POST-GRUNGE PARADISE: celebration, trashing, and discussion of the rock music of 1993-1998

like most of these posers, they had roots in glam rock and changed gears when they saw the way the wind was blowing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bf2C4R0F1Q

no, it isn't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO1kZxOSZeQ

Thought I'd never heard Oleander and then that opening triggered a flashback to riding to lunch in the back seat of a 4 cylinder convertible '80s Mustang.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoZF4pMKho8

Kind of feel bad for the guy I knew whose band "got signed to Creed's label man" - his band was at least as competent as Oleander.

he was still having to do solo gigs at a Flying Saucer on Sunday nights and would sing directly at a bartender I worked with - direct, creepy eye contact for 3+ minutes at a time

Pretty sure this was one of the regular creepy eye contact songs

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

It's kind of amazing that, in America, Bush out-performed all BritPop comers up to and including Oasis.

this does not surprise me, "Swallowed" mops the floor vs. every band that featured a Union Jack bass drum at any point in the '90s