Pumpkin pie is tastier.
― My life is butthurt so badly (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 21:50 (fourteen years ago) link
don't forget MTV, Sundar, which at that point probably had way more power than rock radio in terms of breaking rock bands or forming the public impression about who was a big deal
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Every song on this list (except FNM, oddly, and Lou Reed) got massive airplay on my college radio station.
― My life is butthurt so badly (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 21:54 (fourteen years ago) link
It's possible I didn't hate the Cracker or REM and Soul Asylum songs at the time, but more possible I didn't hate the Vega one. I'm voting for her.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:23 (fourteen years ago) link
American college radio stations are/were really like this? (Wikipedia does seem to suggest this.) These are the schedules for the Carleton and Ottawa stations. I couldn't really say that anything gets massive airplay on them. The stations around Detroit and Windsor do seem a bit more indie rock-ish though. (The Buffalo station plays NPR and jazz.)
― Sundar, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
Ha, OK, I just remembered being hit by a wave of alt/indie rock on the radio when my drive through upstate NY took me through the Finger Lakes region.
― Sundar, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Well, modern/alternative rock was a much smaller and less homogenous format than it became in the years that followed, I imagine there was a lot more variation from station to station before the big Nirvana-led consensus congealed.
― some dude, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:43 (fourteen years ago) link
this is ilx, the cure will lol WALK this poll
― Man Is Nairf! (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
that song wasn't very good ...
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 23:48 (fourteen years ago) link
"Peter Pumpkinhead" ranked third?! Wow.
i can see why someone wouldn't like how it takes all our messianic martyr stories and blurs them together into a jingle, but the effect can give me chills by the end.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:07 (fourteen years ago) link
American college radio stations are/were really like this?
It's not so much college stations as commercial modern-rock stations. (Which ballooned in number over '92-'93.)
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
i can see why someone wouldn't like how it takes all our messianic martyr stories and blurs them together into a jingle,
i can see why someone wouldn't like it because it's kinda bland and forgettable.
― what happened? i am confused. (sarahel), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 00:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Miccio's describing a Pet Shop Boys song that Andy Partridge never wrote.
― My life is butthurt so badly (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 03:05 (fourteen years ago) link
FNM without hesitation
― Highly trained BBQ chef (rockapads), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 05:52 (fourteen years ago) link
midlife crisis, no question
― all that heroin and he choked on the damn mouthpiece (stevie), Wednesday, 9 September 2009 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Friday, 11 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Things I like: Both U2's, Soul Asylum, 10,000 Maniacs, Morrissey, the Cure's "Friday" and REM.
― jetfan, Friday, 11 September 2009 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
things i like: Both U2's, Soul Asylum, the Cure's "High", 10,000 Maniacs, Morrissey, the Cure's "Friday" and REM (might like the soul asylum song, just don't know if i've heard it)
"weirdo" is the only thing here that i distinctly do not like, but i will usually rep for charlatans in general (or at least 2 or 3 of their albums)
voted for "drive"
― winston, Friday, 11 September 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Saturday, 12 September 2009 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Every song got a vote!
― vulva eyes (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 13 September 2009 02:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Alternative Nation lives!
I know we're about to wrap these countdowns up, but just wanted to say how glad I am that "Midlife Crisis" won this poll. Listened to it five minutes ago and it still rocks 20 years later.
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 8 July 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
can I add: the top ten finalists are the most consistently varied and excellent of the decade? I look at the list and go, wow.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 July 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah... The Charlatans song is pretty badass too. And that's my favorite Maniacs song.
― LimbsKing, Sunday, 8 July 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
Man, as much as I loved Drive and Somebody to Shove, I totally wouldve had to vote for "Good Stuff"--I wonder if Spotify has that album
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, but title track and "Revolution Earth" are not available :(
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
good stuff is weirdly one of the very few b52's album they have. even better though they do not have the actual track 'good stuff'.
― balls, Monday, 9 July 2012 02:18 (eleven years ago) link
every time you speaka pearl falls in my cupi turn away, the pearl meltsbefore I drink it up
oh yeah
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:19 (eleven years ago) link
Good Stuff was one of the first dozen or so CDs i ever bought. i didn't even own another B-52s album for years and years afterwards.
― some dude, Monday, 9 July 2012 02:21 (eleven years ago) link
Good Stuff was for years easily found in used cd shops.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
but i bought it new!
― some dude, Monday, 9 July 2012 02:23 (eleven years ago) link
wish they'd pursued this direction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DaGzeOim5Q
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:24 (eleven years ago) link
I constantly played Cosmic Thing, Good Stuff, and Bouncing off the Satellites p much on constant rotation throughout my junior high years; Bouncing less, because the tape I had of it had weirdly horrific sound quality that made everything sound wobbly
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
"Ain't It A Shame" is sooo good.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
so is "Dreamland"; good call, Alfred!
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 9 July 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
Rocklobster!
― LimbsKing, Monday, 9 July 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
posted solely because I love this pic. Seriously entertaining the idea of signing up to do a B-52's ballot poll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Xc4MXjYvc
― t. s. idiot (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 12 July 2012 16:48 (eleven years ago) link