This week's #TuneTuesday theme is #UnexpectedWhiplash - songs that start one way and then change. There are so many great ones people are mentioning.

The first one that came to mind for me is Helmet's 'Wilma's Rainbow' from their 1994 record Betty. It's the intro track too, it start everything off.. Page is doing this kinda simple, chill guitar thing first, a couple times, and then the guitar, bass, and drums hit you full on in the fucking FACE. And then at the end, after the most insane solo you've ever heard, it has a false ending. Perfection. And then the REST of the record. 🤯

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3a8Ow-DoAw

#90s #90sMusic #90sAlbums #90sRecords #90sBands #Helmet #Betty #ClassicAlbums

Been a long time since I listened to Meantime fully. This will determine whether this is my top album from 1992, or if it's Piece of Cake by Mudhoney, which I just did fully- and is another SERIOUS contender. These are my final two out of a larger list for '92, and this one is CLOSE, like some of the others. Some years are really tougher to figure out than others 😅
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFV4Gr8OvH_OR8EITOLftfxYS8FMEmF66

#90s #90sRock #90sMusic #90sBands #Helmet

Going back to 1996 today for maybe my favorite KMFDM album all the way through, Xtort. My other favorites are Nihil and Symbols (I'm partial to 90s KMFDM) but Xtort is utter perfection. This playlist leaves off the perverse last (secret) track 'Fairy', but I'll let it slide. Worth looking up if you haven't heard it 😂

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsTWly5A4boF2XmUCRXZwtL1heKo7fVhG&si=h9B0fFoTHpr1EHkr

#90s #90sMusic #KMFDM #industrial #90sBands #1990s #GermanBands #Hamburg #SaschaKonietzko

The Smithereens anthology 'From Jersey it Came' was released in September 2004. In 2004 I was 24. The Smithereens had been my favorite band for a while at that point, so this was a treat for a megafan like me. If you ignore the roughness of their super early stuff here, this is a really good primer for some of the Smithereens' best songs. It starts off with ones from their early days like their first single "Girls About Town" and it also includes basically all their later hits, a Springsteen cover, and an INCREDIBLE instrumental version of their tune 'If You Want the Sun to Shine'. The version of the song with vocals is killer, but without them is SO wild. Powerful orchestration and arrangement: https://youtu.be/e9-2KtmHpwc

#TheSmithereens #Smithereens #80sRock #80s #80sBands #90s #90sBands #NewJersey #NJ #PopRock

#NowPlaying a throwback to the late 90s/early 2000s. Add N to (X) were a very strange, synthy, blippy electronic band that were only together for a few years at the middle/end of the 90s, and barely into the 2000s (they broke up in 2003). They made some catchy, weird songs.

Add N to (X) did a few LPs, this is my favorite, 'Insult to Injury', from 2000: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nS_qnyxLTdZiHEmxwxhCFo51X1fmyN8kw

Track 7 of that especially, 'Plug Me In', which is what got me hooked on them. The video for 'Plug Me In' has adult video actresses playing with toys, and isn't on YouTube. So I put it here (to download, it's too big to stream) because censorship is bullshit: https://drive.proton.me/urls/NF445YTQPC#eveb0kvLhGRk

#2000s #2000sMusic #2000sBands #AddNToX #electronic #electronica #UKBands #UKArtists #London #LondonBands #LondonArtists #PlugMeIn #InsultToInjury #90s #90sMusic #90sBands

#NowPlaying - 1999's 'The Sebadoh' (by Sebadoh). A truly incredible album, and as I discovered today, among a TON of great albums that came out in 1999, this one is my top favorite of them. It's my second favorite Sebadoh album all the way through, after 1994's 'Bakesale'.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nNNzm7IEaYxL8VX1RO0dMBbx3YPcPqHUM

#Sebadoh #90s #90sMusic #90sBands #90sAlbums

#NowPlaying The Gravel Pit's modern rock/power pop masterpiece from 1999, 'The Silver Gorilla' https://q-dee.bandcamp.com/album/the-silver-gorilla

#90s #90sRock #90sAlbums #JedParish #Massachusetts #MassachusettsBands #TheGravelPit #90sBands #PowerPop

Looks like I'm going through (my) #PerfectAlbums today. They're all subjective.

This one might not be some people's tastes. But to me, it's perfect.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF0yIDuA63HW_poHh4aIyAmJovdFOgl0w

I'm a Meat Puppets fanatic, seen em multiple times, love stuff from all the albums. But only a few of their records I find perfect. I'm not big on their super early stuff. Bits and pieces.

I dig 'Monsters' from 1989 fully, but it's not an 'anytime' kind of record for me. So the first Meat Puppets record I find perfect - an 'anytime' album - is 1991's 'Forbidden Places'.

Has some real alt-country on this one (as most Puppets records do, it's not much, among the blazing guitars). From the first seconds and minutes of "Sam" - I mean, they still play this live. It is WILD. They Might Be Giants covered "Whirlpool". This album is rad, man. From "No Longer Gone" (which was my username on Twitter for many years) 🤣 to the title track, just legendary. Underrated?

#MeatPuppets #90s #90sRock #1990s #ForbiddenPlaces #90sAlbums #90sBands #90sRecords #CowPunk #AltCountry #PsychRock #CurtKirkwood @skullvalanche

I wrote on here almost a year ago about how much I love that first Elastica record from 1995.

But it's another Wednesday, and I find myself listening to it yet again.

Instant mood enhancer for me. The whole damn perfect thing.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6kLIhBBwmSu-pi7V088mH1Rm1HiGD2u

#MusicWomenWednesday #NowPlaying #PerfectRecords #PerfectAlbums #Elastica #90s #90sMusic #90sBands #punk #PunkRock #PostPunk