Teenage Self Portrait circa 1997-2000

good list

these days my favorite of these is, weirdly, "It's No Good"

Impossible! I'm ~2 years younger than that but this looks pretty close to my experience of the late 90s, thanks to older sisters. Not finding a whole lot best left forgotten here, though maybe I'd hoped to never hear the name Days of the New again.

"Drowned World / Substitute for Love," "Malibu" or "I Am a Scientist."

Sorry for the Days of The New, it was a brief grunge phase thank god it didn’t last for long.

Miss Modular is probably myvactual favorite here, but I feel like Morphine deserves more love

Portishead

aphex vs the groop

then: “Erase / Rewind”
now: “Erase / Rewind”

(but even back then I was way past my teens lol)

(don’t know if there ever existed a mashup of “Substitute for Love” and the Tiësto remix of “Sweet Surrender”, but I’m hearing it in my head now and it’s very nice)

lots of songs listed that i still care about. i can virtually see Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth listed. would fit... in a way

Naked Eye vs. Hand In Your Head? Hand In Your Head it is

I did not know that Dandy Warhols song back then but I did know “Bohemian Like You” which is also in one of the mix cds.

In my early teens the three sources of music for my friends and me were radio stations, mtv - particularly 120 mins which had some of the most interesting music videos and songs imho - and older siblings cassettes. By my late teens the mp3 p2p boom started - audiogalaxy and napster were the ones I used - and internet forums started influencing what I listened.

first thought best thought buena

This is a much cooler selection of music from the mix cds of one's teenage years from about that same age and time period than what I would have.

Fast As You Can is such a banger.

Root Down vs. Cross Bones Style for me, cool list, very 90s

As discussed in the post-grunge thread, 'Touch, Peel and Stand' is good not bad imo.

The real answer is probably 'Wandering Star' but 'Cross Bones Style' and 'It's No Good' are both strong contenders. In fact, most of these tracks still rule.

Hmm, good list. There are 18 songs I would keep listening to if they popped on the radio right now. 25 songs I don't recognize by title (even if I know or even like the band). I'm a lot older, so those are my immediate post-college years, which may explain why I first gravitated toward the Depeche Mode song as well, though there's lots of other good stuff in here. The Madonna, Fountains of Wayne, Stereolab, Portishead, Fiona Apple ...

Speaking of radio play, iirc there are literally only three songs on this entire list that I *do* still hear on the radio with some frequency: Cake's "Never There," Weezer's "Undone," and Mark Morrison's "Return of the Mack."

Here's a playlist with 200+ songs extracted from those mix cds... 1997-2000 is the timeline of most of these, there are a few 2001 cuts which was the last year where I still made them, after that it was all albums with mp3 dumps and usbs so it gets less 'selective':

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/00iezGyNc46y1g8uia1Tng

This is my experience living as a teenager in Mexico so many latin alternative/pop acts in there which you might not recognize but they were popular around the time in latinamerica. Very few US hip hop acts were popular in latinamerica, I started really getting into hip hop 2005+ forward.

On the other hand electronic acts were pretty big in latinamerica, we had more of a euro influence in that regard...

'Touch, Peel and Stand' is good not bad imo.

*listening* Oh yeah, that song. Guess I don't mind it now. I'd been in the grip of Grungemania a few years prior but pretty strongly recoiled to that wave.

Aegispolis!

6 Underground, Life in Mono, Malibu and Hand in your Head are really intrinsically linked to specific bits of my life. Super nostalgic!
Life in Mono is the best

I don't really have any nostalgia for my late 30s--though it was the time frame where I got hired full-time as a teacher--but do like a few songs here.

1. "Sour Girl"
2. "Tres Delinquentes"
3. "Pepper"
4. "Substitute for Love"
5. "Return of the Mack"

Between Wandering Star, Miss Modular, Malibu or My Favorite Mistake. Going with Portishead.

I honestly don’t know what I’d vote for in here. All of these songs are dear to me and have nostalgia goggles value for me, I also still love a great deal of these and still listen to them every now and then. I’d be easier for me to pick my least favorite or the ones I’m not that fond of.

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Was all set to vote for the best cardigans song ever, but then, what's that... papas fritas?!
I think that's the first time I've seen them mentioned on ILM!

I know my chicken
You got to know your chicken

Papas Fritas is a very good choice! I think it's one of my favorite songs in here, at least it's one I still play often.

Did that not got any significant radio play in other countries? I don't know why but it got played a lot in a local pop radio station and I still hear it every now and then being played in "oldies" radio.

They never got radio play in the US, only in Europe (and Mexico, I guess?)

I saw Papas Fritas very early on playing a house party in a college town on their first US tour (94?), they were a lot of fun but I lost track of them after that but am very pleased to know they had such a robust career.

This is a nice list! Voted for 'Malibu' as my favourite song but the one that evokes the era most strongly for me is 'Erase/Rewind'.

Sour Girl vs. Return of the Mack
Never expected to have to make this particular choice lol

Just found out via wikipedia that Papas Fritas besides being "french fries" in Spanish also stands as a pun for "Pop Has Freed Us".

We are approximately the same age, which is kind of neat, but I was a bit...slow in some things, mostly because of an obsession with punk/hardcore genres from 11-14, so only found out about some of these groups much later.

I chose "Crossbones Style," because it was the track I had an iconic "teenage" moment to— my friends and I were about to be seniors in high school, and we went to see the Silver Jews open for Radiohead, I was driving my dad's car, and we were smoking some very good weed. We got stuck in a traffic jam and "Crossbones Style" and were stoned to the bone, and we ended up listening to the song over and over again until we eventually got to the parking lot about 25 minutes later. It was glorious.

I didn’t see Return of the Mack here, that’s definitely my choice!

If I'd chosen based on how much I love the song now, Return of the Mack would have been my choice, no hesitation.

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