slip
Paw - Dragline
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Melvins - Houdini
Eyehategod - Take as Needed For Pain (is this really from 1993? holy cow)
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
KD Lang - Ingenue
Gruntruck - Push (a girl from my high school is the naked girl on the cover)
EBTG - Acoustic
Tori Amos - Little Earthquakes
Comment by Susan M — October 31, 2007 @ 2:30 pm
Achtung Baby.
Comment by Supergenius — October 31, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
I hate U2, but Achtung Baby is a great album.
I’ll also throw Dirt by Alice in Chains into the pile of great albums from that period.
Comment by Brian V — October 31, 2007 @ 8:07 pm
Ehem… Soundgarden?
Comment by tracy m — October 31, 2007 @ 8:47 pm
That was a magic time for music!!!
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted!
Beat Happening - Dreamy
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Matthew Sweet - Girlfriend
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Trash Can Sinatras - Cake
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville!
Pearl Jam - Ten
Hole - Pretty on the Inside
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
PJ Harvey - Dirty and Rid of Me
Sonic Youth - Dirty
REM - Green
Sinead O’Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Alice in Chains - Dirt
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Temple of the Dog
Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
Breeders - Pod
Nirvana!
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood sugar sex magik
In 1991 at Lollapalooza I saw Lush, Pearl Jam, Jesus and Mary Chain, Soundgarden, Ice Cube, Ministry and Red Hot Chili Peppers. I paid like $20 for that ticket - I would pay 50 times that now to go back in time and see the whole thing again!
Comment by wendy — October 31, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
other than whatever fugazi was doing (cause they don’t really qualify as an “early 90s band”), the best album of that time period (90-95), and really, the most representative of that time’s sound, is Pavement’s Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain. regardless of what some say, it’s way better than Slanted. however, it came out in 94 I think, so it doesn’t quite fit your time slice. in that case, Slanted I guess.
Comment by Jeremy — October 31, 2007 @ 9:09 pm
The early 90’s were a great time for music. Sadly I missed a lot of it for similar reasons to Susan. I was kind of in my classic rock phase. But I rediscovered most of it in the late 90’s. Great period.
As great as grunge was I really dug trip-hop as well. (Which lasted into the late 90’s)
Comment by clark — October 31, 2007 @ 10:47 pm
Lithium, the 90’s Alternative/Grunge channel on my Sirius Radio is incredible.
Comment by Tim J — November 1, 2007 @ 7:03 am
I agree re: Crooked Rain. That is one of the best albums of all time. I also wanted to include Pixes - Doolittle, but it came out in 1989.
Comment by wendy — November 1, 2007 @ 8:06 am