What are some obscure alternative hits from the early 90's?

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Seven Mary Three. Can't remember the name of the song, but it may have been the worst song of the 90's. Hootie and the Blowfish, too.

That would be the godawful "Cumbersome", which was only slightly more irritaing than the work of Collective Soul.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

Also, "Christine" by the House of Love was `89, I believe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 4 September 2003 22:37 (twenty years ago) link

earlier than that.

― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 5 September 2003 01:52 (twenty years ago) link

Sponge - "Plowed"
Deadeye Dick - "New Age Girl"
Blur - "There's No Other Way"
The Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"
Pavement - "Cut Your Hair"
Butt Trumpet - "You're Ugly"
Radiohead - "Creep"
Candlebox - "You"
Sonic Youth - "100%"
Live - "Selling the Drama"
The Presidents... - "Lump"
The Smashing Pumpkins - "Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
Marilyn Manson - "Sweet Dreams"
Nine Inch Nails - "Piggy"

Pretty much my local rock radio station's playlist circa mid-90s, give or take the obligatory Nirvana song.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:08 (twenty years ago) link

These might help...

http://www.mtv.com/bands/buzzworthy/history.jhtml?year=1991
http://www.mtv.com/bands/buzzworthy/history.jhtml?year=1992
http://www.mtv.com/bands/buzzworthy/history.jhtml?year=1993
and so forth..

― billstevejim, Friday, 5 September 2003 04:21 (twenty years ago) link

for some reason, linking to those pages is impossible..

try http://www.mtv.com/bands/buzzworthy and clicking on "more history of buzz" and then choosing a year from the "choose a year" drop-menu.

― billstevejim, Friday, 5 September 2003 04:29 (twenty years ago) link

there was this band called a house and i even had their album once and i liked it but i can't remember the song titles.

― youn, Friday, 5 September 2003 04:36 (twenty years ago) link

A House had a couple of minor hits - "call me blue" and "endless art" (and i think there were others)

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 5 September 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

James - "Laid"
Robyn Hitchcock - "So You Think You're In Love"
Love Spit Love - "Am I Wrong"
Lightning Seeds - "Sense"
Sugar - "Helpless"

― turkey (turkey), Friday, 5 September 2003 05:52 (twenty years ago) link

Big Wreck - That Song
Artificial Joy Club - Sick And Beautiful
Econoline Crush - All That You Are
Matthew Good Band - Apparitions
Matthew Good Band - Everything Is Automatic
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead
Tonic - If You Could Only See

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 5 September 2003 06:30 (twenty years ago) link

Too Much Joy - "Long Haired Guy from England"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 September 2003 06:32 (twenty years ago) link

Too Much Joy - "Long Haired Guy from England"

a masterpiece!

― fact checking cuz, Friday, 5 September 2003 14:57 (twenty years ago) link

"Alice Everyday" - Book Of Love

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link

"Drive That Fast" by the Kitchens of Distinction

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:05 (twenty years ago) link

Heart Fog - Th' Faith Healers
Chocolate Cake - Crowded House
Snacks & Candy - Miracle Legion
Out There - Blake Babies
Murdering Stone - Walkabouts
Feed the Tree - Belly

..I miss Summer already.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:11 (twenty years ago) link

"Dim" - Dada
"Anything by the" - Gin Blossoms
"Story of My Life" - Social Distortion
"Pretend We're Dead" - L7
"Buena" - Morphine
"Nearly Lost You" - Screaming Trees
"Never Said" - Liz Phair
"Friends of P." - The Rentals

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

"Mr. Balloon Man" - Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians (might have been late 80s)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:14 (twenty years ago) link

"Balloon Man" was on the brilliant Globe of Frogs album, which came out in 1988, I believe.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:57 (twenty years ago) link

"Suckerpunch" by the Wildhearts

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link

Cud, Rich and Strange.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:13 (twenty years ago) link

Katydids, Lights Out (Read My Lips) - which I really liked.
Would-Be's, I'm Hardly Ever Wrong - Morrissey's single of the year, 1990.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:17 (twenty years ago) link

Popinjays, Please Let Me Go - which was brilliant!

― David Merryweather (DavidM), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:18 (twenty years ago) link

"Dreamtime" by the Heartthrobs

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link

"Blacker Than Black" by Goodbye Mr.Mackenzie

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 5 September 2003 21:01 (twenty years ago) link

Speaking of underground power pop classics here?

In which case Tearaways' "Jessica Something" really deserves a mention.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 6 September 2003 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

Katydids! i didn't think anyone else remembered them. i vote for their "Girl in a Jigsaw Puzzle"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Saturday, 6 September 2003 09:19 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Gregory Gray's "The Pope Does Not Smoke Dope" was mentioned in the ilE thread "The Pope is Dead" and that used to receive quite a bit of airplay on the local modern rock station even though it apparently never charted and isn't even listed as making the top 40 modern rock singles on AMG. (Very odd, considering how selective that particular station's output was. They usually played the same twenty songs over and over, and that was before the 1998 mass media-mergers, where now they only play ten songs over and over.)

Consolidated (feat. the Yeastie Girls) - "You Suck"

― What we want? Sex with T.V. stars! What you want? Ian Riese-Moraine! (Eastern Ma, Thursday, 31 March 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Whale--Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe

Frente--Bizarre Love Triangle

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Crow- "Railhead"

I was abt to mention the Whale song too. God this thread is like reading a bad old JJJ playlist.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 1 April 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link

"That's a Lie" - Too Much Joy
"LSD is the Bomb" - Radioactive Goldfish
"This Love" - Daniel Ash
"Hippychick" - Soho
"Black Glove" - The Fluid
"Move any Mountain" - The Shamen
"Lightning Man" - Nitzer Ebb
"Love Your Money" - Daisy Chainsaw
"Something Good" - Utah Saints
"Accidentally 4th Street" - Figures on a Beach
"Burst" - Shellyan Orphan
"Monster Mouth" - Popinjays
"Miss Freelove '69" - Hoodoo Gurus

Whew!..

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Yikes. All I had to do was picture what I listened to in my car while I was in college & came up with this winner of a list...
"Drinking In LA" - Bran Van 3000
"Popular" - Nada Surf
"Summer" - Buffalo Tom
"Mockingbird" - Grant Lee Buffalo
"Stone Me Into The Groove" - Atomic Swing
"Sister Havana" - Urge Overkill
"Bug Powder Dust" - Bomb The Bass
"Naked Eye" - Luscious Jackson
"Teenage Loser Anthem" - Dambuilders
"Jimmy's Fantasy" - Redd Kross

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 1 April 2005 02:53 (nineteen years ago) link

one year passes...

"Ladykiller" - Lush
"Wembley" - Candyskins
"Angry Johnny"
"Hello"
"Trigger Happy Jack" - all by Poe
"Who Sucked Out the Feeling" - Superdrag

― FrankieSu, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 02:37 (eighteen years ago) link

"Who Sucked Out the Feeling" - Superdrag

most... annoying... song... ever

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Here's a few more.

"Drawer" - Summercamp
"Alcohol" - Howlin' Maggie
"Debonair" - Afghan Whigs

― FrankieSu, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:08 (eighteen years ago) link

But....was Superdrag more annoying than...

"Hitchhiker Joe"
and
"Me and Eddie Vedder" by The Rugburns

― FrankieSu, Wednesday, 17 May 2006 03:21 (eighteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

Hobo Humping Slobo Babe, best song ever. period. done.

Folk Implosion-Natural One

what was that one song by that Kula Shaker band?

No Sister Hazel? Not one Veruca Salt mention? And lest we forget DNA featuring Suzanne Vega with that hot hammed Tom's Diner song with the doot doot doot duh doot sheite in it....I could go on and on but I think I am burning a bundt cake.

― NCGRUDGE, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 08:44 (seventeen years ago) link

These charts are a good resource:

http://www.radiohitlist.com/KROQ/KROQ-1990.htm
http://www.radiohitlist.com/KROQ/KROQ-1991.htm

etc

― o. nate, Wednesday, 25 April 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Seek ye also "F Minor" by Nudeswirl and "Psych Out" by the Seers!

Nudeswirl I can live without but I snagged that Seers record for a buck last week -- not a bad little album, actually, maybe only half great but a good demi-gaze effort from 1990.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 April 2007 03:12 (seventeen years ago) link

one month passes...

2 songs I cannot remember who sang them...maybe some1 on here can give me some help

First song; it was a girl singer and all i remember is the chorus said something about "here and now" couldn't understand the rest of what she was saying cuz she said it so fast.

The Second Song, "last chinese" was part of the chorus again with the partial choruses

As far as 90's songs go "Talkin Seattle Grunge Rock Blues" by Todd Snider is funny

Faith No More's "Last Cup of Sorrow"

Primal Scream "Rocks"

"Cult of Personality" by In Living Color

― cipher, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:15 (sixteen years ago) link

Cult of Personality" by In Living Color

It's Living Color, and it was early '89.

Mine:

Kirsty MacColl – "Walking Down Madison"
Candy Flip – "Red Hills Road"
Juliana Hatfield – "I See You"
David Byrne – "She's Mad"
Lightning Seeds – "Life of Reilly"
Ned's Atomic Dustbin – "Not Sleeping Around"
Throwing Muses – "Firepile"
Havana 3 am – "Reach the Rock"

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link

Jars of Clay "Flood" and Stone Roses "Love Spreads" even though they are christian songs...it was played in rotation at least on the rock stations here in the U.S.

Sponge "Wax Estatic"

Green Jelly "3 Little Pigs"

Ugly Kid Joe "Everything About You"

It's borderline Alternative but i just thought i'd share

― cipher, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:49 (sixteen years ago) link

You're right: I head "Love Spreads" more often on the AOR than on the college radio station.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:51 (sixteen years ago) link

Cipher, the "here and now" song is called "Here and Now" and is by Letters to Cleo. The second one might be "Mann's Chinese" by Naked.

― matt2, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:56 (sixteen years ago) link

Hey thanx for the correction on the "mann's chinese" i'm looking for it now actually on limewire.

Ummm another song i've thought about "Andre" by L7

― cipher, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:08 (sixteen years ago) link

I'm not sure I understand what's meant by "obscure" here - a lot of these songs were huge hits and virtually ubiquitous at the time.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:11 (sixteen years ago) link

Helmet "Exactly What You Wanted"

― cipher, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link

Alfred's choices maybe. But "Everything About You" and "Three Little Pigs" were huge.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:12 (sixteen years ago) link

how come nobody's mentioned "french disko"?

― grimly fiendish, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:17 (sixteen years ago) link

Tripping Daisy "I Got A Girl"

― cipher, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link

These 1990-91 KROQ charts are making me unexplicably sad.

― baaderonixx, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:28 (sixteen years ago) link

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