Friday Morning Videos!
Sorry for skipping out last week! Now back to our regular scheduled blogging. This week’s edition is in honor of this!
Luscious Jackson – Naked Eye
Frank Black – Los Angeles
Veruca Salt – Seether
White Zombie – Thunderkiss ‘65
Blur – Parklife
September 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
what! over 2100 dowloads?!?! that puts your “Digging For Fire” downloads to shame. it was a good mix. i thought it started stronger than it finished tho… just one guy’s opinion.
the ice-t intro was nicely placed. nearly forgotten about that Body Count tune. did they play Lolla 1 right after Rollins opening set? Interesting number 1 & 2 choice to start the lengthy 90’s outdoor alternative series.
youtube has a fan-made video for Cop Killa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otuapLEde6I
the pigface at 0:32 is tweeked.
then he became a cop (on TV)
his “fuck it” segment on the quasi-documentary “fuck”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-dqMuSWXhU
0:45 ice t references hunter thompson! ahhhh, fuck it.
September 5th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
No one likes Digging For Fire :(
September 5th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Naked Eye is still an incredible jam and thanks for the reminder of how sucky Rob Zombie solo records are. I heart Sean Yseult.
Were you inspired to post WZ because of the Overfiend sample that they used on the opening track of La Sexorcisto?
September 5th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
i like DFF!
you just pick albums/bands that most people aren’t too familiar with.
aim for albums/EPs that crossed over the 20,000-units-sold marker. you’ll get a slightly larger audience.
have you given up on Awesomely Aweful? it’s been awhile.
September 5th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
But those albums don’t need me to create a post about them to be downloaded. They’re usually already out there.
I haven’t been hit with an Awesomely Awful album lately… I may do one on Screamadelica and upset people.
September 5th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
don’t even joke about Screamadelica!
Pick any other Primal Scream record and i will agree, but hands off combining Screamadelica and Awesomely Aweful Albums!
Just curious: how could you possibly even interweave an ‘aweful’ concept into that album. One of the few records produced (mostly) by Andrew Weatherall that actually mattered.
Plus, Screamadelica won the 1st Mercury Music Prize, beating out former bandmates J&MC’s “honey’s dead” album (my vote for next Awesome Aweful).
Wiki lists the unimpressive competition that year (1992) as:
* Barry Adamson – Soul Murder
* Jah Wobble – Rising Above Bedlam
* The Jesus and Mary Chain – Honey’s Dead
* Bheki Mseleku – Celebration
* Primal Scream – Screamadelica
* Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
* Simply Red – Stars
* U2 – Achtung Baby
* John Tavener & Steven Isserlis –The Protecting Veil
* Young Disciples – Road To Freedom
… What a fuckin’ year ‘92 was. Screamadelica HAD to walk away with that UK prize.
In 1998, Q magazine readers voted it the 27th greatest album of all time. In 1996, Select Magazine named it as the number 1 album of the 90s.
September 5th, 2008 at 7:27 pm
See that got you upset! I don’t hate Screamadelica I just really don’t think it aged that well which for me to say is kind of hard being I’m in a whole 90s revival phase. Plus I really can’t stand Bobby Gillespie’s whole flavor of the month trend hopping from album to album and Screamadelica epitomized that to me more han anything else. I’m not the only one who doesn’t think Screamadelica hasn’t aged that well. I’m pretty sure Mike Jone’s agrees with me. But that doesn’t mean I don’t like the album, I just think hearing it now there is something overtly cheesy and trying to hard about the whole thing.
I actually love Honey’s Deadi. It was the first J&MC album I ever bought so it obviously has a lot of sentimental value to me. I know it isn’t anyone’s favorite album by them, but I think unlike Screamdelica it has aged really well.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:27 am
ok, congratulations. You just sent me into a catatonic state.
First off, that album has aged liked a fine wine (16-yrs later). You have to think outside of the US-90’s-alternative box. Easily Bobby’s & PS’s best effort, largely thanks to the top UK producers involved. Guys who helped pushed the early 90’s UK dance scene to what it was (Weatherall, Orb) and the added-bonus of a brooklyn-born Jimmy Miller production (who worked on some of the best Stones albums). On top of that, the album brought aspects of jamacian dub into ‘uk rock’ that hadn’t surfaced since PiL’s 1979 “Metal Box” (aka “Second Edition”) – aside from The Clash.
Second, as far as i know, Mike Jones is known for his metal and crunk selections (based on previous doombox submissions). So don’t use him as back-up in this fight to the death! sidenote: MJ made a nice cover for Dip’s recent mix (which was certainly more dub-influenced than previous Dip or Holler mixes).
if you want to pick on Rock ‘n Rave (as Simon Reynolds refers to it), then, at least, start with the Inspiral Carpets. That better befits “cheesy”.
Matching single-for-single, i wouldn’t feel uncomfortable claiming Screamadelica comes out on top of Honey’s Dead… by a long shot.
September 6th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Rob, I’m not as big a fan of UK Dance scene as you are. While I enjoy this album on some level, This was exactly the point and the album where I lost interest in Madchester/UK rave because for me it just became straight out dance music rather than rock that was danceable. I won’t disagree that this was their most important thing they ever did in their career, and pretty groundbreaking at the time. But I preferred Primal Scream more when they were a second rate Dream Pop band.
Cohn & actually Mike Jones are the big dance music fans over here, not so much I. My idea of “dance” music is Portion Control & Nitzer Ebb.