Post Grunge Explosion Also Ran bands. Classic Or Dud/Search & destroy

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In fact im gonna listen to that Dig album today

Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:47 (fifteen years ago) link

But I don't remember any radio stations calling Buffalo Tom, the Pooh Sticks, Redd Kross and the Goo Goo Dolls "post grunge."

I've never heard a radio station call anything "post grunge".

S: Molly" and "Plowed" by Sponge. "Wish You Were Here" and "Drive" by I.N.C.U.B.U.S. All of Foo Fighters singles. All of Bush's singles. The one about Superman by Three Doors Down. The Chad Kroeger song from the Spiderman soundtrack.

D: Anything else Chad Kroeger has ever done. Creed. Staind.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 12:27 (fifteen years ago) link

four years pass...

I did a search for Bullet Lavolta and they came up in this thread which is amusing because if anything, the Boston band was about two years ahead of it's time, but those were a crucial 24 months.

One of the CDs I picked up yesterday on my first excursion to a local record store in ages is a live-plus-odds-and-sods Bullet LaVolta release that came out, apparently posthumously, on Matador Records in 1991 awesomely entitled "The Gun Didn't Know I Was Loaded." Although it's a very rough, bass-heavy recording done at the time on the air of Boston college juggernaut WERS 88.9FM (and recorded over a similar live session by The Pixies, according to the liner notes!), it reminds me of when I first moved back to New York in 1989 because the band played out there quite a bit at that point. They were also one of my earlier interviews, though I cannot recall for whom. They had a singer named Yukki (pronounced Yucky). They rocked unpretentiously and righteously.

This song was always a favorite of mine and it leads off this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6Ldl9BByQ

To be sure, a track this heavy and instilled with punk attitude (and sure, grungy, if you insist) was an anomaly in the world of major labels BC (Before Cobain) yet RCA Records bought the rights to an early TAANG! album and Metal Blade EP, reissuing them together, and even coughed up the funds to record the prophetically-titled "Swandive" album. Released the same day as "Nevermind," it lacked the fire of the earlier material (but is well worth the $1.64 used on Amazon.com right now) and the band left us shortly thereafter.

But this disc rekindles memories of seeing the band back in the day as I made my first tentative steps living on my own in New York. Five bucks well spent.

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 11 March 2013 13:31 (eleven years ago) link

nine years pass...

So many of the forgotten indie bands mentioned in this old thread I listen to now like they're the hot new thing.

Evan, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:59 (one year ago) link

for reasons i cannot explain, this revival has reminded me of this crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9sH7AoRd14

mark e, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:26 (one year ago) link

I really wish the band Sponge didn’t suck because it’s such a great 90s dirtbag/grunge band name .

not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 13 January 2023 20:24 (one year ago) link


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