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fallencathedral

"Save us, Cat Man!" (part 2)

Mar 12, 2009 13:01

Okay, now we come to the conclusion of my little music project: the 90s and 00s. As I grew closer to the present day it became harder to use influence as a determining factor so popularity and personal preference become a little more useful. I suspect that if I were to redo the 00s five years from now my choices would be slightly different. But ( Read more... )

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jezebel_haddo March 19 2009, 08:25:34 UTC

The Fragile is a runner up to Baby One More Time?! Well, I never! Granted it's not Trenty's best work, but still... Then again you have the Ramones only earning a runner up, too. *can hear Joey's ghost crying*

fallencathedral March 19 2009, 19:40:16 UTC

While I greatly preferred The Fragile to damn near anything that came out that year I had to factor in influence as well. Besides I gave Trent his due for Pretty Hate Machine in 1989. As for The Ramones, it was just their bad luck that Bowie released his greatest album of all time the same year.

jezebel_haddo March 20 2009, 04:22:47 UTC

What about all the other Ramones albums?!

Um, okay. But Trenty deserved it for The Downward Spiral. Though I suppose Courtney Love was more influential... *gags*

fallencathedral March 20 2009, 04:32:29 UTC

The Ramones first album was the best they put out.

As for The Downward Spiral, it really felt like more of a continuation of what he started on Pretty Hate Machine. It wouldn't be until The Fragile they he really began to grow as an artist. And don't knock Hole. Live Through This was a damn powerful post-punk album that was highly influential in evolving the riot grrl genre into something more commercially viable. Plus it influenced some of my favourite bands of the late 90s (like Jack Off Jill).

jezebel_haddo March 20 2009, 04:40:27 UTC

Nuh-uh! And sorry, I will continue to knock Hole. Courtney Love should wither and die.

fallencathedral March 20 2009, 04:44:15 UTC

She does tend to illicit this sort of response from people and I can't disagree. But the thing about Live Through This is that it was released before she became a celebrity so it's really the only pure creative effort she ever did and it's still pretty strong, especially when you compare it to her horrible later output.

jezebel_haddo March 20 2009, 04:49:34 UTC

She was famous then, just not for her own music. If it hadn't come out on the heels of Kurt Cobain's suicide, she would have stayed that way.

fallencathedral March 20 2009, 04:54:01 UTC

The timing was unfortunate. The album came out a few days after his death and that drastically changed how people perceived it. I didn't even pick it up until a few years later, which was probably good. Though I don't know how much it would have mattered to me. I wasn't a fan of Nirvana when they were still together. Ironic since I lived in ground zero for grunge at the time.

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