Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
I have to thank Nirvana for getting DLJ on a major for Yank Crime, the better of their two albums. I'm sure the royalties were even worse from Interscope than they are whenever this is rereleased on a new indie, but it just rocks that there was a band as good as this on a major label as recently as... 1995.
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Big Black - The Rich Man's Eight Track Tape
Think about this: I am giving you the opportunity to download digital files of songs that make up a compilation meant to illustrate the worthlessness of the CD. Indeed, we have moved past that, and Steve Albini's still furious.
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Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
Man, girls will give it up for post-rock these days. Like the smallest mention of Godspeed will get you laid twice, maybe three times in one night. Silver Mt. Zion or (gasp!) ExPlOSiOnZ iN THe SkY will have you looking at a MFFFFFFFFFF or something. Not the same attention is paid to Talk Talk, a band only somewhat well-known for their contributions to synthpop. Then WHABAM, they whipped out Spirit of Eden like my dick after namechecking F#A#∞: unexpected, but not unwelcome (except at first). This was post-rock before post-rock existed, and that album, much like Laughing Stock, has garnered much acclaim in its wake. Laughing Stock is where it all comes together, though, like I defy you to listen to it twice and tell you this isn't fucking genius. None of that ten-minute-buildup and emotional loud part here bullshit (which, admittedly, is a turn-on), just some of the most complex music ever laid to wax.
Apologies for making this sound like a joke or something. It isn't.
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I have to thank Nirvana for getting DLJ on a major for Yank Crime, the better of their two albums. I'm sure the royalties were even worse from Interscope than they are whenever this is rereleased on a new indie, but it just rocks that there was a band as good as this on a major label as recently as... 1995.
d/l
buy
Big Black - The Rich Man's Eight Track TapeThink about this: I am giving you the opportunity to download digital files of songs that make up a compilation meant to illustrate the worthlessness of the CD. Indeed, we have moved past that, and Steve Albini's still furious.
d/l
buy
Talk Talk - Laughing StockMan, girls will give it up for post-rock these days. Like the smallest mention of Godspeed will get you laid twice, maybe three times in one night. Silver Mt. Zion or (gasp!) ExPlOSiOnZ iN THe SkY will have you looking at a MFFFFFFFFFF or something. Not the same attention is paid to Talk Talk, a band only somewhat well-known for their contributions to synthpop. Then WHABAM, they whipped out Spirit of Eden like my dick after namechecking F#A#∞: unexpected, but not unwelcome (except at first). This was post-rock before post-rock existed, and that album, much like Laughing Stock, has garnered much acclaim in its wake. Laughing Stock is where it all comes together, though, like I defy you to listen to it twice and tell you this isn't fucking genius. None of that ten-minute-buildup and emotional loud part here bullshit (which, admittedly, is a turn-on), just some of the most complex music ever laid to wax.
Apologies for making this sound like a joke or something. It isn't.
d/l
buy
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