Nah I live on the east coast and hear "Beautiful Disaster" weekly, it's kinda gradually become one of their biggest songs, whereas I haven't heard "Transistor" or "Come Original" or any of their other late 90s singles in years.
― some dude, Friday, 10 January 2014 16:51 (ten years ago) link
I ... hear "Beautiful Disaster" weekly
I feel bad for you...
― skip, Friday, 10 January 2014 16:56 (ten years ago) link
I got 311 problems
― some dude, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
I should clarify, I hear its Most Recognizable Intro and then change the station weekly. I try to be not like that, some songs really suck.
― some dude, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
I was a sophomore in high school when "Beautiful Disaster" came out, and IIRC it had a slow-build into its (very relative) success. Granted none of the singles off "Transistor" were anywhere near as successful or ubiquitous as the big two from the previous 311 album. "Beautiful Disaster" was third single, and it just kind of stuck around, got played a lot on 120 Minutes, got covered by at least two high school bands in my hometown in rural Illinois.
― intheblanks, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
Obviously small town Illinois high school cover bands is a pretty crucial litmus test
lol
Huh, never really noticed "Beautiful Disaster" having an afterlife. Always thought "Prisoner" should have been a little bigger, but then I also kinda liked "Transistor" which is sort of measurably stupid and lousy.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
latter day 311 is lol, real heads step for "Freak Out"
― Euler, Friday, 10 January 2014 17:51 (ten years ago) link
Live 105 in San Francisco (where I grew up) played "Beautiful Disaster" much more than the other Transistor singles. Months and months on end.
― LimbsKing, Friday, 10 January 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
There is nothing on this list I like and a lot I actively dislike.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 10 January 2014 20:29 (ten years ago) link
how sad is it that "Beautiful Disaster" may be the closest thing 90s radio rock got to a Thin Lizzy-style twin lead guitar line
― some dude, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:18 (ten years ago) link
OK so this is the first time I hear "Flagpole Sitta." So this is how "A Horse with No Name" was translated for the Fastball era.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
no idea how you can go the last 15 years without hearing that song, or what that comparison means
― some dude, Friday, 10 January 2014 21:31 (ten years ago) link
Didn't listen to modern rock radio in '99 or watch the shows in which the song appeared, and the song has an impressive lift from that America song.
― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 January 2014 21:32 (ten years ago) link
*is
Hear the plants and rocks and thingsI swear to god it sounds like they're snoring
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 10 January 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
I've been through the desert on a horse with no nameThey cut off my legs now I'm an amputee goddamn you
― Ian from Etobicoke (Phil D.), Friday, 10 January 2014 22:52 (ten years ago) link
flagpole sitta owns
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 11 January 2014 16:50 (ten years ago) link
In the desert, you cannot publish a zineCause there ain't no one raging a-gainst machines
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 11 January 2014 17:46 (ten years ago) link
I don't get Flagpole Sitta either, but Sad Sweetheart of the Radio is one of my favorite songs of all time.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Saturday, 11 January 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
So what exactly is the distinguishing feature of Modern Rock that makes it 'modern'? Like, what exactly makes Matchbox 20 more modern than the non-modern ('mainstream' in Billboard parlance) rock acts of its era?
― Lee626, Sunday, 12 January 2014 00:43 (ten years ago) link
Singing that sounds like you are on a toilet having a difficult time.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 12 January 2014 16:31 (ten years ago) link
For better or worse Billboard scrapped the term "modern rock" a few years ago in favor of calling the chart "alternative songs"
― some dude, Sunday, 12 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
My top songs from this selection: "Fade Into You", "Geek Stink Breath", "Brain Stew", "If You Could Only See", "Santeria", "Everlong", and "Flagpole Sitta". Torn between Mazzy or the Foos for my vote.
Looking at the list of modern rock #2 hits for this era I kinda wish they'd also been given their own poll, lots of gems there as well
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Sunday, 12 January 2014 17:22 (ten years ago) link
I think I read somewhere that '97-'98 was right around the time when radio completely changed the rules on how songs became hits and as a result you got these incredibly generic shitsongs like "3 A.M." and that Everclear crap, neither of which would have ever gotten big in the early 90s.
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 12 January 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
― some dude, Sunday, January 12, 2014 11:33 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
These songs are even less "alternative" than they're "modern"....
― Lee626, Sunday, 12 January 2014 17:41 (ten years ago) link
Voted for "I Got Id"
Pretty sure it charted higher than #3 on hot 100
― billstevejim, Monday, 13 January 2014 09:33 (ten years ago) link
it got to #7 on the Hot 100, mainly because the Merkin Ball EP was essentially a surprise non-album single by the biggest band in the world and went gold.
― some dude, Monday, 13 January 2014 13:02 (ten years ago) link
Pearl Jam's biggest Hot 100 hit: "Last Kiss" at #2 in 1999.
― LimbsKing, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:42 (ten years ago) link
and those are their only two top 10 hits. the only Ten single that scraped the Hot 100 was "Jeremy" at #79, which gives you an idea of how little the chart reflected the popularity of rock bands in the '90s.
― some dude, Monday, 13 January 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
That's insane.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Monday, 13 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
iirc "jeremy" charted a few years after Ten when a bunch of the maxisingle imports were reissued stateside... prolly around the same time as Merkin Ball.
I recall getting a little frustrated because I spent $9.99 on the import Jeremy single to hear "Footsteps" ... I didn't know "Yellow Ledbetter" before buying it. And then a year or 2 later it wasn't very difficult to find for $4.99 at Circuit City.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah the '90s was a painful time to be obsessed with bands and look for rarities on absurdly overpriced import singles and bootlegs. one of the things i'm most happy that file-sharing killed off.
― some dude, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 20:24 (ten years ago) link
yeah but it built character
― j., Tuesday, 14 January 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Mazzy Star by a country mile.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
"Worst 90s import/rare/ripoff maxi-single buying experience" might be a good thread.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:35 (ten years ago) link
not a one
― Dominique, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:40 (ten years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/35/Voodoo_People_02.jpg
not worth it fyi
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 14 January 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
1995 - Sponge, "Molly" 6
six voters down the.........draaaaaaaaaaaaaaaain
― Euler, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 00:07 (ten years ago) link
So someone aside from me also voted for Citizen King.
― MarkoP, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 01:24 (ten years ago) link
Yay, I voted for the winner! Much as I love reminiscing about Everclear, it really is the song here with the most staying power. Just lovely. Kind of surprised that "Perfect" and "Wrong Way" could get votes but not "Angels of the Silences" - not that there's anything that special about the latter either.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 03:25 (ten years ago) link
my Recovering The Satellites fandom is powerful, but not as powerful as my The Colour And The Shape fandom
― some dude, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
The most sought after import of my childhood was the Smashing Pumpkins' Rocket -- it had their cover of Depeche Mode's Never Let Me Down.
― LimbsKing, Wednesday, 15 January 2014 12:48 (ten years ago) link
Wow, lots of love for Flagpole Sitta. That one was just too played out both at the time and then throughout college.
― skip, Thursday, 16 January 2014 04:08 (ten years ago) link
When I first got Limewire I had a ball getting all the stray B-sides and compilation appearances that would have cost a fortune to collect on CD or vinyl - that Smashing Pumpkins cover being one of them.
― Deafening silence (DL), Thursday, 16 January 2014 10:43 (ten years ago) link