Favorite of these 90's Alt-Rock songs

[NewbieJr 541]

Not exactly sure how to classify every genre of songs, so excuse me if you feel a song listed isn't technically 'alt-rock'. This is basically a 90's rock poll that excludes hair metal like Poison and Motley Crue and Grunge like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

 

Anyway, which is your favorite of these ten selections? This only goes up to E in the alphabet. There will be more songs from this genre later.

 

[The Moz 69]

If you're picking a Bush song There are a few better and more popular songs off that album than come down.

[NewbieJr 541]

If you're picking a Bush song There are a few better and more popular songs off that album than come down.

I'm sure the same could be said for every band I put in any poll. That's the great thing about music.

[The Moz 69]

I'm sure the same could be said for every band I put in any poll. That's the great thing about music.

Okay, I just thought Machine Head and Glycerine were by far the most popular songs of that album.

[patweisers44 814]

Nothing outstanding here, but a bunch of solid choices. I went with Everclear.

[mmmmm...beer 790]

I went with the fat little bumblebee girl song... it very much reminds me of a pretty hawt chick i was seeing at the time and the innocence of a new infatuation when your young. Oh and the tons of the schex we perpetrated together.

 

That little song brings a smile to my face whenever it comes on... ahhh... freshman year of colludge.

[cbfalcon 825]

Not exactly sure how to classify every genre of songs, so excuse me if you feel a song listed isn't technically 'alt-rock'. This is basically a 90's rock poll that excludes hair metal like Poison and Motley Crue and Grunge like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

 

Anyway, which is your favorite of these ten selections? This only goes up to E in the alphabet. There will be more songs from this genre later.

 

 

Why aren't we doing the list from the 00's?

[NewbieJr 541]

 

Why aren't we doing the list from the 00's?

That's not off the table. I'm not going anywhere. But the 90's was getting worse and worse with each year. I thought maybe a few polls in between, with some handpicked decent songs, might be a fresh idea.

[Big Blue 06 195]

Some decent, but not great, songs in this list. I went with Linger by the Cranberries. Very pretty song.

[cbfalcon 825]

I really liked Bush's Sixteen Stone. One of my favorites from the decade.

 

Everything Zen, Little Things, Comedown, Machinehead, Glycerine.....all big hits. I always think of Glycerine as being the biggest hit, but Machinehead was my personal favorite. That guitar riif is still awesome to me.

 

[The Moz 69]

I really liked Bush's Sixteen Stone. One of my favorites from the decade.

 

Everything Zen, Little Things, Comedown, Machinehead, Glycerine.....all big hits. I always think of Glycerine as being the biggest hit, but Machinehead was my personal favorite. That guitar riif is still awesome to me.

 

Bush was just like Hootie and Alanis Morrisette -- 1 Mega Hit album and then falls right off a cliff.

 

 

Though The lead singer from Hootie rebounded well when he found country music.

[edjr 6,578]

I really liked Bush's Sixteen Stone. One of my favorites from the decade.

 

Everything Zen, Little Things, Comedown, Machinehead, Glycerine.....all big hits. I always think of Glycerine as being the biggest hit, but Machinehead was my personal favorite. That guitar riif is still awesome to me.

 

 

Saw them in concert last summer, was at a smaller type place, maybe 2000 people. Never seen a band from the 90s live before, they were pretty good.

 

STP is starting a tour with the lead singer from Linkin Park, they kicked Scott out of the band again, he's a nitwit.

[NewbieJr 541]

The opening bass riff of Comedown is almost identical to Living on a Prayer from Bonjovi. My band used to do Comedown, and one night while practicing, I started in singing ♪ ♫ ♪ "Tommy used to work on the docks". ♪ ♫ ♪ We laughed and laughed.

[cbfalcon 825]

Bush was just like Hootie and Alanis Morrisette -- 1 Mega Hit album and then falls right off a cliff.

 

 

Though The lead singer from Hootie rebounded well when he found country music.

 

Bush's second album was good as well. Obviously nobody follows up something like Sixteen Stone with as many sales, but Razorblade Suitcase had:

 

Swallowed (#1 on Modern Rock charts)

Mouth (#5)

Greedy Fly (#3)

Cold Contagious (#23)

 

 

 

[cbfalcon 825]

And just to prove Moz further wrong, Bush's 3rd album (the real start of the decline) had 2 big singles.

 

Chemicals Between Us (#1 on Modern Rock charts)

Letting the Cables Sleep (#4)

 

 

Bush had a nice run.

[cbfalcon 825]

And let's not forget that Gavin Rossdale (lead singer of Bush) married this girl:

 

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/Gwen_Stefani_theone.jpg

 

For me, she is one of the hotter chicks of the last 20 years.

[Sho Nuff 720]

Went with Candlebox...something about that song...have always enjoyed it and a few others from that album.

[NewbieJr 541]

 

Bush's second album was good as well. Obviously nobody follows up something like Sixteen Stone with as many sales, but Razorblade Suitcase had:

 

Swallowed (#1 on Modern Rock charts)

Mouth (#5)

Greedy Fly (#3)

Cold Contagious (#23)

 

 

 

Those numbers may be true, but Sixteen Stone had five songs that 90% of the average rock fan know and still get played today, while Swallowed and Greedy Fly are the only ones from Razorblade Suitcase that get any airplay these days. Plus, I'll bet that the majority of people don't even know Mouth or Cold Contagious. It was a huge dropoff from Sixteen Stone.

[cbfalcon 825]

Those numbers may be true, but Sixteen Stone had five songs that 90% of the average rock fan know and still get played today, while Swallowed and Greedy Fly are the only ones from Razorblade Suitcase that get any airplay these days. Plus, I'll bet that the majority of people don't even know Mouth or Cold Contagious. It was a huge dropoff from Sixteen Stone.

 

I assume most know Mouth, but maybe not.

 

Of course their first album was their biggest. But for anyone to say it was one album, then they fell "right off the cliff" is ridiculous. You yourself said 2 songs post Sixteen Stone still get airplay almost 20 years later. And another handful were hits at the time.

 

Sixteen Stone - Peaked at #4. 6x Platinum in US, 6x Platinum in Canda

Razorblade Suitcase - Peaked at #1. 3x Platinum in US, 5x Platinum in Canada.

Science of Things - Peaked at #11. Platinum in US, Platinum in Canada

 

Yeah, Sixteen Stone was the monster, but that's a solid 3 album run of success.

[OldMaid 2,129]

Okay, I just thought Machine Head and Glycerine were by far the most popular songs of that album.

Glycerine for sure...

 

 

Another hard list... I like all of them.

[Little Rusty 17]

Even though I'm a big Collective Soul fan, I voted for Blind Melon's "No Rain"........timeless epic fun song

 

Other faves....

 

"Shine"

"Linger" (the fart song)

"Higher"

"Loser"

[NewbieJr 541]

This song has zero votes, and maybe that's just because people think it sucks, but I know a lot of people know this song but just never knew who sang it or what it was called.

 

 

[Electric Mayhem 35]

I went with Shine, but a few tracks I would have also included:

 

Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad (what a great song)

Albatross - C.O.C.

Girlfiend - Matthew Sweet (still holds up as a great tune)

[JT 137]

Beck's "Loser" is my vote. Actually pushed it's way onto CHR playlists, which was pretty amazing for a song that didn't sound like anything else they were playing.

[The Moz 69]

And just to prove Moz further wrong, Bush's 3rd album (the real start of the decline) had 2 big singles.

 

Chemicals Between Us (#1 on Modern Rock charts)

Letting the Cables Sleep (#4)

 

 

Bush had a nice run.

Dude I seriously only really know the songs from the first album. If those other songs were really good i would of thought I would of herd of them more. Not saying they weren't but I guess in that time period I just didn't like there other stuff. That said I think Hootie sold a lot on their second album but doesn't change the fact it sucked. Alanis had a bigger album than Hottie and Bush together and fell off a cliff.

[NewbieJr 541]

Dude I seriously only really know the songs from the first album. If those other songs were really good i would of thought I would of herd of them more. Not saying they weren't but I guess in that time period I just didn't like there other stuff. That said I think Hootie sold a lot on their second album but doesn't change the fact it sucked. Alanis had a bigger album than Hottie and Bush together and fell off a cliff.

If you take out compilations and Greatest Hit albums, Morrisette has the 7th best selling album of all-time. And deservedly so.

[ZeroTolerance 584]

No votes for Creed. And all was right in the world.

[The Moz 69]

If you take out compilations and Greatest Hit albums, Morrisette has the 7th best selling album of all-time. And deservedly so.

I do not understand how a person can have a MEGA album like Jagged Little Pill then basically never be heard from again. That album was a greatest hits album I think like 7 songs were top 5.

[JT 137]

I do not understand how a person can have a MEGA album like Jagged Little Pill then basically never be heard from again. That album was a greatest hits album I think like 7 songs were top 5.

 

Seems to happen to female artists more than male. Discussed with friends before. Consensus, which may or may not be valid, is that their demographic is so fragile. Young girls that formed their core audience tend to be very flighty with their fandom. At the risk of sounding like GFIAFP, you gotta get them during their early tweens and captivate them through their very early teens. Young guys who picked up on the album all the girls loved (because they want girls) drift away as soon as the core female demo does.

 

Or maybe that's not it at all.

[rholio 339]

[SUXBNME 1,454]

Went with Candlebox...something about that song...have always enjoyed it and a few others from that album.

Yep. Should be Far Behind in a blowout.

 

[shotsup 832]

did not read the thread yet - voted No Rain (shocked to see it leading the vote) - probably said it before but that song was popular at the height of my working on the road so I visited alot of boobie joints and this song was played over and over - became known to an coworkers as the boobie song or a song I needed to get a lap dance to.........

 

There a ton of better songs but this one leaves a in my

[SUXBNME 1,454]

Not exactly sure how to classify every genre of songs, so excuse me if you feel a song listed isn't technically 'alt-rock'. This is basically a 90's rock poll that excludes hair metal like Poison and Motley Crue and Grunge like Nirvana and Pearl Jam.

 

Anyway, which is your favorite of these ten selections? This only goes up to E in the alphabet. There will be more songs from this genre later.

 

Good disclaimer

 

Very true, though. It's almost impossible to classify anything in the 90s as a single specific.

[kutulu 1,656]

No Rain here but I'm a big blind melon fan. Like beck a lot too but got sick of that song.

[SUXBNME 1,454]

No votes for Creed. And all was right in the world.

I liked Creed a lot. Still do.

[Herbivore 1,111]

I went with Shine, but a few tracks I would have also included:

 

Deeper Shade of Soul - Urban Dance Squad (what a great song)

Albatross - C.O.C.

Girlfiend - Matthew Sweet (still holds up as a great tune)

 

I went with Santa Monica. Father of Mine also a great song. Loser and No Rain are close 2nd and 3rds.

 

Albatross by Corrosion of Conformity..good call Mayhem.

[Electric Mayhem 35]

Also I just remembered The Spin Doctors. They were huge for about a year during their Pocket Full of Kryptonite run. Two Princes and Little Miss Can't be Wrong were everywhere.

 

I got a bit sick of those two tracks pretty quick, but I did (still do) like Refrigerator Car off that album.

[kutulu 1,656]

 

I went with Santa Monica. Father of Mine also a great song. Loser and No Rain are close 2nd and 3rds.

 

Albatross by Corrosion of Conformity..good call Mayhem.

 

I wouldn't lump C.O.C. in with these alt bands though.

[NewbieJr 541]

Also I just remembered The Spin Doctors. They were huge for about a year during their Pocket Full of Kryptonite run. Two Princes and Little Miss Can't be Wrong were everywhere.

 

I got a bit sick of those two tracks pretty quick, but I did (still do) like Refrigerator Car off that album.

Jimmy Olsen Blues was decent, too

[king george 0]

And let's not forget that Gavin Rossdale (lead singer of Bush) married this girl:

 

http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/Gwen_Stefani_theone.jpg

 

For me, she is one of the hotter chicks of the last 20 years.

 

when i was married i used to joke to my then wife that i would push her in traffic to have sex with gwen stefani. we also played a game i titled 'three for free'. u can pick any three ppl to have sex with and the spouse cant say a word. i let her go first. she would pick like matt damon, brad pitt and yadayada. good choices baby, my turn now??? hmm, the lady next door, ur best friend, and this chick at work. she hated that game.