Tindersticks’ self-titled debut is a minor masterpiece of brooding, muted anguish, a whiskey-soaked, carnival-meets-barroom blues gem. In a drearily slurred and mumbled delivery, vocalist Stuart Staples paints a picture of...
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Here are a few more worthy albums to round out my 1993 Year in Review. Other Notable Albums of 1993 As always, you can jump to the playlist at the bottom of each...
Read MoreLots more solid albums from 1993. Let’s dive in. Ten More Albums, forMy Top 30 Albums of 1993 As always, you can jump to the playlist at the bottom of each post...
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To me, Pearl Jam always played a more conventional second fiddle to Nirvana’s artistic brilliance throughout the alt-rock period of the early ‘90s. When I first heard Nirvana, they seemed...
Read MoreThese next eight seem just about as good as the previous six. 1994 was a strong year. Eight More Albums, forMy Top 20 Albums of 1993 As always, you can jump...
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Sometimes I will wake in the night with a warm, meandering bassline roaming through my consciousness, soon to be joined by a brushed rhythm and spare electric guitar melody—and when...
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For one brief moment, the Boo Radleys were great. Whereas their previous album had been a fairly routine (if still decent) shoegaze affair, the aptly named Giant Steps (1993) incorporated...
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In the ‘60s, the Beatles introduced the sitar to the Western world; in the ‘80s we listened to Paul Simon’s Afro-Funk lite and Peter Gabriel’s use of Middle Eastern and...
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There’s something about Mazzy Star’s particular brand of drugged-out melancholy that really hooks me in, even though I don’t consider myself a very melancholy person, and I’m certainly not drugged...
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I’ve made plenty of disparaging remarks about Ride’s ho-hum vocals—which in my estimation seem to run the emotional gamut between bored and comatose—but there’s no doubt the band has some...
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