90s artists that aren't going to have a revive moment in your opinion

just brushed into the trash and forgotten forever

counting crows

Jesus Jones

man there is nothing that I would bet against because we live in a world where pre-teens like Steely Dan

Yeah, otm. Also as an Old I know whatever I think is most unrevivable will be what the kids end up loving, I did the same to my elders after all.

yeah, all it takes is one TikTok meme. I know the Counting Crows doc from last year didn't make a ripple (I didn't see it) but I could definitely see them getting rediscovered by young people, it's very feelings-heavy music.

Anal Cunt

I have a dificult time imagining a revival of the last gasp of non-sophisto adult-contempo older-guy charting soft pop before Gen X dethroned the Boomers at the turn of the decade (Marc Cohn, Michael Bolton, post-Cetera Chicago, the execrable Grayson Hugh), but maybe it's more of a "there can only be one remaining" situation, and Bily Joel already rules that kingdom.

I don't consider Elton John or Paul Simon to be in that category, but I'm open to arguments on the contrary

Anal Cunt

they were never “vived” in the first place

Offspring

offspring already have a place on gen x geared satellite radio stations i am sad to report.

that's not a revive though.

anecdata: I recently saw someone who I took to be in their early to mid 20s wearing an Offspring shirt. Disheartening.

part of this question i feel like is who are the former artists who are so burned out / out of it / burdened by baggage and/or legal woes / or just plain uninterested in hiring a publicist and aiming for a cash grab that it's just not going to happen. or maybe they're partnered and living a boring but stable life in a bungalow in greater phoenix or whatever.

xp the kids aren't alright amirite

I'm having a very hard time seeing any of the swing revival bands getting a revive, maybe because they shot to fame on a revival to begin with. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin' Daddies (ick), Squirrel Nut Zippers, etc.

oo good one

anecdata: I recently saw someone who I took to be in their early to mid 20s wearing an Offspring shirt. Disheartening.

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, April 6, 2026 1:36 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

anecdata: my 22-year-old son listens to Offspring a LOT. Disheartening.

I'm so sorry

Ok despite my earlier pronouncements I gotta admit the swing revival bands are a good shout.

Most I could imagine is kids getting into The Mask memes ("did you know Dr Robotnick used to be a leading man??") and that giving whichever one is in that one some streams.

R. Kelly sends his regards

are there kids listening to third-wave ska? Zoomers skanking to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish?

The Squirrel Nut Zippers are still out there playing music. I don’t know if that means that if they come back, it’s a revival or not.

they were the kind of ok one

I’d look at whose music isn’t streaming anywhere (even on YouTube) and for that reason suggest Michelle Shocked.

And Garth Brooks.

I've been waiting for "Battle Flag" by the Lo-Fidelity Allstars to come back for the last 20 years, don't think it's gonna happen

thought someone on another thread said he’s big with young people? If so, I find it hard to believe but nothing would surprise me anymore

he meaning Garth

re the steely dan comment above, those guys never went away at any point, i suspect they were only briefly unhip with a small minority, and it was with a very specific contingent of music fans. the barbs they took didn't stick because the reality didn't match what everyone was saying about them.

Cetera-era Chicago is a pretty good call...I think pretty much all of Chicago and other bands along those lines, like Blood Sweat and Tears, those are hard to revive. There's just nothing to hold onto there imo. and they're just not much fun to listen to.

That's the thing: even 'prime' Chicago is as fun as a late '60s Julie Andrews musical, like Darling Lili

Chicago/BST aren't 90s bands tho?

Michelle Shocked is an interesting one, good call.

I meant the post-Cetera era, when Chicago were still charting in 1990 with songs like "What Kind of Man Would I Be?" that were total sonic hangovers from their mid-'80s horn-free balladry that I once read was mastered to pop from clock radio speakers

Probably we won't see a revival of "earnest" Arrested Development-style rap?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2379613/

xpost, idk man I could see it swinging back. People are giving PM Dawn their flowers and ?uesto still rides for Arrested Development. Me Phi Me reappreciation imminent?

i don't think we're going to see a revival of Snow, no deluxe reissues for 12 Inches of Snow are forthcoming, ever.

green jellö

Snow is always fresh in Toronto

Probably we won't see a revival of "earnest" Arrested Development-style rap?

― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 6 April 2026 19:56 (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is definitely due a revival

_anecdata: I recently saw someone who I took to be in their early to mid 20s wearing an Offspring shirt. Disheartening.

― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Monday, April 6, 2026 1:36 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink_

anecdata: my 22-year-old son listens to Offspring a LOT. Disheartening.

hopefully same guy

Of the Britpop bands, I cannot imagine a revival for Whiteout, Cast, Heavy Stereo, Northern Uproar or Gene.

I feel like there's no way to explain the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to young people. (And call it wishful thinking, but I really hope we as a society are done with Beck.)

That's a bummer that the kids are revisiting Offspring, but completely in line with my inability to understand with what has legs with gen z. What about the 90s shock rock stuff like Marylin Manson/Rob Zombie? I can't really see white dudes with colored contact lenses and vampire collars as signifying anything threatening in this day and age. Are we due for another satanic panic?

Manson and Zombie have done co-headlining tours in the US the last few years, and Zombie just released a new album with the band that was on his earliest solo records, so he's kind of attempting a comeback/closing the loop. I don't know who goes to see him live these days, but the new record is OK.

P.O.D.

What about the 90s shock rock stuff like Marylin Manson/Rob Zombie? I can't really see white dudes with colored contact lenses and vampire collars as signifying anything threatening in this day and age

It was bewildering that anyone saw it as threatening first time round too, decades after Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper et al. I would guess the demographic that felt shocked in the 90's still exists, but doubt their edgelord kids would go for this stuff.

Jimmy Ray

did not expect Bush to be playing a minimum 2,500 capacity (up to 6,000) venue this week

Blessid Union of Souls

honestly i'm sorta shocked marilyn manson didn't go the route of r kelly after all the sex abuse stuff. white dude syndrome?

no deluxe reissues for 12 Inches of Snow are forthcoming

so many entendres

Blessid Union of Souls

― c u (crüt), Monday, April 6, 2026 9:31 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

jars of clay

did not expect Bush to be playing a minimum 2,500 capacity (up to 6,000) venue this week

Bush just did a Tiny Desk concert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBuHH7WE4yE

My 16 year old is in a band and they were practicing a Bush song and i’m all “oh, that’s nice”

given all the alt country adjacent stuff that's hot in indie (wednesday, mj lenderman, ratboys) it's odd to me that uncle tupelo hasn't gotten a little revival

Paula Abdul

xp it's probably tough for a band to get revived if it splintered into bigger bands that are still active

My 16 year old is in a band and they were practicing a Bush song and i’m all “oh, that’s nice”

― Cow_Art, Monday, April 6, 2026 9:56 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

breathe in breathe out, i approve this message

Reel Big Fish won't be coming back because Gen Z doesn't know or care what "sell out" means.

barenaked ladies, hopefully

Biohazard stock seems to be low now

Bush just did a Tiny Desk concert.

lol gavin's had some work done

Michelle Shocked is an interesting one, good call.

I think she also became Christian and her relationship to queerness got complicated, to but it nicely, so I don't see younger people embracing her

Dream Theater/Fates Warning/Crimson Glory/Queensryche, they’re all in the nostalgia circuit now as well right?

Biohazard stock seems to be low now

Yeah, they made a reunion album last year and nobody gave a fuck.

Queensryche - was just going to suggest this one.

Dream Theater had a song on on Guitar Hero and they seem to have a more online fanbase (45k on their subreddit).

yeah i've had a young person or two mention dream theater to me over the last few years.

oh uhh puff daddy

Coming back to Biohazard, they’re playing 2,000-capacity venues now (in their home market!), that’s pretty meagre for a band that headlined festivals for 120,000+ people in the mid-90s, and arguably provided the nu-metal blueprint.

Offspring may be revived, but what about the other pop-punk bands, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise, No Fun At All, Millencolin, etc?

barenaked ladies, hopefully

...is always fresh in Toronto

Mae Martin at the Junos last week said something like, “I’m glad to be back in a country where everyone knows what I’m saying when I say ‘Yit’s been.’”

In a parallel timeline we’d say Kid Rock.

does Kid Rock have any fandom outside maga chuds?

Offspring may be revived, but what about the other pop-punk bands, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise, No Fun At All, Millencolin, etc?

― Siegbran, Monday, April 6, 2026 5:56 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I met a guy just this past weekend who was a big NOFX fan, but he was 51

I'm firmly in the "you can never predict" crowd because there was a time I would have bet big money that new age music would never have a hipster renaissance, that no band would ever cite Blink 182 as an influence, and that Billy Joel LPs would never sell for more than $3 anywhere in the world

things like sister hazel, deadeye dick, that sort of super ingenuous non-grunge pop rock, post-college rock stuff

The Presidents of the United States of America

the early 90s Boomer adult-contemporary stuff is a decent working theory. Deadeye Dick/Sister Hazel axis also seems promising. i'll gamble on a bigger target from this "continuity with pre-grunge college rock aesthetics" pool and say that Collective Soul, though a couple of their songs linger on in recurrent airplay, will never be revived.

whereas i could see Arrested Development's earnestness reclaimed through rose-colored glasses - the way some 90s kids really bought into 60s hippie myths about the days when the music mattered and people really believed in things and weren't afraid of looking corny etc.

basically we're looking for the equivalent of 60s/70s acts whose stuff migrated to the dollar bins early and never got back out. historically that includes a lot of stuff that was comparatively minor in the first place, of course. but for this to happen to BIG acts, i think it helps if their bigness was with people who didn't need the music later in life, or wasn't invested in passing down their legends. who are the 90s Herman's Hermits, Dave Clark Five, or Rick Derringer? second-tier boy bands are obvious candidates but there must be rock and hip-hop equivalents. but again i'll go big and say that NKOTB will not outlive the warm nostalgia of their original fanbase.

stuff that had intergenerational appeal, that was "safe" with parents, is both lacking in "cool" from day 1, and loses half of its constituency as the parents age out of the picture - I've long believed this explains the premature evaporation of Three Dog Night's legacy along with other "light entertainment"-adjacent acts who didn't cultivate Diamond-like cults. i'm not quite ready to write off Hootie and the Blowfish but idk. Matchbox 20 aren't *quite* this, exactly, but i could see them ending up here. Wyclef could also be in trouble.

I don't see mid-90s rock/electronic/rap crossover stuff like Apollo 440, Pitchshifter and Senser coming back

would one hit wonders qualify here? White Town, Primitive Radio Gods, Babylon Zoo

The Stevie Ray Vaughan-abies: Kenny Wayne Shepherd; Johnny Lang etc. Bonnamassa is their Final Boss and has burned all bridges.

i'm not totally sure about nkotb to be totally honest (i think they probably have some revival cache at the very least because new jack swing is hot right now), but nsync and backstreet boys definitely still generate some heat with people who weren't teenagers the first time around afaict.

boyz ii men are kinda overlooked now maybe? and en vogue. they seemed so huge at the time. loved all their big songs.

spottie's mention of paula abdul strikes me as otm, like it shoulda happened already but i'm not really sure why it hasn't.

Early White Town is awesome classic indie pop

boyz II men have inexplicably disappeared from the Zeitgeist but I wouldn’t count them out for a revival

BIIM have 8 million monthly listeners on Spotify. That’s still pretty big. NKOTB is only at 1.5 million.

Counting Crows was the first act mentioned, which is puzzling. They’ve never stopped being popular afaict.

i'm not totally sure about nkotb to be totally honest (i think they probably have some revival cache at the very least because new jack swing is hot right now)

Pretty sure they did a reunion tour a few years ago that drew the same audience of fervid middle-aged moms who went to see, like, the Magic Mike movies in large groups.

I was kind of surprised that Evanescence was popular enough to be headlining a shed tour in 2026.

didn't the white town guy used to post on alt.music.alternative.uk?

https://shop.dishwalla.com/product/pet-your-friends-foam-trucker-hat/

Dishwalla#/media/File:Joint_Base_Pearl_Harbor_Hickam_Morale,_Welfare_and_Recreation_holds_4th_of_July_celebration_event_150704-N-ON468-240.jpg

xxp Gene played Bristol Beacon last month tbf, way better band than the Heavy Stereo / Cast types you listed them with.

Not judging quality, just that they bring absolutely nothing new to the table, if people want The Smiths then they'll go for The Smiths instead. Also should note that Rossiter seems to be a pretty terrible person, if you haven't heard about that already.

didn't the white town guy used to post on alt.music.alternative.uk?

he was also a prolific twitter poster as of a few years ago

Rusted Root

did not expect Bush to be playing a minimum 2,500 capacity (up to 6,000) venue this week

My 16 year old is in a band and they were practicing a Bush song and i’m all “oh, that’s nice”

Whenever I look at what my son listens to it's always weird to me, he likes 90s alternative rock so I'm not surprised to see Alice in Chains, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins but there's also a bunch of (what always seemed to me) second or third tier stuff like Bush or Live in there which he considers equally good.

Anyway, he also likes Offspring, not that I can really complain, I listened to them a lot too when I was 17.

Is hip-hop less susceptible to revivals than other music? I’m not tunes in to what the kids are up to, but the only time I encounter older rap is when it’s a novelty (Mixalot) or somehow used as shorthand for a white person being corny. Maybe I made that last thing up.

boyz II men have inexplicably disappeared from the Zeitgeist but I wouldn’t count them out for a revival

― Mollusk, Virginia (Boring, Maryland), Monday, April 6, 2026 8:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

didn't one of them end up being a Black Israelite?

xpost R&B/Hip Hop radio stations around me still do 90s old school hours during drive time--which probably just means that their listeners are mostly 40 and over.

the way some 90s kids really bought into 60s hippie myths about the days when the music mattered and people really believed in things and weren't afraid of looking corny etc.

Smash Mouth had a whole song about exactly that

sandi thom to thread

xp and it was called…Walking on the Sun

There’s now a “throwbacks” station in NYC that constantly plays 90s and 00s hip-hop and R&B. Boyz II Men is in rotation there. I assume it’s mostly aimed at nostalgic 40-somethings, though teens may hear it in their parents’ cars.

Yeah I think there's a difference between, successful Take That reunion concerts that are squarely aimed at the original fans, and Kate Bush getting rediscovered by a new teenage audience.

Is hip-hop less susceptible to revivals than other music?

That certainly WAS the case.
Post-Versuz, it seems like hip-hop does more looking back than ever before. Used to be that anything more than a couple years old was corny as hell, now people seem to put more energy into listening to a Mount Rushmore of classic artists than they do minting new legends. We sell loads of old hip-hop to kids. By old, of course, we're talking Kanye and Tyler, not Public Enemy and EPMD.

In my sphere, the Doors movie was a BIG deal. Lots of 90s teens reading books of Morrison poetry and wearing beaded necklaces, carrying his biography around. Girls and boys were both into him. I can’t think of a music bio that has grabbed the youth in such a way since then, but I probably wouldn’t have noticed.

xpost Yeah, it's funny--when I take my son to the skateboard park there are always teens there blasting stuff like "Mask Off" and I realize they were like 5 when that came out.

xpost Oh man, when that fucking Doors movie came out I had long hair and everyone kept telling me I looked exactly like Jim Morrison. But perhaps they meant I looked Val Kilmer?

cmd-F'ed the thread for Helmet and then later found out that they're touring this year.

cmd-F'ed the thread for Helmet and then later found out that they're touring this year.

I feel like when you're down to one original member you should have to change the name to reflect that. Helmet should now be Page Hamilton and the Helmets. Prong should be Tommy Victor and the Prongs.

Offspring may be revived, but what about the other pop-punk bands, Bad Religion, NOFX, Pennywise, No Fun At All, Millencolin, etc?

― Siegbran, Monday, April 6, 2026 2:56 PM (yesterday)

look these bands are just as popular, if not more popular, than '77 punk. there are kids out there today who think _the division bell_ is the best pink floyd album. anything can "come back". the bigger issue for groups like marilyn manson is the fact that marilyn manson has in fact done genuinely terrible things that are, uh, not particularly related to his stage persona. obviously that's not going to stop him from being popular, but it is going to skew his fanbase!

You'd think, but this thread is full of accounts of kids loving Kanye.

Wait not this thread, the other one we had on this topic but not for the 90's. The one that also had lots of young people into Michael Jackson.

Yeah but Manson hasn’t taken out a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal to apologize, has he?

The Bloodhound Gang

I don't see mid-90s rock/electronic/rap crossover stuff like Apollo 440, Pitchshifter and Senser coming back

― rameau in the main room (dog latin), Monday, April 6, 2026 9:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I think a lot of current-ish stuff is only a degree away from this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XojM2D3F-Dc

You'd think, but this thread is full of accounts of kids loving Kanye.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 7:48 AM

sure, i was just saying in the doomposting thread that i love todd rundgren's music. doesn't mean that who he is doesn't make a difference, doesn't change the way in which i love his music.

In case anybody's interested, here are our top 40 catalog cds for the year so far. This doesn't include any new releases... and doesn't include KPOP, which is a separate (and bigger for us) category. As most of our music customers are middle school to college age, this is a moderately accurate representation of what "the kids" currently enjoy.

In best-seller order...

DEFTONES    AROUND THE FUR
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE     THREE CHEERS FOR SWEET RE
PANIC! AT THE DISCO     A FEVER YOU CAN'T SWEAT O
PIERCE THE VEIL   COLLIDE WITH THE SKY
GORILLAZ    DEMON DAYS
WEST,KANYE  GRADUATION
PIERCE THE VEIL   SELFISH MACHINES
OCEAN,FRANK CHANNEL ORANGE
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE     BLACK PARADE
LINKIN PARK HYBRID THEORY

RADIOHEAD   IN RAINBOWS
RADIOHEAD   BENDS
BUCKLEY,JEFF      GRACE
LINKIN PARK METEORA
PARAMORE    BRAND NEW EYES
RADIOHEAD   OK COMPUTER
TAME IMPALA CURRENTS
GREEN DAY   AMERICAN IDIOT
PARAMORE    RIOT
TYLER THE CREATOR IGOR

PIERCE THE VEIL   FLAIR FOR THE DRAMATIC
BUCKLEY,JEFF      SKETCHES/GRACE (3CD/IMP)
C418  MINECRAFT VOLUME ALPHA
EVANESCENCE FALLEN
TITLE FIGHT SHED
FLESHWATER  WE'RE NOT HERE TO BE LOVE
PIERCE THE VEIL   MISADVENTURES
ACID BATH   WHEN THE KITE STRING POPS
SYSTEM OF A DOWN  TOXICITY
WEST,KANYE  MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED

SUBLIME     SUBLIME
CLAIRO      CHARM
WEEZER      WEEZER (BLUE)
DEFTONES    DIAMOND EYES
WEEZER      PINKERTON
WEST,KANYE  COLLEGE DROPOUT
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE     DANGER DAYS:TRUE LIVES OF
DEFTONES          SATURDAY NIGHT WRIST
MF DOOM           MM FOOD:20TH ANNIVERSARY
DEFTONES          WHITE PONY

a local shop recently told me they typically sell two vinyl copies of In Rainbows every day

two rainbows daily?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAPus-oFmA

(alan gowen never went away because he was never there in the first place!)

Somehow I was unaware how much the kids are getting into Acid Bath these days.

nah i guess the big surprise to me is how popular jeff buckley is. i guess we can kind of map out the length of generational cultural memory based on these numbers as well, yeah? there's a pretty hard cutoff at 1994.

Never heard of Pierce the Veil

but googling tells me it's one of those neck tattoo rock bands

In Rainbows rules so the kids are doing well

Buckley always did pretty OK, but he only started selling like this for us starting end of '24.
Acid Bath sell inifinitely more for us than they did in the 90s!

that's all v interesting, thank you!

I never knew who Five Finger Death Punch but I saw the name around, until I saw them open for Metallica, definitely a band for men who have been to court

The really wild thing vs three years ago, is that the list would've been mostly women then. Taylor Swift, Billie, Boygenius + solo, Rodrigo, etc.
Things changing rapidly all the time these days.

but googling tells me it's one of those neck tattoo rock bands

I more think of them as "the type of stuff that a certain member on this forum probably likes", and after doing some searching, it turns out I am correct.

lol ums

Mentioned it on another thread, but a couple of record stores I follow post their biggest sellers every week and Buckley's Grace is almost weekly in their top ten for sales (including new releases). In fact, just checked and it was the #1 best seller last week at Music Millennium in Portland.

Never heard of Pierce the Veil

― Hive Guys Burgers & Flies (President Keyes), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 11:49 AM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

but googling tells me it's one of those neck tattoo rock bands

― Hive Guys Burgers & Flies (President Keyes), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 11:50 AM (seven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I think of them as a silicone bracelet band.

Re Buckley: "Lover You Should've Come Over" was a recent viral hit:

In the mid-2020s, the song experienced a surge in popularity through its use as background music in videos posted to the short-form video platform TikTok.[14] In January 2024, it appeared on the TikTok Billboard Top 50, and reappeared there at number 19 in September 2024.[15] In April 2025, it appeared on Billboard's Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart for the first time, debuting at number 22.[16] In late January 2026, it debuted at number 97 on the main Billboard Hot 100 chart,[17] peaking at number 84 the following week.

I think I posted this on the "songs that weren't a band's biggest hit but have gone on to..." thread, but it now has more Spotify plays than "Hallelujah."

Surprised Tyler isn’t even higher. It seems like I’m always in a record store where some kid is freaking out about Tyler

ok so correction todd rundgren is not i guess evil? that's the thing about, you know, dystopia, i hear lots of shit secondhand and it's not reliable. i try not to propagate disinformation but fact-checking can often like fuck me up pretty badly emotionally. sorry about that, todd.

radiohead otoh are pro-genocide, or at least thom and jonny are, so _that's_ "problematic" i guess

Surprised Tyler isn’t even higher. It seems like I’m always in a record store where some kid is freaking out about Tyler

Tyler is still more of a vinyl artist for us. Also, seemingly not as white-hot popular as he was 8 yrs ago or so.

In case anybody's interested, here are our top 40 catalog cds for the year so far.

Acid Bath the real surprise really, wow. I mean, great album but of all 90s sludgy alt-metal obscurities this is the one that speaks to the kids?

Tyler is still more of a vinyl artist for us. Also, seemingly not as white-hot popular as he was 8 yrs ago or so.

Is your vinyl clientele in the same demographic as your CD buyers?

I had assumed that if kids went for physical media it would be vinyl, not CDs (K Pop of course excepted), I guess that's wrong.

Vinyl is a bit older skewing for us at this point. It’s VERY expensive comparatively, so while the kids like it, it’s much easier to afford cds. And Zoomers and younger don’t have the negative associations w cds that millennials had/have.

when you consider that most of those purchases are decorative rather functional, taking the step down in price point from vinyl to CD sounds like it would be great if you're a parent

Also, seemingly not as white-hot popular as he was 8 yrs ago or so.

― mr.raffles, Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:52 PM (one hour ago)

this isn't true btw, he just had two number 1 albums in the span of like 9 months -- if sales of his catalog seem like they're lagging this would probably explain it

Acid Bath the real surprise really, wow. I mean, great album but of all 90s sludgy alt-metal obscurities this is the one that speaks to the kids?

― Siegbran, Tuesday, April 7, 2026 1:07 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

As I am sure I have posted here before, this is exactly how I feel about Duster (replace "sludgy alt-metal" with "slowcore emo")

Goblin - 2K
Wolf ('23 reissue) - 1K
Cherry Bomb ('2os reissues) - 1K
Flower Boy - 8K
IGOR - 12K
Call Me - 4K
Chroma (phys release nov 25) - 1K
Don't Tap - NA

Our Tyler vinyl sales history.

The more recent titles could be heavily cannibalized by D2C sales though, as is the norm these days.

what is D2C?

direct to consumer (from the artist's website basically)

As I am sure I have posted here before, this is exactly how I feel about Duster (replace "sludgy alt-metal" with "slowcore emo")

― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, April 7, 2026 1:14 PM (fourteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

haha same, Duster's streaming numbers are completely bonkers

surely one of the most baffling revivals

iirc they were never more than a small club headliner or large club opening band

at most!

but y'know this thread also reminds me of how the blues revival in the 50s/60s elevated the profile of a lot of artists who had previously been considered obscure, and ignored a lot of what was actually popular in the pre-war 78 era

when you consider that most of those purchases are decorative rather functional, taking the step down in price point from vinyl to CD sounds like it would be great if you're a parent

Real bummer for the kid though, in functional terms there are advantages to CDs (I hated picking tracks w/ the stylus as a kid for instance, digital cd system was much easier) but if decoration is all you're in for the vinyl edition def makes more of an impression.

but there's also a bunch of (what always seemed to me) second or third tier stuff like Bush or Live in there which he considers equally good.

So, a pretty good facsimile of record buyers and radio programmers circa 1996!

Probably easier when there's no one around to roll their eyes at you when you say you like grunge bands like Bush.

if decoration is all you're in for the vinyl edition def makes more of an impression.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:49 PM (eleven minutes ago)

except a lot of new vinyl packaging these days is depressingly bare bones and feels like it cost $5 to put together

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

I guess if you buy a lot of CDs that becomes decorative. As a single artifact tho a bare bones cheap record cover still makes more of an impression than a CD. xpost

bring back longboxes i used to cut the covers off those and hang them in my room in high school

xps I went to a free Arteated Development show last year and got there an hour early to get a good spot - except for the handful of middle-aged people in the “reserved” line who RSVP’d earlier to claim guaranteed entry, I was the only one there and until the doors opened, there weren’t that many standing in line. The show did eventually get a good crowd - again it was free and I think most people simply skipped the openers - but it felt like a big indicator that they were a nostalgia act that didn’t reach far beyond their original audience.

Arteated sounds like some British term for breasts

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

it does seem like things have improved somewhat in recent years but there was def a period where like a quarter of all new vinyl was rife with surface noise and non-fill

Jon Spencer has just announced a new album. I have no idea who his audience is, and I'm someone who saw Pussy Galore in '89 and the Blues Explosion in '93.

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

it's the wild west out there, i can get the greatest sounding version of a record brand new for $25 and then wind up with something that sounds like sandpaper for twice as much.

JSBX is one of those bands i played for my kid and he thought it was pretty bad. he's a tough audience already, i should have known better.

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i very very rarely buy and thus play any new music on vinyl but just from a packaging perspective, my sense/experience is that new vinyl is usually barely worth the cardboard it's packaged in. very little effort put into art direction, any booklet or insert beyond a front and back piece of paper etc -- maybe there's artists like tyler, taylor etc for whom this isn't true (i wouldn't know) but i don't think the juice is worth the squeeze w/ most of those purchases and it wouldn't surprise me if consumers have internalized this fact years deep into the resurgence of vinyl

hard agree, speaking as a vinyl fiend

just gimme FLACS tyvm

Jon Spencer has just announced a new album. I have no idea who his audience is

"Bellbottoms" somehow has 65 million streams on Spotify.

there are labels which do a really nice job generally speaking, just picked up Talk To the Sea by Gigi Masin (on Music From Memory) and it's beautiful, gimme that matte gatefold shit all day. but yeah a lot of it feels really cheap and flimsy, even beyond the records.

xpost That's more than any Pavement song other than "Harness Your Hopes."

The last new album I bought on vinyl was Arctic Monkeys' The Car -- it sounded like ass.

i don't know what kind of vinyl y'all are buying but i totally don't give a shit how the sleeve looks as long as the vinyl is ok. feel like there have been lots of issues with vinyl for a long time tho and depending on where you buy it from you can always ask for another copy--i did that with a merge major release well over ten years ago and they sent me a new copy no questions asked

i'm really picky about buying any new releases these days for this reason. Was happy with the last dinner party packaging and pressing quality, which is probably the most widely-pressed new release I picked up in recent memory.

one of the nice things about the vinyl resurgence is shit is in print and easy to get in places. you never used to see fela kuti records in stores 25 30 years ago and now they're everywhere and they sound great!

i bought the Neil box set w/Harvest Moon thru Mirror Ball and unfortunately there's some non-fill on Sleeps with Angels (albeit only twice on Western Hero). I didn't get around to that record til the return window closes but it's pretty annoying, especially considering NY is typically pretty good as far as vinyl releases.

If you’re on Amazon and it’s in print, order another copy from them, switch out bum discs and return it.

i don't know what kind of vinyl y'all are buying but i totally don't give a shit how the sleeve looks as long as the vinyl is ok.

if you are buying vinyl in 2026 strictly for audio reasons and don't really care what the packaging looks like, you're in the extreme minority. a major part of the appeal even if you want to play the vinyl a lot is to have something tactile in a world where physical media is disappearing, and if you pay $25 for vinyl that appears to not have much effort or care put into the tactile aspect then that is a meaningful gap between intention of your purchase and its reality

"Bellbottoms" somehow has 65 million streams on Spotify.

Baby Driver

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzWAe1M42-M

depending on where you buy it from you can always ask for another copy--i did that with a merge major release well over ten years ago and they sent me a new copy no questions asked

― a (waterface), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 3:43 PM (eight minutes ago)

i've posted this before in a similar thread but my bf bought a cassette of the new cure album and it was completely garbled and unplayable, so he emailed the cure store and they happily sent him another cassette, which also turned out to be useless junk, at which point we gave up. that's kinda the territory we're in right now (with every consumer good in the world, to be fair)

ha funny. that merge story I posted? I had to send back my record twice before i got a good one. but that's ok because i love physical media and how stuff sounds ;)

ok now what if instead of having to receive three vinyl records to get one that is unlistenable, they were instead simply listenable?

one of the nice things about the vinyl resurgence is shit is in print and easy to get in places. you never used to see fela kuti records in stores 25 30 years ago and now they're everywhere and they sound great!

My local Borders in suburban Connecticut had the imported Barclay/Universal France Fela CD two-fer reissues in 1997/8

it didn't bother me on an emotional or physical level to return the record--it's not merge's fault, they were sweet about it, and manufacturing stuff like records at a consistent lvel is challenging. entire runs of books get misprinted too.

and yet, life goes on.

My local Borders in suburban Connecticut had the imported Barclay/Universal France Fela CD two-fer reissues in 1997/8

cool! I meant records. but yeah i saw those around too

i found a $1 copy of Hats by The Blue Nile in a discount bin a few years ago, and it was in incredible shape, sounds better than a lot of pressings right out of the shrinkwrap.

but there's no reason why that should be the case. QC is frequently just the last consideration of these labels.

This is another reason why I stuck with CD's - vinyl is just too much of a hassle, I just want to buy it and play it, not deal with all these manufacturing issues. I've never had to return a brand-new CD because of a manufacturing defect that actually impacted the sound. I've returned two because they were visibly marred in some way - in one case it looked like a tiny hair dropped into it when it was being pressed - but in all honesty they probably would've played fine and this is like two CD's out of god knows how many.

I returned a CD once because part of a bar code had been inadvertently printed on the playing side, but that's obv rare

!!

That Baby Driver Jon Spencer sequence was so cool

right now the industry is producing both the best vinyl ever manufactured and the worst vinyl ever manufactured

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:08 PM (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i very very rarely buy and thus play any new music on vinyl but just from a packaging perspective, my sense/experience is that new vinyl is usually barely worth the cardboard it's packaged in. very little effort put into art direction, any booklet or insert beyond a front and back piece of paper etc -- maybe there's artists like tyler, taylor etc for whom this isn't true (i wouldn't know) but i don't think the juice is worth the squeeze w/ most of those purchases and it wouldn't surprise me if consumers have internalized this fact years deep into the resurgence of vinyl

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 2:31 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm talking more about reissue stuff, like for example if you can find it onsale, the Blue Note Tone Poet series will absolutely blow you away (as good as the Mobile Fidelity stuff imo), as will the Rhino Hi-Fi stuff....also certain labels like Light in the Attic...Matador used to be really good esp if it had the Pressed at RTI label, but I haven't bought anything from them lately.

My main point is that - on the high end - they have the capability with modern mastering and manufacturing to press just incredible vinyl.

the real future (hopefully) is Green Vinyl out of the Netherlands, the last Shellac record (To All Trains) was pressed on that. It's not vinyl, rather recycled plastics like pop bottles etc, also it's not pressed but injection molded...the injection molding I think is the real key, I can't say I've ever heard a record pressed with less background noise than the Shellac album.

https://rockandrollglobe.com/rock/shellac-reveal-first-new-album-in-a-decade/

also I know I'm cruising for a bruising posting audiophile stuff on ILM but with vinyl the equipment just matters more - the turntable, cartridge, and phono pre - far more than it does with any digital source. it's a mechanical medium and the difference can be pretty striking.

yeah stuff will still sound bad on a fake Crossley bought from QVC

cool to learn about the green vinyl thing

the real future (hopefully) is Green Vinyl out of the Netherlands, the last Shellac record (To All Trains) was pressed on that. It's not vinyl, rather recycled plastics like pop bottles etc, also it's not pressed but injection molded...the injection molding I think is the real key, I can't say I've ever heard a record pressed with less background noise than the Shellac album.

I remember Albini talking about this before he died and was curious about it. It doesn't get talked about often, but vinyl manufacturing is really toxic - there just hasn't been a real alternative of at least equal quality. But Albini said he did quite a few tests and was extremely pleased with the results, so if that's the case then hopefully it catches on.

Green vinyl needs a better name not to be mistaken for shitty coloured vinyl.

India has started doing vinyl reissues as of late and the quality of the three I have is surprisingly high. its really cool to hear this stuff in high fidelity when all you had previously was badly encoded MP3s from 2001

bring back longboxes i used to cut the covers off those and hang them in my room in high school

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:11 PM (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Recently I actually saw both a new Boldy James CD and I think a reissue of The Chronic that were both in longboxes. They were slightly wider than the old style ones.

Of the Britpop bands, I cannot imagine a revival for Whiteout, Cast, Heavy Stereo, Northern Uproar or Gene.

also I know I'm cruising for a bruising posting audiophile stuff on ILM but with vinyl the equipment just matters more - the turntable, cartridge, and phono pre - far more than it does with any digital source. it's a mechanical medium and the difference can be pretty striking.

yah, this

Ha! I got excited, having read "are going to have a revival," but thought how could there possibly be 200 answers.

I'd like to see a new generation of elephant 6 minded freaks playing around with some tascam tape recorders.

I keep thinking that art is going to do a hard pivot to things that are handmade and funky.

Cast supported oasis on their UK dates recently and just had a new lp out, some kids will be into that. Gene about to do second run of reunion shows as I guess not enough of their fanbase heard about lead singers private life to put them off.

The other three mentioned probably confined to just doing Shine On Weekender every year?

reunion nostalgia tours do not count as revive moments, so I do not count any of these. OTOH can report that there are loads of gen z and gen alpha Pulp fans in the community, feels like they outnumber us oldies now

A lot of the young folk I know who went to see Oasis have now become Cast fans.

> elephant 6 minded freaks playing around with some tascam tape recorders.

Immaterial Possession includes at least one member who is Elephant 6 offspring, carrying the psychedelic vapors forward, with a dose of 1920s dada.

https://immaterialpossession.bandcamp.com/album/immaterial-possession

xp 18-word horror story

I was in a hipster coffee shop and everyone there was talking about Cast.

I guess not enough of their fanbase heard about lead singers private life to put them off.

uh oh what did he do

oh ok i googled

He got married to the comedian who did the Go Bayside! podcast?

if you haven't seen it

https://medium.com/@xzxzxz/on-coercive-control-4bb6feb69bce