90s rock bands no one cares about; pick one

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.

i know i know.. wasnt tryin to kill anyones buzz, sorry

ENBB OTM re: crushes. But Tyler's mismatched underwear on the day she knew (and put tons of prep into) she was gonna seduce Rex Manning always bugged me.

OH REXY YOU'RE SO SEXY

omg

I had forgotten about a lot of this movie.

Although on my bus home the other night the Charles looked really pretty and there were some crew teams rowing and it reminded me of something someone said in ER about Harvard being where guys row boats and eat ivy or something like that.

... who told

lol

My favorite was in college we played a prank on this older guy (mid-40s) in our design studio who kept trying to be "hip" and keep up with bands we were listening to. Anyway, we spent about a month talking up this Rex Manning and how amazing he was. Finally this dude begged us to dub him a tape of Rex Manning to hear what the fuss was about. I spent two nights crafting a tape full of excised Dead bootleg and Sonic Youth guitar solos. Kinda wishing I still had that tape, tbh.

lol

School of Fish to thread.

Haha, oh man, "Three Strange Days," right?

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

Yeah, that tune was co-written with Marshall Crenshaw and it's A+++++.

otm

How about Nixons? My Head? Reacharound? I could go for days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUfZnbfCMk&ob=av2e

we're done talking about Empire Records?! :(

I wanted to talk about my Rory Cochrane TS: Lucas vs. Slater from Dazed and Confused

I like My Head but bands no one has heard of is different from bands no one cares about.

How'd Better Than Ezra escape mention? I guess no one truly cares about them...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImlFjlAxGQ

Better Than Ezra = another band who had two songs I liked

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/21/showbiz/three-doors-down-bassist-charged/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/dam/assets/130421043742-three-doors-down-todd-harrell-story-top.jpg

CNN) -- Police have charged the bassist of the rock band 3 Doors Down with vehicular homicide after they said his speeding car clipped a pickup truck, sending it down an embankment and killing the driver.

If there was a church of douches that picture would be in stained glass.

When did the whole fedora on rockers thing start up? Is it some leftover from late 90s ska culture or something?

Yeah, I think that's where they picked it up.

King’s X!

wow, three doors down guy got two years in prison for that car wreck. if he served all his time he should be out right about now.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2015/12/18/ex-3-doors-down-bassist-gets-prison-deadly-crash/77284292/