The 90's Music Thread • Page 6

It’s a great summer album, lots of hippy vibes throughout. Their follow ups great too, it’s a shame Shannon died so young.

92 has some great albums, these are a couple of standouts off the top of my head:

Alice In Chains - Dirt
Stone Temple Piolots - Core
Gin Blossoms - New Misserable Experience
Soul Asylum - Grave Dancers Union
Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion
Rem - Automatic For The People

I love your lists you do in this thread, it usually makes me go back and revisit some albums.

 

Good! It's fun to run through year by year and make these lists, but it's even more fun to talk about them and discover more. STP, REM, Gin are all on my list to listen to so far for 1992, definitely will dig into the other ones too though!

 

dammit by blink turned 20 today lol

i also have to check out the gin blossoms

 

I will die on the hill that the first Gin Blossoms album is spectacularly written. Lyrically it feels like a precursor to some early Alkaline Trio

 

I feel like that album had some influence on this scene. I hear some of that sound in bands like The Get Up Kids and Saves The Day. The Ergs do a great cover of Hey Jealousy too.

 

I agree about '92... Grave Dancers Union, Automatic and New Miserable Experience were some of my earliest introductions to "Alt. Rock". Those albums will always have endless fond memories... if you could have played CDs until they wore out, those discs would have been trashed & replaced many times over!

 

Been playing Hootie and the Blowfish alot lately. So good still.

 

god, I miss the 90s... I was so into the music - it meant so much.

Dave Pirner and his hair was as sexy as Chris Cornells. It was such a fun time.

And i never realized how great 3rd eye blinds album really was. But when Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Soundgarden hit mainstream... my god.

Weezer in 94, RHCP in 91, Janes in 90, man..... the fun times.

 

This album is 20 years old today:

 

Why did no one ever tell me how sick Big Wreck are

 

Always gotten the impression that band stood by as their main songwriter drank himself to death, profiting off him for decades to come. Weird story with few details, honestly surprised there hasn’t been some kinda podcast about it

 

Every couple years i get in a big Counting Crows mood and listen to August and Everything After on repeat.

 

I made a playlist on Spotify of full 90s albums I've never listened to. Most of them are one hit wonder bands where I only know their one or two singles. I go into them assuming there must be some decent hidden gems. I like randomly picking one or two albums to listen to on airplanes especially.

Anyway, I went for a walk the other day after work and decided to listen to Floored by Sugar Ray for the first time. It's the first Sugar Ray album I've ever listened to. Going into it only knowing "Fly", I was definitely shocked hahaha. Turns out, the album is actually fucking great and "Fly" is the only song on the entire thing that sounds like that. All the rest are just punk rock jams. Well, except for the last song, which is just "Fly" without the reggae stuff in it haha.

But yeah, that one was definitely the most surprising thing I've come across on this playlist so far. I've listened to the full album like 3 times now over the last few days.

3 of my favorite songs on it:
American Pig
Stand and Deliver
Cash

 

Why the are angry and horny opposite ends of the spectrum. You can’t put Deftones anywhere that makes sense that way

 

I listened to Chumbawamba’s album Tubthumper for the first time all the way through. I was pretty surprised by how many songs I actually really liked. I ended up liking 7 of the 12 tracks enough to save them on Spotify. The little interlude things between just about every song made the album feel a little longer than I’d like (it’s 58:52!) but yeah, there’s some really great ones on here.

3 of my favorites:
Tubthumping (obvi)
Amnesia
The Good Ship Lifestyle

 

I also listened to Sixpence None The Richer’s self titled album for the first time a few days ago.

On first listen, there wasn’t a lot that grabbed me. But I want to listen again because I think there’s actually more I’ll end up liking after a couple more listens. There was a handful of songs though that I really liked.

My fav 3 though were:
Kiss Me
There She Goes
We Have Forgotten

I reeeeally liked “We Have Forgotten.” I’ve actually gone back and listened to that one a few times.