90s music

[Nokomis]

Two members of the English Beat left the band for the Fine Young Cannibals while Ranking Roger and Dave Wakeling formed General Public in the 80's. The Specials pretty much imploded and went separate ways. By the 90's Roger and Dave still wanted to play/tour. They contacted members of the Specials and a plan was hatched to capitalize on the next wave of Ska that was starting to gain momentum. Great show. Best of both bands were played.

That's cool. I guess... I don't know. The only way I can relate is that I saw The Toasters at Triple Rock in the mid-late 00s. By that time it was just Bucket and a bunch of kids he brought along on tour. It was both cool and kind of sad at the same time, like watching my dad play in a band with guys less than half his age. Still living the dream I guess.

 

[tikited]

I love Winona, and I love their music scene, and Ed's is one of my favorite venues anywhere. I and my friends have gone down for the last couple Mid West Music Fests, and the place, its people, and its talent have been a revelation, including and especially Karate Chop, Silence. In just those couple fests, we've made friends with so many people that it's like this network. I and the other guys are always running into people we know there. I feel like it's my second home town.

Speaking of... When I saw Matt Wilson, I'd been there for only a few minutes when someone came over to say hi, and it was one of those many friends we've made at the fests. She was there with some friends and their spouses, and they invited me to hang with them. All big Trip Shakespeare fans, so we were geeking out together. In fact, one of the couples was hosting Matt at their AirBNB that night! So in conversation this gal I know says she appeared in the crowd scene of TS's video for "Bachelorette." She said they filmed it at the Gay 90s and served pizza to everyone. Good times.

Cheesy video, but great song. I think my friend is the one in white in the front row.

I blame Trip for some bad test scores. They played so many times and I just had to go.

 

[Bad Gopher]

I blame Trip for some bad test scores. They played so many times and I just had to go.

They're an example of a band you needed to see as many times as you could while you can. There will never be a reunion--from what I've heard Elaine is living in Boston, not interested, experiencing chronic back pain, and for that reason has given up the instrument. That's what I've heard, at least. They did that one quasi-reunion using Jake, but it just wasn't the same.

 

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[tikited]

She's still going strong. Hope paved the way for Liam Gallagher to not move around while performing.

 

[Nokomis]

I think Cool just gave us the full gamut of the best to worst of 90s music.

 

[Nokomis]

90s were obviously a big decade to rap/hip hop too. This one is on my regular iTunes rotation.

 

[WilliamsArenaGuy]

L7-Pretend We're Dead
Toadies-Possum Kingdom
Presidents of the USA-Lump
Semisonic-Across the Great Divide

 

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My favorite album of the 90’s was “Before These Crowded Streets” by The Dave Matthews Band.

 

[Frink]

She's still going strong. Hope paved the way for Liam Gallagher to not move around while performing.

In a sad coincidence for this thread, Mazzy Star's other driving force, David Roback, died earlier this week. I'm a big fan of his first band Rain Parade as well. He brought a lot of great, dreamy psychedelic music into the world.

Tributes paid to Mazzy Star co-founder David Roback, who has died at 61

Musicians have paid tribute to Mazzy Star co-founder and Paisley Underground luminary David Roback, who has died aged 61.

www.nme.com

 

[Bad Gopher]

A couple years ago I put together a playlist of modern rock from the early 90s, a period I refer to as the golden age of modern rock--before grunge came in and drowned out new wave and post-punk pop. This is what they were playing on KJ 104, which was a marvelous (IMHO) short-lived station and which was sort of reborn with some of the same staff members when REV 105 went on the air a few years later.

Most of this collection dates from mid 1989 through mid 1991, although there are songs that go as far back as mid 1988 and forward to mid 1992. The station went off the air over Labor Day weekend 1992. It was an incredibly prolific few years, with excellent releases by established artists as well as some one-hit wonders. Just 1990 by itself was a firehose flow of wonderful music.

I ended up with 8 volumes (volumed so they can fit on 80-minute CDs if desired) totalling about 10 and a half hours of music. And this isn't even everything from that era; I left stuff off that I thought was stale or that I didn't particularly like.

Here it is. It's all pretty findable on YouTube. Enjoy!

VOLUME 1

1	They Might Be Giants	Ana Ng
2	Redd Kross	Annie's Gone
3	Matthew Sweet	I've Been Waiting
4	Matthew Sweet	Girlfriend
5	Aztek Camera	The Crying Scene
6	Kitchens of Distinction	Drive That Fast
7	Aztec Camera	Good Morning Britain
8	The Chills	Heavenly Pop Hit
9	Cocteau Twins	Iceblink Luck
10	Bob Mould	It's Too Late
11	Social Distortion	Ring Of Fire
12	Social Distortion	Ball and Chain
13	The Waterboys	A Life Of Sundays
14	Primal Scream	Movin On Up
15	The Trash Can Sinatras	Only Tongue Can Tell
16	The Lightning Seeds	Pure
17	Billy Bragg	Sexuality
18	Teenage Fanclub	Star Sign
19	Marc Almond	Tears Run Rings

VOLUME 2

1	John Wesley Harding	Here Comes The Groom
2	Jane's Addiction	Been Caught Stealing
3	The Darling Buds	Crystal Clear
4	World Party	Way Down Now
5	Sinead O'Connor	The Emperor's New Clothes
6	Deee-Lite	Groove Is In The Heart
7	World Party	Put The Message In The Box
8	Katydids	Heavy Weather Traffic
9	The House of Love	I Don't Know Why I Love You
10	Jellyfish	I Wanna Stay Home
11	John Wesley Harding	The Devil In Me
12	The Orb	Little Fluffy Clouds
13	Lenny Kravitz	Mr. Cab Driver
14	Elvis Costello	The Other Side Of Summer
15	The Rave-Ups	Respectfully King Of Rain
16	The Stone Roses	She Bangs The Drums
17	Gear Daddies	Color Of Her Eyes
18	Happy Mondays	Step On
19	Steve Wynn	Tears Won't Help

VOLUME 3

1	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	Oceanside
2	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	So You Think You're In Love
3	The Cramps	Bikini Girls With Machine Guns
4	Peter Murphy	Cuts You Up
5	Faith No More	Epic
6	The Farm	Groovy Train
7	Something Happens	Hello Hello Hello Hello Hello
8	Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians	Ultra Unbelievable Love
9	Richard Thompson	I Feel So Good
10	Gene Loves Jezebel	Jealous (Again)
11	Big Dipper	Love Barge
12	The Beautiful South	My Book
13	Oingo Boingo	Out Of Control
14	Jesus Jones	Right Here Right Now
15	Lloyd Cole	She's A Girl And I'm A Man
16	Trip Shakespeare	The Crane
17	Del Amitri	Stone Cold Sober
18	Jellyfish	That Is Why
19	EMF	Unbelievable
20	Kirsty MacColl	Walking Down Madison

VOLUME 4

1	Midnight Oil	Blue Sky Mine
2	Enya	Caribbean Blue
3	Material Issue	Diane
4	Trip Shakespeare	Bachelorette
5	The Railway Children	Every Beat Of The Heart
6	The Origin	Growing Old
7	The Pixies	Here Comes Your Man
8	Midnight Oil	Forgotten Years
9	David J	I'll Be Your Chauffeur
10	Concrete Blonde	Joey
11	XTC	The Mayor Of Simpleton
12	Midnight Oil	King Of The Mountain
13	Midnight Oil	River Runs Red
14	This Picture	Naked Rain
15	Siouxsie and the Banshees	Peek-a-Boo
16	House of Freaks	Rocking Chair
17	The Primitives	Sick Of It
18	The Connells	Stone Cold Yesterday
19	Too Much Joy	That's A Lie
20	Material Issue	Valerie Loves Me
21	Falling Joys	You're In A Mess

VOLUME 5

1	Depeche Mode	World In My Eyes
2	Soul Asylum	Cartoon
3	Public Image Limited	Don't Ask Me
4	Lou Reed	Dirty Blvd.
5	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Far Gone And Out
6	Indigo Girls	Hammer And A Nail
7	Depeche Mode	Personal Jesus
8	The Sundays	Here's Where the Story Ends
9	Pursuit Of Happiness	I'm An Adult Now
10	Jellyfish	The King Is Half-Undressed
11	The Church	Metropolis
12	Morrissey	November Spawned A Monster
13	Depeche Mode	Enjoy The Silence
14	Depeche Mode	Policy Of Truth
15	Morrissey	Piccadilly Palare
16	Big Audio Dynamite	Rush
17	James	Sit Down
18	Wire Train	Stone Me
19	The La's	There She Goes

VOLUME 6

1	They Might Be Giants	Theme From Flood
2	They Might Be Giants	Birdhouse In Your Soul
3	An Emotional Fish	Celebrate
4	The Wonder Stuff	Don't Let Me Down, Gently
5	They Might Be Giants	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)
6	Electronic	Getting Away With It
7	Ned's Atomic Dustbin	Happy
8	That Petrol Emotion	Hey Venus
9	Soup Dragons	I'm Free
10	MC 900 Ft. Jesus	The City Sleeps
11	Happy Mondays	Kinky Afro
12	Voice of the Beehive	Monsters And Angels
13	Boom Crash Opera	Onion Skin
14	When In Rome	The Promise
15	Meat Puppets	Sam
16	The Wonder Stuff	The Size of a Cow
17	Jane's Addiction	Stop!
18	Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy	California Uber Alles
19	Blur	There's No Other Way
20	Elvis Costello	Veronica
21	Mighty Lemon Drops	Where Do We Go From Heaven

VOLUME 7

1	Dream Warriors	Mr. Bubbunut Spills His Guts
2	Dream Warriors	My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style
3	Erasure	Chorus
4	The Heart Throbs	Dreamtime
5	The Lemonheads	It's A Shame About Ray
6	Hothouse Flowers	Give It Up
7	Dramarama	Haven't Got A Clue
8	Soho	Hippychick
9	Big Dipper	Impossible Things
10	Del Amitri	Kiss This Thing Goodbye
11	Dream Warriors	Wash Your Face In My Sink
12	The Sisters of Mercy	More
13	Saint Etienne	Only Love Can Break Your Heart
14	Ian McCulloch	Proud to Fall
15	The Judybats	Saturday
16	The Alarm	Sold Me Down The River
17	Lush	Sweetness And Light
18	Camper Van Beethoven	Pictures Of Matchstick Men
19	Goo Goo Dolls	There You Are
20	Pop Will Eat Itself	X, Y & Zee

VOLUME 8

1	School Of Fish	Intro / 3 Strange Days
2	Inspiral Carpets	Commercial Reign
3	The Ocean Blue	Drifting Falling
4	The Posies	Golden Blunders
5	The B52's	Deadbeat Club
6	The B52's	Love Shack
7	The Jesus and Mary Chain	Head On
8	Butthole Surfers	The Hurdy Gurdy Man
9	Divinyls	I Touch Myself
10	The Cavedogs	Leave Me Alone
11	The Shamen	Move Any Mountain
12	The B52's	Roam
13	The Charlatans	The Only One I Know
14	Dead Milkmen	Punk Rock Girl
15	Bob Mould	See A Little Light
16	Ultra Vivid Scene	Special One
17	The Stranglers	Sweet Smell of Success
18	Jah Wobble	Visions of You
19	The Church	You're Still Beautiful

 

[WilliamsArenaGuy]

Holy crap. I had the Judybats and completely forgot about them. Thanks for the reminder. Some of my other favorites still are the Lemonheads albums, the Sundays albums, School of Fish, The Jesus and Mary Chain, also had the Soup Dragons and many more. That was like memory lane!

 

[Bad Gopher]

Holy crap. I had the Judybats and completely forgot about them. Thanks for the reminder. Some of my other favorites still are the Lemonheads albums, the Sundays albums, School of Fish, The Jesus and Mary Chain, also had the Soup Dragons and many more. That was like memory lane!

Glad to be your tour guide down memory lane!

If you really want the time machine experience... A friend of mine loaned me some cassette tapes on which he recorded the KJ 104 year-end best-of shows from 1990 and 1991 as well as a few from The Edge, if you remember that station. Listening to those, the sound is so good that you can close your eyes and it's the early 90s again. The hosts are talking about the shows playing at First Ave and around town, and it's bands like The 27 Various. What a trip listening to those! I was able to transfer all that to mp3. If anyone was interested in getting a hold of those recordings, I'm sure we could figure something out.

 

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[tikited]

Glad to be your tour guide down memory lane!

If you really want the time machine experience... A friend of mine loaned me some cassette tapes on which he recorded the KJ 104 year-end best-of shows from 1990 and 1991 as well as a few from The Edge, if you remember that station. Listening to those, the sound is so good that you can close your eyes and it's the early 90s again. The hosts are talking about the shows playing at First Ave and around town, and it's bands like The 27 Various. What a trip listening to those! I was able to transfer all that to mp3. If anyone was interested in getting a hold of those recordings, I'm sure we could figure something out.

Thanks for the trip down radio station lane. I remember KJ for sure. The Edge...wow haven't thought of that forever. I was so lucky to have friends who dj'd for a few different stations. So many free tickets on top of all the free passes that First Ave. used to hand out. I rarely paid for a show back then.

Since guys don't really like playing instruments anymore, girls have been dominating alternative/modern rock for years now. Lots of them sound like they were recording in 1995. Driving around listening to RadioK is like a time warp with all the great chick singers out there.

 

[Bad Gopher]

Thanks for the trip down radio station lane. I remember KJ for sure. The Edge...wow haven't thought of that forever. I was so lucky to have friends who dj'd for a few different stations. So many free tickets on top of all the free passes that First Ave. used to hand out. I rarely paid for a show back then.

Since guys don't really like playing instruments anymore, girls have been dominating alternative/modern rock for years now. Lots of them sound like they were recording in 1995. Driving around listening to RadioK is like a time warp with all the great chick singers out there.

Don't want to get too off topic here, but Mae Simpson knocked our socks off a few weeks ago, and she's playing many many shows coming up including the MWMF in Winona.

 

[KD6-3.7]

i saw veruca salt live in the mid(?)-90s

they were opening for live

 

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[coolhandgopher]

To take off from Nokomis' mention, '90s hip hop/rap was pretty fantastic-to my ears, the golden age that still sounds incredibly fresh and current. Here's a few standouts from that time, starting with my all time favorites:

 

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