Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Brian Jonestown Massacre's debut album, Spacegirl & Other Favorites was a vinyl only release in 1993 with a limited run of 500 copies. The album includes the song "Hide and Seek", the only single released from the album in 1994. The band's follow-up album, Methodrone, was heavily influenced by the shoegaze genre that had gained prominence several years prior to its release. The album's dreamy rock sound is comparable to bands such as Galaxie 500, Spacemen 3 and My Bloody Valentine. The band went through an intense period of recording in 1996, releasing three separate albums. Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request reflects a pastiche of 1960s psychedelia that continues to characterize the present Brian Jonestown Massacre sound. The album also includes vast experimentation with a variety of different instrumentation including Indian drones, sitars, mellotrons, farfisas, didgeridoos, tablas, congas, and glockenspiels. The title of the album is a pastiche of The Rolling Stones' 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request.
Anemone 1996 from the album Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request
Methodrone 1995 from the album Methodrone
Happy Mondays
Happy Mondays are an English alternative rock band from Salford, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1980, the band's original line-up was Shaun Ryder on lead vocals, his brother Paul Ryder on bass, lead guitarist Mark Day, keyboardist Paul Davis, and drummer Gary Whelan. Mark "Bez" Berry later joined the band onstage during a live performance after befriending Shaun Ryder and served as a dancer/percussionist. Rowetta Satchell joined the band to provide backing vocals in the early 1990s.
Musically, the band fused indie pop guitars with a rhythmic style that owed much to house music, Krautrock, funk and northern soul. Much of their music was remixed by popular DJs, emphasizing the dance influences even further. In terms of style and dress, they crossed hippy fashion and ideals with 1970s glamour. Sartorially and musically, the band helped to encourage the psychedelic revival associated with acid house. The Mondays also influenced many bands around the Northwest and beyond, including the Stone Roses, Oasis and the Charlatans.
Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches a hedonistic album that was the peak of Happy Mondays' "career (and quite arguably the whole baggy/Madchester movement) a celebratory collage of sex, drugs, and dead-end jobs where there's no despair because only a sucker could think that this party would ever come to an end." Q magazine called it their "artistic peak" and a "top-hole album". In 2000, the magazine placed Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches at number 31 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. In 2005, the album was voted the 51st greatest album of all time by Channel 4 viewers.
Morrissey/The Smiths
The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982. The band consisted of vocalist Morrissey, guitarist Johnny Marr, bassist Andy Rourke and drummer Mike Joyce. Critics have called them the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British independent music scene of the 1980s.
Based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Marr, the group signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records, on which they released four studio albums, The Smiths (1984), Meat Is Murder (1985), The Queen Is Dead (1986) and Strangeways, Here We Come (1987). Four of their albums (including three studio albums) appeared on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. They have also released several compilations, and numerous non-LP singles.
Following the group's demise, Morrissey began work on a solo recording, collaborating with producer Stephen Street and fellow Mancunian Vini Reilly, guitarist for The Durutti Column. The resulting album, Viva Hate (a reference to the end of the Smiths), was released in March 1988, reaching number one in the UK charts. Morrissey continues to perform and record as a solo artist.
Morrissey is widely credited as being a seminal figure in the emergence of indie rock and Britpop, having exerted a significant influence on many subsequent musicians. He has been acclaimed as one of the greatest lyricists in British history, with his lyrics having become the subject of academic study. Having attracted an international and highly dedicated cult following, Morrissey's ambiguous sexuality has also resulted in him becoming a gay icon. However, his forthright opinions – endorsing vegetarianism and animal rights, condemning royalty and prominent politicians, and questioning issues of British national and cultural identity – have courted controversy.
Fashion/style of The Smiths and Morrissey
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Their name;
This started, of course, with their name. “The most surreal, overtly artistic names were being pinned to the most pathetically dull groups so we thought we'd latch ourselves onto the most simplistic name we could possibly think of and still produce inspiring music,” explained Morrissey at the time. “Simply by having a really straightforward name we were saying that you don't have to hide behind any veil of artistry to produce something worthwhile.”
Fashion;
In their very first published interview of any length, in February 1983, only nine months after Johnny Marr went round to Morrissey's house (well, in truth, his mother's) to suggest they form a group, and before the release of their first single, “Hand in Glove,” they were already clear that an image was something they were refusing to adopt. Asked “How important are clothes to you?” Morrissey replied: “They don't have the relevance they once had, like in the '60s you could look at someone and assess their personality. That's not the case anymore. Clothes are no longer the window of the soul.”
“People take clothes too seriously,” echoed Marr. “If we said, ‘Right, we're going to have that image’ there are bound to be people who don't like it. We're just gonna be honest about it and then if people don't like us it's because we're the Smiths and not because of what we wear.”
“Style has nothing to do with clothes,” Morrissey asserted. “You can't become stylish; either you are or you aren't.”
At their best, the Smiths would look like an all-for-one-and-one-for-all gang, but a loose kind of gang, united not by a uniform but a common sense of purpose. In an early fanzine interview Morrissey elaborated on all this, further emphasizing the lack of artifice at their heart. The Smiths were, he explained, the kind of group who appeared how they appeared because that's how they were, and that was that: “We dress the way we do, we act the way we do, and we play music the way we do.”
Also, when you look at what the Smiths actually did and how they actually looked, it often wasn't quite as straightforward as their words might lead you to believe. For one thing, if the unstated fashion script for the Smiths was to wear functional and classic casualwear of the present and past as though it had accidentally landed on their bodies, it was a script that Morrissey in particular often veered away from, in ways that were fascinating and memorable but much more in keeping with a preening pop star than an image-shunning naturalist. For instance, early on there were the beads he favored hanging low round his neck and the oversize shirts. “I've recently discovered a women's chain called Evans Outsize which has wonderful shirts,” he declared in one interview; he also detailed a fruitless five-hour hunt for a decent shirt.
Terror
Terror are a well known American band who specialize in the hardcore genre of music. They are based in Los Angeles where they record the majority of their songs. The band have produced six albums to date. Their most recent record is entitled The 25th Hour, and it was released in august 2015.
Hardcore music is typified by faster and heavier melodies than regular punk rock. The roots of hardcore punk rock can be traced to California, Scott Vogel, the lead singer of Terror grew up in California during the hardcore revolution and this is where he got his inspiration for the band.
Terror have been successful as a band, despite being part of quite a niche music genre. They have a global fan base, having performed gigs in countries such as Bulgaria, Mexico and Russia. Their most successful album to date is entitled One With The Underdogs. The record sold over 40,000 copies, making it a hugely successful release for an independent band. Their album Always The Hard Way was also a major success story. It climbed to the dizzying heights of number 10 on the Billboard Heatseeker's chart.
In terms of Fashion, Terror have only been known to wear mainly their own merchandise, similar bands of the same genre or anything promoting the Hardcore Scene along with cargo shorts/jeans as you can see below.
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