SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE
Diary
2017 U.S. 2xLP Ltd. Ed. Reissue
A monster album for me when I was in high school.
Being a total devotee of all things Sub Pop in the #90s , this one hit me in a way that none of the label’s other releases at the time.
I remember buying it on tape, & it taking me at least a week to get past the first 3 songs, because I kept rewinding it after Song For An Angel and playing those 3 over & over.
Sometimes YouTube does you right. Reminded me of this song from the 'Born Again Pagans' EP Coil did in 1995, when they felt they were communicating with a spiritual entity named ELpH as they made it. Wild, huh?
GREAT song, too - the whole EP is killer. Hearing this right after it came out when I was in my mid teens was wiiiild
"There [used to be] regionalism in music. You knew where your band was from the same way you knew your sports team. We knew The Cars were from Boston. We knew R.E.M. was from Athens. We knew The Ramones were from New York. When you went to Minneapolis, Soul Asylum would be on the radio."
I have another one for #TuneTuesday and #SameTitleDifferentSong. This one often comes to mind for me, too. The third one is missing the 'ing' but I'm still counting it, especially since Dave played for Tom and they were friends. I love the SHIT outta all THREE of these songs.
Starting Sunday off with an extremely underrated STP album.
Although they were pretty much done being a regular touring act due to Scott’s “issues” (I was lucky enough to see them three times), they were still able to make really great studio albums, of which I think No. 4 is the last TRULY great one.
It’s a great balance of early raucous STP (Down) and the more moody textural material (Sour Girl, Atlanta). #vinyl#vinylrecords#90s#90smusic
THE POSIES
Frosting On The Beater
2018 U.S. 2xLP Reissue
One of the greatest #powerpop albums of the #90s if not all time.
This is one of my Desert Island Discs, and not even Ken Stringfellow’s horrible atrocious behaviour can effect my love for it. There is not one musical misstep, not a single flaw to be found anywhere.
Auer and Stringfellow never reached these heights again. Just one of those lightning in a bottle type albums, but what a bolt it was.
Got a killer #MusicWomenWednesday for this week. When I was a kid in the 90s, I had this awesome Wax Trax video compilation (on VHS!) from 1994, it had KMFDM, Coil and Laibach on it (and a ton of other great bands) including BRAINDEAD SOUNDMACHINE.
This was the first way I ever heard this great Patsy Cline song, this unforgettable 'metaldisco' (as they liked their genre to be called) cover. It's totally wild and probably underappreciated.
I've been a big fan of Stone Temple Pilots since the early 90s -- I was 12 when their first record came out. And I loved how psychedelic they got with the next albums.
I saw them BRIEFLY years later at a free secret show on Miami Beach - my friend and I raced there last minute & caught maybe 4 songs. Still one of the greatest shows I've ever seen. BEYOND tight. Effortless.
These are my 24 favorite STP songs. They'd make a killer double album. 12 songs per disc.
Today of course marks the 30th anniversary of nine inch nails' legendary record The Downward Spiral. This masterpiece of an album was released March 8, 1994, and was a pretty intense thing for 14 year old me to hear.
This photo is from Instagram - Trent just posted it, saying what 28 year old him had to say still excites him but breaks his heart. It's a dark album, man. All the pigs are still lined up.
Good #Friday everyone. Today's my usual work from home day, so I get some quiet and can focus on getting some code written. Also means I can pick a #CD out of my modest collection and listen to it on the stereo, just like the #90s . Today it's the turn of Green Day's Warning: an enjoyably mixed record from 2000.
Another one for #MusicWomenWednesday because I won't remember it for next week. This song is SO good and I know I saw this video either in 1994 or pretty soon after, and teenage me had a massive crush on Louise Wener hahaha
I’d been after a #vinyl copy of this album for a very long time, but I was never going to pay $200 for an original pressing of it.
So happy somebody finally reissued this great album; a bit of a lost gem of the #90s#shoegaze thing, and one of the best albums to ever come out of my hometown of Boston.
If you like the genre, and don’t know this album, I strongly recommend it.
Thank you MOV for a great sounding pressing. #vinylrecords#90smusic
Sometimes I think about this trailer and how hard it went and how mad it makes me because the movie was such a mess and also the trailer made me enjoy a Creed song, how dare
30 years ago today (Feb 25, 1994), nine inch nails released the first single from The Downward Spiral, 'March of the Pigs'. I had this record pretty soon after it came out and I played it nonstop. World changing. Step right up.