There have been no shortage of Lucinda Williams imitators over the years - artists hoping to nick even an ounce of her grit, grace, and gumption and make it their own. Lucinda Williams – Car Wheels on a Gravel Road In regards to the growing presence of spirituality in his music, Consequence’s A-grade review asserted that “if more churches played songs like ‘Journey’ and ‘Will You Sing’ on Sundays, those sanctuaries might be standing room only.” - Bryan Kress 98. Whether Washington is resurrecting the past with his take on Freddie Hubbard’s “Hub-Tones,” refurbishing the theme from the Bruce Lee film Fists of Fury with a modern context, or pushing jazz in a completely new direction on the dark groove jam “Street Fighter Mas,” he is constantly in conversation with a higher power the divinity just varies from the Almighty to his all-star group of musician friends.
Heaven & Earth evokes the grand scale of its title with an all-encompassing view of the past, present, and future of this world and beyond. But it was the follow-up, 2018’s Heaven & Earth, that more accurately reflects the heights he can reach from his ascended headspace. Only months later, he cemented his place at the front of jazz’s vanguard with his equally expansive major label debut, The Epic, largely developed with his compatriots in Los Angeles’ West Coast Get Down jazz collective. In 2015, saxophonist Kamasi Washington announced his arrival to mainstream audiences on Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. Perry Farrell’s celestial voice, along with the dynamic playing of guitarist Dave Navarro, bassist Eric Avery and drummer Stephen Perkins, makes Nothing’s Shocking a truly unique album.Ĭombining the power of Led Zeppelin with the art-rock of The Velvet Underground on tracks like the explosive “Mountain Song” with its magnificent bass line, or the acoustic “Jane’s Says” with its heart-wrenching lyrics, Nothing’s Shocking represents a defining moment in what was soon to be a seismic shift in rock music. Equal parts heavy and ethereal, it’s fitting that the album contains song titles like “Up the Beach” and “Ocean Size,” as the tracks play like waves crashing into the sea. With 1988’s Nothing’s Shocking, Jane’s Addiction helped lay the foundation for what would eventually become the alternative rock revolution of the ‘90s. In turn, other great works have been bumped off, or down, or up.ġ00.
All of this factors into putting together a behemoth like this, which means records that weren’t considered - or even released - the last time we undertook this challenge now have prominent placement. Tastes have been reshaped, genres have been born and died away, and the way we divvy up importance through history has been altered by the very nature of the present. Understandably, things are going to be different this time. Even the people taking part in this exercise are different, as only two staff members who were part of the OG list, published in 2010, remain with Consequence today. Forget about how opinions have changed over those 12 years - the entire culture has shifted. It’s been over a decade since we first took a shot at boiling down all of popular music history into the 100 greatest albums of all time.
#WHERE TO WATCH STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON SERIES#
It’s Consequence’ s 15th anniversary, and all September long we’ll be publishing a series of retrospective pieces encompassing our publication’s own history - and the entertainment landscape in general. Today, we’re kicking it off with our new and improved 100 Greatest Albums of All Time list.
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