Drinking In L.A. * Steal My Sunshine * In The Meantime * Get What You Give * Novocaine For The Soul

These are all songs about being young and unsure of what to make of life.

The two first songs feel like pivotal moments in my teenage years. Have too many good memories attached to both and the nostalgia goggles wont let me hear them separate from those memories. Maybe they actually suck for someone hearing them for the first time, trying my best to hear them with fresh ears I can only gather all of the nominees are some weird one hit wonders even for the late 90’s.

I think I have to go with Len, I love the sample and the delivery.

would like to refer everyone itt to this excellent blog http://pre-durst-blog.tumblr.com/

Another post-beck hit I remember

butthole surfers - pepper

There should be separate thread for these, I feel like there’s plenty of examples out there.

I h-a-t-e-d the Young Radicals song – and I worked at VH1 at the time, so it played on a TV over my head 4-5 times a day.

My two nostalgic favourite post-Beck-type minor alternative hits from this era: Naked Eye by Luscious Jackson and Hand in Your Head by Money Mark.

<3 Money Mark. that song was on both his first and second albums but in different iterations

None of these songs have anything in common. Anyway, “Steal My Sunshine” rules.

― i’m still stanning (morrisp)

Theme-wise they’re all about procrastination and depression.

Sadly I can't find Money Mark on spotty

these songs are all a lot of fun, except Novocaine which I fucking despise, but "You Get What You Give" is the runaway winner here. Pure euphoria, would've been a hit in any decade, not sure if I could say that about the rest.

Also briefly considered Steal My Sunshine and In The Meantime, but the vocals and songwriting don't compare.

Happily Surprised at how many people here like Hand in Your Head, I never hear it mentioned anywhere.

Apparently Royston Langdon is a bigwig at Spotify now

“You get what you give” feels like the best written song out of all of these and the only one you can modernize and rearrange without losing what makes it special but I still prefer “steal my sunshine”

El Scorcho definitely fits in this weird category, doesn't it?

Scorcho predates these. All of these are from 1998/1999 I think.

also not much of a hit iirc

"Butterfly" is definitely a post-"Loser" track.

how about "Butter of 69"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WweOg2krMPE

I like the len song the best, im allergic to new radicals one, and i secretly liked spacehog one.

also not much of a hit iirc

― Simon H., Thursday, June 28, 2018 9:56 AM (one minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess not. it has the most plays of any pinkerton track, whatever that's worth

in the meantime came out in 1995

Whale - Hobo Humping Slobo Babe isn't quite in this but I feel like it needs an honourable mention for being bonkers

wow I should not have checked to see what Weezer's current Top 10 tracks are on Spotify

xp actually I'm listening to it now and despite the proto-nu-metalness, it's absolutely this

That whole Whale album rules imo.

Theme-wise they’re all about procrastination and depression.

So were most other songs in the ‘90s, lol

how has nobody brought up this classic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

Not sure about this one cos it straddles Sunny-D and acid jazz/new jack, but it's definitely in that Michel Gondry hip hop vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwBjhBL9G6U

speaking of which

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY5zaDZq0sc

i hate all of these songs. drinking in la is the only one i hear with any regularity anymore (probably because it's CanCon)

also i think it's the least objectionable of all of these so I'm voting for it. the spacehog song actually makes me want to kill

Len is also Canadian

oh yeah i guess i hear that a bit too. haven't heard the latter two in a decade

i hate all of these songs

you steal our sunshine

this thread is now just dog latin going "hey, remember the '90s?"

(and being racist)

I made a playlist a while ago that was very much stuff in the vibe of a few of these songs. Mostly stuff the came out in 96 or the surrounding years:
https://open.spotify.com/user/hairysquishmas/playlist/29OSMeThq1N86C0P7cBSxi

In the 90s I knew a girl in the 90s who liked to play the Sims; the stereo in her simworld rotated between the following songs: Get What You Give, Bittersweet Symphony, and Kids in America. Just those songs in rotation. 30 seconds of each. For hours.

dog latin did you not include 1979 because you knew it would win

this was easy though, 'Steal My Sunshine'

I made a playlist a while ago that was very much stuff in the vibe of a few of these songs. Mostly stuff the came out in 96 or the surrounding years:
https://open.spotify.com/user/hairysquishmas/playlist/29OSMeThq1N86C0P7cBSxi

― MarkoP

Ah yes! These has other songs I was thinking about earlier like scooby snacks and geggy tah.

Gah at my "In the 90s I knew a girl in the 90s."

also it was between the years 1989 and 2000, in case you were wondering

The Sims was released on February 4, 2000.

owned

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk9-28HgxfE

I would have voted for 'Get What You Give' but 'Drinking In LA' has personal resonance for me so that.

Post-Beck is a pretty otm name.

Odelayter

I liked the Spacehog single enough that I bought the CD, then immediately sold it back after hearing the other songs.

Might as well link to this thread:

50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

Correct link:

50 Memorable Songs Of The Late 1990s That Apparently Only You Remember, Even Though They Were Totally On The Radio And Stuff

And this one:

Show me a 90's hit that is somewhere in my head but I just don't know it.