90s rock bands no one cares about; pick one

listen to the chorus of the song--low-string hummable guitar riff with chorus effect!

There are some similar elements.. chorus-effect and tempo being 2 of the most obvious ones. I don't think it's a ripoff. I'm not offended if anyone hates "St Joe On The Schoolbus".. It's far from the most complex stunning thing I've ever heard, but I've always liked it as kind of a slack-sounding sludgy pop song.

if I had to pick one to listen to it would obv be the Gin Blossoms, but their fucked-up treatment of their songwriter kind of bums me out of actually voting for them

on the other hand, can't bring myself to vote for anyone else, so eh

(also if they don't win it will be Semisonic and if I never hear "Secret Smile" again it will be 600 years too soon, though I hate them slightly less now I've remembered that they aren't the New Radicals)

I had to DJ a wedding once and "Secret Smile" was their wedding song.

Guess I misinterpreted the question, as in, for which band is the statement "nobody cares about them" most true? So that would've been Seven Mary Three - I don't know if I've ever met anybody who even had an opinion about them.

Since we're apparently voting for bands we actually do care about, at least relatively speaking, for me there's no question - Gin Blossoms eat all the others for breakfast. That said, I've never been compelled to explore beyond their singles, though I once actually owned an album by Collective Soul. I remember really liking the song "Gel" on the radio - didn't care much for their earlier singles - and I think that's why I bought it. I was about twelve at the time. By middle school you get self conscious about listening to/owning music so aggressively uncool. Even now I find the band's butt-rock leanings kind of embarrassing - you know, the kind of stuff that hearkens back to 70s arena boogie acts who call attractive women "mama" with no trace of irony. Just not really my thing. But of course my dad loved it, so I gave it to him. Collective Soul loses points for being pseudo Christian-rock and for getting their name from Ayn Rand. Christgau's dis of their first album is fucking hilarious:

http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=2690&name=Collective+Soul

The Gin Blossoms and Collective Soul both have hits comps, and the funny thing is that Collective Soul actually earned theirs - they had way more radio hits than you may remember. Both groups have more than a few solid tunes, but the Gin Blossoms don't gross me out even a little. I've always thought of them as like a post-R.E.M. bar band - sure, there were dozens of those in 93-98 or so, but I'd rather listen to these guys than Hootie or, I dunno, Counting Crows (both of whom are more their peers than the rest of the crop here).

semisonic. people saying collective soul were anything other than a secret c.i.a. torture project are the most disgusting savages.

"Closing Time" is semi-torture to listen to

your mistake is thinking we're voting for bands we actually do care about

one of them, at least. you may have made other mistakes.

art alexakis review is *amazing*

your mistake is thinking we're voting for bands we actually do care about

nobody said either way

i am pretty sure he did actually say that.

yeah, scrolled up and there it is. huh.

"care about, relatively speaking" was the wrong way to put it. "don't necessarily dislike" or "if i had to listen to one, i'd listen to..." etc.

No one cares about these bands, and I picked one.

Can I go hide in the corner now?

Sure. Sponge is already over there waiting for you.

yeah, scrolled up and there it is. huh.

scrolled up as well and nobody said either way. huh.

all i see is people saying they're going to vote for gin blossoms because they like them the best. huh.

voted for Semisonic, their first pre-"Closing Time" album is really dope

I was wondering where Sponge was. Anybody remember Spin's attempted genre coinage used to describe them and their ilk ("scrunge")? Mighta been mentioned in another thread too.

What was the NIN rip-off band had that song that played in movie theaters all through the late '90s: "Could you wanna take my picture/Cuz I don't remember." Filter? Same assholes who did "Hey Man Nice Shot"? They are my least care about band of the 90s.

cared

filter, yes.

that picture song sounds more like jane's addiction than nin, though

Ladies and gentlemen, billstevejim.

gin blossoms obv

― call all destroyer, Friday, July 15, 2011 4:07 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Totally just ctrl+F'd you to see if you'd chimed in yet. lol.

I don't even like Gin Blossoms but they definitely stand out in this group as being actually distinctive and having well-crafted songs.

i seriously thought that other filter song was like train or something. i totally missed it in its late 90s heyday and then like a year ago i was suddenly hearing it EVERYWHERE for a while and when i finally figured out it was filter it was a very 0_o moment.

not that "hey man, nice shot" wasn't also a steaming pile, but that's quite a leap in the name of not going broke.

Is there a thread where I drunkenly praise Everclear's "Santa Monica"? Kinda scared to search tbqh.

"santa monica" may be the only song where the lyrics actually look better on paper than sung.

...or maybe the song would have benefitted from less of a Vandals/cowpunk yelp with timely grunge gloss and gone with a really amazing mid-70s Steve Miller Band production.
― Steve Shasta, Friday, April 13, 2007 7:43 AM (4 years ago)

indie guilt c/d
― and what, Friday, April 13, 2007 8:00 AM (4 years ago)

milkmandan77 (1 week ago) +2

YEEEUH!

im a young dude that spent 5 years of my damn life married to a total careerhead bitchbag in a shithole landlocked texas dump, got fed up and divorced and bailed out to hawaii and i surf everyday and things are great now - this song is my fucking athem.

man i can't believe i just youtubed an everclear song to see if you're right

you're kinda right btw

When I interned for a judge we had this crazy lawsuit involving this douchey-looking blonde professional 30-something guy from New Jersey who was suing the police. He had been so high and drunk that he couldn't even remember what happened, but according to the police he was screaming and acting crazy and picking fights with officers who asked him to calm down. At one point he apparently went down a flight of stairs with a cop and broke the cop's arm. The next day when he came to in the hospital, he was handcuffed to a bed, and he claims that the cops made his handcuffs too tight and he hurt his wrist, so he sued. He lost. But the reason he was at Penn Station was because he was on his way back from seeing an Everclear concert. Just seems fitting somehow.

i recommend y'all read hurting's post there while listening to "what i got" by sublime, which was in the "you may also like" sidebar on the youtube for "santa monica."

Not neccesarily their *best* moment, but probably not what you'd expect if you'd only heard Closing Time...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwZrr3f-NjQ

"Explicit version"? (Obvs. Haven't watched it)

Sad, because they're stumbling around Ok-Go video territory, but don't quite get it right.

that chemistry album was alright. i had forgotten about it.

I badly want to hate "Hey Man Nice Shot" but a month or two ago (for some reason) I decided to read about the song on wikipedia and I found it interesting that the lyrics are about R Budd Dwyer, the politician who shot himself on live TV in the 80s.. For me, this gives the song a hint of depth that I hadn't expected, despite their sub-NIN leanings.

lol Hey Man Nice Shot is one of the songs my band is learning for this battle of the bands thing that requires you to do a cover

I always suspected that "Hey Man, Nice Shot" was actually about Kurt Cobain--ostensibly about the politician, maybe, but, consciously or not, as much or more about Cobain.

^I've read that before...

also: still rep for the first Silverchair album; lots of bands deserve to be mocked before they do, including everybody on here except Gin Blossoms, but also Eve 6, The Nixons, Candlebox, Tonic, etc.

Tomorrow to me is a decent grunge song--holds up alongside a lot of the Pearl Jam it admittedly bites--but this is imo their best song, an absolute skull-splitting slab of sludge:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF33EJ85-1I

lmao I also recall reading on wikipedia a few years back about the "Isreal's Son" murders.

Had Nickelback even debuted in 1999?

(Semisonic is the only band in this list that I do care about to any extent at all)

http://i56.tinypic.com/16a1cub.jpg

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.