I was a big fan of the Counting Crows and Sheryl Crow albums in '93. I think her later albums were richer but this one was a great start. I also enjoyed much of the Bjork and Pet Shop Boys albums. (I still really like the latter group!)
It was a great year! I thought Sheryl Crow in particular sounded like she was performing beyond her years in this album. I don't know her discography well but will be looking forward to seeing it develop.
Oh wow that’s fantastic! I like to read reviews on albums that are new to me after I decide what I think, and it seems like every album I think is cool has a 2 star review from Rolling Stone. It’s like clockwork. Robert Christgau also seems to hate literally everything I enjoy haha
It seems like RS just hired some jaded nobody off the street who probably thinks The Rolling Stones invented the blues to write their review. How bizarre. I love your deconstruction of it!
I actually played in the 2010's, but doing this music retrospective from the 90's to educate myself a little better on music I missed. Did you play as well?
The soundtrack to the all too forget-able 1993 movie “Judgement Night”, I will always maintain, invented rap-rock/nu-metal. But it’s still a great album and was a massive breakthrough moment in the history of popular music.
I'll have to check that album out - it sounds like a wild adventure. I never really knew where the rap rock/nu metal origins were, Cypress Hill was just the first place where I heard wisps of the sound I knew growing up, plus I learned B-Real was a rap-metal guy later on in his career with Kush and Prophets of Rage, and I think their other vocalist did something similar.
I'll definitely be pulling the rap-rock thread when I get to its prime years!
Opinions may differ, but “August And Everything After” is right at the top of my list of “Best Ever” - and I owned an original “And Then Along Comes…The Association” back in the day….just sayin’
I own(ed) five of these! Great albums!!! That Mazzy Star one had a permanent place in my 5-disc changer for at least 5 years after its release! As late as 2001, it was one of the five I put in when I went to bed every night 😂
"Omaha" and "Murder of One" are all-timers!
As for Bjork? I don't know what planet she beamed down from, or why she picked Earth, but I'm sure glad she did.
I was a big fan of the Counting Crows and Sheryl Crow albums in '93. I think her later albums were richer but this one was a great start. I also enjoyed much of the Bjork and Pet Shop Boys albums. (I still really like the latter group!)
It was a great year! I thought Sheryl Crow in particular sounded like she was performing beyond her years in this album. I don't know her discography well but will be looking forward to seeing it develop.
I still love Debut so much! For it's 25th anniversary I rebutted Rolling Stone's idiotic review point by point: https://rockandrollglobe.com/punk/big-time-longevity-debut-at-25/
Oh wow that’s fantastic! I like to read reviews on albums that are new to me after I decide what I think, and it seems like every album I think is cool has a 2 star review from Rolling Stone. It’s like clockwork. Robert Christgau also seems to hate literally everything I enjoy haha
It seems like RS just hired some jaded nobody off the street who probably thinks The Rolling Stones invented the blues to write their review. How bizarre. I love your deconstruction of it!
You played college baseball in the 90’s too?!?? Get out of my HEAD, man!! 😂😂😂
I actually played in the 2010's, but doing this music retrospective from the 90's to educate myself a little better on music I missed. Did you play as well?
The soundtrack to the all too forget-able 1993 movie “Judgement Night”, I will always maintain, invented rap-rock/nu-metal. But it’s still a great album and was a massive breakthrough moment in the history of popular music.
I'll have to check that album out - it sounds like a wild adventure. I never really knew where the rap rock/nu metal origins were, Cypress Hill was just the first place where I heard wisps of the sound I knew growing up, plus I learned B-Real was a rap-metal guy later on in his career with Kush and Prophets of Rage, and I think their other vocalist did something similar.
I'll definitely be pulling the rap-rock thread when I get to its prime years!
Opinions may differ, but “August And Everything After” is right at the top of my list of “Best Ever” - and I owned an original “And Then Along Comes…The Association” back in the day….just sayin’
I own(ed) five of these! Great albums!!! That Mazzy Star one had a permanent place in my 5-disc changer for at least 5 years after its release! As late as 2001, it was one of the five I put in when I went to bed every night 😂
Wow very nice! I'm so glad I dug into Mazzy Star further than their hits, the entire album was great. Perfect pre-bed music!
Yes!! Five String Serenade is just beautiful