The Official Needles and Grooves 1001 Album Generator Project (aka Preachin’ about the Preachers if today’s selection sucks)

dbarila said:
This is an odd blind spot for me. Never heard of this band, Mike Watt, or most of the other bands Mike Watt has been in, but am a fan a lot of the bands that All Music lists as "related artists".

This sounds like something I should have been listening to for years.
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Mike Watt is great. We pulled Double Nickels did we not? This was the band Watt formed with the drummer from Minutemen after D Boon died. The singer/guitarist was a big fan of the former band.

You should listen to this:
 
Nee Lewman said:
Mike Watt is great. We pulled Double Nickels did we not? This was the band Watt formed with the drummer from Minutemen after D Boon died. The singer/guitarist was a big fan of the former band.

You should listen to this:
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Yeah, it looks like we did get a that one. I think sometimes Late 80's/Early 90's alternative stuff can be a blind spot for me in general. I was probably listening to top 40 and soft rock radio because it's what my parents listened to. I didn't get MTV until 1991 so I was familiar with all the stuff coming out then. But with no internet there was no way to double back on all the bands that I missed unless they were currently being played on MTV at the time.
 
dbarila said:
Yeah, it looks like we did get a that one. I think sometimes Late 80's/Early 90's alternative stuff can be a blind spot for me in general. I was probably listening to top 40 and soft rock radio because it's what my parents listened to. I didn't get MTV until 1991 so I was familiar with all the stuff coming out then. But with no internet there was no way to double back on all the bands that I missed unless they were currently being played on MTV at the time.
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Yeah MTV wasn’t playing this stuff. Because of the collabs Ball-Hog got some play on it. I don’t think 120 Minutes was even playing this kind of stuff.
 
Nee Lewman said:
In case you thought the Nickelback/Nickel Creek thing was an age thing…

I knew Watt was in fIREHOSE and was very confused when I heard this song on the radio:
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It took me years of reading music magazines to finally realize that the former Minutemen Bassist was not in Firehouse. I think the stylized text as fIREHOSE actually made it easier to discount that missing “U”.

It took me about as long to realize Patti Smith and Patty Smyth were different people.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
It took me years of reading music magazines to finally realize that the former Minutemen Bassist was not in Firehouse. I think the stylized text as fIREHOSE actually made it easier to discount that missing “U”.

It took me about as long to realize Patti Smith and Patty Smyth were different people.
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I had read somewhere that fIREHOSE was a different sounding band so when I heard the Firehouse stuff, I was like “boy howdy.”
 
dbarila said:
I may not have know fiREHOSE or Mike Watt but I sure did listen to the shit out of that Firehouse song. Probably had the cassingle too.
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That was part of the issue both groups were active at the same time too. It was strange to think that Firehouse was being covered in early 90s Spin magazine but I just went with it until I finally decided to look into it further… like 15 years later.
 
Joe Mac said:
Fire and Rain is an exceptional song and I love his voice but Greatest Hits is enough and actually works as an album better than any of his albums for me.
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This is exactly it. He has a few good tunes but most of his albums are kinda boring. His greatest hits is really all you need from James Taylor.

Great Simpsons cameo though…
 
I love James Taylor. His first four albums are all essential in my opinion. His Ninties resurgence also has a soft spot in my heart. I was at his New Year’s Eve 1999 show, so I brought in this Millennium with him.

I think this album in particular is a touch stone of the seventies singer-songwriter movement. It’s a sophisticated folk music bordering on adult contemporary. There’s an earnestness to his storytelling that keeps something like Steamroller from being corny even if it teeters close. Fire and Rain and Country Road tower above the rest of the songs in replayability but work well within the album.

Being from North Carolina, he’s a state treasure. Even though I’ve heard most of these songs thousands of times, I never tire of them. His is a discography that I do not actively seek but grab copies of every time I come across them.
 
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Nee Lewman said:
I love a James Taylor. His first four albums are all essential in my period. His Ninties resurgence also has a soft spot in my heart. I was at his New Year’s Eve 1999 show, so I brought in this Millennium with him.

I think this album in particular is a touch stone of the seventies singer-songwriter movement. It’s a sophisticated folk music bordering on adult contemporary. There’s an earnestness to his storytelling that keeps something like Steamroller from being corny even if it teeters close. Fire and Rain and Country Road tower above the rest of the songs in replayability but work well with in the album.

Being from North Carolina, he’s a state treasure. Even though I’ve heard most of these songs thousands of times, I never tire of them. His is a discography that I do not actively seek but grab copies of every time I come across them.
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I understand why people enjoy him and I enjoy several of his songs but I find his albums boring.
 
I know that people who post in this thread dislike her. I happen to love her. I also happen to think this is the least of her albums. She is clearly moving into her Streisand icon period here and it’s not what I want from her. Fortunately, her more recent album was a return to form of sorts.
 
Nee Lewman said:
I know that people who post in this thread dislike her. I happen to love her. I also happen to think this is the least of her albums. She is clearly moving into her Streisand icon period here and it’s not what I want from her. Fortunately, her more recent album was a return to form of sorts.
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Do people here dislike her though? I don’t own any of her records but I enjoy some of her songs and think she has an amazing voice.

I just thought we enjoyed making fun of the approximately 3 billion vinyl records that were pressed during Covid vinyl pressing delays.
 
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