90s rock bands no one cares about; pick one

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xp I thought Nickelback had a summer '99 single before they got huge, but I was actually thinking of "We Are" by Vertical Horizon. So no they had no charting singles in the 90's.

Fun Fact: Owl City is worse than every band mentioned on this thread.

Nickelback did have some U.S. rock radio hits before "How You Remind Me," but the first, "Leader of Men," was in early 2000 so yeah, no '90s

Gin Blossoms sticks out like an unsucky thumb here.

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I agree that The Gin Blossoms are in a completely separate league from the rest of these

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^^^^^

Their presence sort of nullifies this whole poll. They were a great band.

I learned the phrase "unsucky thumb", so at least some good has come of it

When they tried to sound like The Byrds, yeah G.Bloss was great.

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can the dishwalla voter please fess up

my 6th grade teacher knew the band (they were local) and had a picture w/ them in our classroom and would always play that one song

i say anyone who voted for the bottom 5 should fess up. come on now, take your SBs like men.

i like the idea of polling markers' fave bands, but surely wilco should be on here?

can the dishwalla voter please fess up

lol guilty as charged

nb to the best of my knowledge I've never heard a note of Dishwalla's music but I hate all these bands so fuckin much I figured I'd vote for the one who'd done me the least harm by staying off my radar

kinda disappointing I was hoping there was an actual dishwapologist out there who was gonna be like 'no man their first ep is pretty decent'

i am totally cool with the one Dishwalla song that i and everyone but aerosmith knows, but they were only my 3rd choice after Semisonic and Nickelback

Ha, never noticed the "WMMR: Music should hurt" t-shirt in the "Chemistry" video. That's some insider Minneapolis culture there--punk-dominated precursor to Radio K.

anything that got us to "dishwapologist" is ok by me

Finally getting around to Semisonic's debut The Great Divide thanks to this thread and Spotify. This is the one with "If I Run" and "Down In Flames" and it's pretty good! Certainly doesn't deserve getting lumped in with Seven Mary Three. Most of the songs could lose a minute or so of running time and there's a few dud tracks but a nice sound with good range - - - much more "college rock" and/or 60s throwbackness than alt-rock as such.

yeah but Closing time is awfu

Gin Blossoms = only listenable group on this list (and even then it's really just New Miserable Experience).

alright Collective Soul weren't too too lame

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The Gin Blossoms are playing at a dog track in West Memphis. Ordinarily, I'd forget it, but man. Steak Contest.

Puppet Show and Gin Blossoms

Semisonic of them all - but I would never listen to any of these bands by choice.

given that i still get a Gin Blossoms song stuck in my head now and then, unlike any of these other groups, i would definitely agree with many others and say they are the least shitty on this list.

At one point in my life, I owned a Gin Blossoms single (Hey Jealousy, obv) which is more than I can say for the rest of these...

'Tis a poor reflection on the 90s that all they have to provide for a meat-cooking competition is jangle pop, and not something as meaty as Ram Jam or Zebra.

Smashing pumpkins should've been included

nobody told me

Dishwalla were the headliners at the Fells Point Fun Fest in 1996. Because the show was running late, Too Much Joy only got to play 4 songs before having their set prematurely cut off to make way for Dishwalla.

Sponge should have been on here and I totally would have voted them. Why? Because I genuinely sort of love a couple of their songs.

I agree with you ENBB (except I wouldve still voted for GB)

i never heard sponge beyond their two big singles but those are absolutely indispensible.

Which reminds me: I need to get Empire Records on DVD

I still like the song "Wax Ecstatic" a lot.

^yeah me too

Sponge's third(!) album, New Pop Sunday was a guilty pleasure for me for a couple months back when it came out.

Which reminds me: I need to get Empire Records on DVD

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Was Sponge on the ER soundtrack? I don't remember it if so.

Third album? Damn - I just meant a couple songs off Rotting Pinata namely "Plowed" and "Molly" iirc.

"Plowed" is featured in the movie, but not on the actual soundtrack.

Sponge is actually releasing their eighth album this year, the mind boggles. I gave up after the third.

Yeah, I just did some investigating and found that out myself. I am surprised I didn't remember that though. I watched the shit out of that movie in the years after it came out. So bad it's good etc. A couple years later I met the dude who sings Sugarhigh on top of the building at the end when he was DJing at some bar I was at in LA. I was drunk so I totally did that thing where I was like hey weren't you in Empire Records. He gave me three CDs of his all but one of which didn't totally suck.

Wait, all but one did totally suck. The one that didn't was actually pretty OK.

You know who are on the sndtrk though (apparently)? The Gin Blossoms. It all comes full circle.

yes!

little known fact about the movie Empire Records: it really fucking sucks

that not so little-known bsj

Oh yeah its a horrible, horrible movie but that doesn't mean I won't watch it every time I come across it on cable.

I don't think there's any one who doesn't know yr little fun fact there bsj. You can still love things that really fucking suck.

Especially if you're young and have a big crush on Ethan Embry (sub Tyler, RZ etc.) at the time said movie comes out.