S/D: Mid-to-late-'90s alt-rock-electronic-ish stuff that was probably on a soundtrack somewhere and is now severely out of taste but that I love

also important to this sort of thing is Things I Hate About You, specifically its major-label interpretation of "angry girl music of the indie rock persuasion"

I always think of the endpoint somewhere around 2004, which was Mean Girls and Regina mocking Cady for not knowing Katy Rose's "Overdove"

*Overdrive, also

The first thing that came to mind was Hooverphonic's "2Wicky" on the I Know What You Did Last Summer soundtrack.

And Mono's "Life in Mono" on Great Expectations.

i am trying to think of the best Ivy track to put here

also omg this is my new favorite thread THANK YOU KATHERINE

is this electronic enough?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQxgRt1vJgQ

wait i meant this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7Gz2WDJibk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-D61Sje2Ts4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6HVMwTl5U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydjzF6mJ-9I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOyAsgalu3I

the frontwoman of this group went on to make "i'm still hot," of covered-by-betty-white-in-a-meme fame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQZhyVAJFNg

I think even before Garbage and/or Republica, this was probably the genesis of the trend (though the lack of guitars being mixed with the electronics might dq it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4MPPOTarDM

^ nah, now that I've skimmed the rest of the thread, I see that's not really what you're going for.

Where does Is This Desire? fit into this thread?

Too arty.

The Great Expectations soundtrack has Tori Amos' "Siren" which is the perfect example of established artists reacting to this trend.

I'd probably circumscribe the time period quite strictly because I do feel like by the end of the 90s the coalition-qualities of the major label notion of "alternative" - music that, regardless of specific genre or sonic affectations, sounded like it was angling for a Spin cover - had totally splintered.

By the time the third Garbage album came out in late 2001 it felt very outmoded.

Other key moments:

1. The Romeo & Juliet soundtrack from the beginning of 2007, with the truly archetypal trip hop remix of Garbage's "#1 Crush";
2. The Cruel Intentions soundtrack from March 2001, with the Elizabeth Frazer / Craig Armstrong collabo.

Those dates should be early 1997 and March 1999 obv.

i was scrolling through this thread for the first time and was like whoa, serendipity when "2wicky" was mentioned, before i noticed the date and remembered that we don't control beyoncé, she controls us

(isn't trip-hop the elephant in the room here? my memories are indistinct but i recall a lot of "american rock acts trying to recreate trip-hop from a long distance" vibes)

(i'd love to know whether there were any equipment/technology changes that spurred on the electronic experimentation! i've tried to get tori amos to talk about her siren/datura/iieee phase on at least two occasions now but she can be extremely non-specific when she wants)

great expectations and romeo + juliet soundtracks both feel v key to this - the former is the only place i ever heard poe - but actually returning to the track listings doesn't seem to bear this out? actually both seem kind of grim?

been a long time since i listened, but i seem to recall suzanne vega adding some electronica/noise/beats to her thing for the "99.9F" album.
suspect some of that album would be suitable for this thread ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD5O4gdSPro

I big this record up every five years but nobody cares, so here I go again.

Also the Furslide album is brilliant, Jennifer Turner just vanished into the ether after that, which is a huge shame. I own more than two thirds of the records whose YouTubes are in this thread, predictably.

OMG OMG OMG i remembered the song that is the absolute pinnacle of this aesthetic and also the worst song posted in this thread so far:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHKVaASeOg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0O2-xV5XEA

Another soundtrack touchstone of this sound was the one for Spawn from '97, which had a Judgement Night-style pairing of Rock & Electronic artists.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/spawn-the-album-mw0000030260

this is also early 2000s but I made the thread and I say it fits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G71-f08GeDk

this just sounds like grizzly bear today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay79zwejwf4

wtf this is what Grizzly Bear sounds like????

the "built around a peppy piano riff" part, silly

i have listened to v little GB and got rly excited for a minute a :/

that song sounds like a more frivolous Saint Etienne

three guesses what reminded me of this today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8PLB-zsV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pURJDToKA0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QORg0kMaqRg

Not quite sure if this fits this thread, but I've always liked this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeDs-jZBh5s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4mcHfZOX5k

cannot believe it has taken me this long to get to ARCHIVE.

their second album (now disowned by the band) epitomizes this sub-genre.

there must be something in the air bc i decided to finally try n get into garbage a couple mo. back & was really digging the overarching vibe

weirdly i completely love this aesthetic but the actual execution of it feels extremely spotty to me. IDK if it's just that I wish there was someone to distill the general sensation into something more pop or what but yeah

except for ivy's album which is pretty perfect.

Of course i was familiar w/ Garbage from high school but i never owned their CDs or anything

Did we already talk about Curve's "Chinese Burn" and specifically that time Buffy and Faith danced to it at some awesome underground club in a factory (the kind that only exists in video clips, The Matrix and, seemingly, Buffy The Vampire Slayer) in the middle of the day?

they exist for real in Berlin! Maybe all these ppl are secretly going to Berlin real quick to dance?

this is the stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_hkAKujXU