The West has been so, so loaded recently Minnesota just seems like they're always first round fodder for some behemoth but they're definitely a solid organization.

Yeah, I felt the thing was kind of contrived but now I am becoming more interested due to the apparent zeal of the players.

Besides Willy Wonka, I was probably introduced to him more via the later stuff that was on cable in the late 1980s/early 1990s like See No Evil, Hear no Evil & Haunted Honeymoon before going back & discovering the absolute genius performances on the way up (including his memorable turn in Bonnie & Clyde). He seemed…

GEAR!

I never did get to see Pavement in their proper setting (which was likely a moderately sized club). I saw them on the main stage at Lollapalooza on an extremely hot day when I was almost 16 but I don't recall the performance being especially inspired.

Wowee Zowee was the first Pavement album I got which was new at the
time. I remember this being an early instance where my view of an album
didn't match the critical reception (which was largely apathetic if not
negative) as I was taken by the album & it's numerous jaunts &
sidetracks pretty much immediately. I am…

You might be me as far as your favorite 1990s bands go (although 1990s GBV probably at the very least drew even Pavement at some point after the fact).

I like both of their albums a lot but I don't revisit them much anymore. I'd stop short of calling Aeroplane 'genius' but it's very meaningful to many people & it is undoubtedly ambitious.

Come on in.

To each her/his own, but I'd give it another spin. Obviously Age of Consent is right there with any Side One/Track One ever (I assume this qualifies as a hit) but Leave Me Alone, Your silent Face, etc - superb.

"Same!"

Pulp's Different Class was another big one for me, although technically it was released in Europe in 1995. I bought it on the strength of a glowing review I read (not sure where - Alternative Press maybe?) in the early part of the calendar year & I was wowed. Jarvo's lyrics & delivery were unlike anything I'd ever…

The summer was smack dab in between the end of my junior year of HS & my senior year beginning, so let's do the nostalgia thing. BEck's Odelay came out in JUN 1996 & that was certainly my album of the year at the time.

I really, really liked it upon release (senior in HS fwiw) but there weren't many of us in my neck of the woods, that's for sure. Pinkerton's second life & staying power have been cool to see.

Same. Pinkerton is my favorite Weezer album but still it pales when contrasted to the archetypal document of nervy teenage angst that is the Femmes' eponymous debut.

Technically Lou Reed (if you mean via the movie/soundtrack).

Nighttime Vultures (featuring the Chef) was a great track off a pretty good overall album.

I maintain that Daytona 500 might be the best Wu solo track of all.

Both great movies, yes.

I don't feel like it was a flop at all though (granted, I was in my teens so maybe my recollection is colored by my relative young age at the time). I feel like that LP gave them a sort of cred boost with alterna-fans in the mid-1990s honestly, for whatever that's worth.