Note: I put this week at about 70 percent. I am not sold on the Buzzcocks, but Turbonegro seems a little interesting. Never been a big rap guy, but Public Enemy is probably one of the best, so I'll buy their inclusion. Guns N' Roses deliver maybe the biggest, most important album we've had thus far in our count up.
Another Music In A Different Kitchen (1978) by the Buzzcocks
Label: United Artists
Producer: Martin Rushent
Running time: 35:43
The Buzzcocks sound like your average punk band from the 70s. Although, there is a little less screaming and they don't seem afraid to talk about love. Which I suppose erases them from some punk critics minds straight out. I don't mind the songs I've listened to although the lead singers voice is starting to annoy me. It's that whiny, nasally sound that bugs me most about punk bands.
Antichrist Superstar (1996) by Marilyn Manson
Label: Nothing
Producer: Dave "Rave" Ogilvie, Trent Reznor
Running time: 77:14
Marilyn Manson and Trent Reznor did not create a concept album with '96s debut Antichrist Superstar, they created a concept career. Manson became the hero of the occult and the devil-worshippers. But it was a concept that sold albums and filled concert seats and if you could see beyond all the spectacle (the same could be said about Kiss), the music wasn't too bad. I've probably heard more of these songs then I remember, but "The Beautiful People" is the song that endured through genres and tastes.
Apocalypse 91... The Enemy Strikes Back (1991) by Public Enemy
Label: Def Jam
Producer: The Imperial Grand Ministers of Funk
Running time: 52:00
What I find interesting about this album is that this when record companies started charging more for sampling of songs. So instead of using rehashed beats and hooks, Public Enemy came up with a novel concept. Use original instrumentation and arrangement. Wow, that's brilliant. The funny thing is this sounds like something I'd like better than Public Enemy's more known albums from the late 80s where they were 'borrowing' other peoples songs.
Apocalypse Dudes (1998) by Turbonegro
Label: Bitzcore
Producer: Pal Klaastad
Running time: 47:29
Apparently this is the best Norwegian rock band that I've never heard of. These guys seem almost absurd in their pandering to the basest rock desires like sex and drugs. Yet, it is straight forward hard rock admired by the likes of the "Queens of the Stone Age." So it may be worth a listen.
Appetite for Destruction (1987) by Guns N' Roses
Label: Geffen
Producer: Mike Clink
Running time: 53:49
I got to thinking last night that this album would probably be in the my top-10, if not top-5, list of most important albums released during my lifetime. And that's even looking ahead, assuming I live to be 100. This 53 minutes and change took this band and made them great, hell even iconic. People talk about Metallica only having a few good albums and then sucking. G N' R essentially had this album. Yes, other albums like the "Use Your Illusions" had good to great songs. But this album is great from opening note to last chord. This album is why people waited with angst and excitement for "Chinese Democracy" for so long. There hope was maybe, just maybe, they'd get another "Appetite for Destruction." I think that's impossible. This album is why Guns are remembered today and will be for a very long time.
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This is probably the best grouping yet, at least for me having the albums.
The buzzcocks stuff is ok. British punk for me can only be the Sex Pistols. The rest either sounds like imitators or crap.
There was a time in my youth, like in high school when Antichrist came out, that I shunned that album. But once that barrier broke down (probably through the mellow of Manson's image then my growing up) I came to appreciate this album. You need to pay attention to everything but I am pretty sure he left intrepretation pretty open. I do the album is like 3 parts that are liked by the same phrase about suffering or something like that. I was trying to listen for it but i dont have the time. I look at the concept this way, a person rising up into stardom and in that stardom because famous and corrupt and it eventually destroys them. I kind of draw a connection to the famed Lennon state that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ. But like i said, Manson has stated before he wanted to leave everything vague enough to let all listeners draw their own conclusion. The CD all comes with about 70 4 sec tracks of silence with random noise finally coming out on #99.
I actually didnt recognize any songs from the Public Enemy. I prefer 911 is a Joke.
I actually have this Turbonegro album along with some other random songs. I really like their stuff although I havent listened to it much. I got it from a coworker.
Appetite is one of those classic complete albums. One you can listen to straight through and every song is a gem. I can't point a single song right now looking at the list again that I ever skip. Ok Paradise City can get a little long sometimes, but that isnt often. Sure they had some awesome songs in later albums but nothing pulls together like this one. I would say its release signaled the changing of the guard that would come in the early 90's only it was 3 years early. That is how far ahead of everyone else they were.
I am glad you like this week, because I am pretty sure the next couple weeks will leave you longing pretty hard for Brian Eno.
(I am kidding, sort of).
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH MARTY. What a wonderful play.
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