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This thread makes me very melancholy (but not infinitely sad). What was it that was so down about the 90's? Perhaps I also feel this way because of the wasted hours, days, years I spent listening to so much of this.

― matt2 (matt2), Friday, 14 July 2006 02:40 (eighteen years ago) link

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth...

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0LKVZ4NTfUc&search=primitive%20radio%20gods

― Stingy (stingy), Friday, 14 July 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Stone Temple Pilots - Creep

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LdRFX863NMA&search=stone%20temple%20pilots

Plush - http://youtube.com/watch?v=im0NBh6QrkQ&search=stone%20temple%20pilots

Sex Type Thing - http://youtube.com/watch?v=q2zn7gOCZNM&search=stone%20temple%20pilots

― Stingy (stingy), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:07 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd just like to mention that Fastball headlined the last day of classes concert at my college in '99. The opening bands were Vertical Horizon and Naughty By Nature.

― Stingy (stingy), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Blessid Union of Souls - I Believe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkR4SA8h9xw&search=blessid%20union%20of%20souls

― Stingy (stingy), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Enigma - Return to Innocence!!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNdGAObGrVw

― Stingy (stingy), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:50 (eighteen years ago) link

fucking amazing thread right here, dudes. you have made my night.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Friday, 14 July 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

generation x has so much to answer for

― running in circles (running in circles), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Odds - Someone Who is Cool

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a93sgt0pVWU

― lindseykai (lindseykai), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:16 (eighteen years ago) link

woulda coulda shoulda:

Throwing Muses - Not Too Soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67wdhkkfmQ

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 July 2006 04:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Monty Python invented them! Toad The Wet Sprocket, we salute you!

All I Want

Walk On The Ocean

Fall Down

Something's Always Wrong

Good Intentions

Come Down

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 09:41 (eighteen years ago) link

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 11:11 (eighteen years ago) link

David Gray-Babylon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx3IA9HTG5c&search=david%20gray

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Green Day-Time of Your Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f59TEoffI7s&search=green%20day%2C%20time%20of%20your%20life

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Fiona Apple!

Sleep To Dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9ELJQKor0&search=fiona%20apple

Criminal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKanLKlHdUc&search=fiona%20apple

Across The Universe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LvTPMVkbkM&search=fiona%20apple

Fast As You Can

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YCa9bNJh-A&search=fiona%20apple

Paper Bag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8dE5QV5A-Q&search=fiona%20apple

This World Is Bulls***

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA2a8jlYSo0&search=fiona%20apple%20mtv

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link

You forgot to say something and then "Fiona Apple, we salute you". ;)

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:23 (eighteen years ago) link

They see you as a one-hit wonder with an almost record-setting stay at the Hot 100. We know you're more thant that. Duncan Sheik, we salute you!

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link

For having the good courtesy to let we your fans know that the world is indeed bulls***, Fiona Apple, we salute you!

(x-post)

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link

For keeping the singer-songwriter flame burning in spite of getting screwed over by your record labels, Aimee Mann, we salute you!

I Should've Known

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoMopKozLY8&search=aimee%20mann

That's Just What You Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQo6slWZiwA&search=aimee%20mann

Save Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-MD_h4Y8_g&search=aimee%20mann

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Cowboy Junkies-A Common Disaster

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPiqPDDgH-M&search=cowboy%20junkies

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Wilco-Outtasite (Outta Mind)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0seawuhBSc&search=wilco

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Sister Hazel - All For You - Overlooked in the shadow of the DMB - Phish - Blues Traveller triumvirate, but they had their own hackey-sack going on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFOmnAfyF5o&search=sister%20hazel

Mazzy Star - Fade Into You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VddShgx5Ahg&search=mazzy

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tfLOF4s54Y&search=geggy%20tah

Sneaker Pimps - 6 Underground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnzMT0O5Kqo&search=sneaker%20pimps

Folk Implosion - Natural One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fx8ffB1uuw&search=Folk%20Implosion

Urge Overkill--Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJJkNPSwoUw&search=Urge%20Overkill

― slugbuggy (slugbuggy), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link

For having actors play you in your breakthrough video because, in John Popper's own words, "This butt doesn't sell records to 10 year- olds", Blues Traveler, we salute you!

Run Around

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phi1BaOQt-M&search=blues%20traveler

Hook

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF4c4uj1wGU&search=blues%20traveler

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 15:44 (eighteen years ago) link

Karaoke Replacements? Hell no! Goo Goo Dolls, we salute you!

There You Are
(like, those hairstyles?! LOL)

We Are The Normal

Flat Top

Name
(maybe their best single ever)

Only One

Long Way Down

Lazy Eye

Iris
(if airplay-only songs already charted by the time this hit its peak, this would have been #1 for, like, 14 weeks minimum)

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

This may be my favorite thread of all time.

― Jeff Reguil0n (Talent Explosion), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link

He played with the daddy of Adult Alternative: Lloyd Cole. And he went on to make some of the best Power Pop of all time. Matthew Sweet, we salute you!

Scooby Doo, Where Are You?

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Swing Revival!

Cherry Poppin' Daddies-Zoot Suit Riot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNJyAcgMS4A&search=cherry%20poppin%27%20daddies

Squirrel Nut Zippers-Hell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27GIk3CXSrk&search=squirrel%20nut%20zippers

Brian Setzer Orchestra-Jump, Jive, & Wail

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XEqkLe8XeQ&search=brian%20setzer

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Matthew Sweet's GIRLFRIEND!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjXsW7sY1tY&search=Matthew%20Sweet

Awesome. And anime!

You've warmed my big (gay) alterna-heart.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Elliot Smith @ The Oscars (RIP)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX6rLk_B9tM&search=elliot%20smith

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Thank you, Ricardo. I skimmed the rest of this thread.

― Kate Silver (Kate Silver), Friday, 14 July 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Another Elliott Smith clip, this an interview from Indie Outin w/Jeanne Garofalo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MFwL1P2lao&search=elliot%20smith

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link

She was proto-Adult Alternative when no-one even knew the term existed. By the early 90s, she was all but forgotten. By the mid-90s, it took one song to rescue her from oblivion. Tracy Chapman, we salute you!

Bang Bang Bang

Give Me One Reason

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link

Dear mods, please retitle this thread "Repository of the best music ever"

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Letters To cleo-Here and Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mJkVUnZezg&search=letters%20to%20cleo

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link

REQUEST FOR EVE'S PLUMB PLZ!

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

Couldn't find any, but here's Vitamin C

Smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDhgZfniUPc&search=vitamin%20c

Graduation Song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXI6wPqrYkw&search=vitamin%20c

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:53 (eighteen years ago) link

my bad, Eve's Plum-I Want It All

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmFcovgKPPI&search=eve%27s%20plum

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Fuck me! This may well be the wrongest/rightest* and worst/best* thread ever, in the history of everything! I feel like I should go and do something else but I'm compelled to keep watching '90s AOR bullshit/brilliance* on YouTube.

*delete depending on level of cynicism

― yer mam! (yer mam!), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Golly, I'd never heard Eve's Plum before. They sound like a grunge Blondie.

(x-post)

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The Sundays, "Wild Horses"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_CDuyw4nRE

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link

Baz Luhrmann - Sunscreen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5VZklTIoDs

― milo z (mlp), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link

Sixpence None The Richer-Breathe Your Name (my opo for them)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNgMJOgmI74&search=breathe%20your%20name

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Porno For Pyros w/Mike Watt live on 120 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZISr7budJX0&search=120%20minutes

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

Chris Cornell - Can't Change Me
http://youtube.com/watch?v=k428KEavP9k&search=chris%20cornell

And seriously, no Alanis yet? Did I miss it?

― lrsn (larssen), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link

Magnapop-Open The Door

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDMq7rZHZPg&search=magnapop

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

For, well, basically inventing a goodly portion of the late '90s while almost always being weirdly hot, Alanis Morissette, we salute you!

You Oughta Know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZTrPClFCKM&search=alanis%20morissette

Head Over Feet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz77hxHU_QQ&search=alanis%20morissette

Ironic

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjXBcywKVo&search=alanis%20morissette

You Learn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcuCJvrIGgk&search=alanis%20morissette

Thank You ("no, Thank YOU")

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZV6qUUO0g&search=alanis%20morissette

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:29 (eighteen years ago) link

A few more for the road

All I Really Want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCCv5ngyI0&search=alanis%20morissette

Uninvited (live on some awards show)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjTB6EG3xGo&search=alanis%20morissette

You Oughta Know (orchestral version live @ the grammies)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR3c_yqiIKM&search=alanis%20morissette

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Ah, "Uninvited," the one seriously decent Alanis song.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Who would tell they were, exactly a decade ago, the most mega, most popular, most over-exposed band of the US? Hootie & The Blowfish, we salute you!

Hold My Hand

(Yeah, with just one of their official videos YouTube'd. Goes to show my tribute question wasn't solely rhetorics...)

― Ricardo (jaxxalude), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:38 (eighteen years ago) link

I wish somebody would put up Hootie's guest shot on TV Funhouse. Triumph insulted them. Good times.

― (Ex-)Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Friday, 14 July 2006 18:39 (eighteen years ago) link

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