Because they are oppressively awesome.
― how's life, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
No.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the delpy one actually
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Oh! That really wasn't a good movie.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
oh, no that single was a remix of "mouth" actually? NEVERMIND
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
I saw it too :(
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:36 (twelve years ago) link
from Dan Weiss' recent Butch Vig interview:
I thought the Soul Asylum record was underrated as well. It was kind of the right record at the wrong time because it came a few years before alt-country became a thing.
I think it's underrated too. The songwriting is amazing on it, there's some incredible songs. [Vig starts singing a bit of "To My Own Devices"] That was a difficult record to make because... they had all this success with "Runaway Train" and all of a sudden Dave was dating Winona Ryder, they were playing at the White House. And it was hard to get them to focus and start on the record. That was by far the biggest budget record I'd done. Pirner could almost be a street bum, he's such a character and so off in his own world, but I think he's an amazing songwriter. But they kind of fell by the wayside, it didn't have the same kind of success as Grave Dancers Union.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
Hold Me Thrill Me - the last great U2 track of the Achtung/Zooropa era - I think it was a holdover from the Zooropa sessions.
― Get wolves (DL), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - otm
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
It was
xpost
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
i liked soul asylum back then but a lot of it doesn't seem to hold up now except for maybe black gold
also, not to bring up hfs again but one of the hfstivals i went to had both soul asylum and primus during the pirner/winona years - primus going into big brown beaver while winona was in attendance at the side of the stage was hilarious
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
It's embarrassing that we as a society tolerated hair like Pirner's.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
lol
He totally had a cameo in Reality Bites btw. That's just so perfect somehow.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
one of my friends claims to have slept w/ Alanis in Holland around the time You Oughta Know was blowing up
still can't vote for it in good conscience even on this comedically bad list
― cissémanwhore (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
anybody own that Soul Asylum record? A '95 example of ship's list of commercial failures.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:03 (twelve years ago) link
I have the Soul Asylum record. I loved Misery (but voted WICA) and picked up the CD through a Columbia House or BMV spree, haha.
― she started dancing to that (Finefinemusic), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:44 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol i totally remember listening to the station that weekend and hearing reports about the dustup, les claypool apparently dryly informing him that the name isn't even spelled the same in "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver"
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Let me note that despite the overall crappiness of this list, there are 3 songs here that I really like "When I Come Around", "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me" (favorite U2 song by a mile), and "You Oughta Know". That's probably better than some of the later lists will hit.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
i love swag U2, even "Discotheque" was cool w/ me
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
I'm going to have to vote for it! I didn't like it then but I do now. And I don't have the love for early Bush that lots of ILMers do.
Second would probably be "Misery."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:53 AM (4 hours ago)
WTF Bush is definitely the worst band of the '90s! Worst! And that's stiff competition.
― Word of Wisdom Robots (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
at some point it occurred to me that "you oughta know" kind of sounds like an angsty michael jackson song of the same era
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:25 (twelve years ago) link
that said, i'm voting for "lump"
"Good" over "Comedown" and "Wonderwall"
― da croupier, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:29 (twelve years ago) link
re-listening to tomorrow it sounds like an stp knockoff
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
You Oughta Know, easily.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
i chuckle every time someone asserts that in thread
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark
that's almost, like, ungenerous to stone temple pilots
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
it's like a worn-down wicked garden really
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'm hereTo remind youThat your chuckles don't mean anythingIt's not fairTo pretend thatThis song isn't totally awesomeYouYouYou oughta know
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
I find it amusing that both "When I Come Around" and Good ar eon here when they are essentially the same song.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:46 (twelve years ago) link
U2 - one of my fave U2 songs.Bush were terrible, they seemed to be popular solely because of their lead singer's vague physical resemblance to Kurt Cobain.
― banal like a null (snoball), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
is she perverted like me? would she go down on you in a theater?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
lol wasn't it allegedly about some actor like john larroquette or someone
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:59 (twelve years ago) link
and are you thinking of me when you fuck her?
it's so weird, given how alanis turned out, how fucking brilliant "you oughta know"s lyrics are, how viciously and concisely she tells her story
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
dude how were you alive in the 90s and don't know exactly which actor it was (xpost)
― some dude, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:00 (twelve years ago) link
There's not a song on this list I like even a little bit.
― Respectfully, Tyrese Gibson (Nicole), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link
dig, if you will, a picture of Alanis going down on John Larroquette in a theater
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
the ones i particularly remember hating at the time are "lump" and "wonderwall"
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
irl lol xp
omg dan
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:04 (twelve years ago) link
dude how were you alive in the 90s and don't know exactly which actor it was
that is how much i do not care for this song
― fauxmarc, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
wtf You Oughta Know is going to win this? really?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
also wtf Bullet With Butterfly didn't hit #1
it's always interesting to see which songs hit #1 vs. which ones actually had longevity on the radio
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
1979 is the bigger surprise tbh (or will that show up in 96?)
I havent heard JAR in forever and it sounds p rad; You Oughta Know is probably my favorite Flea guest appearance; and I have always had a soft spot for Tomorrow, will never forget the Trouser Press 90s book comparing that song to Bad Company...
probably end up voting for one of those three
― thillrer (loves laboured breathing), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
1979 was a #1
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
― MarkoP, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:46 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Except one is the actual best song on this list and the other is by Better than fucking Ezra.
― it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
You Oughta Know is probably my favorite Flea guest appearance
"Bust a Move"!
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Two things:
1.) I have never heard that rumor and I was alive in the 90s.
2.) I just googled it and GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE WAHT.
― pplains, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
Oasis, easily. Like Deric, I'll give Alanis credit for effectively evoking something.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
xp When I Come Around and Good are not the same song. ?
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:13 (twelve years ago) link