What is the best song on this mix CD of vaguely funky major label alterna-metal songs from 1992-1995 and, more importantly, what songs am I missing?

Tried 'For Love Not Lisa - Slip Slide Melting'? :)

Tool - Prison Sex and/or Sober

You know, I've been batting around Tool for a while. I forgot how much I like Sober. It'll go on there.

Shudder to Think always struck me as having vague metal influences.

was it a law that every band in the early 90's had to have a one-word name like "Mush", "Glop" or "Wrench" or something?

of course one band's bold step of intentionally misspelling their band name with a "k" would in a few years' time usher forth a new era...

Shudder To Think was fantastic.

Love this list, really.

xxpost

Yep. There's probably a thread about it, and probably a few funny zine articles. It was the "wolf band" joke of it's time as I recall (the early 90s version was using a washed-up celebrity's name in your bandname)

This is basically a genre of music made for honors english kids too insecure to like indie rock, but too stuck up to like all the D&D bullshit of metal.

cf. me ca. 1992-1995

Whale: Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe

i love you.

Green Jelly, Little Pigs

Confirming...

Yes, I still have my copy of Whale's We Care

Totally making it into the first 6 tracks

I should have expected kornrulez to drop knowledge

this feels appropriate to this thread:

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DAMN YOU ILX

Sugar Ray - Mean Machine

lol, I really wish Viacom wasn't so dilligent about deleting YouTube videos that I could watch the Beavis & Butthead segment w/ the video for this song righ tnow.

"Mean Machine" is still a great song, lyrics notwithstanding

Mordred - Esse Quam Videri

I would vote for the Whale song.
Would Quicksand's "Dine Alone" or "Freezing Process" fit in here?

Sounds like you would've dug this comp.

P.S. Shame on you kornrulez6969 for beating me to Whale. We Care = one of the ten best albums of the 1990s.

Judgement Night soundtrack is just dying to be represented here.

Judgement Night soundtrack is represented in my heart at all times.

And should I go with "Killing In The Name" over "Freedom"? Much better song, but Freedom's a good album closer...

Ministry - N.W.O.

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I think this should go somewhere unless the 'major label' bit is super important

Or is that too metal or whatever? I just found that cd in my storage space the other day and I was debating whether or not to bring it upstairs.

Urban Dance Squad - Demagogue
Life Sex Death - Jawohl Asshole
Mother Tongue - Damage

Just realizing "Jerry Was A Racecar Driver" was 1991... shhh.

Oh yeah, "Demagogue"!

If it wasn't pre-92 I'd have said "Man In The Box."

Nine Inch Nails - Closer
Faith No More - Midlife Crisis
Senser - The Key
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

I'd say "Wish" rather than "Closer."

"Stars" by Hum is probably my favorite from the era, but is likely neither funky nor metal enough for inclusion on the mix. "With a Quickness" by Bad Brains is a good choice, but is about 3 years too early.

How about "Juke Joint Jezebel" by KMFDM??

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PS - does anyone have an MP3 of "No Groovy" by Stick?

I could buy the whole CD for a penny: http://www.amazon.com/Heavy-Bag-Stick/dp/B000008L62

But I don't wanna wait that long.

I LIKE TO SWIM..... INTO THE MOSH!!!!

You really need "Strike It" by Dub War, and something by Senser.

Please direct me to the most popular tracks from these British bands of which my Yank self assuredly knows nothing about.

This thread touches me somewhere deep inside.

You need at least one Beastie Boys tune (Sabotage or Gratitude), and probably some old Chili Peppers too.

Dub War = pre-Skindred. I kept hearing that Skindred are or were a 'big in America' type band, am I dumb to believe a press sheet or two?

um, you guys

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1. Higher Ground - The Red Hot Chili Peppers Listen Listen
2. Guilty - Gavity Kills Listen Listen
3. Jesus Built My Hot Rod - Ministry
4. Jerry Was A Race Car Driver - Primus
5. Possum Kingdom - The Toadies
6. Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
7. Ratamahatta - Sepultura
8. Fight For Your Right - The Beastie Boys
9. My My - 7 Mary 3
10. Blind - Korn
11. Paranoid - Megadeth
12. Go To... - Drill
13. Only One Performed - Goo Goo Dolls
14. Tainted Love - Shades Apart
15. Shamrocks And Shenanigans (Butch Vig Mix) - House Of Pain
16. Go - Sexpod
17. Epic - Faith No More

Big Chief!

Unsane is really standing out from the rest of the crap on this comp.

Big Chief!

The song?

something from the final Living Colour album?

the helmet and primus selections are wrong
helmet should be "in the meantime" and primus "mt. know it all"

You have been misled, DJ Mencap.

oh yes, and there was this dumm song called "Apple Pie" by a band called White Trash…

The Red Hot Chili Peppers seemed to point a way forward, pre Nevahmahnd, for bands that anticipated in '88 and '89 that hair bands were going bye-bye…just act wacky and slap yr bass!

Were 311 on a major label at the time? Something by them would fit.

What about something by Follow For Now, like "Holy Moses" or their cover of "She Watch Channel Zero"?

How about a Young Gods tune? Something off the TV Sky album

Big Chief, the sorta metal band that came out of the Necros. Drive if Off is the only album I've got, but it's good. So vaguely funky altera-metal, they cover "Super Stupid"

Do you have something against Soundgarden?

(White Zombie, PWEI, and FNM songs are great.)

Whale's "Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe" = Map Of Africa - drugs

OMG Youtube has Varga's "Freeze Don't Move!" It's not completely terrible in retrospect (if not really as great as I'd hoped.) "You're gonna die in pain and you'll never be the same!" "Greed" has some shredding.

haha, that Whale song is as annoying as I remembered. Varga any day!

311's "Don't Stay Home"?

"Do You Right" is better by loads but I'm not sure it hews close enough to the vibe of this compilation...

can't get enough, this is the stuff, life's about and it trips me up...

wanna do you riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight, oh man! Actually, what about "Homebrew"?

I mean I like "Do You Right" better but for vaguely funky alterna-metal...

Man, now I'm thinking of all kinds of bad late-90s heirs to this whole tradition, eg Sprung Monkey "Get 'Em Outta Here."

not to mention nu-metal, which is basically all this + nin + grunge + pantera

I really want to contribute to this thread (Filter - Hey Man Nice Shot?) because this is totally what my record collection would've looked like if I'd had more money aged 14 but I just remembered the existence of Mutha's Day Out and now I am just staring blankly

Whale's "Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe" = Map Of Africa - drugs

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 29 August 2007

O_o

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babes in toyland - bruise violet

and something off "pretty hate machine" instead: "sin" perhaps?

This is basically a genre of music made for honors english kids too insecure to like indie rock, but too stuck up to like all the D&D bullshit of metal.

My inner adolescent Pavement/REM-diehard could drop a bomb on you all.

WOODSTOCK '99 WAS ALL YOUR FAULT.

That said, I'm voting for "Jerry Was A Race Car Driver." (For some reason I see "More Human Than Human," which I might prefer, as being from a different scene).

"too insecure" = did not know it existed

(also works for me vs gurls)

How did I go my whole life without hearing Varga?

i think this is the first time rollins band has been called "funky"

Toadies - Possom Kingdom really needs to be on that mix.

Dude it is on the X-GAMES comp, ie the O.G. version of this mix.

I was in a car with two of my friends and "Possum Kingdom" came on. They were like "What the fuck is this?" They both had never heard it before and thought it was the worst thing in the world.

Toadies playing "I Come From The Water" on 120 Minutes with the sax player = epic.

YouTubers step up yr game :(

prong anticipating lil jon by about 10 years

I still love that Toadies album.

If I threw "Insane In The Brain" and "Slam" on this, it could soundtrack my version of 8 Mile.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

I was in a car with two of my friends and "Possum Kingdom" came on. They were like "What the fuck is this?" They both had never heard it before and thought it was the worst thing in the world.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, August 29, 2007

was this recent??

i think i'm most wigged by the thought of a radio station currently playing "possum kingdom"

You never listened to DC101 when you were down here, then.

I heard "Possum Kingdom" in a grocery store a few months ago.

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This was literally two months ago.

I'm sure rock stations still play it in between "Counting Blue Cars" and "Santa Monica"

Final tracklist:

Whino Records: Those Darn '90s!
CDR01: A Mixtape Named Marcus: Vaguely Funky Major Label Alterna-Metal From 1992-1995

1. Helmet - "Biscuits For Smut"
2. Prong - "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck"
3. Clutch - "A Shogun Named Marcus"
4. Faith No More - "A Small Victory"
5. Quicksand - "Dine Alone"
6. Unsane - "Scrape"
7. The Jesus Lizard - "Boilermaker"
8. Pop will Eat Itself - "Ich Bin Ein Auslander"
9. Dink - "Green Mind"
10. White Zombie - "More Human Than Human"
11. House Of Pain - "Shamrocks And Shenanigans (Butch Vig Mix)
12. Whale - "Hobo Humpin Slobo Babe"
13. Urban Dance Squad - "Demagogue"
14. Stick - "No Groovy"
15. Sugar Ray - "Mean Machine"
16. I Mother Earth - "Rain Will Fall"
17. Orange 9mm - "High Speed Changer"
18. Deftones - "7 Words"
19. Fishbone - "Swim"
20. Korn - "Blind"

(yes, i know that jesus lizard wasn't on a major, but they would be v. soon and that song fits perfectly with the spirit of the mix)

Needs some NIN.

The only thing that would differentiate me from you here is that I would have put some Stabbing Westward or KMFDM on it (or Orange 9mm, along with the Quicksand). Aside from that, we're the same age, liked the same music, and grew our hair out at the same time.