I came up with one: Underworld. Underworld are no longer cool. The rot set in when they released the live album (which is good!). Nothing after that has been great, and that Barbara album suuuuucked.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
JSBX and Boss Hog had a mini media tour a couple of years ago, doing the rounds at places like KEXP and it was really cool to see them (the bands and Jon+Christina) still together and doing well.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 23 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
JSBX are super underrated now
All the stuff collected on the Year One compilation (which was originally spread across the self-titled, Crypt Style, and A Reverse Willie Horton) is fantastic. The next couple of albums were really good, too, but they kinda fizzled after Orange.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 21:48 (two years ago) link
When will we get a Better Than Ezra reevaluation
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, 23 January 2022 21:59 (two years ago) link
I know a pair of Toad The Wet Sprocket superfans, they've flown across the country to see them several times.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
mid to late 90s was pretty abysmal for rock music and i have no issue writing off the whole scene at this point.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:07 (two years ago) link
xpost- ttws fans are definitely committed for the long haul. it's weirdly endearing.
― get shrunk by this funk. (Austin), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:09 (two years ago) link
the Toadies have a very small and very committed cult fanbaseJSBX live was so much fun
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
Seeing JSBX live was among my favorite concert experiences of the 90s
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link
Now I Got Worry tour
Russel Simins is an absolute monster on the drums
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:17 (two years ago) link
I saw Pussy Galore on their last tour in 1989, and then saw JSBX in maybe 1992, either just before or just after Extra Width came out. Both shows were great, but I think I'd probably have to give the edge to PG. Plus, Dial M for Motherfucker is one of the greatest albums of the 80s, so... now there's a record I'd like to see some Gen Z writer grapple with.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:19 (two years ago) link
Bauer and Simins with Tom Waits (doing "Make It Rain") was the best Letterman performance I've seen.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
I have no idea how to even frame a response to that. What do you mean by "cool", and cool to whom? I mean, the bands from the 90s that I still listen to today are, like, Fushitsusha and Unsane and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Monster Magnet. Are any of those bands "cool"? Were they ever?
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link
JSBX had a little baby re-appreciation when they did that album for Mom + Pop in 2015
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:23 (two years ago) link
what once-cool bands from the late-90s do you think are not cool today?Belle and SebastianModest MouseGSYBEElephant Six bands
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:25 (two years ago) link
Yeah, the non NMH E6 bands is a good one
― jpg trouble in wallo gina (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:29 (two years ago) link
Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings) at 4:16 23 Jan 22Now I Got Worry tourI saw them on that tour, just destroyed the club
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 January 2022 22:30 (two years ago) link
(i know ned has always been immune)
Always.
get deep enough into the weeds of 3eb legal stuff and you will become aware of xeb, a sort-of-tribute band made up of ex-3eb band members, and they sound just terrible
Fucking fuck, you mean a later Bay Area generation has its own version of Creedence Clearwater Revisited? Christ on a bike.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:05 (two years ago) link
I saw Creedence Clearwater Revisited during halftime of a Vikings game
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:38 (two years ago) link
Interesting alternate opening for "Werewolves of London" there.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:42 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
don't look backyou can never look back
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 23 January 2022 23:44 (two years ago) link
Halftime with a bad moon risingStu Cook and the Minnesota Vikings
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Monday, 24 January 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
When will we get a Better Than Ezra reevaluation― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, January 23, 2022 3:59 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Sunday, January 23, 2022 3:59 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
About 10 years ago, I worked with a woman who was a Better Than Ezra superfan, with deep knowledge of their entire catalog. IIRC, she thought "Good" was fine and all, but held up an album from like 2005 as an unappreciated masterpiece.
― jaymc, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:32 (two years ago) link
that's weird but to me very similar to manic street preachers fans in the 2000s
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 January 2022 00:36 (two years ago) link
i.e. the true meaning of la tristessa
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 January 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
i identify as a manics fan in the 2000s
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Monday, 24 January 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
I know a guy who told me his favorite band of all time is Dada
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 January 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
and his hair was perfect
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 January 2022 01:26 (two years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/8104-lateralus/
not entirely sure what whiney's point about tool no longer being cool was supposed to be about
― ufo, Monday, 24 January 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, January 23, 2022 7:54 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
i had an acquaintance in college who was an eve 6 superfan. i know a girl who liked nada surf enough that she very likely cheated on her longtime partner with the nada surf guy. but this is something else.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 24 January 2022 03:00 (two years ago) link
he said I'm going to my favorite band and I asked and he said...took me a second to register Dada and then I said "oh yeah Dizz Knee Land" and he was like "Well they have a lot better sings than that" like he was a little offended
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 January 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
cheating with the nada surf guy is pretty wild though
they listened to Blonde on Blonde on a portable stereo
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 24 January 2022 03:47 (two years ago) link
In response to upthread, fuck that tastemaker bullshit, Moby's Play and Everything Is Wrong are great albums, along with at least a dozen other tracks. He may be an obnoxious creep but he did some great shit.
― birdistheword, Monday, 24 January 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
then I said "oh yeah Dizz Knee Land" and he was like "Well they have a lot better sings than that" like he was a little offendedAs if they’re R.E.M. and you said “Shiny Happy People,” ha ha
― Rockin’, and rollin’, and whatnot (morrisp), Monday, 24 January 2022 04:32 (two years ago) link
The only thing I remember about Better Than Ezra is when I see anything about the town in Michigan name Owosso I hear "and it's good, living in OWOSSO" in my head.
― joygoat, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:02 (two years ago) link
lol
― call all destroyer, Monday, 24 January 2022 15:11 (two years ago) link
My favorite thing about them is that they inspired this hilariously stupid joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zjr9hh9ZIM
― birdistheword, Monday, 24 January 2022 18:40 (two years ago) link
I saw them playing to next-to-nobody at a festival in 2015 and it was crazy crazy good
what once-cool bands from the late-90s do you think are not cool today?Elephant Six bands
Elephant Six bands
I never thought anyone ever thought E6 was cool but maybe I was the perfectly-wrong age... people older than me liked Beulah (did they?) and people younger than me liked the cabaret era pre-Fauna of Montreal
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 24 January 2022 21:27 (two years ago) link
also no I saw JSBX in 2010 not 2015
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 24 January 2022 21:28 (two years ago) link
I would say a lot of folks thought Neutral Milk Hotel and Olivia Tremor Control were cool. And there was def a cult for Apples in Stereo.
In fact I'm now getting serious flashbacks to every issue of Big Takeover in the late 90s.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 24 January 2022 21:30 (two years ago) link
I think My Morning Jacket's cover of "Rocket Man" made it to every mix CD ever made in my extended social circle ca. 2000. I don't think Elton John covers recorded in empty silos are cool any more
― flamboyant goon tie included, Monday, 24 January 2022 21:41 (two years ago) link
I saw JSBX in 2003 with the Black Keys opening and vividly remember thinking about the Black Keys "christ that was bad and lame, I'm sure that's the last I'll ever hear of them."
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Monday, 24 January 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
nmh reunion show still one of the best i've ever seen
― ufo, Monday, 24 January 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
I think I completely unplugged from most rock-pop music from 1998 to 2003 or so, I haven't listened to virtually any of these bands except accidentally
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 00:39 (two years ago) link
TBF i was couch surfing through a good chunk of that time and didn't own a computer or much more than a discman so there were reasons
So the phrase “It’s been awhile” means nothing to you?
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
if i say "cut my life into pieces", what do you think?
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 02:26 (two years ago) link
i genuinely don't know if you two are fucking with me or not
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 06:03 (two years ago) link