Oh, and Michael Stipe is on the album, singing some lovely "ahhhs" on "What It Is," but even his alt-rock starpower can't really compete with all the dazzling guitars.ġ. (The Blue Aeroplanes were an early influence on another group with three guitarists, Radiohead.) Swagger is a well-named album, with the band absolutely beaming with confidence, making some of their hookiest music yet, thanks in no small part to the addition of singer-songwriter Rodney Allen to the lineup, and muscular production by Pixies/Bunnymen knob-twidder Gil Norton. Gerard Langley had a highly poetic, spoken-sung style that owed a little to Lou Reed, and the group also featured dancer Wojtek Dmochowski whose impressionist movements made the band's shows one of a kind. The Blue Aeroplanes were distinctive in a lot of ways, though. They had three full-time guitarists, with a couple in the wings, making for a glorious, ringing racket. The Blue Aeroplanes - Swagger (Ensign)įor fans of guitars - chiming, jangly, soaring guitars - Bristol UK band The Blue Aeroplanes offered lots of them. (Lee Renaldo's "Mote" is great, too.) Goo also works as a doorway to what the '90s would bring, with punk, grunge, slackers, and pop culture references all to come.ġ7. It was a major step up for Kim Gordon, who is on fire throughout and delivers the best songs on the album - "Tunic (Song for Karen)" and first single "Kool Thing" featuring Chuck D - though Thurston's "Dirty Boots" isn't far behind.
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Listening to it now, however, Goo is still a pretty wild record, major label or no, full of the kind of wonderfully dissonant rock they'd been making for the last five years. They reportedly spent $150k recording it (five times the cost of Daydream Nation), and brought in veteran producer Ron St. The pressure was on for Sonic Youth, having recently released their universally loved masterpiece Daydream Nation and then even more recently signing to major label Geffen's DGC Records imprint - a big deal in the indie world, at a time when "sellout" still stung. This list isn't meant to be a definitive list of the best albums of 1990, though it probably is closer to that than what my Year 2000 list was and is pretty typical of what you might have found on college radio that year. When I went to make a list of potential records for this list, it was shockingly long and my list grew from 20 to 30, and then I had a bunch of runner-ups, too. Bands who had been around since the early '80s (or before) were still making interesting music, too. Across the pond, shoegaze and rave culture were exploding and often bleeding into one another. Hip hop was getting very interesting thanks to sampling. But music was great! Musically, the world was still a year away from when "punk broke," but some of those groups were already making great music. (I guess the first year of a decade never really fits anywhere, and let's hope that includes 2020.) Twin Peaks and Northern Exposure brought quirk and whimsy to the mainstream. It was weird but cool year that felt more like it was part of the '80s than the decade to come.
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