Hot Take/ Musical Confession Thread!

TenderLovingKiller® said:
I dig that Fastball album. Dishwalla pretty much was just “Counting Blue Cars” though.

I remember being in 8th grade, on a trip to Best Buy and only having the money for one CD, trying to decide which album to buy based off their first singles. between Dishwalla, Marcy’s Playground, and The Refreshments. I ended up going with Macy’s Playground. While that album was better than Dishwalla; I think The Refreshments was the direction I shoulda chose.
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Refreshments for sure, that's a fun record to sing along with
 
I missed the convo last week about artistic personas and authenticity vs. commercial affectation - where do Gorillaz fall in this? I like some of the music, but I'm also confused by the cartoon personas and what they're supposed to signify. I don't follow them closely enough to know whether the cartoons are the same characters from one album to another or whether their "career" as a band has involved a series of different personas.

It's also weird to think about Damon Albarn releasing those albums and songs without a cartoon image persona - I'm not sure that they would be as successful/palatable without the cartoons.
 
I didn’t know Stevie Ray Vaughn was on Let’s Dance until I started hanging out with you nerds. I then thought it just meant the song. Basically, this means I never really paid attention to the guitars on the album, didn’t really think there were a lot on it. So, the other day I listened to it and was like… um… wow.
 
TrainFan73 said:
@Hemotep if it’s any consolation, Interstate Love Song is a top ten 90s song for me.
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It is a slight consolation. This album was my gateway to music that I wasn't introduced to by adults. A friend taped this and Sponge for me because we'd listen to them so much in his room. My religious fundamentalist mother was not a fan, so I got a walkman and a lot more tapes that she wouldn't know about 😈
 
TrainFan73 said:
I mean my parents were very Christian. We weren’t allowed to watch MTV. However, I got my mom to buy me Appetite for Destruction in the midst of dumb PRMC rules (I couldn’t buy it myself because it had a sticker and I was 14 - NC State law at the time)
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Yeah, no MTV for me and she'd have slapped me for even asking for a Guns n Roses, parental advisory or no. I loved my mom despite her many flaws, but there's a reason her 6 kids have a complicated memory of her since she died last year. If you're an asshole to your kids all their life, it has consequences.
 
TrainFan73 said:
I mean my parents were very Christian. We weren’t allowed to watch MTV. However, I got my mom to buy me Appetite for Destruction in the midst of dumb PRMC rules (I couldn’t buy it myself because it had a sticker and I was 14 - NC State law at the time)
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Hemotep said:
Yeah, no MTV for me and she'd have slapped me for even asking for a Guns n Roses, parental advisory or no. I loved my mom despite her many flaws, but there's a reason her 6 kids have a complicated memory of her since she died last year. If you're an asshole to your kids all their life, it has consequences.
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There is an entire swath of late 70s early to Mid 80s songs and artists that I have not heard or have any context for because they were on "secular" radio.

It has totally skewed my musical taste.

When I got caught watching MTV, I got the belt (hand tooled with "Jesus" in the leather) and then when I got older, grounded.
Edit: MTV was totally worth it though.
 
My mom went to Catholic school when she was a kid but fortunately her upbringing did not trickle down to me. However, when we moved to Florida when I was a high school sophomore, she started dating a guy who would go to church and she tried to get me to go to Sunday school. Being a good son, I went a few times, but I was bored out of my f-ing mind. Then one day she told me I could stop going because the pastor received a brand new corvette courtesy of the congregation.
 
Hemotep said:
It is a slight consolation. This album was my gateway to music that I wasn't introduced to by adults. A friend taped this and Sponge for me because we'd listen to them so much in his room. My religious fundamentalist mother was not a fan, so I got a walkman and a lot more tapes that she wouldn't know about 😈
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Yeah, this is where the Gen X - Late Millennial divide is the most stark. Lots of older Gen Xers who I looked up to as a kid (mainly friends older cool siblings) hated that second wave of grunge but us older millennials discovered bands like STP, Bush, Sponge, The Toadies, etc… at the same time we were discovering Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam and we were ignorant enough to not appreciate or care about their influences.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Yeah, this is where the Gen X - Late Millennial divide is the most stark. Lots of older Gen Xers who I looked up to as a kid (mainly friends older cool siblings) hated that second wave of grunge but us older millennials discovered bands like STP, Bush, Sponge, The Toadies, etc… at the same time we were discovering Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam and we were ignorant enough to not appreciate or care about their influences.
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Kind of, but STP formed two years after Nirvana and before Pearl Jam. Sponge was only two years after Pearl Jam.
 
Hemotep said:
Kind of, but STP formed two years after Nirvana and before Pearl Jam. Sponge was only two years after Pearl Jam.
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They did but also no one knew who they were outside of maybe some So Cal scensters until they started playing “Plush” on MTV regularly in Spring of 1993.

Band sound changes over time and STP didn’t get signed to a major label until they started to emulate the sound from Seattle.

Again, none of that really matters. Good music is good music but they were definitely influenced by what was happening in Seattle, especially on their first album.
 
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