yeah but i was not one of the cool kids
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
cos you listened to all 4 one
― Heaven knows I'm thirsty and miserable now (NickB), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
ollie kickflip to the tune of "I'll Make Love To You"
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
Boys II Men ballads remain my biggest hurdle.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
ahh Toad the Wet Sprocket, with one of the last of the jangle-pop #1's.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, May 21, 2012 9:40 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the really remarkable thing to me about them is that in 1995 they scored a moderate radio hit off of a gold-selling rarities collection. Dulcinea is a decent album btw.
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:43 (eleven years ago) link
alternate universe where jodeci and jon secada are thrasher covet stars
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
"End of the Road" was a great song but it really ruined them
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:47 (eleven years ago) link
I started to loathe them whenever they would win their 32456th award at the Grammys and would thank God so unctuously that I wished God had aimed a skateboard at their heads.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
did they release anything uptempo as a single after "Motownphilly"?
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
"Vibin'", sort of?
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
also, "I Remember" sort of?
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
also "Can't Let Her Go"
the big problem was that in the wake of "End of the Road", no one gave a shit about their uptempo numbers, which encouraged them to sink deeper and deeper into the morass of treacly bullshit that led to "A Song For Mama"
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
abc > b2m
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
bbd > everything
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
all your alt-rock threads are belong to Michael Bivins
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I lost interest in Boys II Men so quickly after they morphed into the Mawkish Slow Jam All-Star Revue.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
ABC >>> ABC
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
1995 through early '97 were my period of exile from the pop charts. I started paying attention again when boy bands and Hanson ruled.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:02 (eleven years ago) link
I did not realize BIIM had a 2000 album called Nathan Michael Shawn Wanya
also didn't realize one of the dudes in BIIM was named Wanya
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
i knew that but it took me like 15 years to realize his name wasn't 'wayna'
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:03 (eleven years ago) link
wanya was the tenor with the really BIG voice iirc
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:04 (eleven years ago) link
i drive past wayna's house sometimes
it's big
― jesus christ (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
he should've cut a solo single called "Wanyabe."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:07 (eleven years ago) link
or a single called "Lemme Holla At Ya" which is just the screaming from the end of "One Sweet Day" looped for 5 minutes
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Water Runs Dry" is a rad song fuiud
― Mark Ruffalo! is gonna tell us! about empathy! (loves laboured breathing), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Water Runs Dry" only seems rad because it's surrounded in their catalog by "One Sweet Day", "A Song For Mama", "On Bended Knee", "4 Seasons of Loneliness" and two uptempo numbers that no one ever heard besides the people who bought Evolution
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
Other notable '94 alt songs:
I think I posted this somewhere else, but I recently made a Spotify playlist of songs from 1994 that's dominated by alt-rock stuff (just because it's what I was into at the time).
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 21 May 2012 16:15 (eleven years ago) link
Seeing the video of "Longview" for the first time was one of my biggest WTF moments to that point, Green Day having been this squirrelly little punk band that breezed through my hometown once a year or so. A 7" band outside of the grunge scene on MTV…. it just seems so normal now.
― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Just drank a 40 of Mickey's and passed out in front of the NES. Thanks for the playlist, jaymc.
― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
i think this is probably the last year radio music such as this had any sway on me. I like most everything here.
― akm, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:53 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, not to sound like an old man, but same here.
I think though that along with my age, there came this toppling effect, the way Billboard organized its music charts and the way radio stations played music, right around this time. This was definitely the last time I could turn on the radio to a station with a current set list and recognize the songs.
― pplains, Monday, 21 May 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
in the mid-90s boyz ii men were neck and neck with coolio for my favorite musical act but my parents wouldn't buy me the latter's tapes
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
I wish ILX had, like, cross-polling fuctionality so that when we did these mid-'90s alt music polls we could also poll for voters' ages. I can certainly imagine where the spike would be in the latter results.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
One of my early, abortive attempts to get into rap music involved buying the 1, 2, 3, 4 (Sumpin' New) CD single.
― how's life, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
also this is their best non-"motownphilly" upbeat single
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnbdCzXtb6o
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
lol i love the thread this direction has taken but rev you should listen to and rank the poll options
― some dude, Monday, 21 May 2012 17:48 (eleven years ago) link
i voted for "longview"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
i bought the god single, and monster, and no need to argue, but i think i like einstein on the beach best out of all of them
i still consistently loathe beck
― fauxmarc, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'd take 4-6 of the songs on the list of non-#1s you posted over any of the poll options i know tho
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
i think i recorded the more you ignore me video
― fauxmarc, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:02 (eleven years ago) link
i was like "how has no one mentioned 'thank you'" and then rev came through
thank you rev
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:12 (eleven years ago) link
All apologies.
― โตเกียวเหมียวเหมียว aka Bulgarian Tourist Chamber (Mount Cleaners), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
I wonder if younger people who've basically only been exposed to lame, half-assed Scientologist Beck realize that he was actually pretty rad at one time.
― Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
i thought he was rad when i was a little 14 y.o. shithead, realized he was lame before i realized he was a clam
― tell peeta my fire dress is draggin on the floor (some dude), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:25 (eleven years ago) link
i like some beck but i've always hated "loser"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
give me any of the hits off odelay or even fucking "sexx laws"
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
Guero is still my favorite album by him
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
"God" is probably the song here that suffers most in comparison to the real biggest hit from its parent album, "Cornflake Girl," but it's still pretty fantastic, deserves more love itt
god >>>>> cornflake girl. feels both more direct and more interesting.
pretty awesome carl craig remixes too
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:34 (eleven years ago) link
although "cornflake girl" is probably my least favourite 90s tori amos single
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh no wait i forgot "past the mission" happened. 2nd least fav.