The new Springsteen album, Wrecking Ball, is excellent. There are a couple of throwaway songs, but the good songs are so good. I was surprised at how much I enjoy the studio version of Land of Hope and Dreams, which has been played live since the late 90s.
The performances on Fallon last week makes me really want to go see the band on tour. Hopefully they'll come closer in the autumn.
I read in Rolling Stone that he had written another 40 songs for another album but scrapped them because he felt these songs were more timely.
I llke the Pogue-like sounds to a few of the cuts.
Not sure if its been mentioned, but the Smashing Pumpkins have a new album coming out in June to be called Oceania. Pretty stoked for new material from the best band of the 90s. Calgary tour date?
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Yeah, I don't see how two (arguably 3) good albums makes them the best either, but then the 90s were pretty mediocre.
what other a bands are there? Radiohead? They only had two good albums in the 90s. Pearl Jam? i like the first album but after that its pretty meh.
Adore and Melon Collie are two of the greatest albums of all time, throw in their first two and they take it easily. For me only Sloan and Wilco come close. (maybe Alice in Chains too).
what other a bands are there? Radiohead? They only had two good albums in the 90s. Pearl Jam? i like the first album but after that its pretty meh.
Adore and Melon Collie are two of the greatest albums of all time, throw in their first two and they take it easily. For me only Sloan and Wilco come close. (maybe Alice in Chains too).
This prompted me to scroll over my albums to see how people did in the 90s. You're right, lots of bands with 2 good albums but not many with that third.
Tori Amos had a great decade.
Canadian bias, but the Tragically Hip had a great 90s as well.
Tool - Aenema
Red hot chilli peppers - BSSM, californication
Metallica - Black Album
4 memorable/influential albums that came out of the 90's. There's good music being produced all the time, you just have to look for it. The 80's were the real dry spell.
Tool - Aenema
Red hot chilli peppers - BSSM, californication
Metallica - Black Album
4 memorable/influential albums that came out of the 90's. There's good music being produced all the time, you just have to look for it. The 80's were the real dry spell.
The 80s owned the #### out of the 90s. "Black Album" and "Californication" were two of the most over-hyped albums of the 90s and caused their respective bands' fanbases to turn on them.
Here are a few 90's artists that I would say were better than the Smashing Pumpkins.......
Johnny Cash began his American Recordings (2 great albums)
Nirvana with Nevermind and In Utero
Beck with 6 albums including Odelay, Mellow Gold, Midnite Vultures and Mutations
Bad Religion with 6 albums including Against The Grain, Generator and Recipe For Hate
Weezer with the S/T and Pinkerton
Beastie Boys with Check Your Head, Ill Communication and Hello Nasty
These are bands that I think of right away and every one of them are better than the Smashing Pumpkins, I might be a bit bias because I saw them twice and they might have been the most boring band that I have ever seen. Don't leave many shows but I left both early.
Nine Inch Nails (Broken, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile) [Pretty Hate Machine was also released 2 months shy of 1990]
Foo Fighters (S/T, The Colour And The Shape)
Modest Mouse (This Is A Long Drive, The Lonesome Crowded West)
The Prodigy (Experience, Music For The Jilted Generation, Fat Of The Land)
Oasis (Definitely Maybe, (What's The Story) Morning Glory?, Be Here Now)
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The 80s owned the #### out of the 90s. "Black Album" and "Californication" were two of the most over-hyped albums of the 90s and caused their respective bands' fanbases to turn on them.
load caused the fanbase to turn on metallica. Both the black album and californication gained them many new fans, maybe a few became alienated but for the most part they were breakthrough albums. Black Album may be overhyped but it's still a noteworthy album.
The Lumineers debut album is out tomorrow, which I am very interested to hear.
Of Monsters and Men's debut is also out tomorrow.
I have only heard a couple of songs from each of those bands, but I have liked what I have heard so far. It will be interesting to see if they are able to put together a whole album of quality, or if they have already released their best stuff. I will probably buy both of those albums tomorrow.
Jack White's debut solo album is out on April 24th, which I'm sure will be fantastic.
Wasn't Californication a comeback album of sorts? The peppers lost their guitarist and picked up Dave Navarro, figuring they wouldn't miss a beat. Released "One Hot Minute" to lots of hype but it was not very good. They went away for a while, got Frusciante and boom, they were back.
I have lots of great memories of the Pumpkins, Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie were pretty awesome, they lost me, and a lot of others apparently after that.
I don't see how anyone can say one decade or year is better than another. We only hear a small fraction of all the music that is released. There is so much still to be uncovered.
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^It was way worse in the 90's too. The internet and file sharing is by far the largest factor in me discovering many of my favorite bands. In the 90's all I had to go by was the radio.
New Japandroids album "Celebration Rock" comes out on June 5. One of the best live shows I've ever seen, and their new single is very, very good.
I came here just to post this track as well. Can't wait for the new album, may even pre-order the vinyl/mp3 combo. Likewise I saw em live at Broken City a few years back on a whim, great show indeed.
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Denmark's, The Raveonettes,are set to release a new EP, Into The Night, on April 24 via their own label, Raveonettes LTD. The four-song EP is an exploration of love and love lost, and is told through harmonic tales sung by Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo. Following the release of this album, the band will begin recording a full-length at Sunset Sound (The Doors, The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones) in Los Angeles. The album is expected later this year via Vice.
We have The Raveonettes single, "Into The Night," as a FILTER Exclusive track. The song is available to stream and download below.
Wasn't Californication a comeback album of sorts? The peppers lost their guitarist and picked up Dave Navarro, figuring they wouldn't miss a beat. Released "One Hot Minute" to lots of hype but it was not very good. They went away for a while, got Frusciante and boom, they were back.
I have lots of great memories of the Pumpkins, Gish, Siamese Dream and Mellon Collie were pretty awesome, they lost me, and a lot of others apparently after that.
Yeah it was quite the come back, I wonder if it will ever happen again. John leaving the band when they were at their peak sucked, I saw them live at the very end of their last tour with John and they were by far the best they've ever been in their career. Red Hot Chili Peppers without John are mediocre at best, with him they are one of the best live bands in the world right behind Tool. I've seen most of the big acts still around today (Metallica, Iron Maiden, Rolling Stones, Foo Fighters, U2 and a few other big names like NIN, Van Halen, The Eagles, Radiohead, Arctic Monkeys (blech), Muse, Coldplay) and Tool was by far the best live show followed right behind by the Chili Peppers.
