*** 80's & 90's Record Draft Thread ***

[Stephen]

18.07 Fly - Dixie Chicks (1999)

This is another album that isn't the "wheelhouse" of the majority of the people in this draft, but it's a really fun listen top to bottom and I know at least one other person who might grab it soon so I bumped it up a round or 3.

[Erik]

18.08 Chocolate and Cheese -- Ween (1994)

Ween are pretty much uncharacterizable despite being labeled as a joke band when their novelty song "Push th' Little Daisies" got MTV airplay in 1992. In reality, they are (were) a band with no boundaries -- every musical style and lyrical subject is on the table. And behind the songs are some serious musical chops; Dean Ween is one of his generation's best guitarists, Gene Ween has an astounding vocal range, and once they graduated from duo-with-four-track to "real band" in 1994, they assembled an incredible touring band.

Chocolate and Cheese was recorded and released during the transition to "real band" and as such is their most diverse and best album. Their Ween-est album if you will. It is the sound of a band that wanted to try everything and pulled it off: jaw-dropping guitar instrumentals ("A Tear for Eddie"), children's music on acid ("Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?"), '70s boogie rock ("Take Me Away," "Voodoo Lady"), Philly Soul ("Freedom of '76"), Eastern exotica ("I Can't Put My Finger on It") and country ("Drifter in the Dark"), for starters. Oh, and two deeply, disturbingly weird songs in "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" and "The HIV Song." No one said they were for everyone.

Bonus points for the cover art.

[senorsheep]

18.09 - Goodbye Jumbo - World Party (1990)

Socially conscious 90's hippie pop goodness. Well done, Mr. Wallinger!

Is It Too Late?:



Way Down Now:



Put The Message In The Box:



Even the stuff that didn't get airplay was good, like the woozy Sweet Soul Dream:

[DMT]

18.10 No Depression - Uncle Tupelo (1990)

[ManCalledFoot]

18.11 The Hurting - Tears For Fears (1983)



Some serious winners on this old favorite: the title track, 'Mad World', 'Pale Shelter', 'Change', 'Memories Fade'. It was a monster #1 in England, 65 weeks on the charts.

[mjl]

18.12 - Sunshine on Leith - The Proclaimers (1988)

Song you already know:



Other stuff, with some variety in tempo:









note: it's shocking how awful their videos were.

[Mithrandir]

18.13 FLYING DOWN TO MONO VALLEY - Popinjays (1992)

The group performs frenetic power-pop in the New Wave tradition of the early-80s. Female vocals reminiscent of a chirpier Natalie Merchant, jangly guitars, bubbly harmonies, and innocent lyrics with an occasionally clever edge (Too Jung) make Mono Valley a pleasant place to drop in for a strawberry sundae. For special desert toppings, try the delicious, acoustic "The Moon Looks Nice From Here" and the impossibly effervescent "Vote Elvis."

I enjoy every song on this album. This is my favorite (and one of my top 25 songs of all time):

[Mithrandir]

Another one from the Popinjays:

[heyelander]

18.14 Crash - Dave Mathews Band (1996)

[johnnya24]

FOR LUCKY

18.15 What Up Dog? - Was Not Was

[revo]

18.16....."A Momentary Lapse of Reason," Pink Floyd
Release Date: September 7, 1987

Even without Roger Waters, this album was played non-stop my freshman year in college.

[revo]

19.01......"Centerfield," John Fogarty
Release Date: January 15, 1985

Talk about a comeback -- Fogarty's last album was 10 years before, in 1975. So to most teens in 1985, Fogarty was a relic from the Vietnam era. But what a comeback it was!

[johnnya24]

FOR LUCKY

19.02 The Healer - John Lee Hooker ( )

[heyelander]

19.03 Cruel Sun - Rusted Root (1992)

[Mithrandir]

19.04 ARC OF A DIVER - Steve Winwood (1980)

Just put on the headphones and enjoy. All killer, no filler I took "Slowdown Sundown" in the Desert Island draft.