Pure Guava should be #1 on this list for "The Stallion Pt. 3" alone!!
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 11 January 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
I like all of the ones I've heard here (Pure Guava, Hit To Death, Horsedrawn Wishes and Fun). Voting for Horsedrawn Wishes which just pips Pure Guava. Speeeeeeeed to my siiiiiiiiiiide.
― contrarian, zing thyself (cajunsunday), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
hahahhahaa this list is shit i'm gonna go and read it now
― Broken Clock Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:32 (eleven years ago) link
hahahahaha this list is shit
― Broken Clock Britain (Noodle Vague), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
Everything about this post is beautiful
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1HZ3oyPQKc
^ fuck, what the hell happened to Tad? Definitely preferred him circa Woodgoblins when it sounded like he was going to stomp on yr face, set fire to your car and barbecue yr granny on the embers
― the drawl of the mc's could be farts (NickB), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like the fucking foo fighters there :(
― the drawl of the mc's could be farts (NickB), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
i've fallen in a jim shepard youtube hole & i'm never coming out
― fart the police (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:51 (eleven years ago) link
heh at this Ned Raggett quote from AllMusic:
Pop Tatari definitely holds the crown as being one of the strangest things to surface under a major label's auspices. Even the Butthole Surfers' major label debut that year looked straightforward in comparison.
like did someone just read that review and then decide to do a whole feature on the concept?
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
from Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments review:
After a bevy of cherished singles, Columbus, Ohio's favorite inebriated sons turned out this spit-caked debut full-length. How it managed to find its way out on a major label is anyone's guess
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 11 January 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
Pure guava duh
― billstevejim, Friday, 11 January 2013 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
There were weird tiny editorial tweaks on the major label Pop Tatari vs the WEA Japan original. For instance, 'I Am Cola' had its intro of Eye repeating 'Cock eez eet!' excised.
― ~farben~ (Jon Lewis), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
fuck ween
― fart the police (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
lots of these albums, Boredoms especially, have long been infamous as unlikely major label gambles
― trey songza (some dude), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
"let's make a band with all the worst aspects of frank zappa & none of the amazing music"*
*except "that's what deener was talking about", great tune
― fart the police (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
m@tt otm, ween is awful
― trey songza (some dude), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:06 (eleven years ago) link
shit you ain't kidding, that's so fucking depressing
― absolvents (electricsound), Friday, 11 January 2013 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
Voted Melvins
― gullible lochinski (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 January 2013 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
jehu 4 eva
― an eagle named "small government" (call all destroyer), Friday, 11 January 2013 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
Yank Crime is one of the greatest albums of the 90s, period.
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
V3
― dan selzer, Friday, 11 January 2013 04:06 (eleven years ago) link
Sammy - C/D?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:50 (eleven years ago) link
there ain't nothing even remotely weird about that Morbid Angel album
― NINO CARTER, Friday, 11 January 2013 04:54 (eleven years ago) link
sounds like the fucking foo fighters there :(― the drawl of the mc's could be farts (NickB), Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:47 PM (4 hours ago)
― the drawl of the mc's could be farts (NickB), Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:47 PM (4 hours ago)
dude, it's like a Jawbreaker b-side!
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:55 (eleven years ago) link
same with the Napalm Death. other than that i don't really have a prob with the choices, and it's a toss-up for me between Bungle and flaming Lips
xpost
― NINO CARTER, Friday, 11 January 2013 04:56 (eleven years ago) link
trux easy
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
allmusic.com's review of Bakamono - The Cry of the Turkish Fig Peddler:
Roots in American punk and Sonic Youth influence Bakamono's 1995 album for Priority.
review by John Bush
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:57 (eleven years ago) link
thank you John Bush
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2013 04:58 (eleven years ago) link
no Thought Industry, no credibility
― NINO CARTER, Friday, 11 January 2013 04:59 (eleven years ago) link
this is not that weird, not sure why it's on the list:http://www.youtube.com/user/deathfrom78/videos?query=bakamono
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2013 05:01 (eleven years ago) link
on the upside this thread got me to watch the tad documentary on youtube which was a pleasure
― absolvents (electricsound), Friday, 11 January 2013 05:03 (eleven years ago) link
Also, that Bakamono album was released in 1995, I could be wrong but Priority was still an indie until 1996 when EMI (?) bought a majority stake.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 11 January 2013 05:08 (eleven years ago) link
Off the top of my head it looks like God's Possession is the one I've ranked highest on my big list, followed by Melvins and maybe Gallon Drunk.
It's a cool idea, though the piece should acknowledge the fact that there's a long history of interesting or "weird" major label albums before friggin Janes Addiction. Fear of Music, Blank Generation, probably something by Pere Ubu, Captain MF Beefheart. In the 90s there was also classics by Talk Talk, Kyuss, The Young Gods. Was Swans on a major at all?
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 11 January 2013 05:21 (eleven years ago) link
briefly, for one album in 89
― sleepingsignal, Friday, 11 January 2013 06:56 (eleven years ago) link
and while they hate that record, I have a soft spot for it.
― dan selzer, Friday, 11 January 2013 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
fuck ween― fart the police (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:04 PM (Yesterday) Bookmarkm@tt otm, ween is awful― trey songza (some dude), Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:06 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
eat shit and die
― billstevejim, Friday, 11 January 2013 07:03 (eleven years ago) link
here come here come rome plows
― She Got the Shakes, Friday, 11 January 2013 07:54 (eleven years ago) link
like did someone just read that review and then decide to do a whole feature on the concept?― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, January 11, 2013 12:56 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Yo! MTV La Tengo (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, January 11, 2013 12:56 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
ha look at ned's review of pell mell -
The idea that Pell Mell would have ended up on a company run by David Geffen must have seemed truly bizarre when the band first started, but that's what a little Nirvana can do for bands (and so it must have seemed for many an alternative outfit in the early '90s).
― just sayin, Friday, 11 January 2013 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
6 THE TOO PURE/AMERICAN RECORDINGS ALLIANCE
for Long Fin Killie; can't imagine what the US public thought of them.
― etc, Friday, 11 January 2013 08:31 (eleven years ago) link
maybe this is 'too much time on ilx' but the basic theme of this list seems p well-established to me, regardless of Ned having referenced it once or twice
― nilmar wells (DJ Mencap), Friday, 11 January 2013 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
I expected to see SURGERY - SHIMMER (ATLANTIC, 1994) and I thought SHOT was The Lizard's major label album.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 11 January 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Shot and Blue were both on Capitol, Blue being the Andy Gill-produced 'weird/experimental' one. Though out of the timeframe of the list, iirc. The live one came out before their final Touch and Go lp.
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 11 January 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
I think SPIN is saying that the circumstances of the release are what was so weird about it:"The band allegedly told an A&R stalker that they'd only sign a one-album, one million-dollar deal, something the exec supposedly considered possible. They did, in fact, sign a one-album deal towards the end of 1993 — for a live album. It goes without saying that the post-Nirvana rock landscape was not the place to expect big numbers from a live album, no matter how well it was played or recorded."
― Mike Dixn, Friday, 11 January 2013 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
I can't even remember SHOW and I was a fan at the time, saw them live at the Astoria in '93.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 11 January 2013 12:08 (eleven years ago) link
Nirvana/Jesus Lizard split single is the gateway drug on that one.
― Troughton-masked Replicant (aldo), Friday, 11 January 2013 12:13 (eleven years ago) link
It's between Fudge Tunnel and God for me. Love both those records - they're in my iPod right now. Saw FT on that tour, in fact, with Sepultura, Fear Factory and Clutch.
― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 11 January 2013 13:20 (eleven years ago) link
Wait, is the Claw Hammer in the poll the same one that made Q:Are We Not Men? A:We Are Not Devo? Cos that was a completely fucking great record, but I never explored any further than that.
― clive mendonca's big soccer (NickB), Friday, 11 January 2013 13:36 (eleven years ago) link
best thing abt the God alb being on a major label = lots of cheap review copies at Music & Video Exchange
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 11 January 2013 13:51 (eleven years ago) link
fudge tunnel and butt trumpet, it was great that the major labels were signing 12-year-old boys back then...
And Mr. Bung Hole
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 11 January 2013 13:55 (eleven years ago) link
choke choke choke choke choke choke choke choke suck suck suck suck suck suck suck suck
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Friday, 11 January 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link