Is "Hey Jealousy" the best rock song of the 90s?

voted "yes"

this is when they were indie rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YL9YfmlhyU

This song just came on the muzak at Kroger.

Buffalo Tom's '90s output >>> everything else in this genre.

Also, I feel like the original Friends soundtrack could be the definitive document of this era and style of music:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Friends

(the 1999 follow-up comp, meanwhile, attests to the sheer diffuseness of popular music at the end of the decade)

ehhh that's a bold claim, is it just because j. mascis recorded them? that dude had a gruff ass voice and a lot of their stuff is pretty rote. gin blossoms, however, are sugar-y and exciting even if it's, you know, nineties blah rock.

Man, if you ever want to prove to scientists that 1989 and 1992 are in different decades despite being only three years apart, just play 'em those Dusted/New Beautiful Experience versions.

they're the bubblegum mats

Ross goes for the whiskey for Rachel's father

Playing at a party at Monica's, when Ross pours whiskey for the father of Rachel.

Joe appears with a volleyball ball.

hey can we keep it copacetic in here

imma keep it copper blue

thanks sugar

Local H bruh!

Keep it up and yr bound for the floor

How Bizarre, semi charmed life, that everclear song, cigarettes and alcohol

― ur-oik (rip van wanko), Saturday, November 18, 2017

Not Gin Blossoms. Also horrible. These are all the worst. Weirdly, I've heard "how bizarre" twice in the past week, both times in a CVS. But different CVS's...

It is telling in the remake of Wings of Desire as City of Angels, you get "Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls instead of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

Can't stop singing "bravely bold sir robin ran away" to the verses of "found out about you."

Bravely bold sir robin ran away / bravely bold sir robin ran ahhh-WAY-HEY-HEYYY

hwarf

Hey Jealousy is a melancholy power pop song. None of the other suggestions are melancholy power pop songs.

always wondered if the powerpop scene claims the gin blossoms as one of their own.

Is there an actual powerpop scene? In the UK its always felt like a descriptor rather than a genre

The concept, taillights fade, sick of myself, I should have known,

Hey jealousy (92 version) is not power pop

If anything pj’s black (which i suggested above) is a “melancholic power pop song”

How is Gin Blossoms not power pop!?

They’re really good at it too. Not song of the decade good but definitely competent at making catchy power pop melodies

Hey Jealousy is a melancholy power pop song.

Why you gonna give me the runaround?

Is there an actual powerpop scene? In the UK its always felt like a descriptor rather than a genre

I assumed so. I've heard of clubnights and festivals, there have to be a few mailing lists out there somewhere.

Sorry but it's "Watch That Girl Destroy Me"

Sorry but it's "Watch The Girl Destroy Me" :)

I think of power-pop as existing only in a non-pop scene and not the radio. The most hook-driven thing in the indie club: Sloan, etc.

i read that the gin blossoms were pretty influenced by tommy keene (eighties jangle/college rock power pop dude) whom everybody should check out. he's pretty underrated.

Tommy Keene rules
those first two Possum Dixon albums were very good

guys we all know the best song is Bug Powder Dust

is that a cocktail

https://youtu.be/trbvx1U6Ry8

Is this what it’s all devolved to

Did they even have guitars

Best 90s power pop rock song award goes to aphex twin’s tamphex hedphuq mix

Voted yes. There are days where I prefer "Winona" or "I Think I'm Paranoid", but most days it's "Hey Jealousy".

I like coffee and I like tea
But I can't stand "Hey Jealousy"

I think of power-pop as existing only in a non-pop scene and not the radio. The most hook-driven thing in the indie club: Sloan, etc.

― ... (Eazy)

Big Star?

those first two Possum Dixon albums were very good

I like the third one, too.

Hey Jealousy is a melancholy power pop song. None of the other suggestions are melancholy power pop songs.

possum dixon is such a good example of wrong place/wrong time. they would have been way more popular in the mid eighties, when the post-punk was h o t. (though there's also something kinda nineties about 'em too i guess)

lovefool is better than "hey jealousy" and all other songs

i still do not think "hey jealousy" is as good as "found out about you" which like... could be the best song of the nineties. there's this coda between the guitar playing and those highly depressing, damaged-romantic lyrics by doug hopkins that you can't help but pay attention too. the way those jangly chords kinda fade-in and out like a bad dream. it's very mysterious sounding even if it's a top billboard alt hit or whatever.

the video of them in the dark with the lead singer guy wearing a turtle-neck and moping around kinda furthers that vibe

the reason these songs (hey jealousy and found out about you) are so good is because they were written by the dude who got kicked out of the band and killed himself.

Lovefool is awesome! But not a rock song?

(which was to say: I don't think anyone else in the band is/was as talented a songwriter as him and it's telling that their best songs were written by this alcoholic depresso who they kind of fucked over though I'm sure working with him was next to impossible)

didn't they force him to hand over the rights to his songs just before he killed himself?

oh yeah. even besides the mythology of him kiling himself, there is most definitely some great songwriting talent there. all of the lyrics are very biting and personal and it has an effect on you when you listen. even way afterwards, when he was kicked out and just living in arizona or whatever, it seemed like they were sorta... trying to write songs in his vein? because they were a popular nineties machine band and trying to be rock stars and stuff. it's a pretty deep story.

like... the most i hear about this band in this current decade is when they appear on the train guys podcast and i think one of the members said "we want to reach the commercial popularity of nickelback" or something in an interview. they dug their own grave.