The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

dbarila said:
Is she typically a country artist?
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I was you like 10 years ago when I was first getting really into country. The man KD Lange song I knew was the 90s VH1 staple “Constant Cravings” which is not country at all. She seemed like an artist that middle-aged people liked.

Fast Forward 20 years and I learned that before going mainstream, her first few albums were “Country” country like too country for most modern country radio and hued closer to Alt Country but she was doing it in the 1980s when alt country wasn’t really a thing. Her closest contemporary peers were probably Dwight Yoakam and Lyle Lovett from a traditionalist sense but even they received more mainstream appeal than Lang who, as a Lesbian Canadian Country Artist wasn’t really accepted by Nashville. By the early 90s she seemed tired of Country and went for a decidedly adult-contemporary style.


Early Lang:


Mainstream Lang
 
These guys (and that Casanova album) bring out the prude in me. These guys are at least making music I like, even if the lyrical content gives me the ick.

These guys had been around since 1978?

Also, this is the second and final entry for the band in the book.
 
Pulp is great, but this is probably their most challenging effort. Jarvis Cocker is great lyricist but the songs here are a bit dull IMO. ”His n’hers” and ”Different Class” are more straightforward britpop (and better for it in my book). Their earlier 80s stuff has some decent moments but is pretty forgettable. They didn’t really hit their stride until the brilliant single ”Babies” in the early 90s.
 
Nee Lewman said:
2/12/25
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Pulp - This is Hardcore



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This Is Hardcore - Pulp | Album | AllMusic

This Is Hardcore by Pulp released in 1998. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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I've been on big Britpop (And Britpop adjacent) kick lately so this one was timely. I really enjoy this one. Jarvis Cocker does a great job as the overly sexual voice. It's dark, it's gritty, kind of the anti-Britpop Britpop album. 4/5 for me.
 
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