The Egg by Shiner
I never thought Chief would have something so "mainstream" sounding on his chart. It resembles a lot of alternative and post-grunge of the time, but unlike a good portion of that late 90s/early 00s scene, this is pretty good. I think it's the vocals that make me think of that. In its essence it's still post-hardcore/math rock, but less noisy and complex (comparatively). The songwriting's still there most of the time. In fact, I could see some of these songs becoming minor alternative hits at the time. Play Dead follows a relatively simple formula and has a catchy chorus, that one's maybe the most appropriate. All in all I liked this, but there weren't too many highlights (my favourite was The Simple Truth) and it's not nearly as interesting as something like Black Eyes, so I guess 7/10
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Sorry to disappoint you, but I'm not a huge Slowdive fan. They're good, but not nearly as good as some of the other stuff there. Go with Mazzy Star.
KMD - Black Bastards
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
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Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic
Boubacar Traoré - Mariama
Oidupaa Vladimir Oiun - Divine Music From A Jail
Rokia Traoré - Bowmboï
Sun City Girls - Torch Of The Mystics
Jimmy Lee Williams - Hoot Your Belly
Soungalo Coulibaly - Dengo
Matt Elliott - Drinking Songs _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
While this isn't the 10/10 album I was hoping for, this is still one of the best albums for 1993 and for the 90's in general. There might be some people that might find this boring or somewhat plain for depending on their taste. However, for me this was an album to put in the pile for records that share the quality of waking up in the morning. Getting your coffee or tea. And eating your breakfast on the weekend. That pile so far consistent of both The Campfire Headphase and Golden Hour. This doesn't hit the lush highs of those records, but from front to back it was really enjoyable and could see this as a sleeper album. A record that while I wasn't ecstatic for, but will probably blindside me later on. Grade:95. Lower than Suede or RHP but could get higher than those two.
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Led listen to Matt Elliott.
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BEA: Top 100 of 1993
(4) Slowdive-Souvlaki (R)
(5) Pearl Jam-Vs.
8 Counting Crows-August And Everything After
(11) Liz Phair-Exit In Guyville
(12) Snoop Dogg-Doggy Style
(13) Blur-Modern Life Is Rubbish
(15) The Breeders-Last Splash
(17) Depeche Mode-Songs of Faith and Devotion
18 Radiohead-Pablo Honey (R)
(19) Yo La Tengo-Painful
Pash is most certainly will be V.S, Led might be Blur or The Breeders, both Chief and Bay will be Snoop Dogg. Also I'm glad I got two albums done today for this list. Might get to 3.
I associate that one with slow evenings rather than mornings, but I agree with everything you said. Great album. _________________ Overall chart Fake overall chart
That and I would have to bring up the group where while they are proficient at rapping, my problem for most of them would be selling the aggression and struggle. There are lines that if I was around the group, I would be scared. But the delivery kind of fills me with indifference. Kind of start to shrug it off. There was one particular line where one of the members of the clan where he compared his delivery to heavy metal and when I heard that, I end up not feeling the heaviness nor the excitement.
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P.S. If you want to nail your predictions for me, I consistently pick my favorite album that I've heard, and you can find my ratings for every album I've heard on RYM.
Nah. That was always for a guess regardless on the enjoyment as well as if I get it right or not. Also sorry but that picture is hilarious.
Ledzep, Shiner is a band from Kansas City, so they get som special treatment. We don't have many bands that make it past the local scene, so I try to at least include some of the better ones on a chart every once in awhile.
Excellent album, and just like Stormcrowfleet, that extra added atmosphere from the synths, which for most bands I've heard would be mixed terribly or improperly used, is actually one of the highlights. Certainly sounds like what I need to be listening to while I play Doom. Probably could've have trimmed some of the songs on the back half of this one though. Just a little long.
Luigii, it's going to be Painful. Probably in my top couple of Yo La Tengo albums.
Heathered Pearls - Loyal
Il Baricentro - Sconcerto
Musette - Datum
MIchael Chion- Requiem
Violent Onsen Geisha - Excrete Music
Silvio Rodriguez-Al final de este viaje
Caroliner Rainbow Open Wound Chorale - Rise of the Common Woodpile
Dark - Round The Edges
These Trails- These Trails
SLAB! -Descension
Purplepashranker, rater, & music list makerProfile Western Australia
Yes it was The Fall I would have picked first for myself. That or The Cramps. I'm still slowly working my way through The Falls extensive discography and am yet to hear a below average one. But Killing Joke and Swell Maps were also ones I wanted to hear. Jane From Occupied Europe is a bit of a challenging listen. A bit more experimental than other post-punk around at the time, with some interesting noise and dissonance, and a few twists and turns throughout. It's downfall is probably nothing really catchy or instantly stand out, but the second half of the album was consistently good. I can see why this ended up a relatively influential album with very little success at the time. I had a chuckle at the credits where Epic Soundtracks, the drummer from the band, also had concrete and typewriter in the list of instruments he played on the album. I'm also wondering if Sonic Youth, considering Thurston Moore has cited Swell Maps as an influence, named their song Eric's Trip from Daydream Nation, as a direct nod, at least in name only, to the song Epic's Trip, which was a bonus track on the reissued version of this album. 7.5/10, and 20/41 for 1980.
There's a few of these recent addittions to the list I want to hear and hopefully some will still be around next time I choose, but I gotta give the priority to Dark - Round The Edges.
Well that's it for my quick visit to 1980. It was a great year and I would have liked to explore more but no other current player has a 1980 chart. So I jump another decade to the year 1990 when I was 21 and listening to a lot of albums of that year. A lot of what's left that I haven't heard doesn't interest me much so I am going give myself a bit of leniency (or cheat - whichever way you prefer to view it 🤣 ) and include albums I've listened to before but not in the last 5 years since I've been here so I haven't given them a rating. It should be obvious which ones they are.
BEA's Best Albums of 1990
8. Repeater by Fugazi
12. The Good Son by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
13. Canción Animal by Soda Stereo
16. Flood by They Might Be Giants
18. Shake Your Money Maker by The Black Crowes
19. Ragged Glory by Neil Young & Crazy Horse
20. People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm by A Tribe Called Quest
23. The Rhythm Of The Saints by Paul Simon
24. Painkiller by Judas Priest
25. Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 by George Michael
Yeah, this is wonderful. Third record from Tengo under my belt. Thought their 2000 album was excellent and their 1997 album to be great. And this might be the best record they have ever done. Maybe. Because I did listen to at least 7 tracks yesterday. And I remember Komo did a ranking for Yo La Tengo. Was quite curious where this was placed and he had it as his best. Hell this was all time favorite album. But not only that, some of the descriptors for some of the rest of the discography got me really curious to see where this band goes. But back to Painful, this rules. Like there are probably a few complaints that I could think of but I would say this is one of those moments where even if I decide to critique, it doesn't really effect the quality. It was that intro with that synth sound that made me excited for this. Hell, on the second listen I realized that synth tone was also on Gustavo Cerati's Bocanada. The track being Beautiful. But both artists take the sound in different directions. And the rest of the album shares a lot of qualities that I have referred to other albums from this list. This tackles the lush and dusk or dawn soundscapes of Mazzy Star. Certain tracks on this album sounds noisy but also comforting like Rollercoaster. As well as speaking to me more than In Utero. And it might do things better than other albums that I have to revisit/haven't listen to yet. So yeah, don't know if this would be in my top 100. But whenever I get at least 250 albums for a particular year, this would easily be in my top 10 for 1993. And a runner up for my decade chart for the 1990's. Otherwise, if you haven't listen to this get to it as soon as possible. Grade:100 If I was to look in the future, this would probably be a tier 2 record if I'm going by my greatest list.
(2) Pash, you got some good picks. I would have given Soda Stereo since that is Gustavo's band before he went solo. But I'll give you Painkiller.
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BEA: Top 100 of 1993
(4) Slowdive-Souvlaki (R)
(5) Pearl Jam-Vs.
8 Counting Crows-August And Everything After
(11) Liz Phair-Exit In Guyville
(12) Snoop Dogg-Doggy Style
(13) Blur-Modern Life Is Rubbish
(15) The Breeders-Last Splash
(17) Depeche Mode-Songs of Faith and Devotion
18 Radiohead-Pablo Honey (R)
(20) Tool-Undertow
No guessing for now. Though my question would be, how long will Counting Crows stay on this list? Both Slowdive and Pearl Jam will be gone soon but Crows will probably linger for a while.
The first comment under the video says that this is not the "Drums of Death", and that the title and artwork are misleading. IDK if that's true or not though, so I just skipped it.
The track listing and track run times (based on the timestamps) in the video description match the run times listed on both RYM and Discogs. The album’s RYM page also links to that video, so I would assume it was verified by someone there (but maybe I shouldn’t). My thought is the video uploader decided to upload the video using that stock photo rather than the album artwork for whatever reasons.
I’m not knowledgeable enough to refute that commenters claims. But, even if he’s right, it’s probably more indicative of the music being misrepresented by the label than it is indicative of the video containing different recordings (again, based on the correct track listing and run times in the description). _________________ Can you play free, or in three, or agree to try something new?
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