Music Therapy
I was just looking through my music collection and i noticed something.
Now I'm going to put forward quite a controversial idea here...
In my opinion the 90s were an awesome decade for music.
Awesome.
1993
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
I challenge you to find someone who doesn't know Creep.
I then challenge you to find someone other than me or mr. Kamran that doesn't find them depressing after listening to that song.
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Wooooooooo feminist Rock! I'd say probably one of carol ann Duffy's biggest influences. Rub It Til It Bleeds, oh how fiesty.
1994
Portishead - Dummy
This album is my strongest influence. It is indisputably fucking amazing.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Need I even comment? Is there anyone that has not at some point been overwhelmed by Jeff Buckley?
Massive Attack - Protection
I have come to realise this album was probably the basis for the whole of my favourite oh so beloved Tricky album. Ok, fine, it is beautiful and totally before it's time but it still feels like a rip off.
Also released this year is my cherished gamelan compilation which has so many deep-rooted emotions connected to it.
My computer is also sick and is telling me Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here was released in 1994 but that is wrong wrong wrong.
1995
Tricky - Maxinquaye
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH THIS ALBUM!! yesssy yess.
Radiohead - The Bends
Essential. I have heard two amazing uses of songs from this album recently: That scottish acoustic guy who supported Martin Grech doing a cover of High & Dry with a sampler loopy guitar pedal thing and Scroobius Pip vs Dan Le Sac's sampling of Planet Telex. Its just such an amazingly influential and easy to recycle album and that is NOT a bad thing.
Deftones - Adrenaline
7 Words: This was me and Lucy at 14.
( and it still has the same effect on me that it had all those years ago.)
The Smiths - Singles
I hold this rather close to my heart even though noone likes them anymore. So many songs on this album tug at my heart.
Also, the birth of Emo as discussed in the darkroom.
1996
Bjork - Telegram
After finally realising this is a remix album of Post i think it has taken on even more significance than it had before. Its awesome. Helen Keller playing milk bottles + a string quartet + a dillinja d&b version of a song you could never even have imagined having such an edge + bjork's wonderfulllll vocals = what more could you possibly want. I will never get sick of this album but i doubt if anyone else really gets it like i do.
Beck - Odelay
Classsssiicooo. I will never forget the day i went and got this out from the library and then recorded it onto tape when i got home. I was about 10. Infact, 1996, i was 9! The New Pollution rocks.
1997
Portishead - Portishead
Like Dummy but with this fantastically viscious snarl that is really quite sexy. If i was a straight man and portishead was another man i would bum him.
Deftones - Around The Fur
There's too much of an abundance of amazing tracks on this album to even start praising it.
Be Quite and Drive has my heart in a little box.
My Own Summer is when i had first met Rob and me and Lucy were actually deluded enough to think Mike was sweet.
MX is now permanently attatched to this song Leon is taking forever to write that im meant to be guest vocalling on. And it also reminds me of Toluene @ the fighting cocks.
(there is something making noises like a mouse under my bed....but there is nothing there...:s)
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
This actually is now my favourite Incubus album. Why couldnt they have stayed like this?
Glass!!
Radiohead - OK Computer
So so many fond memories of all these songs. I appreciate the fact its really hardly mainstream but yet its so easy to sing along to.
Climbing Up The Walls makes my arm hairs prickle. Still.
Haha i also remember watching romeo and juliet with subtitles so i could feel like i was highly literate and reading Shakespeare and when it came to the end credits Exit Music For A Film came on and i was singing along like it was kareoke.
Suede - Coming Up
Noone else will get why i love Picnic By The Motorway so much but everytime i hear it it makes me want to do a cover version of it.
1998
This is where i'll stop because after 1998 everyone got obsessed with the millenium and everything was all fake-futurism and utter bullshit and people playing Prince's 1999 everywhere you went.
BUT i had to give Massive Attack - Mezzanine a mention because it completely stole me away.
It is a fantastic and timeless album.
Angel is really quite a subtle masterpiece.
Also: Cake - Prolonging the Magic!
aww! Bless em.
Well i hope this has been educational, i just needed to get it out of my system.
The 90s really were not that bad.
Now I'm going to put forward quite a controversial idea here...
In my opinion the 90s were an awesome decade for music.
Awesome.
1993
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
I challenge you to find someone who doesn't know Creep.
I then challenge you to find someone other than me or mr. Kamran that doesn't find them depressing after listening to that song.
PJ Harvey - Rid Of Me
Wooooooooo feminist Rock! I'd say probably one of carol ann Duffy's biggest influences. Rub It Til It Bleeds, oh how fiesty.
1994
Portishead - Dummy
This album is my strongest influence. It is indisputably fucking amazing.
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Need I even comment? Is there anyone that has not at some point been overwhelmed by Jeff Buckley?
Massive Attack - Protection
I have come to realise this album was probably the basis for the whole of my favourite oh so beloved Tricky album. Ok, fine, it is beautiful and totally before it's time but it still feels like a rip off.
Also released this year is my cherished gamelan compilation which has so many deep-rooted emotions connected to it.
My computer is also sick and is telling me Idiot Pilot - Strange We Should Meet Here was released in 1994 but that is wrong wrong wrong.
1995
Tricky - Maxinquaye
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH THIS ALBUM!! yesssy yess.
Radiohead - The Bends
Essential. I have heard two amazing uses of songs from this album recently: That scottish acoustic guy who supported Martin Grech doing a cover of High & Dry with a sampler loopy guitar pedal thing and Scroobius Pip vs Dan Le Sac's sampling of Planet Telex. Its just such an amazingly influential and easy to recycle album and that is NOT a bad thing.
Deftones - Adrenaline
7 Words: This was me and Lucy at 14.
( and it still has the same effect on me that it had all those years ago.)
The Smiths - Singles
I hold this rather close to my heart even though noone likes them anymore. So many songs on this album tug at my heart.
Also, the birth of Emo as discussed in the darkroom.
1996
Bjork - Telegram
After finally realising this is a remix album of Post i think it has taken on even more significance than it had before. Its awesome. Helen Keller playing milk bottles + a string quartet + a dillinja d&b version of a song you could never even have imagined having such an edge + bjork's wonderfulllll vocals = what more could you possibly want. I will never get sick of this album but i doubt if anyone else really gets it like i do.
Beck - Odelay
Classsssiicooo. I will never forget the day i went and got this out from the library and then recorded it onto tape when i got home. I was about 10. Infact, 1996, i was 9! The New Pollution rocks.
1997
Portishead - Portishead
Like Dummy but with this fantastically viscious snarl that is really quite sexy. If i was a straight man and portishead was another man i would bum him.
Deftones - Around The Fur
There's too much of an abundance of amazing tracks on this album to even start praising it.
Be Quite and Drive has my heart in a little box.
My Own Summer is when i had first met Rob and me and Lucy were actually deluded enough to think Mike was sweet.
MX is now permanently attatched to this song Leon is taking forever to write that im meant to be guest vocalling on. And it also reminds me of Toluene @ the fighting cocks.
(there is something making noises like a mouse under my bed....but there is nothing there...:s)
Incubus - S.C.I.E.N.C.E
This actually is now my favourite Incubus album. Why couldnt they have stayed like this?
Glass!!
Radiohead - OK Computer
So so many fond memories of all these songs. I appreciate the fact its really hardly mainstream but yet its so easy to sing along to.
Climbing Up The Walls makes my arm hairs prickle. Still.
Haha i also remember watching romeo and juliet with subtitles so i could feel like i was highly literate and reading Shakespeare and when it came to the end credits Exit Music For A Film came on and i was singing along like it was kareoke.
Suede - Coming Up
Noone else will get why i love Picnic By The Motorway so much but everytime i hear it it makes me want to do a cover version of it.
1998
This is where i'll stop because after 1998 everyone got obsessed with the millenium and everything was all fake-futurism and utter bullshit and people playing Prince's 1999 everywhere you went.
BUT i had to give Massive Attack - Mezzanine a mention because it completely stole me away.
It is a fantastic and timeless album.
Angel is really quite a subtle masterpiece.
Also: Cake - Prolonging the Magic!
aww! Bless em.
Well i hope this has been educational, i just needed to get it out of my system.
The 90s really were not that bad.