tentoze said:
I promise not to get up on my soapbox again, blah blah blah yada yada yada....
But didn't you just right now hop up on your soapbox after promising not to? Ya know, not everybody likes that crap you call "good new music"
I do, but then again, my taste has been questionable since the 70s. Just tell em to go buy that damn Mark Lanegan album. Bubblegum. With PJ Harvey and the gang. Now that's some damn good new rock music, although he's a early 90s grunge survivor.
Or maybe that 3 year old indie rock classic from Britt Daniel, Jim Eno and Josh Zarbo, aka Spoon.
Girls Can Tell. Woulda coulda been huge in an earlier time. Huge! What a great sound. Kinda reminiscent of the Jam, maybe mixed with some Elvis Costello and even a touch of Nirvana and a little Pavement to bring it into the 90s. It's got wonderful lyrics and and it rocks and it even sounds pretty nice. At times understated and at other times anthemic. What a timeless album. What a modern classic!
Just checked at amazon and the music editor obviously has questionable taste like me since he says....
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
This is a great, understated album that merits repeated plays. Spoon have made a literate, rocking, breakthrough record that occupies a funny place--the songs are not unconventional, per se, yet they're somehow really special. Girls Can Tell displays the emotional resonance and big rock power of, say, Thin Lizzy and Mott the Hoople; the sonically referential, indie-rock smarts of a band like Versus; and amazing hooks that recall Colin Blunstone of the Zombies. Like Jennyanykind, Moviola, and the Lilys, this Austin, Texas, trio has chosen to work on perfecting their craft without paying much heed to mainstream or trends. In spite of (but mostly because of) wrenching breakup-centered lyrical material delivered in a very real, matter-of-fact way, Girls Can Tell is one of those life-affirming pop albums you know you'll return to in years to come. --Mike McGonigal
