I really like Neds Atomic Dustbin. Or I did at the time. Now I'm a bit cooled. But I don't understand the hate. Perhaps its a contextual thing.* I just liked them because the guy who lived next to me Sophomore year had their two albums and recorded them for me on a cassette. Two basses!!
But I completely agree with them on Tori Amos. She was popular among a certain kind of person I knew in college, but Cornflake Girl is the only song of hers I've ever liked at all. It's the only one that sounds like a song to me. The rest is just kind of tuneless nonsense. And it was the start of that Lilith Faire thing that did give some opportunities for female artists, but it also generated a lot of crap, the nadir of which was, indeed, Alanis Morrisette. I still hear people talk about her fondly and I once saw her listed as having made the best album of the 90s, but at the time (when I was in college and grad school), nobody I knew liked her stuff. Maybe she was big among girls 10-15? She seems like a nice enough person, though.
And it's nice to hear the Madonna take-down. Not only is she and odious person, but she is politically dicey, isn't she? We're supposed to just admire the "ambition." Fuck ambition. In the words of the great man "Success is for creeps."
* I should start a thread on that.
But I completely agree with them on Tori Amos. She was popular among a certain kind of person I knew in college, but Cornflake Girl is the only song of hers I've ever liked at all. It's the only one that sounds like a song to me. The rest is just kind of tuneless nonsense. And it was the start of that Lilith Faire thing that did give some opportunities for female artists, but it also generated a lot of crap, the nadir of which was, indeed, Alanis Morrisette. I still hear people talk about her fondly and I once saw her listed as having made the best album of the 90s, but at the time (when I was in college and grad school), nobody I knew liked her stuff. Maybe she was big among girls 10-15? She seems like a nice enough person, though.
And it's nice to hear the Madonna take-down. Not only is she and odious person, but she is politically dicey, isn't she? We're supposed to just admire the "ambition." Fuck ambition. In the words of the great man "Success is for creeps."
* I should start a thread on that.
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