Break Up Your Band

System of a Down - “Sugar”
System of a Down, 1998

It’s just about 3pm, so you’re probably getting that craving in your stomach to unplug your headphones, turn your speakers up, bang your fist on your cubicle wall, stand up on your desk and kick some fucking spreadsheets around. You know I’m always here to help you get that shit started. If that cutie from the other side of the office stands up with you, marry her/him immediately.

Elastica - “Connection”
Elastica, 1995

Justine Frischmann and her Brit band mates in Elastica had the doors to being briefly played on The Real World and dozens of other MTV shows flung wide open for them with this hit off their s/t first album.

Fun fact: You may think you can steal riffs from Wire and get away but, somehow the vital connection is made.

themusicnextdoor:

breakupyourband:

themusicnextdoor:

Gary Numan - ‘Metal’.

Far superior to the inexplicably lauded Nine Inch Nails cover.

Great song. Great album. Waaaaatch it on the NIN shit talk!

Just for the record, I love NIN - The Downward Spiral is close to being my favourite album of the ’90s. I do, however, find Trent’s cover of ‘Metal’ rather dull compared to the original.

I will reblog this in the interest of raising both of our Tumblarity scores (apparently the bar for having a high Tumblarity has been raised to proposing to someone on Tumblr and making everyone throw up all over their goddamned keyboards. Please. Spare me.) and to say your statement has been accepted into the record and we are totally bros now.

themusicnextdoor:

Gary Numan - ‘Metal’.

Far superior to the inexplicably lauded Nine Inch Nails cover.

Great song. Great album. Waaaaatch it on the NIN shit talk!

Juliana Hatfield - “Universal Heart-Beat”
Only Everything, 1995

Juliana Hatfield launched her new website this week, and it may very well re-ignite my crush on her. Should that happen, I will resort to re-reading her memoir. It is, sadly, a crush-killer.

nobetterhigh:

Biz Markie, Doug E. Fresh, & Kool Keith-Let Me Clear My Throat

Doug E. Fresh’s work on this track is something I will talk at length about to anyone who will listen. He KILLS it! His delivery cuts like a laser through the beat. Rap needs more Doug E. Fresh.

Collective Soul - “December”
Collective Soul, 1995

This song is either a heavily-symbolized meditation on complex relationship dynamics, or it’s about getting oral.

Soul Coughing - “Super Bon Bon”
Irresistible Bliss, 1996

Mike Doughty, singer/slam poet/college friend of Ani DiFranco, assembled a band from people he met while working the door at NYC’s now-defunct Knitting Factory. Their second LP gave us this catchy, stream-of-consciousness single with a bass line that you will be humming to yourself all day (you’re welcome). To this day whenever I go to an arena, stadium, or anyplace else that has a mezzanine I need to get to, I think to myself, “You gotta take the elevator to the mezzanine!”