I've been a huge Foo Fighters fan since early on (I was a big Nirvana fan in the 90s too). I was psyched to get to see Foo in 1996 (edit: originally said 1995) at UMBC (a college!) right after the first album, and then again a couple years later, when they were at a big arena show.
Yesterday I went through and made a fully chronological playlist of ALL my favorite Foo songs-- 49 of them on this list. Even covers and b-sides in here - might be something you haven't heard yet! Dave is a great songwriter. No ballads or anything too light, ALL (mostly) heavier ones here.
"There [used to be] regionalism in music. You knew where your band was from the same way you knew your sports team. We knew The Cars were from Boston. We knew R.E.M. was from Athens. We knew The Ramones were from New York. When you went to Minneapolis, Soul Asylum would be on the radio."
THE POSIES
Frosting On The Beater
2018 U.S. 2xLP Reissue
One of the greatest #powerpop albums of the #90s if not all time.
This is one of my Desert Island Discs, and not even Ken Stringfellow’s horrible atrocious behaviour can effect my love for it. There is not one musical misstep, not a single flaw to be found anywhere.
Auer and Stringfellow never reached these heights again. Just one of those lightning in a bottle type albums, but what a bolt it was.
Today of course marks the 30th anniversary of nine inch nails' legendary record The Downward Spiral. This masterpiece of an album was released March 8, 1994, and was a pretty intense thing for 14 year old me to hear.
This photo is from Instagram - Trent just posted it, saying what 28 year old him had to say still excites him but breaks his heart. It's a dark album, man. All the pigs are still lined up.
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
2009 U.S. Reissue
Although I find it’s mythology and importance to be greatly exaggerated, it’s a pretty fantastic and unique record.
It’s been overanalyzed (to hilarious effect), but you can’t ignore his singular it was for the time it came out.
It was also a uniquely RECORDED album, and I think the production and overall sound of it adds to the mythology.
Nothing sounded like it.
Just a pure piece of art. #vinyl#vinylrecords#90s#90smusic
I’d been after a #vinyl copy of this album for a very long time, but I was never going to pay $200 for an original pressing of it.
So happy somebody finally reissued this great album; a bit of a lost gem of the #90s#shoegaze thing, and one of the best albums to ever come out of my hometown of Boston.
If you like the genre, and don’t know this album, I strongly recommend it.
Thank you MOV for a great sounding pressing. #vinylrecords#90smusic
THE JESUS LIZARD
Goat
2023 US REISSUE
Ltd. Ed. White vinyl
One of the greatest rock n roll bands of all time.
They never waivered.
Not one misstep, not one bad song, not a single bad album.
They were punishing live; with one of the greatest rhythm sections of all time in Sims and McNeilly, as well as the greatest frontman/showman/singer of the #90s in David Yow, who by the way, is the kindest dude I’ve ever met.
A monster JL album in a long line of many. #vinyl#vinylrecords#1990s#90smusic
SUNNY DAY REAL ESTATE
Diary
2017 U.S. 2xLP Ltd. Ed. Reissue
A monster album for me when I was in high school.
Being a total devotee of all things Sub Pop in the #90s , this one hit me in a way that none of the label’s other releases at the time.
I remember buying it on tape, & it taking me at least a week to get past the first 3 songs, because I kept rewinding it after Song For An Angel and playing those 3 over & over.