Rock Evolution – The History of Rock & Roll - 1998 - (page 271)

[stonerblue]

Two nominations left to pick from some songs I love and also stuff by Gene. I might wait a bit and hope someone else nominates but I'm missing @BlueHammer85 as he might have taken some of picks.

Probably out of all the years we've been though this is my favourite so far so if I get excited over the next few days please forgive me

Got a call off r kid earlier asking if I was at the Gene gig in town on Saturday. Sadly I wasn't but he was. Said it was really top drawer

 

[mrbelfry]

Got a call off r kid earlier asking if I was at the Gene gig in town on Saturday. Sadly I wasn't but he was. Said it was really top drawer

I probably need to go back and listen to them again. I had their first album I'm pretty sure but pretty sure I never liked it.

 

[It Started With A Miss]

Not often one song defines a whole genre and continues to do so to this day.

A bloke from Walsall with gold teeth who went on to star in a Bond film.

Goldie - Inner City Life

 

[It Started With A Miss]

I had a mate who I went to school with,worked with and played football with but the times I had with him were my early gigs
We went through Madchester,Spike Island, warehouse parties and raving through to Britpop

But as time went on with moving area's, marriage and kids we lost touch with each other but the great times we had together will never fade from my memory.

Before Trainspotting and Born Slippy and becoming one of the biggest dance acts in the country they released an album called dubnobasswithmyheadman.
This was our favourite song on it.

This one's for you Farley

Underworld - Rez

 

[stonerblue]

I had a mate who I went to school with,worked with and played football with but the times I had with him were my early gigs
We went through Madchester,Spike Island, warehouse parties and raving through to Britpop

But as time went on with moving area's, marriage and kids we lost touch with each other but the great times we had together will never fade from my memory.

Before Trainspotting and Born Slippy and becoming one of the biggest dance acts in the country they released an album called dubnobasswithmyheadman.
This was our favourite song on it.

This one's for you Farley

Underworld - Rez

Tune.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I had a mate who I went to school with,worked with and played football with but the times I had with him were my early gigs
We went through Madchester,Spike Island, warehouse parties and raving through to Britpop

But as time went on with moving area's, marriage and kids we lost touch with each other but the great times we had together will never fade from my memory.

Before Trainspotting and Born Slippy and becoming one of the biggest dance acts in the country they released an album called dubnobasswithmyheadman.
This was our favourite song on it.

This one's for you Farley

Underworld - Rez

Dubnobasswithmyhead was a superb album - listened to it loads back in the day. Cowgirl is an absolute classic but every track was superb.

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

Not often one song defines a whole genre and continues to do so to this day.

A bloke from Walsall with gold teeth who went on to star in a Bond film.

Goldie - Inner City Life

Totally agree. I was blown away by the "size" of the sound when I first heard it. And those drums are something else...

 

[stonerblue]

I had a mate who I went to school with,worked with and played football with but the times I had with him were my early gigs
We went through Madchester,Spike Island, warehouse parties and raving through to Britpop

But as time went on with moving area's, marriage and kids we lost touch with each other but the great times we had together will never fade from my memory.

Before Trainspotting and Born Slippy and becoming one of the biggest dance acts in the country they released an album called dubnobasswithmyheadman.
This was our favourite song on it.

This one's for you Farley

Underworld - Rez

Fantastic album that's all killer no filler. Thanks for reminding me irt came out in 94.

My last pick was gonna be off Definitely Maybe, a pivotal album that brought no nonsense 4 piece rock'n'roll back from the brink of drowning in dance. However, Dubnobass was also a masterpiece of electronic dance that moved music forward.

Underworld- Dark and Long (dark train mix)

 

[stonerblue]

Totally agree. I was blown away by the "size" of the sound when I first heard it. And those drums are something else...

I heard Goldie performing this at the very first Brighton festival. I'd had a very busy day selling stuff and was getting a bit paranoid about all the cash i had on me (was a bit off my head as well) so decided to get the train back into town.
Sat alone on the platform that was high above the park whilst the sun was setting, 'Inner City Life' wafting around on the summer breeze. A magic moment in my life.

 

[mancity111]

Loser — Beck

The song of the year by nearly any white man’s account, it pushed the indy envelope to the edge with lyrics that simultaneously confused, surprised and delighted you as you — and everyone else — sang along. In fact, I recall being over at a neighbo(u)rs' house some years after this tune came out, getting plastered on pinot noir, singing along to this on their in-home karaoke. I mean this song is a meme in and of itself, and every line is a meme in and of itself too. So clever, so catchy, so funky and so ridiculous. An unkempt wimp goes hypersonic with a tune that anyone could have recorded in their basement if one were talented enough. But few are, and thus this unlikely genius magically comes up with a Gen X anthem nearly as meaningful as Smells Like Teen Spirit. One of my favo(u)rite 20 songs of all time.

Some real kick ass selections Fog , a couple I haven't heard of but as for Superchunk , I have been a long standing convert ever since I first saw the video for Driveway to Driveway and am entrenched on your team when it comes to this band.

Have to admit that I had not heard much of their earlier material at the time but No Pocky for Kitty is on my playlist.

What an intro to Like a Fool for starters and it only gets better IMO.

I was going to nominate Like a Fool for 1994 but you have it covered so to speak.

No indie for me with this band against convention just in your face Rock.

 

[threespires]

Dionne Farris provided vocals on Arrested Development's debut album so when she released a solo album I just bought it on spec. It would be fair to say I was somewhat surprised to put it on and hear it opening with an FM radio pop song (albeit atypical of the rest of the album). In principle I should dislike this intensely but if people can listen to the likes of Daniel Powter without being incarcerated then sure as shit I can listen to this. Guilty pleasure ahoy.

Dionne Farris - I Know

 

[Black&White&BlueMoon Town]

Well, we certainly have to have a track off of the best EP released in the 1990's, which as luck would have it, came out this very year.

I remember hearing the rawness of this song and other 6 tracks off of this 30 minute release early this year, which cemented this band as one of the best alternative rock and grunge bands of the decade.

This second track written by lead singer Layne Staley was a raw, acoustic exploration of loneliness, despair, and the isolating, suffocating nature of drug addiction. Staley wrote this during a time of personal turmoil. The lyrics within dealt with his feelings of losing control over his life and body, echoing themes of mortality and regret.

Staley would sadly die of an overdose 8 years later after future years spent in rehab. When the band performed an acoustic version of this song on the MTV Unplugged concert two years later, it would be the last time they'd perform this song with Staley. Since 2011, guitarist/vocalist Jerry Cantrell dedicates "Nutshell" to Layne Staley and original bassist Mike Starr during Alice In Chains' concerts.

While this song was never released as a single, it is a pretty sad, sobering and haunting track from this brilliant EP that is Jar Of Flies.

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight, and yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home

"Nutshell" - Alice in Chains

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

My Iron Lung is perfect early Radiohead. Sounds like the Beatles but has the beautiful ugly loud dynamics that perhaps are super cliche but it's a song I love. Coming after Pablo Honey it had the familiar sound but with doomsday guitar solos that leaves me breathless. Perhaps they are over rated but I love it anyway. Of course it appeared on The Bends which was released in 1995 which gives me a chance to nominate it then. Instead I'll nominate a track from the My Iron Lung EP released in 1994 and that is Lewis - Mistreated. I'm tricky like that.

It's a pretty simple indie rocker that could have been released by any number of bands around the time and does feature a generic lyric about how miserable it is to work in an office written by a miserable person in the band not noticing the irony but the guitar tone is gooooooood and Yorke gives a great performance. I think his voice is massively underrated by those who think he's a misery merchant. Sure he's not Robert Plant but there is a care he takes that is maybe not best exemplified by this track but is evidenced by what was kind of a throwaway. It is possibly even a Radiohead song that foggy might like when he emerges from his curmudgeonly hipster period. You could call it generic but I prefer the term classic

I don’t recall it, but I’ll give it a listen even though my curmudgeonly hipster period hasn’t yet ended and I’ve been in one for over 40 years.

Speaking of that, I note that thus far I have received zero pushback on my assertion that Weezer are just the alt Eagles and Green Day just the punk Eagles.

I presume such a take either resonated with many here or that many here didn’t realis(z)e that these terms were meant to be insulting.

 

[mrbelfry]

Speaking of that, I note that thus far I have received zero pushback on my assertion that Weezer are just the alt Eagles and Green Day just the punk Eagles.

I presume such a take either resonated with many here or that many here didn’t realis(z)e that these terms were meant to be insulting.

I can only speak for myself but I'm not familiar enough with the Eagles for the insult to land. I think it was clear you were being insulting though. I have heard hotel California but I don't think much else so when I think of the Eagles I'm thinking of harmonies and country rock. I assume the implication is you think both bands are a bit naff and poppy and not as edgy as people think. However because I'm not super familiar with the eagles I have probably missed the weight of the insult

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

I don’t recall it, but I’ll give it a listen even though my curmudgeonly hipster period hasn’t yet ended and I’ve been in one for over 40 years.

Speaking of that, I note that thus far I have received zero pushback on my assertion that Weezer are just the alt Eagles and Green Day just the punk Eagles.

I presume such a take either resonated with many here or that many here didn’t realis(z)e that these terms were meant to be insulting.

I like The Eagles and Weezer and in my mind I see them both as very melodic guitar music. It might be an insult to some but it wasn't to me :)

The Blue Album is brilliant though, I think it's probably in tune with something Beck might do on a Sunday morning kind of vibe though.

Green Day are another band who made some great, melodic, songs as well.

 

[It Started With A Miss]

I used the term Post-Rock to describe the album Spiderland by Slint a couple of years ago but the term wasn't used to describe a band until this year by music journalist Simon Reynolds in Mojo.

He used it to describe the album Hex by this band.
The recording of the album almost bankrupted them but it's gone on to be influential and one of my favourite bands Mogwai must have given it a listen a few times.

Bark Psychosis - A Street Scene

 

[The Lightbowne Cowboy]

Wigfield - Saturday night. I went to Magaluf in August 94 and that thing was playing on loop in every fucking bar. I'm still having therapy.

 

[RobMCFC]

Wigfield - Saturday night. I went to Magaluf in August 94 and that thing was playing on loop in every fucking bar. I'm still having therapy.

Ha ha. We were in Alcudia at the same time - that and "I Like To Move It" blasting out of a nearby club until the early hours.

 

[mancity111]

I might go radio friendly for a change for this song off their debut album some 5 years in the making.

While no Paul Westerberg IMO one of the best songwriters of all time Ed Roland has no doubt influenced the post grunge era for the better if for nothing else his production skill set.

The main riff varied throughout and gritty power chords make you take notice from the outset.

The guitar solo by Ross Childress is something to marvel at , no doubt up with the best in the rock era.

Call it Gospel Post Grunge morphing into Rock with some melody to boot or whatever but it should be regarded as one the top radio friendly songs of 1994.

Shine - Collective Soul

 

[Mancitydoogle]

More ‘Friends’ music ,although this track didn’t appear on the soundtrack another one of theirs did.From my favourite album of theirs Dulcinea.

Toad The Wet Sprocket’s ‘FLY FROM HEAVEN’