90s rock bands no one cares about; pick one

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

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gin blossoms obv

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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
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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.

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.

― President Keyes, Friday, July 15, 2011 1:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

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

― Spotify, Spotify me (DJP), Friday, July 15, 2011 1:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

^^^^^

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).