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

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.

from the "dusted" album and the live videos you could see they could have been a good post-replacements/r.e.m band and then just became victims of trying to be on the charts and making money. i definitely like some of their other songs way after that (til i hear it from you is dope) but idk these dudes made the wrong decisions and now they get compared to vertical horizon and shit.

You Gin Blossoms and power pop fans should check out the Goo Goo Dolls song (yes those Goo goo dolls) “Aint That Unusual”.

Don’t sleep on “Bittersweet Surrender”

GGD prior to and thru A Boy Named Goo is worthwhile

"Jealousy" by Natalie Merchant is better tbh. Both good songs tho.

If we're talking 90s songs w/ the word "jealousy" in the title

goos covered this tommy keene song too (which is excellent. sounds like some of the mats best stuff)

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

Hey jealousy (92 version) is not power pop

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

what is this

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

aphasia maybe? xp

xp it's the harmonies

Ya it’s funny i was just driving to get some food right now and played the 92 version

Normally i would be an asshole in situations like this but i can kind of see why people call it power pop

But it’s not

It really is the vocal delivery as someone mentioned. I listened to black as comparison and his vocals are just a lot more powerful and without any harmonies

Gonna have my pork burrito now

Peace homeboys

can't tell if serious

Heard The Jayhawks' goddamn "Save It for a Rainy Day" and instead of throwing my shoe at the work Sonos speaker am posting here.

Checking further, I guess it didn't come out until 2003 and so falls more under Americana, but it sure sounds like goddamn 90s Friends rock to me.

It is in the 10 or 15 best '90s rock singles which is close enough.

smh at the number of not-that-great songs mentioned in this thread.

rip tommy keene

ACTUALLY

"Follow You Down" is the best rock song of the 90s.

smh at the number of not-that-great songs mentioned in this thread.

https://i.imgur.com/utzTCyo.png

Earlier in the thread tho lol

xp Oh damn, but "Til I Hear It From You" was so fire.

I think I've now heard "Allison Road" at Walgreens, Marshalls and Whole Foods. I would guess it's G-Bloss's biggest spinner in retail stores.

no

allison road is a tom petty song with a gen x shrug