Contemplations on the Pun Sabbatical

[LMNO]

And I think both Pretty Hate Machine and Violator were in 89.



Who'da thunk it?  The best music came out when I was in High School.*  I sure was lucky...


















*Please note: The majority of the best music came out when you were in High School.  Try it!

[Phox]

Seventh Son of A Seventh Son by Iron Maiden came out in 1988. Not the best album they ever put out, but I would be listening to it, no questions.

While not as big a Judas Priest fan, I seem to recall one of their albums coming out that year as well. 

And didn't Sabbath release an album that year? With Tony Martin, I think, but that'd probably be on my play list as well.

And one of my favorite Iggy Pop albums, Instinct come out in that year.

So, yes. 1988 was a good year for music, no question.

*Please note: The majority of the best music came out when you were in High School.  Try it!

No. I was in high school between 2003 and 2007. 

[AFK]

Yeah, I know it is probably a "when I was young" bias, but I really do think the time from 1988 to 1992 was a pretty fertile time for rock and hip hop.  Good music certainly is being made and has been made since, but it really did seem like that was the last really big explosion of good music, from multiple genres. 

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

And I think both Pretty Hate Machine and Violator were in 89.



Who'da thunk it?  The best music came out when I was in High School.*  I sure was lucky...


















*Please note: The majority of the best music came out when you were in High School.  Try it!

No it didn't!!!  The best music came out when I was in high school......  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_in_music  the year I graduated...  just look at some of those classics.....

[Cramulus]

I've noted that too.

[Eater of Clowns]

Sorry folks, the best music ever made was played two nights ago in a run down bar in the ass end of nowhere.  The regulars were so shitfaced and sullen they couldn't distinguish that it was a live band creating the sound and not their ancient, finicky jukebox, not that any of them had ever gotten up from their Jack Daniels long enough to go change the tune.  The band doesn't have a name, they're just a few locals that get together and play every few weeks or so to a spattering of people trying to forget.  They don't even know how good they are.

Their only fan is the bartender.  She took the gig, an hour drive or so from home, because she stumbled across the place in a desperate attempt to get lost down some neglected road and couldn't get her mind off the sound.  She keeps telling her friends about it and none of them believe her or are willing to make the trip.  The girl's not a music person, so her music person friends don't buy it for a second that her tastes may have found something really incredible.

The acoustics and the equipment in the joint are terrible but they may as well be playing the Sydney Opera House for how well they work with it.

[Phox]

Yeah, I know it is probably a "when I was young" bias, but I really do think the time from 1988 to 1992 was a pretty fertile time for rock and hip hop.  Good music certainly is being made and has been made since, but it really did seem like that was the last really big explosion of good music, from multiple genres. 

I mostly agree. I tend not to care much for music made after the late 90s, with a few exceptions (usually older bands, bands that didn't peak until later, or the occasionally impressive artist that comes out). The general trends of music in the 2000s has been unappealing to me, most notably in the hip-hop/rap genres and derivatives there of. I can't think of an hip-hop artist after the 90s that I would consider listenable (not to say there aren't any).

[LMNO]

Phox:  First, you were in High School for five years?

Secondly,

2003:
White Stripes, Elephant
Deftones, Deftones
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, StreetCore
Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Jay-Z, The Black Album
Johnny Cash, Unearthed
Killing Joke, Killing Joke.
Electric Six, Fire!

2004:
The Secret Machines, Now Here is Nowhere
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Tom Waits, Real Gone
Björk, Medúlla
The Libertines, The Libertines

2005:
The National, Alligator
Gorillaz, Demon Days
.....Ok, 2005 kind of sucked.

You get the point, though.  

[Luna]

Phox:  First, you were in High School for five years?

Most Americans were in high school during five calendar years...

Freshman, Sept of 2001 - June of 2002.
Sophomore, Sept 2002 - June 2003
Junior, Sept 2003 - June 2004
Senior, Sept 2004 - June 2005.

[LMNO]

Ah.  In New York we broke it up into 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12.

Which would make my high school years from 87-90.

[Luna]

Ah.  In New York we broke it up into 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12.

Which would make my high school years from 87-90.

One of the places I lived as a kid, we actually had 8th graders in the high school, varies from place to place, but, at least as far as I'm aware, the "normal" is four grades in the high schools.

[Phox]

Phox:  First, you were in High School for five years?

Secondly,

2003:
White Stripes, Elephant
Deftones, Deftones
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, StreetCore
Explosions in the Sky, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place
Jay-Z, The Black Album
Johnny Cash, Unearthed
Killing Joke, Killing Joke.
Electric Six, Fire!

2004:
The Secret Machines, Now Here is Nowhere
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus
Tom Waits, Real Gone
Björk, Medúlla
The Libertines, The Libertines

2005:
The National, Alligator
Gorillaz, Demon Days
.....Ok, 2005 kind of sucked.

You get the point, though.  

Yes, I was, even if you don't count that in in my 8th grade year I was in AP classes that were taught at the High School.
I was officially in high school  Aug 2003 - May 2007, though I was in classes at the high school Aug 2002 - May 2007

And you said the best music. I would agree that most of what you listed is good, some even great, but none would I say is my favorite even in a particular genre.

Ah.  In New York we broke it up into 1-3, 4-6, 7-9, 10-12.

Which would make my high school years from 87-90.

Ah. See, at my school it was 1-5, 6-8, 9-12, assuming we're talking about years in school.  

[AFK]

Fuck that noise, I did all 13 years (including K) in an igloo out in the middle of the woods! 

[Phox]

Fuck that noise, I did all 13 years (including K) in an igloo out in the middle of the woods! 

[AFK]

Chemistry Lab was a bit tricky.  Kept melting the basketball court.