This is the greatest album of nineties of me:

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Your mentions of the nineties bands ever get even near of it´s greatness.

Well, I think Radiohead just isn´t my beef at all.

Sorry- I actually totally agree. A Thiusand Leaves is without question one of my favorite Sonic Youth albums, one of my favorite albums of the '90s and one of my favorite albums ever by my favorite band of all time.

But I usually try to leave Sy off my lists because if I didn't, they'd overpopulate every decade from the '80s to the 00's. I think ATL is up there with Daydream Nation, Sister and Bad Moon Rising.

So I pretty much agree with you completely.

I really like Kid A, Hail to the Thief and The King of Limbs (especially the In the Basement version, which really put the kraut front and center).

I even like Ok Computer... half of it, at least. "Airbag", "Electioneering", "Karma Police" ... "Paranoid Android" is kinda alt-rock 101 at this point, but still packs a punch.

To me, they got better when they started ripping off Aphex Twin, and embraced Can and Kraftwerk and post-punk. I think "There, There" is an excellent song with an undeniable kind of momentum to it, and "Myxomatosis" is still one of my favorite songs of the '00s. It may not be as cool to like them as it once was, but all this talk about Oasis and SP and STP has reminded me that, for over well over a decade, Radiohead was the real deal in modern rock. They were our Beatles for a few years, and I'm not gonna pretend I don't like them just because they're not the hypest band in the world anymore.

Still, I can't quite tolerate "Just" anymore. Or "Let Down", which sounds like a Foo Fighters song with more depressing lyrics in hindsight. I think they would have done well to include songs like "Polyethylene", "melatonin" and "palo alto" on OKC, in place of snoozers like "Let Down"... It would have made for a much more interesting project, if not as commercially viable.

I would have probably thrown "Rabbit in your headlights" and even "Talk Show Host" on there if I'd been running things. Artists do that kind of thing all the time now.

I think REM's New Adventures in HiFi probably should have received the attention that went to Ok Computer. That record did the same things, but better. And I'm only a fairweather REM fan at best.

Once Radiohead stepped out of alternative land, they made some damn memorable music.

The ok comp bsides were amazing.

Well, if we leave SY out, then I think John Parish/Pj Harvey: Dance Hall at the louse point is best nineties album. Somedays I think it´s even better than ATL. And I think it´s really underrated, haven´t heard ever anybody here in SYG telling how great it is.

I've definitely heard it mentioned on here before. There's no shortage of PJ fans here. But you're right, that is an excellent album.

Well, I think it has been me who has mentioned it here. And if I remembered right, no-one commented it. Yes, I know here are PJ fans, but to me it seems many seem to ignore those both excellent albums she made with John.

It's Christmastime in Washington
The Democrats rehearse
Gettin' into gear for four more years
Of things not gettin' worse
The Republicans drink whiskey neat
And thank their lucky stars
They said, 'He cannot seek another term
There'll be no more FDRs'

And I sat home in Tennessee
Staring at the screen
With an uneasy feeling in my chest
And I'm wonderin' what it means

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now

I followed in your footsteps once
Back in my travelin' days
Somewhere I failed to find your trail
Now I'm stumblin' through the haze
But there's killers on the highway now
And a man can't get around
So I sold my soul for wheels that roll
Now I'm stuck here in this town

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now

There's foxes in the hen house
Cows out in the corn
The unions have been busted
Their proud red banners torn
To listen to the radio
You'd think that all was well
But you and me and Cisco know
It's going straight to hell

So come back, Emma Goldman
Rise up, old Joe Hill
The barricades are goin' up
They cannot break our will
Come back to us, Malcolm X
And Martin Luther King
We're marching into Selma
As the bells of freedom ring

So come back Woody Guthrie
Come back to us now
Tear your eyes from paradise
And rise again somehow
If you run into Jesus
Maybe he can help you out
Come back Woody Guthrie to us now

Stones: Live at the Tokyo Dome 1990

One of the greatest Stones lives!

David Bowie - Lazarus

I like it.

Is that Peter Hook on bass? ;):D

Seriously though, I don't own any Bowie albums post-Scary Monsters but I think I'm gonna have to get jiggy with Blackstar. This shit sounds really good.

Again, because that's the sort of thing I gravitate towards on the last day of the year I guess.

 

New Ashtray Navigations album, available for free here: https://ashtraynavigations.bandcamp....-of-volume-one

^good stuff!

Excellent winter music. I'm enjoying a bit of Station to Station myself at the moment.