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Just Say Roe
Originally released in 1994, ''Just Say Roe'' was the seventh and final in the ''Just Say Yes (compilation album), Just Say Yes'' series from Sire Records. It contained primarily non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of which were alternative rock, but also included some Pop music, pop and Electronic dance music, dance. It was conceived specifically as a pro-choice album, put together by Sire after a letter from a listener named Todd VerBeek suggested the title and praised Sire for their willingness to address other politically sensitive issues (including Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, voter registration, and AIDS education). Track listing #David Byrne (musician), David Byrne - "Lilies of the Valley" #Madonna (entertainer), Madonna - "Goodbye to Innocence" #Doubleplusgood (band), Doubleplusgood - "The Winding Song" #Waterlillies (duo) - "I Am Woman" #Belly (band), Belly - "It's Not Unusual" #The Farm (British band), The Farm - "Comfort" #John Wesley Harding (si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alternative Rock
Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstream or commercial rock or pop music. The term's original meaning was broader, referring to musicians influenced by the musical style or independent, DIY ethic, DIY ethos of late-1970s punk rock.di Perna, Alan. "Brave Noise—The History of Alternative Rock Guitar". ''Guitar World''. December 1995. Traditionally, alternative rock varied in terms of its sound, social context, and regional roots. Throughout the 1980s, magazines and zines, college radio airplay, and word of mouth had increased the prominence and highlighted the diversity of alternative rock's distinct styles (and music scenes), such as noise pop, indie rock, grunge, and shoegaze. In September 1988, Billboard (magazine), ''Billboard'' introduced "alternative" into their charting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belly (band)
Belly is an alternative rock band formed in Rhode Island in 1991 by former Throwing Muses and Breeders member Tanya Donelly. The original lineup consisted of Donelly on vocals and guitar, Fred Abong on bass, and brothers Tom and Chris Gorman on guitar and drums respectively. The band released two albums during the early 1990s alternative rock boom before breaking up in 1995. They reunited in 2016 and mounted limited tours in the United States and United Kingdom that year. All four original members knew each other from high school on Aquidneck Island, Rhode Island – the Gormans and Abong coming out of the Newport hardcore scene (the Gormans having played in Verbal Assault, Abong in Vicious Circle). Donelly had previously co-founded two Boston-based indie rock bands, Throwing Muses and The Breeders, the former with her step-sister Kristin Hersh and the latter with Kim Deal of the Pixies. In 1993, their debut album ''Star'' was released, and its lead single "Feed the Tree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Say Mao (album)
''Just Say Mao'' was Sire Records' Volume 3 of '' Just Say Yes'' and was originally released on July 11, 1989 as a CD sampler. It contained remixes and non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of which were considered new wave or modern rock (all would eventually fall under the genre alternative rock). Track listing # Everything Counts omb Beyond the Yalu Mix- Depeche Mode # In a Manner of Speaking - Martin L. Gore # Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria) emix- Figures on a Beach # Thrash - Underworld # Pistol - Erasure # Insha-Allah - Nasa # Dizzy emix- Throwing Muses # Whistling for His Love emix- Danielle Dax # Lucky Lisp - Morrissey # Between Something and Nothing - The Ocean Blue # Da'ale Da'ale emix- Ofra Haza # Don't Say No emix- Tom Tom Club # Hunted Child - Ice-T # Nanana - Royal Crescent Mob # Date to Church - The Replacements, Tom Waits # Nowhere to Stand - k.d. lang Kathryn Dawn Lang (born November 2, 1961), known by her stage name k.d. lang, is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Say Yo (album)
''Just Say Yo'' was Sire Records' Volume 2 of '' Just Say Yes'' and was originally released on August 16, 1988, as a winter CD sampler. It contained remixes and non-album tracks of artists on the label, most of which were considered new wave or modern rock (all would eventually fall under the genre alternative rock). Track listing # Galbi (Coldcut remix) - Ofra Haza # Will Never Marry - Morrissey # Black Coffee - k.d. lang # Behind the Wheel/Route 66 ega-Single Mix- Depeche Mode # Bible Dreams - The Wild Swans # Chains of Love ruly in Love with the Marks Bros. Mix- Erasure # Tubular Bells/Pretty Boys and Pretty Girls egan's House Me Mix€” Book of Love # Hot Dog 2" Remix- Martini Ranch # Mexican Women - Throwing Muses # Call Me Blue - A House # Inside Out ive- The Mighty Lemon Drops # What For - James # Kingdom Chairs - The Soup Dragons # Bacchanal Lady xtended Remix€”David Rudder David Michael Rudder OCC (born 6 May 1953) is a Trinidadian calypsonian, known to be one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenberry Woods
The Greenberry Woods is a power pop quartet formed in 1989 by songwriters Matt Huseman and Ira Katz while students at the University of Maryland. They were later joined by Huseman's twin brother Brandt Huseman on bass and drummer Miles Rosen. Named for a suburban Maryland housing development, the band released only two albums before disbanding in 1996. They reunited in 2018 and released an album, ''House'', of material recorded between 1989 and 1995. History Upon graduation, the band moved to Baltimore. They hired manager John Lay, whose previous clients included Squeeze and Robyn Hitchcock. The Greenberry Woods were signed by Seymour Stein to Sire Records in February 1993. Their debut album, ''Rapple Dapple'', was released in 1994, with the single "Trampoline" receiving healthy radio airplay. Supporting tour slots with such acts as Squeeze, Debbie Harry, and the Proclaimers followed. The Greenberry Woods performed at the 1994 HFStival, May 14, 1994, RFK Stadium, Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ride (band)
Ride is an English rock band formed in Oxford in 1988. The band consists of vocalists and guitarists Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, drummer Laurence "Loz" Colbert and bassist Steve Queralt. They are recognised as one of the key pioneers of shoegaze, an alternative rock subgenre that emerged to prominence in the United Kingdom during the early 1990s. The band's first two albums, ''Nowhere'' (1990) and ''Going Blank Again'' (1992), are critically acclaimed as two of the greatest shoegaze albums of all time. The latter's lead single, "Leave Them All Behind", was the band's most commercially successful song, reaching No. 9 on the UK Singles Chart. Both ''Going Blank Again'' and its 1994 follow-up, ''Carnival of Light'', peaked at No. 5 on the UK Albums Chart. Ride broke up in 1996 prior to the release of their fourth album ''Tarantula'', which received negative reviews. Bell joined Oasis in 1999 as their bassist. The band reunited in 2014 to tour again, and also put out the alb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judybats
The Judybats (sometimes stylized as merely Judybats or JudyBats) were an American alternative rock band from Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, active primarily in the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s. The band released three successful singles that charted on the '' Billboard'' Modern Rock Tracks chart: "Native Son", "Saturday" and "Being Simple", the latter of which peaked at No. 7. Background The band was formed in 1988 in Knoxville, Tennessee. Frontman Jeff Heiskell and guitarist Ed Winters were neighbors and had been composing folk songs together. The duo later met bassist Tim Stutz at a local bar called Hawkeye's Corner. Stutz, guitarist Johnny Sughrue and drummer Terry Casper had known each other since high school and had been playing music together as a trio. Peggy Hambright, who was Stutz's and Sughrue's roommate at the time, joined the band, contributing keyboards, violin and vocals. The Judybats played locally to large audiences before signing to Sire Records in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigod 20
Bigod 20 was a German EBM/techno band which was formed in 1988 by music producers Andreas Tomalla (a.k.a. Talla 2XLC and formerly of the band Moskwa TV) and Markus Nikolai (a.k.a. Jallokin). Nikolai, together with Thomas Franzmann, run the Berlin based Perlon record label. History In the late 1980s, Tomalla and Nikolai formed the band Pluuto under Tomalla's own Technodrome Records (TDI Records) label. At the time, Tomalla was also involved in the production of several other projects such as Tribantura and his other collaborations Axodry, Robotiko Rejekto, Moskwa TV, and Microchip League. In 1988, the duo released the single "Body to Body" under the name Bigod 20 as part of Tomalla's newly founded Music Research label, which eventually evolved into Zoth Ommog Records. In 1989, Tomalla and Nikolai formed a new project under the name Umo Detic whose second single, "Carpe Diem", would later be re-envisioned as a Bigod 20 single. In 1990, Bigod 20 released the single "The Bog," whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripmaster Monkey (band)
Tripmaster Monkey is an indie rock band from the Quad Cities in Illinois and Iowa. Members of the band are originally from Davenport, Iowa, Rock Island, Illinois, and East Moline, Illinois East Moline is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States. The population was 21,374 at the 2020 census. East Moline is part of the Quad Cities, along with the cities of Rock Island, Moline, and the Iowa cities of Davenport and Bet .... They broke up in 1996 after a long American tour. They played straightforward guitar-driven rock, influenced by punk, grunge and other alternative or college rock. The name is a reference to the novel, Tripmaster Monkey. Lead guitarist Jamie Toal currently resides in Chicago, IL and used to perform as part of the band "Tenki." Lead vocalist Chris Bernat still resides in the Quad-Cities and performs with his band "Chrash." Bassist Wes Haas currently resides in Portland, OR. Drummer Marty Reyhons briefly played drums with another Quad-City b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danielle Dax
Danielle Dax (born 23 September 1958) is an English experimental musician and producer most active from the late-1970s to the mid-1990s. Early life She was born Danielle Gardner, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England. Dax's first performance on stage in London was when she was a pre-teen. She sang in Benjamin Britten's opera, ''Noye's Fludde'' (Noah's Flood), at the Royal Albert Hall. Preceding this, the first time Dax appeared on stage was at the age of three as an orange Jelly Baby on the Southend bandstand. After a short modelling career (she won the "Miss Evening Echo" competition in 1976), she turned music. Career Dax made her "pop" musical debut in 1979, within three weeks of joining the group Amii Toytal and the Croixroads – this was a pseudonym for the Lemon Kittens – as keyboardist, flautist and saxophonist. It was their first gig and took place at Reading University's Student Union Airport Bar. Karl Blake from the Lemon Kittens had met her some three weeks earlier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poster Children
Poster Children is an American indie rock band formed at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana in 1987.Trouser Press Online They have issued nine studio albums and two EPs. Known for their strong ethic, the band members continue to drive their own tour bus, create their own artwork and T-shirt designs, and operate their own record label. Poster Children were also pioneers in several forms of electronic technology relating to performance art, including s, |
Scorpio Rising (band)
Scorpio Rising were an English rock band from Birkenhead active from 1989 to 1994. History Scorpio Rising was formed in Birkenhead in 1989.Strong, Martin C. (2003) ''The Great Indie Discography'', Canongate, , p. 956 The group's first live performances took place in small clubs in Liverpool, with several shows at Liverpool Planet X and Cosmos Clubs in late 1989. The original line up featured David "Stig" Renton on bass guitar. Scorpio Rising's definitive line up and the sound were created when the band was joined by Parliament (band), Parliament/Funkadelic influenced bass player Steve Soar in 1992. Scorpio Rising signed to Chapter 22 Records (UK) and Sire Records, Sire(USA). The Scorpio Rising sound was distinctive for combining breakbeat driven rhythms, strong pop melodies, and funk-influenced basslines with psychedelic and experimental guitar distortion techniques. The earliest recordings feature heavy use of wah-wah pedals and breakbeat/baggy drum patterns contemporary dur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
