And the ticket for Local H has been purchased. Damn Ticketmaster for their fees, but I suspect it will be worth it.
It will be. They are so awesome live. Brian, the drummer, is just amazing. And Scott puts more energy into every show than anyone I've ever seen.
And these guys know how to give the fans a show. They always play the fan favorite songs, a smattering of more obscure stuff, and almost always one amazing cover song.
My favorite tour was the one where the fans picked the setlist. Going in you got a ballot, and got to check off what songs you wanted to hear. Whatever got the most votes, they'd play. And there was a write in spot.
The absolute best show they ever gave, I was lucky enough to be at. The opening band's drummer broke his hand, so Scott came out and played a solo set before the band proper did its normal set. And then, afterwards, they did an extended encore, including an awesome series of Cheap Trick' surrender, into the Pixies' Tame, into Nirvana's Breed. It was really amazing.
Full set list:
Scott Solo:
OK
Dick Jones
Eddie Vedder
Bearer of Bad News (Tripl3FastAction)
Pop Life-15 secs-(Prince)
No Problem
Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)
Lucky (first time it was ever played live)
All The Kids Are Right
Set:
Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)
Money On The Dresser
Fritz's Corner
All-Right (Oh, Yeah)
Hey, Rita
High-Fiving MF
Heavy Metal Bakesale
Buffalo Trace
Heavens On The Way Down
(President Forever) > Fine And Good
California Songs
Hands On The Bible
Bound For The Floor
Auf Wiedersehen(cheap trick)
Southern Girls(cheap trick)
He's A Whore(First verse only)-cheap trick
Surrender(cheap trick)
Tame(pixies)
Breed(nirvana)
Everyone Alive
Fuck Yeah, That Wide
So yeah, you are in for a treat, especially if you've never seen them before.
ps They do the best cover of Britney Spears' Toxic.
I only really started to listen to/acquire my own tastes for music in the mid-90s, and I remember discovering that Nirvana, Oasis and No Doubt were pretty awesome.
Other than that, not much sticks out in my mind except for some singles that will always bring me right back whenever I hear them:
Your Woman -- White Town
I think she's selling it outside my apartment right now, if anyone thought it was worth going after during the day, you could easily get it now and on the cheap. She wasn't really that bad looking.
Good god, though, that song.
I'll toss out Blues Traveler out here with the band we like but haven't been able to produce anything worthwhile since the cosmic odometer rolled over. Combination of their bassist dying and John Popper getting his stomach stapled, lessening his ability to jam out on the harp.
Rah for all the Cake mentions. Odd there's yet to be any love for some of the earlier, grunge guys. Did I miss the Soundgarden posts?
I've recently been re-watching Buffy (and Angel) with the wife, and sometimes it's fun hearing some of the old music on the show (and even seeing some of the old bands that made appearances...K's Choice and Bif Naked are two that stick out in my mind right now, but I know there are plenty of others). Granted, there's quite a bit of music I at least kinda-sorta liked in the 90's that I can't stomach anymore, but damn are there some songs I still love.
Like Oasis. I went on a serious Oasis kick after the last thread.
Still can't seem to get back into the Pumpkins, though. I guess I'm just....happy....now.
EDIT: I realize now that only the first three seasons (the Bronze-tastic ones) were really in the 90's, as well as the first half of the fourth (and first half of season one of Angel). But those seasons were seriously 90's.
Oh, and for some reason along the way I had picked up like four entire albums of Sir Mix-a-Lot on my computer/iPod. Don't ask me how, or why. It's only recently that I could bring myself to delete all but the few single songs that still amuse me from time to time. Sometimes the 90's is like Vegas: what happens there should stay there.
Just, god, they are not the best band ever. Yeah they sing about drugs. So what?
It doesn't help that they became mainstream after Bradley Nowell died, so then everyone that bought the self-titled was like, "in memoriam, Brad!" It's not a bad CD by any means and should mentioned with 90's music, but it was pretty bloated and flabby in parts.
Just, god, they are not the best band ever. Yeah they sing about drugs. So what?
What more do you people want? But yeah, the whole "best band ever" rep that 90's stoners gave them was a bit annoying. Still, I really dig some of their songs to this day. Though most of their singles sucked donkey dick.
Oh, and I ought to also throw out Social Distortion as another band that largely defined my 90's music experience. You don't own Social Distortion you say? Why do you hate America?
Yeah, they'd been around since the dawn of time, but they put out some good shit during the 90's and that's probably when most folks outside Orange County actually heard of them.
Also, let's not forget about 90s hip-hop; Wu-Tang's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Aesop Rock's Float, Nas' Illmatic, Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon's Dr. Octegonecologyst, and KMD's Black Bastards.
:whistle:Sometimes I feel
Like I dont have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angel
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I drive on her streets
cause shes my companion
I walk through her hills
cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie
I dont ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way:whistle:
Del tha Funkee Homosapien. Hes probably my favorite rapper. I know....this thread hasn't been going in the "rap" direction, but the 90s were host to some actually good rap/hip-hop music.
Del tha Funkee Homosapien. Hes probably my favorite rapper. I know....this thread hasn't been going in the "rap" direction, but the 90s were host to some actually good rap/hip-hop music.
90's had some of the best. De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang Clan, Tupac, Notorious BIG, the debut of Jay-Z and Nas, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Snoop Dogg. We could probably do an entire thread to just the 90's hip-hop.
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well, I mean, Illmatic is one of the greatest pieces of music of all time, sooo....
:whistle: Moving through the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
:whistle:
Also, Pearl Jam's Ten album and Red Hot Chilli Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik album rock.
Also, for the metal minded, Opeth's earlier albums were awesome, if only for the fact that clocked a 20 minute song that's completely progressive and full of awesome (Black Rose Immortal)
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Guys, Rage Against The Machine, White Stripes and The Flaming Lips need to be mentioned more in this thread.
Huge fan of Faith No More. Sure, they started in the 80's, "The Real Thing" was in '89, but their best albums were 90's. One of the most innovative, unbalanced, talented and bizarre bands out there. "Angel Dust" was a revelation, with a country Western song and a song with cheerleaders about oral sex sharing space with a cover of the Commodore's "Easy."
Also, and unrelated, "Closing Time" was, and is, a fracking amazing song.
Also, for the metal minded, Opeth's earlier albums were awesome, if only for the fact that clocked a 20 minute song that's completely progressive and full of awesome (Black Rose Immortal)
Huh, everything up to and including Still Life was in the 90s.
Meshuggah also released Contradictions Collapse, Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere in the 90s.
Just, god, they are not the best band ever. Yeah they sing about drugs. So what?
It doesn't help that they became mainstream after Bradley Nowell died, so then everyone that bought the self-titled was like, "in memoriam, Brad!" It's not a bad CD by any means and should mentioned with 90's music, but it was pretty bloated and flabby in parts.
You know they say the best thing you can do for your fame is die.
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Third Eye Blind wasn't overly bad in the sense that their lead singer could write decent lyrics, although their actual music itself is fairly uninspiring.
Eve 6 is awful fourteen year old fodder and they're basically just the tween engineered tripe of the day.
In the grunge era of the nineties Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains all put out fantastic albums that more or less set the tone for most of the emerging acts coming out throughout the rest of the decade.
Given, Nirvana became heinously overrated after Kurt's death, but at least out of the big four Pearl Jam kept on putting out great music throughout that decade.
Weezer put out two fantastic albums (Blue and Pinkerton) as did the Pixies, who heavily influenced their musical stylings.
Sublime broke big in '96 after Brad Nowell's death (on an album that he was totally unhappy with) and even though it was their weakest effort to date, anyone who considers them a shitty act can blow me. Go download and listen to the Firecracker Lounge bootleg you godless mongrels.
311 was a band that got big without following on the coattails of a similar genre establishing act and also totally failed to open the doors for any sort of derivative acts. The self titled album they got famous on was fairly bland considering their previous work and pretty mainstream to boot. Their follow up, Transistor, however was a 20+ song single disc Reggae album that they never could have put out if their record company was still trying to establish them. At the size of the album, the whole things a big mess, but I absolutely love this cd.
In the second half of the decade you have Korn putting out two decent if a bit unvarying albums that spawned a lot of imitators. You also have a band called Incubus capping off their decade with an awesome funk inspired album called S.C.I.E.N.C.E., but they're all a bunch of faggots and like to pretend that this album doesn't exist.
Also a band called the deftones released an album called adrenaline, and followed it up with an album called Around the Fur. If you don't own both of these albums, well then I guess I just don't have anything nice to say about you.
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It will be. They are so awesome live. Brian, the drummer, is just amazing. And Scott puts more energy into every show than anyone I've ever seen.
And these guys know how to give the fans a show. They always play the fan favorite songs, a smattering of more obscure stuff, and almost always one amazing cover song.
My favorite tour was the one where the fans picked the setlist. Going in you got a ballot, and got to check off what songs you wanted to hear. Whatever got the most votes, they'd play. And there was a write in spot.
The absolute best show they ever gave, I was lucky enough to be at. The opening band's drummer broke his hand, so Scott came out and played a solo set before the band proper did its normal set. And then, afterwards, they did an extended encore, including an awesome series of Cheap Trick' surrender, into the Pixies' Tame, into Nirvana's Breed. It was really amazing.
Full set list:
OK
Dick Jones
Eddie Vedder
Bearer of Bad News (Tripl3FastAction)
Pop Life-15 secs-(Prince)
No Problem
Dead Flowers (Rolling Stones)
Lucky (first time it was ever played live)
All The Kids Are Right
Set:
Halcyon Days (Where Were You Then?)
Money On The Dresser
Fritz's Corner
All-Right (Oh, Yeah)
Hey, Rita
High-Fiving MF
Heavy Metal Bakesale
Buffalo Trace
Heavens On The Way Down
(President Forever) > Fine And Good
California Songs
Hands On The Bible
Bound For The Floor
Auf Wiedersehen(cheap trick)
Southern Girls(cheap trick)
He's A Whore(First verse only)-cheap trick
Surrender(cheap trick)
Tame(pixies)
Breed(nirvana)
Everyone Alive
Fuck Yeah, That Wide
So yeah, you are in for a treat, especially if you've never seen them before.
ps They do the best cover of Britney Spears' Toxic.
Other than that, not much sticks out in my mind except for some singles that will always bring me right back whenever I hear them:
Your Woman -- White Town
Drinking in LA -- Bran Van 3000
Peaches -- Presidents of the USA
Longview -- Green Day
And before all that, it was:
Fuck yeah.
I think she's selling it outside my apartment right now, if anyone thought it was worth going after during the day, you could easily get it now and on the cheap. She wasn't really that bad looking.
Good god, though, that song.
I'll toss out Blues Traveler out here with the band we like but haven't been able to produce anything worthwhile since the cosmic odometer rolled over. Combination of their bassist dying and John Popper getting his stomach stapled, lessening his ability to jam out on the harp.
Rah for all the Cake mentions. Odd there's yet to be any love for some of the earlier, grunge guys. Did I miss the Soundgarden posts?
Fails hard.
I've recently been re-watching Buffy (and Angel) with the wife, and sometimes it's fun hearing some of the old music on the show (and even seeing some of the old bands that made appearances...K's Choice and Bif Naked are two that stick out in my mind right now, but I know there are plenty of others). Granted, there's quite a bit of music I at least kinda-sorta liked in the 90's that I can't stomach anymore, but damn are there some songs I still love.
Like Oasis. I went on a serious Oasis kick after the last thread.
Still can't seem to get back into the Pumpkins, though. I guess I'm just....happy....now.
EDIT: I realize now that only the first three seasons (the Bronze-tastic ones) were really in the 90's, as well as the first half of the fourth (and first half of season one of Angel). But those seasons were seriously 90's.
Oh, and for some reason along the way I had picked up like four entire albums of Sir Mix-a-Lot on my computer/iPod. Don't ask me how, or why. It's only recently that I could bring myself to delete all but the few single songs that still amuse me from time to time. Sometimes the 90's is like Vegas: what happens there should stay there.
If I could go fifteen years without hearing a Sublime song in some form or another, it would indeed be sublime.
Because that was fucking awesome.
So there!
Free pie and blowjobs all around!
Just, god, they are not the best band ever. Yeah they sing about drugs. So what?
It doesn't help that they became mainstream after Bradley Nowell died, so then everyone that bought the self-titled was like, "in memoriam, Brad!" It's not a bad CD by any means and should mentioned with 90's music, but it was pretty bloated and flabby in parts.
What more do you people want? But yeah, the whole "best band ever" rep that 90's stoners gave them was a bit annoying. Still, I really dig some of their songs to this day. Though most of their singles sucked donkey dick.
Oh, and I ought to also throw out Social Distortion as another band that largely defined my 90's music experience. You don't own Social Distortion you say? Why do you hate America?
Yeah, they'd been around since the dawn of time, but they put out some good shit during the 90's and that's probably when most folks outside Orange County actually heard of them.
GNR had the deliciously bloated and over-indulgent Illusions albums.
And how about the Verve... and not just for that damn hit single whose name I will not mention
Hey Goo, what's new?
Also, let's not forget about 90s hip-hop; Wu-Tang's Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Aesop Rock's Float, Nas' Illmatic, Kool Keith/Dr. Octagon's Dr. Octegonecologyst, and KMD's Black Bastards.
So good.
I can't wait to hear Opeth covering 'Would?' on their new album.
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My jaw dropped when I first heard they were doing that. It probably won't be nearly as interesting as I'm hoping it will be.
:whistle:Sometimes I feel
Like I dont have a partner
Sometimes I feel
Like my only friend
Is the city I live in
The city of angel
Lonely as I am
Together we cry
I drive on her streets
cause shes my companion
I walk through her hills
cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie
I dont ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way:whistle:
fuck yeah. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUJHEdQBAr8
Also,
Alive had to be the best song, ever.
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Tool and Radiohead ruled my high school years.
The 90s were good fuckin times.
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90's had some of the best. De La Soul, Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang Clan, Tupac, Notorious BIG, the debut of Jay-Z and Nas, Dr. Dre's The Chronic, Snoop Dogg. We could probably do an entire thread to just the 90's hip-hop.
Moving through the country,
Gonna eat a lot of peaches
:whistle:
Also, Pearl Jam's Ten album and Red Hot Chilli Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik album rock.
Also, for the metal minded, Opeth's earlier albums were awesome, if only for the fact that clocked a 20 minute song that's completely progressive and full of awesome (Black Rose Immortal)
Also, and unrelated, "Closing Time" was, and is, a fracking amazing song.
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The White Stripes had one album out in the 90s (1999). They started in 1997, but by far I would categorize them as a band of the 00s.
I have been deliberately playing that song at the end of every day at work now. Not everybody gets the hint.
Huh, everything up to and including Still Life was in the 90s.
Meshuggah also released Contradictions Collapse, Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere in the 90s.
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Or third eye blind is great too.
Both very ninties.
but they're listening to every word I say
You know they say the best thing you can do for your fame is die.
but they're listening to every word I say
Also
Third Eye Blind wasn't overly bad in the sense that their lead singer could write decent lyrics, although their actual music itself is fairly uninspiring.
Eve 6 is awful fourteen year old fodder and they're basically just the tween engineered tripe of the day.
In the grunge era of the nineties Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains all put out fantastic albums that more or less set the tone for most of the emerging acts coming out throughout the rest of the decade.
Given, Nirvana became heinously overrated after Kurt's death, but at least out of the big four Pearl Jam kept on putting out great music throughout that decade.
Weezer put out two fantastic albums (Blue and Pinkerton) as did the Pixies, who heavily influenced their musical stylings.
Sublime broke big in '96 after Brad Nowell's death (on an album that he was totally unhappy with) and even though it was their weakest effort to date, anyone who considers them a shitty act can blow me. Go download and listen to the Firecracker Lounge bootleg you godless mongrels.
311 was a band that got big without following on the coattails of a similar genre establishing act and also totally failed to open the doors for any sort of derivative acts. The self titled album they got famous on was fairly bland considering their previous work and pretty mainstream to boot. Their follow up, Transistor, however was a 20+ song single disc Reggae album that they never could have put out if their record company was still trying to establish them. At the size of the album, the whole things a big mess, but I absolutely love this cd.
In the second half of the decade you have Korn putting out two decent if a bit unvarying albums that spawned a lot of imitators. You also have a band called Incubus capping off their decade with an awesome funk inspired album called S.C.I.E.N.C.E., but they're all a bunch of faggots and like to pretend that this album doesn't exist.
Also a band called the deftones released an album called adrenaline, and followed it up with an album called Around the Fur. If you don't own both of these albums, well then I guess I just don't have anything nice to say about you.
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Yeah, Wu Tang Clan.