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

Spacehog probably the archetypal British-band-bigger-in-US, even more than Bush, it's probably a cliche to even mention it tbh, although I actually do remember hearing that song in the UK at the time, so it wasn't a complete flop.

The bowie aping in it is groany but also sorta in the spirit of the day. “lol well heart in the right place for these times.”

that sample
that bass line
that ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooeooh part

this is Spacehog in a walk

len ftw

(and i LOVE EELS)

Think this fits in here somewhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eBZqmL8ehg

p sure we already have 900 trip-hop landfill threads

xp shiit yea that Hanson song is sick

did anyone mention citizen king? that one always gets lost in the mix.

having a bad week, sic?

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

Len ftw!

The new radicals album is all time for me
Still sounds dope

there are a bunch of songs I've never heard before that totally fit that I enjoyed hearing for the first time too! thraed just moved on by the time I saw them

Missed this poll, but would have argued that “Natural One” should have been included.

Gonna try to nail this aesthetic as:

- period of roughly '94 - 2000 with some exceptions
- funky/hip-hop influenced pop/rock but not firmly entrenched in any particular camp
- usually a one or two-hit wonder

“Natural One” should have been included.

agreed

I remember getting a haircut in college when “Natural One” came on the radio; the woman cutting my hair was scoffing at the song with another stylist – “Who writes this stuff?” I sat there thinking, Uh, it’s John Davis and Lou Barlow... I could talk for 10 minutes about these guys!

Len won. Justice is done. Y’all

The performance of the Eels song in this poll – and the fact that barely anyone even reminisced about on it in the thread – reinforces the mystery around the fact that it was an Alternative hit.

It was, but--like a lot of big tracks from that period--it didn't have legs past it's point of max. impact.

Novocaine for the Soul didn't really cross over into the main Billboard charts. It peaked at 39 on the Airplay charts, which is just barely making it.

Drinking in L.A. didn't either, and in fact didn't even make it on the US Modern Rock charts, but that song had greater international success.

I like the eels song. Also eels were big in the UK.
Alternate versions of the song are better. It’s no last stop this town

The first three did get heavy airplay in Mexico don’t know about the US. Spacehog and Eels didn’t get any at all and I only knew about them by watching MTV’s 120 minutes (don’t know if you had that in the US but it was 2 hours of alt music including electronica and hip hop that didn’t get usual airplay from them)

I don’t remember watching the novocaine video though, I remember one with a singing carrot... “last stop this town”?

Yeah! You got it Moka

Not many singles from electro shock. Last stop and cancer for the cure was in American beauty but the industrial noise intro pretty much guaranteed it was a non single.

I was just in a shop where the Cardigans’ “Lovefool” staeted playing, and it seemed to fit the vibe of these selections in a certain way.

I could see that

i actually listened to the one citizen king album they put out. it's like beck except not good. anyways one of the members went on to mix j dilla records and the lead dude became an electroclash guy (mount sims)

just want to drop this useless knowledge

this lesser-known Swedish pop-rap hit is definitely part of this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf8MR-EnSho

classic UK examples

Mint Royale - Don't Falter
Five - Keep on Movin'
Ronan Keating - Life Is a Rollercoaster
Terrorvision - Tequila

the first of those is on many of my playlists, the others never will be.

"Life is a rollercoaster" does not belong

cept it does

explain

well why not? Strong summery feel + upbeat but bittersweet (the latter an angle ever-accelerated by nostalgia) + somewhat ethereal production (Gregg Alexander). Fits this sort of thing to a tee I'd say.

I getcha but needs at least a modicum of funky 'tude as well which Ronan doesn't have

well, that's patently untrue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mok8NznlEEE

okay i take it back