Good songs that used to get a decent amount of radio airplay in the 90's, but are rarely heard on the radio today

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These "90's weekends" my local stations have been doing just seem to be playing the same songs they normally play from the 90's, and it's getting annoying. Last night I turned on MTV2 and Beavis and Butthead came on, and they were watching the video for "Liar" by Rollins Band, and it occured to me that this is the kind of music they should be playing on these things - I'm pretty sure lots of people recognize that song. It was performed at the Grammies.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw that, too--I was so unbelievably happy. Love that vid.

Yeah, my radio station's "90s Weekends" can be pretty lame--mostly just the same songs by Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, Smashing Pumpkins and Dave Matthews Band over and over, but if you listen for long enough you can still catch classics from Primitive Radio Gods, Lo-Fidelity All-Stars, Sneaker Pimps and Conershop, so it's worth being patient for.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 13 November 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't quite grasp the idea of being patient to hear Primitive Radio Gods.

― Xii (Xii), Saturday, 13 November 2004 19:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Lo-Fidelity All-Stars

"Battleflag" is so very, very fine.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Indeed it is.

I can't quite grasp the idea of being patient to hear Primitive Radio Gods.

How often do you get a chance to hear indie-dance-blues-soul on your local modern rock station?

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 13 November 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow. Then that radio station in my town must be having "90s Weekends" every day!

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Lo-Fidelity Allstars album was pretty good. I listened to it for the first time in a few years recently and I'm not sure why I shelved it.

I live in a place that is usually a secondary market focused exclusively on the mainstream where only the tried-and-tested music comes through six-eight weeks after its release. Albany, Georgia (100 miles north of Tallahassee...cotton country, mind you, and the places is half the size of Tally Ho) has not only better radio stations but also sponsors the better concerts that occur HERE in T-town. It was better in the Nineties before the mass media mergers of 1996-1998, but we were still a secondary market. Songs like Mono's "Life in Mono" or Ben Harper's "Glory and Consequence" would only leak through at three in the morning.

Other songs that used to get decent airplay that you never hear on the radio anymore...to name a few...

Catherine Wheel - "I Want To Touch You", "Black Metallic", "Waydown"
Belly - "Feed the Tree", "Now They'll Sleep"
Letters to Cleo - "Here and Now"
Space - "Female of the Species" (never got played here but received tons of airplay in Jacksonville and Daytona Beach)
Kitchens of Distinction - "Drive That Fast"
Sneaker Pimps - "6 Underground", "Spin Spin Sugar" (never heard the latter here but heard it Jacksonville a lot)
Portishead - "Sour Times", "Glory Box"
Black Grape - "In the Name of the Father"
Happy Mondays - "Step On"
The Farm - "Groovy Train"
The Lightning Seeds - "Pure", "All I Want"
My Bloody Valentine - "Only Shallow"
Nirvana - "Sliver"
Hooverphonic - "2Wicky"
Julian Cope - "Beautiful Love"

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

KoD, really? I had no idea.

The only one of that list I still hear on my station every now and then is Belly's "Feed the Tree". I'd kill to hear "Black Metallic" or "Step On" every now and then.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a new AM station here in denver that plays most of these songs. recently have heard 'higher than the sun', 'souvlaki space station', 'birthday', 'aikea guinea', 'thoughtforms', 'beatles and the stoens'(oddly seems to be played every single day). of course in between the gems is loads of stuff like better than ezra and the toadies. 'groovy train' and 'step on' are staples too.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Cripes, even so, that's a ridiculously generous amount of early nineties Brit stuff -- "Soulvaki Space Station" alone!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

of course in between the gems is loads of stuff like better than ezra and the toadies.

I don't know which I'd be more excited about, honestly.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

www.indie50.com, though the website does not appear to be working. they have a goth show too. it's much better than the college station here.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 14 November 2004 01:18 (twenty-one years ago)

In DC, WHFS's "Nineties at Noon" ONLY plays "Hey Man Nice Shot." I have honestly heard that song every single fucking time I've ever tried to listen to the program.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 14 November 2004 07:38 (twenty-one years ago)

The industrial version or the jazzy version?

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 14 November 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

today it was 'grey cell green', 'not too soon', 'mother universe' and some dylans song that was making me feel all nostalgic.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 03:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://krockradio.com/rezzweekend/

Three '90's weekends' in the past 6 months, and they only played Helmet ONCE?!

― billstevejim, Wednesday, 17 November 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

helmet is always on here. did they have more than one song? also heard primal scream 'moving on up' and 'the man with the child in his eyes'. i love this station.

― keith m (keithmcl), Wednesday, 17 November 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

A Girl Like You - Edwyn Colins
Stuck On You - Failure
Hum - Stars
Star 69 - R.E.M.
St Joe On The Schoolbus - Marcy Playground

I never realized "6 Underground" didn't get played anymore, but you're totally right on.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 10 February 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

While I was driving through Indiana, I heard the weirdest sequence of songs I think I've ever heard on the radio, esp in this century:

1) OPP
2) All By Myself (Eric Carmen version)
3) She's Like the Wind

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:47 (twelve years ago)

i didn't know where to put this sequence of songs so i put it here
just a foooooooool

― we slowly invented brains (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:49 (twelve years ago)

"Legend of a Cowgirl"!

― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:55 (twelve years ago)

wait. this isn't as good as I remembered.

― frogbs, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 14:00 (twelve years ago)

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