I'll take in the Rock category, my favorite of Pink Floyd's numerous masterpieces... Meddle.
Jammed for time so I can't offer much of a write-up, but Meddle is... amazing. To me it represents the Floyd's perfect marriage of their prog and more mainstream elements. Set the table for them to take over the world with Dark Side of the Moon, and like has been said before, as a complete listen, will turn any casual fan into a disciple.
How ironic that after years fronting the hugely influential but desperately overlooked Hüsker Dü, Bob Mould's first project with new band Sugar, 1992's Copper Blue, would become the most commercially successful project of his career. Of course, it was released just as the seeds sown by his former band were bearing bountiful fruits in the post-Nirvana alternative nation, which provided ample explanation for its phenomenal success. But Sugar were well deserving of their success, regardless of time and place. A more aggressive, contemporary guitar attack aside, stunning power punk masterpieces like "The Act We Act," "The Slim," and "Fortune Teller" bear all of the vintage Mould musical traits: tell-tale lyrics, great hooks, and snappy melodies. It's all underpinned by that unexplainable, chilling tension between innocent beauty and dark melancholy that fans came to expect from Mould, and topped by his somewhat nasal, almost timid vocal harmonies. Other highlights include the '60s-style "If I Can't Change Your Mind," the loud, beautiful guitars of "Man on the Moon" and "Helpless," and the tongue-in-cheek Pixies tribute "A Good Idea."
Bob Mould is one of my favorite song-writers. Everyone should own this record. I can't believe this record is 16 years old. Read the comments attached to the youtube clips, and you will see just how impactful this record was. I think it was a gateway record for many people in the 1990s to alternative/independent music. I have attempted most of these songs on my guitar.
and I think Sowa made his pick, so he should be out of the parentheses of shame
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I find buying movie soundtracks hard to do, as normally I find theres only one or two good tracks and the rest is just kind of meh. However the crow is a fantastic album which compliments an even better film
1. Burn - Bamonte, Perry
2. Golgotha Tenement Blues
3. Big Empty - DeLeo, Dean
4. Dead Souls - Curtis, Ian
5. Darkness - De La Rocha, Zack
6. Color Me Once - Ritchie, Brian
7. Ghost Rider - Rev, Martin
8. Milquetoast - Hamilton, Page
9. The Badge
10. Slipe Slide Melting
11. After the Flesh - McCoy, Buzz
12. Snakedriver - Reid, Jim
13. Time Baby III - Goodall, Jim
14. It Can't Rain All the Time - Siberry, Jane
The Cure - Burn
Stone temple pilots - Big empty
Medicine - time baby III
Jane Siberry - it cant rain all the time
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With my 4th, I would like select in the category of “Album 1997-1999”, Susan Tedeschi's 1998 wonderful release of "Just Won't Burn"
The was a recording that came out of nowhere for me. At the time I was a scriber to a magazine called Blues Review and was my way of following the blues scene on the late ‘90” Everyone in the publication was raving about Susan Tedeschi but unfortunately at the time she was an unknown and was not a major record seller so you couldn’t go into a record shop and order he album… I Know because I did so many time over the course of 6 months through all the record chains stores around me. Thankfully the BB King Blues Festival rolled into town and had brought Susan along for the trip. She was being scowcased and had a chance to come out and sing a sing with every artist that night. I picked up 5 CD’s of her album that night and handed them out to all the blues fans I know… It was a great day much later when she finally cracked the charts and you were able to walk into a stor and see a copy of her album sitting in the bins
Track listing
1. "Rock Me Right" (Tom Hambridge) – 4:27
2. "You Need to Be With Me" (Tedeschi) – 3:04
3. "Little by Little" (Junior Wells) – 3:49
4. "It Hurts So Bad" (Hambridge) – 4:50
5. "Found Someone New" (Tedeschi) – 2:20
6. "Looking for Answers" (Tedeschi) – 5:13
7. "Can't Leave You Alone" (Adrienne Hayes) – 3:02
8. "Just Won't Burn" (Tedeschi) – 4:46
9. "(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" (Herb Lance, Charlie Singleton, John Wallace) – 4:43
10. "Angel from Montgomery" (John Prine) – 5:23
11. "Friar's Point" (Hambridge, Tedeschi) – 4:21
You tube clips when I get home from work
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For my fourth pick, I select Jay Crocker - Melodies from the Outskirts (2006) in the Best Pop Album category.
1. Wooden Tin
2. Eramosa Road
3. Strong Arm Down
4. Ice Man
5. Dead Birds
6. Paper Thin
7. Somewhere Between Good & Evil
8. Wake Up Honolulu
This is a great pop album. It was a must-pick in this category as far as I'm concerned, not because Jay's a local boy (although that's a nice plus), but because it's just such a solid record. He recently released his second full length but this one suits the category a bit better.
Jay’s first solo pop recording “Melodies From The Outskirts” was released in 2006 to national critical acclaim, followed by a successful Canadian cross-country tour with his 9-piece genre-bending, avant-pop ensemble. “Melodies From The Outskirts” received airplay across Canada on Pop, jazz, roots and experimental charts alike and was named by the Calgary Herald as the city’s best indie release of 2006.
For our 4th round pick, The Slippery Grooves choose, in the 2003-2005 category, Beck "Guero" (Deluxe edition)
-from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guero Guero is the sixth major-label studio album by Beck, first released in March 2005. It debuted on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart at #2 (where it went gold), and in the UK at #15 (where it went silver). To date, this is Beck's highest charting CD. It is seen by many reviewers as a return to the style of Odelay, his 1996 album, mainly because this album, like Odelay, utilizes production duo the Dust Brothers. It also recalls Mutations in places with its Brazilian influences. "E-Pro" was the album's first single, with "Girl" as the follow-up. As of July 2008, Guero has sold 868,000 copies in the United States.[1]
Güero (pron. IPA ['wero] sounds like "Wher-roh" in English) is a Mexican slang term in Spanish for a pale-skinned or blonde-haired person. Beck cites having been referred to as a "guero" throughout his childhood, lending the title of the album and the track "Qué Onda Guero [sic]". (In Mexican slang, żQué onda güero? means "what's up, blond boy?" or "hey, white boy". A literal translation is "what's the wave, white boy?" which is analogous in English to "what's happening?" See List of Chicano Caló words and expressions)
Beck released an album of Guero remixes called Guerolito later in 2005.
Nirvana's Nevermind may have been the album that broke grunge and alternative rock into the mainstream, but there's no underestimating the role that Pearl Jam's Ten played in keeping them there. Nirvana's appeal may have been huge, but it wasn't universal; rock radio still viewed them as too raw and punky, and some hard rock fans dismissed them as weird misfits. In retrospect, it's easy to see why Pearl Jam clicked with a mass audience — they weren't as metallic as Alice in Chains or Soundgarden, and of Seattle's Big Four, their sound owed the greatest debt to classic rock. With its intricately arranged guitar textures and expansive harmonic vocabulary, Ten especially recalled Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. But those touchstones might not have been immediately apparent, since — aside from Mike McCready's Clapton/Hendrix-style leads — every trace of blues influence has been completely stripped from the band's sound. Though they rock hard, Pearl Jam is too anti-star to swagger, too self-aware to puncture the album's air of gravity. Pearl Jam tackles weighty topics — abortion, homelessness, childhood traumas, gun violence, rigorous introspection — with an earnest zeal unmatched since mid-'80s U2, whose anthemic sound they frequently strive for. Similarly, Eddie Vedder's impressionistic lyrics often make their greatest impact through the passionate commitment of his delivery rather than concrete meaning. His voice had a highly distinctive timbre that perfectly fit the album's warm, rich sound, and that's part of the key — no matter how cathartic Ten's tersely titled songs got, they were never abrasive enough to affect the album's accessibility. Ten also benefited from a long gestation period, during which the band honed the material into this tightly focused form; the result is a flawlessly crafted hard rock masterpiece.
I would like to select in the category of Punk/Political, Flogging Molly's Swagger.
This album was this Irish punk bands first full studio album, and it was released in 2000. I have never been big on punk music ever, but I really like their sound. I am sure it's mostly to do with their celtic influence, as I love celtic music.
