An excellent year! Copper Blue probably spent the longest on my turntable but they're all great. But the album that had a massive effect on me is Meantime by Helmet. I discovered drop D when I learned to play Unsung and I've used that tuning ever since. Meantime literally changed how I play guitar. And as for naming children, my friend called his daughter Page after Page Hamilton.
Cheers Alan. I was still a bumbling inadequate in guitar back in '92. A few Pixies and REM songs was my limit, and I didn't "get" alternative tunings until the latter half of the decade...which was a complete game-changer, I must say. I should stress that we didn't set out to name our boy after Evan Dando! It was just one of those serendipitous things. We were looking for a name that was a nice in-between of Welsh and English, and Evan being an Anglicised take on Ieuan (back to Ivan...back to John...all variants of the same name) was a name that we really really liked. D
Great video as always! And yes, I have a.... Different favourite album for 1992. In the same way you were slightly embarrassed about Carter, mine is...well..... You remember when INXS tried to make Achtung Baby? No? It's bloody brilliant, but I fully understand why people would give me a side eye for saying so. But hey, I was 16, and Welcome To Wherever You Are blew me away before I was supremely concerned about being cool. And, now that I'm past trying to be cool, I can openly admit that I still adore that album. And, if I were to pit it against another, Automatic would be the other contender, but we've discussed REM before. Looking forward to 1993, and if I recall one of your previous videos, your birthday is right around the corner, so happy birthday in advance!
My current take on guilty pleasures is "if nobody gets hurt, it's just pleasure, so why feel guilty?" Embrace it! Well remembered! Yes, my birthday is this weekend, so 52 officially. Can't believe I embarked on this thing this year, to be honest. Long way to go still. All the best, Chris! D
Great video thanks.When I was a 15/16 year old teenager in 1992, I listened to music incessantly. Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle, Sonic Youth - Dirty, Sugar -Cooper Blue were favorites. also Young Gods - Sky TV, Jesus Lizard - Liar, Rage Against The Machine - debut; Ministry - Psalm 69; NIN - Broken; Faith No More - Angel Dust and certainly Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted.At this time I had great distrust about the Lemonheads due to the hyhe that surrounded them and the overexposure on MTV. All I can say is that My Drug Buddy is an amazing song and is so beautiful and moving that it is crippling.
So important i have to leave a 'main' comment: Come's '11:11' is a masterpiece! Probably (along with 'Don't ask, don't tell') some of the music I've listened to the most in this life ❤
Admission! I need to revisit Come. Most of my stuff of theirs (including 11:11) is sitting on a NAS drive that I don't fire up too often, although I do have the "Fast Piss Blues" 10" EP, which is fantastic. Cheers, D
Hey Darren, that time was a buzzing one for me. I commenced a PhD in biotech, fell deeply in love and discovered much alternative music, including the Lemonheads as gateway to much more and better, including Pavement, which is still in my top list of Indie rock bands. And later a passion for the Kiwi or ‘Dunedin sound. Cheers mate🌟
Enjoyed all of those and still do. Out of them I’d say the Aphex Twin album is/was the most influential to me. I’d go so far to label him a genius. You have to wonder how he came up with the ideas for some of it. It was staggeringly inventive back then and still is today. The interviews that he gave were equally wonderful - he just used to tell lies to the journos. There’s possibly still a compilation of his funniest quotes here on RUclips. Btw, glad to see Curve get a mention - Horror Head still bangs today. Pure elation listening to that track. It was never lost on me what Garbage did. Loved it when Halliday teamed up with Leftfield.
Didn't his cat also chew on one of his tapes and the weird sounds thereby created ended up on the actual record? I think I read that!... in a way the album also reminded me in spots of C64 and Amiga music I was very much into in the eighties, early nineties but that's just weird old me.
The ideas, and the technology he was working with...pretty mind boggling stuff, really. There's a rule-of-thumb (don't know how I feel about it) that hip-hop and electronic/dance music tends to age far worse than "rock" music of a similar vintage. I think SAW85-92 absolutely destroys that idea. Still amazing. Yeah, "Horror Head" rules. Been revisiting Doppelganger and Cuckoo (plus the '91 EPs) lately, and they really highlight how much shoegaze, within a fairly tight window, started drifting, seeding other styles and genres. Cheers, D
Ha! I do love both of your top pick contenders but Pavement would win for me... still, Ray is the Lemonheads high water mark. There's a channel I watch called Seb's Place, basically about old ZX Spectrum games, where I made a pun joke, about the album's title I believe and turns out he's a fan of the album and even used to sing the title track to one of his infant children, who now is obviously a Lemonheads fan! Well, a band I wish I'd have thought to mention in 1990 is The Nits from my country the Netherlands. They have released many albums (since the 70s!) of a decidedly more European slant with folk/chanson influences, brass and wind instruments, often peculiar percussion and keyboards defining their sound more than the guitar. So, they are not really a rock band (most of the time) but do deliver a welcoming, nostalgic atmosphere of dreamy wanderings through a slightly surreal arty landscape with nods to literature and the power of (re-)imagination. In 1992 they released a more stripped down, very keyboard oriented but still absolutely lovely album called Ting. Their 1990 album Giant Normal Dwarf I probably like slightly more though. And their 1989 double disc live album Urk is up there with any classic live album. They're perhaps my favourite Dutch band, so I feel it my obligation to mention them at least once ;)
Much as it pains me to agree with things, I think you've nailed it here. Seeing Evan Dando before was always fun, but in recent years there's a lot of love in the air (careful) and that heart is impossible to resist. Pavement are a band I should love but I just always slightly bounce off. Plus my favourite of their songs are both off the next record (Cut Your Hair, Range Life) because I'm not cool. I do remember that gig in 1992, though. Some of the crowd were proper boy-bellends, and after your fine lady now-wife kicked a few of them in their arses, me and her fucked off to the bar and enjoyed the band and the flashes of the epic thunderstorm outside from there. Christ, I think I'd started work that week and was living at the Last Resort at the time. Haven't thought of that place for hecking years. Erm. Ramble ends
See? I knew you'd get it. Maybe it's because I already had a connection with the Lemonheads, and Pavement were all new and stuff? Oh, I dunno. It's nigh impossible to accurately reflect who and where you were, without being coloured by the intervening years, but even giving temporal fidelity my best shot (this series requires it), I still went Team Dando (albeit by a whisker). I think Wowee would probably be the one that gets closest for me with regards Pavement...a lil Crooked, a bit Slanted. It's a perfect halfway house. The storm during/post that gig was proper, I do remember. Gav drove us back up the A11 afterwards and we feared for our lives at one or two points...lightning striking trees along the roadside amidst the denser parts of Thetford Forest. The Last Resort, in case you weren't in the know, is now old folks accommodation. Bit sad, really. Managed to find a shot of it online from not long before it was repurposed (maybe 20 years ago?), so this one's for you... www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/E/Earlham%20Rd%201%20Grapes%20Hotel%20[7928]%202003-04-05.jpg D
1992 - My first full calendar year of working life and my then girlfriend now wife of 30 years and I took on our first mortgage. Disposable Heroes - Yes! How I loved Television, those lyrics as true today as 30+ years ago. The Gin Blossoms promised but flickered all too briefly. My album of the year is from a female artist who replaced Stevie Nicks in my affections. Reminiscent of the Hats vs Mind Bomb debate previously, Nicks’ sweeping ballads were replaced by piano playing cleverly masking the lyrical grenades being thrown. Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos is my album of 1992
1992 was a major major year for me and you hit on most of the records I was digging on. Tough to choose but I’d have to go with Circa Now by Rocket From The Crypt. That amber vinyl import version got blasted so much and broke open the San Diego punk scene for me. A very lasting influence and love.
That's a good call. Have this one (and a cassette of "Paint As A Fragrance" somewhere) and don't play it nearly enough. A great intro to Reis for new listeners, and "Ditchdigger" is basically a less-mathy dry run for Jehu's "LUAU". Cheers, D
Just gone back to this as I missed somethnig highly recommend Underground Lovers - Leaves Me Blind from Melb Oz, at the time I believe It made a front cover of NME in the UK as the next big thing
'92 was a good year, wasn't it? I own (or used to) the vast majority of the albums you featured in this one. Great video D. I don't envy you having to choose between your top two; if I absolutely had to, I'd have probably gone with Pavement. Both are fab though. It was good to see that Curve made the honourable mentions, and Disposable Heroes were an absolutey great band live.
It was a tie, in all but name, let's face it! I guess the only thing that tipped it (this came to me as I was sat there after the "Ray" section, gathering my thoughts) was that Slanted is a purely "cool" record...amazingly inventive, sonically rich, surprising...whilst Ray, despite being just a pop record, has that genuinely emotional edge to it. It was just the sound of that summer of '92 for me, and the second I hit "play", I'm there all over again. I can step back from Slanted and still appreciate (and love) everything it does, but Ray pulls me in and pushes my buttons, whether I want them pushed or not! Doppelganger is still ace! I see other commenters agreeing with that already! Never got to see Hiphoprisy...Did they work in any of the industrial stuff the Beatnigs used to do live? Because I imagine that would be awesome in a hiphop context. Cheers, D
The Peel session version of 'The Door' by the Lemonheads is a fantastic track and surprisingly didn't have Evan Dando singing on it. I still think the Peel Session version is much better than their LP version.
Great session. Lick-era lineup and songs mostly, but a first airing for "The Door"...well before they'd recorded it for inclusion on Lovey (where it appears as "(The) Door"). Cheers, D
@@discellany Oh yes you're right I had forgotten it was their first airing. The intro music of your video reminds me of a Czech shoegazing band in the early 90's called Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa, who had a track called Honeyrain. Reminds me very much of that song !!
Cheers. It's a tiny snippet of a guitar drone/feedback thing I did with tons of foldback/multiband distortion, plus lots of delay and reverb. Cool that you got an EOST vibe off it! D
Some really great albums released in ‘92. Hard to choose. Listening back, the Lemonheads album is great, for all the reasons you outlined. BUT…at the time, for me …it felt like they’d sold their souls a bit…me having been more into their albums Lick and Lovey! But I can appreciate it more now. Pavements album, like Mercury Rev’s debut the year before was, a revelation…sounded so fresh, new and exciting. I remember the huge anticipation before its release, having read the review in Melody Maker and remember getting it the day it was released. Just happened to be over in London working that summer and got to see them play in the Clapham Grand in late June…Jacobs Mouse were support. Amazing gig. Only in recent years, having done a bit of reminiscing on line…it seems it was their first UK gig. Amazing to have seen Gary Young in action. A drummer myself, I always loved his lazy, almost sloppy style that always seemed just slightly out of time with the rest of the music…but made it sound even better! So of the two albums you selected, S&E would be my choice. So many other great albums that year. Some that come to mind would be Yo La Tengo’s May I Sing with Me, Come’s 11:11, Stereolab’s Peng, Kitchens OD Death of Cool, Seam’s Headsparks. But probably my fav of 1992 has to be Spiritualized’s Lazer Guided Melodies. Blew me away. I always loved Jason’s side of Recurring, so LGM just took that sound to another place! A bit biased maybe…as I was going through a real Spacemen 3 phase at the time. Great times, great music. Cheers!
Saw them shortly after you, July, in Norwich, with Belly supporting. Amazing gig. Chaotic as hell...like a good-natured tug of war between Malkmus and Gary. Great to get to see them in that relatively short window pre-Crooked/etc...although now I think about it, he was probably still with them when I saw them play Reading that year. With the awful weather in '92 (Sunday was hell), and the Nirvana headlining hoohah, I'd clean forgot about that! Cheers, D
@@discellanyas I recall it their follow on, brilliant EP Watery Domestic was not long out. Think that was the last record Gary featured on. Another great album from that year just springs to mind…The House of Love’s Babe Rainbow. Post Terry Bickers, but a great album regardless.
@@markroff1012had the pleasure of going to see them play in London a year ago this coming weekend. Cafe Otto…no stage , so real up close and personal. Chris Brokaw is an amazing guitarist…heres the one song I recorded from that gig. The track Brand New Vein from 11.11. ruclips.net/video/_-pz9-ErHoI/видео.htmlsi=TPHMwp6LHmfszMvw
'Slanted... ' Darren, 'Slanted...'!! I've had '...Ray' since its release (originally on 10" I think) but never really got into it. And Dando is a wally (Sorry the boy Evan). Maybe I'll give it another try
Would love to have called score-draw on this one! Love 'em both, on another day, etc... Dando has (it seems) lapsed a bit of late (his social media is quite something!), but I'll always pull for him. A great interpreter of songs too. His version of Wire's "Fragile" might be my favorite Wire cover of all time. Cheers, D
Great video. It's true, everyone had IASAR. But, it as to be S+E for me. Not even remotely close. So much heart in that album... I was dressed for success But success it never comes And you're the only one who laughs At my jokes when they are so bad And the jokes are always bad. But their not as bad as this. You think it's easy but you're wrong I am not one half of the problem Zurich is stained and its not my fault Just hold me back or let me run To me, the "slacker" label always sold these guys short. They just got it. Music is fun. Why do so many people talk one way and then their songs sound like something else? Why all the pretense? And who said being "professional" was a good thing when it comes to music? Who said it was about "career"? If people stopped trying to imitate other bands and stopped trying to "be a success" and just wrote songs for themselves and their friends, there would be 1000s more bands like Pavement. It's a crying shame there isn't. Also, for me, Sonic Youth Dirty totally blew me away. I am a little younger than you. I realize that this isn't regarded as their "best" work. But screw all that cork sniffing (and I have done tons of it myself) and just listen to those songs. I remember playing 100% on on my tape deck through a guitar amp and scaring + pissing off my parents and everyone else in the street. I believe Anita Hill.
Hi Andrew! I think the "Ray" choice (it was "Slanted" all the way until I stopped and had a good listen to them both again) is one where the "Lifetime" bit comfortably beat out the "Listening" bit. I'm wary of oversharing (although I've opened up in a few videos in this series), so held back a little regarding '92 in this video...but it was one of those "pivot" years where my life could have gone off in a different direction. The "fight-or-flight" thing which led me to picking a Uni as far from home as possible was only part of it. My course had an extra "exchange" year built in to study in California. My 18-year-old self had wanted to run, and keep running, as far away as possible. I hadn't considered the friendships and life I would build within those first two years at college, and when the time came for me to go to the States at the start of my 3rd year, I absolutely ballsed it up. I was torn. I'd found my new home. I was in love. I got to the USA, and immediately knew I'd made a mistake. Everything about it was wrong. I lasted a couple of weeks, and cracked. I flew home and managed to talk my way back onto my course (God bless my late advisor and mentor...he really came through for me) alongside everyone else, my friends, my girlfriend. I'd let a lot of people down, but I just couldn't go through with it. It was a pretty chastening experience. The Lemonheads was (I'm 99% sure) the first gig I went to when I got back home...lots of people I'd said goodbye to at the start of the summer (thinking I may never see them again) were there, and completely incredulous. Crazy time. And that girlfriend I mentioned? She's now my wife, so my son might not be here were it not for my American meltdown that year. All those themes on "Ray" resonate so much when I think of '92...making bad choices, wrong turns, falling in love, those "golden" moments among friends. My relationship with "Slanted" is entirely different, and in pure listening terms, it's a better record than "Ray"...but in lifetime terms, "Ray" just means more to me. All that was going to be far too much for a little 12 minute video, but happy to share it down here in the safety of the comments section. All the best, D
Copper Blue is #1 for me, but I love Shame about Ray and Slanted too. What a year for music and what a Reading Festival line up too.
An excellent year! Copper Blue probably spent the longest on my turntable but they're all great. But the album that had a massive effect on me is Meantime by Helmet. I discovered drop D when I learned to play Unsung and I've used that tuning ever since. Meantime literally changed how I play guitar. And as for naming children, my friend called his daughter Page after Page Hamilton.
Cheers Alan. I was still a bumbling inadequate in guitar back in '92. A few Pixies and REM songs was my limit, and I didn't "get" alternative tunings until the latter half of the decade...which was a complete game-changer, I must say.
I should stress that we didn't set out to name our boy after Evan Dando! It was just one of those serendipitous things. We were looking for a name that was a nice in-between of Welsh and English, and Evan being an Anglicised take on Ieuan (back to Ivan...back to John...all variants of the same name) was a name that we really really liked. D
@@discellanymy stepdaughter is called Kayleigh, no prizes for guessing where that name came from!
Great video as always!
And yes, I have a.... Different favourite album for 1992.
In the same way you were slightly embarrassed about Carter, mine is...well.....
You remember when INXS tried to make Achtung Baby? No?
It's bloody brilliant, but I fully understand why people would give me a side eye for saying so.
But hey, I was 16, and Welcome To Wherever You Are blew me away before I was supremely concerned about being cool.
And, now that I'm past trying to be cool, I can openly admit that I still adore that album.
And, if I were to pit it against another, Automatic would be the other contender, but we've discussed REM before.
Looking forward to 1993, and if I recall one of your previous videos, your birthday is right around the corner, so happy birthday in advance!
My current take on guilty pleasures is "if nobody gets hurt, it's just pleasure, so why feel guilty?" Embrace it!
Well remembered! Yes, my birthday is this weekend, so 52 officially. Can't believe I embarked on this thing this year, to be honest. Long way to go still. All the best, Chris! D
Great video thanks.When I was a 15/16 year old teenager in 1992, I listened to music incessantly. Babes in Toyland - Fontanelle, Sonic Youth - Dirty, Sugar -Cooper Blue were favorites. also Young Gods - Sky TV, Jesus Lizard - Liar, Rage Against The Machine - debut; Ministry - Psalm 69; NIN - Broken; Faith No More - Angel Dust and certainly Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted.At this time I had great distrust about the Lemonheads due to the hyhe that surrounded them and the overexposure on MTV. All I can say is that My Drug Buddy is an amazing song and is so beautiful and moving that it is crippling.
So important i have to leave a 'main' comment: Come's '11:11' is a masterpiece! Probably (along with 'Don't ask, don't tell') some of the music I've listened to the most in this life ❤
Admission! I need to revisit Come. Most of my stuff of theirs (including 11:11) is sitting on a NAS drive that I don't fire up too often, although I do have the "Fast Piss Blues" 10" EP, which is fantastic. Cheers, D
Hey Darren, that time was a buzzing one for me. I commenced a PhD in biotech, fell deeply in love and discovered much alternative music, including the Lemonheads as gateway to much more and better, including Pavement, which is still in my top list of Indie rock bands. And later a passion for the Kiwi or ‘Dunedin sound. Cheers mate🌟
Enjoyed all of those and still do. Out of them I’d say the Aphex Twin album is/was the most influential to me. I’d go so far to label him a genius. You have to wonder how he came up with the ideas for some of it. It was staggeringly inventive back then and still is today. The interviews that he gave were equally wonderful - he just used to tell lies to the journos. There’s possibly still a compilation of his funniest quotes here on RUclips. Btw, glad to see Curve get a mention - Horror Head still bangs today. Pure elation listening to that track. It was never lost on me what Garbage did. Loved it when Halliday teamed up with Leftfield.
Didn't his cat also chew on one of his tapes and the weird sounds thereby created ended up on the actual record? I think I read that!... in a way the album also reminded me in spots of C64 and Amiga music I was very much into in the eighties, early nineties but that's just weird old me.
The ideas, and the technology he was working with...pretty mind boggling stuff, really. There's a rule-of-thumb (don't know how I feel about it) that hip-hop and electronic/dance music tends to age far worse than "rock" music of a similar vintage. I think SAW85-92 absolutely destroys that idea. Still amazing.
Yeah, "Horror Head" rules. Been revisiting Doppelganger and Cuckoo (plus the '91 EPs) lately, and they really highlight how much shoegaze, within a fairly tight window, started drifting, seeding other styles and genres. Cheers, D
Toss up for me between Spooky by Lush and Sugar's Copper Blue. Both have remained in my listening rotation all these years later.
Ha! I do love both of your top pick contenders but Pavement would win for me... still, Ray is the Lemonheads high water mark. There's a channel I watch called Seb's Place, basically about old ZX Spectrum games, where I made a pun joke, about the album's title I believe and turns out he's a fan of the album and even used to sing the title track to one of his infant children, who now is obviously a Lemonheads fan!
Well, a band I wish I'd have thought to mention in 1990 is The Nits from my country the Netherlands. They have released many albums (since the 70s!) of a decidedly more European slant with folk/chanson influences, brass and wind instruments, often peculiar percussion and keyboards defining their sound more than the guitar. So, they are not really a rock band (most of the time) but do deliver a welcoming, nostalgic atmosphere of dreamy wanderings through a slightly surreal arty landscape with nods to literature and the power of (re-)imagination. In 1992 they released a more stripped down, very keyboard oriented but still absolutely lovely album called Ting. Their 1990 album Giant Normal Dwarf I probably like slightly more though. And their 1989 double disc live album Urk is up there with any classic live album. They're perhaps my favourite Dutch band, so I feel it my obligation to mention them at least once ;)
Much as it pains me to agree with things, I think you've nailed it here. Seeing Evan Dando before was always fun, but in recent years there's a lot of love in the air (careful) and that heart is impossible to resist.
Pavement are a band I should love but I just always slightly bounce off. Plus my favourite of their songs are both off the next record (Cut Your Hair, Range Life) because I'm not cool. I do remember that gig in 1992, though. Some of the crowd were proper boy-bellends, and after your fine lady now-wife kicked a few of them in their arses, me and her fucked off to the bar and enjoyed the band and the flashes of the epic thunderstorm outside from there. Christ, I think I'd started work that week and was living at the Last Resort at the time. Haven't thought of that place for hecking years. Erm. Ramble ends
See? I knew you'd get it. Maybe it's because I already had a connection with the Lemonheads, and Pavement were all new and stuff? Oh, I dunno. It's nigh impossible to accurately reflect who and where you were, without being coloured by the intervening years, but even giving temporal fidelity my best shot (this series requires it), I still went Team Dando (albeit by a whisker).
I think Wowee would probably be the one that gets closest for me with regards Pavement...a lil Crooked, a bit Slanted. It's a perfect halfway house. The storm during/post that gig was proper, I do remember. Gav drove us back up the A11 afterwards and we feared for our lives at one or two points...lightning striking trees along the roadside amidst the denser parts of Thetford Forest.
The Last Resort, in case you weren't in the know, is now old folks accommodation. Bit sad, really. Managed to find a shot of it online from not long before it was repurposed (maybe 20 years ago?), so this one's for you...
www.georgeplunkett.co.uk/Norwich/E/Earlham%20Rd%201%20Grapes%20Hotel%20[7928]%202003-04-05.jpg
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1992 - My first full calendar year of working life and my then girlfriend now wife of 30 years and I took on our first mortgage. Disposable Heroes - Yes!
How I loved Television, those lyrics as true today as 30+ years ago.
The Gin Blossoms promised but flickered all too briefly.
My album of the year is from a female artist who replaced Stevie Nicks in my affections. Reminiscent of the Hats vs Mind Bomb debate previously, Nicks’ sweeping ballads were replaced by piano playing cleverly masking the lyrical grenades being thrown.
Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos is my album of 1992
1992 was a major major year for me and you hit on most of the records I was digging on.
Tough to choose but I’d have to go with Circa Now by Rocket From The Crypt. That amber vinyl import version got blasted so much and broke open the San Diego punk scene for me. A very lasting influence and love.
That's a good call. Have this one (and a cassette of "Paint As A Fragrance" somewhere) and don't play it nearly enough. A great intro to Reis for new listeners, and "Ditchdigger" is basically a less-mathy dry run for Jehu's "LUAU". Cheers, D
I probably would have gone with SAWI or Wish by The Cure only because I prefer later pavement albums, great pics tho
Yeah, Pavement are in the mix over the next few years for me...we'll have to see! Cheers, D
My pick would have to be It's A Shame About Ray also, still gets a lot of playtime around my house.
Just gone back to this as I missed somethnig highly recommend Underground Lovers - Leaves Me Blind from Melb Oz, at the time I believe It made a front cover of NME in the UK as the next big thing
'92 was a good year, wasn't it? I own (or used to) the vast majority of the albums you featured in this one.
Great video D. I don't envy you having to choose between your top two; if I absolutely had to, I'd have probably gone with Pavement. Both are fab though.
It was good to see that Curve made the honourable mentions, and Disposable Heroes were an absolutey great band live.
It was a tie, in all but name, let's face it! I guess the only thing that tipped it (this came to me as I was sat there after the "Ray" section, gathering my thoughts) was that Slanted is a purely "cool" record...amazingly inventive, sonically rich, surprising...whilst Ray, despite being just a pop record, has that genuinely emotional edge to it. It was just the sound of that summer of '92 for me, and the second I hit "play", I'm there all over again. I can step back from Slanted and still appreciate (and love) everything it does, but Ray pulls me in and pushes my buttons, whether I want them pushed or not!
Doppelganger is still ace! I see other commenters agreeing with that already! Never got to see Hiphoprisy...Did they work in any of the industrial stuff the Beatnigs used to do live? Because I imagine that would be awesome in a hiphop context. Cheers, D
Great choices fella. I'd be hard pushed to pick but it's a shame is beautiful even if they did ruin in with the bolt on cover later.
Yeah, it really needs to end on "Frank Mills" to round out properly. Cheers, D
The Peel session version of 'The Door' by the Lemonheads is a fantastic track and surprisingly didn't have Evan Dando singing on it. I still think the Peel Session version is much better than their LP version.
Great session. Lick-era lineup and songs mostly, but a first airing for "The Door"...well before they'd recorded it for inclusion on Lovey (where it appears as "(The) Door"). Cheers, D
@@discellany Oh yes you're right I had forgotten it was their first airing. The intro music of your video reminds me of a Czech shoegazing band in the early 90's called Ecstasy Of Saint Theresa, who had a track called Honeyrain. Reminds me very much of that song !!
Cheers. It's a tiny snippet of a guitar drone/feedback thing I did with tons of foldback/multiband distortion, plus lots of delay and reverb. Cool that you got an EOST vibe off it! D
Some really great albums released in ‘92. Hard to choose. Listening back, the Lemonheads album is great, for all the reasons you outlined. BUT…at the time, for me …it felt like they’d sold their souls a bit…me having been more into their albums Lick and Lovey! But I can appreciate it more now. Pavements album, like Mercury Rev’s debut the year before was, a revelation…sounded so fresh, new and exciting. I remember the huge anticipation before its release, having read the review in Melody Maker and remember getting it the day it was released. Just happened to be over in London working that summer and got to see them play in the Clapham Grand in late June…Jacobs Mouse were support. Amazing gig. Only in recent years, having done a bit of reminiscing on line…it seems it was their first UK gig. Amazing to have seen Gary Young in action. A drummer myself, I always loved his lazy, almost sloppy style that always seemed just slightly out of time with the rest of the music…but made it sound even better! So of the two albums you selected, S&E would be my choice. So many other great albums that year. Some that come to mind would be Yo La Tengo’s May I Sing with Me, Come’s 11:11, Stereolab’s Peng, Kitchens OD Death of Cool, Seam’s Headsparks. But probably my fav of 1992 has to be Spiritualized’s Lazer Guided Melodies. Blew me away. I always loved Jason’s side of Recurring, so LGM just took that sound to another place! A bit biased maybe…as I was going through a real Spacemen 3 phase at the time. Great times, great music. Cheers!
Saw them shortly after you, July, in Norwich, with Belly supporting. Amazing gig. Chaotic as hell...like a good-natured tug of war between Malkmus and Gary. Great to get to see them in that relatively short window pre-Crooked/etc...although now I think about it, he was probably still with them when I saw them play Reading that year. With the awful weather in '92 (Sunday was hell), and the Nirvana headlining hoohah, I'd clean forgot about that! Cheers, D
Man, Come's '11:11' is a masterpiece! Probably (along with 'Don't ask, don't tell') some of the music I've listened to the most in this life ❤
@@discellanyas I recall it their follow on, brilliant EP Watery Domestic was not long out. Think that was the last record Gary featured on. Another great album from that year just springs to mind…The House of Love’s Babe Rainbow. Post Terry Bickers, but a great album regardless.
@@markroff1012had the pleasure of going to see them play in London a year ago this coming weekend. Cafe Otto…no stage , so real up close and personal. Chris Brokaw is an amazing guitarist…heres the one song I recorded from that gig. The track Brand New Vein from 11.11. ruclips.net/video/_-pz9-ErHoI/видео.htmlsi=TPHMwp6LHmfszMvw
'Slanted... ' Darren, 'Slanted...'!! I've had '...Ray' since its release (originally on 10" I think) but never really got into it. And Dando is a wally (Sorry the boy Evan). Maybe I'll give it another try
Would love to have called score-draw on this one! Love 'em both, on another day, etc... Dando has (it seems) lapsed a bit of late (his social media is quite something!), but I'll always pull for him. A great interpreter of songs too. His version of Wire's "Fragile" might be my favorite Wire cover of all time. Cheers, D
Great video. It's true, everyone had IASAR. But, it as to be S+E for me. Not even remotely close. So much heart in that album...
I was dressed for success
But success it never comes
And you're the only one who laughs
At my jokes when they are so bad
And the jokes are always bad.
But their not as bad as this.
You think it's easy but you're wrong
I am not one half of the problem
Zurich is stained and its not my fault
Just hold me back or let me run
To me, the "slacker" label always sold these guys short. They just got it. Music is fun. Why do so many people talk one way and then their songs sound like something else? Why all the pretense? And who said being "professional" was a good thing when it comes to music? Who said it was about "career"? If people stopped trying to imitate other bands and stopped trying to "be a success" and just wrote songs for themselves and their friends, there would be 1000s more bands like Pavement. It's a crying shame there isn't.
Also, for me, Sonic Youth Dirty totally blew me away. I am a little younger than you. I realize that this isn't regarded as their "best" work. But screw all that cork sniffing (and I have done tons of it myself) and just listen to those songs. I remember playing 100% on on my tape deck through a guitar amp and scaring + pissing off my parents and everyone else in the street. I believe Anita Hill.
Hi Andrew! I think the "Ray" choice (it was "Slanted" all the way until I stopped and had a good listen to them both again) is one where the "Lifetime" bit comfortably beat out the "Listening" bit.
I'm wary of oversharing (although I've opened up in a few videos in this series), so held back a little regarding '92 in this video...but it was one of those "pivot" years where my life could have gone off in a different direction. The "fight-or-flight" thing which led me to picking a Uni as far from home as possible was only part of it. My course had an extra "exchange" year built in to study in California. My 18-year-old self had wanted to run, and keep running, as far away as possible. I hadn't considered the friendships and life I would build within those first two years at college, and when the time came for me to go to the States at the start of my 3rd year, I absolutely ballsed it up. I was torn. I'd found my new home. I was in love.
I got to the USA, and immediately knew I'd made a mistake. Everything about it was wrong. I lasted a couple of weeks, and cracked. I flew home and managed to talk my way back onto my course (God bless my late advisor and mentor...he really came through for me) alongside everyone else, my friends, my girlfriend. I'd let a lot of people down, but I just couldn't go through with it. It was a pretty chastening experience.
The Lemonheads was (I'm 99% sure) the first gig I went to when I got back home...lots of people I'd said goodbye to at the start of the summer (thinking I may never see them again) were there, and completely incredulous. Crazy time. And that girlfriend I mentioned? She's now my wife, so my son might not be here were it not for my American meltdown that year. All those themes on "Ray" resonate so much when I think of '92...making bad choices, wrong turns, falling in love, those "golden" moments among friends. My relationship with "Slanted" is entirely different, and in pure listening terms, it's a better record than "Ray"...but in lifetime terms, "Ray" just means more to me.
All that was going to be far too much for a little 12 minute video, but happy to share it down here in the safety of the comments section.
All the best, D