Drinking In L.A. * Steal My Sunshine * In The Meantime * Get What You Give * Novocaine For The Soul

Happily Surprised at how many people here like Hand in Your Head, I never hear it mentioned anywhere.

Apparently Royston Langdon is a bigwig at Spotify now

“You get what you give” feels like the best written song out of all of these and the only one you can modernize and rearrange without losing what makes it special but I still prefer “steal my sunshine”

El Scorcho definitely fits in this weird category, doesn't it?

Scorcho predates these. All of these are from 1998/1999 I think.

also not much of a hit iirc

"Butterfly" is definitely a post-"Loser" track.

how about "Butter of 69"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweOg2krMPE

I like the len song the best, im allergic to new radicals one, and i secretly liked spacehog one.

also not much of a hit iirc

― Simon H., Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:56 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess not. it has the most plays of any pinkerton track, whatever that's worth

in the meantime came out in 1995

Whale - Hobo Humping Slobo Babe isn't quite in this but I feel like it needs an honourable mention for being bonkers

wow I should not have checked to see what Weezer's current Top 10 tracks are on Spotify

xp actually I'm listening to it now and despite the proto-nu-metalness, it's absolutely this

That whole Whale album rules imo.

Theme-wise they’re all about procrastination and depression.

So were most other songs in the ‘90s, lol

how has nobody brought up this classic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

Not sure about this one cos it straddles Sunny-D and acid jazz/new jack, but it's definitely in that Michel Gondry hip hop vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwBjhBL9G6U

speaking of which

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5zaDZq0sc

i hate all of these songs. drinking in la is the only one i hear with any regularity anymore (probably because it's CanCon)

also i think it's the least objectionable of all of these so I'm voting for it. the spacehog song actually makes me want to kill

Len is also Canadian

oh yeah i guess i hear that a bit too. haven't heard the latter two in a decade

i hate all of these songs

you steal our sunshine

this thread is now just dog latin going "hey, remember the '90s?"

(and being racist)

I made a playlist a while ago that was very much stuff in the vibe of a few of these songs. Mostly stuff the came out in 96 or the surrounding years:
https://open.spotify.com/user/hairysquishmas/playlist/29OSMeThq1N86C0P7cBSxi

In the 90s I knew a girl in the 90s who liked to play the Sims; the stereo in her simworld rotated between the following songs: Get What You Give, Bittersweet Symphony, and Kids in America. Just those songs in rotation. 30 seconds of each. For hours.

dog latin did you not include 1979 because you knew it would win

this was easy though, 'Steal My Sunshine'

I made a playlist a while ago that was very much stuff in the vibe of a few of these songs. Mostly stuff the came out in 96 or the surrounding years:
https://open.spotify.com/user/hairysquishmas/playlist/29OSMeThq1N86C0P7cBSxi

― MarkoP

Ah yes! These has other songs I was thinking about earlier like scooby snacks and geggy tah.

Gah at my "In the 90s I knew a girl in the 90s."

also it was between the years 1989 and 2000, in case you were wondering

The Sims was released on February 4, 2000.

owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9-28HgxfE

I would have voted for 'Get What You Give' but 'Drinking In LA' has personal resonance for me so that.

Post-Beck is a pretty otm name.

Odelayter

I liked the Spacehog single enough that I bought the CD, then immediately sold it back after hearing the other songs.

Might as well link to this thread:

50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

Correct link:

50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

And this one:

Show me a 90's hit that is somewhere in my head but I just don't know it.

Another one which sort of classifies as summer post-beck hit:

Cornershop - brimful of asha

and I like this one better from the same album even better but it wasn’t a hit:

Cornershop - candyman

And others that sort of fit according to me:

Lightning Seeds - you showed me
Moloko - fun for me
Babylon zoo - spaceman

It would be interesting to make a list of *pre*-Beck hits (or "MTV hits," if they didn't chart) that were rap/rock/pop hybrids. For example --

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Dw6q-5iaA&list=RDK4Dw6q-5iaA

Just realized most if not all of these were on MTV’s Daria soundtrack at some point so if you want more of these, that’s a good place to search for.

No idea if it’s complete but here’s one in spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/user/otro_daniel/playlist/2PeNJybKOg0KnuDCrVBYuk?si=HZPWhRrbRS62YKips79L3g

spagehog are originally from leeds.
and the opening of that track was used in a phone advert for years in the uk, hence the inbuilt animosity for many people.

was it spacehog in the advert or the original penguin cafe orchestra track that they shamelessly ripped off?

ha that's my fave part of the song and now that i'm aware of the source fuck spacehog.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWZ4pve5Mkc

well I never .. had no idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Meantime_(Spacehog_song)