90s college radio

He says my songs are too deep and gloomy,
He wishes that I could be more like Jenny Toomey
Just give me my Joni, My Nick, Neil, and Bob
You can keep your Tsunami, your Slant 6 and Smog

Whats the story?
He says
Whats the news?
He says the Silver Jews
is Heavenly hangup, is getting me down
and its making me wonder, why he's hangin around

Cause I don't fit into his indie scene,
Huggy Bear and Helium and Half-Japanese
Sebadoh and Sentridoh and Superchunk and I don't know
Doug and Lou and Calvin too and Kim and Kim and Kim and Kim

Yeah I'm stuck in the past and he's stuck on his four track
but I can't get through to his one track mind
Play and Record and Major Chord and maybe I will win his heart this
time
yeah maybe I'll win his heart this time

At UConn's WHUS, we played loads of Archers of Loaf (and they, in turn, played a gig in our student union). And I would guess they got some time on UNC's airwaves...

To answer the question: Cracker, Sugar, Veruca Salt, Beck, Aimee Mann, PJ Harvey, De La Soul, Tribe called Qwest, Hole, Afghan Whigs....little to no Britpop until '97 or '98, when the movement was pretty much exhausted.

um, I was (am) in Chicago, nader. actually the Archers thing is just a personal distaste; i really didn't care for them. I am sure that at least that first album did get some play at my station. But yeah, we were a pretty pretentious crew, it must be said. Lotta obscurantism, lotta 7" singles, that kind of thing...

So, yeah. Don't forget Ditch Witch, the Revelators, and Molotov Grasshopper, I guess.

Lest I forget: Sebadoh, Polvo, Unwound (and yes, a lot of 7" singles I can't possibly recall). Air Miami, Jawbox, Stereolab,

Started smoking pot
Thought things sounded better slow
Much slower, heavier, black magic powers sing to this posers soul

VU, Stooges, undeniably cool
Took a lesson from that drone rock school
Manipulate musician half righteous drool

Gettin loose with the Pussy Galore
Cracking jokes like Thurston Moore
Pedal hoppin like a Dinosaur....oh Jay!!!

Rock & roll genius right in the middle of the road
Milk that sound, blow your load
Soon it's bigger than you'd ever said it'd go
Four stars in the Rolling Stone

Ooooooohhhhh, sludge rock (blah blah blah)

JUST GIMMIE ROCK!!!

It's gotta be!
C'mon indie rock!
Just gimmie indie rock!

Taking inspiration from Husker Du
It's a new generation of electric white boy blues
Come on indie rock!

It's gotta be!
C'mon indie rock!
Just gimmie indie rock!

Breakin down the barriers like Sonic Youth
They got what they wanted, maybe I can get what I want too!
Come on indie rock!

It's gotta be!
C'mon indie rock!
Just gimmie indie rock!

oi pavement

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