So here’s the second part of the Alt-Rock 101 article I started last week. We’ve had Sonic Youth, Hüsker Dü and The Meat Puppets, now it’s time for these three: The Replacements – I Will Dare Minutemen – History Lesson (Part II) R.E.M. – So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry) The Replacements, like Hüsker Dü before [...]
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The Pitchfork 500 Alt Rock 101 Part 2 – Replacements to REM
Posted by loftandlost on August 1, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/08/01/the-pitchfork-500-alt-rock-101-part-2-replacements-to-rem/
The Pitchfork 500 Alt Rock 101 Part 1 – Sonic Youth to Meat Puppets
The next two Pitchfork articles feature the flowering of US Alt-Rock; these are the bands that your favourite bands love. From early ’90′s staples like The Pixies and Nirvana, to more recent bands like The Hold Steady and even the likes of Fleet Foxes, they were hugely influenced by the next six bands. I’ve split [...]
Posted by loftandlost on July 22, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/07/22/the-pitchfork-500-alt-rock-101-part-1-sonic-youth-to-meat-puppets/
The Charming Pitchfork 500 – The Smiths
Some bands take a few years to really get their sound right. Listen to early Joy Division or The Pixies and you’ll hear hints of what they’d become, but it’s rare for a truly revolutionary band to appear pretty much fully formed. But The Smiths weren’t like other bands. In Morrissey, they had a stunning [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 29, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/06/29/the-charming-pitchfork-500-the-smiths/
The Pitchfork 500 Geek Rock – The Feelies to Mission Of Burma
The last set of songs on the Pitchfork 500 list for 1980-1982 takes us back to the States, with music that was in many ways similar to that discussed in my last couple of posts. Shambolic, rumbunctuous, with a definite amateur feel to them, and three of these four bands won’t be known to your [...]
Posted by loftandlost on June 15, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/06/15/the-pitchfork-500-geek-rock-the-feelies-to-mission-of-burma/
The Pitchfork 500 Shambles – Orange Juice To The Clean
This post is all about the jangly, amateur sounds of shambolic Indie-Pop. It’s a sound that would go on to heavily influence everyone from REM and The Smiths, the C86 movement, Pavement to Brit Pop and beyond. Not that they realised it at the time of course. This lot were just wanting to make a [...]
Posted by loftandlost on May 26, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/05/26/the-pitchfork-500-shambles-orange-juice-to-the-clean/
The Pitchfork 500 Goes METAL! – Flipper to Iron Maiden
METAL! Skulls. Cider. Screaming. Donington. Long hair. Longer guitar solos. Ludicrous lyrics. Bottles of piss. Dungeons and Dragons. Right, that’s the clichés out of the way. Flipper – Sex Bomb Motorhead – Ace of Spades Iron Maiden – Run to the Hills First off, it’s Flipper with “Sex Bomb”. Who, I hear you ask? I [...]
Posted by loftandlost on May 13, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/05/13/the-pitchfork-500-goes-metal-flipper-to-iron-maiden/
The Pitchfork 500 Mosh Pit – Bad Brains to Wipers
These songs remind me of dark, hot sweaty underground clubs, filled with teenage men, hot sweaty and lithe, writhing against each other, limbs flailing, reaching a state of ecstasy. Ah, the mosh pit. What the hell did you think I was talking about? Bad Brains – Pay to Cum Minor Threat – Minor Threat Dead [...]
Posted by loftandlost on May 11, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/05/11/the-pitchfork-500-mosh-pit-bad-brains-to-wipers/
The Pitchfork 500 Drivetime – Abba to Journey
These five songs on the Pitchfork 500 are the kind of thing you’d expect to hear on drivetime radio anywhere from California to Krakow. Mixing both European and American bands, all of these bands (aside one) were enormous in the 1970′s, making their fortunes in the great commercial explosion of popular music. Fascinating people too, [...]
Posted by loftandlost on May 5, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/05/05/the-pitchfork-500-drivetime-abba-to-journey/
The Pitchfork 500 Mixed Bag – The Go-Go’s to Jackson
So far, listening to the Pitchfork 500 list has been great fun. In each group of four to eight songs, there have always been personal favourites that I love to talk about, or songs I’ve never heard before and loved, and some songs that I’d forgotten were so good. Sure, there’s been some duffers, but [...]
Posted by loftandlost on May 1, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/05/01/the-pitchfork-500-mixed-bag-the-go-gos-to-jackson/
The Pitchfork 500 The Brits Are Coming Part 4 – New Order to The Beat
So, the last part of The Brits Are Coming starts with the 100th song on the list, and the most important band of the Brits series. Who they? New Order, of course. New Order – Temptation The Jam – Town Called Malice Duran Duran – The Chauffeur The English Beat – Save It for Later [...]
Posted by loftandlost on April 21, 2009
http://loftandlost.com/2009/04/21/the-pitchfork-500-the-brits-are-coming-part-4-new-order-to-the-beat/
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