Forgotten 90's alternative rock masterpieces WANTED

Long, sprawling alt-prog masterpiece that takes years to chew through.

I've already done a Google search for 'ilx six by seven' and found no single thread that summed up what I wanted to do here. :-(

Anyway, c'mon now, I'll bet you know a few answers to my question!

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ALT-PROG MASTERPIECE = I BUY

Which took five seconds to find.

Mansun mixed with Foetus = OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG, so bear in mind that you've built this one up a bit. Ideally it should be music that knows not when to stop, and aims to be the grandest, coolest, most innovative listening experience KNOWN TO MAN.

free downloads - http://www.cardiacs.com/downloads/

Plus, one more shout for Ultrasound. Not crucial but it might float your boat.

The final track on that Ultrasound album is FORTY MINUTES LONG

When I planned my perfect album as a 16 year-old, I promised myself that it would have a 30-minute closer. But FORTY?! Based upon that and the album-cover ALONE I am buying that album.

I repeat: music that knows not when to stop, but seeks perfection. :-)

OK, now I have a 2-album shopping-list. But where to find them? HMV, you're having a laugh...

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Scrawl--Nature Film
Can't go wrong here. A great cover of PIL's Public Image, and excellent originals like "Charles." I got a copy on amazon.com used for one cent.

Also check out Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No 1 Baby
and of course anything by Redd Kross, The Youngs Gods, Screaming Trees , Unwound, Blonde Redhead etc.

and Louis do you never answer your emails at that hotmail address?

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~tewing/ned/nedmain.html

http://www.pandemoniumrecords.com/images/xcd/grand/camp_1.jpg

and

overlooked 90's groups
most important/influential albums of 90's (name 5)
What are some obscure alternative hits from the early 90's?
Ladies and gentlemen....the 1990s ILX SINGLES POLL RESULTS

Search function = fuxxored, but, the Beta Band?

I think Louis would love to visit me and listen to my cds and lps.

Oh, and everything, I may just do that. :-)

*starts researching ur recommendations up Allmusic*

Nada Surf were one of the prototypical 90s one hit wonder bands, with Popular. They're currently one of the 2 or 3 best power pop bands in the world. Last year's The Weight Is A Gift is an instant classic. I don't see anybody writing catchier songs than them right now.

how about Mexican Pets? The Voice of Trucker Youth, which is all you need, is like Pixiesaur Jr. tunes and a dual-guitar sound either band would kill for. kicks as much ass as i remember.

Further? talk about a band that could be ridiculously great. Sometimes Chimes, man. and the Grimes Golden EP. those CDs sum up everything i care to remember about '90s alt rock.

into the '00s, it's all about Ooberman for me. the JP version of Hey Petrunko, or anywhere else you'll find "Summer Nights in June." this is indie-prog done right. fuck yeah.

I sense that Amazon may well be my friend in this forthcoming quest, actually.

My other perrenial entries on lists like these are The Nightblooms' 24 Days At Catastrofe Cafe and (sorry Jim from Australia) Magic Dirt's Friends In Danger.

http://images-jp.amazon.com/images/P/B00004WIL9.09.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

I just reacqainted myself today with something I listened to almost continuously in 1992, The Beautiful's Storybook. Jane's Addiction-isms aside, it's a great (and great sounding) rock record that's totally rotten and fucked up at its core.

Tell me you did check out the Monsoon Bassoon though

LOL!!! Check out the time and date of the following post:

if there's one song i wish more people had heard, that song is "commando"

-- Just got offed, Tuesday, 18 December 2007 11:06 (39 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

As long as it's artistically uncompromising, unexpected, and thrilling, I'll probably give it love.

I'd like to recommend 'The Magic City ' by Helium as a lost gem from 1995.

The most orphaned thread I ever did start on ILX: The band: Bicycle. The album: Bicycle. Not quite a masterpiece but an enjoyable and totally overlooked album...

Also, the Moonbabies' first record, June and Novas as well as the first (I think self-titled) album by Azure Ray - both very dreamy, hushed, pretty albums. Moonbabies have a few rockout moments. I never heard any of the stuff they did later but I gather it went for more of a coffee shop vibe?

In a similar vein (with more drama and mood swings, and atonal warbling) there's always Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate)'s solo joint, Return of the Frog Queen.

The Glands' Double Thriller seconded - that is a fucking great CD, totally sublimates delay pedal flourishes into all the beauty and ache of sitting on a porch wondering where the hell your life is going.

Must comment any time somebody mentions The Glands. Possibly the most overlooked indie band ever. Double Thriller is great but the 2nd record is their masterpiece.

RE: The Glands - yes, buy them both and somebody get that Shapiro dude back in the studio.

For further discussion and insight: The Glands from Athens, GA

No Bugskull?

As long as it's artistically uncompromising, unexpected, and thrilling, I'll probably give it love.

-- Just got offed, Tuesday, December 18, 2007 11:50 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

90s alternative rock 4 u

I wouldn't use the word "masterpiece," but I rediscovered the Latin Playboys recently and they make really nice background music (I don't mean that as an insult at all!).

Soooo yeah The Swirlies. 100%. They are written off as shoegaze but they do way more than any other shoegaze band has done. They just bend their guitar chords and stuff. Which I LOVE.

lol this was all things told my most successful thread

Engine Kid - Angel Wings

I think in hindsight these guys were a bit in front of the wave. They got slogged off as some Slint wannabees, which is there somewhat, but there is also some mathy near metal in their sound. It is heavy, moody and kind of catchy at points. I think it holds up really well.

― earlnash, Saturday, July 7, 2007 3:51 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark

^^to increase possible interest in engine kid....the band was led by one Mr. Greg Anderson, of Southern Lord and Sunn O))) fame. great band.

acetone made some pretty good records in this vein

There's a story I often tell, about the time I was in NY and walked into an East Village eatery, where I was approached by a member of staff who asked if I was (who I am). Not realizing I was wearing a jacket with my name on it I was quite surprised, although I am sometimes recognized, usually for being someone else (used to be Elliot Sharp, when I was younger, now it's Jean Reno).

I was offered a drink on the house, so I asked why. I was told that "you sent me the best rejection letter I ever got." It was one of the guys from Sammy, who had sent me a demo of their 1st album. I apparently sent him a note thanking him for the advance copy of the new Pavement record.

You can't make this shit up.

scarce - deadsexy

esp. "all sideways"

BINGO TRAPPERS!!!!

also, Guv'ner.

For the most part, that Sammy/Pavement thing needs to be put to bed. Xpost. I think there's like one or two tracks on debut album that sound remotely pavementy, and the vocals are totally diff. (Lou Reed Preppie vs. Mark E. Preppie)

guvner is so tite

GUV'NER vs BUTTERGLORY

(used to be Elliot Sharp, when I was younger, now it's Jean Reno).

I read this as "Janet Reno" and was all 0_o

scarce - deadsexy

Never got round to hearing to Scarce. That was Chick Graning (sp?) from Anastasia Screamed, wasn't it?

yeah. they had a couple of really good songs. i liked 'hope' a lot

Woah Matt. Had no idea Greg Anderson was in Engine Kid. went to a friend's (plays in Sunn) house last week and he had a rec around that was Greg and the dude from Iceburn. Didn't hear it, but was kinda floored to even be reminded of Iceburn. Forgot abt them and Engine Kid too..

yep Engine Kid is the weird connection between Silkworm and Sunn O))) i think one of the dudes in silkworm's brothers was in engine kid...or something...

oh yeah...I should say:

ALL THE SILKWORM ALBUMS belong on this thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjnsBQRPbpA

Found a copy of the Red Aunts' #1 Chicken for a buck a while back, and it's a very fine buzzsawfest.

Heres one: Milf. The album "Ha Ha Bus" is really great.

I read a pretty intriguing review (now forgotten) of that Milf album once and could never find a copy of it pre-internet; from time to time I take a look for a torrent, but searching for "milf" on the internet is, y'know...

Well when you add Ha Ha Bus! to the search in narrows things down a bit. Heres some obscure Milf stuff that I started with:

http://wilfullyobscure.blogspot.com/search?q=milf+

seriously guys...Remy Zero's first album dropped a year before OK Computer, and is so much better (and was kind of a defining influence on the best-album-of-the-90s standby)

forget the Coldplay-before-Coldplay hype, that came later...first album is Southern post-rock and thrilling shoegazer with all sorts of shifting sonic textures...

Probably not a masterpiece but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks40lw9fluw

Really enjoying that obscure Milf stuff Evan.. now I have a task ahead of me hearing all the Milf stuff + searching this and other 90's threads now that I'm on a fix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cklb7L0OA1c

still love this song

I'm really glad you like Milf! They really had something, and until now not many people I talk to care too much about it. They're sick of my own 90s fix for the past year I bet. They don't get my love for the moodier or lo-fi stuff I've been digging up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yrlw8FuJko

man, Scarce. hadn't thought about them in a while. "All Sideways," "Scorpion Tray"

think I only have a 7" not the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCHNL3-FZOA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrBE3VRc8mc

WTF where is "Brimful Of Asha" on youtube???!?!?!?

wtf also no Summercamp "Drawer"

I now recognize this as Jeff Buckley covering Oasis....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NgLV056kB0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzibA7YP7VM

ok i'll stop now

I also heard that Dildo of the Insignificant Specks is producing two tracks on the new Glovebox 12-inch with two of the Hosebags singing background vocals and Don Roth playing...

Wheat - Medeiros

Hope and Adams is good too, John in Chicago. "Don't I hold you" in particular?

It is time to revive.
This thread, it is fair to say, has actually managed to change my music taste a little.

― to scour or to pop? (Haberdager), Saturday, January 27, 2007 3:40 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what can we do to change your internet usage?
― jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, January 27, 2007 3:55 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get me a fucking gf?
― quod erat demonstrandum (Haberdager), Saturday, January 27, 2007 4:04 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

A man that knows his own heart.

Reviving this simply because this appears to be the most discussion on ILM about the Seattle band Engine Kid, ie one of Greg Anderson's earliest bands before Sunn 0))) but quite good in their own right. Very sad news that's been going around about their drummer Chris Vandebrooke:

http://www.thestranger.com/music/2017/01/18/24804818/seattle-remembers-chris-vandebrooke

Some quick thoughts of my own, due to a very small connection with him:

http://nedraggett.tumblr.com/post/156043572182/seattle-remembers-chris-vandebrooke

Reading this thread title reminded me of this awesome song my friend and I loved in high school!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmtbsZIYSJs