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The Best Album of 1989 is Pixies, DOOLITTLE. Coming in early 2026: The Best Album of 2001! Bracket: https://challonge.com/bestalbumof1989 Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/kentmbeeson. Managed by @kentmbeeson.bsky.social
I finished today, too! (Gotta confess I just powered thru the last half dozen without noting more than 👍 or 👎)
Will seed tomorrow.
Very curious as to which decade you will steer us to after this Tourney, boss…
it's all good man. I can't read anything without glasses anymore either ;)
Holy shit I read 1995
Yes we are in agreement
A correct take!
As I should have done when talking about Last Rights.
They use pop music as a tool, and then wield that tool like a weapon. And I love them for it.
chris I gotta be honest I am having trouble parsing your sentence. I think nwe are agreeing shorter albums are better (and Mellon Collie... fucking sucks.) so... 1965 was better in that regard, no?
Well I did put pop in quotes.
Rabies is very colored by Al Jorgensen. However you want to view that statement, it’s rather true. There are definitely pop elements to the singles. But calling it pop reduces it to something it’s not.
How many seed votes do we have now?
To my mind, RABIES is kind of their “pop” album, so I say start there, and if that doesn’t work, probably not the band for you!
Too Dark Park was at once the kind of center of the whole Skinny Puppy universe, but also unlike most of the rest of their work. It’s a very *balanced* album when you take their entire discography in. But… it might not be the most representative album.
But also, skinny puppy isn’t for everyone.
Still disappointed Steve Wynn's HERE COME THE MIRACLES-- a proper old-fashioned double with a svelte 81:59 running time--didn't get in. 💿💿
I saw this without scrolling up as I'm listening to a CSNY album and was thrown into a bit of a reset to see Skinny Puppy as the glue at the start
Many labels/bands I could thread out from, Skinny Puppy isn't one....based on my age, Too Dark Park was both my intro and exit.....should go explore
When you spend 35 years listening to a band, and *all* of their offshoots, you invariably develop strong opinions.
I’ve been listening to skinny puppy and related bands since ~’91. They form kind of a centroid for an entire era and flavor of music of my life. The spokes go everywhere.
They are also one of a few absolute constants of musical tastes. I never go too long without intentionally listening to them.
I love how specific your answer is. “Skinny Puppy adjacent projects for the many lives of Gamecat”.
This feels like as good a place as *any* to talk about how amazing a song Chickasaw (also featuring Lesley Rankine on vocals) is. Like just… ooof. Chills. Every. Damn. Time.
or @putnam39.bsky.social needs to add run time to his fancy spreadsheet
...If the audiophiles had won this battle, this could have gone very differently. We'd be getting Wagnerian operas on one disc by now.
Either he's a genius in planning or he's totally lucky to have had pop music break in the direction of his skill set at just the right time. Maybe a bit of both?
Oh my gods. It is SOOOOOO entertaining.
“It’s not as awful as Mezzanine” is one of those sentences that… makes *zero* sense to my brain. It’s like complaining about oxygen. Or water.
Everyone is allowed to have their opinions. And admittedly my tastes in music are *not* for everyone. But… that sentence stopped me cold.
3000+ words on my 150 favorite albums of the year 9-11 happened -- 2/3 cranky at year's end, 1/3 less cranky years later. Topics: tween daughters drumming to System of a Down, Dylan's not-bad far-from-best-album-ever, crit sanctimony, Aunt Flo visiting r&b, country carrying on, cold ones comin' on.
Fodder for the @bestalbumbrackets.bsky.social 2001 spreadsheet!
Favorite Skinny Puppy related project is a *loaded* question to ask me.
Actual answer: Download (and it’s not even close).
Sentimental answer: Doubting Thomas.
I’m drunk, fuck you answer: Pigface
I’m drunk *and* in Texas answer: RevCo
I’m high answer: yes (hilt, it’s hilt).
Of note, this was a response to myself listening to The Tear Garden’s Tired Eyes Slowly Burning on vinyl…
I’m still impressed that You and Me and Rainbows fits on one side of an LP *with another song*.
No!
Y’all have seen this, right?
Granted, a lot of those earlier years would be multiple bands in a revue, it’s not like the audience was short-changed.
