OMFG. Before Supercollider came out every 3rd video I watched on Youtube had an ad for the album before it and I had to listen to it, over and over and I couldn’t skip the ad. It was hell.
shudder
No wonder Dave Mustaine said he “never wants to write another hit.” I wanna hear it for the cheese factor alone. Surprisingly, Gunnar isn’t the only one who made the Nickelback comparison. Others in the Bay Area scene said the same and my friend/collaborator mentioned that Mustaine is going further into conspiracy theories, which makes it come off cheesier because he’s a born again Christian/Republican.
The Slits
Good call on The Slits, though the vox can be annoying at times. I discovered them on fuckin Tumblr of all places (that site is only really good for porn otherwise)! It had a pic from a magazine that had a spotlight on the women of punk rock. The pic also had Debbie Harry, Chrissy Hynde, Siouxie Sioux, Polly Styrene (X-Ray Specks) and the chick from The Selecter. It’s been awhile since I’ve had a night of discovering new music. sigh
I love Megadeth and Mustaine. And they can still absolutely kill it live. Heck, I don’t even mind their more “commercial” and “accessible” rock stuff like “Toute La Monde”, “Trust”, etc.
However, “Supercollider” is just a horrible album. It’s not about being sellouts or wimps or anything. It’s just horribly generic, boring, and BAD.
Maybe I’ll one day give it a second chance and try to listen to it with an open mind, but I flipped through it (on the YouTube upload) when it first came out and found absolutely NOTHING redeeming about it. And yeah, I heard one of the tracks on the radio right before the album was released and when they said it was Megadeth, I really thought they made an error. It sounded more like Nickleback to me.
Right . . . . “wanted to be seen just as musicians instead of their gender”. I’m not sure pulling out used tampons and flinging it at the audience is the best move toward that aforementioned goal.
You have to give them credit - they were not “pretty” or tried to be feminine in any way, just balls out rock ‘n’ roll. Kinda like Girlschool. Too many other girl bands care too much about their appearance(s). So I do kinda buy their point.
I’ll never forget being in jr. high school and watching Valley Girl for the first time…her topless scene was one of the best thing I’d ever seen up to that point…I still have that same boner to this day…
I personally deliberately left out non-rock pop acts. But if you want to go that route, tatu had some pretty good tunes.
I’d add to that list:
Abba
Goldfrapp
La Roux
Charlie XCX
Ladyhawke
Tegan & Sara
Niki & The Dove
Back to the rock list, I forgot:
Nico
Neko Case/New Pornographers
Rasputina
The Naked & Famous
Pat Benetar
Jinx Thoth/Sabbath Assembly
Jarboe
Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer
The Waitresses
Steeleye Span
CocoRosie
Chvches
I’ll never forget being in jr. high school and watching Valley Girl for the first time…her topless scene was one of the best thing I’d ever seen up to that point…I still have that same boner to this day…[/reply]
You’re telling me the voice of Tommy Pickles on Rugrats, and the hot chick who sang the theme to Better Off Dead gets naked in movie!!! SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!! I now wonder if that helped my dad get in the mood to get me conceived on thanksgiving night 1985…
The undisputed 80’s Tits Champion is PHOEBE CATES. In fact, they might be the greatest movie tits of all time.
It might take my generation a few minutes to remember the details of when the Challenger space shuttle blew up, but all of us know EXACTLY when and where we first saw Fast Times at Ridgemont High, and even right now when I mention it, every one of you hears the song come on and see her coming out of the pool to show Brad what she’s got . . . .