90s rock bands no one cares about; pick one

Collective Soul had more good singles than the rest of them put together.

pick one to care about?

"Dishwalla"?

"tell me all your thoughts on god"

Only one of these recorded "Rockstar", this is a piece of piss.

soul patch dudes just thinkin baout god and/or superman

I would've voted for Collective Soul in the '90s, but I just bought a used Gin Blossoms CD for $1 last week (New Miserable Experience, the one with all their hits), and I kind of like it -- they even do a country cheating song, and what they claim is a "Cajun Song" (though I would've guessed they were going for Tex-Mex in the latter if they hadn't said otherwise.) Learn something new every day.

Nickelback's definitely more a '00s band though, fwiw. (They only had one rock radio single in the '90s, according to Wiki.)

I'm with chuck on the Gin Blossoms, they even have a rockist hook (main songwriter plagued by drug problems, gets kicked out of band on the cusp of band's breakthru).

this 4th of July weekend, went up to Wisconsin to hang out on a lake with sister's friends. other sister asks what kind of music these people listen to. 1st sister says oh nothing that's really that good, but nothing horrible either. 2nd sis: ok just as long it's not Nickelback or some shit...cue getting on the boat, and IMMEDIATELY dude BLASTS Nickelback on his competition-quality stereo.
So I'm voting Nickelback!

Gin Blossoms sticks out like an unsucky thumb here.

I get the idea they were going for a jangle-rock hybrid of, maybe, early '80s R.E.M. with early '80s 38 Special or Tom Petty or somebody. No grunge plodding at all, really. And just about all five or so of the hits on that record sound catchier than I'd remembered.

Three Doors Down was 2000, but I'll pick them for Kryptonite, which is a piece of shit, but pretty catchy.

I think that they might have been the dumbest song lyrics I had ever heard at the time.

guys, "90s" is a feeling

Have love for "Sex and Candy", and Semisonic's "Closing Time" is bad but in a good way, but really "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You" and "Allison Road"? There's just no contest.

I agree that The Gin Blossoms are in a completely separate league from the rest of these

Well, Nickelback is definitely a "00s" feeling.

Since I grew up in AZ in remember the Gin Blossoms less as a two-or-three hit alt.wonder than as part of the Desert Rock scene. As xhuxk said it was jangle-rock but mixed with Crazy Horse style guitars. I think I saw them play with the Meat Puppets and the Sidewinders/Sandrubies and there wasn't a lot of difference in the bands' sounds.

had no idea vertical horizon was from the 90s. ummm i liked "hey jealousy" so i'm voting for gin blossoms.

gin blossoms are total classic, rest are pretty bad

I like 'closing time' tho

i always liked this semisonic song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1BHPX0Vwto

actually once the drums kick in its p rockin

man this shit is kinda hard

voted semisonic

^^^minnesotans stick together

collective soul had the best singles. gin blossoms had the best LP (educated guess).

^^^minnesotans stick together

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collective soul's soft pop radio chartbusters will haunt me forever in a bad way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvQY9LMnZ4

I feel really wrong voting for any of these, even Semisonic who are probably the least offensive.

Practically a Hall of Fame for my old fanzine--I of course shed a tear for Sister Hazel, Blues Traveler, and Matchbox 20 (and about 50 others). The Gin Blossoms are just slightly too credible, so Semisonic.

Sister Hazel

kill me

You just can't turn and walk away.

Voted Gin Blossoms since they could've been a poor man's Soul Asylum or watered down Smithereens if they had stuck to their roots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0OurHnqWp0

where is silverchair, authors of the most lyrically genius song of the 90s

Voted Gin Blossoms since they could've been a poor man's Soul Asylum or watered down Smithereens if they had stuck to their roots.

yeah, in fact i always kinda assumed hey jealousy was a soul asylum or a (er, SORRY, THEY ARE ONE OF THOSE CANONICAL-ISH BANDS I'VE NEVER ACTUALLY REALLY LISTENED TO!) replacements song until i learned probably from reading it via ilm who done sung it

I'm a fan, but it's easy to notice that seemingly every band that's ever claimed to have been influenced by the Mats and has made it big has only ever listened to Don't Tell A Soul.

gin blossoms obv

collective soul had the best singles.

Huh?

Gin Blossoms are obviously going to win this since they're not nearly as hated as some may suspect.

Besides them, I never really got why people hate Marcy Playground so much.. although I'm guessing in the majority of cases they're being entirely judged by 1 song.

if they had stuck to their roots.

aka if that dude didn't kill himself

yeah dude was all about being alive then he sold out imo

That Sex and Candy song brings back memories of some very dark times.

i bet soul collective is secretly living large off of those royalties. those singles still get played on dentist's office radio stations. i'm sure they invested their money intelligently and cautiously too, they just seem like that kind of band.

They refer to music as "the music biz."

btw i hate this poll for reminding me of that terrible year where we had to watch the ENTIRE video for 3 Doors Down's "Citizen Soldier" before every movie at the theatre.

soul asylum made a lot of money when they sold their company, Frustrated Inc.

they made misery, iirc

btw i hate this poll for reminding me of that terrible year where we had to watch the ENTIRE video for 3 Doors Down's "Citizen Soldier" before every movie at the theatre.
ugh holy shit this was the worst thing ever.

Semisonic of them all - but I would never listen to any of these bands by choice.

given that i still get a Gin Blossoms song stuck in my head now and then, unlike any of these other groups, i would definitely agree with many others and say they are the least shitty on this list.

At one point in my life, I owned a Gin Blossoms single (Hey Jealousy, obv) which is more than I can say for the rest of these...

'Tis a poor reflection on the 90s that all they have to provide for a meat-cooking competition is jangle pop, and not something as meaty as Ram Jam or Zebra.

Smashing pumpkins should've been included

nobody told me

Dishwalla were the headliners at the Fells Point Fun Fest in 1996. Because the show was running late, Too Much Joy only got to play 4 songs before having their set prematurely cut off to make way for Dishwalla.

Sponge should have been on here and I totally would have voted them. Why? Because I genuinely sort of love a couple of their songs.

I agree with you ENBB (except I wouldve still voted for GB)

i never heard sponge beyond their two big singles but those are absolutely indispensible.

Which reminds me: I need to get Empire Records on DVD

I still like the song "Wax Ecstatic" a lot.

^yeah me too

Sponge's third(!) album, New Pop Sunday was a guilty pleasure for me for a couple months back when it came out.

Which reminds me: I need to get Empire Records on DVD

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Was Sponge on the ER soundtrack? I don't remember it if so.

Third album? Damn - I just meant a couple songs off Rotting Pinata namely "Plowed" and "Molly" iirc.

"Plowed" is featured in the movie, but not on the actual soundtrack.

Sponge is actually releasing their eighth album this year, the mind boggles. I gave up after the third.

Yeah, I just did some investigating and found that out myself. I am surprised I didn't remember that though. I watched the shit out of that movie in the years after it came out. So bad it's good etc. A couple years later I met the dude who sings Sugarhigh on top of the building at the end when he was DJing at some bar I was at in LA. I was drunk so I totally did that thing where I was like hey weren't you in Empire Records. He gave me three CDs of his all but one of which didn't totally suck.

Wait, all but one did totally suck. The one that didn't was actually pretty OK.

You know who are on the sndtrk though (apparently)? The Gin Blossoms. It all comes full circle.

yes!

little known fact about the movie Empire Records: it really fucking sucks

that not so little-known bsj

Oh yeah its a horrible, horrible movie but that doesn't mean I won't watch it every time I come across it on cable.

I don't think there's any one who doesn't know yr little fun fact there bsj. You can still love things that really fucking suck.

Especially if you're young and have a big crush on Ethan Embry (sub Tyler, RZ etc.) at the time said movie comes out.

i know i know.. wasnt tryin to kill anyones buzz, sorry

ENBB OTM re: crushes. But Tyler's mismatched underwear on the day she knew (and put tons of prep into) she was gonna seduce Rex Manning always bugged me.

OH REXY YOU'RE SO SEXY

omg

I had forgotten about a lot of this movie.

Although on my bus home the other night the Charles looked really pretty and there were some crew teams rowing and it reminded me of something someone said in ER about Harvard being where guys row boats and eat ivy or something like that.

... who told

lol

My favorite was in college we played a prank on this older guy (mid-40s) in our design studio who kept trying to be "hip" and keep up with bands we were listening to. Anyway, we spent about a month talking up this Rex Manning and how amazing he was. Finally this dude begged us to dub him a tape of Rex Manning to hear what the fuss was about. I spent two nights crafting a tape full of excised Dead bootleg and Sonic Youth guitar solos. Kinda wishing I still had that tape, tbh.

lol

School of Fish to thread.

Haha, oh man, "Three Strange Days," right?

You know who are on the sndtrk though (apparently)? The Gin Blossoms. It all comes full circle.

Yeah, that tune was co-written with Marshall Crenshaw and it's A+++++.

otm

How about Nixons? My Head? Reacharound? I could go for days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZUfZnbfCMk&ob=av2e

we're done talking about Empire Records?! :(

I wanted to talk about my Rory Cochrane TS: Lucas vs. Slater from Dazed and Confused

I like My Head but bands no one has heard of is different from bands no one cares about.

How'd Better Than Ezra escape mention? I guess no one truly cares about them...

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

Better Than Ezra = another band who had two songs I liked

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/21/showbiz/three-doors-down-bassist-charged/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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CNN) -- Police have charged the bassist of the rock band 3 Doors Down with vehicular homicide after they said his speeding car clipped a pickup truck, sending it down an embankment and killing the driver.

If there was a church of douches that picture would be in stained glass.

When did the whole fedora on rockers thing start up? Is it some leftover from late 90s ska culture or something?

Yeah, I think that's where they picked it up.

King’s X!

wow, three doors down guy got two years in prison for that car wreck. if he served all his time he should be out right about now.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2015/12/18/ex-3-doors-down-bassist-gets-prison-deadly-crash/77284292/