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Post by dianachristensen on Dec 19, 2019 1:04:01 GMT
Temple of the Dog was a tribute album for overdosed Mother Love Bone lead singer, Andrew Wood. It was not a supergroup, regardless of what the internet might say. Chris Cornell and Matt Cameron, both of Soundgarden, were the only two who weren't virtually unknown, at the time. Two guys from Mother Love Bone, Ament and Gossard, unestablished singer-without-a-band, Eddie Vedder, and Mike McCready rounded out the group. Vedder, Ament, Gossard and McCready went on to form Pearl Jam, but when they did Temple of the Dog, they were basically nobodies. Good point. I'd forgotten how early that album was in the lifespan of the bands involved. Still, it's kind of a supergroup in retrospect! It is really such an awesome assemblage of talent that we should figure out a new cognate just for it, bigger than supergroup or megagroup, even. Mroup. Lol, anyone else have ideas? I like to put consonants back-to-back when I make fake words, so I should probably recuse myself. I'd say "Call Me a Dog" is my favorite sleeper hit from the album. "Wooden Jesus" and "All Night Thing" are pretty great, too.
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 20, 2019 9:38:17 GMT
Thought of two more:
Spiral Architect - A Sceptic's Universe
A technically bewildering album that was way ahead of the prog metal curve. Perhaps it sounds less astounding now that there's an actual genre devoted to such technical wizardry, but in '99 this was pretty new stuff.
Demilich - Nespithe
Similar to the above, no metal sounded like this in '93. The combination of the incredibly twisty riffing with impossibly guttural vocals. Still one of my favorite extreme metal albums that holds up against anything that came after.
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Post by darknessfish on Dec 20, 2019 13:34:04 GMT
Ausgang - One of the better early goth bands, their main flaw being that they arrived far too late to be counted as early goth, the Sisters of Mercy sound already dominating the genre by this point.
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Post by darknessfish on Dec 20, 2019 13:38:17 GMT
Kinghorse. A fairly harsh, austere sounding hard-rock thing. Their only album was produced by Danzig, and had artowrk by Pushead, who was more famous for Metallica artwork (and his own band, Septic Death, I think). Would've thought this would've been a much bigger album.
and keeping with the metal theme, Silencer. The squeakiest voice in black metal
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Post by petrolino on Dec 20, 2019 19:31:12 GMT
Marie 'Queenie' Lyons produced one of the finest soul albums ever, and then disappeared. No-one knew, or knows, what happened to her. Soul Fever I checked out her work. Seems she had some great connections in the music business. I enjoyed some songs credited to jazz pianist Don Pullen especially. Thanks so much.
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Post by petrolino on Dec 20, 2019 19:33:54 GMT
'Listening Cap' by Liquorice ...
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Post by Eva Yojimbo on Dec 20, 2019 22:17:42 GMT
and keeping with the metal theme, Silencer. The squeakiest voice in black metal That reminds me... my favorite black metal album of all time was a one-off for the band: Weakling - Dead as DreamsThis is about as dark and epic as non-classical music gets. It inspired me as a youngster to write a really long, pretentious review of it... It's like what I imagine would happen if Mahler or Wagner decided to write black metal:
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