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Crowe · 07-03-2008, 11:53 PM

88. One Man Army - Last Word Spoken (2002)
One of the standout bands that pulled through my crappy pop-punk phase of my llate elementary school/early middle school years. (Bands I left behind for example: Blink, GC, New Found Glory etc etc). One Man Army had a great blend of pop and street punk - catchy melodies and a singer whose voice was reminiscent of Matt Freeman, the leader singer of Rancid. This band is important because just hearing one of the songs on this particular album instantly has me recalling the sights and sounds of driving through the Valley on a hot summer night with my top down and screaming the lyrics at the old people in the car next to me. This was also the soundtrack to a little love affair that existed only in the silence between this little girly I was into when I first started listening to this album.

Check out: No Controlling, Bootlegger's Son, Another Night and Last Word Spoken

87. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003)
Goodness gracious this is a sexy album. What a great punk group coming out of the New York underground - raw RAW sound with great, catchy hooks - memorable lyrics and... what's this? A frontman that's a frontwoman? For me this is important because it is very hard for a woman artist who is not a solo artist to get me hooked. It's just not how I operate. Unlike most people I know I did NOT hear "Maps" first. My first introduction to the YYY's was "Date With the Night" - where the chorus of the song includes this guttural scream/grunt/yelp from front woman Karen O that goes something like "CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE". I went out and got the album immediately which was when I was introduced to their smash hit - "Maps". I feel sorry for those of you who had this song ruined for you by constant radio play. The song is gorgeous GORGEOUS and has a really awesome guitar solo breakdown near the end of the song that gets me going every time. Did I mention Karen O is sexy? She is. And so is her voice. And for 17 year old me, this was the kind of chick who I wanted plastered all over my walls.

Check Out: Maps (duh), Y Control, Date With the Night, Tick, Rich

86. Blind Melon - S/T (1992)
Ah yes, I am a 90's kid. During the time of the grunge giants dominating the rock airwaves on both tv and radio - you suddenly get this little... fat girl dancing around in a bee outfit as opposed to watching Kurt Cobain with little tears stuck in his five o'clock shadow. Everyone who was even ALIVE in the 90s should know the song "No Rain" - the amount of airplay this song got/STILL gets is obscene - bordering on downright auditory corpulence. But... it does. NOT. GET. OLD. Like most of the Vampire Weekend album's songs, "No Rain" in particular alwwwways cheers me up and puts me in a good mood. However, that is not the only song on the album. "Tones of Home" and "Change" and "I Wonder" (a song whose name I stole which you can find in the songwriting thread) are all greatttt, overlooked songs. Lead singer Shannon Hoon's untimely death did no generate the post-humous hype that happened to a lot of groups. (Skynyrd, Nirvana bla bla). Hoon's voice sounds a little country or southern rock as he talks about his life being plain... you simply can't forget or discount this band's place in the 90's Pantheon of great Alternative/Grunge bands.

Check Out: No Rain, I Wonder, Tones of Home

85. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (Carter USM) - Thirty Something (1991)
Hard to describe Carter USM unless you've heard them. I decided that this should be a band I wanted to get into pretty early on in middle school when I saw one of my friends (hot) older sister wearing a 30 Something t-shirt (which, in retrospect, probably belonged to a boyfriend because she was way into sh!t like 36 Mafia and Nelly). Carter USM is good dance/punk with tons and tons of energy. The lyrics are often very... eh, clever? Vibrant? Abrasive? Blunt? I can't find a good word for what goes on inside 30 Something, but the fact of the matter is - is that this band managed to breach UK charts in Grungetime and managed to survive and continue to thrive. Great album for a house party where you want people to get up and move (and you don't like cRap)

Check out: Surfin' USM, Bloodsport for All, A Prince in a Pauper's Grave

07-03-2008, 11:53 PM	#8 (permalink)
Crowe Music Addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 690	88. One Man Army - Last Word Spoken (2002) One of the standout bands that pulled through my crappy pop-punk phase of my llate elementary school/early middle school years. (Bands I left behind for example: Blink, GC, New Found Glory etc etc). One Man Army had a great blend of pop and street punk - catchy melodies and a singer whose voice was reminiscent of Matt Freeman, the leader singer of Rancid. This band is important because just hearing one of the songs on this particular album instantly has me recalling the sights and sounds of driving through the Valley on a hot summer night with my top down and screaming the lyrics at the old people in the car next to me. This was also the soundtrack to a little love affair that existed only in the silence between this little girly I was into when I first started listening to this album. Check out: No Controlling, Bootlegger's Son, Another Night and Last Word Spoken 87. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Fever to Tell (2003) Goodness gracious this is a sexy album. What a great punk group coming out of the New York underground - raw RAW sound with great, catchy hooks - memorable lyrics and... what's this? A frontman that's a frontwoman? For me this is important because it is very hard for a woman artist who is not a solo artist to get me hooked. It's just not how I operate. Unlike most people I know I did NOT hear "Maps" first. My first introduction to the YYY's was "Date With the Night" - where the chorus of the song includes this guttural scream/grunt/yelp from front woman Karen O that goes something like "CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE CHOKE". I went out and got the album immediately which was when I was introduced to their smash hit - "Maps". I feel sorry for those of you who had this song ruined for you by constant radio play. The song is gorgeous GORGEOUS and has a really awesome guitar solo breakdown near the end of the song that gets me going every time. Did I mention Karen O is sexy? She is. And so is her voice. And for 17 year old me, this was the kind of chick who I wanted plastered all over my walls. Check Out: Maps (duh), Y Control, Date With the Night, Tick, Rich 86. Blind Melon - S/T (1992) Ah yes, I am a 90's kid. During the time of the grunge giants dominating the rock airwaves on both tv and radio - you suddenly get this little... fat girl dancing around in a bee outfit as opposed to watching Kurt Cobain with little tears stuck in his five o'clock shadow. Everyone who was even ALIVE in the 90s should know the song "No Rain" - the amount of airplay this song got/STILL gets is obscene - bordering on downright auditory corpulence. But... it does. NOT. GET. OLD. Like most of the Vampire Weekend album's songs, "No Rain" in particular alwwwways cheers me up and puts me in a good mood. However, that is not the only song on the album. "Tones of Home" and "Change" and "I Wonder" (a song whose name I stole which you can find in the songwriting thread) are all greatttt, overlooked songs. Lead singer Shannon Hoon's untimely death did no generate the post-humous hype that happened to a lot of groups. (Skynyrd, Nirvana bla bla). Hoon's voice sounds a little country or southern rock as he talks about his life being plain... you simply can't forget or discount this band's place in the 90's Pantheon of great Alternative/Grunge bands. Check Out: No Rain, I Wonder, Tones of Home 85. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine (Carter USM) - Thirty Something (1991) Hard to describe Carter USM unless you've heard them. I decided that this should be a band I wanted to get into pretty early on in middle school when I saw one of my friends (hot) older sister wearing a 30 Something t-shirt (which, in retrospect, probably belonged to a boyfriend because she was way into sh!t like 36 Mafia and Nelly). Carter USM is good dance/punk with tons and tons of energy. The lyrics are often very... eh, clever? Vibrant? Abrasive? Blunt? I can't find a good word for what goes on inside 30 Something, but the fact of the matter is - is that this band managed to breach UK charts in Grungetime and managed to survive and continue to thrive. Great album for a house party where you want people to get up and move (and you don't like cRap) Check out: Surfin' USM, Bloodsport for All, A Prince in a Pauper's Grave __________________ Last edited by Crowe; 07-04-2008 at 12:44 AM.