I don't know why I'm compiling this list. It came to me while I was drunk the other day. I'm usually not a fan of lists but seeing as my musical tastes and movie tastes are being ill-served at the moment, I guess I felt is was time to revisit the past. The 1990's, for all intents and purposes, were my salad days. Which is fine. I was younger, more open-minded, less educated and therefore less pretentious than I am now. In a nutshell, I was more honest. These albums made an incredible dent in my ears and deserve another look by you people. Or a replay if you hadn't heard them in a while. There is no particular order. Just 10 albums from the 1990's and all fucking kill.
10) Urge Overkill, "Saturation" (1993)
It was July 31, 1993. On this day I bought Urge Overkill's SATURATION from Wag's Record Hound in Orange Park, Florida, I had just gotten back from an aborted trip to Atlanta the day before to see Paul Westerberg at The Cotton Club. It was me, Beers, Mrs. Beers and AO'L.
Oh, we saw Westerberg but we'd gotten a hotel room at this fleabag hotel outside the perimeter and some crackhead started knocking on the hotel door and freaked some of us out so we piled in AO'L's car (was it a Monte Carlo?) and headed back to the FLA. Either way, I got home, went record shopping and saw a show at the Doctor's Inlet Civic Center. I was 20 years and had the world by the balls.
"Saturation" was the soundtrack to my summer, blasting out of my 1980 Ford Mustang on the shittiest speakers known to man. Even better was the fact that I could shift gears on the 'stang and make it backfire which sounded like a gunshot. People would jump in bushes and scream in terror. "...I'm watchin' you and Fidel Castro in the sand...."
It's still as impressive almost 17 years to the day of it's release.
BONUS URGE! From "The Supersonic Storybook":
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