DGC Rarities Polllll

I was going to poll this! I'm not a huge fan of it but it's very much a period artifact. I'll go with Weezer, though the temptation for a lol vote for Counting Crows is very strong.

Haha, that Counting Crows is probably the best song on the disc, if not the band's best song!

But I voted for The Posies.

When the Counting Crows song started getting heavy play on my local alt.rock station, I knew the times they were a-changin'.

Voting Counting Crows.

posies...

someone should poll no alternative next

this is a strangely good CD.

what's the sample in the sloan track?

"Pay To Play" is such a bummer Nirvana choice considering what could have been used instead.

no alternative is an infinitely better comp, IMHO

Grunge Couple is a fun song, but I have to go with The Sundays here.

Really liked the weezer and teenage fanclub songs back in the day

"Open Every Window" was the song (or really one of several compilation tracks) that got me into the Posies, who I love. Still a great great song imo.

the weezer track was from their demos that they recorded at the studio next to the radio station i worked at, i HATED them so much ugh. now they're whatevz but back then it was pure cogdiss.

no alternative is an infinitely better comp, IMHO

^^^^

I'm gonna vote for Bogusflow because no one has mentioned it yet.. and I always loved the lyrics.. and the part when he starts crackin up towards the end.

no alternative has almost nothing to do with this, but whatever.. and there are some terrible songs on it..

i like the weezer story, except i'm not sure if you mean you hated them as people or hated their music, but it's still good.

first three tracks are the best

though sloan's eric's trip cover is nice too

Counting Crows.

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good showing for the Posies here. pretty sad that Nirvana won by default w/ some boring alternate version that showed how arbitrary their lyrics were, though.

I don't think this proves how "arbitrary" their lyrics are. Weezer totally should have walked this though.

it's called a "demo"... featuring "placeholder" lyrics. amazing isn't it?

i am shocked that Bogusflow didn't get more votes. one of my favorite beck songs, hands fucking down.

excitement level......zero.

people with cordless personalities
running around in new wave bionic jogging suits

i dunno, maybe it's because that was my favorite when this came out, so i remember all the lyrics, etc.

if the final chorus lyrics are as perfunctory and unrelated to the verses as the placeholder chorus lyrics i think that says something, yeah.

dude, it's nirvana. what did you expect?

Totally missed this poll, but I still pull out this CD from time and time for a good nostalgia trip (I must have sold back or lost No Alternative a long time ago.) "Don't Tell Your Mother" is perhaps the best song The Smiths never wrote. And I nearly chose "Bogusflow" as my registered ILX username.

Can't believe I missed this: this comp is one of about a half-dozen that fit into my life like a formative teen-years favorite album. It keeps fascinating me lately how back pre-internet it made sense to buy and fall in love with lots of compilations, just to be able to hear as many bands as possible per dollar spent -- hell, I used to buy people's old mix tapes out of 99-cent used-cassette bins just to maximize the amount of stuff I could hear -- so you can wind up with a formative soft spot for, like, free-giveaway label samplers and the like. Which is nearly impossible to imagine now, apart from maybe some soundtracks working similarly. I think I'd probably have voted for the Sundays song on this one, since that's the main reason I got it, but "Jamie" is probably my favorite Weezer song, so there's that. (Also I wish "Grunge Couple" had gotten a vote.)

hey bisco dude i take it you have all of these too?

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No, never got those!

Ha, I'm currently trying to find a track listing for the DGC "Rah Rah Sis Boom SWAG" comp

(NB I thought someone once started a thread on Lookout!'s "Heide Sez" comp, but I can't find any such thing)

I have the first Buy-Product somewhere.

Nabisco also reminds me of all the CMJ discs I have in a binder somewhere. Some real treasures on those discs amongst the crap. "Little Dudes" by Pee Shy jumps immediately to mind.

oh god i have so many CMJ comps too. basically i started reliving this stuff recently when i bought a new CD shelf and alphabetized everything, then just kinda gave up on all the label comps and threw them in a pile on the bottom shelf.

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^^ I can't entirely make this out but I'm pretty sure I'm remembering: Jawbreaker ("Save Your Generation"), Boss Hog, Southern Culture on the Skids ("Soul City"), that dog., Elastica ("Spastica"), GZA, Urge Overkill, Pell Mell, Loud Lucy ("Ticking"), Sonic Youth ("Becuz"), Ann Magnuson ("Miss Pussy Pants"), Teenage Fanclub ("Don't Look Back") ...

xpost - haha my bottom-shelf crap pile includes a GRASS sampler including a bunch of old Wrens tracks -- I was surprised as hell when those guys came back; it'd be like if Loud Lucy suddenly got a Pitchfork Best New Music

haha was it "Grass of '96"!? i loved the New Radiant Storm King songs on there

ha, yes, I think I purchased that one based on New Radiant Storm King love.

NRSK were one of those bands i decided i loved almost entirely on compilation appearances and 7"s, then kinda lost my enthusiasm right around the time i finally found an album by them

A Slice of Lemon (Kill Rock Stars/Lookout comp) poll

It's funny looking back on this time. Everyone trying so hard to be jaded, disaffected, and cynical but coming off in hindsight like bright-eyed and bushy-tailed babes in the woods. Or maybe I'm just talking about me.

No, I think you're correct -- it's an era that somehow went down in history as a peak of irony and cynicism but looks, in retrospect, incredibly earnest and idealistic

earnestly ironic and idealistally cynical 90's indie rock r.i.p.
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This was a big one for me at one point.

^that comp has stood the test of time. lots of great stuff on it

october 1995 CMJ was like my favorite thing for a while.

1 Buffalo Tom - Tangerine
2 Eve's Plum - Jesus Loves You (But Not as Much as I Do)
3 Dance Hall Crashers - Enough full track
4 Garbage - Queer full track
5 Seaweed - Start With
6 Deftones - 7 Words
7 Tindersticks - Travelling Light full track
8 Mercury Rev - Young Man's Stride full track
9 The Inbreds - Any Sense Of Time full track
10 Skylab - Seashell
11 Jonatha Brooke - Nothing Sacred
12 Shelter - Here We Go
13 Greta - About You
14 Dishwalla - Haze full track
15 Skunk Anasie - Selling Jesus
16 Into Another - Mutate
17 8 Story Window - I Will
18 The Boo Radleys - It's Lulu
19 Paul Weller - You Do Something To Me (Demo 3 - Manor Studios 01.02.94)
20 Drugstore - Fader 3
21 Welcome to Julian - Bob Your Head
22 Turkish Delight - Spin