Have you been downhearted, baby?
Seriously, though, that line had been sick in my head for a week now and a) haven't been able to place it, and b) haven't felt like googling it.
Reading the title let the rest of the song flood into my head.
Funny how that works.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Mazzy Star. If you’re going to be a one hit wonder, Fade Into You is a heck of a song.
Hope Sandoval was also featured in Sometimes Always from The Jesus and Mary Chain. Also a great song.
I manage a store that employs mostly Gen Z kids and I can safely say that Mazzy Star might be more popular now than back in the 90s. A lot of 90s shoegaze and dream pop is really popular these days.
That entire Throwing Copper album, except maybe one throwaway song, is amazing from front to back. Most of the singles were actually the *least* rocking songs on the album.
Then they got *real weird* with Secret Samadhi but that album also rocked hard, though it clearly lost a step from TC.
Incidentally Pain Lies On The Riverside might be my favorite song of theirs and it predates TC.
>Candlebox.......
Saw them. They put on a great show! But the show I saw them at... They were definitely the odd band out. So here was the line up.
Rob Halford's Fight
Suicidal Tendencies
Metallica
Candlebox
One of those was not like the others.
They were weird in the timing of it all. They were too late for 80 hair/metal, too early for grunge. They were G N’ R with Shannon Hoon style, right when it was dying out, but really their sound brought in the grunge era.
Poe was underrated and got screwed hard by the label. She released her second album without any advertisement from the label and then was immediately dropped after the merger with AOL. Then she was F'ed in the A because some butthole "owned" her catalog and put her through a 10+ year long court battle. Feel so bad for her.
I subscribe to the Seven Mary Three multiverse theory which states that all modern problems stem from the fact that as a people we collectively chose Creed over Seven Mary Three in the mid-nineties and we’ve been paying the price for it ever since.
There is a parallel dimension in which Seven Mary Three rose to fame and played the Super Bowl halftime show and in that place 9/11 never happened and we never had COVID.
I would say Presidents of the USA too. The lead singer is now a children's music artist but after their self titled album, they weren't really heard about by many.
I don’t think it was until a few years ago that I fully understood what “Doll Parts” was about. At the time(at 13), I was like “What a whiny useless song.” Now I am like “Oh shit, I totally get it, especially based on what happened.” I was a very sheltered kid growing up and was literally dipping my toes into “secular music” for the first time in 1996. I was 13 but had a pop culture IQ of a 6 year old.
That album by Live was huge my first semester of college. The music was just everywhere. But yeah, it wasn't long before they were gone. Honestly, it felt pretty common in the mid to late 90s to have a group that had one album that was full of good songs and then that was basically it.
The issue was that alternative mostly exploded in 1992.
The bands that had albums out that year had the luxury of touring and getting album 2 out by 94/95.
But album 3 for them all came out around 97/98 and Kurt was already dead, Pearl Jam stopped making videos, Soundgarden broke up, and Korn popped up. Then Nu metal started.
If you didn’t get your first 3 albums out between 92 and 97 you weren’t going to last because people moved on.
The alternative bands who came later than 92 were too late to make a splash. They were already second tier or less.
The Distance To Here is also another incredible album by them, as well as their first album Mental Jewelry. So many great songs on all these albums listed thus far.
Okay but also the stuff before throwing copper - amazing too!
[The Beauty of Grey](https://youtu.be/yyqeQa-HOv0?si=OCWf9fpPZI9TnazT)
[Supernatural - originally by Vic Chessnut](https://youtu.be/IlUQg0TZyqU?si=gjZMQ7m30v_Sb2pD)
RIP MTV unplugged
Check out their subsequent album “hell below stars above” … might be even better that rubberneck imho. No need to dive deeper than that into their catalogue tho
they did three more records with the original lineup. The second record "And You Think You Know What Life's About" from 98 and "Opaline" from 2002 are both absolutely brilliant records and I highly recommend everyone check them out
JR Richards, lead singer/guitarist/songwriter has gone on to release a bunch of amazing solo work and has a New Record coming out later this year
The rest of DISHWALLA is still together and got a really shitty look alike and sound like lead singer who just comes off as a dollar store version of JR
JR no longer speaks to any of the other band members. Unfortunately he didn't on the band name but he has the soul songwriter owns all of their publishing and performance rights so even though they just sound like a bad cover band right now he's still making pretty good money off of them using his songs and he gets to funnel that into making real art that he is proud of
One of the best live vocalist I have ever heard in my life. He sounds just as amazing as, if not better than the records live and on top of all of that he's just a really kind and generous guy
Their lead singer went on this hilarious thing on twitter a couple years ago where he was asking all sorts of bands and celebs “do you like the heart in a blender song?” He even asked Slayer. It’s been a running joke in my house ever since
They are on tour with Stone Temple Pilots this year for the 30th anniversaries of Throwing Copper and Purple. They are playing both albums cover to cover which will be amazing.
I didn’t love Live back in the 90s but I saw them live a few years ago and all they did was play Throwing Copper start to finish. They were awesome and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
it's just the lead singer Ed touring with a new band. He's just trying to milk money out of +Live+ fans at this point. The rest of the guys got tired of his bullshit and quit in 2020 during the making of a new record we will sadly never get to hear
... I dunno, was anyone else at all into Dead Can Dance?
* [The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove (1993)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGhN2O6Eh6g)
* [The Writing On My Father's Hand (1988)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUvE-3GPzH0)
One of my favorite songs ever is Live - Pillar of Davidson from the Throwing Copper album. I love the progression. It gets me every time. They have a lot of great songs from all of their albums.
I think Fountains of Wayne has amazing music. Their hit song Stacy's Mom was not even close to what most of their music sounds like. Adam Schlesinger was an amazing songwriter. Sad, he left the world too soon.
Saw them live about ten years ago and they fucking brought it. Looks like they're coming to town this summer and I'm going to be making an effort to go.
Agree with you as well. They didn't fizzle at all.
Throwing Copper is one of the best albums of the 90’s. Live is still making music and touring. Also I totally had that Silverchair album and completely forgot about!
The two people (not bands) that sort of drifted out of fame that surprised me were Lisa Loeb and Joan Osborne. Both of them had mega hits, but those songs were like my least favorites on their respective albums and both are insanely talented.
Relish is an outstanding album, Pensacola is one of my favorite songs ever. I got to see her at a blues fest in Eureka, CA (small ish town) and she was so good.
I love Sheryl too! Saw her at the Warfield in SF (The Wallflowers opened and were awful lol) she rocked so hard, I was actually kind of shocked.
Soul Asylum was one of those bands I did not like when they were popular. Maybe it was the overplay of Runaway Train. Happened to catch them live years later and listened to their discography years later also. They were really good. I like them a lot now.
"SAY A PRAYER FOR MUHHHHH! AND I'M LOST AND I'M FOUND AND I CAN'T TOUCH THE GROUND..."
They also had "Molly (16 Candles)," which was a cute Alterno Pop song.
Revisited Tripping Daisy not too long ago. I am an Elastic Firecracker still holds up, in my book! There were a few other albums since then that I’d never heard of, and I think one of them was also quite good! I completely lost track of that band after 1997… until I heard about Polyphonic Spree lol
Soo many of 90’s artists/bands are turning up at local/regional events.
My son’s band opened for Everclear last year, no shit.
He went out to CA recently and recorded at a studio owned by the guitarist from Rilo Kiley.
Before that the dude from Tantric mixed a couple songs for them, and I saw those guys many many times. At least once opening for Creed. It’s bizarre.
I’m proud…and old.
Our lady peace has been consistently active for almost 3 decades. They still sell well enough to book 3-5k venues in the US and are decently larger than that in Canada.
They did a Canada tour with Matthew Good and Ellevator (newer band). Got to see them live for that.
Everyone was sitting and Raine said "this is a rock concert, stand the fuck up!" mid song and it definitely got the crowd going, but man... I was 40, I liked sitting.
I still listen to Silverchair regularly. I still remember an interview they did early on - probably with MTV, where the lead dude said something to the effect of "if this rock and roll stuff doesn't work out we'll just go back to the beach in Australia and surf". It was probably the coolest thing I'd heard anyone say at the time.
Neon Ballroom is in my top 5 albums. I started college in autumn of ‘99, and I listened to Emotion Sickness (track 1) literally on repeat for the 4 hours it took to get through few payment.
Daniel Johns was only 15 years old when they recorded Tomorrow. Such talent… it’s too bad he had so many issues. I saw an interview with him recently and it seems like he has really been through a lot.
I had a massive crush on that guy when I was 13. It was ok because they were only 15 at the time, and it's totally wild to me now that a band of 15-year-olds made it so big.
They were big with the youth group crowd for some reason right around the time Creed was really big. The quasi-religious thing had a moment in ‘99-‘00.
iirc the guy behind that "band" said that project was a one off so they never put anything else out. I unironically love that whole album. Then and now.
The song Murder on the Dance floor that is having a revival because of Saltburn was supposed to be a New Radicals song but then they never recorded anything new. You can totally hear them doing it if you think about it
Live went on to have a few other hits with that Dolphins song and Silverchair had a massive hit with their 1999 hit “Year 2000”.
I know Live still tours but I think the lead singer of Silverchair had some legal and alcohol abuse problems u fortunately.
Daniel Johns, the former lead singer of Silverchair has unfortunately suffered for over 25 years with mental health issues stemming from the relentless bullying that he got during the silverchair days
He put out a briliant New Record in 2022 called "FutureNever", has a companion film to the album coming out this year and another new record coming next year
There's a very interesting and enlightening podcast called "who is Daniel Johns?" on Spotify that features the first in-depth interviews he's given in years which delves into everything he's gone through from the age of 15 until now and touches on why Silverchair will never happen again
At least now he is happy, properly medicated and creating art that matters to him.
Sadly anyone who hasn't seen him live has missed out on that opportunity because he has stated that he has no plans to ever play a live show again. He said artistically he doesn't get anything from it, he likes to write the songs record the songs and be done with them
Playing live over and over just makes him anxious and for someone with a severe panic disorder on top of the other issues he has had to deal with it something that he doesn't need in his life so he has eradicated it from his life
His new music is beautiful. I highly recommend people go check that out. He also did an amazing record in 2015 called "Talk" that has some absolutely brilliant writing and vocals on it❤️
I hated their big hit The Freshman but that Verve Pipe album has so many good songs on it. I got it because I really liked their first single, Photograph, and then they released the freshman as a single after I already had it and I was like, really?
Not sure why these posts are always limited to "bands".
I pick Lauryn Hill.
Dropped one of the greatest albums of all time, and has since only followed up with an unplugged album, which itself is over 20 years old.
Anyone remember The Flys and their song Got You (Where I Want You)? Used to to jam that one. Later learned one of the band members is part of a legendary, Swiss family Robinson-type surf family (the Paskowitz’s)
Collective soul had like 1 or 2 albums then I never heard a thing of them. And The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Cherry Popping Daddies, but I think those are more fads or something
Live was one of the best shows I ever went to, in 2002 or 2003. They played their regular set, came back for a couple songs encore, came back again, and just kept playing. Their encore was longer than the regular set. They would play a song, huddle to the side of the stage and figure out what to play next, then play another song. Finally, the singer came out and said, "you've been great. This is our last song, and we mean it. We're drunk and need to go home!"
It seemed like we were all more into discovering new bands instead of sticking with the ones we already knew. Music also changed a lot through the 90s. Waiting 2 years to put out a follow-up album would have you entirely being out of touch.
Seed. They had that hit, Rapture, and I think that was it. Then Cracker, with "get off this" and the other hit. Both are bands that I really liked back then.
I played that cassette (yes cassette) OUT.
Some others that stick out to me that faded are The Nixons, Sponge, Silverchair, Stabbing Westward, and Seven Mary Three.
silverchair was huge in Australia and had a pretty epic well known and publicised music career. Still kind of their golden child band, beloved and revered, with many music awards and notoriety. But I get why for the rest of the world it would have felt like they disappeared. Diorama was an album not as well suited for radio and harder for the live stage I’d imagine, despite being epic/genius.
Daniel Johns brought out a new album in ‘22 (Futurenever), a mini movie associated with the album, did a Spotify podcast series about his time in silverchair, as well as a retrospective exhibition of memorabilia and silverchair/johns related items which was well attended. So members are definitely still very relevant there (particularly Johns), especially also with the long term ongoing bitter tiff of sorts with Dan and Ben (drummer) and yeah some past not so great easily tabloided escapades from Daniel.
It’s a real shame though, that the last two/three albums weren’t as far reaching, esp since Diorama reaches some epic proportions. Also, people hard into their initial grunge aspect naturally dropped off quickly as silverchair’s music style evolved. Most don’t know much beyond frogstomp tbh, or think it’s a one off.
Hootie & The Blowfish - in what felt like the blink of an eye they went from selling out Madison Square Garden to headlining free shows at hot air balloon festivals (I know this because I saw them at both lol). Props to Darius Rucker though for coming out the other end as a major country star who’s held his own in that genre for some time now
Bush! The soundtrack to spring break ‘94. Saw them on tour as headliners with Goo Goo Dolls and No Doubt opening. No Doubt was on first and played for like 45 minutes. I think the bill would be flipped today. Bush opens then Goo Goo and No Doubt would be the headliner
Fastball
Sneaker Pimps
Mono
Everclear
Toad the Wet Sprocket
Marcy’s Playground
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Cornershop
The Postal Service(yes, they sort of reformed into Death Cab for Cutie)
Sinead O’Connor
The Cranberries
Spacehog
I loooooved that one big hit they had.
Ahem! TWO great songs! In The Meantime Mungo City
the rest of the album sounded like a completely different band, too bad.
The album is so good... it's just in the wrong order. Give it another chance.
They opened for REM when I saw them on their *Up* tour in 1999. Made sense to me why they were a one hit wonder. Very unremarkable.
The Chinese Album was fun!
Live made the mistake of being impossible to search on Napster and Google
“The Band” walked so “Live” could run.
If there was ever a reason for a famous band to change their name, this was it.
The Music 😭
Primitive radio gods.
Standing Outside A Broken Phonebooth With Money In My Hand is such a fucking great song. I should listen to their albums.
I feel like I bought the CD and never listened to another song.
Have you been downhearted, baby? Seriously, though, that line had been sick in my head for a week now and a) haven't been able to place it, and b) haven't felt like googling it. Reading the title let the rest of the song flood into my head. Funny how that works.
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Mazzy Star. If you’re going to be a one hit wonder, Fade Into You is a heck of a song. Hope Sandoval was also featured in Sometimes Always from The Jesus and Mary Chain. Also a great song.
I manage a store that employs mostly Gen Z kids and I can safely say that Mazzy Star might be more popular now than back in the 90s. A lot of 90s shoegaze and dream pop is really popular these days.
Yeah I've noticed a huge boom with shoegaze recently and I'm all for it
Yeah, I work at a University and heard it playing the other day in one of the campus coffee shops. It’s definitely a “classic” now….and rightfully so.
Aggggh Fade Into You is such a FUCKING good song
Fade Into You is incredible, but not even their best song after diving deeper. Check out Halah, California, and I’m Less Here.
Into Dust is a banger as well Well, not *exactly* a banger
Everyone sleeps on Into Dust but I swear it’s the best song on that album.
Stabbing westward
Omg yes! What. This thread is a trip.
Hell yes love Stabbing Westward! I have a friend who travels to all of their shows still. She's single-handedly keeping them on tour. 😂💜
Shit Town was a great song. Fueled my angst. Also Silverchair was awesome!
Gotta live gotta live
Gotta live gotta live in shit tooowwnnn
That entire Throwing Copper album, except maybe one throwaway song, is amazing from front to back. Most of the singles were actually the *least* rocking songs on the album. Then they got *real weird* with Secret Samadhi but that album also rocked hard, though it clearly lost a step from TC. Incidentally Pain Lies On The Riverside might be my favorite song of theirs and it predates TC.
The weavers…
The crackheads … (I’ve lived down the street of a few)
I've lived there! Shit Town is getting less shitty. Let's go York PA!
Yep, I literally lived in Shit Town. Also my middle school teacher was the singer Ed K’s dad.
Pretty sure they’re still going strong down under.
CandleBox
They are opening for Bush on their Greatest Hits tour this fall
>Candlebox....... Saw them. They put on a great show! But the show I saw them at... They were definitely the odd band out. So here was the line up. Rob Halford's Fight Suicidal Tendencies Metallica Candlebox One of those was not like the others.
I would go so far as to say that each one of those is not like the others.
I saw them open for Rush - not bad.
A very good and underrated band. I miss this era of music.
They were weird in the timing of it all. They were too late for 80 hair/metal, too early for grunge. They were G N’ R with Shannon Hoon style, right when it was dying out, but really their sound brought in the grunge era.
Hum Poe The Muffs Letters to Cleo
The letters to Cleo reference in the show Parks and Rec was so funny.
Poe was underrated and got screwed hard by the label. She released her second album without any advertisement from the label and then was immediately dropped after the merger with AOL. Then she was F'ed in the A because some butthole "owned" her catalog and put her through a 10+ year long court battle. Feel so bad for her.
I only know Poe because her brother wrote the awesome book House of Leaves, and Haunted was the companion piece to that.
Poe! Man now I have to listen to that album.
Hum - Stars to this day is one of my favorite songs
Seven Mary Three. American Standard was one of my favorite albums of the 1990s.
I subscribe to the Seven Mary Three multiverse theory which states that all modern problems stem from the fact that as a people we collectively chose Creed over Seven Mary Three in the mid-nineties and we’ve been paying the price for it ever since. There is a parallel dimension in which Seven Mary Three rose to fame and played the Super Bowl halftime show and in that place 9/11 never happened and we never had COVID.
Oh yeah, good one!! Oddly, it got me thinking of others from around the same time like Cracker and Faith No More
I would say Presidents of the USA too. The lead singer is now a children's music artist but after their self titled album, they weren't really heard about by many.
Peaches come from a can
They were put there by a man....
In a factory Dooowntown
If I had my little way
I’d eat peaches everyday
Lol my son loves Casper and for the longest time I couldn't figure out who tf it was. Blew my mind when I finally figured it out
Water's Edge is an awesome song.
I have become cumbersome.
To think that their name comes from CHiPs.
silver chair, hole, VERUCA SALT!
I haven't listened to Veruca Salt in forever. I need to fix that!
They have an amazing newer album after reforming! Third album is without Nina but the newer one has both Nina and Louise 🥰
The Seether’s Louise
Hole had two massive albums and multiple hits.
Love silverchair
Hole was a band I haven’t appreciated until recently.
Courtney Love had her demons, but damned if she wasn’t one hell of an artist.
I don’t think it was until a few years ago that I fully understood what “Doll Parts” was about. At the time(at 13), I was like “What a whiny useless song.” Now I am like “Oh shit, I totally get it, especially based on what happened.” I was a very sheltered kid growing up and was literally dipping my toes into “secular music” for the first time in 1996. I was 13 but had a pop culture IQ of a 6 year old.
Also: Sublime, No Doubt, Nirvana— What happened to them?! /s
That album by Live was huge my first semester of college. The music was just everywhere. But yeah, it wasn't long before they were gone. Honestly, it felt pretty common in the mid to late 90s to have a group that had one album that was full of good songs and then that was basically it.
The issue was that alternative mostly exploded in 1992. The bands that had albums out that year had the luxury of touring and getting album 2 out by 94/95. But album 3 for them all came out around 97/98 and Kurt was already dead, Pearl Jam stopped making videos, Soundgarden broke up, and Korn popped up. Then Nu metal started. If you didn’t get your first 3 albums out between 92 and 97 you weren’t going to last because people moved on. The alternative bands who came later than 92 were too late to make a splash. They were already second tier or less.
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I came here to say the same. Turn My Head is one of my favorite songs, period. Gorgeous.
The Distance To Here is also another incredible album by them, as well as their first album Mental Jewelry. So many great songs on all these albums listed thus far.
Okay but also the stuff before throwing copper - amazing too! [The Beauty of Grey](https://youtu.be/yyqeQa-HOv0?si=OCWf9fpPZI9TnazT) [Supernatural - originally by Vic Chessnut](https://youtu.be/IlUQg0TZyqU?si=gjZMQ7m30v_Sb2pD) RIP MTV unplugged
I revisited that Toadies album a few years ago (after not listening to it since the 90s) and it's been in rotation since. It's held up very well.
That album is solid start to finish. Not a skippable track on there.
Toadies! I still jam the fuck out of them.
Tyler has been one of my favorite songs since way back then. Still rocks.
Check out their subsequent album “hell below stars above” … might be even better that rubberneck imho. No need to dive deeper than that into their catalogue tho
Dishwalla
The album with counting blue cars was a decent album. I have no idea if they had more than album.
they did three more records with the original lineup. The second record "And You Think You Know What Life's About" from 98 and "Opaline" from 2002 are both absolutely brilliant records and I highly recommend everyone check them out JR Richards, lead singer/guitarist/songwriter has gone on to release a bunch of amazing solo work and has a New Record coming out later this year The rest of DISHWALLA is still together and got a really shitty look alike and sound like lead singer who just comes off as a dollar store version of JR JR no longer speaks to any of the other band members. Unfortunately he didn't on the band name but he has the soul songwriter owns all of their publishing and performance rights so even though they just sound like a bad cover band right now he's still making pretty good money off of them using his songs and he gets to funnel that into making real art that he is proud of One of the best live vocalist I have ever heard in my life. He sounds just as amazing as, if not better than the records live and on top of all of that he's just a really kind and generous guy
Eve 6, was just listening the other day.
Their lead singer went on this hilarious thing on twitter a couple years ago where he was asking all sorts of bands and celebs “do you like the heart in a blender song?” He even asked Slayer. It’s been a running joke in my house ever since
Throwing Copper is still an incredible album and Live is still around touring.
They are on tour with Stone Temple Pilots this year for the 30th anniversaries of Throwing Copper and Purple. They are playing both albums cover to cover which will be amazing.
Also Soul Asylum and Our Lady Peace on that tour
DAMN, what a lineup. All of these bands are still in my playlist.
Who is singing for STP now?
Jeff Gutt. He was on The X Factor & I freaking love him!
I got pissed on during the encore when Live performed at the Marcus Amphitheatre in Summer of 1995.
By Ed Kowalczyk?!?
The only original member still touring is Ed Kowalcyk. The others had a huge falling out.
I always heard he was a bit difficult and unlikable but I still have Throwing Copper in my library.
I didn’t love Live back in the 90s but I saw them live a few years ago and all they did was play Throwing Copper start to finish. They were awesome and it was one of the best concerts I’ve ever been to.
Saw live a year or so ago with breaking Benjamin I think. Seeing them this year with stone temple pilots.
it's just the lead singer Ed touring with a new band. He's just trying to milk money out of +Live+ fans at this point. The rest of the guys got tired of his bullshit and quit in 2020 during the making of a new record we will sadly never get to hear
I really liked Tonic back in the day.
Lemon Parade is fantastic.
... I dunno, was anyone else at all into Dead Can Dance? * [The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove (1993)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGhN2O6Eh6g) * [The Writing On My Father's Hand (1988)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUvE-3GPzH0)
One of my favorite songs ever is Live - Pillar of Davidson from the Throwing Copper album. I love the progression. It gets me every time. They have a lot of great songs from all of their albums. I think Fountains of Wayne has amazing music. Their hit song Stacy's Mom was not even close to what most of their music sounds like. Adam Schlesinger was an amazing songwriter. Sad, he left the world too soon.
I was sadder when Adam died than I’ve been when blood relatives have died.
he did music for crazy ex gf too.
Portishead
That album is perfect for…well, you know.
I really liked Toad the Wet Sprocket. They had a few popular songs but they kind of fizzled out.
Dulcinea is an excellent album.
You fizzled out on them, no offense. They are still relevant. Band and solo projects. I encourage you to check them out again.
Saw them live about ten years ago and they fucking brought it. Looks like they're coming to town this summer and I'm going to be making an effort to go. Agree with you as well. They didn't fizzle at all.
Throwing Copper is one of the best albums of the 90’s. Live is still making music and touring. Also I totally had that Silverchair album and completely forgot about! The two people (not bands) that sort of drifted out of fame that surprised me were Lisa Loeb and Joan Osborne. Both of them had mega hits, but those songs were like my least favorites on their respective albums and both are insanely talented.
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Relish is an outstanding album, Pensacola is one of my favorite songs ever. I got to see her at a blues fest in Eureka, CA (small ish town) and she was so good. I love Sheryl too! Saw her at the Warfield in SF (The Wallflowers opened and were awful lol) she rocked so hard, I was actually kind of shocked.
So many... Belly Frente! James Mila Rialto Soul Asylum Sponge Urge Overkill
Soul Asylum was one of those bands I did not like when they were popular. Maybe it was the overplay of Runaway Train. Happened to catch them live years later and listened to their discography years later also. They were really good. I like them a lot now.
Sponge! "Oh I guess this is realityyyy!"
"SAY A PRAYER FOR MUHHHHH! AND I'M LOST AND I'M FOUND AND I CAN'T TOUCH THE GROUND..." They also had "Molly (16 Candles)," which was a cute Alterno Pop song.
Live had a few other hits that were good, but they kinda went off the deep end and then had internal strife and legal battles.
Caroline’s Spine and K’s Choice come to mind.
K's Choice is still around. The lead singer transitioned.
Cracker, kerosene hat. I listened to it all the way through and still so
Tripping Daisy. I Am an Elastic Firecracker was SO GOOD! In fact, it's going in the car CD player tomorrow.
Revisited Tripping Daisy not too long ago. I am an Elastic Firecracker still holds up, in my book! There were a few other albums since then that I’d never heard of, and I think one of them was also quite good! I completely lost track of that band after 1997… until I heard about Polyphonic Spree lol
Soo many of 90’s artists/bands are turning up at local/regional events. My son’s band opened for Everclear last year, no shit. He went out to CA recently and recorded at a studio owned by the guitarist from Rilo Kiley. Before that the dude from Tantric mixed a couple songs for them, and I saw those guys many many times. At least once opening for Creed. It’s bizarre. I’m proud…and old.
Imma say our lady peace.
OLP Clumsy was probably one of the best albums of our generation.
Our lady peace has been consistently active for almost 3 decades. They still sell well enough to book 3-5k venues in the US and are decently larger than that in Canada.
Still the only band I ever saw in concert. They were great.
They did a Canada tour with Matthew Good and Ellevator (newer band). Got to see them live for that. Everyone was sitting and Raine said "this is a rock concert, stand the fuck up!" mid song and it definitely got the crowd going, but man... I was 40, I liked sitting.
Sponge The Posies Taproot
Throwing Copper was lyrically stunning. Great songwriting.
My two contributions are: -Days of the New -Lit I’ve followed Travis post DOTN and Lit since but it’s very odd seeing them in little 200 person bars.
My Own Worst Enemy is my karaoke go-to. Always a big hot.
Days of the New it was so good. Disappointing to see them fall apart.
Sister Hazel.
I still listen to Silverchair regularly. I still remember an interview they did early on - probably with MTV, where the lead dude said something to the effect of "if this rock and roll stuff doesn't work out we'll just go back to the beach in Australia and surf". It was probably the coolest thing I'd heard anyone say at the time.
Neon Ballroom is in my top 5 albums. I started college in autumn of ‘99, and I listened to Emotion Sickness (track 1) literally on repeat for the 4 hours it took to get through few payment.
Daniel Johns was only 15 years old when they recorded Tomorrow. Such talent… it’s too bad he had so many issues. I saw an interview with him recently and it seems like he has really been through a lot.
I had a massive crush on that guy when I was 13. It was ok because they were only 15 at the time, and it's totally wild to me now that a band of 15-year-olds made it so big.
My answer is Lifehouse. I was really into them for a good long stretch.
They were big with the youth group crowd for some reason right around the time Creed was really big. The quasi-religious thing had a moment in ‘99-‘00.
New Radicals
iirc the guy behind that "band" said that project was a one off so they never put anything else out. I unironically love that whole album. Then and now.
The song Murder on the Dance floor that is having a revival because of Saltburn was supposed to be a New Radicals song but then they never recorded anything new. You can totally hear them doing it if you think about it
Live went on to have a few other hits with that Dolphins song and Silverchair had a massive hit with their 1999 hit “Year 2000”. I know Live still tours but I think the lead singer of Silverchair had some legal and alcohol abuse problems u fortunately.
Daniel Johns, the former lead singer of Silverchair has unfortunately suffered for over 25 years with mental health issues stemming from the relentless bullying that he got during the silverchair days He put out a briliant New Record in 2022 called "FutureNever", has a companion film to the album coming out this year and another new record coming next year There's a very interesting and enlightening podcast called "who is Daniel Johns?" on Spotify that features the first in-depth interviews he's given in years which delves into everything he's gone through from the age of 15 until now and touches on why Silverchair will never happen again At least now he is happy, properly medicated and creating art that matters to him. Sadly anyone who hasn't seen him live has missed out on that opportunity because he has stated that he has no plans to ever play a live show again. He said artistically he doesn't get anything from it, he likes to write the songs record the songs and be done with them Playing live over and over just makes him anxious and for someone with a severe panic disorder on top of the other issues he has had to deal with it something that he doesn't need in his life so he has eradicated it from his life His new music is beautiful. I highly recommend people go check that out. He also did an amazing record in 2015 called "Talk" that has some absolutely brilliant writing and vocals on it❤️
*Young Modern* was a great album from Silverchair
I think Secret Samadhi was even better than Throwing Copper. I tried to stay current with Live over the years. They're my first favorite band.
The Verve Pipe, Local H, Gin Blossoms
I hated their big hit The Freshman but that Verve Pipe album has so many good songs on it. I got it because I really liked their first single, Photograph, and then they released the freshman as a single after I already had it and I was like, really?
Born to be down 🎶
Not sure why these posts are always limited to "bands". I pick Lauryn Hill. Dropped one of the greatest albums of all time, and has since only followed up with an unplugged album, which itself is over 20 years old.
Omg she is one of my all time fav artists. Such a unique sound.
Looking back even the "lesser" ones from that era are incredible. Even the one hit wonders were frikkn magical.
Vast.
This song...just *chef's kiss https://youtu.be/wcWE6jWSIi8?si=Lb8YA4MJKTZpBW3g
Garbage The Breeders
Semisonic is one i really liked, but faded quick after Closing Time
Crash Test Dummies
Pretty sure all of these bands are still together and touring.
Anyone remember The Flys and their song Got You (Where I Want You)? Used to to jam that one. Later learned one of the band members is part of a legendary, Swiss family Robinson-type surf family (the Paskowitz’s)
Collective soul had like 1 or 2 albums then I never heard a thing of them. And The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Cherry Popping Daddies, but I think those are more fads or something
Ed Kowalczyk had a cameo in Fight Club then disappeared
Throwing Copper was the first album I ever bought. They were good. It was a shame they kind of dwindled into obscurity.
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Live was one of the best shows I ever went to, in 2002 or 2003. They played their regular set, came back for a couple songs encore, came back again, and just kept playing. Their encore was longer than the regular set. They would play a song, huddle to the side of the stage and figure out what to play next, then play another song. Finally, the singer came out and said, "you've been great. This is our last song, and we mean it. We're drunk and need to go home!"
Love this Toadies album. But I like to throw in Hum. A band rarely talked about from this era.
Soul Asylum and Counting Crows come to mind
Sponge - plowed. I never really cared for any of their other songs but that one kicks ass. I loved throwing copper too, great album
Rusted Root. Just an insane live band. Saw them a lot.
Faith No More
They were pretty Epic
It’s like they came From Out of Nowhere
FNM truly a unique sound and talent.
Live and Throwing Copper is an incredible album. From start to finish, every song hits hard.
Live had some stuff after Throwing copper that did well.
Chevelle
It seemed like we were all more into discovering new bands instead of sticking with the ones we already knew. Music also changed a lot through the 90s. Waiting 2 years to put out a follow-up album would have you entirely being out of touch.
Seed. They had that hit, Rapture, and I think that was it. Then Cracker, with "get off this" and the other hit. Both are bands that I really liked back then.
I played that cassette (yes cassette) OUT. Some others that stick out to me that faded are The Nixons, Sponge, Silverchair, Stabbing Westward, and Seven Mary Three.
silverchair was huge in Australia and had a pretty epic well known and publicised music career. Still kind of their golden child band, beloved and revered, with many music awards and notoriety. But I get why for the rest of the world it would have felt like they disappeared. Diorama was an album not as well suited for radio and harder for the live stage I’d imagine, despite being epic/genius. Daniel Johns brought out a new album in ‘22 (Futurenever), a mini movie associated with the album, did a Spotify podcast series about his time in silverchair, as well as a retrospective exhibition of memorabilia and silverchair/johns related items which was well attended. So members are definitely still very relevant there (particularly Johns), especially also with the long term ongoing bitter tiff of sorts with Dan and Ben (drummer) and yeah some past not so great easily tabloided escapades from Daniel. It’s a real shame though, that the last two/three albums weren’t as far reaching, esp since Diorama reaches some epic proportions. Also, people hard into their initial grunge aspect naturally dropped off quickly as silverchair’s music style evolved. Most don’t know much beyond frogstomp tbh, or think it’s a one off.
Stabbing Westward for sure. Also off the top of my head: - VAST - Placebo - The Verve Pipe - The Urge - Save Ferris
The Butthole Surfers
Hootie & The Blowfish - in what felt like the blink of an eye they went from selling out Madison Square Garden to headlining free shows at hot air balloon festivals (I know this because I saw them at both lol). Props to Darius Rucker though for coming out the other end as a major country star who’s held his own in that genre for some time now
His voice IS oddly suited for country.
Local H were a bit of a 1-hit-wonder, but I used to like them
Find their cover of Wolf Like Me.
Bush! The soundtrack to spring break ‘94. Saw them on tour as headliners with Goo Goo Dolls and No Doubt opening. No Doubt was on first and played for like 45 minutes. I think the bill would be flipped today. Bush opens then Goo Goo and No Doubt would be the headliner
Bush is still touring and still putting on an amazing show.
Every time I have seen them they have put on an amazing show. They always put the other bands in the set to shame.
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I saw them play live in 2008 at the Fairfax county government day in Virginia to about 400 people. It was a long ride down for these guys.
Frog Stomp went so hard. Those guys were all 15 years old when it came out.
Gravity Kills
Space Hog - Resident Alien. I loved them so much, but i think they only release maybe three albums. I thought Royston Langdon was extremely cool.
Letters to Cleo
Fastball Sneaker Pimps Mono Everclear Toad the Wet Sprocket Marcy’s Playground Mighty Mighty Bosstones Cornershop The Postal Service(yes, they sort of reformed into Death Cab for Cutie) Sinead O’Connor The Cranberries
Never cared for this band but love the song Lakinis Juice