Favorite Song; 90's edition

[JonDuke]

Pearl Jam - Alive
Soundgarden - Spoonman
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Bush - Glycerine
Alice in Chains - N/A
Nirvana - The Man who Sold the World
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Weezer - No One Else
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Radiohead - Creep
Janes Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Dinasaur Jr. - N/A
Leatherface - N/A

[Sliver]

Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution (watch this video if you've never seen it!)
Soundgarden - Slaves & Bulldozers
Stone Temple Pilots - Sex Type Thing
Smashing Pumpkins - X.Y.U.
Bush - pass
Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole
Nirvana - Lounge Act (stoked to see somebody else picked that song, too!)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Taste the Pain
Weezer - Say it Ain't So
Foo Fighters - Hey Johnny Park
Radiohead - Talk Show Host
Janes Addiction - Three Days
Dinasaur Jr. - Feel the Pain
Leatherface - never heard of him/them
Sonic Youth - Becuz -or- I Love You Mary Jane (w/ Cypress Hill)
Blind Melon - Toes Across the Floor -or- Mouthful of Cavities
NIN - March of the Pigs

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by nik-

Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins and RHCP aren't grunge either. You should just make it a 90's rock bands list.

I know flameswin doesn't want nitpicking in his thread, but dude, Smashing Pumpkins are definitely grunge.

[burnin_vernon]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Taste the Pain
Foo Fighters - Hey Johnny Park
Radiohead - Talk Show Host
Janes Addiction - Three Days

Great picks. While I love the 90s and almost every song posted in this thread, it's the ones I don't hear replayed everywhere that remind me how great these band were.

I remember buying Ritual De lo Habitual for Been Caught Stealing only. I was disappointed at first because nothing else really sounded like the single. However, it really grew on me, with Three Days being my favorite 10 minute-plus song ever.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Sliver

I know flameswin doesn't want nitpicking in his thread, but dude, Smashing Pumpkins are definitely grunge.

I disagree. Other than some songs on Gish and Siamese Dream that had that sound, they really weren't. Like if you listen to Today, you say that's a grunge band, but there are just too many other songs that are experimental rock songs.

Mellon Collie is most definitely not a grunge band album

for my songs

Pearl Jam - Jeremy
Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
Stone Temple Pilots - Big Empty
Smashing Pumpkins - Thirty Three
Bush - Comedown
Alice in Chains - NA
Nirvana - All Apologies
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze
Weezer - Tired of Sex
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Radiohead - Let Down
Janes Addiction - NA
Dinasaur Jr. - NA
Leatherface - NA

[Flash Walken]

someone should make a grooveshark playlist of these.

Someone.

[nik-]

do you even mixtape bro?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by nik-

I disagree. Other than some songs on Gish and Siamese Dream that had that sound, they really weren't. Like if you listen to Today, you say that's a grunge band, but there are just too many other songs that are experimental rock songs.

Mellon Collie is most definitely not a grunge band album

I think I need your definition of grunge, then, because I still think you're wrong.

Going by Wikipedia's definition, they're practically the poster band for grunge:

...Inspired by hardcore punk, heavy metal, and alternative rock, grunge is generally characterized by heavily distorted electric guitars, contrasting song dynamics, "growling" vocals and apathetic or angst-filled lyrics...

X.Y.U.

Grunge is generally characterized by a sludgy guitar sound that uses a high level of distortion, fuzz and feedback effects...Lyrics are typically angst-filled, often addressing themes such as social alienation, apathy, confinement, and a desire for freedom.

Tales of a Scorched Earth...I don't think it would be humanly possible to add a higher level of distortion, fuzz and feedback effects. They cranked the grunge up to 11 on that song.

Bullet with Butterfly Wings is basically about social alienation, apathy, confinement and a desire for freedom. "Despite all my rage I am still just rat in a cage" - that's your prototypical grunge line right there, dude.

BTW, the examples I gave were off of Mellon Collie.

[nik-]

Ok, well I'll just live in my wrongness about Smashing Pumpkins then I guess, because I don't consider them a grunge band.

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Nirvana - Lounge Act (stoked to see somebody else picked that song, too!)

It's funny because when Nirvana is mentioned in the mainstream, this song is never mentioned. But when you talk to anyone about Nirvana, almost everyone mentions this song as being their favorite or at least, really awesome.

I guess because the end is just a little too "screamy" for Cjay/jack FM type station across North America. They'd rather stick to their Lithium/In bloom/Teen Spirit rotation.

[MRCboicgy]

Originally Posted by troutman

R.E.M. - Nightswimming

This just got a big discussion going in our house. Personally I have a place for What's the Frequency, Kenneth, just due to it never getting bleeped at the end on the radio and loving that as a kid, but the older one of us says E-bow the Letter simply due to Patti Smith being amazing.

[Regulator75]

My list. Added a couple

Beck - Sissyneck
Breeders - Cannonball
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Cake - The Distance
Everclear - Summerland
Foo Fighters - Everlong
Nirvana - Aneurysm
Oasis - Wonderwall
Pavement - We Are Underused or You Are A Light
Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution or Alive
Radiohead - High and Dry
RCHP - Suck My Kiss
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
Sloan - The Good In Everyone
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Soundgarden - Rusty Cage
Stone Temple Pilots - Creep
Thrush Hermit - The Day We Hit The Coast
Weezer - The Good Life

[Flash Walken]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

This just got a big discussion going in our house. Personally I have a place for What's the Frequency, Kenneth, just due to it never getting bleeped at the end on the radio and loving that as a kid, but the older one of us says E-bow the Letter simply due to Patti Smith being amazing.

Old people just don't know what they're talking about, clearly.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

This just got a big discussion going in our house. Personally I have a place for What's the Frequency, Kenneth, just due to it never getting bleeped at the end on the radio and loving that as a kid, but the older one of us says E-bow the Letter simply due to Patti Smith being amazing.

I love both of those songs too. Life's Rich Pageant is my favorite album. Murmur and Automatic For The People are special too.