8/11/2023 0 Comments Youtube roll with it baby winwood![]() Released just 13 months after its predecessor, Doolittle retained Surfer Rosa’s weird edge (immortal opening track Debaser’s line about ‘slicing up eyeballs’ was inspired by filmmaker Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalis surreal 1929 collaboration Un Chien Andalou) but wrapped it up in off-kilter pop melodies. Pixies’ 1987 debut album Surfer Rosa was a game-changing alt rock album, but in terms of iconic songwriting, it was bettered by the Boston band’s second album, Doolittle. From Southern Girls to Clock Strikes Ten, I Want You To Want Me to Hello There, it’s a record that has got the right chops. ![]() And there are enough strong songs on this album to make it a landmark release. Tom Werman’s polished production set a tone that allowed the band to compete on an international level. While their debut might have been too close to The Beatles, or even the Electric Light Orchestra, with In Color, Cheap Trick were definitely a band standing apart from the sum of those influences. Rakish and determined to find a true path, on their second album Cheap Trick found a formula that was to prove irresistible within a couple of years. Surrealistic Pillow is one of the West Coast sound’s most durable albums. ![]() Somebody To Love and White Rabbit, delivered in Slick’s confident wail, were the twin clarion calls for San Francisco rock. The Airplane’s second album provided two. Recorded mostly live, Surrealistic Pillow struck a pitch-perfect balance between Slick’s extroversion and Marty Balin’s softer folk offerings, such as How Do You Feel and Comin’ Back To Me.Įvery scene needs a song to carry its message to the world. The previous year’s debut album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off had been a halting start, but once they swapped original singer Signe Toly Anderson for former model Grace Slick everything clicked into gear. Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow (1967) The result is unremittingly bleak, utterly believable and unquestionably Trent Reznor’s finest hour. Influenced by David Bowie’s Low, and constructed from heavily processed guitar sounds, glacial electronics and distorted samples, its nightmarish atmospherics are enhanced by Reznor’s man-on-the-edge musings on religion, addiction, degradation and despair. Recorded at the house where actress Sharon Tate was murdered by the Manson family, The Downward Spiral paints a chilling portrait of societal, moral and personal collapse. The point where Trent Reznor went from snotty electro-punk to industrial metal emperor, one man’s fucked-up mind has never sounded so cool. Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral (1994) ![]()
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