#geffen records

[myvinylplaylist]

Rob Zombie: Living Dead Girl CD Single (1999)

Illustrations by Rob Zombie

Geffen Records

[fangomusic]

Olivia Rodrigo, Guts (White Vinyl Edition Label) 2023.

[everyoneswoo]

[231028] Geffen Records Twitter Update:

Which SEVENTEEN member are you? Take the quiz to reveal your SVT member twin based on music taste & keep listening to 'SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN'!🎶 Quiz is found at the bottom of the SEVENTEEN Store page! Your resulting playlist will be saved to your library!

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Edward Scissorhands (1990, Tim Burton)

28/03/2024

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Guns N' Roses - Don't Damn Me

[justplaincher]

stunner

[sentiimentaljourney]

no because i love when albums have little stories connected to them like with live through this the original rock star was pulled from the album because of the lyric "barrel of laughs to be nirvana, id rather die" and even before kurts death the label (geffen) already didnt like it as they believed it was non artistic and didnt fit in the album so it was replaced by olympia so late that they couldnt even change the name of the track because all the artwork had already been printed

but they actually sort of released the original song unofficially on a promo 7 inch in 1998 with a version of asking for it with kurt

[traderrock]

Guns N' Roses at the Troubador flyer, July 11, 1986.

Via Reckless Road by Marc Canter.

[userminghao]

[231018] Geffen Records Twitter Update:

Here is everywhere you can buy SEVENTEEN's 11th Mini Album 'SEVENTEENTH HEAVEN'! 💎

[popgodz]

[myvinylplaylist]

Guns N' Roses: Greatest Hits (2023)

Walmart Exclusive on Rose Red Vinyl

Geffen Records

[drivenaxl86]

[all-rock-and-roll-is-homosexual]

B-Side Magazine #50 May/June 95 - Geffen Records ad

Featuring

Elastica

Pell Mell

Nitzer Ebb

Hardvark

So Johnny

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[sinceileftyoublog]

Olivia Rodrigo Album Review: GUTS

(Geffen)

BY JORDAN MAINZER

Olivia Rodrigo had wanted to title her second album "GUTS" since she was making her debut, SOUR, because she was interested in the various colloquial contexts in which we use the word. No, you're not going to find the singer-songwriter's second album on the shelf next to Exhumed's back catalog--referring to entrails is about the only meaning Rodrigo doesn't conjure from the word. She mentions "spill your guts," and the album certainly has the same diaristic quality as her first record. She also brings up the phrase "hate your guts;" lo and behold, at times on GUTS, Rodrigo foregoes the sarcasm and facetiousness of SOUR for full-on diatribes and revenge fantasies. But the connotation that stands out most to me, listening to the record for months after it's now come out, is one of courage. Simply, it takes a lot of guts to make an album like this.

From the start, Rodrigo sets up the unrealistic expectations she's under, physical and behavioral, both as a young woman and as a celebrity. On the Joan Didion-inspired, dynamic and choral "all-american bitch", she sings "I'm grateful all the time / I'm sexy, and I'm kind / I'm pretty when I cry," fully aware that she's encapsulating a caricature more than a real character. Appropriately, she spends the rest of the album contradicting the idea of the ideal feminine. Knowingly regretful, she hooks up with an ex on the stuttering power pop jam "bad idea right?" She's jealous of a "dazzling starlet, Bardot reincarnate" on the layered and ghostly "lacy", her vocals and producer Dan Nigro's synthesizer skyward before they come crashing to a painful, realized whisper. On piano and strings ballad "the grudge", she posits that while "It takes strength to forgive...I don't feel strong." Rodrigo swims in imperfection.

Rodrigo's deep dive into her own humanity, though, sets her up for longer lasting strength. For every lambast of "bloodsucker" and "fame fucker," iconic as they are, there's a line like on "logical" where she sings, "I know I'm half responsible / And that makes me feel horrible." Synth rock standout "love is embarrassing" is especially impressive, as Rodrigo collates all the cringiest things she's ever done--the type that would keep most people up at night--and turns them into a singular anthem of teenage awkwardness. On "making the bed", she realizes that as much as she's resentful of certain aspects of her life, from the toxicity of the music industry to her penchant for social errors due to homeschooling, she has the ultimate agency to change things. She's stated the song was the hardest on the album to write, and the delicate balance between blame and acceptance is palpable. There are even multiple layers to "get him back!" Sure, Rodrigo wants "to meet his mom and tell her her son sucks," but she also wants to reconnect. Otherwise, why would she care?

Ultimately, GUTS has proved to be one of the most rewarding pop records of the year due to its sheer humanism. You can find solidarity in a song like "pretty isn't pretty", a shimmering dream pop standout instrumentally wedged between "1979" and Alvvays, one that decries the extent to which capitalism promotes unrealistic standards, beauty or otherwise. But it's closer "teenage dream" that ensures the album ends not on a bang, but on a relatable wince. Small moments, like the pseudo "you're not from around here" record scratch after the first chorus, build up the unease to emphasize Rodrigo's final moment of self doubt: "They say it gets better / But what if I don't?" Kudos to Rodrigo for putting to words and music what we're all thinking all the time.

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Guns N' Roses - Bad Apples

[nineteenfiftysix]

Nelly Furtado - Maneater (Loose, 2006)