![]() Bikini Kill – Revolution Girl Style Now (Emma)īikini Kill gave a nasty and bloody birth to the Riot grrrl movement and sound in their debut cassette demo, Revolution Girl Style Now. A lo-fi and beautiful album, it showcases Lou’s rather excellent songwriting chops which had been unfortunately stifled by Mascis’ dominance in Dinosaur Jr. While Sebadoh had punky and raucous moments, the music was definitely more sensitive and twee than Dinosaur Jr. Luckily Lou had his side project Sebadoh to fall back on. In 1989 Dinosaur Jr bassist Lou Barlow was asked to leave the band by J Mascis. Overall the group released eight albums of equally awesome buzzsaw albums before calling it a day in 2019. The result is a terrifying but accessible aural assault. On their debut the band take the cacophonous sounds of Big Black, Sonic Youth and Swans and marry it to a more direct and immediate approach. Unsane – Unsane (Jamie)įrom Whores to METZ there’s about a million noise rock bands who owe a damn lot to Unsane and their self titled debut album. Dookie was bigger, but this has an endearingly raw and homespun quality that the trio have unfortunately lost over the years. On Kerplunk they pretty much perfect their self deprecating early sound. But, at one time, they knocked out fun, humorous, human and melodic pop punk that was just plain excellent. For spawning the whole over saturation of pop punk in the late ‘90s and early ‘00s and for churning out a succession of pretty damn terrible albums over the last fifteen or so years. Ah well, can always crank this up and remember the ecstatic beauty of early Pumpkins. The less said about the last twenty years the better though. For most bands this could be a career highlight, but obviously we all know Corgan and co went on to have a pretty damn stellar ‘90s. ![]() There’s still plenty of fuzzy guitar though. Gish is hugely indebted to psychedelia sporting swirling guitars and a very hazy, druggy and trippy atmosphere. Smashing Pumpkins – Gish (Jamie)Īn album unlike any other in the Pumpkin’s canon. However, in hindsight, the album is chock full of damn catchy rock songs and actually benefits from a cleaner and clear production style. As a result, the album is often seen as the beginning of the band’s decline leading to their break up later in the ‘90s. When the album was recorded bassist Lou Barlow had buggered off to focus on his lo-fi project Sebadoh and drummer Murph only appears on three tracks. ![]() is pretty much a solo album for bandleader J Mascis. The fourth album from fuzzy Massachusetts outfit Dinosaur Jr. Multi percussionist Barrett Martin joined later in 1991 which enabled the band to really take it to the next level. ‘Bed of Roses’ is the highlight here showcasing Mark Lanegan’s world weary vocals. Benefitting from more professional production courtesy of Terry Date and Chris Cornell and financing from their recent signing to major label Epic Records, the group were able to begin to come close to achieving their swirling, hypnotic and meaty psychedelic inspired sound. ![]() Screaming Trees – Uncle Anesthesia (Jamie)Īlt rock quartet Screaming Trees is more famous for Sweet Oblivion (1992) and Dust (1996), but Uncle Anesthesia is where they really started to come into their own. An approach that they pioneered here and perfected on The Argument (2001). Songs don’t just pummel and attack, they swirl and hypnotise. The band’s use of space on this album is essential. The album is quite sparse in relation to their other albums but this adds a focus that is sometimes missing from later albums like Red Medicine (1995) and End Hits (1998). Plus the title is inspired by Bill Hicks. The group’s canon is so powerful that even if it is their least accomplished record, it is still one of the best records of the ‘90s. This record from seminal post hardcore chaps Fugazi is often discarded as their least memorable effort. He polishes the sound up a touch but the record still sounds like it was recorded in a swamp. 8 Way Santa is the group’s second album and sees them enlist Butch Vig to add some sheen to their chug. Tad was a band of four bozos playing down tuned, sludgy but melodic tunes. I mean Cornell was a golden god, Nirvana was so damn cool, Pearl Jam was stadium sized, Alice in Chains was metal tastic, Mudhoney was all sarcastic and Melvins was (and are) weird as fuck. The band was an outfit anyone could Identify with. Tad was really the quintessential grunge band. Here are 25 underrated gems from perhaps the best musical year in modern memory.
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