Blogging about music from early 80s indie to Britpop and beyond
Category: Top 10
Bauhaus ‘In the Flat Field’ (1980)
Cocteau Twins ‘Head Over Heels’ (1983)
This Mortal Coil ‘It’ll End in Tears’ (1984)
Throwing Muses ‘Throwing Muses’ (1986)
The Pixies ‘Doolittle’ (1988)
The Breeders ‘Pod’ (1990)
Lush ‘Spooky’ (1992)
Pale Saints ‘In Ribbons’ (1992)
Red House Painters ‘Down Colorful Hill’ (1992)
Kristin Hersh ‘Hips and Makers’ (1994)
The Amps ‘Pacer’ (1995)
Matador Records is synonymous with American indie rock music. It was a launching pad for artists like Pavement and Liz Phair, and known for taking chances. In the late ’90s, Matador began taking on more than just indie rockers, and sought out artists in other genres, like noise, IDM and hip-hop. And today, it has a roster that’s as strong as ever, with groups like Shearwater and The New Pornographers among their latest batch of heavyweights.
Superchunk – No Pocky For Kitty (1991)
Liz Phair – Exile In Guyville (1993)
Pavement – Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain (1994)
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – Orange (1994)
Guided by Voices – Alien Lanes (1995)
Yo La Tengo – I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One (1997)
Belle and Sebastian – The Boy With the Arab Strap (1998)
Cat Power – Moon Pix (1998)
Interpol – Turn on the Bright Lights (2002)
The New Pornographers – Twin Cinema (2005)
For the first decade or so of its existence as a full-time record label, it seemed that Seattle’s Sub Pop Records was going to be synonymous with grunge. Sub Pop were key chroniclers of the fertile Seattle scene in the late-’80s and early-’90s, and were an early breeding ground for Soundgarden and Nirvana. After a decade living down grunge hype, a funny thing happened in the ’00s: Sub Pop going from faded alt-rock stalwarts to insanely-successful enterprise. It’s been a long and varied story over the label’s 20+ years on the job, but the music has been routinely awesome.
(Note I had to do 11 records)
Mudhoney ‘Superfuzz Bigmuff Plus Early Singles’ (1990)
Eric’s Trip ‘Love Tara’ (1993)
Sebadoh ‘Bakesale’ (1994)
Saint Etienne ‘Good Humor’ (1998)
The Shins ‘Oh, Inverted World’ (2001)
.The Postal Service ‘Give Up’ (2003)
Wolf Parade ‘Apologies to the Queen Mary’ (2005)
The Spinanes- Manos (1993)
The Grifters- Ain’t My Lookout (1996)
Looper- The Geometrid (2000)
Damien Jurado- Ghost of David (2000)
Psychocandy – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Talking Heads: Remain in Light
R.E.M – Murmur
The Posies- Failure
This Mortal Coil – It’ll End In Tears
The Triffids – Born Sandy Devotional
Echo & the bunnymen – ocean rain
The Cure – Disintegration
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
Cocteau Twins – Treasure
Electroclash, also known as retro electro, tech pop, nouveau disco, the new new wave , Neo-Electro is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synthpop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including Collider, I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, Legowelt, and Fischerspoone
Miss Kittin – Bassline
Ladytron – Destroy Everything You Touch
Fischerspooner – Emerge
Le Tigre – I’m so excited
Peaches – Fuck the Pain Away
Client – Refuge
Space Invaders – Are smoking Grass
Vitalic – “La Rock 01”
ADULT – Blank Eyed Nose Bleed
Legowelt – Elements of Houz
The Sonics, “Have Love, Will Travel
13th Floor Elevators, “You’re Gonna Miss Me
The Seeds, “Can’t Seem to Make You Mine”
? and the Mysterians, “96 Tears”
The Compulsive Gamblers, “Stop and Think it Over”
The Vertebrats, “Left in the Dark”
Electric Prunes, “I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night”
The Dirtbombs, “Chains of Love”
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Oh Lord
Reigning Sound, “Your Love is a Fine Thing”
Soft Rock bands where the stable of the 70’s and 80’s. While they get a bit of jib for being soft rock, they have remained popular and the songs have become classic
Here are my Top 10 Soft Rock Bands
Steely Dan- RIKKI DON’T LOSE THAT NUMBER
Daryl Hall & John Oates – Maneater and Out of Touch
America – A horse with no name
Chicago – Hard To Say I’m Sorry
Air Supply – All Out Of Love
Toto – Africa
Foreigner- I Want to know what love is
Scorpions – Wind Of Change
Supertramp- Breakfast in América
Dire Straits – Sultans Of Swing
REO Speedwagon – Keep on Loving You
Did the Spice girls make good songs as solo artists? Some of the albums may not have done as well but there was some good songs.
Best solo artists from the Spice girls?? In my opinion it was Mel C
Bryan Adams – When You’re Gone ft. Melanie C
Geri Halliwell – It’s Raining Men
Melanie C – Never Be The Same Again
Emma Bunton – What Took You So Long
Tin Tin Out – What I Am ft. Emma Bunton
Melanie C – Northern Star
Emma Bunton – Take My Breath Away
Emma Bunton – Maybe
Melanie C feat. Emma Bunton – I Know Him So Well
Melanie C – I Want Candy
20 years and a new World Tour, here are my top 10 Spice Girls songs
Spice Girls – Wannabe
Spice Girls – Viva Forever
Spice Girls – Spice Up Your Life
Spice Girls – 2 Become 1
Spice Girls – Too Much
Spice Girls – Say You’ll Be There
Spice Girls – Holler
Spice Girls – Mama
Spice Girls – Who Do You Think You Are
Spice Girls – Goodbye
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