Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1994

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^^^ the plain and simple truth that has not been spoken enough itt

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waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link

Basket Case is still the catchiest shit ever. In retrospect it's not hard to see how a band that could put tracks like that together would still be around, but who would have foreseen five more top 10 albums and two #1's in the 2000s...

At the time I thought Green Day was going to be another catchy pop-punk band that was going to flare up on the radar and then go away a la K's Choice. I do like them but in the back of my mind I still feel that way, so it's perpetually mind-boggling to me to see (for example) posters for the American Idiot touring show all over major marquees in town.

― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, May 21, 2012 10:45 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i just noticed how weird this post is, i assume he's confusing K's Choice with someone else?

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link

you've been here how long and you're just now noticing that I'm weird?

that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:13 (twelve years ago) link

to be fair, Dan, your line describes 95 percent of posters.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:16 (twelve years ago) link

I was originally going to say They Eat Their Own but I figured no one but me remembers them.

that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

This is definitely my favourite shreds of all time - was crying the first time i saw it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1IhhdsKXAQ

Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link

i'm just saying "Not Addict" was a downtempo song that broke 2+ years after Green Day's first hits, so i assume you meant a band other than K's Choice?

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link

the Dummies have a song that alludes to "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrick" and another about wanting to be David Byrne, both of which were impossibly cool things when one is 19.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:27 (twelve years ago) link

i'm just saying "Not Addict" was a downtempo song that broke 2+ years after Green Day's first hits, so i assume you meant a band other than K's Choice?

I did not mean that at the time I was literally thinking "this band is going to follow the trajectory arc of this band that doesn't exist yet", I meant that at the time I thought people would play "Longview" for a while and call it a day, and then I gave an example of a band where that actually happened. I was not trying to say that Green Day was going to follow in the footsteps of K's Choice.

that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:32 (twelve years ago) link

Tori Amos, "God"
Morrissey, "The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get"
Counting Crows, "Einstein on the Beach"

I have no memory of any of these getting played on the radio or on MTV.. I would guess they all quickly peaked at #1 and then fell off the charts soon afterwards. (I know "God" was a buzzclip or something but still I've never seen the video.)

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:38 (twelve years ago) link

I figured "Round Here" would've placed instead.

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:40 (twelve years ago) link

"Einstein On The Beach" did not have a video. "God" was i think a buzzclip or a 'breakthrough video' or at least was in a lot of MTV promos when it first came out? "The More You Ignore Me" at least got played on 120 Minutes.

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

oh right you said it was a buzzclip

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

i heard einstein and mozz plenty on a local station, which admittedly was alt as fuck, but "God" never

da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link

they were bigger on "past the mission"

da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

"God" was a real quick flash in the pan of 'Tori's back! and this is more alt and guitar-y than the first album!' before "Cornflake Girl" replaced it on playlists

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waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:44 (twelve years ago) link

also not to labor the point but timeline aside it was the phrase "catchy pop-punk band... a la K's Choice" that i was raising an eyebrow at

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link

too late, point labored

da croupier, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link

shit

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:49 (twelve 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 (Yesterday)

i know very little about this kind of music from this period, but i love jangle-pop and this! more jangle-pop please

twittering spinster (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:51 (twelve years ago) link

yeah "Fall Down" rules

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link

"Found Out About You" is jangly

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

I have very little perspective on how much radio/MTV play "God" received because it was roughly concurrent with my listening to Under The Pink a bazillion times.

Quiet Desperation, LLC (Deric W. Haircare), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

My college station was playing this in 1993, three years before "Not An Addict" and a year before "Longview," so there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfTf2bURI9I

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link

"Into Your Arms" is like "There She Goes part 2" except less awesome

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 18:55 (twelve years ago) link

ok, i had no idea K's Choice existed before "Not An Addict"

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link

Weren't they bigger in the UK? I was also totally unfamiliar with them before "Addict".

skip, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link

1994 modern rock singles POX+2:

Mazzy Star "Fade Into You"
Ween "Freedom of 76"
Beastie Boys "Sure Shot"
Nirvana "Verse Chorus Verse" (I think this counts)
Gin Blossoms "Found Out About You"
Dinosaur Jr "Feel The Pain"
Liz Phair "Supernova"
Weezer "Undone The Sweater Song"
Green Day "When I Come Around"
Portishead "Sour Times"
Jawbox "Savory"
Jeff Buckley "Last Goodbye"

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link

my college radio station played "God" and "The More You Ignore Me" around the clock; I would guess that by 1994 Billboard and college radio stations finally achieved something close to parity.

I actually heard "God" more than any Amos single before or since.

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 19:54 (twelve years ago) link

Wasn't K's Choice also, like, Belgian?

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link

itt alfred muddies the waters again by talking about college stations when everyone else is talking about commercial alt stations

waggin the cock and flow tit (some dude), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link

Not on purpose -- I missed the distinction. If that's the case, then, yeah, Counting Crows and Moz def played (never heard "God").

Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:09 (twelve years ago) link

(The first K's Choice song I heard was "I Smoke a Lot," because it was on a bargain-bin label compilation in 1995.)

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link

My alt-rock station played "God" and "Cornflake Girl" plenty.

Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:11 (twelve years ago) link

yo remember when tori covered "teen spirit" and everyone was all like :O

billstevejim, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link

Tori will have to answer for that Coldplay cover of the Beastie Boys one day.

pplains, Tuesday, 22 May 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link

You know it's all I think about
I write your name
drive past your house
Your boyfriend's over
I watch your light go out

I'm all about "Found Out About You," even if Robin Wilson's voice never quite did justice to all the hurt in the song

Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link

I was originally going to say They Eat Their Own but I figured no one but me remembers them.

― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:19 AM (11 hours ago)

I remember them!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJc7F3vhx4U

As for the poll, 1994 me would have voted Tori Amos without hesitation. Today? It would be a close race with Morrissey.

theskysgoneout (Jason Pitzl-Waters), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link

My alt-rock station played "God" and "Cornflake Girl" plenty.

I grew up in MD so HFS played her all the time as a localish celeb or whatever, way before i realized she was a homo icon

fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:15 (twelve years ago) link

Man, do you remember an HFS soundbite of her saying something like "Johnny Riggs...ungh!"?

how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link

"I'M JOHNNY RIGGS" yess

sad he went down in the pedophile porn thing

fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link

woah, i did not know that. guess that explains why he's not on the new rebooted HFS.

some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link

Iiiiii did not know that either. Jesus.

how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:26 (twelve years ago) link

i dj on a pirate unlicensed community radio station in dc that cuts in on the new hfs' signal 97.5 (which isn't strong in the first place coming from baltimore so i don't feel bad)

fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link

I didn't even know there was a new hfs.

how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link

I keep reading "HFS" as "FFS," which is hilarious. To me.

it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link

ah marc that must be your station i occasionally hear when i'm near d.c. but accidentally go through my baltimore radio presets! when do you dj?

some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:33 (twelve years ago) link

i do mostly spanish hip-hop fridays 5-7 then uk/"future" bass stuff fridays 9-11

i listened to the new hfs for a bit when it first came back a few years ago and it just sounded like dc101

also the final song on the old hfs being buckley's last goodbye *tear*

fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:35 (twelve years ago) link

i am occasionally pleasantly surprised by stuff the new hfs plays, but yeah obv it's not the same

some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link

The last song on WHFS was "After Hours" by the Velvet Underground. The station at 99.1 that switched to Spanish-Language had been garbage for at least the previous decade.

Three Word Username, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:59 (twelve years ago) link


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