NEW RADICALS
Hey, if you like these guys, try drinking a lot of cheap beer and listening to a World Party CD-- I don't know who the lead singer f***ed to get a record deal and heavy rotation on MTV, but I think he can fall back to a career as a porn star once his band drops off the face of the planet and is never heard from again.
NINE INCH NAILS
Yeah, okay, so everybody and their cousin knows who this band is, but have you explored Trent Reznor's early days on WaxTrax! in the likes of bands such as 1,000 Homo DJs or industrial supergroup Pigface? Do you own the NIN import Fixed, which is a collection of some the most intense, mind blowing remixes ever to exist? No? Then getta clickin' and buyin'! There's little better a CD to piss of your neighbors or pop in the car stereo and speed like hell to.
98 DEGREES
It's not only shocking, but heartbreaking too, that out of all the music labels Motown signed these a**holes-- Oversexed, hackneyed wannabes have no place on the label which is/was the paragon of soul music, pact with Satan or not!
N'SYNC
When I hear people say the Backstreet Boys are "gay," I think that's wrong. The Backstreet Boys are gay fodder-- N'Sync are gay. That one "blonde" guy is such a butch trapped in the body of a twink it's not even funny.
NOWHERE
A lot of people think that Gregg Araki films are demented. What a lot of people don't know is that he grew up in Santa Barbara, California; and considering he's both gay and Asian, I can tell you from the experience of living there that his movies are relatively well adjusted. Whether or not you like is directing, it's hard to argue that he doesn't know music. A fellow CD addict, his first film's soundtrack was comprised solely of WaxTrax! gems, and his "Doom Generation" soundtrack was an equally classic compilation of post modern madness. "Nowhere" blends pop, rap, and rock (with the likes of Marilyn Manson, 311, Radiohead, Hole, Chuck D, and more) as the perfect soundtrack for his tale of rich LA kids on the fast track to hell. In a world where it's common for a movie company to pick out the up and coming artists of their subsidiary record label to comprise their latest film's soundtrack, it's refreshing to see a director who cares so much about how his movie sounds.
