Classic Rock Bottom

More Essential Hidden Treasure albums, this time were talking the 90's. Hard to find some Classic Rock artist must have in the latter half of this decade. But its also hard to find anything of quality as well. I will admit to loving Foo Fighters, Stone Temple Pilots and select releases from early Pearl Jam, but that's about it! So lets dial it back into the genre we love, and that's the classic rock artist. Here's two I recommend for purchase... (and No Jon, Tommy Bolin didn't have a new release in the 90's...)


Enjoy!


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Dream Theater
Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory
1999

1 - Strange Deja Vu
2 - One Last Time
3 - Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On

I had heard Images and Words but this was the disc that hooked me into this band. Stellar album!

Scenes from a Memory is an unabashed concept album, told in two acts, about the 1928 murder of a young woman and how a modern man is haunted by the crime. A convoluted, difficult tale is told in a convoluted, difficult fashion, with no less than four tracks clocking in at well over ten minutes and three others ranging from 6:30 to 8:50. Clearly, this is intended as some sort of masterwork, and what's remarkable is that Dream Theater comes close to creating a masterwork with Scenes from a Memory. The album plays more like a suite than a collection of individual songs. At times, that means the album can bog down slightly in its own flights of fancy and long instrumental sections, but concentrated listens reveal the intricacies of the song structures and the musicianship. Occasionally, it can seem as if James Labrie oversings, but that's a minor point -- the overall end result of the album is quite impressive indeed.

The Rolling Stones
VooDoo Lounge
1994

4 - Love Is Strong
5 - Moon Is Up
6 - Brand New Car

A very recent discovery for me, but one that's consistently in rotation for me. I didn't get back then but I do now and its worth sharing....

Voodoo Lounge feels more like a return to form than its predecessor, even if it's every bit as calculated and Bill Wyman has flown the coup. With Don Was, a neo-classic rock producer who always attempts to reclaim his artist's original claim to greatness, helming the boards with the Glimmer Twins, the Stones strip their sound back to its spare, hard-rocking basics. The Stones act in kind, turning out a set of songs that are pretty traditionalist. There are no new twists or turns in either the rockers or ballads (apart maybe from the quiet menace of "Thru and Thru," later used to great effect on The Sopranos), even if they revive some of the English folk and acoustic country-blues that was on Beggars Banquet. Still, this approach works because they are turning out songs that may not be classics but are first-rate examples of the value of craft. If this was released ten years, even five years earlier, this would be a near-triumph of classicist rock

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This is actually probably the easiest decade to choose just two:  Empire by Queensryche and Pull by Winger.

I loved  a lot of the music released in the 90's.

And I loved the fact, that most of the CD's where 70 min long. I know, Jeff don't.

I bought the Stones-CD back around the release-date (I remember being on holliday on a greek Island, reding the review of the album in the last paper bought at home, saying it was REALLY good), but I was pretty dissapointed, when I heard it, and got tired of it rather fast. I didn't buy another new Stones-album until 2005.

Love Is Strong has been played on radio and MTV quite a few times, becuase it's the most familiar to me.

Moon Is Up is a waste of my time, like......many Stones-songs released after 1981. sounds like the crap U2 have released for years now.

Jaggers Solo-album from the year before was much, much better than this album. And Wyman was gone, so imo, it wasn't really The Stones anymore. I saw them live with Wyman, and I'm glad I did.

I remember Brand New Car, and it's probably one of the better tunes on the album.....but it's pretty forgettable.

I didn't buy the DT-album back then. I bought their debut-album in 1989, and wasn't impressed at all, and didn't pay any attention again, until I "met" you guys on CRB.

I have heard the double-album before a couple of times, but I can't really get in to it?! As I've said before, I kind of HATE the lead-singer, and I hate the pop-tunes this band plays. The new album is FULL of crappy pop-tunes. 

Strange Deja-Vue has a Love Gun-intro. It's actually a great sounding song, except for SOME traces of POP, and that idiot-singer. I hate him!! But it's from when it was Portnoy's band, and therefore it's much better sounding than DT today.

One Last Time has that David Cassidy-vocals I HATE, and probably is the reason, why I can't "get into" this album. Nah, I don't like this track. What do you call it..too pretentious?!

The last song is even worse. Why does people like David Bowie die, but Labrie....! Only kidding, or am I?!

I prdedict, I never ever will "get into" this album. If they re-record it with another singer, maybe?!

There are sooooo many essential 90's album imo, so from the top of my head....two albums....

Radiohead - OK Computer

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinate Dream (or whatever it's called)

I took a flyer on DT new album this time, I have been disappointed with them as well.  Glad I did!

No love for King's X from the 90's? That's quite shameful.

As for Dream Theater, well, I like 'em, but don't LIKE 'em. Thinking about all their albums (including this one), there's really nothing that grabs me enough so that I remember actual songs except for two of their albums, "Awake" and "Train Of Thought". All the rest are basically "yeah, they're competent and stuff, but when I'm done I'm not in a hurry to listen to this album again". I didn't pick up their latest album since I can listen to their other albums and they'll sound brand new to me with the exception of those two mentioned above. So.......not an essential 90's album to me. 

As for this Stones album, I have it on cassette, didn't care for it then and don't care for it now. Mostly filler to me. Since 83's "Undercover" the only other Stones album I like is 2005's "A Bigger Bang" which is a fantastic album and rocks hard most of the time. So......definitely not an essential 90's album for me.   

sure, fine, ok, yup, whatever....  Youre gonna love what I got for the 00's!!

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