The list feels pretty... noncomprehensive, but I guess it's just meant to be a smattering of "favorites."
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
Tom Green. Everyone's favorite.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:00 (one year ago) link
Arrested Development were also terrible
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:05 (one year ago) link
ban
― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
yeah they became terrible but that first album is very classic imo
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:47 (one year ago) link
Today I learned that not only are they still around, they've released NINE albums since 2001.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
This is a jam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEaS0_phG8o
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 October 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
I seem to remember the Squirrel Nut Zippers' Hot being more of a one album wonder than Hell being a one hit wonder too. I see only Hell charted but "Put a Lid on it" and "Got My Own Thing Now" seemed like they got plenty airplay too -- it could have just been a local radio thing or that I'm confusing the ubiquity of the 90s swing revival with the one CD I bought from it though.
― BrianB, Wednesday, 5 October 2022 13:41 (one year ago) link
i only ever heard "hell" which was on vh1 every five minutes. love that song tho
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 15:19 (one year ago) link
My gf showed me the p4k 90s songs list the other day. I ctrl-f'd "Missy" and was very pleased.
In 2008 when I was a 20yo college radio DJ my station started holding regular 1990s dance parties. The top 25 of this list includes many of the songs I was most excited to play out, including their #1. My first thought is "Wow I really knew what was up," but the reality is probably just that this list was assembled by a bunch of 30something former college radio DJs with similar taste lol
For a look at how things have changed (or not), here is a playlist I made last year when I was trying to assemble a top 10 for each decade. I am a lot less high on either the boom bap or the shiny suit era hip hop than I used to be, but Nas will always have a place in my HOF https://open.spotify.com/playlist/32xQXPJ3kT1y0u9mEdKlS5?si=wlWHLakoRByn8dOA3-bhVg&utm_source=copy-link
― Sonned by a comedy podcast after a dairy network beef (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 October 2022 15:59 (one year ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/the-best-grunge-albums-of-the-90s/
ok so, afghan whigs, sonic youth, and pj harvey are grunge
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 6 October 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
I feel like the Whigs are at least defensible but not those other two.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 October 2022 17:47 (one year ago) link
Dirty is at least grunge-adjacent/informed, no?
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Thursday, 6 October 2022 17:54 (one year ago) link
Best Grunge was made in the 80s
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
idk, for some reason I always associated Experimental Jetset more with grunge than Dirty.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:46 (one year ago) link
Neither of them really sound "grunge" to my ears, but the former is just some weird association I've always held.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 6 October 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
If Dirty and Gish are grunge, then Come’s Eleven: Eleven sure as fuck is and needs to be there
Also, no Gits? Love Battery? What a basic list
― beamish13, Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:12 (one year ago) link
“Best grunge was made in the 80’s”
I’d probably say so, given the work of Band of Susans and Live Skull
― beamish13, Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:13 (one year ago) link
Hardly think of those as grunge bands. Capital-G grunge in the '80s was, unfortunately, the likes of Green River or Mother Love Bone.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
best grunge was in the 60s, blue cheer, everybody knows this is nowhere
― brimstead, Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
High Tide - Sea Shanties!
Superfuzzbigmuff was 88
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
Therefore the best grunge was made in the 80s
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
Superfuzz Bigmuff, Ultramega OK and Bleach all feel like outliers rather than representative. The was a lot of unlistenable dreck in that late '80s Pacific NW scene.
― The Ghost Club, Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
🎵 Gloried version of appellate grunge 🎶
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:48 (one year ago) link
Lol
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
Lack of Screaming Trees
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Thursday, 6 October 2022 19:59 (one year ago) link
― brimstead, Thursday, October 6, 2022 2:20 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
This shit is so classic
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 6 October 2022 20:00 (one year ago) link
they made a grunge list and didn’t include Screaming Trees? lmfao dumbass publication, no wonder i don’t read it any longer
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 7 October 2022 11:21 (one year ago) link
Next thing you know they’ll do a list if 2000s minimal and leave Villalobos off the list
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Friday, 7 October 2022 11:22 (one year ago) link
they (nearly) lost you!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 October 2022 11:53 (one year ago) link
Was going to complain about this same glaring omission but noticed they threw Mark Lanegan on there to compensate, I guess
Like many of you I loathe all of these lists on general principle but I will concede I enjoyed the One Hit Wonders list, which was obviously not meant to be complete or exhaustive, and was just a fun read. I like a lot of those songs more than I remembered. That Sixpence None The Richer song sounds a lot better to me after not hearing it constantly in the 90s everywhere I went. Now I'm wondering if "Sex and Candy" and similarly once-ubiquitous hits have aged as well
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 7 October 2022 14:07 (one year ago) link
"Sex and Candy" reeked like a damp sock in 1998.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 October 2022 14:09 (one year ago) link
No argument. I associate it with that Sixpence song and a few others that seemed to follow me everywhere I went the year it was released
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 7 October 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
Speaking from somewhere where it was only a minor hit (UK #29 but completely forgotten) I think Sex and Candy mystifies me more than any other US one hit wonder. It's so tuneless and comatose and it turned up very late.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 16:55 (one year ago) link
Let me tell you about Wheatus
― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 7 October 2022 16:59 (one year ago) link
don't love the song but if there's a musical moment to it that hooks it's his kind kind of slinky dragging behind the beat phrasing and nice descending guitar lick of after a quick rest in the chorus the *pause* i smell sex and can....day then *pause* "who's that loung....in" part
not really enough to make it a good song but that is the musical thing that made the song popular imo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 October 2022 17:00 (one year ago) link
I feel like this song has come up a lot lately, lol
UMS otm... I don't blame anyone for not liking it (I do), but I think the hook is undeniable
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Friday, 7 October 2022 17:06 (one year ago) link
I don't think that's top 10 catchy at all, especially not when its played as half-asleep as it sounds. Mind you I've never had to hear the song repeatedly.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 17:13 (one year ago) link
I studied abroad in the UK in 1998-99 and was asked by the student newspaper to name my least favorite song of 1998, and I said "Sex and Candy," though I don't think the person asking was familiar with it.
― jaymc, Friday, 7 October 2022 17:34 (one year ago) link
Both were hard to find in the UK in that era iirc
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 7 October 2022 17:40 (one year ago) link
― hi hole im dad (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 7, 2022 11:59 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
that song never actually made the hot 100 but did hit #2 in the uk and #1 in australia
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
the one time i saw marcy playground in concert most of their songs reminded me of archers of loaf. also "sex and candy" is good imo
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:12 (one year ago) link
And, regardless of whatever its quality may be, it's tuneful and lively and makes total sense in a 2001 chart context.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
It actually kept Last Resort at #3 and was released just as Rollin' slipped from number one. Give the Feeder and Ash classics (for they are classics) in the top 10 as well around that time early 2001 was maybe the most powerful Kerrang! had ever been on the singles chart.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:28 (one year ago) link
In the UK this is not AUS
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:31 (one year ago) link
Shame it was pure shite era Kerrang
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 7 October 2022 18:36 (one year ago) link
Yet the 'pure shite era' is what Kerrang treats now as the totem age. Helps matters that many of their key bands of the time are popular with Gen Z.
― you can see me from westbury white horse, Friday, 7 October 2022 18:47 (one year ago) link
the period after is actually when they got peak sales and over 50% of readership was female. I don't really know what they were covering though (Brad emo?) as I stopped buying it because of the pure shite era beforehand.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
White Stripes were getting coverage in that so called totem age. Along with the darkness and the hives + the remains of nu metal.
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Friday, 7 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link