Modern Rock #1 Hits of 1995

I detect some sarcasm in your post, Deric, but you remind me of some former band members of mine who wanted to cover "Box Elder" because it was "an obscure song from an obscure band."

Oh shit. This is the year I graduated from high school and I distinctly remember Name being played CONSTANTLY ugh. I never liked Alanis at all. I don't remember what JAR is. Huh. I was in the Soul Asylum official fan club around that time (don't judge! OK you totally can but I will still rep for a couple of their early albums) and did like Misery. Hmmmmmmm.

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(I told her recently that I'd found my stash of her old zines and she was like "BURN THEM!!")

I listened to a lot of Tricky in '95.

In retrospect I am surprised my wife ended up marrying me, given the number of times I played "Overcome" at her in an attempt to be broodingly sexy.

Bush always blew but Gavin Rosdale was so fucking hot when he sang glycerine alone on stage in the pouring down rain at MTVs spring break in '06. Man alive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfatUZ5RDG0

I distinctly remember watching that in my dorm lounge during my freshman year of college and just being like O_O. I have a soft spot for that song as a result. I'll totally sing along if it comes on the radio while I'm driving.

I detect some sarcasm in your post, Deric, but you remind me of some former band members of mine who wanted to cover "Box Elder" because it was "an obscure song from an obscure band."

Yeah, a total goof. But at the time, I certainly felt fringe-y, if only because I discovered a lot of that stuff on my own and didn't know anyone else who was into it.

this is my regularly scheduled "bte was totally underrated through their first three albums but on the fourth then yeah they did start sucking" comment

that's a really bad list though
when i come around was the only green day song i ever really liked (despite people hyping basket case on 94 thread)
and i liked good, as stated but i'd probably go with wonderwall

i don't think anyone ever admits to liking bush but i got that album, little things was probably the best track on it though and didn't really get anywhere

Good is actually really fun to sing along to at a very high volume.

what, I have heard "Little Things" on the radio at least once a week for the past 17 years (xpost)

Which one goes "breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out"? That's the one I hear on the radio most often, I think.

machinehead, that had that werewolf movie tie-in tho

"Machine Head"

x-post lol which movie - OMG THE ONE WITH JULIE DELPY?

I saw that in the movie theater. :/

Oh wait it seems like that was 97 so idk which one you mean.

all 5 of the Sixteen Stone singles are and have always been oppressively overplayed

Because they are oppressively awesome.

No.

yeah the delpy one actually

Oh! That really wasn't a good movie.

oh, no that single was a remix of "mouth" actually? NEVERMIND

I saw it too :(

from Dan Weiss' recent Butch Vig interview:

I thought the Soul Asylum record was underrated as well. It was kind of the right record at the wrong time because it came a few years before alt-country became a thing.

I think it's underrated too. The songwriting is amazing on it, there's some incredible songs. [Vig starts singing a bit of "To My Own Devices"] That was a difficult record to make because... they had all this success with "Runaway Train" and all of a sudden Dave was dating Winona Ryder, they were playing at the White House. And it was hard to get them to focus and start on the record. That was by far the biggest budget record I'd done. Pirner could almost be a street bum, he's such a character and so off in his own world, but I think he's an amazing songwriter. But they kind of fell by the wayside, it didn't have the same kind of success as Grave Dancers Union.

Hold Me Thrill Me - the last great U2 track of the Achtung/Zooropa era - I think it was a holdover from the Zooropa sessions.

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It was

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i liked soul asylum back then but a lot of it doesn't seem to hold up now except for maybe black gold

also, not to bring up hfs again but one of the hfstivals i went to had both soul asylum and primus during the pirner/winona years - primus going into big brown beaver while winona was in attendance at the side of the stage was hilarious

It's embarrassing that we as a society tolerated hair like Pirner's.

lol

He totally had a cameo in Reality Bites btw. That's just so perfect somehow.

one of my friends claims to have slept w/ Alanis in Holland around the time You Oughta Know was blowing up

still can't vote for it in good conscience even on this comedically bad list

anybody own that Soul Asylum record? A '95 example of ship's list of commercial failures.

I have the Soul Asylum record. I loved Misery (but voted WICA) and picked up the CD through a Columbia House or BMV spree, haha.

also, not to bring up hfs again but one of the hfstivals i went to had both soul asylum and primus during the pirner/winona years - primus going into big brown beaver while winona was in attendance at the side of the stage was hilarious

― fauxmarc, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 11:44 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol i totally remember listening to the station that weekend and hearing reports about the dustup, les claypool apparently dryly informing him that the name isn't even spelled the same in "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver"

Let me note that despite the overall crappiness of this list, there are 3 songs here that I really like "When I Come Around", "Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me" (favorite U2 song by a mile), and "You Oughta Know". That's probably better than some of the later lists will hit.

i love swag U2, even "Discotheque" was cool w/ me

I'm going to have to vote for it! I didn't like it then but I do now. And I don't have the love for early Bush that lots of ILMers do.

Second would probably be "Misery."

― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, May 23, 2012 7:53 AM (4 hours ago)

WTF Bush is definitely the worst band of the '90s! Worst! And that's stiff competition.

at some point it occurred to me that "you oughta know" kind of sounds like an angsty michael jackson song of the same era

that said, i'm voting for "lump"

"Good" over "Comedown" and "Wonderwall"

re-listening to tomorrow it sounds like an stp knockoff

You Oughta Know, easily.

i chuckle every time someone asserts that in thread

re-listening to tomorrow it sounds like an stp knockoff

― fauxmarc, Wednesday, May 23, 2012 4:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

that's almost, like, ungenerous to stone temple pilots

it's like a worn-down wicked garden really

I'm here
To remind you
That your chuckles don't mean anything
It's not fair
To pretend that
This song isn't totally awesome
You
You
You oughta know

I find it amusing that both "When I Come Around" and Good ar eon here when they are essentially the same song.

U2 - one of my fave U2 songs.
Bush were terrible, they seemed to be popular solely because of their lead singer's vague physical resemblance to Kurt Cobain.

is she perverted like me? would she go down on you in a theater?

lol wasn't it allegedly about some actor like john larroquette or someone

YOU GONNA WAIT 'TIL, FAT BOY, FAT BOY, WAIT 'TIL TOMORROW!

morrisseyesque

thing is, very hard to drink is very fun to sing

VERY HAHD TO DRAAYYYAAANKKKK
Fat BOOH-OOOHY! Fat BOYEEEE! WAIT TEW TOMARROOOOOOOOOOH

I'll always remember when the video to 'Tomorrow' appeared on Beavis & Butthead; when the drums kick in after the opening guitar arpeggios, and Beavis goes "MORE THAN A FEEE-LIIIING!".

I think "Everything Zen," "Comedown" and perhaps even "Glycerine" had radio edits that made them much more concise.

Ogling Billie Joe Armstrong was all the pleasure this era could offer.

"What I Got" deserves the firing squad.

I saw the #1 and was like...

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But then I saw the rest of the list and I was like...

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Lump gets stuck in my head the most these days out of this crew.

Most of these songs are catchy like herpes.

This is making me realize just how short-lived was my intense affair with the Alternative Nation. Lots of strained smiles and forced conversation by the time '95 rolled around.