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Best group of the late 80s/ 90's

Hey...I know these threads are kinda cheesy...but hey...kills time at work...know what Im sayin? also...if artists had albums that started in the 80s and lapped over...thatz cool too...enjoY!

1.The Jesus Lizard...with a string of great albums on touch n go produced by Steve ALbini...and a world class bass/drum section...plus a very unique, insane frontman...David Yow...the Lizard were the lastest and best version of the legendary AUssie b-day party...a killer live band to boot...bonus points for David You wearin a cowboy hat,Indiana Univ. V-neck sweater with protruding hairy chest,white trash tight jeans,cowboy boots,and lickin those dollar bills at the door of the Uptown bar in mInneapolis

2.Fugazi...politics aside....Fugazi consistently made some of the best, passionate music of the 90s...and they have a video documentary that actually shows they have a sense of humour(which their records lack)...at any rate...a band on their own terms that still only charges $5 for one of the best live shows u will ever see...

3.Jesus and Mary Chain...probably more of a candidate for best of the 80s due to their landmark masterpiece "psychocandy"...the Chain still released some great records later on...including "Automatic" which sounded like a Jane Fonda workout tape filtered through some throwaway T-rex riffs with Sammy Hagger producing...and "Honeys Dead"...

4.The Wedding Present...a small brit band with a big guitar sound...The Weddoes sound like a garage version of the smiths... David Gedge's gruff,slightly off-key vocals remind me of a Brit rail station during rush hour in central Leeds...throw on lyrical themes about romantic betrayal,obsession,etc...and these are the best angst ridden love songs ever written

5.The Fall..Mark E smith is such a spoiled English egg...ranting,slurring,and generally cantankerous as hell...the Fall created a genre i have dubbed "abstract rock"..still...like Lou Reed...one of the best singer non-singers to bless us...arrogant,uncompromising,and difficult...sounds like my mother in law!
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mcmillan
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I nominate the Pixies. Raucous, off-the-wall, breathe some life into rock and roll music. Dissonant, drive your parents crazy music that was still ruled by melody. First album released in 87 and broke up in 92, I believe, but hasn't dated a single day. In my book and to my ears, its hard to fit the criteria better than that.
lazarus28
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that's funny - did either of you know that the pixies did a cover of 'head on' by the jesus and mary chain?

and yeah, psychocandy is great, but darklands and honey's dead are my favorite.
twl
3,251 posts
 
The later Level 42 stuff with Mark King and Alan Holdsworth.
Just those 2 guys alone have more talent than the rest of the late 80s and early 90s bands put together. I don't think that the Level 42 material was the best they could do, but at least we got to hear them together.

If anyone out there doesn't know who Alan Holdsworth is, he's a virtuoso extreme guitatist, who also taught Eddie Van Halen, and gave him guitar lessons even after EVH made it big.

Mark King is simply one of the best ever.
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