TMBG were pretty upbeat. I can imagine people moshing to them. But moshing to "Fade Into You" is just plain o_0
― The Milkman's Wife (Masonic Boom), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, i think ska played a role in this
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
the TMBG phenomenon - not Kate's Mazzy Star example - which is definitely o_O
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:09 (thirteen years ago) link
toad the wet sprocket is winning right now ftcsah
― _▂▅▇█▓▒░◕‿‿◕░▒▓█▇▅▂_ (Steve Shasta), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
http://nicalbonic.blox.pl/resource/HORATIO_CAINE.jpg
"i think ska played a role in this"
― goole, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:11 (thirteen years ago) link
that's some next level abbreviation there, Steve, I have no clue what that translates to
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:12 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe Velocity Girl?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, that would be vg surely
― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
We moshed to EVERYTHING at our middle school dances. Hammer, BBD, Mariah. The only thing remotely approaching moshable was Billy Idol though.
― grab you by the boo-boo and don't let go (kkvgz), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Not exactly wimpy but I saw young fat kids moshing to Boss Hog and couldn't help but think that it was their first show.
― Nate Carson, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, ska confused people ... i can recall people moshing to a straight-up reggae band in the early 90s. it didn't work.
― tylerw, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:15 (thirteen years ago) link
TMBG had a lot of very energetic, punky songs. Nothing weird about moshing to them.
― grab you by the boo-boo and don't let go (kkvgz), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
plenty weird about liking them
― goole, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:16 (thirteen years ago) link
it's a damn good thing I never attended a Stars Of The Lid show - the urge to mosh would have been overpowering
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
(JUST KIDDING)
I guess we don't have any general moshing threads? b/c I'm gonna sound like a meathead but some of my best 90s concert experiences involved pits...Fishbone in 1992 was transcendent: huge & crazy pit swirling, then a guy in the band (a horn player? can't remember) got completely naked, crowd-surfed over the pit to the back of the crowd & then back to the stage; then simultaneously the music & the lights in the venue all shut off (so the pit convulsed in the dark, pretty freaky) & then after 30 seconds or so a single spotlight was turned on the singer, who sang unaccompanied for a few minutes, & iirc it was some kind of gospel-type song. I still get chills thinking about that: all that violent energy being channeled into something spiritual, ultimately.
― Euler, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
moshing vs skanking
― I was sleep so I was lost (herb albert), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ mazzy star!
― teledyldonix, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Mazzy Star
This is way less moshing-est than any other band named on this thread so far.
(It was when they were supporting the JAMC but still, they were so NOT moshing material.)
― Milk From The Milkman's Wife's Tits (Masonic Boom), Friday, July 23, 2010 4:04 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
lol this is the first thing I thought of when I saw this thread. I went to an American date on that same tour & yeah, there was moshing. Generally, you could find moshing at any given all-ages "alternative rock" show from 92-96 or so.
― the new hot dawg stand in compton (Pillbox), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
For those ceeping score at home?
― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
I have moshed to Fishbone in the 90s and it was very good.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
the posies
― 156, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
me & my highschool best friend would mosh to Fleetwood Mac at our friend Ben's house - who was a big FM fan, but we did it pretty much to annoy him, though i think my best friend was also flirting w/him a bit by doing this
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Dave matthews band
― San Te, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
They have a special method for calming the pit down I believe.
― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
by sucking?
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/3597180.stm
― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Also Foreigner and Smash Mouth
― San Te, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
is there ANYONE DMB won't dump their shit on
― jaymc won $5800 on day 1! (HI DERE), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yea and also saw kids going pummel-nuts to John Mayer
― San Te, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
John Mayer wd make me want to pummel nuts I think
― flashing drill + penis fan (Noodle Vague), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Mainly John Mayer's
lol
― horseshoe, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Low
― Moshy Star (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
j/k
do people even mosh anymore? seems so quaint.
― Moshy Star (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, yeah
― Anti-Suggest Ban Order (acoleuthic), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
now that i think about it, i think my friends and i fake moshed to abba at my 16th bday party sleepover (summer 1991)not sure this counts since it was insincere
i also saw people moshing to material issue when i saw them at an amusement park in the 90s (RIP geauga lake)
― ghee hee hee (La Lechera), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Shakey, never change, you're a gem!
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
Does moshing occur at rap shows
― San Te, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Does moshing occur in Finland?
― sarahel, Friday, 23 July 2010 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
― 156, Friday, July 23, 2010 8:24 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
Which makes it an opportune time to link to Ken Stringfellow's Moshers and Me.
― the penis cream pilot walked free (Phil D.), Friday, 23 July 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23862512-all-together-now-for-a-pre-mosh-ring-of-fire.do
― tomas altbrolin (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
A nod or a catch of the eye might start off a circle-pit frenzy. Usually the beginning of a song will do, but if it's a fast one, it might catch you unawares so it's wise to bring hobnail boots, gum shields or head protection. That might be overstating it, but as someone who has fainted mid-squeeze at a Real Big Fish gig recently, I advise you to come equipped.
It sets a good tone, as George Norton, 25, from Victoria, says: “I've been circle-pitting for some time but I'm glad to see it's gone mainstream. I can't see why you wouldn't because it gets the crowd going better than anything else, which always makes a good gig.”
Pretty much every wussy indie gig I went to in the mid-90s had people moshing or at least trying to. That doesn't happen any where near as much these days and not just in a "lol you old" way.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:25 (thirteen years ago) link
I think my answer to this question is probably Ben Folds Five though.
I had my first crowd surf to Space at Reading Festival ('97?), and I remember getting quite bruised in the mosh to "C'Mon Kids" by the Boo Radleys at the same festival.
― village idiot (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Pretty sure people will still mosh to anything at Reading.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
music that was playing over a PA (no band onstage)
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 23 May 2015 04:42 (eight years ago) link
The punk/ska/cabaret band World/Inferno Friendship Society has plenty of moshable songs for their loyal following, so even when the band broke into a waltz, the fans all paired up and waltz moshed like mad.
― Hideous Lump, Saturday, 23 May 2015 05:19 (eight years ago) link
"jaymc won $5800 on day 1! (HI DERE)Posted: July 23, 2010 at 2:56:36 PMppl would mosh to fucking anything in the 90s
oh this is so so true
I may be making this up but I want to say that in high school we once started a moshpit for "Pump Up the Jam""
Just here to confirm this urban legend.
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Saturday, 23 May 2015 05:52 (eight years ago) link
Or perhaps suburban legend
― a strawman stuffed with their collection of 12 cds (jjjusten), Saturday, 23 May 2015 05:53 (eight years ago) link
Rural maybe
Fuck you it happened ok
wasn't moshing but there was this Christian convention I went to in my youth group days and there was this musician named Mark Imboden who was this jam bandy, hippie type Christian that played inoffensive acoustic Christian folksy stuff and these kids started crowd surfing to it.
then again their only alternatives at that festival were Rebecca St James and Nouveaux so
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Saturday, 23 May 2015 06:06 (eight years ago) link
Everclear
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 25 September 2016 04:40 (seven years ago) link
DC Talk
You shoulda seen the enforcer
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 14 January 2020 23:21 (four years ago) link
Does this count as moshing, y/nhttps://youtu.be/W3DllvVSsLcNo actual physical contact and almost certainly not the '90s but, well, kinda feel like this video should be a valid answer to any question posed by humans so there you go
― Dr. Teeth and the Women (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link
i think it counts as brain damage possibly being airborne contagion
― papa stank (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
not moshing but i went to see the kranky 25th anniversary/ambient church show at a historic church on the campus of the university of chicago and they had a security guy posted right in front of the "stage" (where the preacher would normally stand) who was actively stretching out before the show
― na (NA), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:31 (four years ago) link
General Admission at any Mercer Arena show in Seattle from ‘93-‘97 was a constant pit. Lights up, between bands, didn’t matter. We moshed. Most surreal example was a kid who crowd surfed at the theater where I saw Singles on opening night. I think it was during the Soundgarden part.
― Yelploaf, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:44 (four years ago) link
I saw Singles in a Detroit-area theater with other flannel-garbed teens, and there was definitely light moshing in the seats. (When the mellow opening section of Smashing Pumpkins' "Drown" started up, a guy said to his buddy next to him -- "Don't worry, it gets a lot harder.")
― stop creeping my instagram storiez (morrisp), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 00:59 (four years ago) link
they had a security guy posted right in front of the "stage" (where the preacher would normally stand) who was actively stretching out before the show
irl lolcan totally see that
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 18:16 (four years ago) link
Poi Dog Pondering
― omar little, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
Eels.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
The Boo Radleys c1997 at Reading Festival. It was pretty hardcore
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:17 (four years ago) link
Echo & the Bunnymen at Lollapalooza second stage in '98, maybe.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:33 (four years ago) link
The most anti-mosh was in high school, during model UN (lol nerd, I honestly did it to go record shopping in DC). There was some party at the end, with a DJ, which back then meant playing rock music, more or less. They played GNR's"Paradise City," for some reason (why not something from Use Your Illusion?) but cut it short before the fast coda, because they didn't want kids to mosh! This must have been ... spring '92, maybe?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 15 January 2020 23:38 (four years ago) link
Seals and Crofts
― Dig Dug the police (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3DllvVSsLc
― ...Like a Soggy Handburger (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 03:53 (three years ago) link
Cherry Poppin' Daddies, but it was at Warped Tour sandwiched between The Urge & Reverend Horton Heat.
― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 10 June 2020 04:59 (three years ago) link