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...)
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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.
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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