Horace Brown - One For the Money
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB-VTA9nw2U
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXbldxnQgy8
Jennifer Trynin, "Better Than Nothing"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
She later wrote one of those "alternative rock, what was THAT about?" memoirs like the drummer from Semisonic
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:37 (thirteen years ago) link
da croupier -- where the hell were you living in the 90's and why did this song show up on the radio?
― the knicks ain't that bad, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Haha, the "Alternative" station in State College, PA actually played shit like Chavez' "The Guard Attacks" and Sebadoh's "The Ocean" as Buzz Tracks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHtVvq4I_S0&ob=av2e
Veruca Salt - "Shutterbug"
A friend had this on his tumblr the other day, couldn't remember how it went at ALL until I played it even though I owned the cassette and recognized the video from multiple views on 120 Minutes
― da croupier, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Janet Jackson - "Runaway". I hear it a lot in grocery stores and the like. I'm not really a fan but the vocal overdubs in this song were incredible. I always thought the song sounded unfinished and could have been a lot better. I still enjoy it (believe it or not)
i am a fan and this has long been my favorite song by her
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
The Firm "Phone Tap"
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 5 October 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Did Veruca Salt use those novelty tall dresses in another video, or am I just thinking of the novelty bungee cord harnesses in "Volcano Girls"?
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf Nas Escobar? I'm so confused about what the name of this group was supposed to be... So I guess it's not The Firm..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM9zpTTZirk
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
32. The Offspring - "All I Want" (the last alt-rock semi-hit to clock less than 2:00?)
up until "United States Of Whatever" & "Fell In Love with A Girl"
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"she's all i ever had" ricky martin
literally i think i am the only person on earth who remembers this song (including ricky martin) and i'm probably the only one who enjoys it too
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 16:28 (thirteen years ago) link
I was just talking w/my friend on the phone and had to remind him Marcy Playground had a hit after "Sex and Candy" (albeit a smaller one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPWZZ4QaSQ0
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 05:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Wasn't 'Coming up from behind' also sort of popular after appearing on the Cruel Intentions OST?
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Aqua - "Doctor Jones". Yes, they DID have another single! If I recall correctly this was a #1 in their home country and generally very big in Europe. In fact, Aquarium technically had 7 singles! "Doctor Jones" is easily their best, one of the few perfect pop songs in existance (really!)
― frogbs
Also big in Latin America. Song got played almost as much as 'Barbie Girl' over here. Most people only remember the latter tho.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
What about:
Janet Jackson - Got Till It's Gone
J Dilla on production credits, Joni Mitchell sample, charted ok on international charts and yet few people from my generation and downward seem to remember it at all.
― Moka, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 12:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe I am totally wrong about this; they played "Doctor Jones" at my cousin's bat mitzvah and a lot of the teenage girls loved it!! They were even singing along to the "wake up now!" part!! When did this happen??
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
"Saint Joe" is a great one. I once started Marcy Playground: Classic or dud? in an attempt to raise awareness of his non-"Sex and Candy" material, but it...didn't really take.
Listening to "Doctor Jones" now - have DEFINITELY never heard this before but it ain't bad. Would love to hear a cover that liberates the chorus from the dinky club beat, which was never my favorite sound of the decade.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"St. Joe" had a video?! Sweet!!!
― amphetamine fueled scholar (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Not sure. "St. Joe..." was a top ten Modern Rock Hit but didn't cross over like "Sex & Candy" did. I seem to recal "Poppies" & the lead single from the second lp "It's Saturday" getting airplay in my neck of the woods as well.
Lately I've been thinking alot about things pertaining to this thread subject because for the last 6 months, we've had a "Classic Alternative" station on the dial down here and I've been mentally noting huge songs that have escaped their net. For example, in the case of a group like Marcy Playground, we get stuck with their one big song.
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah otm "St. Joe" won't ever get radio airplay again, unless ppl sign a petition or something...
― amphetamine fueled scholar (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoT7nTT8kLc
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Still pissed off to be reminded of "Mungo City" every time this thread is revived
― da croupier, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2SRrUGW5Gw
INXS - Elegantly Wasted (not good, but I remember this getting tons of airplay for a short time and then totally vanishing from the record)
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 2 May 2011 01:23 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=053b3GKPzYU
Bif Naked - Daddy's Getting Married
Convinced Semisonic owe her a check for "Closing Time," or maybe it's just a really generic chord progression. But it don't get much grungier than this. Drowning dreams like puppies in ACIIIIID!
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 February 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link
Anyone up in this bitch remember Patti Rothberg?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJSt3ZPGJPg
― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:14 (twelve years ago) link
Nope! Not a bad tune although sort of...generic maybe? Or that might just be the video doing that.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
(She's cute though!)
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:18 (twelve years ago) link
came to put Sylk E Fyne but The Reverend beat me to it by three years.
"hot sex on a platter just to get you wet, youse about to get somethin you will never regret, and it's gonna be the bomb this is what i bet...yep"
― andrew m., Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:49 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDzX8OMgkjQ
Leah Andreone, "It's Alright It's OK."
Has "also-ran" written all over it, but almost as 90s post-grunge as you could get in one song - note punchy drums, gratuitous sitar, "adult" themes, and those absurd melismatic ululations. I only ever remembered the chorus, not sure how many times I actually heard this on the radio.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
Two things I didn't know about "Romeo & Juliet"/Sylk E. Fyne:
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 06:34 (twelve years ago) link
Ill Al Skratch "I'll Take Her/Where My Homiez"
Asante "Look at What You've Done (Refugee Camp Remix)"
Veruca Salt "Volcano Girls"
― Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Tuesday, 28 February 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
I guess this is good place to ask this. I'm trying to identify a music video I saw in late 97. The song was a by a female singer and the video featured her on a motorbike chasing down a truck driver and then eventually hijacking the truck. It might be Canadian. I think I recall a lot of reds and browns in the color pallette. It might not even be that obscure of a song, and it's just that I only ever saw the video of it once.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 28 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Did some researching and found it myself:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCCbQls7JLo
And yeah, I don't think anyone remembers this.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:14 (twelve years ago) link
I remember that well! I really liked Veruca Salt.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
Feel like this is one not many people remember.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHGhYqAgwh4
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oh that's Vitamin C iirc
For years I've often confused Eve's Plumb, Plumtree and Plumb with each other.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
oh man that patti rothberg song, remember tha fuckin 90s
― what's a goon to garbus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
did Geggy Tah have any lesser, follow-up singles?
― Jurgis Rudkus // Dick Butkus (Pillbox), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh man that patti rothberg song
That song was pretty big for awhile.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 01:10 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't thought of this song in 17 years. It was number one on modern rock charts for 6 weeks(!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E39ckUBOrO0
― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
er, mainstream rock
I sorta remember that one..
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 05:10 (twelve years ago) link
a co-worker of mine was OBSESSED with Brother Cane.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 05:14 (twelve years ago) link
One of the most amazing (if you wanna call it that) things about Brother Cane was that this was their previous hit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ggbuQtcYY
HARMONICA!!! COWBELL!!!
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 06:38 (twelve years ago) link
...and on that tip, let's go back a couple years to hang with CRY OF LOVE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INxliT-NrxA&ob=av2n
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1vEONnGdPo&ob=av2e
― Raymond Dubious Davies (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 06:42 (twelve years ago) link
All I remember about Cry Of Love is seeing their posters in Sam Goody/Musicland/Strawberries/etc but having no idea what they sounded like... until this moment actually.
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
it's pretty pathetic that i can't see youtubes at work and am actively trying to guess what songs people are posting. afaict Whiney's is probably Toad The Wet Sprocket?
― some dude, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
Sarina Paris - Look At Us Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYQt11Mfb4w
― Moka, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not saying it's memorable or worth saving but I remember it was constantly on the radio for a while and it suddenly dissapeared. I only remembered it had a rollercoaster in the video.
― Moka, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 18:47 (twelve years ago) link