Like a rolling stone

There's a stack of old Rolling Stone magazines in the break room of where I work and I enjoy flipping through them when I eat.

I remember when I had a subscription to Rolling Stone when I was a sophomore in high school I didn't really trust their music reviews, but back in those days if it wasn't The Flaming Lips or Radiohead I wasn't interested. So I just assumed that Rolling Stone magazine knew more than me and I just wasn't hip enough to have heard of or even like the music that they gave good reviews to.

But as I flip through these old issues from the 90's, Rolling Stone is giving 3 or 4 stars to bands like Smash Mouth and Sugar Ray. How embarrassing is that? Rolling Stone is suppose to be the music magazine and they do a whole article on the greatness of Cracked Rear View by Hootie and the Blowfish? That's embarrassing.

As I kept looking through these I couldn't help but think that the 90's must have been a terrible time for music. Eddie Vedder clones around ever corner. But it wasn't. So here's a couple of my current favorites from the 90's.

Alien Lines (1995) - Guided by Voices



Mobile Safari (1995) - The Pastels



Check Your Head (1992) - Beastie Boys



Give it Back! (1997) - The Brian Jonestown Massacre



Accelerator (1998) - Royal Trux



The Boatman's Call (1997) - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds



See? The 90's weren't so bad. Why don't I just lay off!? What am I, a jerk?