I remember kind of not hating the Sarah McLachlan song but I'd have to go back and have a re-listen before I commit to anything...
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 8 November 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
Bob Mould
― C-3PO Sharkey (Phil D.), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm generally a bit tired of Pavement but Unseen Power is perhaps the best tribute song to another band ever.
― weak willie (longneck), Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
The Verlaines track belatedly became my favorite. It smokes!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 8 November 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Barbara Manning's Joed Out is good, but I recently heard it again and it's surprisingly inferior to the Verlaines version. Also, I find humor in the PC-ifying shift from "fox fur" to "cashmir."
(For the record, I do not support the fox fur trade)
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 8 November 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
TIME AFTER TIMEIS MY LEAST FAVORITE SONGTIME AFTER TIME IS MY LEAST FAVORITE SONG
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 November 2012 15:18 (eleven years ago) link
thought of this because i was listening to the original "effigy" and it's hilarious how faithful uncle tupelo's cover is, same solos and everything
I can never pick which version I like best. CCR has that cool intro and hey, it's CCR.
But UT does away with that little swing riff after the E chord in the verses and the effect is more haunting.
(And I'm not one of those guys who regularly dissects chords and shit, but it does make a difference.)
― pplains, Thursday, 8 November 2012 15:30 (eleven years ago) link
I think of myself as a guy who has no use for Sarah McLachlan but the Sarah McLachlan on this is truly superb
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 November 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
This comp is so good, partly because there are so many "no use for ___________ but the ___________ on this is cool" songs.
Well, except for the Patti Smith song.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 November 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
i was listening to unseen power of the picket fence and my early-20s coworker walked by and said "i feel like your music today has kind of an old-school flavor"
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:23 (eleven years ago) link
you shoulda been all
NOW THEYRE MARCHIN THROU GEORGIA
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
that's the part that was playing!
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:24 (eleven years ago) link
ASA. . . ASA THEYRE COMIN
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:25 (eleven years ago) link
TIME AFTER TIME WAS MY LEAST FAVORITE SONG
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
Hey wait-- I was pretty sure my version of this album had a different Beastie Boys song, "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
The Urge Overkill song is pretty good too. It came out on their last album "Exit the Dragon" under a different name-- "a View of the Rain."
― Poliopolice, Thursday, 8 November 2012 16:34 (eleven years ago) link
Songs from this album I still have: Buffalo Tom, Soul Aslyum, Urge Overkill, American Music Club, Goo Goo Dolls, Pavement, Smashing Pumpkins, Bob Mould, Barbara Manning, Verlaines, Uncle Tupelo, Beastie Boys, Breeders, Nirvana
Songs I didn't skip originally but didn't bother keeping when I made my CD-R of the above tracks: Matthew Sweet (I don't believe him), Straitjacket Fits
Songs I always skipped: Sarah MacLachlan, Soundgarden, Patti Smith
Leaning toward Pavement over AMC (only song of theirs I've yet to love) and Mould
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:49 (eleven years ago) link
or rather, it's the only AMC song I've loved as yet
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 November 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
Just out of curiosity, is anyone considering voting for Goo Goo Dolls? It's probably in the better half of this comp.
― billstevejim, Thursday, 8 November 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
no
― beef richards (Mr. Que), Thursday, 8 November 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
it's fine filler but yeah i couldn't vote for it
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 November 2012 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
The Verlaines track is outstanding.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 8 November 2012 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
Only reason I'd vote Goo Goo Dolls is, again, because it doesn't sound like Goo Goo Dolls.
― pplains, Thursday, 8 November 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
they did a cover of "never take the place of your man" with lance diamond on their 1990 album i have. always meant to explore of the indie years.
― da croupier, Thursday, 8 November 2012 19:37 (eleven years ago) link
Being a Rolling Stones song, it is definitely the best Goo Goo Dolls track ever.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Thursday, 8 November 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
I had this comp, but I never actually liked it very much...which is a little strange considering I was a full on alternateen when it came out.
The Pavement track is one of the best things ever, really. So that. I remember the Beastie Boys song being a surprisingly vital re-interpretation of the original too.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Thursday, 8 November 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
I see I wasn't the only person who loved the AMC track but was then disappointed by everything else in their catalogue. Nothing struck me like "jeans" did.
― Sanford, Thursday, 8 November 2012 22:34 (eleven years ago) link
I bought Mercury because of that one song and let me tell you, "Johnny Mathis' Feet" sounds nothing like Jeans.
― pplains, Friday, 9 November 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
Funny, I never thought that Jeans was one of their stronger tracks. But will vote for it in this case, as AMC are the only band on the comp who I still listen to.
― doug watson, Friday, 9 November 2012 03:08 (eleven years ago) link
hardcore repping for Unseen Power itt is another sign of the dire affliction that is Pavement standom in these here parts
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 9 November 2012 05:10 (eleven years ago) link
I never ever want to hear Dave Pirner singing Marvin Gaye lyrics, and not with that bass line.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 7, 2012 4:55 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah, this is pretty gross.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, no wonder I couldn't find this initially on youtube, lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7daIFRfMl0
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 9 November 2012 18:30 (eleven years ago) link
Not sure how I feel about a charity comp essentially being used as a dumping ground for stray b-sides, covers and live tracks.
Voted Manning, whose track is several measures of quality above anything else here.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Saturday, 10 November 2012 04:05 (eleven years ago) link
you should feel intimately familiar with it
― mookieproof, Saturday, 10 November 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
oh man that Manning Joed Out <3<3 it's like I'm 17 all over again <3<3
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 10 November 2012 06:35 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Voted Nirvana but always dug the Uncle Tupelo cut
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
forgot to vote yet, wound up tossing it to mould
― da croupier, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
lol phrasing
― balls, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
The Pavement song has always annoyed me, predated my fandom.
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:09 (eleven years ago) link
my god i can't believe i used to listen to this so much. maybe i overlistened to it because i'm pretty sure i can't deal with of these songs now. i'll go with what i would've gone with back then: matthew sweet or buffalo tom, mostly for the guitar. oh how i loved matthew sweet and buffalo tom when i was a teen... lol. i did really like effigy too.
so do we have a poll for Sweet Relief: A Benefit for Victoria Williams is the thing
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:12 (eleven years ago) link
Love Buffalo Tom and like Matthew Sweet but the selections here are unessential, if hardly bad.
― Room 227 (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 13 November 2012 05:15 (eleven years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
Why wasn't Barbara Manning born in New Zealand? Her song from this comp was as great as anything from her records. I love her.
― JacobSanders, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:53 (eleven years ago) link
a lot of times when Nirvana dominates a poll, i kinda loudly roll my eyes about how it's such an obvious but not really correct choice. this is not one of those times.
― my hands tra cer (some dude), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
ah damn i missed this. i would have broken the tie. BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW.
ooh ooh do the kids soundtrack next
― goole, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Effigy!
― ums (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
deserved more than four votes; I wish I would've voted for that but then that would've given the edge to Pavement :(
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 06:09 (eleven years ago) link
anyways I need to soon come into a copy of this CD
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 06:10 (eleven years ago) link
forgot ta vote
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 07:50 (eleven years ago) link
ooh ooh do the kids soundtrack next― goole, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:01 PM (Yesterday)
― goole, Tuesday, November 13, 2012 8:01 PM (Yesterday)
I'M THE POLL NATURAL POLL for the KIDS soundtrack (1995 Harmony Korine, Lou Barlow Folk Implosion)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 13:50 (eleven years ago) link
expected as much
― goole, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 13:56 (eleven years ago) link
i guess slitting my throat is in order?
― goole, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 13:57 (eleven years ago) link
my quantum nostalgia clip show ILX OF THE 2000s LOVES THE 90s is going to be a big hit
― bish don't kill my bosch (some dude), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
Possibly JacobSanders may have given up waiting for an answer but the song Barbara manning is singing is actually by the Verlaines from NZ. So they kinda got two songs on the record.
― clouds (peanutbuttereverysingleday), Thursday, 1 March 2018 05:02 (six years ago) link
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, November 8, 2012 8:40 AM (five years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This. I don't think I paid any attention to it whatsoever when I was listening to this comp at the time ('the Ver-whats?!') but goddamn did this song ever sneak up on me in recent years.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 05:26 (six years ago) link
https://redhot.org/assets/05_NoAlternative-1000x1000.jpg
― the future is now, Thursday, 1 March 2018 06:27 (six years ago) link
Loved this comp ("Glynis"!). It went on to become a stalwart of the bargain bin, along with REM's Monster.
― Sam Weller, Thursday, 1 March 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
I'm surprised to see there's no thread or poll for Red Hot's follow-up indie rock comp. So here you go: Red Hot + Bothered: The Poll
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 13:30 (six years ago) link
Hey Lunchie, if you like that Verlaines track you'll love their "You're Just Too Obscure For Me" comp. It picks the best bits of their 20th century work (they've since reformed and released patchy-with-strong-tracks albums).
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 1 March 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
Cool, I will check that out. They're one of the many bands for whom I've discovered an amazing song that I love and have stupidly explored no further than that.
― Here Comes The Brain Event (Old Lunch), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link