Toadies - Rubberneck POLL

These guys are still total gods in Dallas. Thousands of people show up whenever they want to play a gig. They have their own festival! I won free tickets to a show they headlined about a month after I moved here and my wife and I left by the fourth song. Dull and samey.

I'd have to listen again but I remember "Tyler" being vaguely Pixiesque.

Saw these guys play with the Meat Puppets in Phoenix. They put on a good show. I didn't listen to them from the time of that show in 95/96 until about a month ago when Tyler and Possum Kingdom were placed onto my Best of the 90's Spotify list. I voted for Tyler.

Mister Love is kind of a face melter.

ARE YOU GONNA SAVE ME?

But yeah, "Mister Love" just barely over "Backslider".

But someone should throw a vote to NO NO NO MORE SONOFABITCH

Wow, had no idea this went platinum. What a different time the '90s were. Decent album, though, and I remember them being fun live.

I might need to relisten, as I'm tempted to go with "Possum Kingdom" on reflex.

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I shamelessly love the fuck out of this album

^^^ x2

hope i'm not the only vote for "I Come From The Water"

i vividly remember this dope 120 performance with a sax

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkOGvRH26Po

torn between i come from the water and i burn actually

watching that brings me back to a time when i wanted nothing more in life but to play in a rock band

btw the comp appearance that made me find toadies stuff in the first place:

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

want to do a follow up for hell below/stars above. also that burden brothers album. but maybe i will wait to see if 8 people vote in this one.

btw i guess these peeps have 3 more albums after hell below, not counting live stuff? who knew?

listening to this right now and shit i could vote for any of this. maybe backslider?

It's really between Mister Love and Tyler for me, but I love them for completely different reasons and it's hard to say which I love more.

Wow, had no idea this went platinum.

"Possum Kingdom" has been pretty consistently radio-huge.

Over the years I've been surprised to meet a lot of people who love the album tracks and minor-hits on this... I think it's more popular than it gets credit for.

It included six singles, "Possum Kingdom" (their most successful) as well as "Mister Love", "Away", "Tyler", "Backslider" and "I Come From the Water".

wtf SIX!!

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ah missed this thread. good album, haven't listened to it in a while though

btw i guess these peeps have 3 more albums after hell below, not counting live stuff? who knew?

i think one of these is the late-90s album that was shelved until like 10 years later. and one of them came out within the past 2 weeks or so.

man I loved this album, I really liked the next one too, and there was a great live album from Boston called Live from the Paradise--the singer had laryngitis, but that only enhanced the raw feel...

truth be told, Tyler & Possum Kingdom are my #1 & #2, and there are probably six other songs on here that I couldve conceivably voted for, but I was toying with a vote for Backslider, and that is probably the worthiest of the goose-eggs here.

backslider is fucking fantastic

Yeah I pretty much immediately regretted not voting for "Backslider" as soon as I submitted my vote.

A documentary was made for its 20th Anniversary:

http://vimeo.com/88491490

cool!

They played this and had a Q&A with band and filmmaker Monday night, but I was too ill to go.

I remember liking "Away" a lot as a later single. my station played it a lot, the "la da da da da da da" part was cool.

they were good at finding a simple idea and just going with it. plus vocalist having a kind of hair metal affectation on his high notes was kind of cool. i also liked the song they did on the Crow 2 soundtrack, "Paper Dress", (one of the riffs which was used on a regular MTV lead-in).

That bass riff in "Away" is an album highlight.

the frat bro version of the Pixies

is this accurate?

Perhaps not the band members, but the eventual audience for sure.

Backslider is kind of meathead Fugazi.

I could do with never hearing this album again (the only Fort Worth rock band to go platinum?) but the Backslider riff is fun as hell.