What's the wimpiest/most lol u moshing 2 that?? band you actually saw ppl mosh to in the 90s

Mazzy Star

This is way less moshing-est than any other band named on this thread so far.

(It was when they were supporting the JAMC but still, they were so NOT moshing material.)

TMBG moshing in the early 90s - it was a thing

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yeah, i mean, you see video of things like Lollapalooza or i dunno, Woodstock II, and people are moshing to highly inappropriate stuff. I think there's video of Dylan at Woodstock II with a lot of crowd surfing.

pretty sure that those early 90s TMBG moshers are all highly paid professionals now

TMBG were pretty upbeat. I can imagine people moshing to them. But moshing to "Fade Into You" is just plain o_0

yeah, i think ska played a role in this

the TMBG phenomenon - not Kate's Mazzy Star example - which is definitely o_O

toad the wet sprocket is winning right now ftcsah

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"i think ska played a role in this"

that's some next level abbreviation there, Steve, I have no clue what that translates to

Maybe Velocity Girl?

Nah, that would be vg surely

We moshed to EVERYTHING at our middle school dances. Hammer, BBD, Mariah. The only thing remotely approaching moshable was Billy Idol though.

Not exactly wimpy but I saw young fat kids moshing to Boss Hog and couldn't help but think that it was their first show.

yeah, ska confused people ... i can recall people moshing to a straight-up reggae band in the early 90s. it didn't work.

TMBG had a lot of very energetic, punky songs. Nothing weird about moshing to them.

plenty weird about liking them

it's a damn good thing I never attended a Stars Of The Lid show - the urge to mosh would have been overpowering

(JUST KIDDING)

I guess we don't have any general moshing threads? b/c I'm gonna sound like a meathead but some of my best 90s concert experiences involved pits...Fishbone in 1992 was transcendent: huge & crazy pit swirling, then a guy in the band (a horn player? can't remember) got completely naked, crowd-surfed over the pit to the back of the crowd & then back to the stage; then simultaneously the music & the lights in the venue all shut off (so the pit convulsed in the dark, pretty freaky) & then after 30 seconds or so a single spotlight was turned on the singer, who sang unaccompanied for a few minutes, & iirc it was some kind of gospel-type song. I still get chills thinking about that: all that violent energy being channeled into something spiritual, ultimately.

moshing vs skanking

lol @ mazzy star!

Mazzy Star

This is way less moshing-est than any other band named on this thread so far.

(It was when they were supporting the JAMC but still, they were so NOT moshing material.)

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lol this is the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. I went to an American date on that same tour & yeah, there was moshing. Generally, you could find moshing at any given all-ages "alternative rock" show from 92-96 or so.

toad the wet sprocket is winning right now ftcsah

that's some next level abbreviation there, Steve, I have no clue what that translates to

For those ceeping score at home?

I have moshed to Fishbone in the 90s and it was very good.

the posies

me & my highschool best friend would mosh to Fleetwood Mac at our friend Ben's house - who was a big FM fan, but we did it pretty much to annoy him, though i think my best friend was also flirting w/him a bit by doing this

Dave matthews band

They have a special method for calming the pit down I believe.

by sucking?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3597180.stm

Also Foreigner and Smash Mouth

is there ANYONE DMB won't dump their shit on

Oh yea and also saw kids going pummel-nuts to John Mayer

John Mayer wd make me want to pummel nuts I think

Mainly John Mayer's

lol

Low

j/k

do people even mosh anymore? seems so quaint.

uh, yeah

now that i think about it, i think my friends and i fake moshed to abba at my 16th bday party sleepover (summer 1991)
not sure this counts since it was insincere

i also saw people moshing to material issue when i saw them at an amusement park in the 90s (RIP geauga lake)

Shakey, never change, you're a gem!

Does moshing occur at rap shows

Does moshing occur in Finland?

the posies

― 156, Friday, July 23, 2010 8:24 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

Which makes it an opportune time to link to Ken Stringfellow's Moshers and Me.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23862512-all-together-now-for-a-pre-mosh-ring-of-fire.do

A nod or a catch of the eye might start off a circle-pit frenzy. Usually the beginning of a song will do, but if it's a fast one, it might catch you unawares so it's wise to bring hobnail boots, gum shields or head protection. That might be overstating it, but as someone who has fainted mid-squeeze at a Real Big Fish gig recently, I advise you to come equipped.

It sets a good tone, as George Norton, 25, from Victoria, says: “I've been circle-pitting for some time but I'm glad to see it's gone mainstream. I can't see why you wouldn't because it gets the crowd going better than anything else, which always makes a good gig.”

Pretty much every wussy indie gig I went to in the mid-90s had people moshing or at least trying to. That doesn't happen any where near as much these days and not just in a "lol you old" way.

I think my answer to this question is probably Ben Folds Five though.

I had my first crowd surf to Space at Reading Festival ('97?), and I remember getting quite bruised in the mosh to "C'Mon Kids" by the Boo Radleys at the same festival.

Pretty sure people will still mosh to anything at Reading.

music that was playing over a PA (no band onstage)

The punk/ska/cabaret band World/Inferno Friendship Society has plenty of moshable songs for their loyal following, so even when the band broke into a waltz, the fans all paired up and waltz moshed like mad.

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Posted: July 23, 2010 at 2:56:36 PM
ppl would mosh to fucking anything in the 90s

oh this is so so true

I may be making this up but I want to say that in high school we once started a moshpit for "Pump Up the Jam""

Just here to confirm this urban legend.

Or perhaps suburban legend

Rural maybe

Fuck you it happened ok

wasn't moshing but there was this Christian convention I went to in my youth group days and there was this musician named Mark Imboden who was this jam bandy, hippie type Christian that played inoffensive acoustic Christian folksy stuff and these kids started crowd surfing to it.

then again their only alternatives at that festival were Rebecca St James and Nouveaux so

Everclear

DC Talk

You shoulda seen the enforcer

Does this count as moshing, y/n

https://youtu.be/W3DllvVSsLc

No actual physical contact and almost certainly not the '90s but, well, kinda feel like this video should be a valid answer to any question posed by humans so there you go

i think it counts as brain damage possibly being airborne contagion

not moshing but i went to see the kranky 25th anniversary/ambient church show at a historic church on the campus of the university of chicago and they had a security guy posted right in front of the "stage" (where the preacher would normally stand) who was actively stretching out before the show

General Admission at any Mercer Arena show in Seattle from ‘93-‘97 was a constant pit. Lights up, between bands, didn’t matter. We moshed.
Most surreal example was a kid who crowd surfed at the theater where I saw Singles on opening night. I think it was during the Soundgarden part.

I saw Singles in a Detroit-area theater with other flannel-garbed teens, and there was definitely light moshing in the seats. (When the mellow opening section of Smashing Pumpkins' "Drown" started up, a guy said to his buddy next to him -- "Don't worry, it gets a lot harder.")

they had a security guy posted right in front of the "stage" (where the preacher would normally stand) who was actively stretching out before the show

irl lol
can totally see that

Poi Dog Pondering

Eels.

The Boo Radleys c1997 at Reading Festival. It was pretty hardcore

Echo & the Bunnymen at Lollapalooza second stage in '98, maybe.

The most anti-mosh was in high school, during model UN (lol nerd, I honestly did it to go record shopping in DC). There was some party at the end, with a DJ, which back then meant playing rock music, more or less. They played GNR's"Paradise City," for some reason (why not something from Use Your Illusion?) but cut it short before the fast coda, because they didn't want kids to mosh! This must have been ... spring '92, maybe?

Seals and Crofts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3DllvVSsLc

Cherry Poppin' Daddies, but it was at Warped Tour sandwiched between The Urge & Reverend Horton Heat.