By Marvin Marks on Dec 5, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
My recent obsession with looking at the sales rankings of albums on Amazon gave me the idea for this post: Four of my favorite albums from the 1990s that are not currently among Amazon’s top 25,000 best selling albums. Olivia Tremor Control – Dusk at Cubist Castle (#49,389) This lofi sprawling psychedelic masterpiece from 1996 [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Feb 2, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
Today I’m continuing my series for “three great albums” for each year beginning in 2007 and working backwards (I’m planning on keeping at this until I reach 1964.) I’m at 1997 today and this is a year I’ve been looking forward to as I think it’s my personal favorite year for music for the last [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Jan 4, 2010 in Features | 2 Comments
Previous Entry: 2001 (I’m working my way backwards.) Radiohead – Kid A Not a difficult decision to include Kid A. I still vividly remember the first time I listened to this album back in 2000. I’m sure it helped that I was out of my mind at the time, but it was one of the [...]
By BrainFace on Nov 30, 2009 in Features | 5 Comments
First let me define what I mean by “rated” (because without doing that, “underrated” doesn’t mean much.) I’m talking specifically about the “ratings” of people in the US because some of these bands are actually quite highly rated in the UK (The Stone Roses & Oasis being obvious examples.) I’m talking about a combination of [...]
By Long Bong on Nov 2, 2009 in Features | 1 Comment
I’ve decided to get into this “best of the decade” game myself. These are my top 10 albums of the 2000s in chronological order with one special rule: No more than one album by any band/artist. This is to keep half of my list from being filled with Radiohead albums. Primal Scream – XTRMNTR (2000) [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Nov 16, 2008 in Music Trivia | 0 Comments
Gary “Mani” Mounfield was born on November 16th of 1962 in England. Mounfield is mostly referred to by his nickname “Mani” and is most well known as the bassist for The Stone Roses and Primal Scream, two of the most critically acclaimed bands of the last 20 years. The Stone Roses released only two albums [...]
By Marvin Marks on Jun 27, 2008 in Retro Reviews | 0 Comments
Primal Scream’s Screamadelica is one of my favorite albums of the 1990s. And along with 1997′s Vanishing Point and 2000′s Xtrmntr it is one of three Primal Scream albums that I most highly recommend. Screamadelica could be called an indie rock album inspired by house music, dub music, & gospel music. But such with such [...]
