Throwback Thursday Category: 90s Alternative One Hit Wonders (3 Viewers)

[That one guy]

Hahaha! The "cool" Christian rock band! Memories of yearly church youth group road trips to various Christian music feats (Atlantafest!) and the very unholy things done away from chaperoned eye comes flooding back...good times, good times!

(not laughing at song, just situations playing it would lead to)

 

[General Malaise]

Drivin N Cryin too big to drop "Fly Me Courageous" in here?

no

They were immense down here for a few years. "Straight to Hell" (1989) was played (and dung along to) several times a night in a lot of the LSU-area bars back in the day.

Yup. Couldn't escape it in Mississippi either. They actually played at Millsaps in 1991. I helped set up their stage. Decent guys.

I'm going straight to hell, just like my momma said....

 

[General Malaise]

Doug B, you probably got a heavy dose of Cowboy Mouth.

 

[Quint]

Late to this one, but great thread. I was very into music in the 90s and so this is a good trip down memory lane.

Did anybody mention Brother Cain's "And Fools Shine On"?

wow. maybe the best of the "one hit wonders" listed in here yet.

 

[General Malaise]

Late to this one, but great thread. I was very into music in the 90s and so this is a good trip down memory lane.

Did anybody mention Brother Cain's "And Fools Shine On"?

wow. maybe the best of the "one hit wonders" listed in here yet.

I actually purchased this CD. Rest of it was.....awful.

 

[saintfool]

Late to this one, but great thread. I was very into music in the 90s and so this is a good trip down memory lane.

Did anybody mention Brother Cain's "And Fools Shine On"?

wow. maybe the best of the "one hit wonders" listed in here yet.

Leave my thread now, please.

 

[General Malaise]

spiritualized is another *really* good one.

"electricity"

"i think i'm in love"

they (Jason, really) have a really terrific catalog that holds up well. some really lovely songs.

Ha! I had the CD with "electricity". Great stuff. Ahead of their time, IMO.

 

[General Malaise]

Don't know about "Hit" but I probably played this song eleventy billion times while experimenting with the devil weed...."Ode to my Favorite Beer".

 

[saintfool]

kula shaker did a nice cover of "hush".

cornershop with "brimful of asha"

placebo "pure morning"

 

[The Dreaded Marco]

Great thread. Loving a lot of this music. Here are a few others I enjoyed 20 years ago:

Kula Shaker - Govinda

This Picture - Naked Rain

Love Spit Love - Am I Wrong

Lionrock - Fire Up The Shoesaw

Ocean Blue - Ballerina Out of Control

Sebadoh - Ocean

Underworld - Born Slippy

Ride - Vapour Trail

 

[TheAristocrat]

Haven't checked the whole thread for this one but always liked Closing Time by Semisonic

https://youtu.be/xGytDsqkQY8

Some goof on this site "air guitars with his toes" to this song.

 

[TheAristocrat]

this most self serious, over-wrought band of the 90's this side of REM...

LIVE with "Lakini's Juice"

they had the big hit with "Lightning Crashes" but that other track is who they are.

You couldn't be more wrong. Their first two albums, Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper were absolutely amazing (not to mention the fact that they are nowhere near a "one-hit wonder.") Unfortunately, this song is from Secret Samadhi, which was ####### horrible. After buying this cd, I was so disappointed, I threw it out of the car window while driving down the interstate.

Try I Alone, Iris, T.B.D., Stage, Operation Spirit, Good Pain, Mental Jewelry. Those are much better indicators of what this band was in the '90's before Ed lost his ####.

Seen/heard anything about ol' Ed lately? Nip over to his official website. You can get him to send you a personal message....for 5 bills. Hell, he'll do a Skype "concert" for 1.5k.

What a dooshcanoe. I don't know what happened, but that dude lost his mind.

Yeah, he clearly gets high off the smell of his own flatus these days. Actually, I think he's probably always been a little, umm, self-important. My bride happened to be attending college in York when Live was just starting to gain traction. He had the rep for being somewhat pretentious from jump.

If we all threw in 50 bones apiece do you think we could force him to do, like, 3 Britney Spears covers or something? I'm sure he'd love that.

IN.

 

[Ilov80s]

Here is the playlist. It has almost everything mentioned and a few I remembered as I went through. 170 songs, 11 hr and 59 mins.

FBG Throwback: 90s

 

[TheAristocrat]

I forgot about Soul Asylum yesterday and am now uncertain if they were mentioned. I always liked

.ETA: Everything after GDU was meh to terrible.

 

[strumnov]

Peter Murphy - Cuts you Out

Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy

Tori Amos - Silent All These Years

Silverchair - Tomorrow

Green Jelly - 3 Little Pigs

 

[Ilov80s]

Ok I added Gin Blossoms. You guys needs to promise not to post the Spin Doctors. Please, don't do it.

 

[That one guy]

Pandora's 90s Alternative station just threw this "classic" at me:

http://youtu.be/1I-dwO-Qu0E

 

[TheAristocrat]

Pandora's 90s Alternative station just threw this "classic" at me:

You take that down. Do not continue posting this.

Some people's sanity depends on it.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I haven't gone through the thread yet, so it might have been listed, but the first one that came to mind:

School of Fish - 3 Strange Days

 

[MAC_32]

Big fan of Stabbing Westward, 'Shame.'

 

[MAC_32]

Not a big fan of this song, but it reminds me of the summer between my first and second year of graduate school. I looked it up and sure enough it peaked on the Alt radio charts in June of 1996. I can recall it being played in almost constant rotation on Houston's alternative radio station at that time.

Charlie Brown's Parents, much better Dishwalla song.

 

[MAC_32]

Ok just two more because I could on forever. Despite my name, I came up in the 90s.

Possum Kingdom (what a #### name for a killer song) by the Toadies (they were just really bad at naming things)

Gotta pick this battle, OLP is not a one hit wonder.Good call on Toadies though. If you're unfamiliar with I come from the water give it a listen.

 

[MAC_32]

"

Dsperately Wanting wasn't either?

 

[MAC_32]

16 Candles down the drain....

Sponge?

I think it's called Molly.

 

[MAC_32]

"Sullivan" by Caroline Spine....

Anyone??

I was searching for this one.Wallflower and So Good Afternoon. Also great jams.

 

[KarmaPolice]

That New Radicals song makes me want to punch a kitten, and it ALWAYS pops up on the '90's playlists. I can't skip it fast enough.

I have the same reaction to the song - also to that damn "Butterfly" song posted on page 1.

 

[MAC_32]

Ok, this thread ####### rocks.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Local H - Bound for the Floor

Kyuss - Green Machine

Paw - Jessie

 

[MAC_32]

I really want to post Buckcherry Lit Up, but they had a couple of other hits...albeit not awesome songs.

 

[cstu]

cornershop with "brimful of asha"

Good call.

 

[cstu]

I really want to post Buckcherry Lit Up, but they had a couple of other hits...albeit not awesome songs.

I don't care what anyone thinks, I love that song.

 

[MAC_32]

I really want to post Buckcherry Lit Up, but they had a couple of other hits...albeit not awesome songs.

I don't care what anyone thinks, I love that song.

Saw them open for Fuel. Thirty minute set. Twenty minutes of terrible music. Then a ####### awesome ten minute version of this one. Stole the show.

 

[Jayrod]

Ok just two more because I could on forever. Despite my name, I came up in the 90s.

Possum Kingdom (what a #### name for a killer song) by the Toadies (they were just really bad at naming things)

I thought maybe I was the only one.

 

[KarmaPolice]

The Folk Implosion - Natural One

 

[Ilov80s]

Ok just two more because I could on forever. Despite my name, I came up in the 90s.

Possum Kingdom (what a #### name for a killer song) by the Toadies (they were just really bad at naming things)

It's really not a 1 hit wonder thread. It's just don't post the obvious big 90s bands like Green Day or RATM or Nirvana.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Here is the playlist. It has almost everything mentioned and a few I remembered as I went through. 170 songs, 11 hr and 59 mins.

FBG Throwback: 90s

Fantastic! Thanks for doing that.

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Rubberneck was a pretty good album overall, but IMO the "star"(creepy subject matter notwithstanding) from that LP was Tyler.

 

[rockaction]

Rubberneck was a pretty good album overall, but IMO the "star"(creepy subject matter notwithstanding) from that LP was Tyler.

Righteous, unyielding track, terrible video and promotion of said track doomed that one to failure.

Such a good, good song, off of what I consider to be one of the best "mainstream" albums of the '90s.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

I forgot about Soul Asylum yesterday and am now uncertain if they were mentioned. I always liked

I referenced Soul Asylum while discussing Semisonic, but didn't link to any of their songs. Saw Soul Asylum live a bunch of times at varying levels of fame, from performances in record stores to headlining festivals.

Played a great show in western Wisconsin capping a full day of music that included the Gin Blossoms. Must have been when Grave Dancers Union was going platinum.

They headlined a triple bill at the St Paul Saints ballpark. Matthew Sweet played a set, then The Jayhawks, then Soul Asylum hit the stage. That was after Let You Dim Light Shine was out, as well as that Victoria Williams tribute record: the encore included "Summer Of Drugs", and Sweet, The Jayhawks, and Victoria Williams joined them on stage. This was when Dave Pirner was dating Winona Ryder - she was at the show.

Oh. So. 90s.

 

[Jules Winnfield]

I forgot about Soul Asylum yesterday and am now uncertain if they were mentioned. I always liked

August of '95

$15 a ticket at Midway stadium

I was there

 

[saintfool]

Local H is a solid band. A lot of good tracks from those guys.

 

[Bruce Dickinson]

August of '95

$15 a ticket at Midway stadium

I was there

It was a sunny evening. Stage was set up in deep center field. General admission on the outfield grass. Good music on the stage, lots of pretty girls in the audience. It was a great night.

 

[bigmarc27]

Is "High" by Jimmy's Chicken Shack anywhere in here?

 

[Tom Skerritt]

Big Wreck - The Oaf

 

[5-ish Finkle]

Is "High" by Jimmy's Chicken Shack anywhere in here?

Yes. Someplace.

"Dropping Anchor" should be included, come to think of it.

 

[bigmarc27]

The Flys - Got you where I want you

I'm running back through my mp3 listing from college - Napster happened my freshman year and it was awesome.

 

[RedmondLonghorn]

The Folk Implosion - Natural One

This is great. Sadly not on Spotify.

 

[saintfool]

sentimental favorite from the 90's....

mike watt - big train

 

[Reginald Cornsilks]

The whole album was pretty good

 

[cstu]

The Folk Implosion - Natural One

This is great. Sadly not on Spotify.

Great song, never knew the name.