And then identical, rather
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm not being nostalgic for the Robyn Hitchcock Era, just pointing out that "modern rock"-reporting stations, as croup said, had more numbers on their side in '95.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:33 (nine years ago) link
what's poor John Frusciante got to do to get a BNM?!
― campreverb, Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Actually I have to disagree a little, the music on mod rock charts DID get harder, both formats moved toward each other but were quite distinct for about five years
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Xpost re bush and lou
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:35 (nine years ago) link
And c'mon alt radio still played shit like Shawn Mullins, everlast, Sheryl crow. You could still get a thoughtful shuffle on rock radio you just couldn't be old
― da croupier, Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I don't doubt "Wonderwall" got more legit play than Ned's Atomic Dustbin's #1 when the number of stations and listener responders expanded.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
Female singer-songwriters got more slack than the male ones in the mid/late '90s though - just desserts.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
In the early '90s we had, what, Sinead and Suzanne Vega and maybe Kate Bush? Slim pickins.
right in the middle of the 2003-2008 "Oligopoly" period I remember hearing a lot of White Stripes and Modest Mouse and the Raconteurs and Bloc Party and Gnarls Barkley and the Bravery
― example (crüt), Thursday, 19 February 2015 14:45 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, while the Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, and Incubus had the highest peaking songs of that era I tend to usually associate that time period more with bands like The White Stripes, The Killers, Modest Mouse, The Bravery, Muse and all of those emo pop acts like Fall Out Boy, Panic at the Disco, My Chemical Romance. Also, because I'm in Canada bands like Metric, Arcade Fire, Sam Roberts, and AlexisonFire/City and Colour.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 February 2015 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Alfred you are talking the height of the Tori Amos era. she was huge.
― campreverb, Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Was tori amos really that huge?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Huger than the three Alfred mentioned. I think Alfred's thinking 1990-91 though.
― how's life, Thursday, 19 February 2015 16:57 (nine years ago) link
well, Little Earthquakes was '92.
― campreverb, Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
1999-2002 < 1997-1999 < 2003-2008 < 1993-1996 < 2009-2013 < 1988-1993
― example (crüt), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
actually i can't really decide whether 1999-2002 or 1997-1999 is worse
― example (crüt), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
arent you supposed to be nostalgic for the music of your youth?
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
right now I'm jonesing for a burger
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
I listened to oldies radio so I am nostalgic for the Four Tops and the Grass Roots, not Matchbox 20 and Fuel.
― example (crüt), Thursday, 19 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
I have never heard Sweater Weather.
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 19 February 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
it feels weird lumping in 2003 with as far ahead as 2008. the representation listed above doesn't account for the singles during the earlier half of that era that were actually decent ("go with the flow," "minerva," "just because," "maps," "duality," "hard to explain," the darkness, etc) although audioslave had shown up by then who were both the worst and most overplayed rock band of that entire decade. but as far as i can tell, those odd minor-hits disappeared entirely by the time 2009 had arrived.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link
just as well that i am mookieproofed
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:01 (nine years ago) link
hmm
― Eric Burdon & War, On Drugs (Cosmic Slop), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link