Post Grunge Explosion Also Ran bands. Classic Or Dud/Search & destroy

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Can anyone defend the post grunge bandwagon bands?
At least veruca Salt had seether.

Lets have a full Search & Destroy of these bands.

― Hayley, Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmmm...Well, I like Buffalo Tom. Toadies had their moments. err, Tanya Donnelly sure was a hottie during the Belly years. Do any of these count?

pre grunge still boss - TAD!! SCREAMING TREES!! << still awesome

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Pond. just got better and better. 'Rock Collection' is a treasury of pop hooks. alas, nobody cared.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Anything after 1991 really. Pearl Jam, Soundgarden etc dont count as they arent post grunge. Same with Screaming Trees (all great bands though)
Foo Fighters count(but they really suck) So Destroy Foo Fighters.

― hayley, Sunday, 14 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: "F Sharp" by Nudeswirl

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Green Apple Quick Step. Why?

Similarly, For Love Not Lisa.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:07 (twenty-two years ago)

S: Local H (AMG calls them "The Only Nirvana Rip-off That Matters")
D: The usual suspects - Soul Asylum, Collective Soul, Silverchair, CANDLE-FUCKING-BOX

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey now...Soul Asylum pre-date the Grunge Boom.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm do The God Machine count? Oh and Helmet & Afghan Whigs.
If its not just 'grunge' bands I nominate Girls Against Boys, Sugar , Redd Kross.
I liked 1 album by Dig as well.

― Rock Bastard, Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey now...Soul Asylum pre-date the Grunge Boom.
-- Alex in NYC (vassife...), March 14th, 2004.

But was there a Suck Boom that I'm unaware of? Because they didn't miss that train.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Search: Pooh Sticks. This thread is a nice reminder to pull out Million Seller

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:14 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm do The God Machine count?

No. They were too separate and genius and wonderful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Pooh Sticks - awesome. "Cool In A Crisis" still rulz

Destroy that horrible horrible band My Sister's Machine. Remember those grim fucks?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)

We're trudging some deep pain here.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

hmmm do The God Machine count? Oh and Helmet & Afghan Whigs. If its not just 'grunge' bands I nominate Girls Against Boys, Sugar , Redd Kross. I liked 1 album by Dig as well.

AARRRRGGGHHHHH!!!!!!

How.....*HOW*...can you cite the wonderful Redd Kross as having anything to do with fuckin' Grunge??? They WAAAAYYY predate all that stuff.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The first Redd Kross vinyl on Poshboy records came out in 1980!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the second harvey danger album and i don't care who knows it! Do they count? It's their Pinkerton.No, really. you don't believe me, i can see that look on your face. Fine, i don't care. It's great. wait, weezer count too, no? i still love Pinkerton, duh. Does Ned hate Pinkerton? probably. i can't remember. it would be soooo like him to hate Pinkerton.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy: Blind Melon. Or is that being shamefully rude?

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Search/Classic - Marcy Playground's first album

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:39 (twenty-two years ago)

search: sixteen deluxe, especially their excellent final album "emits showers of sparks". don't be put off by the fact they became young heart attack.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Does Ned hate Pinkerton? probably. i can't remember. it would be soooo like him to hate Pinkerton.

Yes, you are correct sir!

sixteen deluxe, especially their excellent final album "emits showers of sparks"

Except they had an album after that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:45 (twenty-two years ago)

did they? what was it called?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i liked harvey danger. and that DIG MTV buzz-cut album has become seriously underrated (did DIG ever do ANYTHING ELSE)?

other than that ...

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

did they? what was it called?

Behold.

did DIG ever do ANYTHING ELSE

Behold

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

16 candles down the drain.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 14 March 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Treepeople ran the race with style. Came from the wrong state, though.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Better... Than... Ezra

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:48 (twenty-two years ago)

BTZ's beef with Billy Corgan was classic.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 14 March 2004 04:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I think when looking for something good with the word grunge, I think you should avoid anything with post. Except maybe local H.

― Cacaman Flores, Sunday, 14 March 2004 08:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Veruca Salt From AMG:
"it didn't ensure them indie rock credibility; in fact, they became one of the most harshly criticized bands of the post-Nirvana alternative rock era. "

Is that true? I seem to remember Melody Maker & NME loving them.

― Paulo, Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in their hometown of Chicago when "American Thighs" was coming out. "Harshly criticized" is putting it mildly. Same with Urge Overkill, though you could argue they deserved it more.

― m.e.a. (m.e.a.), Sunday, 14 March 2004 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

pooh sticks completely pre-date grunge, and have nothing remotely to do with it. but they'd be a band worth searching if this were a "post bubblegum bands s/d" thread." 1991 was the year their *last* great album came out.

the posies, on the other hand, are worth searching for their don fleming-produced "frosting on the beater" album. they weren't exactly a grunge band either, but the wall-of-distorted-gtrs sound was clearly an attempt to jump on the grunge ship, and the first half of the album anyway is some pretty great pop.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

alex OTM about nudeswirl.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Well Phaseshifter by Redd Kross was pretty grungey to my ears. And no grunger should be without it.

― Rock Bastard, Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Why were Veruca Salt so hated by American indie critics?

― Rock Bastard, Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved "volcano girls" and the other single off that album. If i see that record for a dollar i will buy it. i always kinda wanted to hear that albini e.p. too. i would buy that too if i saw it around.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Volcano Girls" was dandy. Second/third/fourth whatever Local H. They've got a new album coming out named after P.J. Soles!

Urge Overkill and Weezer are gods among men.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 14 March 2004 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

"'hmmm do The God Machine count?'
No. They were too separate and genius and wonderful.

-- Ned Raggett"

Exactly.

Do Mogwai count? 'Cause I have to tell you, Like Herod owns anything any grunge band ever produced.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and apparently Tool and Deftones are also post-grunge bands, and they both rule.

― Stupid (Stupid), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Tool predated and pursued its own muse without reference to grunge -- they and Fuckups Against the Machine were lumped in with it all due to timing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 March 2004 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Well Phaseshifter by Redd Kross was pretty grungey to my ears. And no grunger should be without it.

If anything, "Grunge" sounds like Redd Kross, not the other way around.

http://www.rockometer.com/photos/reddkross.gif

Redd Kross in 1987!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

wow, some other ilxers like Local H? I was expecting to get slammed on that one... Perhaps I should mention my abiding love for Pearl Jam to make up for it.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah that will make some of us back away slowly. smiling, but still backing away.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 14 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroy Kiddie Lite Grunge such as Bush, Foo Fighters, Moist.
Exterminate Old Fart Grunge Revival bands such as Creed...

― Rodney X, Sunday, 14 March 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Ruth Ruth could be really great (especially on their first album,
and specifically especially in the song "Uninvited").
Many people up above are right about Local H and *Pinkerton.*
"Gel" by Collective Soul was one of the great '90s rock singles.
"Far Behind" by Candlebox was surprisingly good, too, especially the
ending part where the singer turned into Axl Rose.
Also very good in a Pyschedelic Furs way almost was "Molly" by Sponge
(how come nobody remembers THEM? They had okay album tracks, too!)
Also, I kind of liked that Silverchair song about a bathroom where
there is no sink and the water from the tap is very very hard
to drink, so where the hell is the tap, in the bathtub?? Weird!!!

― chuck, Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

well the water from the tap is certainly very hard to drink if there is no tap!

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.magnetmagazine.com/photos/mudhoneybed.jpg

^ rules

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Uninvited" by Ruth Ruth is GREAT!

I wouldn't call Mudhoney "post-grunge", being that they're the definite article to the bone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh come on. Mudhoney was the band I drove to Ann Arbor to see in 1989 and couldn't wait for the show to end, cause I was thinking "why the hell has EVERY SEATTLE BAND FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS SOUNDED EXACTLY THE SAME?" A slight exagerration maybe (not that I thought so at the time, and okay maybe my belief in 1989 that Northwest bigfoot sludge is dead and over was a little premature too, how the hell was I to know that some halfway okay stupid Squirel Bait/Die Kreuzen/Husker Du/Scratch Acid/Dinosaur Jr/Flipper/Die Kreuzen/Soul Asylum ripoff band would take the world by storm by stealing guitar riffs from "More than a Feeling" a couple years later??) But either way, point is, Mudhoney were THIRD GENERATION SEATTLE GRUNGE AT BEST. Even ask Malfunkshun or the U-Men or Skin Yard and all those other C/Z Records bands from 1985!!! Who may or may not have sucked, I forget.

― chuck, Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I also vividly remember the day I got the first Pearl Jam CD in the mail and thought, wow, another Green River spinoff, those guys were OK on that first EP and with that Dead Boys cover a few years ago where they pretended to be produced by Joe Perry but who the hell would give a fuck about these hasbeens NOW? I'm not making this up.

― chuck, Sunday, 14 March 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

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Hmm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, I suspected Ned had feet of clay all along!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:19 (twenty-two years ago)

haha Bush and Third Eye Blind are WAYYYYY more excusable than the Goo Goo Dolls (whose best trait is they're not QUITE Bon Jovi).

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, I suspected Ned had feet of clay all along!

I just know what I hate! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was gonna post a :O after Ned's "yes, precisely!" but Michael's bringing up two better bands reduced my shock.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean really the only problem with Bush was the songwriter's voice and lyrics - sort of like the Strokes!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Bush had the potential to be a great Swervedriver ripoff band more than anything else. Alas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm still kind of reeling from the concept that "Long Way Down" is a barnburner. If I can imagine that the singer is Jamie Walters, it's hard to set that hay alight.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:27 (twenty-two years ago)

My review of the Goo Goo Dolls' best single (better than anything Westerberg did since, what, *Tim*?) is here:

http://villagevoice.com/issues/0030/eddy.php

― chuck, Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm just gonna say bullllllllllshiiiit and leave it at that.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Chuck, I swear by the Rainbow Bridge of Asgard that I want to utterly SLAY you for some of the pungent stuff that springs forth from your keyboard.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

better than anything Westerberg did since, what, *Tim*?

Mr. Eddy is on the money! (I sold back all my Placemats Sire-era albums some months back when I realized very clearly I was never going to listen to them again -- ever).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:52 (twenty-two years ago)

oh great. now I broke the computer screen.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

ALL SHOOK DOWN IS ONE OF THE MOST SLEPT ON ALBUMS EVER AND I'M NOT JUST SAYING THAT BECAUSE I'VE OWNED IT SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU ALLLLLLLLLL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY MAUDLIN MIDWESTERN HEART.

Fuck, even Johnny Bon Rzeznizkz would think you guys have lost it!

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:56 (twenty-two years ago)

(just playin' btw. Me no hate, just stymied)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm totally writing about All Shook Down for the Freelance Mentalists page this week. I'm clearly mental about it.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 02:58 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the Warrior Soul song that goes "'Cause I think you're beautiful"? I saw that video once when I was 11 or so and loved the song. Never heard it since though.

Prime Bon Jovi kills the Goo Goo Dolls WTF? Mike, do you rate Third Eye Blind on an album/home listening basis? I have Blue. I did defend it on here at one point and had a number of perfectly pleasant listens to it, but I have absolutely no need to hear any of it ever again. I haven't for at least a year and half probably.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

You're right about the superiority of prime Bon Jovi, I have a loathing for Bon Jovi that defies all logic. I apologize.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a loathing for Bon Jovi that defies all logic

No no, it's perfectly logical.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the loathing has something to do with them having a keyboard player (keys are fine on some songs but when you've got a guy who HAS to find something to pile onto your pop-metal you're in trouble), Jon's face and that short movie he made with Mark Pellington.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:29 (twenty-two years ago)

also their hair post-Blaze Of Glory. and that Richie Sambora rocks the vocoder onstage. It sounds great but looks really icky.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Jon Bon Jovi made a short film? Surely his hair is better now than it was in the 80s?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

it's called Destination Unknown. Stars Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg. And his hair is not right, just not right at all.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Post Grunge Explosion Also Ran bands

This passion is fantastic.

But getting back to the question, American post-grunge was irreversably crippled by the likes of the fucking Presidents of the United States of America and, to a lesser extent, Everclear. Throw in Cake as well. I can't believe these poxy bands haven't been mentioned yet after a whole day of nostalgia, but there you go.

― Stephen Stockwell (Stephen Stockwell), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 07:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw that Jon Bon Jovi movie. It has its moments, but its not as good as don johnson's music movie.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Anyone remember Paw? They had a big hit allover MTV at the time. But I forget the name of it. I think it was about a runaway dog.

― Rambo, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"name a nu-metal band worth listening to"

Actually, Apex Theory's album and EP are both really good.

And "Youth of the Nation" by P.O.D. is a fine single.

― chuck, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

hmmm do The God Machine count?
No. They were too separate and genius and wonderful.

-- Ned Raggett (ne...), March 14th, 2004.

God Machine and genius are words that do not belong in the same sentance. No they weren't grunge at all, just depressed.

― bluemoon, Saturday, 24 July 2004 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Mm.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I still unapologetically like the first Foo Fighters album.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I now have Hold Me Up by the Goo Goo Dolls and I really like it a lot. The "Million Miles Away" cover totally took me by surprise, it's all great post-Mats stuff. Too bad Rzezeznzizkz got all glossy (though if I'm in the right mood I can dig "Iris") and grew a cheesier faux-rasp.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

:-) Rah for CeCe! That album is a flat out underrated gem.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 July 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone may have said it, but what about No Doubt?

― Atnevon (Atnevon), Sunday, 25 July 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

they may have succeeded grunge, but they are not post-grunge.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 July 2004 05:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone else like the first two Fun Lovin' Criminals albums?

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 25 July 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

Anyone else like the first two Fun Lovin' Criminals albums?

― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 31 August 2008 23:14 (seventeen years ago)

Of all the bands that were inexplicably popular in the UK but unknown in the US, surely they were the worst.

― Neil S, Monday, 1 September 2008 11:48 (seventeen years ago)

But they are least partly responsible for a decent pizzeria in Dublin.

― MacDara, Monday, 1 September 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)

Bizarre thread. Folks were labeling all kinds of bands grunge.

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 1 September 2008 13:53 (seventeen years ago)

Just like radio stations/MTV/Music Mags back then

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:05 (seventeen years ago)

But I don't remember any radio stations calling Buffalo Tom, the Pooh Sticks, Redd Kross and the Goo Goo Dolls "post grunge."

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

Of course, I didn't listen to a ton of radio back then.

― QuantumNoise, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:19 (seventeen years ago)

over here in the uk spin doctors and lemonheads got called grunge on Radio 1 and Top Of The Pops :D

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 1 September 2008 16:21 (seventeen years ago)

btw that Dig album mentioned way upthread was good. Did they make another?

― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 1 September 2008 23:08 (seventeen years ago)

In fact im gonna listen to that Dig album today

― Herman G. Neuname, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 11:47 (seventeen years ago)

But I don't remember any radio stations calling Buffalo Tom, the Pooh Sticks, Redd Kross and the Goo Goo Dolls "post grunge."

I've never heard a radio station call anything "post grunge".

S: Molly" and "Plowed" by Sponge. "Wish You Were Here" and "Drive" by I.N.C.U.B.U.S. All of Foo Fighters singles. All of Bush's singles. The one about Superman by Three Doors Down. The Chad Kroeger song from the Spiderman soundtrack.

D: Anything else Chad Kroeger has ever done. Creed. Staind.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 12:27 (seventeen years ago)

four years pass...

I did a search for Bullet Lavolta and they came up in this thread which is amusing because if anything, the Boston band was about two years ahead of it's time, but those were a crucial 24 months.

One of the CDs I picked up yesterday on my first excursion to a local record store in ages is a live-plus-odds-and-sods Bullet LaVolta release that came out, apparently posthumously, on Matador Records in 1991 awesomely entitled "The Gun Didn't Know I Was Loaded." Although it's a very rough, bass-heavy recording done at the time on the air of Boston college juggernaut WERS 88.9FM (and recorded over a similar live session by The Pixies, according to the liner notes!), it reminds me of when I first moved back to New York in 1989 because the band played out there quite a bit at that point. They were also one of my earlier interviews, though I cannot recall for whom. They had a singer named Yukki (pronounced Yucky). They rocked unpretentiously and righteously.

This song was always a favorite of mine and it leads off this album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ6Ldl9BByQ

To be sure, a track this heavy and instilled with punk attitude (and sure, grungy, if you insist) was an anomaly in the world of major labels BC (Before Cobain) yet RCA Records bought the rights to an early TAANG! album and Metal Blade EP, reissuing them together, and even coughed up the funds to record the prophetically-titled "Swandive" album. Released the same day as "Nevermind," it lacked the fire of the earlier material (but is well worth the $1.64 used on Amazon.com right now) and the band left us shortly thereafter.

But this disc rekindles memories of seeing the band back in the day as I made my first tentative steps living on my own in New York. Five bucks well spent.

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 11 March 2013 13:31 (thirteen years ago)

nine years pass...

So many of the forgotten indie bands mentioned in this old thread I listen to now like they're the hot new thing.

― Evan, Friday, 13 January 2023 17:59 (three years ago)

for reasons i cannot explain, this revival has reminded me of this crew.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9sH7AoRd14

― mark e, Friday, 13 January 2023 18:26 (three years ago)

I really wish the band Sponge didn’t suck because it’s such a great 90s dirtbag/grunge band name .

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, 13 January 2023 20:24 (three years ago)

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