"It’s about the arrogance of humans. I’d just read Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle and I had written the line “Peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god” in my notes. But then I thought: “Uh, your peculiar travel suggestion isn’t a dancing lesson from god, it’s just a travel suggestion! Why does everything need to mean something more?” - Ellie Rowsell

Fiona Apple McAfee-Maggart (born September 13, 1977) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, and poet. An eight-time Grammy Award nominee and one-time winner, her albums have reached the top five on the U.S. chart in four consecutive decades.

Radiohead on its top form. Hearty hearty britpop.

The Smashing Pumpkins商业上最为成功的一张专辑，曾登上Billboard专辑榜首位，拥有“1979”等4首打榜歌曲。专辑以双CD的丰富容量探讨了生与死的轮回，以及人类在其中无止境的痛苦。曲风跨越了哥特、朋克、迷幻、金属的界限，被认为是90年代最优秀的摇滚专辑之一。美国《时代》杂志将其评为是 1995年最佳专辑，在Q Magzine于1998年举行的最强专辑读者评选中排名第29位，在滚石杂志评出的500张历代最强专辑中排名第487位——低了！
专辑以不同的版本发行，CD版分两卷，共28首歌，第一碟名为Dawn to Dusk，第二碟名为Twilight to Starlight。唱片版共6面，30首歌，五首为一章，标题依次为Dawn、Tea Time、Dusk、Twilight、Midnight、Starlight，大体是以时间顺序为线索。

专辑: Murder Ballads
艺人: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
厂牌: Mute/Reprise
风格: Post-Punk/Gothic
日期: 1996
专辑简介:
1996年，nick cave出版了经典的《谋杀歌谣》专辑。这张传统的谋杀歌谣实在魅力无穷，深深浸淫于传统的蓝草音乐、乡村乐、民谣和旧日歌谣的氛围中。整张专辑充满了各式各样的罪恶和叛逆。如果这些歌谣在尼克．凯夫之前并不存在，我敢打赌，他会以他特有的叙事方式将它们创造出来。
在他与“生日派对”(Birthday Party，凯夫的第一个乐队，其专辑被《滚石》杂志评价为“后朋克时代最无序和野蛮的音乐”)和“坏种”乐队合作的十几张专辑中，凯夫已经创立了他自己的模式-他黑暗的故事有一种让时光停滞的感觉，仿佛这些故事是从被长久遗忘的废墟里发掘出来的。他的歌可能不会让人感到愉悦，他的音乐也似乎与时代不合拍，但这正是他的魅力所在。
该专辑的名称很简单：《谋杀歌谣》，被认为是“10首歌以同样的方式结尾”，体现了一种对死亡的奇妙感觉，同时也不乏幽默感。无论是传统歌谣还是原创歌谣，都充分表现了凯夫风格，他创作了其音乐生涯中最黑暗、最令人困扰和最佳的作品。该专辑是当年的最佳专辑之一。
<谋杀歌谣>中的的每首歌都有其特殊含义，这是一张由绝对出色的艺术家创作的伟大的专辑。96年，他因该专辑被MTV音乐奖评为最佳男艺术家，但他婉拒了该荣誉，解释是：他不想与别人竞争，因为艺术是很主观的。

Radiohead的处女作《Pablo Honey》虽然十分出色，但现在看来它更像是乐队在为这一张更加舒展的经典《The Bends》所做的准备，热身。同《Pablo Honey》一样，这张唱片的整体音乐构架仍然是建立在不断回旋缭绕的吉他声音之上，三把吉他共同奏出的断断续续的旋律不仅仅是唱片中最为精彩的部分，同时也成为了Radiohead的音乐标志。这种用最传统的乐器所奏出来的不同声响在听觉上创造了一种有力的回馈，它将听者的欲望和痛苦共同挖掘了出来。同时从某种程度上说《The Bends》又是一张深受前人影响的摇滚专辑，偶尔从唱片中你会发现U2,Pink Floyd,R.E.M甚至是The Pixies的影子，但是Radiohead将前人的音乐手法用不同的音乐气质进行了一个极为另类的演绎--专辑中的音乐极具空间感，却并不像Pink Floyd蒙胧缥缈，这就让歌曲听起来更加具有生命力，更富有执着的感情。Thom Yorke那些充满了反复的自问，纠缠，扭曲和欲望的歌词赋予了唱片另外一种忧郁的气质，在音乐之外，一股精神暗流通过他时而温柔时而神经质的演唱传达给了听众。Thom的嗓音应该是让人温暖的，但当感情爆发的时候，你依然能见到它高亢的一面，在汹涌的音乐下这病人般的声音实在令人无法自拔。等到这张唱片出现的时候，摇滚乐已经走过了四十年的路程，而《The Bends》却还是轻易的成为了经典，这正是因为Radiohead在努力创造独特的音乐情绪的同时也保留了摇滚乐的爆发力和极佳的旋律性，这使得这张唱片不仅仅得到了评论家的一致好评，同时也在市场上获得了巨大的成功。直白的说,《The Bends》是一张让你第一次聆听就能被深深吸引，而在接下来的每一次听觉过程中又都能发现新的音乐细节和聆听乐趣的摇滚专辑。

Alanis Morissette,是个童星
自幼便学习钢琴和写歌，10岁时，她加入了电视节目“你不能做那个”的演员组。和其他孩子不同的是，她用在那个节目里挣到的钱独立录制发行了自己的一首单曲“Fate Stay with Me”。14岁时，她便全心投入音乐，签约于MCA/Canada。1991年她迁居多伦多，并发行处女专辑《Alanis》。《Alanis》是一张流行化的舞曲及抒情歌曲专辑，在加拿大相当受欢迎，售出了10万张，并获朱诺奖(加拿大最有影响的音乐奖项)“最有前途女艺人奖”。不过在加拿大1992年她发行了《Now Is the Time》，命运依旧，甚至只卖掉了上张专辑的一半多。于是她再次迁居，来到了洛杉矶，并在1994年遇见了著名的歌曲作者和制作人Glen Ballard。Glen Ballard曾为Michael Jackson创作了金曲“Man in the Mirror”，并制作了金曲组合Wilson Phillips大受欢迎的首张专辑，同时他还和金曲专家David Hasselhoff一起工作。但是他(她)们在对Alanis Morissette第三张专辑的问题上却达成了意外的一致：以非主流摇滚为主要风格。《Jagged Little Pill》最终在Madonna的公司Maverick旗下发行。一系列单曲一浪接着一浪的成功不仅令她获得了一摞白金唱片，也为她获得了1996年6项格莱美奖的提名，并最终获得了包括两个重头奖项“年度专辑”和“年度歌曲”在内的数项格莱美大奖。她的成功证明了风格融合在市场上的巨大价值。
Alanis Morissette 是90年代中期一位最不象明星的明星. 曾经是一位儿童演员的她集歌手与词曲作者于一身. 在她的音乐中,既有对流行元素的捕捉,又闪烁着 hip-hop 的灵感，加上她对市场的准确把握,其第三张专辑 Jagged Little Pill 奠定了 Alanis Morissette 巨星的地位。
本专辑在滚石杂志评出的历代五百强专辑中排名第327位。

Jeff Buckley was many things, but humble wasn't one of them. Grace is an audacious debut album, filled with sweeping choruses, bombastic arrangements, searching lyrics, and above all, the richly textured voice of Buckley himself, which resembled a cross between Robert Plant, Van Morrison, and his father Tim. And that's a fair starting point for his music: Grace sounds like a Led Zeppelin album written by an ambitious folkie with a fondness for lounge jazz. At his best -- the soaring title track, "Last Goodbye," and the mournful "Lover, You Should've Come Over" -- Buckley's grasp met his reach with startling results; at its worst, Grace is merely promising.

在Grunge大潮渐渐退去之时，在尖叫和烟熏还未成为标尺之时，Jeremy已经将一种情绪带入到了摇滚乐中，而SDRE则是名副其实的Emo开山鼻祖。《Diary》的出现开创了一个先河，而SDRE却在几年之后被一群哥特装扮的形式主义者抢去了引导潮流的风头。一直以来的声名在外却默默无闻的现状与他们十年来的分分合合不无关联。

i don't care if monday's blue
tuesday's grey and wednesday too
thursday
i don't care about you
it's friday i'm in love

Polly Jean "PJ" Harvey MBE is an English musician and singer-songwriter. Primarily known as a vocalist and guitarist, she is also proficient with a wide range of instruments. Harvey began her career in 1988 when she joined local band Automatic Dlamini as a vocalist, guitarist and saxophone player.

After 2004's U.S. breakthrough success for U.K. favorite Muse, the band's second album, 2001's Origin of Symmetry, finally earns its stateside release. Last yeasr's Absolution and major performances across the country won legions of American fans for the band that was the prestigious closing act at London's V2004 Festival. Now these new fans can experience an earlier Muse with Origin of Symmetry.

yeule, the cyborg alchemist coalescing the soundscapes of glitch-pop electronica, alt rock, and trip-hop. After their breakthrough sophomore album in 2022, Glitch Princess, Nat Ćmiel crystallised their place as alt electronica luminary with their boundary-breaking 2023 album softscars. Both albums were named Best New Music by Pitchfork with the latter lauded as a “riotous, high-energy journey” by the Guardian. With their forthcoming work, yeule paints us a picture with divine poise: fragmented shards of their persona non grata, or "darker side," pieced together as the painterly fatale who burns through the canvas of post-modernity. With visual artworks captured by artist Vasso Vu, Ćmiel is seen here tethered to their role as a "painter" before performer. yeule, reincarnated again as a haunting facsimile of their past in Evangelic Girl is a Gun. Ćmiel paints an homage to the artist's role—an artist that illuminates the neon glow of an ego death, and the transformative forms of love, immortalising in our physical reality, their dream within all dreams.

2000年岁末，U2以专辑《All That You Can‘t Leave Behind》荣耀的告别了20世纪，专辑称霸全球32国排行冠军，写下1200万张销售纪录，并接连在2001、2002年间，勇夺葛莱美奖年度唱片(两座/＜Beautiful Day＞、＜Walk On＞)、年度歌曲＜Beautiful Day＞、最佳摇滚乐团(两座)、最佳流行乐团、最佳摇滚专辑等7项大奖。2001年展开全球巡回演唱会，更以1亿4300万美金的票房，雄霸年度

Avril带着第三张录音室专辑《The Best Damn Thing》回来了，先前已经拿出2首做宣传，Keep Holding On去年上映的电影《龙骑士》特别录制的主题曲和8国语言版的Girlfriend 单曲集，其中包括很有意思的中文版本。整张专集的曲风比起以前更加明快，就连Avril表示新专辑的节奏会比以前的专辑快，因为现在的她有了更多现场演出的经验，“我保证这张专辑更好玩———对歌迷和我本人来说都更好玩。专辑里大概只有三首慢歌。”有些人表示对新专集失望，感觉失去了以前rock特色，太偏流行了，不过对于喜欢的声音，能再听到新专集，已经是一种享受，况且新专确实也很如耳。

With her breakthrough 2002 debut, Let Go, Avril Lavigne tried to market herself as the bona fide alternative to tarty teen queens, Britney and Christina. Her guitar-pop hits were irresistibly bratty but the whole "Complicated" teen pose was a little hard to swallow, especially since two songwriters called the Matrix--who had at least twenty years on the Canadian singer--fed her most of the material. Having had the chance to live a little, Lavigne returns to make good on her angsty image with Under My Skin, an album rippling with delightfully dour melodies and heartfelt lyrics about loneliness ("How Does It Feel") and fractured relationships ("Don't Tell Me"). Is it clichéd? Sure. Will it scare off her necktie and t-shirt wearing fans? Possibly. But there's nothing quite as satisfying as watching a teen-pop icon actually reveal her soul. --Jaan Uhelszki